Pamela R. Winnick is, or at least used to be, a trained
lawyer and staff writer for the Pittsburgh
Post-Gazette. She rose to fame, however, by being one of the main
characters of the pseudo-documentary Expelled,
where she was portrayed as having been persecuted for her creationist
sympathies. That is, though she vehemently denies that she is a creationist
(though the records rather suggest otherwise),
she complains about how the scientific elite tries to “stifle” a “meaningful
debate” about evolution – meaning that people with expertise in the field don’t
take seriously misguided complaints made by people with absolutely no knowledge
of the topic but with a religious axe to grind. And that’s persecution,
according to Winnick, apparently mostly since she is among those religious fundies, and she happens to think that she knows a lot about the subject.
The claims about persecution and blacklisting merely on the grounds
of briefly mentioning Intelligent Design without taking a position that she
made in Expelled are discussed here.
Note that Winnick has for years not only mentioned Intelligent Design but
ardently championed creationism, including in her book A Jealous God: Science’s Crusade Against Religion (complete shit, by the way).
Her claims to being “blacklisted” and persecuted are apparently based on the
fact that the book received a negative review in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Who still publishes her work.
Diagnosis: A good example of what morons mean when they say
they are persecuted, namely that someone
has the audacity to disagree with them. Clearly, that’s a violation of
their right to free speech. Otherwise (heck, partially in virtue of that idea) Winnick is your typical, religiously
motivated, staunch denialist.
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