The Discovery Institute’s petition A Scientific Dissent from Darwinism was supposed to gather
signatures from scientists skeptical of the “Darwinist dogma”. As such, it was
an abject failure. True, the relatively modest number of signatories includes
some frothing fundamentalists on the faculty at various bible schools, but
relatively few of the signatories are real scientists. And some are people like
Thomas G. Guilliams. Now, Guilliams does have a Ph.D. Molecular in Biology, and does – as
opposed to the vast, vast majority of signatories – have a reasonably relevant
educational background. But Guilliams is currently VP/Director of Science and
Regulatory Affairs, Ortho Molecular Products, Inc. Yes, readers: that’s
orthomolecular medicine, which is as quacky as quackery comes. Guilliams himself is listed as
an “integrative practitioner” at integrativepractitioner.com, an online
community of woo practitioners. Now, Guilliams does in fact have some publications
that seem legitimate – though in fields unrelated to evolution, of course – but
is also the author e.g. of “The Original Prescription: How the Latest
Scientific Discoveries Can Help You Leverage the Power of Lifestyle Medicine”. So
much for science.
Diagnosis:
The deeper you look at the signatories to the Discovery Institute’s list, the
shoddier it becomes. Guilliams is a pseudoscientist and crackpot galore, but
he’s in good company among said signatories.
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