RESPECTFUL INSOLENCE

"A statement of fact cannot be insolent." The miscellaneous ramblings of a surgeon/scientist on medicine, quackery, science, and pseudoscience (and anything else that interests him).

Intelligent design/creationism

Judge Jones threatened?

Why am I not surprised to learn this? From an AP article:

HARRISBURG — Following recent accounts of threats against other judges, the federal judge in the Dover intelligent design case revealed he, too, was a target of threatening e-mails.

U.S. District Judge John E. Jones III said a spate of e-mails came on the heels of his ruling that teaching what he said was a creationism-based concept in the science curriculum violated the constitutional separation of church and state.

The tone was threatening enough so that U.S. Marshals kept watch over Jones and his family in the week before Christmas, he said. He declined to comment further about the content or source of the threats.

Jones said he spoke out after hearing about threats against other judges, including an Internet death threat against Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and retired Justice Sandra Day O’Connor. “The reason I chose to talk about it now is that attacks on judges have really gone beyond the pale,” Jones said.

He noted that conservative pundit Ann Coulter was quoted as commenting, concerning Justice John Paul Stevens’ votes to uphold Roe v. Wade, that “We need somebody to put rat poison in Justice Stevens’ creme brulee.”

“We’re going to get a judge hurt,” Jones said.

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By Orac

Orac is the nom de blog of a humble surgeon/scientist who has an ego just big enough to delude himself that someone, somewhere might actually give a rodent's posterior about his copious verbal meanderings, but just barely small enough to admit to himself that few probably will. That surgeon is otherwise known as David Gorski.

That this particular surgeon has chosen his nom de blog based on a rather cranky and arrogant computer shaped like a clear box of blinking lights that he originally encountered when he became a fan of a 35 year old British SF television show whose special effects were renowned for their BBC/Doctor Who-style low budget look, but whose stories nonetheless resulted in some of the best, most innovative science fiction ever televised, should tell you nearly all that you need to know about Orac. (That, and the length of the preceding sentence.)

DISCLAIMER:: The various written meanderings here are the opinions of Orac and Orac alone, written on his own time. They should never be construed as representing the opinions of any other person or entity, especially Orac's cancer center, department of surgery, medical school, or university. Also note that Orac is nonpartisan; he is more than willing to criticize the statements of anyone, regardless of of political leanings, if that anyone advocates pseudoscience or quackery. Finally, medical commentary is not to be construed in any way as medical advice.

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