Those tricksy creationists are at it again folks - this time with a peer-reviewed journal which non-scientists won't be able to distinguish from a real science journal...
Answers in Genesis, a Christian ministry run by evangelical Ken Ham, launched Answers Research Journal (ARJ ), a free, online publication devoted to research on “recent Creation and the global Flood within a biblical framework”. Papers will be peer reviewed by those who “support the positions taken by the journal”.
“There have been these kinds of publications in the past,” says Keith Miller, a geologist at Kansas State University in Manhattan, who follows creationism. For the most part, he says, the work is ignored by the scientific community. But those without a science background, including some policy-makers, may not be able to judge the difference in value of a paper in ARJ and a genuine science journal.
Yes folks, this is the bit that concerns me most. Policy which relies on scientific knowledge is guilty enough of watering things down at times - and now there's a new, insidious threat to the contribution genuine science can make.
http://www.nature.com/news/2008/080123/full/451382b.html
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