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DI's Wells claims[edit]

What Padian & Gishlick wrote was the following (full paragraph):

Wells wrote a theological dissertation at Yale on
the “Argument to Design” and how Darwin allegedly mistook it. He then received a PhD in Molecular and Cell Biology at Berkeley on the effect of gravitation on the 8-cell embryo; two multiauthored papers were produced from that laboratory’s work. He followed this with a 5-year postdoctoral position sponsored by a retired professor in the same department at Berkeley, during which time he seems to have performed no experiments and to have received no grant support from his sponsor. He was simultaneously a “postdoc” at the antievolutionary Discovery Institute in Seattle, where he remains. No peer-reviewed publications resulted from Wells’s 5-year stint, but Icons of Evolution appeared shortly after its term limit expired. Antievolutionists hope that Wells’s apparent academic credentials will help establish him as the new “inside expert” on the scientific shortcomings of evolution, a role Wells encourages. The book jacket to Icons of Evolution features congratulatory blurbs from Wells’s fellows at the Discovery Institute (without identifying them as such), including Phillip Johnson, Michael Behe, and
William Dembski. [My emphasis]

Given that Wells was only awarded his doctorate in 1994, it is not unreasonable to assume that the two papers Larabell is talking about were the two Padian & Gishlick explicitly mentioned. Certainly to make the accusation of "misrepresentation" stick, it needs to be proved that these were not the same papers. Hrafn^Talk_Stalk 09:06, 1 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

This could be. I have to do some mroe research (of the dispute and wikipedia policy). TableManners^C·U·T 05:56, 2 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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