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Pharyngula is aweblog run by PZ Myers, listed by the science journal Nature as the top-ranked blog written by a scientist.[1]. Pharyngula also won the 2005 Koufax Award for Best Expert Blog. The blog topics are eclectic, delving into the non-scientific as well as scientific. It has become particularly well-known for Myers' writing style (characterized by sarcasm) and criticism of intelligent design creationism and has been ranked as the third-most-read blog maintained by a Minnesotan.
According to Alexa.com, Pharyngula.org was started on 19 June, 2002.[2] It started out as an experiment in writing instruction for a class. Students were required to submit mini-essays to be published online. After the project was finished, Myers still had the web-publishing software, and started to use it personally. The weblog is named after his favourite stage in embryonic development, the pharyngula stage. Pharyngula moved to hosting at scienceblogs in 2005.
On Pharyngula, Myers has often criticized the Discovery Institute, Answers in Genesis and other creationist websites. As well as criticizing the pseudoscientific claims of intelligent design proponents and others, [3] Pharyngula includes posts on a broad variety of topics that interest Myers. These include cephalopods (creatures that Myers finds most fascinating); science; religion; politics; local, national and international politics, particularly those involving science and/or education; superstition; the Flying Spaghetti Monster; evolutionary developmental biology; and more.
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References
- ^ Top five science blogs. 5 July 2006. Accessed 3 September 2006.
- ^ Related Info for: pharyngula.org/ Accessed 3 September 2006.
- ^ National Science Teachers Association, a professional association of 55,000 science teachers and administrators in a 2005 press release: "We stand with the nation's leading scientific organizations and scientists, including Dr. John Marburger, the president's top science advisor, in stating that intelligent design is not science.…It is simply not fair to present pseudoscience to students in the science classroom." National Science Teachers Association Disappointed About Intelligent Design Comments Made by President Bush National Science Teachers Association Press Release August 3 2005