Ethics

Farah Babbles Incoherently About Fossils

By Ed Brayton

There are few things more ridiculous than Joseph Farah talking about science, something he understands about as well as I understand Bulgarian folk music. In his latest column he displays his ignorance while discussing a very exciting recent find of three octopus fossils from Lebanon. He starts with the standard "scientists are shocked" premise:

Scientists are baffled by the latest fossil find.

It's an octopus they claim is 95 million years old.

And, guess what? It looks just like a modern-day octopus - complete with eight legs, rows of suckers and even traces of ink.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on March 27, 2009 (boomark / email).