“They were saying I accepted money under the table, that I was a crypto-priest, that I was a sleeper cell operative for the creationists.”
(after the relatively obscure Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington published an article suggesting that “intelligent design” was the basis for the complexity of life, editor Richard Sternberg found himself the target of a vicious smear campaign orchestrated by senior scientists at the Smithsonian Institution)
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