Part 2 of Polar Bear Seminar

[evograd (Blogging Graduate Student)]

@Edgar_Tamarian

If there is no positive evidence in the table for constructive mutations what was the purpose of hiding the rest of the table?, So, that was false accusation which was no relevance to the issue at all, just to shift real discussion into the discussion that Behe has a hidden agenda.

As I said when I pointed out the altered table 2 months ago:

Are we supposed to believe that Behe did that little switcharoo without thinking that a large fraction of his lay readers would just see a big list of entries saying “damaging” and come away with the impression that these were the majority of variants, or even all of them?

Behe: Responding to the Polar Bear's Fat

Behe posts this at the end of the article: [29] It’s a list of all the variants predicted to be “possibly damaging” or “probably damaging” by Liu et al. The problem is that he doesn’t inform his audience that this table is only a subset of Liu et al’s table S7. He calls it the “relevant information” from table S7. The actual table looks more like this: [18] Are we supposed to believe that Behe did that little switcharoo without thinking that a large fraction of his lay readers would just see a big list of entries saying “damaging” and come away with the impression that these were the majority of variants, or even all of them?