I bought the relaunched Guardian today. If the interview with Michael Behe is anything to go by the reduction in size means they’ve had to cut out all the investigative stuff. My comment on the editor’s blog is:

Presumably the ‘ideas’ section is science for people who find the Sunday Sport a bit too sceptical or cerebral.

Example:

JS: Has the National Academy of Science taken an interest?

MB: It takes a position strongly condemning it. The recently retired president, Bruce Albert, sent a letter to all 2,000 members of the NAS essentially naming me.

Now me, my follow-up question might have been something like “Why?” instead you get

JS: Did Galileo come to mind?

MB: Yeah. In a way it’s flattery

I’m obviously missing some fundamental point about ‘serious’ journalism.