Eminent news organ reports ominous new threat to science.

[zotz]

Scientists from the Evangelical Center For Faith-Based Reasoning are now asserting that the long-held "theory of gravity" is flawed, and they have responded to it with a new theory of Intelligent Falling.

More information can be found here, in this helpful article from The Onion.

In an especially cruel touch, the photograph of "Reverend Gabriel Burdett" is actually one of John Sulston.

Comments

[djm4]

As so often with The Onion, that's way better than most journalism I've seen on the issue.

[taoist-goth.livejournal.com]

You've seen other journalism on Intelligent Falling???????? :O

[djm4]

I've seen other journalism that might as well have been writing about it, for all the scientific accuracy and background research that was evident from the article, yes.

[darthstoo.livejournal.com]

That's both fantastically funny and kinda scary! Makes for a very entertaining read.

[vyvyan.livejournal.com]

Wonderful. Reminds me a bit of this one: http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002133.html

[deliberateblank.livejournal.com]

theory of Intelligent Falling

Outrageous! As anyone who's ever been in a bar could tell you!

[emarkienna.livejournal.com]

I liked their Christian Right Lobbies To Overturn Second Law Of Thermodynamics from a while back, also.