PLOS ONE "Creator" Scandal Enters Witch-hunt Territory

The move by major science journal PLOS ONE to pull a peer-reviewed paper over mentions of a "Creator" and "design" looks worse and worse. The Chronicle of Higher Education quotes Ivan Oransky of Retraction Watch who says the decision to retract the article on hand biomechanics was "knee-jerk." This too caught my attention:

Even Elsevier, a leading publisher of subscription-based journals, has had papers that were "clearly intelligent design-driven," Mr. Oransky said.

That is a strange off-ha...