At Forbes, John Farrell Joins in "Ayala'ing" of Jonathan Wells

As a friend of ours puts it, Jonathan Wells's The Myth of Junk DNA is in the process of being "Ayala'ed." To "Ayala" a book is to attack it in review without having bothered to read or even read much about it, simply on the basis of what you think it probably says given your uninformed preconceptions about the author. The term comes from the wonderful instance where distinguished biologist Francisco Ayala pompously "reviewed" Stephen Meyer's Signature in the Cell for the Biologos Foundation w...