We Get Poor-Mouthed by the National Center for Science Education

To "poor-mouth" means using claims of poverty to try to manipulate other people. Paleontologist Donald Prothero visited the offices of the National Center for Science Education -- our Darwin-lobbying friends whom we love more and more by the day -- and came back with a fundraising pitch for the NCSE that made me think of the wonderful Monty Python "Four Yorkshiremen" skit. In the skit, four well-to-do gents try to outdo each other with increasingly absurd tales of childhood poverty.

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