{"id":309,"date":"2007-06-29T08:31:41","date_gmt":"2007-06-29T12:31:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=309"},"modified":"2007-06-29T08:31:41","modified_gmt":"2007-06-29T12:31:41","slug":"dembski-and-holocaust-denial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=309","title":{"rendered":"Dembski and holocaust denial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I should have <a href=\"http:\/\/commentisfree.guardian.co.uk\/andrew_brown\/2007\/06\/christians_and_the_lunatic_fringe.html\">a piece up<\/a> about this shortly on CiF but it&#8217;s worth noting that William Dembski, the main proponent of <span class=\"caps\">ID, <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uncommondescent.com\/intelligent-design\/teaching-id-a-crime-against-humanity\/\">has been defending,<\/a> as a martyr to free speech, one of the most <a href=\"http:\/\/www.johannes-lerle.de\/Sunde\/Volksverhetzer\/body_volksverhetzer.html#Volksverhetzer\">vicious anti-semites<\/a> and holocaust deniers I have ever come across.<\/p>\n\n<p>I suspect that this is just because he doesn&#8217;t read German, or hasn&#8217;t bothered to check the original sources. But there is  in any case something crazy in his willingness to believe that civilised European governments would jail people for their scientific opinions.<\/p>\n\n<p>Connoisseurs of right-wing fruitcake are urged to take a look at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freerepublic.com\/focus\/f-news\/1856051\/posts\">this thread on Free Republic<\/a> (I know, I know) where Lerle (who is, as I say, a completely unabashed anti-semite and holocaust denier) is presented as a Christian martyr. It takes all of six posts before someone there remarks that &#8220;It seems the Nazis never left Germany&#8221;. Well, duh.<\/p>\n\n<p>My thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.6thinternational.org\/\">the gloriously resurgent Mrs T,<\/a> who first brought this story to my attention.<\/p>\n\n<p>Non-German speakers who want the ghastly detail will find it <a href=\"http:\/\/homepage.mac.com\/gerardharbison\/blog\/RWP_blog.html#bcw204497756\">here<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I should have a piece up about this shortly on CiF but it&#8217;s worth noting that William Dembski, the main proponent of <span class=\"caps\">ID, <\/span>has been defending, as a martyr to free speech, one of the most vicious anti-semites and holocaust &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=309\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=309\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}