In July, Center for Science and Culture (CSC) Associate Director Dr. Casey Luskin had an exceptionally well-timed op-ed in the New York Post, calling out the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History for distorting the evidence on human evolution. His piece detailed the groundbreaking evidence obscured in the notes of a peer-reviewed Nature paper — evidence that humans are 15 percent genetically different from chimpanzees. Luskin’s op-ed — complete with photographs — refuted claims made in various displays throughout the Human Origins Fossil Hall.
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This was a major accomplishment, considering how intelligent design proponents or anyone who critiques evolution is treated in mainstream media. But those who don’t subscribe to the New York Post wouldn’t have known about this important peer-reviewed paper.
On the other hand, those who read Science and Culture Today (SCT) were the first to hear about the paper when Luskin first reported on it back in May. The article received more than 12,000 views in the first week and has been viewed more than 87,000 times as of today.
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