Even in my more cynical moments I didn't think a premium progressive site like Huffington Post would give voice to a creationist nutbag. And not just any nutbag, a nutbag spewing the evolution-inspired-the-Nazi-holocaust garbage. Here's some of what my old buddy PZ, an actual evolutionary biologist, had to say:
I'll mention just one paragraph of this dishonest bunk.
Hitler's ideas, Dr. Berlinski carefully notes, "came from many different sources but no honest account will omit Darwin." A reading of Mein Kampf makes that clear. Certainly, Berlinski says, the men who formulated Nazi ideology "weren't reading the Gospels."
Here you go, a link to Mein Kampf on Project Gutenberg. Go to town. Search for Darwin — nothing. Or evolution — that is there, but only used in the sense of "higher" and "lower" organisms, and some bizarre notion that nature abhors crossbreeding.
It's one of the oldest and ugliest lies in the creationist bag of tricks: blame Darwin for the Holocaust. It's been debunked countless times. But waiting for creationist shills to tell the truth about anything is as foolish as waiting for a farm subsidies lobbyists to post objective nutritional data on corn syrup.
Are editors at HuffPo involved in choosing who gets published? Or do I fundamentally misunderstand how the site works? If so, that would be easy enough for the editors to clear up with a front page post and a retraction. Yes, HuffPo has published many fine pieces over the years. But this isn't one of them. And if this anti-science nonsense were on Newsweek or NYT, or any blog from NRO to TPM, we'd be plastering them to Dante's hell and back for embracing such brain-rotting stupidity.