Creation Moment 2/15/2013 - The Evolution Spin Machine: How its Press Releases Work

National Library of Medicine Films

"The media spin machine works like this: university media departments prepare press releases along with the scientific papers authored or co-authored by their own researchers.
Naturally, they have a vested interest in making their researchers and professors look good, to reflect well on the university. These press releases are embargoed till the paper is published (sometimes a little before), but are visible to science reporters until the agreed on date for public release. Amalgamation services like EurekAlert (an arm of the AAAS) gather the press releases from multiple universities and labs; their links become feeds for inside reporters. EurekAlert explains the Embargo Policy:

When applied to published material, an embargo is a prohibition against publicizing information before a certain date. By placing an embargo on the dissemination of research that is scheduled to be published, EurekAlert! can release information early, giving journalists the time necessary to write accurate and well-researched articles on a given topic. By respecting the embargo, journalists assure themselves of continued access to information in advance of publication.

As a result, the public is inundated with media campaigns like this one before anyone has the chance to analyze the raw evidence. Since most academic institutions and the AAAS that runs EurekAlert are strongly pro-Darwinian, as are most of the secular science reporters, the pro-Darwin forces can blitz the world, gaining a strategic advantage over skeptics.

 If you read Janet Browne’s excellent biography of Charlie (Charles Darwin: the Power of Place) you learn how he got the power of place. His aggressive X-men founded the journal Nature expressly for the purpose of promoting the new materialistic, secularist philosophy “as science.”

Over the following decades, Darwin’s defenders came to occupy influential niches in British and American intellectual life. Together, these men would also control the scientific media of the day, especially the important journals… Darwin’s opponents failed to achieve anything like the same command of the media or penetration of significant institutions. (p. 129)" CEH

 

....he that telleth lies shall not tarry in my sight.

Psalm 101:7