Note about list of external links

Often I don't post a "me-too" article on an important current controversy when I feel that the controversy is being adequately covered on external links. An example is the big stink over the denial of tenure to Iowa State University astronomy professor Guillermo Gonzalez. Also, it is often hard to keep up with these current controversies because the news about them often changes so rapidly. I don't want to clutter up this blog with a lot of "me-too" articles that would obscure what I feel are the unique or special articles on this blog.

If you are particularly interested in the main subjects of this blog, I suggest that you check the linked websites from time to time. I keep my list of external links fairly short because I regard many (but not all) of the linked websites here to be among the best sources of information on issues of concern to this blog. In contrast, many blogs list dozens or hundreds of links and it is virtually impossible to determine which are the best ones. Of course, I could keep separate lists of websites that I consider to be most important and less important, but (1) that would be a lot of extra work for me and (2) people represented in the list of less important links might feel slighted.

The bottom of the sidebar of the Panda's Thumb blog has good lists of links for websites that frequently deal with the evolution controversy. There is a list for "science & evolution blogs" (I agree that science does not include evolution) and a list for "pseudoscience websites."