Daniel Ferrante

A few weeks ago, an article drawing from a press release from PEER ran on skeptic.com that stated (I paraphrase here) that the US Park Service at the Grand Canyon Park Service Rangers were NOT allowed to discuss the actual age of the Grand Canyon due to pressure from the Bush Administration. I encourage you to read the article in its entirety.

The article inspired a this Doonesbury comic.

Some skeptic.com readers as well as one of the site’s writers investigated and found that the majority of the claims in the press release were bogus or highly suspect.

Since then, skeptic.com has issued a retraction and apology.

I’m happy to see integrity still exists and that people are willing to put facts before their sense of pride.

Now, I wonder, will Gary Trudeau issue a correction as well?

Update: As of June 20th, 2008 - Gary Trudeau has not written a correction, even after I emailed him about it. That’s a poor way to live up to your own standards and ethics there, guy.