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Now That's A Petition. The Loom: A blog about life, past and future

October 24, 2005
"Posted by Carl Zimmer

You may have heard about a petition that was being signed by scientists earlier this month against the teaching of intelligent design. The inspiration came from another petition drafted by the Discovery Institute opposing evolution. It garnered 400 signatures of scientists in four years. R. Joe Brandon, an archaeologist, decided to see how many signatures he could get from scientists in just four days by spreading the word from his web site.

The answer: 7,733.

"During my short, four-day experiment, I recieved about 20 times as many sgnatures at a rate 690,000% higher than what the Discovery Institute can claim," Brandon said in a statement."