{"id":264,"date":"2010-04-12T13:07:47","date_gmt":"2010-04-12T02:07:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/?p=264"},"modified":"2012-08-05T11:00:21","modified_gmt":"2012-08-05T11:00:21","slug":"113-maria-maltseva-the-discovery-institute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/?p=264","title":{"rendered":"113 &#8211; Maria Maltseva &#8211; The Discovery Institute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maria is an editor, writer and attorney from Washington State in the US, and is well known in the Skeptics community in the US. She spoke to me about the Discovery Institute and the agenda they are trying to push in science classes in the USA.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; What IS the Discovery Institute?<br \/>\n&#8211; What are they attempting to do?<br \/>\n&#8211; Why are they trying to confuse science with religion?<br \/>\n&#8211; What is the difference between Creationism and &#8220;Intelligent Design&#8221;?<br \/>\n&#8211; How influential are they in the US?<br \/>\n&#8211; What is the Wedge Document?  What are the goals according to this document?<br \/>\n&#8211; The dichotomy of people who hold both religious and scientific beliefs<br \/>\n&#8211; What is the geographic scope (at this point) of The Discovery Institute?<br \/>\n&#8211; The &#8220;Expelled&#8221; so-called documentary<\/p>\n<p>And there are some out takes as well!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i182.photobucket.com\/albums\/x287\/brainsmatter\/audio.jpg\"><a href=\"http:\/\/predictabledata.com\/projects\/brainsmatter\/BM113-Discovery.mp3\">Download MP3 of Ep 113<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Please vote for this podcast this month at<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.podcastalley.com\/one_vote2.php?pod_id=40939\" title=\"Podcast Alley - Your Podcast Library\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.podcastalley.com\/images\/podcastalley_icon.gif\" alt=\"PodcastAlley.com Feeds\" border=\"0\" height=\"15\" width=\"80\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/cgi-bin\/webscr?cmd=_xclick&amp;business=brainsmatterinbox%40gmail%2ecom&amp;no_shipping=2&amp;no_note=1&amp;tax=0&amp;currency_code=USD&amp;bn=PP%2dDonationsBF&amp;charset=UTF%2d8\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/en_US\/i\/btn\/x-click-but04.gif\" alt=\"Donate via Paypal\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can donate by clicking on the button above, and subscribe by <a href=\"http:\/\/phobos.apple.com\/WebObjects\/MZStore.woa\/wa\/viewPodcast?id=257301606\">subscribing in iTunes <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i182.photobucket.com\/albums\/x287\/brainsmatter\/iTunesWord.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maria is an editor, writer and attorney from Washington State in the US, and is well known in the Skeptics community in the US. She spoke to me about the Discovery Institute and the agenda they are trying to push in science classes in the USA. &#8211; What IS the Discovery Institute? &#8211; What are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,20],"tags":[154,369,214,227],"class_list":["post-264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interview","category-podcast","tag-maria-maltseva","tag-podcast","tag-religion","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=264"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":658,"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions\/658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}