Cluebats needed at Time

[lederhosen]

Via Pharyngula: Time magazine is treating the world to yet another "100 most important people" list, because apparently there aren't enough of those already. One of those to make the list, in the science category, is Richard Dawkins. So who did they find to write Dawkins' profile for the article?

Michael Behe.

For those of you who don't recognise that name - count yourself lucky - this is sort of like hiring Fidel Castro to profile John F. Kennedy, except that AFAIK neither Dawkins nor Behe have actually tried to have one another killed.

Comments

[bunny-hugger.livejournal.com]

Did they do stuff like that to all the people they chose? I mean, did they think it would be clever to have all the profiles written by people's critics?

[lederhosen.livejournal.com]

There are a couple (Gingrich on Pelosi, for instance) but it doesn't seem to be the norm. Benedict XVI's profile, for instance, is written by Vittorio Messori, an Italian Catholic journalist who's pretty enthusiastic about his subject, and Tzipi Livni is written up by her good friend Condi Rice. I'm not going to go through the whole site now (I've just been to the optometrist and my pupils are still saucer-sized) but as far as I can tell, the choice of profilers is fairly haphazard.