Talk:The Panda's Thumb (blog)

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John S. Wilkins

As John S. Wilkins has no entry in the encyclopedia, and is neither linked nor cited, and he also makes very little active contribution these days although he was a founding member, I have deleted him. John Wilkins 08:58, 4 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Dodgy bits

"The blog takes its name from the book of the same name by Stephen Jay Gould,"

No, the blog takes its name from the pub of the University of Ediacara, which takes its name from Gould's book.

"According to Kevin Drum of the Washington Monthly, The Panda's Thumb was started in response to a controversy in which the Harvard Law Review"

Just goes to show you that verifiable doesn't always mean true. There's always some untoward behavior that is current among antievolutionists; the particular case Drum mentions was not a causal factor in getting PT going. Post hoc ergo propter hoc simply isn't on for PT. --Wesley R. Elsberry 00:55, 17 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I've edited the article to remove the erroneous claim concerning causation. --Wesley R. Elsberry (talk) 04:01, 23 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Verifiable source, 2004/03/24.

"While we certainly appreciate the plug, it should be noted that the formation of this blog was not inspired by this incident at all. It is a mere coincidence that one followed on the heels of another, though I'm quite certain that some of our friends from the Discovery Institute could put together a compelling Argument from Really Big Numbers showing the staggering implausibility of those two things occuring in that specific order by random chance alone."

Added to show that we were prompt on correcting that. --Wesley R. Elsberry (talk) 04:33, 23 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I've added the additional level of indirection concerning naming to the article to make it accurate. --Wesley R. Elsberry (talk) 04:04, 23 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Blog currently down

The blog is down. The thumbnails below show on Google, but the links do not connect. Does anyone have more information?

The Panda's Thumb www.pandasthumb.org 2 days ago - Panda's Thumb has been down since the 16th of June, owing to a hardware failure in its server machine. Reed has be

PandasThumb.org www2.pandasthumb.org Panda's Thumb blog. Experiencing Technical Difficulties. Hi, Professor Steve Steve here. Don't you hate it when a disk goes bad and nobody can get to the . Yllaria (talk) 21:56, 9 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Just for the record: it has been up again at least since August. --Hob Gadling (talk)—Preceding undated comment added 08:39, 13 September 2020

That's good to know, I wasn't sure myself as I lately rescued some links to it using the Wayback Machine. Other reasons could be moved articles or transition to HTTPS... —Paleo Neonate – 11:15, 13 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]