Yet another religious cult raided

[kandrathe]

Sternberg still has his position at the Smithsonian, long after the "witch hunt" has passed. Apparently, he's had to move offices, once as part of a reorg he agreed to, and once at his own request, hand in his master key as part of an overall security tightening, and now has a boss who doesn't like him so much.

And... if they had the power, they would have canned him. Too bad he didn't do the noble thing and throw himself upon his sword. I'm not entering into whether he did his job as Editor correctly, or whether the paper published was junk science. I'm pointing to how his peers reacted once they found out a "believer" had somehow entered the hallowed halls of atheism. The evidence is plainly in the exposed e-mail correspondence flying around after this paper was published. The kimono at the SI Museum of Natural History has been opened, and all the ugliness is exposed. The concern was not about an Editor doing a bad job, it was about his beliefs and how this embarrasses them that people will think religious people are at the SI Museum of Natural History.

Follow-up: Actually, he is now demoted to Research Collaborator -- also due to this "Editor" incident which is an off duty, non-SI related event.