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From: rl@socrates.ucsf.edu (Robert Langridge)
Newsgroups: sci.bio
Subject: Re: Forrest Mimms fired by Scientific American
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Date: 6 Mar 91 21:37:27 GMT
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pauls@tellabs.com (Paul Silver) writes:

>Scientific American fired Forrest Mimms because having someone who
>believed in creationism as a member of their staff would cause the
>magazine to lose its reputation...  
...
Was he fired?  It was my understanding that he wasn't hired - which 
is a little different.

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