Reporter Celeste Biever of New Scientist was caught apparently telling lies in an attempt to infiltrate the Cornell IDEA club according to club president Hannah Maxson. In the IDEA club’s letter of protest to Biever’s employer, Maxson wrote:
it appears that your reporter acted unethically and lied to us about her identity and falsely claimed she was a Cornell student in an unnecessary ruse to obtain information from us
This one was too juicy to pass up, and too funny! 🙂 See: The Evolution-Design Cold Wars for all the details.
Also, here is John West’s account: Celeste Biever, Secret Agent?
And, here Casey Luskin exposes Biever’s sloppy and biased work: Celeste Biever’s History of Factual Errors and Bias in Stories about ID
UPDATE: I must admit, had Celeste infiltrated the IDEA club at GMU she would have been able to identify one of our top secret agents pictured here below:
(HT Krauze at TelicThoughts and John West and Casey Luskin at Evolutionnews)