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It dismays me whenever I see a pseudoscientific young-earth creationist or intelligent design advertisement that has been added to a science blog because of shared keywords that suggest it might be of interest to the blog\u2019s readership. For instance, this came up on a post on the primate family tree<\/a> in the Google Reader feed:
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The post cites peer-reviewed scientific research, offers charts and diagrams, and yet it is accompanied by an ad that suggests that some guy with a blog who is doing nothing but repeating long-answered falsehoods and misconstruals<\/a> gets to add an ad advocating his message?<\/p>\n

I hope Science Blogs ditches Google Ads \u2013 I don\u2019t know how much they earn, but I think all educators would agree that it isn\u2019t worth it.<\/p>\n

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