Nick Matzke

[2][M 2] After the trial he co-authored a commentary in Nature Immunology,[M 3][M 4] was interviewed on Talk of the Nation,[3] and was profiled in Seed as one of nine "revolutionary minds".

Matzke has written many in-depth pieces and has made frequent posts online, including regularly blogging at The Panda's Thumb.

[M 13][4] He also wrote a chapter-by-chapter critique[M 14] of Jonathan Wells' book Icons of Evolution,[5] which he described as a "travesty of the notion of honest scholarship" that is "shot through with misrepresentations."

In addition to "a bevy of its own errors," Matzke stated that the book contained "numerous instances of unfair distortions of scientific opinion, generated by the pseudoscientific tactics of selective citation of scientists and evidence, quote-mining, and 'argumentative sleight-of-hand,' [by which Matzke means] Wells's tactic of padding his topical discussions with incessant, biased editorializing.

[M 21] He also authored a 2015 paper in the journal Science conducting a dated, Bayesian phylogenetic analysis of antievolution legislation proposed or passed in the United States in the decade following Kitzmiller v.