It’s not that the Wall Street Journal hired long-time intelligent design proponent Pamela Winnick to review Monkey Girl: Evolution, Education, Religion and the Battle for America’s Soul, it’s that they didn’t bother to identify her as a partisan in the culture wars. Winnick, a Discovery Institute lecturer and the author of A Jealous God: Science’s Crusade Against Religion, is identified by the Journal only as “an attorney and former reporter for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.” Sloppy or stealthy, the Journal gets a Wag of the Finger for letting Winnick’s piece stand as an objective book review.

At the Monkey Girl blog, author Edward Humes sheds some light on Winnick’s actual creds — including the fact that she has her own book covering the same general subject as Monkey Girl.

And because we are into full disclosure here at CaliforniaAuthors.com: Ed Humes is a friend of this site. He taught Kate to play Mississippi Mud and Donna is his wife.