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TITLE:

Review of HAZEL RUE, Bomby the Bombardier Beetle

AUTHOR(S):
Brett C. Ratcliffe, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

DOCUMENT TYPE: Article

Published in The Coleopterists Bulletin, 55(1):241–242. 2001. Copyright 2001 Brett C. Ratcliffe.

ABSTRACT:
Well, I thought that the style of brainwashing seen in this revisionist book went out with the 1950s Cold War era. However, the Institute for Creation Research demonstrates that brainwashing is alive and well as it continues to wage its own cold war against reason in order to replace it with superstition. In this highly disjointed little book, the target is young children, which makes the authors’ sin of deliberate ignorance even more reprehensible. Educating children about the wonders of nature is a delightful endeavor, but here it is a vehicle for blatantly meshing pseudo-natural history with creationist dogma that has, at no extra charge, a good dose of patriarchal sexism thrown in (standard operating procedure for fundamentalist religious groups).