I'll try to find the article--on the other hand I don't need to get 
riled up. That is worse than I surmised from the thread!
Joan
On Aug 11, 2008, at 4:40 PM, Frank Ippolito wrote:

> joan,
>
> you should really read the article to get a true sense at what this 
> guy was going on about. he was criticizing science illustration for 
> being unscientific and using a pop science cover illustration to 
> support his contention. there were a few other jabs - one being a 
> claim that digital tools somehow contributed to this supposed 
> divergence. it was far less thought-out than your reply gives credit 
> and was entirely off target. I recall it gave rise to quite a lively 
> discussion on this list at the time.
>
> -frank
>
>> Try this one:
>> art is to science as religion is to science.
>>
>> All can validly live together in the same world, but they are not the 
>> same as each other and should not be put into competition with each 
>> other nor should we attempt to interchange them.  Are we getting 
>> somewhere?
>> Joan
>> On Aug 11, 2008, at 12:52 PM, Janet Wilkins wrote:
>>
>>> It's a critique that much of the science art that is published today 
>>> is "divorced from science and science plausibility."
>>
>>
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