IN THE YEAR SINCE JUDGE JONES’ RULING blunted its notorious Wedge Strategy in Pennsylvania, the ID Think-Tankers of the Discovery Institute would appear to have been preparing a fresh assault on another Dover — this time, the eponymous white cliffs of Darwin’s own ancestral Albion. And, as in the American case, the DI would appear to be working through a proxy player the better to maintain ‘plausible deniability.’

Over the past year, a mysterious organisation has been established in the UK, styling itself Truth in Science (TiS)“ a private limited company. While the company’s source of income is not published, in September of this year it nonetheless distributed free ‘teaching packs (DVDs and literature) advocating ‘Intelligent Design’ to all UK secondary school science teachers. Some useful light may be cast upon the nature of the shadowy ‘Truth in Science’ organisation thanks to the diligence of the splendid British Centre for Science Education (link highly recommended for facts on TiS).

Of the approximately 5,000 science teachers receiving this unsolicited bundle, a grand total of 59 are said to have responded ‘favourably,’ as reported in an investigative piece in the Guardian, and elsewhere. Thanks to public disquiet aroused by this reporting, UK Department for Education minister Jim Knight has re-emphasised national educational policy: “Neither intelligent design nor creationism are recognised scientific theories and they are not included in the science curriculum.”

Much of the TiS material appears to have been produced with the active but unacknowledged participation of the Discovery Institute. And, lo! The DI has now put out a press release on the exposure: British Reporting on Evolution Debate Even Less Accurate than American Media

Charges of “inaccuracy” do rather suggest pots and kettles in this instance. Though neither TiS nor the DI appear to have published any information on whatever links may exist between the two organisations, their relation certainly does seem cosy.

TiS’s website and the DI press release make it abundantly clear the organisation should be styled, as defined in Darwin Central’s own Conspirawiki, as TRVTH in Science.

Will the Ministers of Education of our own Good Queen Bess rally at some new Tilbury to repell this fresh armada? Will the DI’s British invasion plans fare better than those of Napoleon’s General Hoche, or Germany’s thwarted Operation Sea Lion?

The fate of DI’s “Wedge Strategy” on Darwin’s own manor will be watched and reported by your faithful bloggers here at Darwin Central, the Conspiracy that Cares.

And, we will fight them on the beaches!