I ve been watching this for a few days with a mixture of disgust and derision Alex and whoever else writing that Christian Science is anti Science or pseudoscience in toto is deeply ignorant and the current articles general approach to the faith is well deeply misleading and uninformed either by any great knowledge of Eddy s writing or of the rather large academic literature looking at the faith At any rate my colleague Pete Spotts is a top notch science writer and a good guy Below is his little biography from our website Think on it Pete Spotts joined the Monitor in September 1976 after a two year stint at the Miami Herald Prior to mixing pens with test tubes as a science reporter Spotts served as Midwest correspondent staff editor in National News special projects editor National News editor and chief editorial writer In 1987 Spotts shared an award with three Monitor colleagues for a series on the future of nuclear energy following the 1986 nuclear accident at Chernobyl In 2003 he received an American Association for the Advancement of Science s Science Journalism Award He was awarded a Knight Science Journalism Fellowship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for the 1999 2000 academic year and also received a two week fellowship at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Spotts is a graduate of the University of Miami in Coral Gables Fla In his spare time Spotts enjoys hiking camping photography ham radio and amateur astronomy