Stephen Buryani wrote an article titled "Do we need a new theory of evolution" in the Guardian. He said that modern evolutionary theory needed to be replaced by something else because of the new discoveries.
The article was a train wreck, full of claims that were already known, distortions of the importance of what was claimed, and errors. We wrote a letter to the Guardian after I wrote a critique on this site. Doug Futuyma wrote an excellent critique that wasn't published, and Brian Charlesworth noted some of the more egregious errors.
JonPerry, a science education consultant who makes nice videos about evolution, has produced a 15-minute video critique of Buranyi's article.
At the beginning, you can see that the Guardian article confused and misled the layperson, but the textbooks were not wrong.
The evolution of the eye, the wing and feathers, for example, is one example that Buranyi has said is baffling. The man didn't do his homework, but the man did.
The "Modern Evolutionary Synthesis" is a description of how it started and where it came from. He mentioned the Templeton Foundation as a funder of the movement to show the moribund nature of evolution, and I got a mention in connection with them at 9:00. I don't know what "getting all Jerry Coyne-y" means but I hope it's not an insult.
The EES is a name for the evolution is dead movement. There is a claim that it is ignored in modern evolution texts, but he shows that it is not true.
If you watch the video, you will see how good it is and how bad the article is. I would like the Guardian to mention it in the video rebuttal.
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