Welcome Episteme, a new journal of social epistemology

I see that Episteme is now up-and-running; quite some time ago, it now seems, I happily accepted an invitation to be one of the many Consulting Editors for this new venture. One indication of the timeliness of this journal is the Intelligent Design debate in the United States, where, it appears, there are large numbers of otherwise well-educated people who believe utter falsehoods about evolutionary biology--indeed, where there is a well-funded political movement devoted to spreading these falsehoods. This is certainly one of the most striking of recent cases where social mechanisms which should be inculcating true beliefs have completely failed.