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Sometimes, woo quacks, IDiots, and Newagers are so far wrong that the only way to fix things is to take a time machine back to their kindergarten and start all over because their wrongness is hopelessly entangled in the very basics.
http://dubitoergo.blogspot.com/2010/01/this-is-worst-ranger-since-turbo.html
Take Mike Adams, aka HealthRanger, for example. Last week there was something called the Shorty Awards, where anyone on Twitter could vote for their favorite other Twitter user for, well, pretty much anything. At the end of the contest, the winner got a "Congratulations! People like you!".
Like everyone else, HealthRanger massed his minions to vote for him. Except, according to the stated rules, votes coming from Twitter accounts that were created just to vote (i.e. created immediately before vote tweet, having no other tweets except the vote tweet) would be disqualified.
Well, one of the supporters for HealthRanger's main competition, an actual doctor from Australia named Dr. Rachie, notified the Shorty Awards of the fraudulent votes & HealthRanger got disqualified. Although I got a hefty dose of what The Bad Astronomer calls "shadenfruedalicious", I have to agree with Orac that HealthRanger shouldn't have been disqualified because there was no hard evidence that he was the one responsible for the fraudulent votes. Instead, all those votes should have just been removed in the audit that is part of the Standard Procedures for the Shorty Awards.
Anyway, HealthRanger wrote a scathing article on his blog (I don't have the url) where he accuses the skeptics of lying and cheating (I <3 Irony). He then also wrote an eye-bleedingly long and wrong blog post about What Skeptics Believe. As the critic in the URL I linked to above says, there are more Straw Men in this essay than a Wizard of Oz convention. His idea on how the world works is so fundamentally wrong, that the only way to even hope to correct all his wrongness is to go back in time and start over from scratch. "It's turtles all the way down" takes on a whole new meaning here. It's WRONG all the way down.
http://dubitoergo.blogspot.com/2010/01/this-is-worst-ranger-since-turbo.html
Take Mike Adams, aka HealthRanger, for example. Last week there was something called the Shorty Awards, where anyone on Twitter could vote for their favorite other Twitter user for, well, pretty much anything. At the end of the contest, the winner got a "Congratulations! People like you!".
Like everyone else, HealthRanger massed his minions to vote for him. Except, according to the stated rules, votes coming from Twitter accounts that were created just to vote (i.e. created immediately before vote tweet, having no other tweets except the vote tweet) would be disqualified.
Well, one of the supporters for HealthRanger's main competition, an actual doctor from Australia named Dr. Rachie, notified the Shorty Awards of the fraudulent votes & HealthRanger got disqualified. Although I got a hefty dose of what The Bad Astronomer calls "shadenfruedalicious", I have to agree with Orac that HealthRanger shouldn't have been disqualified because there was no hard evidence that he was the one responsible for the fraudulent votes. Instead, all those votes should have just been removed in the audit that is part of the Standard Procedures for the Shorty Awards.
Anyway, HealthRanger wrote a scathing article on his blog (I don't have the url) where he accuses the skeptics of lying and cheating (I <3 Irony). He then also wrote an eye-bleedingly long and wrong blog post about What Skeptics Believe. As the critic in the URL I linked to above says, there are more Straw Men in this essay than a Wizard of Oz convention. His idea on how the world works is so fundamentally wrong, that the only way to even hope to correct all his wrongness is to go back in time and start over from scratch. "It's turtles all the way down" takes on a whole new meaning here. It's WRONG all the way down.
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Date: 2/10/10 02:16 am (UTC)From: