There was I time when I would be surprised by this. That time is long gone. (more…)
January 17, 2013
The Face Of US Skepticism – Blocked By CFI
Posted by franc under disinformation, ethics, hyperreality, Jacobins, misandry, new new atheism, propaganda, pseudo-skepticism, toilet slaves, yellow journalism | Tags: atheismplus, cfi, charlatans, confidence tricksters, dereliction of duty, frauds, freethoughtblogs, Kool-aid, liars, middle class and entitled, pudgy pink princesses, Rebecca Watson, Ron Lindsay, skepchick, SkepticInk |[21] Comments
January 15, 2013
Kicking 2012’s Carcass Out The Door, And Maybe CFI’s Too
Posted by franc under censorship, disinformation, gender, hyperreality, idiocy, Jacobins, misandry, moral panic, new new atheism, nihilism, populism, propaganda, pseudo-skepticism, yellow journalism | Tags: atheismplus, cfi, charlatans, confidence tricksters, dereliction of duty, Ed Clint, frauds, freethoughtblogs, Kool-aid, liars, middle class and entitled, Paul Kurtz, pudgy pink princesses, Rebecca Watson, Ron Lindsay, Russell Blackford, skepchick, SkepticInk, slanderers |[27] Comments
Let me paint a landscape for you as 2012 ceased to be…
On November 12 2012, Russel Blackford, in a rare moment of absolute exasperation, tweeted what most folks actually feel, but restrain themselves from articulating –
I will NOT be attending any convention / conference that features Rebecca Watson as a speaker. What were the Australian Skeptics thinking? smh
— Russell Blackford (@Metamagician) November 12, 2012
On November 10, Rebecca Watson took her very own brand of air-headed cluelessness to new heights in a talk at Skepticon 5, dragging evolutionary psychology through the mud as some kind of tool of patriarchal oppression. Whether Blackford’s tweet was a direct result of this exhibit of buffoonery or not is not known, but doesn’t seem likely given the video was not posted until November 20. If by some chance it did, it only vindicates Blackford’s outburst as Watson now consistently paints a picture of skeptics and atheists to the outside world as a bunch of ill-educated, poorly read, perpetually squabbling clowns. Remember Galileo Becky? No, that was not an excusable “slip up” – it’s basic junior high school level history/science knowledge. It reeked of the pig ignorance of a stupid girl-child that fills her vast expanses of idle time between booze ups playing video games and tweeting snark instead self-education – the latter being what many folks would assume came as a minimum responsibility for someone that feeds at the teat of the community and claims to represent it. (more…)
November 29, 2012
Found
Posted by franc under disinformation, great idiots of the world, hyperreality, misandry, new new atheism, propaganda, pseudo-skepticism, puritanism, shrieking hysteria, yellow journalism | Tags: atheismplus, charlatans, confidence tricksters, Dear Muslima, frauds, freethoughtblogs, Kool-aid, liars, middle class and entitled, pudgy pink princesses, Rebecca Watson, Richard Dawkins, SGU, skepchick, Skeptics Guide to the Universe, Steve Novella |[9] Comments
I’ll just leave this here. Only had shitty 3rd party screencaps before. Says everything about Rebecca Watson and the hysterical numbskulls that support her. Yes, I’m looking at you Novella.
https://twitter.com/rebeccawatson/status/87864951514992641
(The multitudes in Watson’s block list can view it if they log out of Twitter.)