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Adjectives are inadequate to express the degree of intellectual dishonesty in this piece – which might be understandable if it came from a Republican, but the author (Michael Shermer) is supposedly a skeptic and fierce advocate of [[skepticism]]. He even founded an international society dedicated to skepticism, called [[wikipedia:The Skeptics Society|The Skeptics Society]], and is editor of its magazine, called ''[[wikipedia:Skeptic|Skeptic]]''. (But of course Wikipedia is just a "crowdsourced" wiki that ''anyone'' can edit and clearly can't be trusted, so maybe I'm making this all up.) | Adjectives are inadequate to express the degree of intellectual dishonesty in this piece – which might be understandable if it came from a Republican, but the author (Michael Shermer) is supposedly a skeptic and fierce advocate of [[skepticism]]. He even founded an international society dedicated to skepticism, called [[wikipedia:The Skeptics Society|The Skeptics Society]], and is editor of its magazine, called ''[[wikipedia:Skeptic|Skeptic]]''. (But of course Wikipedia is just a "crowdsourced" wiki that ''anyone'' can edit and clearly can't be trusted, so maybe I'm making this all up.) | ||
| − | I'm going to take Shermer's article paragraph by paragraph to make sure I don't miss any valid points which might be buried in the rhetoric, and try to ignore the snide tone (I agree with PZ Myers that [http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2010/02/numbers_herein_are_used_to_dem.php a hostile tone does not invalidate an argument] even if it can be extremely irritating. | + | I'm going to take Shermer's article paragraph by paragraph to make sure I don't miss any valid points which might be buried in the rhetoric, and try to ignore the snide tone (I agree with PZ Myers that [http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2010/02/numbers_herein_are_used_to_dem.php a hostile tone does not invalidate an argument] even if it can be extremely irritating). |
==The Fisking== | ==The Fisking== | ||
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