PZ accuses Shermer of rape.

[pErvinalia]

He needs to upgrade his server. Everytime he posts something outlandish like this, it crashes. Can anyone cut and paste or image capture what the post said?

eta: never mind, I got a slot on the server.

etaII: boring. Where's an actual update? What about the Shermernator? I wants dramaz!

[DaveD]

[Thinking Aloud]

I sincerely hope that a lot of people read that, shake their heads in disgust, and walk away from his way of thinking. Unless, of course, it really is absolutely "intolerable" that spreading unsubstantiated rumours on the internet gets you legal attention. How sad that spreading unsubstantiated rumours on the internet makes one "persona non grata".

And once again - the A+ call to "pick a side", and inferring that his noble position somehow sets a new "standard". If that standard is "trial by lynch mob" then I have already walked way past it, and won't be looking back.

[JacksSmirkingRevenge]

Wasn't he already persona non grata to a broad section of the wider community before all this idiocy?

[lordpasternack]

Here's something I posted on Facebook and will repost here just for the sake of it:

Imagine if it were an adult coming forward to report that they'd been sexually abused by a named priest, as a child…

Do you think the skeptic community would be so apoplectic about the apparent lack of substance, and everything else, about the story presented?

Rightly or wrongly, I think they'd show very different standards in that case, which would be fascinating to see.

[geehigh]

Fucking hell, I bet PZ had 'Imagine' playing in the background when he wrote that self-indulgent piffle. //0-0\\

So. PZ wants to lead all of us imbeciles to the bright sunlit uplands of atheist social justice, right?

Of course it will have to be social justice as PZ sees it though because he has da power. Lemme hear you say 'Amen!'
That's not loud enough!! What are you, boy? Some kind of heretic?

Beware of movements, boys and girls. This is where most of them belong:



Now where's that air-freshener?

Ahh, Mountain Pine.

[Animavore]

The whole charade, and every other A+ debacle which has led us to this juncture, all remind me of that Simpsons episode where the intelligentsia took over and ran Springfield with predictable calamity.

[tattuchu]

http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/ ... an-update/

I read some of the comments after. Wow, what a scary place. It's full of victims, helpless victims, afraid of men and terrified of sex
Several posters say they had a similar experience as a child. Uh, what? If you were a child at the time, then that's kinda not a similar experience
Another poster says she knows people who are staying away from atheism, whatever that means, because of the pervasive sexism and racism. Uh... what pervasive sexism and racism?

[tattuchu]

I give PZ the benefit of the doubt, however, in that I think he honestly believes he did the right thing.

[tattuchu]

You know, all this time I've been picturing Sam Harris. Who is this Michael Shermer fellow? He sounds awfully familiar.

[pErvinalia]

Shermernator 2: Judgement Day!

[Svartalf]

I give PZ the benefit of the doubt, however, in that I think he honestly believes he did the right thing.

Yeah, and Jack believed so too when he sold his stuff for "magic" beans, and it's only in fairy tales that he ends up vindicated rather than looking like the village idiot.

[Animavore]

You know, all this time I've been picturing Sam Harris. Who is this Michael Shermer fellow? He sounds awfully familiar.

Is your Google broken?

[Daedalus]

http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/ ... an-update/

I read some of the comments after. Wow, what a scary place. It's full of victims, helpless victims, afraid of men and terrified of sex
Several posters say they had a similar experience as a child. Uh, what? If you were a child at the time, then that's kinda not a similar experience
Another poster says she knows people who are staying away from atheism, whatever that means, because of the pervasive sexism and racism. Uh... what pervasive sexism and racism?

Yeah, go to the catholic church, where they know how to cherish your sex.

[tattuchu]

I give PZ the benefit of the doubt, however, in that I think he honestly believes he did the right thing.

Yeah, and Jack believed so too when he sold his stuff for "magic" beans, and it's only in fairy tales that he ends up vindicated rather than looking like the village idiot.

I wouldn't want to be PZ, put up on a pedestal and revered and admired. That's got to seriously fuck up your head.