If thou gazest long into the Pit, the Pit will also gaze into thee

I do enjoy Plaits blog, since he does a good job keeping everyone up to date on recent news about exoplanets, galaxies colliding, and other cool astronomical stuff. But then when he opens his mouth on other subjects I just roll my eyes and skip right on by. He gives passing endorsement to the FTB na...

Whenever I heard Ophelia or any of her friends complain about so called "filthy words", I'm reminded of the speech Hitchens gave in Toronto about the right to free expression in 2006. About this censorious instinct: we basically know already what we need to know, and weâ€™ve known it for a long time...

NEVER FORGET: Today is the 71st anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor. I dont remember following the events of that day intently, as I was not even born. But all of my male relatives who were of age served in WWII. I am horrified that there are people who will kill Americans simply because they...

â€œeveryone of them has the name Marc Lepineâ€.....presumably he means us at the slymepit, or anyone else that questions his narrow definition of feminism and Beckys crazy narrative about elevators. But why stop there? He'll probably label every Evolutionary Psychologist as a Marc Lepine, just for ...

Fucking idiots. The difference between HPV and HIV couldnt be clearer - a lot of recent research has indicated that HPV is likely a human commensal, and the majority of the time the infection is cleared and does nothing to the host. HIV actually depletes your T-cells, weakens your immune system and ...

Compared to what he said about Paul Ryan: The other appalling thing about Ryan is how much the media is puling about how smart he is, and calling him a brilliant policy wonk (also hammered on by Pierce). Ryan is a guy with a bachelorâ€™s degree in economics whose entire career is defined by politic...

PZ continues to foam at the mouth over this. He seems to be clinging to the two contradictory positions - that Evolutionary Psychology is completely flawed in its premise, yet still says that he does "not deny that there can be good research carried out by evolutionary psychologists". There is nothi...

Stephanie Zvan continues to descend into the depths of insanity in her frantic attempts to defend Rebecca Watson at all costs - apparently its all a vast dark conspiracy of evildoers out to target her because they hate women. Similarly, some her cohorts will claim that EP is just some vast conspirac...

Why does Jen McCreight get so sensitive whenever someone says something mean to her on twitter? Does she not realize that that kind of name calling is standard fare among commenters on Pharyngula? I suppose she should repudiate their behavior as well??? Also, Justin, I admire your patience in dealin...

Well, I think Justin Griffith has nailed his colours firmly to the mast here: http://freethoughtblogs.com/rockbeyondbelief/2012/12/03/four-exciting-papers-on-evolutionary-psychology/ I think he's finally had enough of the baboons - I wouldn't be surprised if he was living on borrowed time at FTB no...

These FTB clowns really do provide endless entertainment, its just sad that they are attempting to trash the secular movement in the process.

Hahahahahahahahahahaha! http://img17.imageshack.us/img17/9528/zvanidiot.jpg I bet they would love to go back in time and have Watson edit her talk to fit with the current narrative now, in an Orwellian fashion - since anyone with half a brain that actually views the talk can see that she clearly me...

And then contradicting himself straight after in the next sentence. Classic PZ. And in the comments as well. There is respectable work published under the banner of evolutionary psychology. Itâ€™s just that the respectable stuff seems to be an interesting fusion of genetics, molecular biology, and ...

You may have already heard that Ed Clint, a guy who has been dedicated to bashing Skepchick and Freethoughtblogs for over a year

Indeed, evidence please. Or as they would say - "citation needed".

Just another slimy cop out to use for them to avoid the actual substance of the points being made.

it's funny how PZ gets so riled up because Ed called him "small and vulnerable" after having made a name for himself by calling theists, creationists and anyone else who disagrees with him things way nastier than those two words.

Absolutely. He doesn't realize what a colossal hypocrite he is.

serious as someone who is knowable

ick, meant to say "seriously" and "knowledgeable". I understand why you cant edit posts, its just annoying when I make typos like that.

From PZs latest post: ...what I intend to do is dig into the substantive flaws in both Clintâ€™s hatchet job and in that awful discipline of evolutionary psychology. Seriously, in the reviews Clint recommended to give the background on what evo psych is, I was appalled â€” do these people have any u...

If Watson was only talking about pop-evopsych, did she run out of time? Did she forget to get to the 'Here is what EvoPsych really is' 'here is what we really have learned' part? Exactly. If that is really the message behind the talk and you want to be taken serious as someone who is knowable about...

My prediction is that they will problably just ignore it. It is much too detailed and thorough for PZ to strawman or misrepresent. I would love to be wrong though. Well, I think Watson will ignore it. "I WAS IN AUSTRALIA BECAUSE I IS SUPER FAMOOSE AND WHO IS ED CLINT I HAVE OVER 10,000 READERS WHO ...

Justin Griffith has posted about it:
http://freethoughtblogs.com/rockbeyondb ... air-shake/

Watson has been exposed as the charlatan and fraud that she really is with this evolutionary psychology bit. Really, this dismissing of an entire field on ideological grounds almost reminds me of Lysenkos biology in the soviet union - dismissing genetics as "psuedoscience" in favor of Lamarckian ide...

And my other gripe is the use of "an hypothesis", which grates my brain. I have not finished reading it myself but since you mentioned Gould, I thought I would mention that I would not advise any layman to read anything by that blustering blowhard of bullshyte. I am still amazed when people mention...

That article is great. I must admit that for a time as an undergrad I drank the anti-Evolutionary Psychology kool-aid reading PZ's blog - but now I have realized how ridiculous it is to simply write off an entire field just because it reaches conclusions you don't like. Not to say there arent any pr...

That article is great. I must admit that for a time as an undergrad I drank the anti-Evolutionary Psychology kool-aid reading PZ's blog - but now I have realized how ridiculous it is to simply write off an entire field just because it reaches conclusions you don't like. Not to say there arent any pr...

Keep the Bach selections coming. Thoroughly enjoying listening to them at work today.

I don't understand the fascination with no pubic hair...it screams, please pretend your a 10 year old. I second this very much - way too many women I run into I will find with no pubes - like they want to be pre-pubescent teenagers. Last year I had the fortune of hooking up with a 22 year old hotti...

I may get shit for this but, on the douching issue, I do it. I don't over do it. I only use ones that my Gyno says are safe (that are PH balanced) but it's my body. I think my OB/GYN and I will decide that issue better than Watson. I also remove my genital hair...the horror! It must be the patriarc...

http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2012/11/27/douche-defends-douching/ PZs response to neolplum at comment #4 continues to demonstrate what a clown he is. At no point did neolplum say anything about whether or not we actually live in a patriarchal system, that is quite irrelevant to the point he...

Some guy named EdgePenguin is pressuring Rebecca for an answer about the mutilation joke referenced in IntegralMath's video earlier today Sin tÃtulo.png Rebecca is being even more obnoxious than usual when dealing with this issue, taking into account her "OMG don't even joke about rape" stance. Ra...

Griffiths should organise to have him uninvited. If he's a co-ordinator, why can't he just do that? Why do people keep fucking inviting them to these things? Indeed. There is no redeeming quality about a man who acts like spoiled child anytime someone decides to stand up to him. There are plenty of...

Question 30 - correct answer is b. I know it firsthand, since I've used the word "hysterical" and in their minds it has some kinda of horrible connotation about women, whereas saying things like "go fuck yourself with a porcupine" is perfectly acceptible

ERV wrote:Skepticon attendance dropped from 1200 last year to 700 this year. I wonder why?

No surprise, I wonder if the FreeThoughtBloggers are going to discuss why their attendance can drop almost 50% or just shove it under the bus.

TL/DR: Iâ€™ve frequently heard people object to the Schroedingerâ€™s Rapist argument as sexist, with anti-black racism used as a counter-example. I reject this comparison because it neglects two important factors: 1) that the issue under discussion is about whether or not we want women to feel more...

http://i.imgur.com/5zdmm.jpg http://www.facebook.com/al.stefanelli/posts/171644699641738?comment_id=516168¬if_t=mentions_comment I can only laugh at this. What a ridiculous way to live your life, since it could apply to anyone about anything. I live on the outskirts of a "bad neighborhood" in on...

Endless entertainment as usual from these clowns. Why do they get so mad when people have different opinions? Crommunist also posts a warning in response to comment 14 that "people are leaking in from the slyme pit" - what a convenient excuse for them shut down all discourse. How do he even know thi...

http://freethoughtblogs.com/lousycanuck/2012/11/09/dad-performs-video-game-gender-reassignment-for-daughters-benefit/ Because this guy just screams patriarchy. http://ih1.redbubble.net/image.11537424.6776/sticker,375x360.png Did you read the comments as well? " Dad of the year! " Wha...? Seriously?...

http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2012/10/17/c0nc0rdance-and-the-principle-of-intelligent-responsible-discussion/ Finally finished reading the entire thread. Not one post addressing the the point that c0nc0rdance was making. Just a bunch of shit asserting that PZ has the right to disable comme...

I'm also wary of this e-begging business, but I guess if you have a devoted fan-base of mindless acolytes its pretty easy to have them bail you out of a jam when you need it. This is what FTB is all about - power and attention.

So no, my final word: I will not ever on any of my future videos provide a venue for fools to delude themselves into thinking that vomiting up invective is clever. I will provide links to a thread on Pharyngula for discussion. i.e., people can disagree with me on youtube, so Im gonna move the discu...

I took a break from all this drama for a while, but its always entertaining to come back and see the latest ridiculous antics of PZ and co. Namely, it comes to me with very little surprise whatsoever that PZ is now advocating for limits on free speech. It comes with the territory - his entire ideolo...

I was moved too by those pictures of decent Libyans. There is hope after all.

Silverman is getting a bit of hassle on Twitter because of this pic. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/A3L0Mr4CcAEinc3.jpg I wonder what the Baboons and A+ wankstains will make of it? Got a link? I wanna see. :popcorn: I'm interested in this too. Really, I'm dismayed by the cowardly responses coming from...

So Ophelia said this back in 2011 http://www.butterfliesandwheels.org/2011/helicopter-parents/ She said this about Wooly recently http://freethoughtblogs.com/butterfliesandwheels/2012/09/there-is-no-low-too-low/ What a hypocrite! Ophelia has never been consistent about what she writes, she just hop...

Why am I still reading A+. The ludicrous Alyss is now defending Chairman fucking Mao and insisting that claims that tens of millions killed by him are "US Propaganda". All from the safety of Massachusetts. Fuck me, do any of these toilet revolutionaries realise that in any sort of totalitarian regi...

Honestly, I could not make this crap up if I tried: Brownian says: September 9, 2012 at 12:58 pm You are not wrong, Beatrice. Itâ€™s time we stop inviting these STEM shitheads to hold forth on culture as if they know a fucking thing beyond coding and chemistry. http://freethoughtblogs.com/butterfli...

Geeze people, you are seeing countless example of these parrots, parroting what they have been told, revealing themselves to be superficially educated, a waste of money, time, space and oxygen for all to see. Geez yourself. First franc with his parrot demotivational poster and now you. What does a ...

The atheist drama continues unabated even after I come back from hiking the Appalachian Trail for several days (being in eastern rural Tennessee was definitely a break from anything having to do with atheism, given the churches on every street) - not that I'm surprised. Jen seriously needs to grow a...

Gumby wrote:I see they got rid of that banner right quick. Hahahaha. Nice to see how easily the Pit pulls their strings.

I'm not seeing Woolly Bumblebee, did she get banned already?

Its funny isnt it. Many of them claim they would never, ever read this forum - yet someone almost certainly is.

The first 30 minutes are basically a counseling session for Jen, since she is making the bizarre claim that any criticism of this ridiculous Atheism + idea obviously comes from haters, misogynists, etc. How dare they disagree with me! They cant even fathom the idea of respectful disagreement. Also, ...

Watching that google hangout video is quite interesting - its a glimpse into the strange parallel universe these people think they live in, which has misogynists and evil MRA's lurking in every corner of the skeptics movement, and they are the holy warriors out to defeat them. Also, its quite funny ...

New from John Loftus: "IF YOU ARE TIRED OF THE FREETHOUGHT BLOGS DRAMA WE ARE THE REFRESHING ALTERNATIVE" http://www.skepticblogs.com/debunkingchristianity/2012/08/26/if-you-are-tired-of-the-freethought-blogs-drama-we-are-the-refreshing-alternative/ If you are sick and tired of the Freethought Blog...

About Soily Amy being jewish, I thought she was an atheist! Why do we call former jews, jewish, when we don't do that ex-hindus, ex-catholics, ex-pagans, ex-muslims, etc? Some people tell me that I must still call myself jewish due to it being a culture too. Pttht to that, I say. My culture is mode...

Jean Kazez means what she says. Too bad she didn't actually read what was being said over here.../shrug http://atheiststoday.com/images/dw_adams/jeankazez_blocking.jpg I was dropped and blocked too http://atheiststoday.com/images/dw_adams/jeankazez_block.jpg I don't think they realize how easy it i...

Stephanie Zvan showing her paranoia in a ridiculous post. Someone said something vague on the internet!!!11one http://freethoughtblogs.com/almostdiamonds/2012/08/23/oh-that-dawkins/ "[Dawkins] may be one of the olde guard, but even atheism can stand to move on from him. Heâ€™s done his bit for king...

Richard Carrier says: August 23, 2012 at 5:59 pm Note to All: In my annoyance, outrage and frustration I went overboard in my use of insults in many cases here in comments above. After calming down, I reexamined every instance and deleted every insult I deemed inappropriate, and I have apologized t...

Stephanie Zvan showing her paranoia in a ridiculous post. Someone said something vague on the internet!!!11one http://freethoughtblogs.com/almostdiamonds/2012/08/23/oh-that-dawkins/ "[Dawkins] may be one of the olde guard, but even atheism can stand to move on from him. Heâ€™s done his bit for king...

Stephanie Zvan showing her paranoia in a ridiculous post. Someone said something vague on the internet!!!11one http://freethoughtblogs.com/almostdiamonds/2012/08/23/oh-that-dawkins/ "[Dawkins] may be one of the olde guard, but even atheism can stand to move on from him. Heâ€™s done his bit for king...

Just for a quick change of subject away from the FfTBloggers, you should all check out this tripe that was just published in the journal Nature: http://www.nature.com/news/sometimes-science-must-give-way-to-religion-1.11244 Science advocates have been keen to claim that the Higgs discovery is import...

I also commented at Carriers place, couldn't help myself. He seems to respond to every comment so you know that he spends hours plugged into his computer at home, fuming over all the "BAD PEOPLE" that have come out of the woodwork. Lets see if this gets past moderation: Youâ€™re a deranged fool Carr...

Yeah, looks like Carrier's just been called up on it by Setar: http://freethoughtblogs.com/carrier/archives/2207/comment-page-1/#comment-20354 His weaselling response: Richard Carrier says: August 22, 2012 at 7:40 pm No. Sorry, I wonâ€™t do that. I disagree with the notion of avoiding â€œableist sl...

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