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

In short, because you are publishing a defamatory statement, and wrapping it within "somebody else said ..." (even if somebody else said it) is not an ultimate defense against libel. You will be held to a standard of care in publishing that statement that will depend on who you are and who the plai...

... If the NYT published an opinion piece that was clearly labeled as authored by me, and in that I claimed PZ Myers stole my car, the NYT would be a defendant along with me in any suit brought by PZ, and claiming that the article clearly noted that I was the author and solely responsible for the c...

In a recent comment, Ashley Miller says this: To anyone listening, please keep in mind that, if you make a potentially libelous assertion, such as "P Z Myers is a rapist," the defense that "other people have said this before" and/or "my claim was newsworthy" will carry absolutely zero weight when y...

In a recent comment, Ashley Miller says this: Anyone who repeats the claims now is protected because theyâ€™re commenting on something newsworthy... To anyone listening, please keep in mind that, if you make a potentially libelous assertion, such as "P Z Myers is a rapist," the defense that "other ...

He " made her drink too much." :roll: http://freethoughtblogs.com/ashleymiller/2015/04/10/the-background-of-atheist-irelands-breakup-with-pz-its-about-michael-shermer/ OnionHead@224 sff9 @222 wrote: He made her drink too muchâ€¦ Please elaborate. How, precisely, did he make her drink anything? By m...

All of these analysis articles start with the same premise, though. That sexual assault on campus is a 'big problem', a vague assertion. I'm wary of this precisely because it has the same origins as so many FC5 myths; it's a thing because they keep saying it's a thing. Indeed, there was a study rel...

I'm not so sure what Carrier is describing is "polyamory"; rather it sound like ordinary sexual promiscuity. (Nothing wrong with that). Wikipedia notes: People who identify as polyamorous typically reject the view that sexual and relational exclusivity are necessary for deep, committed, long-termÂ l...

What's the difference between being polyamorous and being a PUA?

There's something very strange about denying evolutionary psychology based on epistemological limitations while championing modern intersectional feminism/critical theory as beyond debate. Yeah, they dismiss evolutionary psych (a real science) as "just so stories", yet embrace "The Patriarchy theor...

Would taking and using someone else's artwork for profit be a form of cultural appropriation? (And so order of magniture worse than just stealing artwork?)

If I were even more cynical than I already am, I might think Hensley appropriated someone else's artwork just so she could be that much more like Anita. Frozen in case she memory-holes her misdeeds... http://www.freezepage.com/1426797571ZNPZKSRUNB The artist noticed your post and replied: Oo-Ninart...

Peter Sagal is going to be one of the panelists on Quizotron in Chicago: http://i.imgur.com/9mfJUJu.png?2 ... {huge snip} ... So: considered in-group thus Teflon? Oh come on. You know she would put on anyone who is that famous or more if she could. It's all about promoting her and her thing. (Do yo...

1. It is possible that a maximally great being (God) exists. 2. If it is possible that a maximally great being exists, then a maximally great being exists in some possible world. 3. If a maximally great being exists in some possible world, then it exists in every possible world. 4. If a maximally g...

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/381637/hobby-lobby-actually-lavishes-contraception-coverage-its-employees-deroy-murdock OH LOOK, what a fucking shock, Hobby Lobby was willing to provide all of this contraception for free... And it includes pills and surgeries! It's almost like they weren't den...

Lsuoma wrote:Q. What's the difference between a dumpster full of babies and a dumpster full of sand?
A. You can unload the babies with a pitchfork.

You borked the punch line. It's supposed to be "you can't unload the sand with a pitchfork." (You must be trans, or something. )

PeeZus' max count is three, Tf00t's is over 90. I think you are misinterpreting the graphic. It isn't a comparison of pz vs tfoot. left panel is # of publications by year, right panel is citations per year. (I'm not sure who this is of, or what the point is. Citation #s seem pretty good (average of...

I made some posts earlier today at PZ's place, and I get no error/info messages, but my posts don't appear. In the old days, I'm sure there used to be a way you could tell if your posts were being manually approved or not. My posts yesterday were appearing immediately. Anybody have any idea what th...

Razib gives a good perspective on blasphemy: http://www.unz.com/gnxp/taboos-against- ... re-normal/

Shortly after FtB started, Ed Brayton had a couple of blog posts about someone who would post the full content of FtB posts on his website, along with a link to the original at FtB. Ed complained and threaten the guy for copyright infringement. The guy responded by pointing out that he included a l...

I don't think PZ dumped Avi because of The friendly atheist, I think that it was someone (A Pitter) tweeting the Guardian etc about the stolen articles. I think that it was purely fear of getting sued. I'm sure that they would be happy to throw Hermant under the bus for harbouring rapists otherwise...

Coincidentally, PZ did this shortly before the Freethought Blogs Executive Committee investigated and took disciplinary action against one of its bloggers for repeated plagiarism. In light of this, I have now emailed Freethought Blogs to ask for details of the procedures by which I could ask the Ex...

From Nugent: Coincidentally, PZ did this shortly before the Freethought Blogs Executive Committee investigated and took disciplinary action against one of its bloggers for repeated plagiarism. In light of this, I have now emailed Freethought Blogs to ask for details of the procedures by which I cou...

I seem to remeber him just flunking his exams - and not even knowing why. Maybe he thought of a good excuse later. I have had time to think about failure a lot these days. For those who are unaware, I am a medical student. A product of a large amount of work. For those who are unaware, I was set to...

Peezus attempts to make a defence of Avi in his latest post. Pays much attention to one tweet which clearly wasn't meant to be taken seriously and - inevitably - makes noises that he suspects Avi's 'persecution' is down to racism. Guess Peez must be thanking the play-doh Watson idol he keeps in his...

Avi, MD, white knight to acid-burn victims everywhere, recently suggested using a mid base such as milk to rinse acid off victims. Maybe I ought to give him a break, as it's a popular misconception, but I just reminded him that cow's milk has a pH of 6.7 (i.e., it's a mild acid, instead). Yeah, but...

I have no idea who this person is but was intrigued by her Q & A in initial tweet here, haven't (yet) received a reply to my tweet at the bottom: http://i.imgur.com/R2ruQiP.png?1 (She's replied to someone else on something else, more recently, with "The point being that adult women should at some p...

Hunt wrote:In defence of Ophelia, she claims her "privilege" quip was just a reflexive reaction and that she's human too...

Which shows you how her reflexes are tuned.

Ninja'd already? Rape And Sexual Assault Among College-Age Females, 1995-2013 Lynn Langton, Ph.D., Sofi Sinozich, BJS Intern December 11, 2014 NCJ 248471 Compares the characteristics of rape and sexual assault victimization against females ages 18 to 24 who are enrolled and not enrolled in college....

... PZ Myers himself... https://twitter.com/pzmyers/status/516771928510435328 What always amazes me is that the "Culture hypothesis" (and the "Nurture hypothesis") always seems to get a free pass: perfectly acceptable to assert as the basis for some difference without evidence, and the burden is on...

Brive1987 wrote:Oh Mr Nugent, well done.

http://i.imgur.com/maoPkqh.jpg

Man, Nugent just continues to score; round after round.

Link: http://www.michaelnugent.com/2014/11/06 ... nd-smears/

I've never seen such a shameful display of stupidity. Michael Nugent deserves credit for actually engaging Latsot. I'm sure poor Michael is exhausted by now, but his sacrifice shall not be in vain: it has provided us lesser souls with a veritable trove of Latsotisms which will still make us chuckle...

Hi peeps. First time commenting here. I'm kind of a closet case (some of my friends are a mildly SJW-ish) and just felt a need to share with someone how fucking hard I'm laughing at InternetAristocrat's tumblr SJW videos. I'm crying and I keep having to pause because I feel nauseous from laughing. ...

I wonder if Michael Nugent will be willing to reveal who fed him all the examples of "pyt misogyny, harrassment, and general evil-doer behavior" that he used in his post that was critical of the pyt about a year a half ago.

Let me make something absolutely clear. It is deeply racist to label white people who talk about being the targets of abuse â€œprofessional victimsâ€.

h/t @PhilosophyExp (Stangroom) on twitter: "This Pwnage Applies to All Sniveling Dictionary Atheists" at En Tequila Es Verdad https://archive.today/e54AV Images & links not copied over Another day, another white male atheist stuffed full of himself to bursting, all eager to tell us icky feminists, ...

Odintsova wrote:Living in Infamy

Melody is right. The Slymepit: hating on liars, hypocrites, doxxers, phonies, incompetents, authoritarians, and sanctimonious post modern slactivists since 2012.

OK you bastards. Please explain which bit of this unofficial non approved not Slymepit policy Brive only document makes you cry. http://i.imgur.com/QIGWkB2.jpg You are not saying you won't dox. You are only saying your won't dox first. That general strategy might be appropriate where, if one side o...

... Doxxing and trying to fuck with real-world careers because you can't handle the OPINION someone offered about your medical condition is really over the line. I'd encourage you to read Skepticle's original "gonorrhea" post before you parrot how it has been characterized. (TL;DL: she *didn't* ser...

For reference, here is Skepticle's original gonorrhea post:

viewtopic.php?p=199605#p199605

It's post # 26158 in this thread.

It is clear for all to see that Hensley has serious psychological problems. It's just that (equally clearly) those problems don't include post-traumatic stress disorder. Why would you make yourself look like a complete imbecile in this way, when you could get sufficient sympathy by just saying you ...

JC (Jerry Coyne) makes an oblique dig at PZ: "I am informed by my publishers that I will be killed if I divulge any information about it [his forthcoming book]. All I can say is that you have a rough idea of the topic, and I promise that it is a real, genuine book, not a warmed-over collection of we...

Remember my initial grievance was that I so often see the "it wasn't anonymous hearsay!' argument, when I think any sober look at the situation shows it was no such thing. I am assuming you meant to say that others were claiming "it *was* anonymous hearsay" (but that you disagree). If so, you are w...

Remember my initial grievance was that I so often see the "it wasn't anonymous hearsay!' argument, when I think any sober look at the situation shows it was no such thing. I am assuming you meant to say that others were claiming "it *was* anonymous hearsay" (but that you disagree). If so, you are w...

... While I wonâ€™t be so bold as to insist that I know everything, or even a great deal, about the technique, and while Iâ€™ll concede that thereâ€™s a difference between â€œpolicy implementationsâ€, and the problems themselves, it seems rather clear to me that the technique can actually solve at...

Rather remarkable when one considers that that was written several thousand years ago. But, in any case, itâ€™s part of the reason why I tend to agree with your later assertion that â€œGame Theory could solve ethical problemsâ€ while thinking that the â€œsolutionâ€ is likely to be an approximatio...

Was PZ Myers always that way? What's different? I wasn't around in ye olden days but have read a few things later of PZ Myers (and Pharyngula). ... I started reading Pharyngula and other SciBlogs long before Elevatorgate and Crackergate; certainly before the Dover case came to a head in 2005. I was...

So wait... Men actually worry about their surroundings and make risk assessments all the time when they're walking in dangerous places? That's silly, that's lady stuff. So help me out here: what's the proper SJW thing to do in this situation: You are a (a) white, (b) male, (c) SJW (d) in florida (e...

http://cdn29.elitedaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/SBMF-274111.jpg lol. Women want men to LISTEN. When we talk, we get our asses chewed for 'mansplaining' and 'unwanted problem solving.' Fortunately, men have evolved a small part of the brain to repeat the last three sentences a woman says so h...

... Jerry Coyne ... What is going on there? Why did he jump into the fray? Indeed it does look like Jerry jumped in. (And then got on a plane for 8 hours, lol!) Comments are filling up fast. Will be interesting to see how it goes. And whether the FtB crowd explicitly responds to his post. http://wh...

Off topic a bit (or maybe not): when I use Tapatalk to view this forum, imbedded tweets in other's posts do not display at all. Not even a placeholder. Anyone else have the same issue?

Those personality tests, to me, read like astrology, but there's something to them because other types, read like people I find annoying. Anyway I'm INTP. ... It's interesting how many INTP's there are here, especially given that it's one of the rarest types. I'll speculate that's because INTP's ar...

I don't think Dawkins threw the Pit beneath the bus - probably doesn't even know the place - as much as he was fed certain elements from Ophelia obfuscated within the innocuous. She knew what was meant for those with ears to hear, he did not but appearances are all that seem to matter to them. He -...

Sorry, should have enacted a bit of labour: PZ Myers: ...For instance, I will not participate in any conference in which Abbie Smith is a speaker. If Iâ€™m invited, and later discover that she is also invited, I will politely turn down the offer. FTFY to include the bolding as PZ had it in the orig...

So this morning my windows computer restarted itself to load updates and now my network connections are lost and I can't fix it. I've had this piece of shit for a year and have had nothing but frustration with it-the hard drive died after a month and Best Buy was going to charge me for fixing it un...

Jerry Coyne, in a post about a Jesus n Mo strip, urging folks to support the artist: And remember, you can donate to the artist through Patreonâ€”as little as $1 month. He/she has now been pledged $659.41 per month, a pittance compared to what some people get who donâ€™t do nearly as much . Further,...

Jerry Coyne (in a post about the school prayer issue in Missouri), while urging folks to join the Freedom From Religion Foundation: "You can join here, and itâ€™s only a paltry $40 a year. For that you getâ€” besides the satisfaction of knowing that your money actually works for secularism instead o...

AndrewV69 wrote:

#childism.jpg

Freakin brilliant!

... the people on the bodybuilder.com forum are ... are the only people to have actually reality-checked the whiny little shit and informed him that having a BMW doesn't give one license to get laid. Yeah, but human nature being what it is, they probably believe six-pack abs do. (And the folks at t...

... the people on the bodybuilder.com forum are ... are the only people to have actually reality-checked the whiny little shit and informed him that having a BMW doesn't give one license to get laid. Yeah, but human nature being what it is, they probably believe six-pack abs do. (And the folks at t...

Over at WEIT, Jerry Coyne made the following comment in a post about an video of an interview of A.C. Grayling by Maryam Namazie: Itâ€™s also great to hear ex-Muslims articulately dismantling their faith. Sadly, the video was part of a campaign to raise money for Namazieâ€™s Bread and Roses video pr...

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