Comments on: Yokel, 1; Global Warmin’ Perfessers, 0

By: Meghan

Meghan — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 22:20:54 +0000

It’s not like they’re positing that unicorns exist. Surely even deniers of global warming can accept that floods happen, with or without Photoshop. If this were a scientific paper on the Loch Ness monster, I could see the outrage.

By: noen

noen — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 19:54:14 +0000

tufdaawg give me links or data to disprove his “32000 scientists don’t believe in GW”. How to Talk to a Climate Skeptic

By: mwb

mwb — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 15:31:17 +0000

Well, when the only content in a report that you can approach is the pictures they become serious business.

By: getaclue

getaclue — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 13:04:39 +0000

These fools are like people standing around in a burning building arguing about who set the fire.

By: Dick head

Dick head — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 08:15:12 +0000

Who f**kin’ cares. Get over it.

By: Smut Clyde

Smut Clyde — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 04:15:56 +0000

What number or percentage of fake photographs in a government scientific report would be problematic for you?
In a draft copy, a 0% level would be problematic to me. It would suggest that the authors were putting more effort into the images than into the science of the report.

By: paul

paul — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 03:59:18 +0000

Well played, all. The chawbacons over at the site that thinks Sadly No links have cooties are all worked up. If this is media criticism, no wonder things are as hosed up as they are. As I left in a comment over there, have any of them ever created a work for publication that didn't feature the use of crayons?

By: owlbear1

owlbear1 — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 03:55:53 +0000

You know Anonymous, its not so much the number of fake pictures in the report but the declaration that all of the science in the report must certainly be garbage because of a SINGLE artist’s rendition.

Get it?

Ignorant accusation based on a total inability to distinguish fantasy from reality.

Some of Shakespeare’s best gags hinge on the concept.

By: Doctorb

Doctorb — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 03:51:13 +0000

Actually, I’ve been to a lot of scientific talks, and given a few myself (I am a real doctor, not in climatology, by the way), and it’s pretty common to see stock photos, pictures from advertisements, and pics from sites like The Onion.

Also placeholder pictures in mockups, but that’s a no-brainer.

By: Righteous Bubba

Righteous Bubba — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 02:53:17 +0000

What number or percentage of fake photographs in a government scientific report would be problematic for you?

…said Anonymous, the most anonymous of anonymousites.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 02:49:11 +0000

“If you click through Gomer Bile’s links, you’ll discover that his fauxtrage is directed at one photo (out of hundreds illustrations, photographs and graphics …”

What number or percentage of fake photographs in a government scientific report would be problematic for you?

By: Smut Clyde

Smut Clyde — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 23:17:47 +0000

What's more, mad scientists have better barbecues.

By: bjacques

bjacques — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 22:53:44 +0000

Goddammit! I wanna see some *mad science* ! CY and his ilk trash real science with their bullshit, they deserve to be set upon by mad scientists drunk on bathtub Pan-Galactic Gargle Blasters drilling Schloss Confederate Yankee with honking big mean-ass death rays. We’ll drink your fuckin’ milkshake and toast yer grill, ’cause we’re SCIENCE!!!

I’m pretty skeptical about Dead Anthrax Guy, but I kinda hope he really was a Democrat. We need more Democratic mad scientists, not for killing unlucky bystanders, but for putting the fear of Darwin and Einstein into them. Doktor Sleepless for President!

By: sagra

sagra — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 21:54:11 +0000

Dear wingers. We’re not anti-America. We’re just anti-YOU.

By: Gary Ruppert Number Two

Gary Ruppert Number Two — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 21:12:04 +0000

Has Gary just been DN the whole time?

The fact is, no. Many people have played Gary Ruppert over the years, including myself on numerous occasions. It’s like Hamlet. Everyone takes a stab at the role.

The fact is, there is a real, genuine Gary Ruppert. And he’s usually easy to spot, but he’s as rare as a Peruvian dumplesmfhsshf.

By: Matt T.

Matt T. — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 20:42:52 +0000

I sometimes feel bad about the whole “let’s mock stupid and/or crazy people” thing, so it’s important to remember that these guys are somehow agenda-setters.

It’s not just that. They’re agresively stupid. Proud of their ignorance, they’ll cut you if you try to shake up their notions at all. Look at the evolution thing They’re so myopic and petty that they simply cannot stand the idea of someone looking at the world different from the way they do. Look at the abortion thing. They’re so terrified of having to admit they might not know something, they’ll cling to long-disproved nonsense and scream about semantics instead of having to humble themselves before anyone. Look at the Iraq thing.

Stupid people don’t hurt anybody; assholes do. Owens’ problem ain’t that he’s dumber than a bucket of shit, it’s that he demands the rest of us be that stupid.

By: Snowwy

Snowwy — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 20:37:49 +0000

*swoon* Kevvie’s over there!

By: Hoosier X

Hoosier X — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 19:51:36 +0000

If they put such little work in the images, it you wonder how much effort they put into the logic of the post, doesn’t it?

You don’t have to wonder.

You can just read it.

Don’t forget Petersen’s Field Guide for Identifying the Logical Fallacies of the American Conservative.

Go to the Petersen’s Web site for a check list.

By: Kathleen

Kathleen — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 19:11:19 +0000

Bud said,
I am outraged. That is clearly not the real Mohammed wearing a turban-bomb, but merely a drawing of a figure who could, quite frankly, be almost anyone.

Indeed. If they put such little work in the images, it you wonder how much effort they put into the logic of the post, doesn’t it?

By: Doctorb

Doctorb — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 18:58:56 +0000

Plus I like to think of S,N! as more of a snark-mongering site. I sometimes feel bad about the whole “let’s mock stupid and/or crazy people” thing, so it’s important to remember that these guys are somehow agenda-setters.