Apparently my handy-dandy Only Response You’ll Ever Need To Choprawoo, written in response to the last volley of Choprawoo to hit the blogosphere, hit a nerve. Chopra sycophant and blog comment spammer extraordinaire “ChopraFan” was none too pleased with it. Good. I have to wonder if “ChopraFan” is either Chopra himself or whether he or […]
Category: Skepticism/critical thinking
Note: If you’re not familiar with the Hitler Zombie, here are two posts to introduce you to the creature, with the most recent installment of his terror here, in which Orac narrowly escaped the creature. And, now, the adventures (if you can call them that) continue…. PRELUDE: SEVERAL MONTHS AGO It was a dreary, overcast […]
I’m getting really tired of “ChopraFan” spamming the comments of unrelated posts with his serious kissing of Chopra’s posterior over Chopra’s risibly idiotic multipart response to Richard Dawkins’ The God Delusion. In fact, given the number of times that I’ve fisked Chopra’s profound ignorance of and obtuseness over science and what the theory of evolution […]
Yesterday, I explained why a study that purports to show that psychotic patients tended to vote for President Bush in the 2004 election and is presently making the rounds to snarky gloating through the left-wing blogosphere is so utterly flawed that almost certainly does not mean what the author claims it does, given the data […]
I have to take this opportunity to express a bit of disappointment in one of my fellow SB’ers. When I encounter a study that seems to confirm my biases, as a skeptic, I try very hard to be even more skeptical than usual, because I would hate to be caught trumpeting a weak or bogus […]