tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-414946164942126209.post8087709286207535183..comments2024-03-29T07:00:27.146-04:00Comments on Encyclopedia of American Loons: Round Two Announced!G.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/08875360501107597863noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-414946164942126209.post-43714370529868838092021-04-19T12:18:52.318-04:002021-04-19T12:18:52.318-04:00In "The Physics of Immortality," Tipler ...In "The Physics of Immortality," Tipler said his arguments were correct IF the mass of the Higgs boson was 220±20 Gev. Experimentally it's turned out to be 126 Gev. I expect he's pencil-whipped his calculations by now, though.Roger Manninghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07690615479857159944noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-414946164942126209.post-41178627890287499742013-11-03T02:55:40.488-05:002013-11-03T02:55:40.488-05:00I think you're off-base in classifying Raymond...I think you're off-base in classifying Raymond Moody and Dean Radin as loons. There is too much substance to what they say to brand them loons. I am not saying they are 100% right -- but they certainly aren't loons. I would bet a large sum of money that you wouldn't score a 70% on simple quiz on the main points of Radin's book, "The Conscious Universe." Moreover, I doubt you can comment comprehensively and knowledgeably about the research that was stimulated by Moody's initial work, research that is scientifically rigorous, such as Dr. Pim von Lommel's. The work you are doing here on this blog is laudable, indeed, but you appear to be falling prey to a weakness that very often afflicts snarky sarcastic skeptics, which is that they become so accustomed to being right in picking off the low-hanging fruit of the woo community, that they get careless and sometimes deride meritorious bodies of work, such as much of that of Radin and Moody. I've seen James Randi and Micheal Shermer and Skepdic's Robert Carroll, for example, have their cocky attitudes lead them to make lazy mistakes in judgement, and I am now seeing that with you. Be more careful! Your hubris is biting you in the ass! A friendly heads up.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04185184301316114899noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-414946164942126209.post-77753513637036343162013-02-25T10:15:59.745-05:002013-02-25T10:15:59.745-05:00Yay for more Loons!
It would be great if there a...Yay for more Loons! <br /><br />It would be great if there a way this blog can also rant and/or highlight the consumers of these loons ... they are the ones feeding these nutty birds, so to speak.Dave J.https://www.blogger.com/profile/07609190926881847256noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-414946164942126209.post-72156708492222917142013-02-21T00:18:48.212-05:002013-02-21T00:18:48.212-05:00I think Matt Barber is actually already on the lis...I think Matt Barber is actually already on the list. Evan Brehmhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12424728950910786281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-414946164942126209.post-31638367527997254002013-02-19T15:56:08.954-05:002013-02-19T15:56:08.954-05:00Personally, the more people you can do from my fav...Personally, the more people you can do from my fav. new guilty pleasure -- RenewAmerica.com -- the happier I'll be. My personal suggestions include Laurie Roth (a whack job of truly epic proportions), Alan Caruba (a retired PR flack who morphed into the world's greatest expert on ecology and climate... or so the voices in his head tell him), J. Matt Barber (a truly, deeply despicable human being) and Tim Dunkin (a rather amusing, though thoroughly vile, crank). Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-414946164942126209.post-64287908607364036932013-02-19T13:21:54.700-05:002013-02-19T13:21:54.700-05:00Thanks for suggestions. Bozell, Broun, Beale, Baue...Thanks for suggestions. Bozell, Broun, Beale, Bauer and Angle are definitely upcoming (though comments on Beale were included in the entry for his son Vox Day, he deserves a separate one - as does Mel Gibson's father Hutton). Dave Blount is new to me, and I'll have to look up that one. Stuart Wilde is a thoroughly annoying loon, and fully deserving of any negative press he might get - but he is also British, so including him would be bending some self-imposed rules (should think about doing a Commonwealth round at some point, though I don't know how the British libel laws might affect blogspot entries). <br /><br />Armey and Brewer are trickier; they're politically repugnant, methinks, but as long as I wish to stay politically neutral it's hard to point out anything they've said that is clearly and politically neutrally loony (as opposed to Santorum, Perry or, for that matter, Gingrich, who we may have to include). Ken Blackwell irritates me. We considered him for round one, and his affiliations might suffice to justify an entry, but he is pretty careful with how he formulates himself, and we haven't managed to find any quotes that really displays critical thinking failures. Being evil and hateful isn't enough - Karl Rove is not a loon, just evil (and I suspect at least Armey falls in that category as well).G.D.https://www.blogger.com/profile/08875360501107597863noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-414946164942126209.post-21929882562188536302013-02-19T04:37:47.294-05:002013-02-19T04:37:47.294-05:00Stuart Wilde!Stuart Wilde!Doctor Zorrohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02066781456935894741noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-414946164942126209.post-75199810172508848722013-02-18T22:58:12.351-05:002013-02-18T22:58:12.351-05:00Huzzah^2!!!
Huzzah^2!!!<br />JoeBuddhahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18319760904453837861noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-414946164942126209.post-11630488093483191852013-02-18T21:12:25.879-05:002013-02-18T21:12:25.879-05:00For the A's, I can think of Sharron Angle and ...For the A's, I can think of Sharron Angle and Dick Armey. <br /><br />For the B's, I have Brent Bozell, Dave Blount (the borderline mentally ill blogger and founder of the far-right Moonbattery.com, which is quite possibly even more hateful and bigoted than Free Republic, and that's saying something), Jan Brewer, Gary Bauer, Robert Beale, Paul Broun, and Ken Blackwell. Evan Brehmhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12424728950910786281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-414946164942126209.post-22744634462625324572013-02-18T17:06:24.575-05:002013-02-18T17:06:24.575-05:00You gonna move on to some of the ones who have shu...You gonna move on to some of the ones who have shucked their mortal coil (yet their lunacy still affects us today)?Donovan Ravenhullhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17293032751300046360noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-414946164942126209.post-20811572359607067962013-02-18T16:26:44.417-05:002013-02-18T16:26:44.417-05:00Round 2? Huzzah, Huzzah!Round 2? Huzzah, Huzzah!Turandothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14142044853724674888noreply@blogger.com