tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-414946164942126209.post8183047631412486703..comments2024-03-29T07:00:27.146-04:00Comments on Encyclopedia of American Loons: #2218: Rob SchneiderG.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/08875360501107597863noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-414946164942126209.post-31090059880069437502019-08-20T05:13:25.333-04:002019-08-20T05:13:25.333-04:00"The problem is, you've included far more..."The problem is, you've included far more on the Right than the Left, anti-vaccine , denialism, post-truth, et al, or not."<br /><br />Which may just suggest that there is more lunacy on the right, might it not? Climate change denialism, creationism and dominionism are mostly associated with the right, and even anti-vaccine views have to a large extent been taken over by the right (if not in the population at large: at the legislative level it is the right that is mostly introducing and defending antivaxx bills in the US). Even anti-GMO conspiracies seem to be relatively evenly distributed.<br /><br />More importantly, your charge is completely missing the point. There is no "problem". I am not trying to engage in politics here, and I am completely uninterested in achieving any kind of artificial balance: the aim of the blog is to expose loons. The people covered here are loons. That is what matters. Balance along any kind of arbitrary parameter, like political affiliation, does not matter - the "problem" that I include "far more on the Right than the Left" is no more a "problem" than the "problem" that I include a disproportionate number of people from New Hampshire or that the proportion of antivaccine to anti-GMO loons covered on the blog doesn't reflect the proportion of antivaccine to anti-GMO loons in the population at large. The only possible "problem" here would be that I included someone who wasn't a loon, but that is not your complaint. <br /><br />Still, if you are aware of any loons that happen to lean left, fine: suggest them, and provide some documentation of their lunacy. I do take suggestions.G.D.https://www.blogger.com/profile/08875360501107597863noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-414946164942126209.post-43453084305462996962019-08-19T21:26:44.153-04:002019-08-19T21:26:44.153-04:00The problem is, you've included far more on th...The problem is, you've included far more on the Right than the Left, anti-vaccine , denialism, post-truth, et al, or not.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04878250919181128708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-414946164942126209.post-76847938672046485412019-08-08T05:14:50.759-04:002019-08-08T05:14:50.759-04:00We certainly welcome suggestions, but you really o...We certainly welcome suggestions, but you really ought to provide some examples (with sources). As opposed to Rob Schneider, neither Schumer nor Silverman are antivaccine, as far as I can tell (Schumer has even criticized the antivaxx movement), though I am not really paying very close attention to celebrity antics. <br /><br />We don't include people merely for being left or right, and not even for being wrong: to qualify, you'd have to engage in denialism, pseudoscience, conspiracy mongering, post-truth nonsense or systematically fallacious reasoning. G.D.https://www.blogger.com/profile/08875360501107597863noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-414946164942126209.post-67931774016502031452019-08-07T22:57:13.323-04:002019-08-07T22:57:13.323-04:00Well you certainly made your case with blindingly ...Well you certainly made your case with blindingly brilliant logic and impeccable reasoning there Unknown. Good job. Now go ask mommy for a cookie.Crobinhoodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09481396060927161190noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-414946164942126209.post-5744436428508044602019-08-06T21:10:36.750-04:002019-08-06T21:10:36.750-04:00If you're gonna add Rob, you better add Amy Sc...If you're gonna add Rob, you better add Amy Schumer, Sarah Silverman, and all their delusional Leftist "thinking".Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04878250919181128708noreply@blogger.com