I'm With Stupid wrote:

Goldenmane wrote:

I'm With Stupid wrote:Three words. Dr. Gillian McKeith. She pretty much sums up the whole BS factory.

Name seems to ring a faint bell, but I'm too lazy to search and I can't place it.

Example?

Ben Goldacre on Gillian McKeith.

He has a whole chapter on her in Bad Science. It's hilarious. The opening line is "Gillian McKeith, or to give her her full title, Gillian McKeith....."

Bookmarked.

Goldenmane wrote:

I'm With Stupid wrote:

Goldenmane wrote:

I'm With Stupid wrote:Three words. Dr. Gillian McKeith. She pretty much sums up the whole BS factory.

Name seems to ring a faint bell, but I'm too lazy to search and I can't place it.

Example?

Ben Goldacre on Gillian McKeith.

He has a whole chapter on her in Bad Science. It's hilarious. The opening line is "Gillian McKeith, or to give her her full title, Gillian McKeith....."

Bookmarked.

I ran through that, I get the picture now. I thought she was an atheist, I misinterpreted I'm With Stupid's post. I see know, that she belongs on my ever-growing black-list.

We see the same phenom with climate change deniers....puffing up credentials - sometimes outright lies...other times exaggeration....

when you have nothing cogent to say.....credentials are all

Karljett wrote:

mmmcheezy wrote:Karljett, I understand what you're saying here, but I'm curious: you seem to be awfully sensitive to the generalizing of theists, but the thread you started in contained many generalizations courtesy of thedistillers about atheists. Where were you jumping to our defense then?

I wouldn't go as far as awfully sensitive, I just think we shouldn't jump to conclusions, and choose our words a bit more carefully.

Ok maybe I'm going a bit too far, but it's not that much of an exaggeration. Speaking from my own experience (I can't speak for anyone else) most of them, christians particularly (although it's just another version of the same wibble), from what I've seen, don't have the first idea of what they're on about. It's cringeworthy to watch.

Macdoc wrote:We see the same phenom with climate change deniers....puffing up credentials - sometimes outright lies...other times exaggeration....

Or more often, using your credentials in one field to claim authority in another. They always say that a "doctor" or "scientist" denies climate change, ignoring the fact that their particular expertise has as much relevance to climate change as a doctorate in David Beckham studies.

I'm With Stupid wrote:
He has a whole chapter on her in Bad Science. It's hilarious. The opening line is "Gillian McKeith, or to give her her full title, Gillian McKeith....."

LOL - she even has her own acronym on the Bad Science forums: TAPL (The Awful Poo Lady)