Posted: Nov 24, 2010 5:30 pm
Darwinsbulldog wrote:Andy McIntosh is either a lying cunt, or stupid or both! One thing is for sure, he is not a scientist. I don't care if he hold a chair in science. he is an impostor as a scientist, betrayed by his own words. No science starts with "....I believe X as fact, and then proceeds to "prove" it. Because it can't be proven, or even supported by evidence, unless you ignore the evidence. He is deliberate about his confirmation bias. [At least in that he is honest]. he is not in the science business, he is in the apologetics business. At least when he talks about these topics. he should be stripped of his Professorship. He is not a teacher of science, but a propagandist for woo.
All this, "I believe, I believe".....and I am not a scientists but...by another panel member.
How do we know what the word "scientist" means. Well, we look in a dictionary and the generally accepted definitive
dictionary of the English language is the Oxford English Dictionary the OED. This is the definition that it gives
" A person with expert knowledge of a science; a person using scientific methods."
Since advocating creationism is the antithesis of the scientific method he doesn't seem to be acting like a scientist to me.
It is puzzling how someone saying such daft things could become a professor. So seeing that his CV is on-line I took a look.
This seems interesting
1968 GCE 'O' level (Northern Universities Joint Matriculation Board): English Language 3, Mathematics 1, French 3, German 5, Latin 5, Physics 2, Chemistry 3
I'd be interested to hear from others who were in school at that time, but whilst his later qualifications look excellent,these are not the grades that I would expect from a student at 16 who was to go on to be a university professor.
If the standard is around the same as when I took them, when the pass grades changed to the letters A,B, and C, I would bet that there would be several people in the year with much better grades. Mine are better than that.
I am thinking of two academic friends whose grades I know. One teaches at "Oxbridge" and got A's in everything I am very sure of that and the other had all As barring one B IIRC.
I do wonder whether he is very bright with mathematical things but not at other stuff. I have heard tell of this kind of
thing before. His biology is abysmal, but we all know that!
I'd be interested to get confirmation that his university has distanced themselves from him.