Comments on: Should blogging scientists engage pseudo-/anti-science cranks? http://clasticdetritus.com/2008/10/08/should-blogging-scientists-engage-pseudo-anti-science-cranks/ A blog about sedimentary geology. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:49:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: quantum_flux http://clasticdetritus.com/2008/10/08/should-blogging-scientists-engage-pseudo-anti-science-cranks/#comment-4314 Mon, 20 Oct 2008 19:04:25 +0000 http://clasticdetritus.wordpress.com/?p=1262#comment-4314 The Half-Crankery (this is a spinoff of the technical invention site calle “The Halfbakery”.

]]> By: Joe http://clasticdetritus.com/2008/10/08/should-blogging-scientists-engage-pseudo-anti-science-cranks/#comment-4309 Thu, 16 Oct 2008 17:14:59 +0000 http://clasticdetritus.wordpress.com/?p=1262#comment-4309 arguing with people like that takes alot of energy, energy that could be used to do actual fun things.

instead of writing a 5 page refutation of something that is already unreadably stupid, work on your next accretionary wedge post. or come up with some other new post that is interesting for itself.

I’d rather see some cool pics of Italian geology, rather than some italian dude refuting the same boring creationist douchebaggery.

]]> By: Note to readers « Clastic Detritus http://clasticdetritus.com/2008/10/08/should-blogging-scientists-engage-pseudo-anti-science-cranks/#comment-4303 Wed, 15 Oct 2008 18:54:09 +0000 http://clasticdetritus.wordpress.com/?p=1262#comment-4303 [...] a week and have disabled the commenting … I hate to discourage any discussion (especially on this post), but I’ve been getting a bit more spam in the last week for some reason. Spammers are [...]

]]> By: aldo http://clasticdetritus.com/2008/10/08/should-blogging-scientists-engage-pseudo-anti-science-cranks/#comment-4300 Wed, 15 Oct 2008 13:04:42 +0000 http://clasticdetritus.wordpress.com/?p=1262#comment-4300 Dear Kevin, your blog’s name has -perhaps – something that brings a title reader to wrongly understand the blog meaning…
But I understand your position. Yet religious creationism is arriving now in Italy, but unfortunately it has some big sponsors in Catholic movements….
I have written in my blog that atheist and cristians must be united to fight against superstitions such as extraterrials, astrology, magicians, future-predictors and so on
I have (in italian) a very important document: a letter in wich Wojtila writes to the great astrophisician and priest George Koyne, former directo of the Vatican Specula, talking about the teology and the evolution wich, for the great Pope, is not a teory, but the real way of the life.
It’s sad to see the current position of some important people in the roman church…..

]]> By: Kevin N http://clasticdetritus.com/2008/10/08/should-blogging-scientists-engage-pseudo-anti-science-cranks/#comment-4296 Wed, 15 Oct 2008 04:06:48 +0000 http://clasticdetritus.wordpress.com/?p=1262#comment-4296 Blogging as a Christian geologist, I have to face young-Earth creationism head on at times. But the approach of sarcasm or ridicule would get me nowhere, unless my objective were polarization. I share the perspective of Suvrat: I will engage the bad science, but with the lurker or non-science reader in mind. I treat my “opponents” with respect, whether it be the atheist who visits my blog who thinks “Christian geologist” is an oxymoron, or the young-Earth creationist who is trying to tell me that there are human footprints in the Cretaceous Glen Rose Formation of Texas.

]]> By: BrianR http://clasticdetritus.com/2008/10/08/should-blogging-scientists-engage-pseudo-anti-science-cranks/#comment-4293 Wed, 15 Oct 2008 02:04:09 +0000 http://clasticdetritus.wordpress.com/?p=1262#comment-4293 Aldo … thanks for the comment, glad to hear there are bloggers in Italy are active in helping the general public learn about fringe-, psuedo-, non-, and anti-science.

]]> By: aldo http://clasticdetritus.com/2008/10/08/should-blogging-scientists-engage-pseudo-anti-science-cranks/#comment-4289 Tue, 14 Oct 2008 23:09:16 +0000 http://clasticdetritus.wordpress.com/?p=1262#comment-4289 Dear Brian, I write an italian scientific blog “scienzeedintorni”, somehow as sciencesandsourroundings. Just today I have written a post against an italian public TV, in wich they present the so-called mysteries
For example, tomorrow show summary has crop circles, Ica stones “that will rewrite human hystory” and the extraterrestrial visits.
The worst thing, for me, is that most of the material comes from your country (for example man traces of jurassic age with dinosauran traces). I think that the situation in the same as USA: there are many belivers, which are driven by people that make money with them, as Rosemary Althea, that I’ll grade to be delivered to a state prison.
But the scientific point of view is not made to go against these people, because a scientist doesn’t matter this.
I agree with you about the arrogant ignorance. I have asked this question to a creationist: you must explain why you are right and geologists, geophisicists, biologists, palaeontologists, chemicals, astrophisicists and go on agree on a world view and only a few teologists say that they are wrong… He answered tht there is a lack of skeletons for the evolution to be not a teoy only…

]]> By: BrianR http://clasticdetritus.com/2008/10/08/should-blogging-scientists-engage-pseudo-anti-science-cranks/#comment-4278 Sat, 11 Oct 2008 15:27:31 +0000 http://clasticdetritus.wordpress.com/?p=1262#comment-4278 Here is a great, and humurous, post about what a crank is. Enjoy.

]]> By: Silver Fox http://clasticdetritus.com/2008/10/08/should-blogging-scientists-engage-pseudo-anti-science-cranks/#comment-4276 Sat, 11 Oct 2008 12:28:37 +0000 http://clasticdetritus.wordpress.com/?p=1262#comment-4276 I believe think the Yami McMoots and I have that privilege! ;)

]]> By: Anaconda http://clasticdetritus.com/2008/10/08/should-blogging-scientists-engage-pseudo-anti-science-cranks/#comment-4273 Sat, 11 Oct 2008 00:22:29 +0000 http://clasticdetritus.wordpress.com/?p=1262#comment-4273 Who gets to decide who is the “crank” and who is not?

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