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“Shepherd of the Internet Trolls” — “PZ Myers and the Art of Shameless Dishonesty”

Salvador Cordova
August 7, 2012
Atheism, Humor
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Famous atheist Sam Harris in Wrestling the Troll describes “unscrupulous people like PZ Myers” who run an “odious blog” as the “shepherd of Internet trolls”. In saying this Harris also managed to say a few things about PZ’s followers.

But one of the best descriptions of PZ Myers and the thought control exercised at PZ and Ed Brayton’s “Free” Thought Blogs comes from the atheist Thunderf00t. Thunderf00t outlines PZ’s strange alliance with the Anti-Creationist Pinup Girl Rebecca Watson and the “rational” behavior going on at “Free” Thought Blogs:

PS
PZ has no shortage of kind words to say of yours truly:

Sal Cordova is a slimy little sewer goblin

Without hesitation, I can tell you who the most contemptible, repulsive creationist I know is: he tops even Ray Comfort and Ken Ham in the pantheon of creationist liars for Jesus. It’s the otherwise negligible Sal Cordova,…the nastiest person I know is Sal Cordova…

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Comments
I propose a new metric: the NQ (Nastiness Quotient). In order to compute an NQ for PZ and Sal, one could extract a random sampling of PZ's Internet posts concerning his comments directed at ID proponents, and extract a random sampling of Sal's Internet posts directed at Darwinists. PZ's NQ would obviously be horrific in comparison to Sal's. (Sal is one of the most modest, unassuming, cordial, and respectful people I have ever had the privilege of being associated with, and he maintains this graciousness even in the face of the most vile and undeserved attacks -- from Darwinists who presumably preach science, objectivity, and tolerance as the highest values.) However, in computing these NQs one must weight them with volume in order to arrive at a statistically significant result. PZ's NQ volume factor is so large that I fear my 64-bit calculator would be incapable of representing the number. My NQ is much higher than Sal's (which is effectively zero). The reason for this is that for 43 years I was deceived by the junk science of Darwinism, and indoctrinated with the nihilistic, soul-destroying philosophy it was designed to justify. At some point, in my opinion, righteous indignation is called for and justified.GilDodgen
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