Comments on: Debate a Dead Scientist - a Cunning Strategy http://cosmicvariance.com/2006/01/11/debate-a-dead-expert-a-cunning-strategy/ Random samplings from a universe of ideas Tue, 07 Oct 2008 15:42:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Bring Out Your Dead! | Cosmic Variance http://cosmicvariance.com/2006/01/11/debate-a-dead-expert-a-cunning-strategy/#comment-100051 Bring Out Your Dead! | Cosmic Variance Wed, 28 Jun 2006 05:20:32 +0000 http://cosmicvariance.com/?p=566#comment-100051 [...] A while ago, I wrote a post titled Debate a Dead Scientist - A Cunning Strategy, about a creationist class, dressed up as a philosophy course, in which part of the proposed curriculum was that Francis Crick (who was already dead) would speak to the class as an evolution expert. I made a bit of fun of this while commenting on how fraudulent it was. [...] [...] A while ago, I wrote a post titled Debate a Dead Scientist - A Cunning Strategy, about a creationist class, dressed up as a philosophy course, in which part of the proposed curriculum was that Francis Crick (who was already dead) would speak to the class as an evolution expert. I made a bit of fun of this while commenting on how fraudulent it was. [...]

]]> By: Cosmic Variance http://cosmicvariance.com/2006/01/11/debate-a-dead-expert-a-cunning-strategy/#comment-20817 Cosmic Variance Sun, 30 Apr 2006 23:51:22 +0000 http://cosmicvariance.com/?p=566#comment-20817 <strong>Bring Out Your Dead!</strong> One of our “missions” here at Cosmic Variance is to provide a glimpse into the lives of working scientists and to demonstrate (hopefully, to some extent) that academics are normal people. A while ago, I wrote a post titled Debate a Dead S... Bring Out Your Dead!

One of our “missions” here at Cosmic Variance is to provide a glimpse into the lives of working scientists and to demonstrate (hopefully, to some extent) that academics are normal people.
A while ago, I wrote a post titled Debate a Dead S…

]]> By: Not a String Theorist http://cosmicvariance.com/2006/01/11/debate-a-dead-expert-a-cunning-strategy/#comment-10698 Not a String Theorist Wed, 11 Jan 2006 20:12:35 +0000 http://cosmicvariance.com/?p=566#comment-10698 Oh, but there's a long and distinguished history for stuff like this. Didn't one of the popes dig up his predecessor, put him on trial for heresy, find him guilty, then threw his body in the Tiber? Sure, let the little fundie moron debate Darwin. But only if she digs up his body and puts it in the chair. Otherwise it's just cheating. Oh, but there’s a long and distinguished history for stuff like this.

Didn’t one of the popes dig up his predecessor, put him on trial for heresy, find him guilty, then threw his body in the Tiber?

Sure, let the little fundie moron debate Darwin. But only if she digs up his body and puts it in the chair. Otherwise it’s just cheating.

]]> By: R http://cosmicvariance.com/2006/01/11/debate-a-dead-expert-a-cunning-strategy/#comment-10675 R Wed, 11 Jan 2006 16:31:14 +0000 http://cosmicvariance.com/?p=566#comment-10675 You have to give them credit though for coming up with something which is not already listed in John Baez' crackpot index. You have to give them credit though for coming up with something which is not already listed in John Baez’ crackpot index.

]]> By: Elliot http://cosmicvariance.com/2006/01/11/debate-a-dead-expert-a-cunning-strategy/#comment-10663 Elliot Wed, 11 Jan 2006 15:11:01 +0000 http://cosmicvariance.com/?p=566#comment-10663 Soo... That how I finally get my super-unified theory of everything which simultaneously proves Einstein RIGHT AND WRONG at the same time due to hyper-octo-magentonic action in front of the public. I'm Challenging both Einstein and Bohr to prove my theory wrong RIGHT NOW. 1... 2....3.... guess I win. Elliot Soo… That how I finally get my super-unified theory of everything which simultaneously proves Einstein RIGHT AND WRONG at the same time due to hyper-octo-magentonic action in front of the public.

I’m Challenging both Einstein and Bohr to prove my theory wrong RIGHT NOW.

1… 2….3….

guess I win.

Elliot

]]> By: Anonymous http://cosmicvariance.com/2006/01/11/debate-a-dead-expert-a-cunning-strategy/#comment-10662 Anonymous Wed, 11 Jan 2006 14:54:13 +0000 http://cosmicvariance.com/?p=566#comment-10662 <blockquote>Maybe you’re sure that the Grand Canyon was carved 4,500 years ago by the great global flood, as God’s punishment for humanity’s sin? Drag John Strong Newberry into your class and kick his ass when he doesn’t stand up to your intellectual onslaught.</blockquote> C'mon now, I'm pretty sure it was Paul Bunyan who carved the Grand Canyon. Let's not forget to invite the fictional characters to our debates.

Maybe you’re sure that the Grand Canyon was carved 4,500 years ago by the great global flood, as God’s punishment for humanity’s sin? Drag John Strong Newberry into your class and kick his ass when he doesn’t stand up to your intellectual onslaught.

C’mon now, I’m pretty sure it was Paul Bunyan who carved the Grand Canyon. Let’s not forget to invite the fictional characters to our debates.

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