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RationalWiki:What is going on at ASK?/March 2010

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March 2010[edit]

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"Choosing to reject evidence simply because you don't agree with the people highlighting the evidence is not a rational argument." Whereas believing the words of a primitive society's priesthood is?

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ASK takes on a decidedly more commercial toneimg.

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Phillip lays it all on the table: I'll deal with reality when I have some reality to deal with.

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aSK has made a further departure from the reality-based community.

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Revert and Infinite ban # (Block log); 16:59 . . OscarJ (Talk | contribs) blocked Someone (Talk | contribs) with an expiry time of infinite (account creation disabled) (Abusing multiple accounts)

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PJR: I never said that evilutionists shouldn't give creationists short shrift. PJR has rather a short memory.

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PJR does some stand-up comedy: "Science should explain what happened without ruling out a particular agency a priori."

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Following blocks of Teh Terrible Asp, Jeeves, and Editor at CP, PJR announces a new policy at aSK: Insults with "no merit" are to be burned on sight.

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PJR: Bigoted comments disputing that CMI personnel are scientists are disallowed.

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Remember, Philip is an honest man. Therefore, this is not lying by omission.

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March 7: Teh Terrible Asp posts a warning to fellow editors. Two days later, PJR notices it: Revert and one-week block. UPDATE: Jeeves puts up the same text, but only gets three days.

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PJR: Conclusions that are based on the evolutionary worldview are disallowed in articles. Or, in English, science is verboten.

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Old-earth creationist view of origins: Trolling. UPDATE: Comment restored by, of all people, OscarJ.

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PJR: The be-all-end-all of communism was to spread atheism.

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Oh,look. Daniel1212's given us a lovely new essay semi-coherent blather self-plagiarized dump from Conservapedia Valuable Mainspace Article!

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The Dream Thought Police, they're coming to arrest me, oh no!