There is some controversy about the American Philosophical Association listing job vacancies with colleges that are anti-gay, despite them having a policy against that sort of thing, which has prompted some of their members to call them on the inconsistency of it. Which is all very interesting. But then, Francis Beckwith, a proponent of that steaming pile of utter codswallop intelligent design, steps in and completely fucks up at comprehension. It’s all on Brian Leiter’s blog, and it’s got all the makings of one of those slow-motion car crash shots from a bad action movie.
More proof that the people who spend their days complaining to Ofcom about the BBC tend to be - how shall we put this ? - utter nobs.
There’s an excellent article in this week’s eSkeptic called The Greatest Story Ever Garbled by Tim Callahan. It is an excellent critique of the movie Zeitgeist, a shitty conspiracy film that takes a few reasonable ideas put forward by Jesus mythicists and scholars who doubt the literalist interpretation of the Gospels, combine them with a whole load of bullshit, as a starter dish for credulity-stretching conspiracy theories from 9/11 Truthers and U.S. income tax deniers (it’s one thing not to like paying taxes, either because you’ve got a moral objection to government or because you’d just rather spend the cash on the large variety of snack foods and cheap laptops twenty-first century capitalism makes available, it’s quite another to deny that you do - the latter end up in jail). What pisses me off most about Zeitgeist is the number of my self-proclaimed skeptics and atheists who fall into this trap of idiocy and hucksterism. It turns up on so many bloody forums - eighty or ninety page threads of just these idiots going on about this shitty, badly-researched movie.
