2009-07-17 Unscientific America - it's personal!

2009-07-17 PZ Myers Pharyngula \Unscientific America\PZ Myers vs. Unscientific America http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2009/07/unscientific_america_its_perso.php Unscientific America: it's personal! Unscientific America - it's personal!  I feel obligated to reply to Mooney and Kirshenbaum's latest complaint, but I can't really get motivated. Their argument has become so absurd and so petty that it seems a waste of time anymore.

All they've done is confessed that they are on a personal vendetta: they are very upset with me, they admit that my existence is a central reason that they left the scienceblogs network, and you can just feel the roiling resentment that people dare to criticize them, persistently and at length…and it's all my fault.

I did not address their scapegoating of PZ Myers and Pharyngula in my reviews of the book because it was a palpably strange bit of personal antagonism on their part, and I confined my disagreement to the poverty of their other arguments. It is interesting to see my assessment of the anti-me sentiment now confirmed. It's unfortunate, too. Their book is very thin on ideas and evidence, and it detracts from it further that they spend two chapters whining about people who have annoyed them. It's unprofessional, and it reveals their own poor comprehension of how the web works.

&ldquo;I feel obligated to reply to Mooney and Kirshenbaum's latest complaint, but I can't really get motivated. Their argument has become so absurd and so petty that it seems a waste of time anymore.&rdquo;   