I just cannot let this go: I’ve become an obsessive freak spotter, currently I am obsessed by the ongoing madness at OverwhelmingEvidence.com, the cool site for teen scientists to discuss the exciting and important theory of Intelligent Design. The growing consensus is that this site is populated by approximately 50% trolls, 25% ID opponents leaving a measly 25% remaining for the earnest ID supporters for whom the site was allegedly created.
Today’s was a very exciting day for OE afficianardos. A user was banned from the forums for being a “troll”, his crime was drawing readers’ attention to a very well researched study about the way that ID proponents have been mis-representing the Haeckel’s Embryo Drawing controversy. The study demonstrated that not only is it today’s EvoDevo consensus that Haeckel’s observations were false, but this has been documented explicitly in the every text book that mentioned his infamous drawings, and this has been the case since at the latest 1939.
Naturally this post had to be deleted, and the author’s comments removed from public view. Unfortunately the blogging software that OE use has the nasty habit of deleting entire threads if the editor attempts to delete just one comment. “Patrick”, one of the OE moderators diligently re-posted the deleted comments under his own user-id, including the very latest one by a newly registered user upon which they posted an explanation of what they had just done (please see the screenshot).
I’m certain that some of our British readers my recognise the name BobMort. Just click through to his profile if you want to have a guess at who he might be (or pretends to be):
And I should also point out that a few hours before BobMort registered I spotted another new user called “ViCreeves“. I do hope that they start posting together, they were a great double-act.
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