Comments on: PZ Myers expelled again. Expelled lies again. (updated)

By: ozatheist

ozatheist — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 07:06:37 +0000

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By: arthurvandelay

arthurvandelay — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 14:20:03 +0000

“respect people’s religious and political beliefs.”

Respect my authoritah!

By: Bad

Bad — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 18:15:33 +0000

“respect people’s religious and political beliefs.”

I respect people’s right to hold such beliefs: respect it so much that I would die to protect it. But that doesn’t mean that I have to show respect for the beliefs themselves, or refrain from criticism when they do something egregious or dishonest or harmful.

By: Duas Quartuncias

Duas Quartuncias — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 19:55:55 +0000

Matt, PZ Myers was NOT invited to the particular conference call that is the source of the fuss. He joined in early on a different line,to which the Pandas crew was invited. This was a line for listeners and questioners only. As he was there before the published start time, he actually overhead the DIFFERENT number to be used by the people actually speaking and responding. He then dialled in on that other line… the one to which he was not invited.

I’m in two minds on tactics here; but the Expelled people have been so incredibly duplicitous and incompetent that I lean towards the “good on you” for PZ on this one. But as a simple matter of accuracy; me was not invited to the call which allowed him to speak up on the same line as the Expelled folks.

By: secondlady

secondlady — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 13:01:30 +0000

respect people’s religious and political beliefs.

By: Bad

Bad — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 04:45:11 +0000

To be fair, he was not supposed to get the code to unmute his line. That him taking advantage of their stupidity.

But honestly, I’m glad he did, because this one-way PR love-fest is just sickening coming from a bunch of people claiming to be all for debate and freedom of speech. These guys and their PRATT arguments can’t last two rounds in a debate with virtually anyone, and they know it. They’re hiding behind careful media management, afraid to take anyone on on the issues.

By: Darron S

Darron S — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 02:32:03 +0000

They’re intentionally trying to get publicity for their film by stirring stuff up with PZ/Dawkins. They noted how much publicity they got from the screening story, so this is just round 2. Any publicity is good publicity when it comes to a movie that debuts in a couple weeks.

Oh, and that video is NUTS!