Sunday, April 02, 2006

Always Remember...

I think, it sometimes becomes a bit too apparent around here how much I don't want to muck with graphs or data in Excel to make sure cells are all pointing at each other properly at certain points...

With that said, I was inspired by this to finally join in on this and bring you this:

So always remember,


I think it all speaks for itself, don't you?

MONDAY MORNING EDIT: I woke up this morning and discovered thanks to PZ Myers and Welsley Elsberry that Bill Dembski--in a desperate attempt to distract visitors to his blog from his own insanity--has started taking after Mims in referring to Dr. Pianka as "Dr. Doom," making this campaign even more appropriate.

I blogged yesterday about UTAustin professor Eric Pianka (aka “Dr. Doom”) and his advocacy of killing 90% of the world’s human population with airborne Ebola. Could Pianka be charged with terrorism/conspiracy to commit a terrorist act? What happens if a student actually takes his suggestion to heart and kills a bunch of people? Why shouldn’t we think that Dr. Doom himself would commit the act of human destruction he is advocating? How is what he is saying any different from somebody at an airport saying that he plans to plant a bomb there.

I can assure you, Mr. Dembski, that "Dr. Doom" probably has no such plans. I can offer you several lines of reasoning:
1. Just because you've quoted someone else who is making something up about someone, that doesn't make what they've made up true.
2. Dr. Doom is not in fact a professor at any branch of the University of Texas. That's because Dr. Doom is not a real doctor. It's true: he rests on false laurels. Also? Doesn't exist.
3. Dr. Pianka, on the other hand, who DOES exist, is a professor of Zoology. A quick perusal of his research projects turns up a dearth of grants titled, "aerosolization of Ebola Zaire." Or do you think the sneaky bastard's been putting all his money for researching the evolution of the varanus lizard to this purpose for the last three years? Must be, because since evolution doesn't happen, you have no idea what he could possibly have been studying, right?

Christ. I'm sorry, Mr. Dembski, but my 11.5 month old nephew could call you out on this one. If Dr. Pianka is Dr. Doom, then you are Dr. Dick. And pretending you could ever be a doctor is a strong enough compliment to more than balance out the insult.

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