Excellent write-up. Stein strikes me as a complete bafoon. One question though: Michael Shermer = "excellent skeptic"? (I'll ignore the others since he makes such an easy target)
You heard where he recently got busted for posing as a prof of a uni he had no affiliation with, right? Or when he got busted for claiming to have read books he couldn't name? Having followed spurts of his career I have a difficult time not thinking of him as a fraudster and opportunist... I guess we have different ideas of necessary/sufficient for "excellent skeptic"...
Why opt for the lunatic fringe? There's plenty of coherent fringe to explore...
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Date: 2010-10-12 04:35 pm (UTC)You heard where he recently got busted for posing as a prof of a uni he had no affiliation with, right? Or when he got busted for claiming to have read books he couldn't name? Having followed spurts of his career I have a difficult time not thinking of him as a fraudster and opportunist... I guess we have different ideas of necessary/sufficient for "excellent skeptic"...
Why opt for the lunatic fringe? There's plenty of coherent fringe to explore...