• spittingimage@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    You can be an awful person and still be right. If you’re asking people to ignore someone’s legitimately useful work because they’re a bad person, stop.

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      6 days ago

      I don’t just have a problem with the man. I find his methodology questionable. Yelling “FAKE” and doing a bit of showmanship is not good science

      In fact he had no science training at all being a high school dropout

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        6 days ago

        Is that what he’s doing? Back when I read his blog, he always talked about staff from his foundation establishing testing protocols. I suppose it’s always possible he could say that and then not do it, but it seems unlikely.

        You don’t need formal training to follow the scientific method.

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          6 days ago

          Well right now he’s not doing anything. He’s dead

          James Randi was to skepticism what Charlie Kirk was to debates.

          An inflammatory phony