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HalfMooner
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 Posted - 02/05/2008 : 16:22:45
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Now, even the Disco Institute's lawyers are getting involved in da Thug Life. At DI's "Evolution News & Views," Luskin used the Research Blogging organization's copyrighted logo without permission, and without bothering to even apply for membership.
Douchebag.
Essentially, Research Blogging sets up a system for blogs involved in commenting upon peer-reviewed scientific publications. One of the requirements for membership is that the blogs must be fully open to replies to comments posted by the bloggers.
Luskins's now taken the stolen icon down, and is supposedly applying for membership in Research Blogging. But the day that the DI allows open debate on its sites is not anywhere in the immediate future, in my opinion. It's unlikely the DI will every approach the open standards required by Research Blogging.
Abbie Smith's "ERV" blog is as good as any place to start following the links.
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
Here's a link to Moonscape News, and one to its Archive. |
Edited by - HalfMooner on 02/05/2008 16:27:07
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Kil
Evil Skeptic
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Posted - 02/05/2008 : 19:55:23 [Permalink]
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A Creationist lacking reasonable ethical standards? Say it ain't so!
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Uncertainty may make you uncomfortable. Certainty makes you ridiculous.
Why not question something for a change?
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Starman
SFN Regular
Sweden
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 Posted - 02/06/2008 : 09:17:38 [Permalink]
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Removed with a notpology:
http://scienceblogs.com/authority/2008/02/luskin_and_the_peerreviewed_re.php
Originally fabulated by Casey Luskin
At the time that I posted this post, I was not aware that the graphic I had used was owned by ResearchBlogging.org. |
Ehhhrm....
What does the icon you copied say? |
"Any religion that makes a form of torture into an icon that they worship seems to me a pretty sick sort of religion quite honestly"
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H. Humbert
SFN Die Hard
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Posted - 02/06/2008 : 10:01:11 [Permalink]
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His basic response was "I didn't know what I was doing was stealing at the time." Which can be rightly interpreted as "I didn't bother to find out if I could use the graphic legally," even though odds were that the image copy write was held by someone. This is the sort of pathetic excuse one expects from a sullen teenager, not a professional lawyer. Of course, it is exactly what one expects from a creationist.
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"A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true." --Demosthenes
"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool." --Richard P. Feynman
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Ricky
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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Posted - 02/06/2008 : 15:45:20 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Ricky
Research Blogging says:
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Furthermore, the guidelines state nothing about membership being required. They also make no statement about the blog being open to all commments.
Am I missing something?
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Point taken. The guidelines aren't very specific, mainly requiring a fair criticism by the blogger, without misrepresentation of the work under criticism. If I'd indeed read something about the blog allowing open commentary (and I may have been mistaken), it was not in those guidelines, but stated or implied by someone else. My apologies.
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
Here's a link to Moonscape News, and one to its Archive. |
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Dr. Mabuse
Septic Fiend
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Posted - 02/06/2008 : 16:44:41 [Permalink]
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My favourite response from above link:
So much for being able to detect design
Posted by: Marc Connor
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Dr. Mabuse - "When the going gets tough, the tough get Duct-tape..."
Dr. Mabuse whisper.mp3
"Equivocation is not just a job, for a creationist it's a way of life..." Dr. Mabuse
Support American Troops in Iraq:
Send them unarmed civilians for target practice..
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Dave W.
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Dude
SFN Die Hard
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Posted - 02/10/2008 : 11:42:38 [Permalink]
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Mooner, you got that impression from reading the ERV blog entry on the topic. Abbie suggests that requiring open comments on the registered blogs would fix a problem with the research bloggin concept.
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Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.
-- Thomas Jefferson
"god :: the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument." - G. Carlin
Hope, n.
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
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Posted - 02/10/2008 : 11:45:57 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Dude
Mooner, you got that impression from reading the ERV blog entry on the topic. Abbie suggests that requiring open comments on the registered blogs would fix a problem with the research bloggin concept.
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Right, I got her suggestion mixed up in my mind with what I assumed were the research blog rules. My fault for reading/thinking sloppily, not Abbie's.
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DI's Casey Luskin rips off Research Blogging icon
