The two main impetuses for this post are both already old news in the blogosphere’s short news cycle, but I think the issue is important, so here it goes:
Why “faitheist” Chris Stedman is so obnoxious
November 9, 2012 By 42 Comments
I said I wasn’t going to say any more about Chris Stedman, but Hemant recently posted an exclusive excerpt with an intro that I feel needs a response:
Why I moderate comments lightly
August 10, 2012 By 9 Comments
One aspect of the civility issue, which I said quite a bit about last week, is the issue of how to moderate comments. A lot of people have had things to say about this, generally on the side of moderating comments more (even PZ’s in on that). I had previously ignored this facet of the [...]
Apparently, PZ didn’t read Sandberg and Bostrom very carefully
July 15, 2012 By 30 Comments
So… when I first read PZ’s recent post on uploading, it wasn’t quite clear what his objections were, but I thought maybe he had some good points. But reading his responses in the comments thread, it quickly becomes clear that while PZ claims to have read Sandberg and Bostrom’s paper, he must not have read [...]
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