Comments on: The Never Sinking Ship: How Thunderf00t Sucks at Science (or Else He’s a Liar; Probably He’s Just a Liar)

By: Marcos

Marcos — Tue, 12 Jan 2016 14:50:58 +0000

Dear Mr. Carrier,

What would the Traffic-Chart look like, if you subtracted the data from the Blogs, which left FTB in 2015? Wouldn’t that represent the overall development of the sites traffic more accurately? You could also chart a time series with data of all current blogs (blogs active with end of 2015) and a second series with blogs not part of the FTB anymore (as a stacked area chart).

By the way, I really enjoy your work, allthough your books a bit hard to read for a non native speaker 🙂
Marcos

By: Richard Carrier

Richard Carrier — Tue, 12 Jan 2016 00:49:42 +0000

In reply to Steve Watson. That paragraph is barely intelligible.

By: Richard Carrier

Richard Carrier — Tue, 12 Jan 2016 00:40:09 +0000

In reply to Santiago DeSoto. Actually, all my facts are now square. You can disagree on how to interpret them, but that's a different matter from getting the facts right.

By: Richard Carrier

Richard Carrier — Tue, 12 Jan 2016 00:36:16 +0000

In reply to johngreg. For my readers: This JohnGreg is this guy. Just FYI.

By: Richard Carrier

Richard Carrier — Tue, 12 Jan 2016 00:32:58 +0000

In reply to Pierce R. Butler. Hypotheses only. No tests of them in mind. The first to test would be that we all blog less, and people read our type of content less, around the holidays vs. summer. But that's just a guess. It might not even be correct. And beyond that, I don't know.

By: Richard Carrier

Richard Carrier — Tue, 12 Jan 2016 00:29:33 +0000

In reply to Ryan McCarthy. That, and the dichotomy that he either doesn't know the difference between riding a wave and a sinking ship, or he is pretending not to. Which would be lying. Likewise hiding the front trough of the wave. And not at first knowing (or pretending not to know) how to look for a correct data graph for the actual wave, and then not knowing (or pretending not to know) how to correctly diagram it (without missing data), and then, only after being called out on both, digging up anything even correctly close to what he wanted to sell. And manipulating even that a little.

By: Steve Watson

Steve Watson — Sun, 10 Jan 2016 17:17:44 +0000

“Oh no he is banging on about this again (buries head in hands)”. Then we get the groovy charts, error correction and Coastie anecdote as analogy. It occurred to me that the annoying bits are are probably fall-out. If you weren’t the guy who gives us this, you probably wouldn’t be the guy that has given us Proving History, OHJ etc. ‘ Ex Nihilo Onus Merdae Fit’ is probably the most smilingest thing I have read on the Internet. Honestly. Just thinking about it makes me warm, tingly and happy. I shall probably go read it again straight after I hit enter.

By: Russ Walker

Russ Walker — Sat, 09 Jan 2016 23:29:35 +0000

Well, that was illuminating. And a good guide for what to watch for for those of us who don’t work in a scientific field.

By: Mark S.

Mark S. — Sat, 09 Jan 2016 19:06:37 +0000

On manipulative people (character disturbances, personality disorders, pathological narcissists, etc):

http://www.manipulative-people.com/

You will find them in different degrees in all kinds of relationships.

By: Santiago DeSoto

Santiago DeSoto — Sat, 09 Jan 2016 17:36:52 +0000

Let me get this straight, as proof of your outrageous lies about Mason you provide links to similar outrageous lies, penned by yourself and your compatriots. In turn those outrageous lies lack any proof whatsoever. By your logic Earth is very much flat, since that little piece of misinformation has been going around for millennia. Some scientist you are.

Unless you are one of them social science “scholars”. In that case very well done! Jazz hands for you, sir!