So true. Following are some of the insults the anti-ID "ping list" used against me the last time I dared to enter their exclusive domain on FR:
dumb as a stump
fake
hoax
silent slink-off
Dummy Dance
slippery escape
bogus quote
lie
lying
biggest lie
obnoxiously dishonest
pretends
cop-out
cowardly
cartoonish
mischaracterized
misleading
misinformed
misstatements
discredited
yapping
goofy screwup
grossly distorted
disgraceful
silly
ugly
Oh I forgot. This is the way scientists talk.
Oh I forgot. This is the way scientists talk.
That's because that's what your argument deserved.
You got off easy. You should see how scientists talk about other 'real' scientists when a 'real' challenge is made to a 'real' idea that has broad consensual acceptance. It's similar, but much more sophisticated. Whenever you risk your life on the accuracy and consensual acceptance of scientific theories, and you do it many times every day, think about that.
Crap (like ID) is often dismissed with the kind of rhetoric it deserves.
That's how 'real' science works.