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It is the shame of FreeRepublic that the rantings of crackpots are routinely posted in lieu of science, and accepted uncritically and to great applause by a certain segment of Freepers, who despite the pride they take in their ignorance of the topic, seem to have a politically motivated need for mainstream science and scientists to be discredited

Your outstanding and eloquent plea for reason reminds me why you are my second-favorite Freeper. (Radio Astronomer is my favorite. Sorry).

It really reflects badly on all of us.

The small but annoyingly loud number of pseudoscientists does no service to FR or conservatism in general, and only gives the Left further ammunition. And the person who winds up taking these shots is Jim Rob, who has done prehaps more than anyone to establish a strong and coherent conservative community on the Web. It is through no fault of his own that the pseudoscientists (as well as the homophobes, Muslim-bashers, and other fringe dwellers who masquerade as being part of mainstream conservatism) keep trying to sabotage things.