[Junior]

How do you explain his other howlers (wildly-elliptical orbits, chimps have tails, there are no plant phyla, a circle is not an ellipse, etc.)? If it had been just one gaffe, he could walk away unscathed and chalk it up to a typo. However, he has a history of such gaffes, and he compounds his errors by attempting to defend them, even going so far as to claim others are making it all up (and then we have to post all those posts again to show him up).

[PatrickHenry]

The sun is powered by fission¹, a chemical² reaction, and "phylum" refers only to animals³. Placemarker.

[AndrewC]

If it had been just one gaffe, he could walk away unscathed and chalk it up to a typo.

Gaffes are the rule not the exception on these threads. And Gore3000 is not the only one that may be wrong and not admit it. Long ago someone attempted to draw me into an argument when they thought Gore3000 was wrong. I refused to comply and maintained my distance for some time until it became apparent that insult and derision were not going to abate. I then looked up a source with a position on the question and provided citations and a link. This source agreed with Gore3000. In that thread the argument ceased but the other side did not admit anything. Later in a different thread, I recall, the same argument against Gore3000 was brought up. BTW the source was Talk-origins.

That is one point, but the more relevant point is that "looking someone in the eye" and stating something derogatory is much more acceptable than constant "gossiping and sniping" with the same statements.