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Originally posted by jprophet420
... I hear the debunkers elsewhere are better than ours, but I cant join that forum as they would not accept a pseudonym. Anyway most of our debunkers here do a terrible job at debunking, as do most of our truthers.
Originally posted by twitchy
I just wanted to add a mighty AMEN to this thread, I'm sick of it. It's deteriorated to the point where we have one poster even going so far as to call us 'twofers', the mods do nothing about it despite it's clear intention of being an insult. I'd be willing to bet if we reversed the stereotype and created the antithesis calling them Liars, or I guess more appropriately, Lie-ers, the hammer would fall on us pretty quickly.
I think we are a growing demographic despite their extensive and probably expensive campaign to demonize us, so the text book strategy is shift focus on us personally rather than to attack the information. What else is left to them really?
[edit on 9-9-2009 by twitchy]
Originally posted by jprophet420
"Twoofer" implies lolcats and makes you just want to punch your monitor in all its 5th gradeness.
What Is "Woo"?
You’ll see me (and skeptics in general) talking about “woo.” (Sometimes “woo woo”, but I prefer just “woo.”)
Woo is a word skeptics use as shorthand to describe pseudo-scientific and often anti-scientific ideas - ideas that are irrational and not based on evidence commensurate with the extraordinary nature of the claim. These are ideas that usually rely on magical thinking, are rarely tested to see if they are real, and are usually resistant to reason and contrary evidence.
A woo can also be a person who hold those beliefs. So you could say, for example, “homeopathy is woo” or “woos believe in homeopathy.”
Its use has been criticized because it is seen as insulting. Maybe, but its use is not fallacious if you explain why the woo belief is a woo belief. Irrational beliefs based on magical thinking should be ridiculed. Alternative terms such as “believer” don’t really cut it, in my view.
Originally posted by bsbray11
Every single so-called "skeptic" or "debunker" I see here suffers a form of discrimination that is the definition of ignorant.
Without having ever met me personally, or knowing anything about my life, I am accused of being in some organized cult, of having a virus, of being psychologically disturbed and all number of completely unwarranted accusations that amount to ad hominem.
Originally posted by Alethea
I use the term "truther" to refer to anyone who is seeking the truth about anything...