The "unwashed masses", as you call them, are already getting plenty of exposition to crackpottery, much more than they get to real science, so that a few crackpots on BHTV are barely a drop in the ocean. That's not what concerns me, no.
What concerns me is that BHTV has a reputation as a respectable website thanks to the participation of respectable academics and experts. It's reasonable to assume that such a respectable website wouldn't invite crackpots to promote their brand of crackpottery; in fact, that's an assumption I made myself until I read Sean's and Carl's posts. Inviting crackpots therefore gives the impression that these people should be taken seriously, even if we think they're wrong.
In any event, your own motives are suspect, to say the least. Characterizing creationist nuts as "people whom [Sean and Carl] don't like", as if creationism was merely a distasteful political opinion, or something, makes you sound like a crackpot yourself, or worse, a postmodernist.
So BHTV can't both enjoy the participation of respectable academics and also host the occasional crackpot? There exists no such universe where the two could possibly coincide? Is there some implicit assumption here that there's a fixed amount of BHTV episodes, each of which will feature either crackpots or respectable academics? Even if this were so, wouldn't the reasonable response be to skip over the crackpots rather than avoiding the entire medium? The only justifiable rationale I can see for skipping over BHTV because of this is if you just watched dia...
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