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Comment author: Eugine_Nier 07 January 2014 04:38:08AM 14 points [-]

Small but noisy. They add their special flavour to the tone though, as one of the few places outside their circle of blogs that gives them airtime (much like the neoreactionaries they cross over with).

Rather we support our beliefs with rational arguments, the HBD-deniers don't bother presenting counter arguments (and when they do they tend to be laughably bad) but instead try to argue that it's somehow immoral to say and/or believe these things regardless of their truth value.

Comment author: hairyfigment 11 January 2014 08:23:40AM -2 points [-]

I've not really followed you, but I've never once seen you make an argument or even explain what you want. If you tell me something y'all want that you could plausibly achieve without the aid of low-status racists, perhaps I'll try to put y'all in a separate category.

Comment author: Risto_Saarelma 11 January 2014 09:12:17AM 0 points [-]

I'd like people to stop trying to suppress science because of nothing but ideological principles, like the creationists, and let the scientists get on with stuff like finding a cure for Alzheimer's.

Comment author: hairyfigment 11 January 2014 09:39:50AM -1 points [-]

I'll give you two-to-one odds that Derbyshire has not found a promising line of research for an Alzheimer's cure.