I had contacted you in the past on blogging for Scienceblogs and you had told me that they turned you down since you didn't have a publication history. Now that most of the top people from Scienceblogs (PZ Myers, Ed Brayton, etc.) have move on over to FreeThoughtBlogs, have you given any thought on joining them and gaining a larger audience and an income by your efforts?
I had, but I just don't have time to blog any more, and frankly have been disillusioned by the ever-declining intellectual and moral level of public discourse. When a blithering loon like Rick Santorum is treated like a serious candidate for the highest office in the land, it's time for me to spend my time doing something else.
I have a mathematics background, an interest in science, and an unapologetic impatience for sloppy thinking. This puts me at odds with both right and left. It's high time the rational scientific viewpoint got the rabid proponent it deserves. I fight nonsense so the scientists don't have to. The blog is not necessarily about science, but rather is a scientific view of the world. Rational, civilly expressed, factually supported thought-out opposing views are welcome. Disparaging, irrational, intentionally obtuse, troll-like whack-a-mole, quote-mining posts will be dispatched without hesitation or apology, as will tit-for-tat partisan "the other side does it too" political gamesmanship, and opinions of what topics I should be writing about. We don't do that here.
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And these people are perfect examples:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMjm4LxFa1c
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWwK5TBcoUY&feature=related
I had contacted you in the past on blogging for Scienceblogs and you had told me that they turned you down since you didn't have a publication history. Now that most of the top people from Scienceblogs (PZ Myers, Ed Brayton, etc.) have move on over to FreeThoughtBlogs, have you given any thought on joining them and gaining a larger audience and an income by your efforts?
I had, but I just don't have time to blog any more, and frankly have been disillusioned by the ever-declining intellectual and moral level of public discourse. When a blithering loon like Rick Santorum is treated like a serious candidate for the highest office in the land, it's time for me to spend my time doing something else.
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