Well, this explains PZ at least.
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September 7th, 2008 at 11:20 am
So the verbopressin hormone makes you misrepresent or make things up? Can we synthesise an antidote? Only for use on conspiracy theorists, religious fundamentalists and the like. We will give the creative artists and writers etc full freedom
September 7th, 2008 at 11:25 am
Oh and BA? Any chance of reinstating the Sunday night live web chat? I know you must be really busy ( Oh Great One ) with JREF and the book and cons and EVERYTHING, but we, your humble minions, sure do miss our Sunday night fix.( madge goes off to prostrate herself before the illuminated alter on which stands the sacred i-madge of THE ONE we (who are not worthy) call The Great and Munificent Phil)
September 7th, 2008 at 11:31 am
Madge – I like the way you think.
September 7th, 2008 at 11:33 am
I absolutely LOVE the last sentence in that “article”. Most writers could use such a suppository to get them off their couch and running,,,
Should forward this to Colbert,,,
GAry 7
September 7th, 2008 at 11:37 am
Jewel- I like the way you like the way you think I think….I think
September 7th, 2008 at 11:37 am
This explains PZ you say? Well, if anything in that article was even remotely true, it
woudl show that PZ’s science writing gene is in excellent shape (ah, a folding joke).
PZ write wonderfully well, as we all know.
Myself, I like the VERY last sentence of the article, the Reference to the monogamy gene
stupidity we’ve been hearing about recently. The science writing gene story is a good
satire of that bunk.
September 7th, 2008 at 11:47 am
Is it a parody? Or not?
September 7th, 2008 at 11:51 am
Parody.
September 7th, 2008 at 12:13 pm
It’s almost entirely a “quote” of the New Scientist article with an amazingly small number of changes. There is a “Reference” at the end of the article to the original, or at least the first part of the original, unless you subscribe to New Scientist.
September 7th, 2008 at 12:16 pm
Best line ever:
“Not only that, men with two copies of IMl33t were more likely to pull random facts out of actual research and completely misinterpret them.”
Tee hee hee. Silly boys!
September 7th, 2008 at 12:17 pm
Wow, I thought it was completely made up… thanks for that, David!
September 7th, 2008 at 1:44 pm
madge Says:
So the verbopressin hormone makes you misrepresent or make things up? Can we synthesise an antidote? Only for use on conspiracy theorists, religious fundamentalists and the like. We will give the creative artists and writers etc full freedom
Just ONE more use, please?
Can we make in liquid form and then use the government’s secret chemtrail aircraft to spray it over Washington DC. With an extra dose on the White House and the Capitol Building?
September 7th, 2008 at 2:37 pm
That spells DNA.
September 7th, 2008 at 3:52 pm
I’m heading to the doctor next week to get my IMl33T levels checked, and see about my oreillytocin levels.
September 7th, 2008 at 3:54 pm
“In neocons and fundamentalists, receptors for the two systems sit at adjacent desks, so grant applications get a lot of attention, leading to government funded research into why the government shouldn’t fund research.”
I detect contamination by the Adams virus. That’s OK. I wish I could write like Douglas, too!
September 7th, 2008 at 4:14 pm
I wonder if there is a genetic connection between not being flexable with definations with words like irony or gas.
September 7th, 2008 at 4:25 pm
I wonder if IMl33t also affects twitch reflexes in computer games…
September 7th, 2008 at 6:49 pm
I suspect IMl33t also causes people to periodica1ly repl4ce rand0m 1etter5 wi7h numb3r5 th4t l0ok l1k3 13773r5.
September 7th, 2008 at 7:12 pm
It should have been IM1337. n00bs.
September 14th, 2008 at 3:25 am
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