Comments on: No Sock-Puppets, Creationist or Otherwise

By: Paul Burnett

Paul Burnett — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 23:00:55 +0000

Hi – this is the real Paul Burnett – not a sockpuppet for Clarence David Parsons.

Yeah, “Steve Larimore” sounds like Clarence. I even once got a nastygram from someone purporting to be Clarence’s wife…and it may have been, but who knows?

I’m actually not following Clarence around, as “Steve” suspects. I’m following intelligent design creationists (or “cdesign proponentsists” as they are coming to be called more and more – Google the term if you’re not familiar with it) around, and Clarence shows up at the same watering holes, flogging his pseudoscience.

Here’s why I think Clarence is sad: Here’s part of his publisher’s website (http://www.tatepublishing.com ): “Have you written a book? Are you looking for a publisher? Have you searched out and submitted your manuscript to dozens of publishing companies only to be turned away, time and time again? If you’ve answered yes to any of these questions, Tate Publishing could be your answer.”

I think Clarence, a successful businessman with more money than good sense, has been taken in by a vanity publisher. I can’t prove it, but check out Tate and see what you think.

Tucker: I bet Clarence knows more about his subject than Tate’s proof readers…but not much. (chortle)

By: Sheri Williamson

Sheri Williamson — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 20:32:01 +0000

Given the similar bombastic stylings of the two comments, I’d have been more surprised if the IP addresses hadn’t been the same.

By: Don Snow

Don Snow — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 18:14:21 +0000

I’m not a Creationist, but I am a Christian. Imho, evolution is not all wrong. It does have some provable activities: for example, natural selection at a local site.
I’ll probably never take a college evolution course. When I go back to college, it’ll be one class a semester. First, I want to take vocal music. I don’t care if I get credits, or not. I’m going to improve my voice, not for a major.

By: Larian LeQuella

Larian LeQuella — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 15:04:02 +0000

Hence why I am VERY OPEN about my comments. Heck, you can go to my web page and find out more than some would probably be comfortable sharing.

That said… these creationists ARE a sad lot. To sit around and see all this evidence and try to refute it with your little delusions…

By: stu

stu — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 10:35:55 +0000

seems to be a verycommon thing , creationists using sock puppets to prop themselves up.

What about this for a simple idea….

The last three digits of the commentors IP address shows next to their name..

for xample mine would show “stu.133″, then , EVEN the public will be able to see at a glance , the likely sockpuppets….

if you see creationistguy1.235 ” say some thing , and then “random guy.235″ back himup , itsgoing to be fairly obvious…

By: Brian Schmitt

Brian Schmitt — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 07:06:06 +0000

Apparently this Parsons fellow has a legion of followers…in his own head.

By: jldugger

jldugger — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 07:03:08 +0000

We have a similar problem with people in Linux; it’s common enough that there’s a pair of guys going around talking about “poisonous people”.

video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4216011961522818645

In a sense, Open Source is applying academic principles to software development, so it stands to reason that some findings also apply to science.

By: Tucker

Tucker — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 04:53:45 +0000

What an interesting development. I can’t imagine how the guy responded to his proof readers.