Skeptics I no longer have any respect for.

[thesummerqueen]

RW needs to put her keyboard in the trash. Or stop blogging while drunk.

I'm adding PZ to the list. I have a list as long as my arm of assholes I still respect, admire, and find hilarious, but he has ceased to be one of them. His constant RW toe-sucking is utterly irritating, and "Gelatogate" was the last straw.

This latest escapade of theirs with "Rileygate" (or "Radfordgate," or "pinkgate" or whatever cutesy -gate you subscribe to) is so full of ridiculous I can't even breathe.

I've been becoming friends with Ben, and on a personal level he is an astoundingly sweet, respectful, funny, generous and kind-hearted man. As a skeptic I admired before I even stuck a toe into the skeptic community pool or got to know him, he is all of those things and more in his pursuit of the truth. That's not to say that he shouldn't be called out if wrong, but once again RW and PZ aren't calling someone out for being wrong - they're calling someone out for disagreeing with their particular ideologies, and looking like twats while doing it.

I've said it in a couple places, but if Ben made PZ embarrassed to be an "old white guy," then RW makes me embarrassed to have a vagina. (see PZ's blog, and then see Center for Inquiry for Ben's response to RW, which graced her with more respect than she deserved)