It is disturbing when the so called 'smart' ones are revealed as horribly not smart at all. It is most disturbing when this happens with scientists.

Yea, it is sad to say but the scientific community is often so very sure of its knowledge and methods that it loses its critical thinking and ends up just as closed minded as the orthodox religious people are. Maybe that's a slight exaggeration, but there is way too much adherence to ideas and not nearly enough openness to reevaluating things. If your ideas are correct, it should be no problem to reassert them even in the presence of new info.

Not only is spreading hate going too far, it's totally not the right direction to go in. If you're really trying to open people's eyes to your truth, hatred is certainly not going to get you closer to that goal.

In fact, this is why I think people like Hitchens and Dawkins don't have the right approach. I think they are far too abrasive and are far too sure of their own ideas. They are just as unwilling to try and understand the believers point of views, as the believers they are trying to convert are themselves. It's a useless circle of closed minds. Getting nowhere. Causing more fuss and even less willingness to listen.

Taking your following however and instructing them, knowing all too well you have sheeple following you who WILL misread your intentions and will potentially take the hatred even further... that to me is not only irresponsible but down right wrong, despicable really. You know what you're doing. Then again, I am not surprised, that entire site is full of people who just love inciting crap. That's all they have to go on. No real content. No real value. The only thing I do not understand is how in the world he got so many followers in the first place? then again, using hyped up crap and causing drama does appeal to the lowest common denominator.

How did that blog(ger) get so many followers in the first place?  If I remember my history properly that blog started as an extension of the classroom, where the class would discuss actual science. In that capacity it generated a respectable following. Within a couple of years, it was picked up by the current benefactor and that's where it really "exploded". In sports we have a term called "believing your own press clippings" and I think that is where things are today. Most times you can disabuse people of those notions and get them back to reality. The problem as I see it though is that what peers are willing to correct him, that he'll listen to? He's been hoisted by his petard more than once, and he's claimed victim status and unleashed his sycophantic horde on his "attackers". He won't be corrected by the scientific community because he doesn't (or rarely) submit(s) anything to peer review. I think the thing is a lost cause, which is why I rarely, if ever, go there ... and I sure as heck don't post there.