Respectful Insolence (a.k.a. "Orac Knows"): Serious or parody?

: Name: Orac; Location: The Liberator, somewhere deep in Federation space, United States

Orac is but a humble pseudonymous surgeon/scientist with an ego just big enough to delude himself that someone, somewhere might actually give a rodent's posterior about his miscellaneous verbal meanderings, but just barely small enough to admit to himself that few will. That Orac has chosen his pseudonym based on a rather cranky and arrogant computer shaped like a clear box of blinking lights from an old British SF show whose special effects were renowned for their early 1980's BBC/Doctor Who-style low budget look, but whose stories nonetheless resulted in some of the best, most innovative science fiction for television ever produced, should tell you nearly all that you need to know about Orac. (That, and the length of the preceding sentence.) Orac tries to keep his insolence respectful, but admittedly sometimes fails in the cases of obvious quackery and pseudoscience, attacks on him, very poor critical thinking skills, bigotry, and just general plain stupidity.

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Friday, October 21, 2005

Serious or parody?

Given the bit of doubt expressed by me and some commenters yesterday over whether the article that I was discussing was serious or a parody, I thought I'd throw out an entire blog for your consideration:

Conservatives for American Values

Consider these articles about science:

Science Is A Sham Week, Part I: The Introduction
Science Is A Sham Week, Part II: Intelligent Design
Science Is A Sham Week, Part III: Intelligent Designer
Science Is A Sham Week, Part IV: The Battle Rages
Science Is A Sham Week, Part V: The Conclusion

Serious or parody?

Maybe this will decide for sure. Or this.

OK, I know it's fairly obvious which is the correct answer to my question, but the sad thing is that it isn't always entirely obvious right away.

5 example(s) of insolence returned:

At 10/21/2005 8:42 AM, Anonymous said...: At the bottom of the blog there was a link called "legal notice". Worth checking out when a homepage or a blog seems a bit odd.

Pun the librarian
At 10/21/2005 10:05 AM, Anonymous said...: Ha, that's funny stuff. Even better are the comments.

-Ali
At 10/21/2005 5:13 PM, Michael Gregory Steele said...: Thanks for the links to my blog, although I would bet by now you've discovered the answer to your question.

This is a very good blog and you seem to be able to tackle the ID issue with a bit more scientific heft.
At 10/21/2005 5:19 PM, Anonymous said...: It is on par with landoverbaptist.org Which riminds me I haven't checked in with Pastor Deacon Fred in some time. The e-mails are great
At 10/23/2005 1:15 AM, Anonymous said...: You and Steele only THINK it's a parody.

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Friday, October 21, 2005

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