on numbskull trolls

[realthog]

Someone called "Anonymous" has just left a comment to my entry here which for some reason I can't get the LJ software to unscreen. Here is the comment in full:

Having read CORRUPTED SCIENCE, and in the light of the exposure of global warming as a HOAX, I want to know if you will be publishing a CORRUPTED SCIENCE II to expose the real corruption. This is the most agregious case of scientific corruption in human history.

And here is my mild-as-milquetoast voice-of-sweet-reason reply:

Only someone of extraordinary stupidity and complete scientific illiteracy would think that global warming has been shown to be "a HOAX" -- someone of stupidity, illiteracy, and an infantile desire to choose to listen only to what you regard as the more comforting of the stories coming your way. Does it ever cross your excessively tiny mind to wonder who's responsible for the lies you're so eager to believe?

You are very wise to remain anonymous. Because of the activities of halfwitted or corrupt AGW deniers such as yourself, there's a very good chance there won't be very much of the human species in just a few decades' time. Frankly, I don't give a monkey's fuck if your life is cut short by this disaster, but I do very much care about my daughter's future well-being. Anyone who threatens it has a very angry me to contend with. Got that?

Now go crawl back into your pit of ignorance, you idiotic little turd.

Oh, and learn to spell "egregious" while you're about it.

When Thog lose patience, patience know it been lost . . .

Comments

[realthog.livejournal.com]

Oh, and in case anyone feels my response to this person might be a tad harsh -- that I should argue my case with a dulcet tone and a bit of gentle coaxing -- let me cite Rep Barney Frank in similar circumstances earlier this year:

You stand there with a picture of the president defaced to look like Hitler and compare the effort to increase health care to the Nazis . . . Trying to have a conversation with you would be like trying to argue with a dining room table. I have no interest in doing it.

I have spent considerable chunks of the past few years presenting sweet reason in this and other areas where the stupider members of the public regard the science as "controversial" because they think it's sexier to do this than to go and educate themselves. Enough is enough.

[kylecassidy.livejournal.com]

you do react to your bad reviews in the manner of a frog hit with a cattle prod.

just sayin....

[realthog.livejournal.com]

He hasn't actually reviewed the book, just advanced his "insights" into climatology -- the three lines cited above are the entirety of his comment.