one more time

A while back, this blogger irked me with a statistical comparison of the US vs. other countries factoid. Shouldn’t a single data point raise some skepticism? Especially when presented without nuance or description of the method used to arrive at the conclusion?

Yes, a self-proclaimed skeptic gleaned his extraordinary evidence to support his claim from a comedic satire website. Skeptics ought to have a grasp on identifying confirmation bias. He tends to blog exclusively on how Christianity is responsible for all of societies ills. “Science” would lead us to Utopia, if it wasn’t for Christendom.

Here’s one where he sides with the poor oppressed polytheists who were persecuted for their scientific acheivement. After all, he watched a movie about a female “scientist” from the ancient world. Little historical documentation exists about her life. But that doesn’t deter him for substituting a fictional account to establish what he wants to believe happened. Now that takes a lot of skepticism-free spin!