If you follow atheist blogs you probably know about the William sock puppet drama. A kind of infuriating series of events which highlights a few things I think I can learn from.
Sometimes, there are some things which are kind of obvious. Points which, when you think about them shouldn’t take all that much thinking to avoid – points like “If you are going to take bribes and exchange political favours for sexual ones, don’t write it down.
Today the Bellville Specialised Commercial Crime Court heard that two Ponzi masterminds set the whole scheme up in order to make themselves some money.
The anti-vaccine movement isn’t looking too healthy according to Time. Doctor Andrew Wakefield, a gastroenterologist at London’s Royal Free Hospital, was one of the leading figures in research intended to show that heavy metals in the preservatives used in vaccines could cause autism, a belief popularised by a former centrefold who previously thought her child was “Crystal.”
Expensive nonsense generally comes with a certain harmlessness. Not exactly innocence but at least you get the vibe that people being blown up doesn’t play into it.