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Poll: New Terminology for Cdesign Proponentsist Behaviour

Category: Pseudoscience • Surveys
Posted on: September 15, 2009 10:21 PM, by Blake Stacey

Pursuant to this, this and now this too:

(I couldn't turn down a poll colour scheme called "manga".)

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The archbishop Thomas Cranmer (deceased).

Posted by: Sili | September 16, 2009 9:52 AM

As much as I like "Switek's Law", I think the "Expelled Effect" is probably the best choice. Thanks, Blake.

Posted by: Brian Switek | September 16, 2009 10:05 AM

The phenomenom goes bakc further than Expelled. I think it was ~10 years ago that someone wangled an on-camera interview with Dawkins, at the latter's home. It was only when the interviewer started asking the Usual Dumb Questions about information that Dawkins tumbled to the fact that they were creationists looking for a "gotcha" moment.

Posted by: Eamon Knight | September 16, 2009 11:34 AM

Call me old fashioned, but if there was going to be a law named after you, surely you would want it be about something productive and interesting. Something that students would remember that they needed to learn about ten minutes before an exam. Perhaps a law about the relationship between the size of prehistoric Pachyderms and the availability of tender shoots.

The thing that you describe already has a name. Deceitfulness.

Posted by: Carl May | September 16, 2009 1:02 PM

Carl; True enough. Perhaps it is fortunate that the "Expelled Effect" is in the lead. Still, there are other things that I could have named after me should I ever do anything noteworthy... Switek's Rule, the Switek Effect (although that sounds like a cable news show), &c. :)

Posted by: Brian Switek | September 16, 2009 1:14 PM

I nominate "Steinery" for Answer 5; and, if you'll accept a broader generalization regarding the use of false pretenses to gain access to a privileged office or House, "Standard Democratic Party Campaign Techniques" for Answer 6.

Posted by: Pierce R. Butler | September 16, 2009 1:21 PM

I couldn't decide between Answer 5 and Answer 6, so I flipped a coin.

Posted by: 'Tis Himself | September 16, 2009 4:56 PM

This is fun! I'm sure I've already voted once.

Posted by: Sili | September 16, 2009 6:36 PM

"Expelled Effect" is good but may give too much credit for creativity to that lump of unjustified Stein-egotism. The creationists have been doing this ever since Darwin. It is, I think, just a variation on quote mining ... just a bit more up close and personal.

Posted by: John Pieret | September 16, 2009 10:54 PM

If you need verb, how about "godwinked".

Posted by: José | September 17, 2009 5:34 AM

Dishonesty!

Posted by: Thony C. | September 17, 2009 7:38 AM

I voted "Answer 6". It sounds appropriately ominous and opaque given the tactic it describes.

Posted by: Brian X | September 18, 2009 6:50 PM