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You won't believe this!

By pharyngula on December 20, 2006.

Could anyone have possibly predicted this? Larry Moran has been banned from Uncommon Descent by DaveScot. Stunning surprise, eh?

We should have set up a betting pool.

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The Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus (Endangered)
http://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus/

A hoax of Cephalopodian proportions: set up by researchers to test the ability of students to detect phony internet information. Despite, sadly (or luckily, if you were worried about the poor octopus!) being completely illusionary, not a single student in the experiment figured out that there is no such animal or ecological crisis when asked to do some work relating to researching it and its credibility, despite the hoax sites being riddled with red flags.

http://www.advance.uconn.edu/2006/061113/06111308.htm

"Eight? That's messed up, man! How are we supposed to know which lizard is our messiah?"

What, you've never heard the word of Raptor Jesus?

Eight? That's messed up, man! How are we supposed to know which lizard is our messiah?

Have them post over to the Uncommon Descent, and the who is banned, that one, my friend, he will be the messiah.

By decreasethesur… (not verified) on 20 Dec 2006 #permalink

[quote]A hoax of Cephalopodian proportions: set up by researchers to test the ability of students to detect phony internet information. Despite, sadly (or luckily, if you were worried about the poor octopus!) being completely illusionary, not a single student in the experiment figured out that there is no such animal or ecological crisis when asked to do some work relating to researching it and its credibility, despite the hoax sites being riddled with red flags.[/quote]

Not sure what is more disturbing. That post grads create a hoax, pass it off to seventh grade kids as truth, then claim scientific research has occurred? Or that this is part of a 1.8 million dollar grant?

Eight? That's messed up, man! How are we supposed to know which lizard is our messiah?

You poor lost soul, haven't you heard of the Holy Octagon, Zeno? After all, Denyse O'Leary says that when doctrines about trinities or octagons, etc. start to make sense, run for the door. To the outside. So you're not supposed to understand!

P.S. - LOL! However, I totally want a pink tentacle ribbon for my SUV.

A quote from the NW Tree Octopus article...

Some of the students still insisted vehemently that the Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus really exists.

I have this tingling feeling that I should be making some sort of comment concerning Jesus but...oh darn. The feeling left. Can't imagine what relevance I thought was there.

Not sure what is more disturbing. That post grads create a hoax, pass it off to seventh grade kids as truth, then claim scientific research has occurred? Or that this is part of a 1.8 million dollar grant?

They could have simply studied the actions of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. They managed to get a load of funding based on evidence that is even crappier than that for the tree octopus. Thanks to their little stunt, educated ADULTS continue to delude themselves. Round and round we go ...

http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/journalgazette/16285099.htm

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By Great White Wonder (not verified) on 20 Dec 2006 #permalink

Actually, I kinda like that they use the words "Darwinist" etc.

When you see a long, turgid, abstract-laden, badly written essay with no paragraph breaks that looks like a it might take a lot of effort to figure out the writer's point, the presence of a word like "Darwinism" tells you that you needn't bother.

(I don't mean to be unfair; these people may write things well worth reading. Just not about science.)

By Molly, NYC (not verified) on 20 Dec 2006 #permalink

What, you've never heard the word of Raptor Jesus?

Raptor Jesus looked like a chicken. Or some kind of big bird, anyway.

By Michael Crichton (not verified) on 20 Dec 2006 #permalink

What, you've never heard the word of Raptor Jesus?

Behold! He that hath been saged hath been returned to the land of mortals.

Rather than a pool, how about a competition: what is the politest, most reasonable, comment that manages to get someone banned from UD?

That post grads create a hoax, pass it off to seventh grade kids as truth, then claim scientific research has occurred? Or that this is part of a 1.8 million dollar grant?

The perpetrators of the hoax also seem frankly anti-environmentalist. "Greenpeas is working to save the world from humans"?

By truth machine (not verified) on 20 Dec 2006 #permalink

It's goddamn depressing. King fucking Jesus of Poland...

Holy Jeebus, makes you wish the communists were back. At least they were (mostly) rational.

Stephen:

"Rather than a pool, how about a competition: what is the politest, most reasonable, comment that manages to get someone banned from UD?"

That's going to be a bit difficult to do, as most comments that fit that description, that descent from the dogma of UD, never see the light of day so to speak.

While I can not prove this, I've tried posting there, and my posts never make it onto the blog. Often times very similar posts do though.

Three Raptor Jesuses are positioned in an equilateral triangle around you. Two of them move at 12 m/s, the third has a club foot and moves only at 8 m/s. In which direction should you run to maximize your survival, and how many seconds will you last before being caught?

(stolen shamelessly from xkcd.com)

... what really irks me is that I now have no record of what I spent at least an hour of my life writing, so I am also a little peeved. I should have copied it for posterity :(

Intepid, you should head over to the Pandas thumb forum, "after the bar closes". They often keep and highlight stuff of note there, including when people get banned. They may have noticed you.