Well, no, there's no pattern of behavior there that would indicate that he was a misogynist. Those unfortunate words definitely look bad, but he's only mentioned on passing in an article entirely about something else.

It really seems like you're really trying to come up with reasons to dislike him. Is there something else that you're not sharing?

[–] QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.works 0 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Okay I confess I just don't like the guy in general... as for my reasons... it's complicated

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

All this and you can't even explain your irrational dislike of him? Get out of here.

[–] QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.works 0 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Nothing irrational about it, the man's an asshole without scientific training of any kind. He didn't really do anything except for yell "FAKE!" loudly and run a sham contest.

And yet everyone treats him like a paragon of logic. Gimme a fucking break. The man was a pseudo-skeptic who just yelled at anything he didn't like and that was enough. He gave the impression that showmanship and flair was more important than data. It is for this reason he was kicked out of the very skeptic organization he helped found, no not JREF, the other one that he served on with Susan Blackmore, a skeptic I actually do respect.

No Carl Sagan got Randi right when he called him an angry little man in his book the Demon Haunted World.

James was a charlatan, he acted like a charlatan, called himself a charlatan, brought nothing to the table outside of his bad attitude and a rigged contest that serves no purpose outside of a headline. He was not a scientist and should not be honored as one.

No, this is the only link I should have bothered giving you, because I wasn't the only one who noticed that Randi was a fraud - https://mitch-horowitz-nyc.medium.com/the-man-who-destroyed-skepticism-be35a6e5c5e4 - He was quick witted and good at talking to the press, but a real scientist he was not!

And yes, he did serve as science advisor on the False Memory Foundation? Don't know what that is? It was a group of pedophiles accused by relatives of sexual assault, so they formed an organization that without any real evidence of any kind dedicated to gaslighting women into thinking their own sexual traumas were the result of false memory and not any real rapist.

[–] QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.works 0 points 6 days ago

Dude was the science advisor on the Falssr Memory Foundation