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GarfieldJL

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Posted in: Does anybody really believe in Creationism (sorry, Intelligent Design) anymore?
  GarfieldJL
04-15-2009, 1:12 AM
#23
The thing is you can argue that God can use natural events to cause other things to happen. Like say have a volcano go off in location X to cause a rain of fire to occur in location Y....  [Read More]
Posted in: The future of the Republican Party
  GarfieldJL
03-01-2009, 11:25 PM
#126
That aside, its also interesting to note that Garfield has carefully avoided discussing Stankov and Massengill, two of the other studies I've shown which have data demonstrating the negative correlation between conservatism and cognitive ability....  [Read More]
Posted in: The future of the Republican Party
  GarfieldJL
03-01-2009, 10:17 PM
#122
Indeed. And this is exactly what Skinwalker provided us with. I'm sure you've noticed that anyone here but you considers the research study to be empirically valid. Thing is, we don't know if the research is genuine due to his history. That's the t...  [Read More]
Posted in: The future of the Republican Party
  GarfieldJL
03-01-2009, 9:17 PM
#119
The burden of proof is on your shoulders, and you've yet to prove this information has been manipulated. You are going on a personal hunch, and that is not fact. Would you want to fly in an airplane where the safety studies were done by someone with...  [Read More]
Posted in: The future of the Republican Party
  GarfieldJL
03-01-2009, 8:45 PM
#117
Oh yeah? What research has that been? Aside from your irrelevant issues with the researchers past as has been repeated ad nauseum? Actually that is relevent, whether or not you choose to admit it is your problem. *sigh* no, it was about all differ...  [Read More]
Posted in: The future of the Republican Party
  GarfieldJL
03-01-2009, 8:22 PM
#115
Since you apparently just skimmed the lengthy post of Skinwalkers that outlined the study in question, I will quote the particularly pertinent part of it that you seem to be either unaware of or unable to comprehend. Seriously from what I've read on...  [Read More]
Posted in: The future of the Republican Party
  GarfieldJL
03-01-2009, 6:52 PM
#113
So ignoring the fact that Nyborg compiled the data and you fallaciously dismiss it on the grounds that it is easier for you to erect a straw man regarding his past research, how then do you reconcile the fact that, among American adolescents, there i...  [Read More]
Posted in: The future of the Republican Party
  GarfieldJL
03-01-2009, 3:57 PM
#106
SkinWalker your sources have no research integrity, and I believe you're aware of that fact. I'm finding your, Rogue Nine's, ET Warrior's, and EnderWiggin's attempt at defamation of charecter to be highly annoying. The fact he picked and chose data...  [Read More]
Posted in: The future of the Republican Party
  GarfieldJL
02-28-2009, 6:45 PM
#99
So you are trying to tell us that there is not one single researcher in the entirety of the world who is interested in refuting a correlation between lower IQ and religion? Oh you mean like the one where a scientist at the Smithsonian Institute was...  [Read More]
Posted in: The future of the Republican Party
  GarfieldJL
02-28-2009, 2:29 PM
#96
You know what is to say that he didn't? That fact that nobody has called him on it, and nobody is able to point out where he manipulated bad data and skewed the results in this study. If such bad science had taken place someone would assuredly step i...  [Read More]
Posted in: The future of the Republican Party
  GarfieldJL
02-27-2009, 6:41 PM
#92
I talked with some other people on my campus and they didn't see any threat in it. Do you see how this kind of reasoning doesn't prove anything? :rolleyes: I'm saying it's that blatent... Except you haven't proven anything. Fact of the matter is...  [Read More]
Posted in: The future of the Republican Party
  GarfieldJL
02-27-2009, 5:36 PM
#90
Why don't you take a look at the data at hand? This is just unbelievable.. Skinwalker went to great lengths and posted details about the methodology yet all you do is spout something about how the guy got into trouble somewhere.. If you want to show...  [Read More]
Posted in: The future of the Republican Party
  GarfieldJL
02-27-2009, 5:18 PM
#88
Don't bring in any other data or information unless it directly related to the article. Oh it's simple really, that statement by the teacher was a threat, I had even talked with some others on campus and they could see the threat in it. I don't hav...  [Read More]
Posted in: The future of the Republican Party
  GarfieldJL
02-27-2009, 4:38 PM
#86
He got in trouble for deliberately using bad data to manipulating and misrepresenting data to skew the results, if he did that for one study, what's to say he didn't do it for another. By the way, you can't argue the issue SkinWalker, because it was...  [Read More]
Posted in: The future of the Republican Party
  GarfieldJL
02-26-2009, 11:47 PM
#82
So in other words, you don't have any evidence to back up your statement and you're pulling this completely out of your ass. Gotcha. Well considering I've seen this kind of stuff before and the shear volume of people bashing her, I'd say that teache...  [Read More]
Posted in: The future of the Republican Party
  GarfieldJL
02-26-2009, 11:29 PM
#80
Do you have exact numbers? Did you specifically ask the child if she was accosted in the classroom or in the halls? If your answers are no, then you have no right or bearing to make this fallacious inference. You mean to tell me that these all happ...  [Read More]
Posted in: The future of the Republican Party
  GarfieldJL
02-26-2009, 11:14 PM
#78
That doesn't sound very intolerant at all. That was just one example, and part of it is the tone in which it is delivered, furthermore there were examples that didn't make it into the article. Anyways back to SkinWalker's source here is a quote f...  [Read More]
Posted in: The future of the Republican Party
  GarfieldJL
02-26-2009, 11:04 PM
#76
I noticed that you've cast a few red herrings and others have chased them. Let's bring this back on topic, shall we? They aren't red herrings, though I'm not sure people realize what the implications of some of what I posted yet. We wouldn't know...  [Read More]
Posted in: The future of the Republican Party
  GarfieldJL
02-26-2009, 10:29 PM
#73
I am talking about that specific article and your specific assertion that teachers teach their students political intolerance. I made no statements on any other thing that you have posted. Read the article, it states the students weren't the only o...  [Read More]
Posted in: The future of the Republican Party
  GarfieldJL
02-26-2009, 10:20 PM
#71
There is nothing in that article that corroborates your statement, thus you cannot use it to prove your point. Nice try, though. Look at the articles again, it is one maybe two of SkinWalker's sources getting suspended or other disciplinary action f...  [Read More]
Posted in: The future of the Republican Party
  GarfieldJL
02-26-2009, 10:11 PM
#68
Dredging up crap about other professors doesn't serve to refute anything said in this thread. It doesn't even serve to prove your point, since you haven't been able to show evidence that this problem is widespread, chronic, or exclusive to liberal te...  [Read More]
Posted in: The future of the Republican Party
  GarfieldJL
02-26-2009, 9:50 PM
#65
Then your argument, in addition to being fallacious, has no place in this thread, unless you'd care to narrow it down a bit and give reasons as to why SkinWalker's sources can't be trusted besides this poisoning the well fallacy. No, it has a place...  [Read More]
Posted in: The future of the Republican Party
  GarfieldJL
02-26-2009, 8:39 PM
#62
You haven't shown that anyone SkinWalker cited was biased, I didn't even see their names mentioned in the articles you've linked, and from what you have linked, I'm beginning to think that your argument is simply "well they graduated from/work f...  [Read More]
Posted in: The future of the Republican Party
  GarfieldJL
02-26-2009, 5:15 PM
#59
That isn't an argument. Like SkinWalker said, if you can demonstrate the bias of the researchers and back it up with evidence and/or show a flaw in their methods, that would be an argument, simply saying "they're biased because they're part of a...  [Read More]
Posted in: The future of the Republican Party
  GarfieldJL
02-26-2009, 11:53 AM
#57
Stankov and Nyborg appear to be about as neutral as they can get. I still don't see any issue with Massengill's data. I see you disagreement and objection to her "agenda" and "bias," but there's no quantification of this bias and...  [Read More]