I'm sorry, but criticising my tone when there is a creationist-level of wilful scientific misunderstanding going on in this article doesn't really make much difference. If me parroting back to you exactly what this article and the comments sounds like seems a bit absurd, it's because my source material is absurd. …

Yeah! And all this global warming bollocks is getting out of hand too! Temperatures are suppose to be rising, but North America had a polar vortex the other week, and if I know anything about words and temperatures, "polar" means "cold", not "warm"! Why is BIG SCIENCE lying to us?!

Shhhh! Don't you know that this is just crackpot-science-propaganda meant to...help Republicans or something? I mean, I know this stuff has been studied and published in reputable peer-reviewed journals and what-not, but can we really trust science - it's all just "theories" after all. The contributing factors of…

But what is this propaganda for/of, though? It's perfectly reasonable to study whether certain environmental and behavioural aspects can influence foetal development, and if a study is conducted properly (which we can assume it was, if it was published in a peer-reviewed journal) we can discuss the results with a…

I disagree with you, mainly because a moral judgement cannot, by definition, be "absolutely true". Calling someone's beliefs "pompous" isn't really much better, to be honest.

Again, that's a moral judgement - you do what you think is right, I'll do what I think is right. You shouldn't call people who disagree with you "pompous" though, especially if you want to change their minds.

So let me get this straight. You're going to continue to be complicit in the torture and suffering of sentient beings because a. you want to spite an organization that, however much you might resent its tactics, exists for the sole purpose of preventing cruelty, and b. because you believe that your personal pleasure…

I have no problem with a vegetarian diet - I eat meat probably twice or three times a week, sometimes more if I'm out or about if I fancy it. But I could happily live just on veggies - all my favourite recipes are for vegetable mains and side dishes, and I will do anything for decent falafel.

You do you, I'll do me, but I think when PETA is the loudest voice in the debate and they have such a voice because they continue to exclusively use female bodies as props for activism, I think it's fair to offer them criticism. If the non-crazy organisations had half the presence in the debate that PETA has, we…

What is a Detroit lion? Is it a species, or like some kind of slang term?

This. I actually think the paintings are pretty good for a guy who hasn't really had much time to practice for the last 20-30 years, and it's nice to see a (former) US politician actually retire from public view for once, rather than hang around like a ghost-of-congress-past (*cough*Newt*cough*).

You nailed it.

As long as you know that I feel sorry for you and the partners you use to make yourself happy, I'm okay being as far away from agreement with you as possible.

If you can't be happy, even if you have zero friends, then you have a self-esteem problem. That's why it's called self-esteem. I'm sorry you view young women as trophies for your small ego, but not everyone needs the sexual validation from other people to be happy.

There's nothing wrong with using sex as a means to feel better about yourself.

being chosen by a woman in that position - whether it's for a relationship, a fling, or just a night - is a pretty good ego boost.

I'm not dodging, I'm very directly telling you that your opinion-masquerading-as-argument is absurd and only worth ridiculing. I don't have to prove decades of historiological concenus to you; you however ought to back up your wild theory with at least one thing you didn't pull out of your ass.

It is very appealing to ridicule you, yes. You don't have an argument here, just an opinion, and if someone in my field were to produce a radical thesis that flies in the face of 50 years of scholarship, and then couldn't back it up, they'd be laughed out the door. Which is what I am doing to you. Ha ha ha ha ha.

What argument? You haven't made one worth taking seriously.