Comments on: Oh, Briffa http://www.apathysketchpad.com/blog/2008/06/03/oh-briffa/ Floccinaucinihilipilificating antidisestablishmentarianism since 2001. Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:33:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: jdc325 http://www.apathysketchpad.com/blog/2008/06/03/oh-briffa/comment-page-1/#comment-3303 jdc325 Wed, 04 Jun 2008 11:26:56 +0000 http://www.apathysketchpad.com/blog/?p=846#comment-3303 "He is using the very tactic he accuses us of." Which is, itself, a common 'Altie' tactic from what I've seen of JABS, Holford, Briffa, homeopaths etc. I suppose if there were a name for it, it might be called the Use-and-Accuse Fallacy. You can use ad hominem attacks and, sometimes in the very same comment, accuse your opponent of doing so. "Dr Briffa says nothing. He just hides that fact by talking a lot." - argumentum verbosium? “He is using the very tactic he accuses us of.”
Which is, itself, a common ‘Altie’ tactic from what I’ve seen of JABS, Holford, Briffa, homeopaths etc. I suppose if there were a name for it, it might be called the Use-and-Accuse Fallacy. You can use ad hominem attacks and, sometimes in the very same comment, accuse your opponent of doing so.

“Dr Briffa says nothing. He just hides that fact by talking a lot.” – argumentum verbosium?

]]> By: colmcq http://www.apathysketchpad.com/blog/2008/06/03/oh-briffa/comment-page-1/#comment-3302 colmcq Wed, 04 Jun 2008 07:14:43 +0000 http://www.apathysketchpad.com/blog/?p=846#comment-3302 LOL What an absolute muppet. LOL

What an absolute muppet.

]]> By: Dr Aust http://www.apathysketchpad.com/blog/2008/06/03/oh-briffa/comment-page-1/#comment-3301 Dr Aust Wed, 04 Jun 2008 01:39:50 +0000 http://www.apathysketchpad.com/blog/?p=846#comment-3301 Andrew: don't know if you remember <a href="http://www.badscience.net/?p=362" rel="nofollow">this old thread</a> on the BadScience blog ...but I think comment 281 from Evidencebasedeating might evoke a wry smile. Andrew: don’t know if you remember this old thread on the BadScience blog

…but I think comment 281 from Evidencebasedeating might evoke a wry smile.

]]> By: Andrew http://www.apathysketchpad.com/blog/2008/06/03/oh-briffa/comment-page-1/#comment-3300 Andrew Wed, 04 Jun 2008 00:19:51 +0000 http://www.apathysketchpad.com/blog/?p=846#comment-3300 You're right. Therefore I have updated point four with a huge aggregated rant against colmcq, which I've reconstituted out of several of his comments <i>on the page where he told us off for insulting him!</i> Just in case, here's a copy he can't edit: http://www.furl.net/item/34287001/cached You’re right.

Therefore I have updated point four with a huge aggregated rant against colmcq, which I’ve reconstituted out of several of his comments on the page where he told us off for insulting him!

Just in case, here’s a copy he can’t edit:
http://www.furl.net/item/34287001/cached

]]> By: Anthony http://www.apathysketchpad.com/blog/2008/06/03/oh-briffa/comment-page-1/#comment-3299 Anthony Tue, 03 Jun 2008 23:36:32 +0000 http://www.apathysketchpad.com/blog/?p=846#comment-3299 Ha. To be fair, I did call him willfully ignorant. But that was an evidence-based assertion. Ha. To be fair, I did call him willfully ignorant. But that was an evidence-based assertion.

]]> By: Dr Aust http://www.apathysketchpad.com/blog/2008/06/03/oh-briffa/comment-page-1/#comment-3298 Dr Aust Tue, 03 Jun 2008 21:29:59 +0000 http://www.apathysketchpad.com/blog/?p=846#comment-3298 Ouch! Ouch!

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