I will suggest instead that if anyone reading this thinks some particular paragraph anywhere in chapters 8-11 is at all competent or accurate in its description of science, send it to me. I couldn't find one. That's where the obligation lies: show me one supportable claim in Coulter's farrago of lies and misleading statements and out-of-context quotes, and we'll discuss it.A few days later, and hundreds of Coulter-fan emails later, he has issued a clarification of what is "not an appropriate reply":
He's a brave man, and he takes it with scientific detachment and a professional intuition to categorize his experiences.Cackling that Coulter must be right because she's got "liberal panties in a twist" is not cogent. Telling me that the "WHOLE BOOK PROVES LIBERALS ARE THE PROBLEM WITH AMERICA" is not cogent. Promising to pray for me, or assuring me that I will burn in hell, is not cogent. Explicit details about how Ann Coulter is sexier than "fat harry hippie jew girls" is not cogent.
And what a great word cogent is! If American science education survives , let's put PZ on a coin or something.
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