Comments on: Fraud Alert

By: Blue Crab Boulevard » The New Luddites

Blue Crab Boulevard » The New Luddites — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 05:51:19 +0000

[...] Wednesday, November 7, 2007 at 1:25 PM (CST) I posted my first fraud warning about a website that was shopped to me via email as “shattering” all theories of [...]

By: Gaius

Gaius — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 19:15:25 +0000

I did not call it sophisticated. I called it elaborate. I had it pegged as phony in a few minutes. Just the overwrought language was enough to do that. It took about 1/2 hour total to gather the evidence that it was a fraud – most of that time was spent triple checking everything.

It was, however done with malicious intent. While you may think that’s a pefectly fine way for the world to work, I don’t particularly.

By: Russell Seitz

Russell Seitz — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 18:53:29 +0000

American Thinker follows your lead in categorizing this as a sophisticated piece of work. I beg to differ- no one actually familiar with _Science _ or _Nature _ on a weekly basis, let alone someone familiar with the run of atmospheric science journals on view in a university science library could mistake his pate of pure gibberish for one of the nourishing products of say The American Geophysical Union.

Yack radio’s lack of science editors is reflected in the magazines and op-ed pages that cater to its listeners . The genre’s abandonment of scientific reality in favor of the metaphysical concerns of The Base makes folk like Limbaugh the lawful prey of the cranks they welcome as well as hoaxers that lay in wait.

The contrast between talking heads who don’t know what they are talking about, and Green true believers who long ago ceased caring may not afford an edifying spectacle, but it is amusing.

By: Another Cute Lefty Hoax « Nice Deb

Another Cute Lefty Hoax « Nice Deb — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 18:04:41 +0000

[...] emailer to Blue Crab Boulevard “tipped” the blogger to a hot new website, supposedly written by academics, that [...]

By: Blue Crab Boulevard » Frustrating

Blue Crab Boulevard » Frustrating — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 01:09:34 +0000

[...] I posted not one but two warnings about a fraudulent website that supposedly exposed the theory of anthropogenic [...]

By: Howie

Howie — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 22:53:41 +0000

Y’all are doing it right. Just be sure to provide a link to the website and a copy of the TOS it violates in your emails to the providers abuse dept. The blogspot blog he has will not go down. I dunno why ask, google. But you have a good start. also that look like the DNS registrar. You also need the service the server is on.

inetnum: 193.254.210.0 – 193.254.211.255
netname: VISN-MCR-LAN
descr: Vision Internet – Manchester Network
country: GB

abuse@visn.co.uk

By: Sean M.

Sean M. — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 08:00:27 +0000

Hmmmm...The only David Thorpe I know of used to write funny music reviews here.

By: Gaius

Gaius — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 01:28:07 +0000

Resent to new email address.

By: N. Johnson

N. Johnson — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 01:26:08 +0000

Can you try this one? (And feel free to delete this comment if you want)

By: Blue Crab Boulevard » Fraud Alert Update

Blue Crab Boulevard » Fraud Alert Update — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 01:24:25 +0000

[...] to Quilly Mammoth in the comments to the original post, I now have a website for the presumed fraudster – or someone has framed him perfectly. His address [...]

By: Quilly Mammoth

Quilly Mammoth — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 00:21:59 +0000

I’m going to go out on alimb here and suggest that this is teh work of David Thorpe from the UK. Wrote a bunch of comics using a sort of anti-hero gang along the lines of The Gang that Coudn’t Shoot Straight. He’s gotten into writing about dystopia’s where clearly the reason is Man’s dependence of technology. From his blog:
http://sympathyftm.blogspot.com/

Looked at another way, it’s patently obvious to anyone that with all the global sustainability indicators divebombing, the human race, with its skyrocketing population growth and resource demands, is killing its host with its parasitical activity.

If God put humans in charge with dominion over the beasts, that was his big mistake. The children couldn’t take that level of responsilibty. They hadn’t grown up enough.

And such a stance ties in remarkably with a new novel he has put out and the comic _it’s_ supposed to generate. About humans who adapt to new illnesses created by our level of technology.

Slick marketing or another loon? I’m not sure yet.

By: John Mashey

John Mashey — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 00:07:07 +0000

There’s a good discussion over at DeSmogBlog.

However, it was exposed far too quickly.

By: Gaius

Gaius — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 23:17:32 +0000

Nope – it just came back – blocked by a spam filter on your end.

By: Gaius

Gaius — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 22:49:08 +0000

Sent

By: N. Johnson

N. Johnson — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 22:41:35 +0000

I would appreciate a copy of the email, with headers please.