Encyclopedia of American Loons

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There are countless thousands of professional loons in Idiot America. Their stupidity burns.

An example is this asshole for Jeebus. He is a moron and he looks like a moron. He obviously has an insanity problem. His job which is probably lucrative is to sell the childish magical creationism fantasy by lying about evolution. In Idiot America lying for Jeebus is a big business. PZ Myers wrote about this asshole at It never ends — Bemidji is afflicted with the toxin of creationism. Also Wikipedia wrote about this idiot at https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Nathaniel_Jeanson. 

Tuesday, April 19, 2011

193: Nathaniel Jeanson

Jeanson is a relatively central figure in the Creation Science movement, since he has (in fact) a Medical PhD from Harvard. The fact that he apparently painstakingly obtained the degree in order to disregard every piece of knowledge obtained in the process soley for the purpose of lending an air of authority to anti-science makes his degree meaningless, of course, but the Creationist movement still tout it as evidence for their claims. This is, of course, further showcased by his young earth Creationist arguments, which are the same as the ones Gish used in the 60s and which reveal no grasp of the science. And it is, of course, showcased by the fact that Jeanson himself admits to obtaining the degree for window-dressing.

Diagnosis: This guy seems to virtually worship confirmation bias, and he seems pathologically unable to recognize the problem (though with sufficient zeal and confirmation bias the difference between dishonesty and ignorance does admittedly become murky). He is shown off as a circus freak by the Creationist movement, but seems to have made little impact beyond that.