[Buddha-l] Prominent Neobuddhist proposes religion based blacklisting for government jobs

[Jim Peavler]

On Jul 30, 2009, at 8:22 PM, Richard Hayes wrote:

I would think that if Harris, as is alleged, attacked a scientist's  
credentials to do a job, and Harris himself has no scientific  
credentials, then pointing out his lack of the knowledge and  
experience required to comment on another's scientific achievements,  
then that is not an ad hominem attack. The man's credentials are open  
to attack since he, without proper knowledge of what scientific  
credentials might be, attacked another man for not having scientific  
credentials.

This is no better than Rush Limbaugh declaring that global warming is  
a hoax. I intend this as an ad hominem attack on Rush Limbaugh because  
I believe that falsely contending that somehow the entire scientific  
community is involved in some kind of hoax to overthrow civilization  
as we know is guilty of global treason.

There I've said it.

Jim Peavler
jmp at peavler.org