Nye's biggest example of attention whoredom, as I spelled out in detail several years ago, was his agreeing to "debate," or rather, to Gish Gallop, with Ken Ham.
I saw this via P Zip Myers, aka Pharyngula, who is apparently now pandering to identity politics at Freethought Blogs these days. As if the likes of Greta Christina from years ago wasn't bad enough. As a secularist, I still use metaphor and now is a good time for it: Ed Brayton is probably rolling his grave.
Interestingly, old skeptic and Skeptics Circle friend Kris Wager is on there. And has been for 8 years.
He replaced the likes of ... well, Greta Christina, Greg bin Laden's wife Stephanie Zvan, and Greg bin L himself at The Orbit. (I made sure to put a no-follow tag on that.) Greg himself ain't there, for whatever reasons. And, Greta posts half the total blogging of about 20 alleged sites; in other words, it's halfway tumbleweeds.
Bin Laden himself is at his own site. And a hypocrite, when he talks about "eschewing the binary" over last year's election when he supports the left half of the binary.
Bill Nye as attention whore also reminds me that, although I agreed with Dan Arel, eventually but also for other reasons, about issues with the Green Party (I went to his left) he can once again fuck off for calling me antiscience for calling Nye an attention whore. (I went so far to his left that I crossed that Rubicon I mentioned in 2016 and voted for a Commie last year!) That said, Dan, I AM "calling you on Socialists" in part because the SPUSA wasn't on the ballot in Texas even as a write-in last year. Arel had a foot, at least, in the Gnu Atheist and/or Atheism Plus world, as do most the people at Pharygula and The Orbit, cesspools on things related to that.
Final note: Arel, Wager and others have joined The Resistance 2.0 by cancelling their Shitter accounts. Arel appears to have jumped off Fuckbook as well. Wager was still there recently.
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