At one time, I respected Boing Boing. I thought they were fun, funny, irreverant, and even downright awesome at times. In fact, on my old blog, I mentioned numerous times how much I loved them.
One thing that was irrepressibly annoying about them, however, was their constant bagging on those who believe in intelligent design. Those who believe that the earth and all its inhabitants are the result of some exceptional set of cosmic coincidences are supposedly brilliant and so on, while those who believe that the earth is the product of God are “flat-earthers (as fat-assed Oliver “Whatcha talkin’ about” Willis calls them)” “backwards,” “rubes,” and so on. Apparently, in the liberal atheist agnostic what-the-hell-ever world of feel good tolerance, no tolerance dare be reserved for us flat-earthers.
Boing Boing has been at the forefront of the Christian-bashing. In fact, ne’er a day goes by where they didn’t take some kind of pot shot at ID. Ne’er a story is mentioned on the subject without a shot taken at the people involved.
The story mustn’t be mentioned without a comment because anyone who believes in such things must be a moron or something.
So it came as a surprise to me that Boing Boing, with not the slightest bit of irony, decided that it would be worthy of their time to post a mention of the following survey:
Scientific survey about out-of-body experiences
University of Manchester psychologists are launching a study on out-of-body experiences. People who claim to have had an OBE, and those who haven’t, are invited to complete an online survey. From the press release:
David Wilde, the researcher running the project, said, “There are several theories as to why people have OBEs. A common link between them is the idea that in certain circumstances the brain somehow loses touch with sensory information coming in from the body. This triggers a series of psychological mechanisms which can lead to someone having an OBE.
“In this study we aim to take the theory a stage further, by looking at the way people see and experience their bodies, and how - through perfectly ordinary psychological processes - these images and experiences may create the impression of seeing their bodies from the outside.”
Note the complete lack of irony, derision, etc. Notice how they matter-of-factly mentioned a crackpot study about an out-of-body-experience without calling the people who believe in them kooks, nuts, or rubes?
Maybe flat-earthers?
Maybe it’s because Boing Boing is a piece of trash with an agenda. Shame. I used to like them.
Source: Boing Boing