Professor Dave, Anti-Semite? You Be the Judge

[Bob Duncan]

Professor Dave, Anti-Semite? You Be the Judge
by David Klinghoffer

"Professor Dave Explains" is a popular YouTube channel -- very popular, with
2.71 million subscribers. The eponymous Dave Farina, a "science educator"
who's not a professor at all or a PhD, has made a series of crude attack videos
about proponents of intelligent design, to "humiliate" us. Don't worry, no one's
humiliated. After paleontologist Günter Bechly exposed all the errors and
falsehoods in just one of these, literally minute by minute (find links here),
nobody who's given it much thought believes that Mr. Farina can be taken
seriously about science.

<https://evolutionnews.org/2023/11/professor-dave-anti-semite-you-be-the-judge/>

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God exists, and transcends all space and time.

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[Bob Duncan]

Professor Dave, Anti-Semite? You Be the Judge
by David Klinghoffer

What was unclear was whether his rage against ID reflected just an isolated
problem in his thinking, or whether it's something more system-wide. Turns out
the latter. It turns out that Dave Farina is also either an anti-Semite, or he does
an excellent job of impersonating one. I bring this up because, either way, it
seals the deal about whether he deserves to be listened to at all. He doesn't.

[Mitchell Holman]

Bob Duncan <bob7d...@gmail.com> wrote in
news:a93c8f79-6e45-4a6d...@googlegroups.com:

The same goes for YOUR favorite
not-really-a-scientist Stephen Meyer.

[JWS]

> <https://evolutionnews.org/2023/11/professor-dave-anti-semite-you-be-the-judge/>
Don't support your own positions.
Just start casting aspersions on all others.

[Bob Duncan]

Professor Dave, Anti-Semite? You Be the Judge
by David Klinghoffer

The New Blood Libel

I confess to wasting more time following his X feed than I ought to have done.
I had some exchanges with him there -- all echoing his preferred style of crude
random insults. I finally blocked him after seeing his embrace of the emerging
blood libel about Israel. As disgusting as his attacks on ID folks have been, at
least there was nothing about them that could be construed as incitement to
violence. Or, almost nothing. (There was his creepy tweet about how anyone
who believes there's been no progress on the origin of life since Miller-Urey
should be "shot in the face.")

[Bob Duncan]

Professor Dave, Anti-Semite? You Be the Judge
by David Klinghoffer

What's a blood libel? If you recall your history, starting in Europe in the
Middle Ages, then spilling into the Middle East and continuing there into
the 21st century, Jews were charged again and again with kidnapping and
murdering non-Jewish children in order to take their blood and use it as an
ingredient in Passover matzah. Despite the insanity of this, the libel was
broadly disseminated and resulted in many pogroms. The aim of the lie was
to arouse violent animus, and it worked.

Today's blood libel has much the same goal. It says that just a month ago,
on October 7, Israel knowingly permitted an attack by Hamas in order to
provide itself a pretext for committing "genocide" against innocent people
in Gaza. The reality is otherwise, of course. Israel suffered a major
intelligence failure, which the terrorist Hamas state in Gaza took advantage
of to commit the most heinous pogrom since the Holocaust. Hamas, as I'm not
alone in saying, is in a sense "worse than the Nazis." At least the Nazis
had the shame to hide their crimes. Hamas revels in them and broadcasts them
on social media.

[Mitchell Holman]

Bob Duncan <bob7d...@gmail.com> wrote in

news:b8954581-9055-400e...@googlegroups.com:

What should be done about that?