Yes, please. I can't seem to have a decent discussion on these boards without several posters trolling/baiting/flaming me every time I post.

Regardless of posts like that, it is the duty of a skeptic and truth-seeker to give consideration to all scientific possibilities. As Carl Sagan said about Immanuel Velikovsky's theory about Venus being a comet (somehow spat out of Jupiter), it's not a bad thing that the theory was ridiculous, it was that people tried to suppress it without due consideration. At the end of the day, Immanuel Velikovsky is still wrong, but the response to his theories was not the proper way to do science.

Lokiare may be writing and referencing articles that are frighteningly innaccurate (such as Fox news), and then blowing those out of proportion based on shoddy science, but we should not and will not respond by banning or reporting him for doing exactly what the off-topic forums are about. Hopefully, one day, after we've pointed out the consistent failures in logic, he may realize that it's more likely his limited sources are at fault, rather than the rest of us. There is even the incredibly off-chance possibility that we will learn something from him too.

But if you simply ban people because they bring up wrong things, you set yourself up for banning when you yourself are also one day wrong. The hope is that when someone like Lokiare brings up things that are wrong, and discussion happens, that some people learn something. In order to prove Lokiare wrong, I've had to increase my understanding of a number of issues, and hopefully other people that are discussing things with him are also learning from the practice. So long as we're making sound and logical arguments against, we will increase the likelihood that someone that agrees with Lokiare will discover the truth. In fact, I would believe that people are are "on the fence" on issues will lean towards the correct facts, and easily see through the vague and false references he brings up.

Regardless of posts like that, it is the duty of a skeptic and truth-seeker to give consideration to all scientific possibilities. As Carl Sagan said about Immanuel Velikovsky's theory about Venus being a comet (somehow spat out of Jupiter), it's not a bad thing that the theory was ridiculous, it was that people tried to suppress it without due consideration. At the end of the day, Immanuel Velikovsky is still wrong, but the response to his theories was not the proper way to do science.

Lokiare may be writing and referencing articles that are frighteningly innaccurate (such as Fox news), and then blowing those out of proportion based on shoddy science, but we should not and will not respond by banning or reporting him for doing exactly what the off-topic forums are about. Hopefully, one day, after we've pointed out the consistent failures in logic, he may realize that it's more likely his limited sources are at fault, rather than the rest of us. There is even the incredibly off-chance possibility that we will learn something from him too.