Thinking a retrospective evisceration of old PZ might be mildly amusing, I clicked.
I had misread the headline. The final word was actually audit, not adult. PZ refers not to Myers but to Probability Zero, an anti-Darwinian book Vox Day wrote together with a fake intelligence, and the "audit" is a dumpster fire consisting of other fake intelligences rating it in comparison to other evolution books, including one by Dawkins. Slop feeding on slop.
So the coincidence is that, even though I had completely misinterpreted the headline, the article still ended up involving the evolution debate and a Nu-Atheist author, and Vox is certainly giving PZ a run for his money in the cringe department.
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I was curious who he was and found his most recent post. He looks like he's from the internet of cleverest boys. It's a doubtful sync that PZ Meyers is an evolution zealot [if atheists have a belief it is clearly Evolution] - https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/01/05/why-99-of-scientists-believe-in-evolution/
I had a look through his blog, and he's still an idiot. Anti-"AI," though, so I guess that counts for something.
One thing about the early 2000's I have noticed is that a bunch of people thought that things would just unfold. People were all on the cusp of big changes that would just
Mainstream conservatives had an attitude that the dumb, economically-illiterate liberals (as they would call them) would soon be exposed as silly and common sense would take hold again. Left-wingers thought that the ignorance of the past (as they would call it) was on its way out.
Not just politics either, but other groups had this attitude.
I now see the New Atheist movement as part of that. The idea that the old superstitions were on the way out and once enough people discarded them, then we would have a new era of science.
Of course, those attitudes ended up being wrong. But I'm not saying this to bash the early 2000's; it was better than the 2020's in many ways, just making an observation that the attitude was widespread.
Looking back on it, that time really had a distinctive culture. Maybe 1998-2008 was the main part of that era, with 2008-2015 or so being a transitional period.
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