Skeptic Project

http://www.thezeitgeistmovement.com/joomla/index.php?option=com_kunena&Itemid=99999&func=view&catid=231&id=298834

This guy has been contacting me through email. He promotes TZM, and at the same time, he promotes a classic neo-Nazi agenda. To be frank, I believe the man has a mental deficiency (aside from his racism). He seems intent upon associating TZM with his misguided white supremacy ideals. I suggest that we leave him be as he seems harmless. But, should he become dangerous, we at least know who he is. Here are some URLs directing you to him:

www.youtube.com/user/politekat88

www.conspiracycafe.net/forum/index.php?/...tia-looking-for-you/

Again, I do not suggest communicating with him or provoking him in any way. Even though his worldview is sick and you may be driven to tell him so, this will only make him stronger in his efforts.

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Crank_magnetism

Dude likes Evanescence. What a loser.

I just saw what a TZM member wrote called mickeymouse and it was incredibly racists and ignorant. I'm seeing TZM attracting a lot of neonazi's and holocaust deniers o-joy

http://www.thezeitgeistmovement.com/joomla/index.php?option=com_kunena&Itemid=99999&func=view&catid=231&id=298834#299086

>> mickeymouse says: We support science, and science tells us for example white people have on average higher IQs than black people, while east asians have higher IQs than whites and so on. That does not mean however we should discriminate against or in favor of any of them.<<

Are there Holocaust deniers in TZM? Yes
Are there Holocaust deniers in CS? No.

That is all.

No I'm not. I'm pointing out the effects of crank magnetism. TZM is not unique in that it attracts fringe, paranoid personality types regardless of personal politics.

Those who lack the cognitive abilities to differentiate between good sources of information and bad sources of information tend to focus only on what information they agree with and ignore the information they don't. This is called confirmation bias.

This is why you have bong smoking, left wing college students linking sites like Infowars.com and Rense.com, who's politics should only appeal to far right, fundamentalist Christians.

You also suffer from confirmation bias TeeZeeDem. You focus on the elements of TZM/TVP that appeal to you and disregard the elements that don't as "bad apples." Personally, I think you're full of shit.

@Matt
Well lucky for me, your opinion of me doesn't keep me awake at night.

@Muertos
I focus on the financial side of things, because that is the area in which I work. I do believe we are making an effort to weed that out. I don't see many 9/11 threads on the Z-forums now and I think that is a direct result of various groups efforts to actively debunk the debunkers. My personal opinion is that it is a topic that distracts us from the real problems. Every time I have to stop and address the 9/11 issue is less time I spend discussing how we analyze relevant problems. Every social movement makes mistakes and tactical errors in it's infancy, I just hope that time allows us to put some distance between TZM and 9/11.

@Omni-Science
That is a pretty broad criticism. Perhaps you could narrow that down more specifically so I could respond. There exists bullshit in every system, and "bullshit" is not unique to TZM and TVP. What it comes down to is, which system has the least amount of bullshit and can we live with it?

I do believe we are making an effort to weed that out.

Does the leader of the Zeitgeist Movement re-releasing his conspiracy film together with a "source guide" emphatically repeating his 9/11 conspiracy claims seem to you like "making an effort" to weed out conspiracy theories?

"Hey guys, your opinions don't matter but I'm going to register on your forum and argue with you."

Whatever you say, bro.

No it wouldn't. This is your crank confirmation bias at work again. Most of the threads I post are related to American politics, not Zeitgeist. Zeitgeist is some stupid shit that's fun to mock, nothing more. It could vanish today and my posting would be just as lively.