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Yesterday Skeptical Science owner John Cook announced to the world that he thought Willis’s open letter to the new editor of Science was “creepy” and “sexist”.
As is typical with the Skeptical Science kidz, it’s just projection. How much? You have no idea. But it turns out that when you scratch the surface of the SkS Forum, where the principals and moderators talk amongst themselves (seemingly unaware of others watching) you discover what creepy really is. For a supposed site about “climate science” it sure does look a lot like “high school climate science”.
Get a load of the pictures from the SkS forum website sent to me today. A friend of WUWT writes:
(Note: I’m leaving the author of this email private, lest he become another Photoshop victim. Note that all the links are in the open, there’s no hack or mole action going on here. BTW, each word highlighted below is a separate link to an image. – Anthony)
I found something I thought you might be interested in while looking to see what is publicly viewable on the new SkS forum’s website (www.sksforum.org). Little is, but there happens to be a viewable images directory that has a subdirectory, [http://www.sksforum.org/images/user_uploaded]. This directory has some… interesting images.
One [http://www.sksforum.org/images/user_uploaded/WeAreSkeptics.jpg] has several the heads of several skeptics photoshopped onto people from a movie about the 300 Spartans (300, perhaps?). I assume it was an attempt at humorously painting skeptics as few in number and dogmatic.
But the most interesting ones defy explanation at the moment. There are a number of images where the head of Dana Nuccitelli or John Cook appear to have been photoshopped onto images of [http://www.sksforum.org/images/user_uploaded/herrscooterboy.jpg]
[http://www.sksforum.org/images/user_uploaded/herrtankboy2.jpg]
It’s possible these images were taken from somewhere else and uploaded, but that seems unlikely as a couple of them show signs of further photoshopping done to improve them. To see what I mean, compare this image to this one.
Combined with the fact there are a number of similarly photoshopped images done to flatter Nuccitelli, it seems almost certain SkS members have photoshopped images of SkS members as Nazi soldiers. I can’t think of a single sensible reason they would do that.
I don’t think they dream of being Nazis, and I can’t imagine it was particularly fun to make those images. It’s possible they made these with the idea of a false flag operation in mind, but that seems ridiculous. It’s not more absurd than Peter Gleick’s behavior was, but it’s hard to believe anyone would consider doing that (especially on a forum which has been exposed once before).
[NOTE: Brandon Shollenberger decided that he didn’t care that his name was attached to the above, hence this update. – Anthony]
You have to wonder what motivates them to take the time do things like this, especially when they claim that global warming is accelerating, and there is precious little time left before we all roast.
SkS Kidz will be kids I suppose.
I haven’t looked this good since high school:
L-R: Watts, Monckton, Delingpole.
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UPDATE: 10:35 PDT About three hours later It seems that somebody at SkS has been embarrassed that they’ve been caught out, and they have comically simply moved the “user_uploaded” folder to one with a seemingly random (Ric Werme says: “Hey, a11g0n3 is leet-speak for allgone. Oh Lord, there be idiots over there.”) name: [http://www.sksforum.org//images/a11g0n3/]
Of course that breaks all the links in the story above.
Only problem is, it’s still open to the public there. All images are still visible: [http://www.sksforum.org//images/a11g0n3/]
Surely they know that the Internet has a permanent memory and all these images still exist elsewhere in folders that people have scraped from the original by now?
Amateur hour cover up tactics. – Anthony
UPDATE2: 11:07AM PDT It seems that they’ve taken down the “leet speak” folder as well, no matter, they still all exist in many places, and I’ll add a gallery shortly. -Anthony
UPDATE3: 11:19AM PDT here is a few of the images referenced above in the story and in comments. I also have a screen cap of the original folder listing at SkS which I’ll upload tonight when I get home.
UPDATE4: 5:31PM PDT, As promised earlier in UPDATE3 here is a PDF capture of the file listing from the original SkS forum snapped at 829AM PDT today.
Index of _images_user_uploaded (PDF)
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DirkH says:
August 6, 2013 at 9:46 am
“Cook is such a bad webmaster that he forgot to protect that folder.”
To be specific: to protect it from viewing via a web browser. You will not be able to upload anything without knowing ftp user account and password, though. So without hacking, no “false flag” is possible.
Pamela Gray says:
August 6, 2013 at 8:12 am
Photo shop me! Use the gal who starred in the 200 Zillion BC flick with the fur bikini. Perfect flat earther portrayal I think. A bit far from reality but then so are the CO2 models.
That was one of the One Million BC movies. There was one in the ’40s, with Carol Landis and another, with Raquel Welch, in the ’60s. They constitute the most recent evidence of dinosaurs in geological history, other than in Professor Challenger’s papers.
Wasn’t it Prince Harry that thought dressing in a Nazi Uniform was funny as well?
“Cook is such a bad webmaster that he forgot to protect that folder.”
He wouldn’t be the first warmist to leave ‘censored’ data out in plain sight.
Have you ever noticed how cyber-unsophisticated so many of these ‘scientists’ are?
Pamela Gray says:
August 6, 2013 at 8:12 am
Photo shop me! Use the gal who starred in the 200 Zillion BC flick with the fur bikini. Perfect flat earther portrayal I think. A bit far from reality but then so are the CO2 models.
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You mean you don’t really look like Raquel??? I’d always imagined ……… Yum!!!!
As to those paranoid delusional creepys…. well, yes. This is consistent with their actions and words.
arthur4563 says:
August 6, 2013 at 9:06 am
As the world learned when Reagan visited the Bitburg cemetery, after 1943 the Waffen SS drafted conscripts, so its troops’ situation thereafter resembled that of Wehrmacht soldiers.
Maybe Skeptical Science think of themselves as climate change storm troopers (SA) rather than the SS perpetrators of the Holocaust. It is, as has been noted, weirdly twisted that they would envision themselves in WWII German military uniforms of any kind, given their “denier” slur.
Sorry to say, but Cook’s avatar looks quite creepy …
OldWeirdHarold says:
August 6, 2013 at 10:02 am
“Have you ever noticed how cyber-unsophisticated so many of these ‘scientists’ are?”
Sure. I have also seen a lot of FORTRAN source code written by professors. They usually insist one removes the comments so as to not disturb the reading flow.
milodonharlani says:
August 6, 2013 at 10:05 am
“Maybe Skeptical Science think of themselves as climate change storm troopers (SA) rather than the SS perpetrators of the Holocaust.”
The SA was the security for Hitler’s election campaign. Simple thugs, not soldiers. The only thing they stormed were halls where communists held a speech – before Hitler’s election; there were no communist congregations after that.
The “brownshirts”. Later exterminated, the survivors put into the Wehrmacht.
The pictured guys look like Wehrmacht soldiers, which were mostly conscripts.
The pictures just all disappeared!
Someone at SkS must read WUWT.
… and all reappeared in “/images/a11g0n3”
REPLY: right, the link is: http://www.sksforum.org//images/a11g0n3/
-Anthony
I am starting to understand why the pro-AGW crowd stating calling skeptics “deniers”. It’s not that we ( I like to include myself) are denying that climate changes, but we are in the way of what they want. We are denying them the wealth and riches they believe they deserve. They are the plundering armies, and the real skeptics are the 300 who are in their way. The plundering hordes are so angry that even with all the Marxists, environmentalists, revisionists, and the like on their side they are not able to win the fight. That is why they resort to the false flags, the lies, and the character assassinations. That is why it is important to keep fighting the good fight.
Thank you Anthony. You should print up that image in high quality and post it on your office wall. You are in their heads, rent-free.
The links are now broken unfortunately (or is that fortunate?) – has anyone grabbed the images?
“… and all reappeared in “/images/a11g0n3″
– So they have! Good god how incompetent can you get? Move the images to another directory in the same publicly accessible root directory and still expect them not to be found? I didn’t even bother to check that possibility because I made the idiot assumption that no one would be that stupid, especially after being caught.
DirkH on August 6, 2013 at 10:14 am
LOL!
They really are the gang who couldn’t shoot straight over there at SkS, aren’t they?
It would appear from the group photo that you guys really intimidate… !
…. Their subconscious is getting the better of them.
…it seems almost certain SkS members have photoshopped images of SkS members as Nazi soldiers. I can’t think of a single sensible reason they would do that.”
The term “bat crap crazy” comes to mind…
I get the 404 error on all links.
SkS seem to have realised they’ve got a major problem – the links no longer work.
The ‘Hiro counter’ is amusing….
Pity, user_uploaded has been drained. The “other” directory is still there, so
http://www.sksforum.org/images/a11g0n3/WeAreSkeptics.jpg and http://www.sksforum.org/images/a11g0n3/Monkeys.jpg live on for now. Hey John, should we give you a list of photos you probably want to take down?
Hey, a11g0n3 is leet-speak for allgone. Oh Lord, there be idiots over there.
Remember when The Guardian that was unexpectedly positive toward skepticism and this site. For those of us that get in comment tussles with those parroting warmist talking points, there was a commenter that kept referring to skepticalscience dot com, and a skeptic had an outstanding response (I liked the terminology he used, which I’ll make bold), a comment in which ‘Rob’ later had a kind of gibbering ineffectual counter response:
It’s telling that the Skepkidz chose to focus on the most extraneous elements of Willis’ article (calling a woman good looking isn’t sexist IMO) and completely ignore the factual guts. Here is the money quote:
…once you convince people that your causes are more important to you than your science, that’s it for your authority regarding the science. You either get to have activism, or you get scientific authority.
This applies to science as well as journalism. Neither institution has come close to fulfilling its obligation to the public.
The one Anthony posted above works.