If you're not familiar with Poe's Law, it can be summed up as:
It is impossible to create of parody of Fundamentalism that someone won't mistake for the real thing, barring winking, laughing, etc. on the part of the parodist.
With that in mind read this:
DNA Sculpture is "Vile and Offensive"
Had I not tipped you to the parody angle, would you have been able to tell? It says wonders about the state of the discussion doesn't it (and not in a good way).
About Me
- Digging Fool
- Just your typical twenty something kid. I'm an archaeologist-in-training (wondering at what point I'm allowed to call myself an archaeologist proper)... I spend a good amount of time wandering the Midwest meandering from project to project and projects to school. I live in hotels, apartments, and even a veterans hospital once. There isn't much to say really, I'm a pretty normal nerdy kid not quite ready to grow up and sit behind a desk. If I have my say, I'll never have to. Currently the wandering is being kept more or less in check (for at least 2/3 of the year) by that whole "pursuing a graduate degree" thing. Apparently they want a series of letters after your name before they'll let you run around digging wherever you want. So I'm in Milwaukee doing that (getting letters... not running around digging wily nily).
1 comment:
I like the warning at the top. I think that this article is fairly easy to detect that something is wrong, it's an unknown source, and the wording in several places is too parallel to nudity discussions. I find the Ebert discussion more interesting. This is a known source, which we have no reason not to take at face value. But the point is, which I happen to agree with, that you can never trust anyone.
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