A righteous rant about organized skeptics defending Sandusky

It used to be a badge of pride to belong to the atheist and skeptic spheres, even if my involvement began and ended with blogging from my Canadian perch. Then came Elevatorgate, and the Slymepit, and the descent of YouTube atheism into a perverse punchline for shitlords, and a backlash against the idea that we should promote values beyond “gods and Bigfoot don’t exist”, and hyperskepticism aimed at victims of harassment and assault, and a hundred other indecencies that over the past decade gradually exposed the festering rot at the core of the movement.

So it’s with disgust but no real surprise that I find influential parts of the skeptic movement are now defending convicted serial child rapist Jerry Sandusky by attacking the credibility of the litany of victims and witnesses who denounced him. That’s horrifically typical of where the organized wing of skepticism is at.

I don’t quite have the words to express how fucked beyond belief this is. So I’ll let Steve Shives rage about it.

I believe, and stand with, the women and the children. Apparently that puts me at odds with much of the modern atheist and skeptic community.

I can live with that. I only wonder how they manage to live with themselves.

(via Pharyngula)