He asks you to provide evidence when he offers none, calls you abusive and angry when he is the only one using name-calling, asks you the same questions over and over (even when you’ve already answered them), and when you ask him a direct question he always fails to even acknowledge that you have done so – let alone answer the question.

Obviously he’s a troll. Just not a very good one. Here are Andi’s marks out of ten…

Written English: 4. Barely comprehensible at times, Andi struggles to communicate with others. Despite this, he thinks of himself as something of a linguist and pedant. This lack of self-awareness probably helps to protect Andi from uncomfortable truths.

Insults: 2. The lamest of insults are offered – “pseudo intellectual” and “sad little man”. Andi seems to believe that repetition will make up for the weakness of his insults.

Ability to raise hackles: 3. The only thing Andi has in his favour here is persistence. Eventually, someone, somewhere is bound to be annoyed by him. It might take 50 or 60 comments aimed at a single individual, but at some point the continual lame name-calling and attempts at grammar pedantry will irritate someone.

Must try harder.

Here is a sample of some of his finest work. Having produced a graph of measles mortality that predicted mortality from measles at less than 1 in 55 million (equating to zero deaths per year), and having published this graph on the Child Health Safety webshite, Miller refuses to acknowledge the deaths that have occurred since he produced the graph – referring to them as “trivia” and “boring”.

If you demonstrate that the evidence that Miller relies upon is inaccurate or misleading, do not expect him to acknowledge that you have done so. Instead, expect him to utterly ignore the shoddiness of the evidence he relies upon. But then, if people like Miller and Stone were in the habit of altering their views and arguments when they failed to stand up to rational scrutiny the Child Health Safety webshite would have been taken down long ago.

Awkward questions are consistently ignored by the likes of Clifford G Miller and John D Stone. Miller and Stone will never retract anything, never admit they’re wrong about anything, never apologise for anything.

The misleading information on Child Health Safety will no doubt remain – and I fully expect Miller and Stone to continue to cite it.

Edit: apparently, Miller also goes by the name “Duelist”.

Wherever he comes across a blog post regarding autism he will wade in.
Totally immune to logic his pet theory is that mercury causes autism
in all cases and that autism didn’t exist before 1939 until Eli Lilly
invented thimerosal. Is also staunchly homophobic, misogynistic and
borderline racist. He is also a firm believer in the Illuminati and
New World Order.

Details: http://leftbrainrightbrain.co.uk/?p=360

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Whaleto

I think Whaleto features on the JABS site as john – see here for more on JABS.

Appears in science forums – such as this typical post – attempting to convince others of the non-existence of the honeybee “dance language”, and of the inseparability of genes and environment.

Unfortunately her arguments are based on the outdated biological theories of Theodore Christian Schneirla and Morgan’s Canon, whose dogmas include refusal to believe in genetically programmed behaviour, and belief in a fixed hierarchy of “psychic levels” of complexity in behaviour. The latter’s model doesn’t admit to modern developments in emergence: the idea that complex behaviour (such as an ant colony’s mathematically optimal searching for food) may arise from the collective operation of simple low-level behaviours.

It’s hard to tell if this is trolling or simply being stuck in a time warp, but the effect is the same. Discussion is pointless because she refuses even to look at modern theories on computational biology.

Feb 2008: Having failed to make an impression at Bad Science, she has now signed up with the Scientific American Community.

Fave phrase: “staunch DL supporters”

Frequently appears: CiF, JABS, BMJ

Interest: Anti Vaccination

Timecubes (1-100): 80

Comments: John is prolific to say the least, with over 300 rabid responses published in the BMJ. Will detour threads towards MMR at first opportunity or Ben Goldacre, for which he has a most peculiar obsession. WARNING! Do not engage – whilst appearing reasonably coherent on the surface, John will suck all vital force from you within 3 posts.

John is now sufficiently paranoid to believe that a reference to media scaremongering over “radioactive paedophiles” is somehow an insult towards himself and other anti-vaxxers. For more on this see this blog post.

Name: John Scudamore aka Whale

Frequently appears: WDDTY; JABS

Interest: anti-logic

Timecubes (1-100): 100

Comments: his whaleto site is a wonder of the modern age; a site so chock full of consipracy theory and bonkers logic it makes you glad you didn’t take lots of acid in your twenties in order to make up the most insane shit up you could: “TWO TIMES I USED A ZAPPER EVEN WHEN IT WAS BURNING HOLES IN MY SKIN: AFTER THE TIME I GOT HELD DOWN AND INJECTED WITH POISON (RADIOACTIVE?) IN THE NIGHT BY FEDS (ALONG WITH FIVE OTHER GIFTERS ACROSS THE COUNTRY ONE NIGHT IN THE EARLY DAYS) AND AFTER A RATTLESNAKE BIT ME.”

Quite

Name: Mark Struthers aka CyberTiger (aka Celtic Leopard)

Frequently appears: CiF, JABS, BMJ

Interest: Anti-vaccination, sometimes anti-medicine (particularly statins) – with a Roy Meadows fixation and a position on flu vaccinations that seems to be contradictory to that of the practice he works for.

Timecubes (1-100): 95

There must be a law, somewhere, rather like Scopie’s Law, that dictates that as soon as CyberTiger joins in an argument on your side, you have lost. CyberTiger or Cybercat or Cybertwat, (grrrrrrrr!), will NEVER never debate and will always opt for personal insult and nutty insinuation “As a cult follower of rottenscience, you will note that Sir Roy is not the only priceless prat in the Milky Way” Grrrrrr! Often encountered in combo with John Stone. Cast Level 10 twatgone and you’ll survive kiddo.

Name: Angladrion (Hilary Butler)

Frequently appears: JABS

Interest: Anti Vaccination

Timecubes (1-100): 75

Hilary Butler is a liar, according to the popular blog “Jabs Loonies”. The blog post reveals that Hilary’s claim that Dr Bruce Baguley “told me how, when he got cancer, he cured his own cancer with vitamin C and Iscadore” is false. The source of the correction? Um, Dr Bruce Baguley himself!

Not true I’m afraid – worrying how stories change. I have never had a
malignant tumour. I took vitamin C one for a condition that was
diagnosed as a possible lymphoma, but was in fact much more likely to
have been a virus infection. It’s an interesting area but I don’t have
any data.