http://coturnix.wordpress.com/

I have seen other people like Lubos, who grew up wonderful little communists in Eastern Europe, and once communism became unfashionable there, switched to the opposite extreme while retaining the same habits of mind and an undeveloped moral compass.

Not only in Eastern Europe. Many of the neocons and right wing nutcases in the US started out as Trotskyites (e.g. Irving Kristol, father of Bill, and David Horowitz).

Incidentally, Mr. Coturnixs’ link still points to his former Scienceblogs’ blog.

I have seen other people like Lubos, who grew up wonderful little communists in Eastern Europe, and once communism became unfashionable there, switched to the opposite extreme while retaining the same habits of mind and an undeveloped moral compass.

P.S. again Luis Dias, a Pharyngula reader, points out in the “Shaking the nuts” discussion thread that he was surprised that Mr Myers has openly boasted that he could eliminate new bloggers from the SB ring – and censor the flow of the information in this way. Various Pharyngula faithful are telling him that he’s… wrong, politely speaking, but they offer all kinds of reasons that contradict each other.

Some of them say that Myers has never had any control about any such issues. Others say that it is completely normal not to admit people who don’t “fit in” – such as Pepsi folks or TRF. Anyone who is not a leftist liberal. Indeed, this rule is routinely applied in the company called the Academia.

However, when it comes to groups that the liberals worship, such as some of the people of color who usually don’t fit either and who may be incompetent at the same moment (unlike the Pepsi nutrition folks), it would be a discrimination not to hire them! The hypocrisy of these people is just amazing. If your society doesn’t put these dangerous power-thirsty radicals in the jail soon enough, they will eventually put you in the jail – or hang you. (bolding mine)

Wait, so liberals are hypocrites because we “worship people of color?” WTF? How did he start on Pepsigate and end up on affirmative action? I guess it shows that virulent racism lurks just under the surface with most of these right wing nut cases.

His politics are heavily right wing, and he insults anyone (via his blog) that is even slightly critical of string theory.

What amuses me about his criticism is that there’s nothing more free-market than a strike or boycott. People are voting with their dollars, and it seemed to be the only effective way to get Seed’s attention. He’s right about profit being a strong motivator, and the bloggers here used that motivator to influence Seed.

Actually, Dr. Motl has a PhD in physics and, at least in the past, worked in string theory so he is in no way, shape, form, or regard a really stupid human being. Really stupid human beings don’t get PhDs in physics.

On the other hand, Dr. Motl is a nutcase believing in all manner of far right wing notions, such as climate change denial. It just goes to show that being a smart guy doesn’t prevent one from being a whackjob (e.g. Linus Pauling, William Shockley, Peter Duesberg, J. Allan Hynek, and Brian Josephson).