Poor @KevinMKruse has an obsession with me that borders on the indecent. Daily, hourly he replies to my tweets. Yet despite my repeated offers to debate him on his own campus with the home court advantage, he won’t do it. If the facts are all on his side, what’s he afraid of?
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Replying to @DineshDSouza
You keep tweeting at me, wanting to make this a personal feud between me and you. It’s not. It’s a professional matter, in which actual scholars — regardless of their politics — agree that you’re a clown and a con man.
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Replying to @KevinMKruse @DineshDSouza
Only one person who's obsessed and it's not Kevin
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Replying to @SageHillfarms @DineshDSouza
MEET ME FACE TO FACE! I HAVE ASKED TWENTY TIMES NOW! MUST BE IN YOUR PRESENCE! WHY ARE YOU SO OBSESSED WITH ME?!
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After school! Behind the bike racks!
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I wrote this about quacks, creationists, and antivaxers, but it applies to pseudohistorians like D'Souza—and, indeed, all cranks—as well. Cranks fetishize "public debate."https://respectfulinsolence.com/2013/04/26/all-truth-comes-from-public-debate-a-corollary-to-crank-magnetism/ …
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