After starting as a small blog skeptical science has risen to the level of being cited as a credible source by President Barack Obama himself. http://www.bluegrasspundit.com/2013/06/obama-recycles-97-of-scientists-believe.html The link takes you to a Reuters story that uses SKS bogus 97% claim that has since been thoroughly trashed. But this thread is not about the bogus 97% but more so on SKS being a credible source for the president or anyone else for that matter. SKS is notorious for having rather poor file and access management. A year ago someone found that SKS moderator forum wasn't private at all and all someone needed to do to access it was to look for it. http://tomnelson.blogspot.com/2012/03/from-skeptical-science-interesting.html This gave us the first look into SkS consensus project which showed that behind the scenes they were violating the methods they had set fourth in their own analysis. As well as many other embaresemnts. Well SKS has done it again. In looking at images at the SKS blog a person named Brandon Schollenberger found a cache of images sitting on the forum open to the world. No protection no nothing. Just sitting there. What were the images. Well .... I dont think there is anyway not to go full godwin on this one. Amongst other things it was members of the SkS team photoshopped as Nazis. This is a Photoshop of a famous Himler Photo. While I dont want to go out and say that they see themselves as Nazi's. I do think that this episodes does show the every warmmongers favorite source SS, I'm just gong to drop the k from now on, are just a bunch of immature (*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)bags with a world domination complex and have lost all credibility. Read about the whole incident here http://joannenova.com.au/2013/08/skepticalscience-goes-godwin-nazi-or-something/ http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/08/06/skeptcial-science-takes-creepy-to-a-whole-new-level/ As well as the how dare you hack us response here http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/08/08/mad-haxor-skillz-godwinize-skeptical-science/ Obama should vet his sources a little better next time.
