Peter Hitchens Is Gutless

Under Peter Hitchen's latest pseudo-scientific diatribe I noticed link where readers were invited to debate with the Mail on Sunday's Idiot In Chief.

Could I resist telling this educated, self-indulgent fool pretty much everything he wrote was wrong? Well yes and no. Many fellow bloggers have already tried (and failed) to engage Hitchens; tearing his rants to pieces on various blogs - the Lay Scientist being a personal favourite.

Out of curiosity, I waited until comments started to appear and read the following message, tucked away in light-grey against the white background. Visible - but not hardly DDA compliant.

Comments are moderated, and will not appear on this weblog until the author has approved them.

So put another way you can't debate with Hitchens - any more than you can debate with his fellow Creationists.

For the sake of the Mail and Mail readers, here's what the word actually means:

Debate: Vb. [Trans.] to argue about (a subject), esp. in a formal manner.

Argue means to disagree about something so in order to debate something with Hitchens you have to be able to engage him. Yet by enabling comment moderation in this way, Hitchens has denied anyone with a modicum of knowledge the route to contradict him.

Predictably the only comments appended to the blog are of the sort that Hitchens could have written himself - my god, that man must have an ego the size of Arcturus.

Well here's an open to challenge to Mr Peter Hitchens of the Sunday Mail.

Come and debate some of the people you see fit to critcise in an open forum and see how you fare. Come and edify us as how Darwin was wrong about evolution; how climate change isn't man made; what future generations are going to do when the coal runs out and so on.

No comment moderation - everyone gets to have a say.

I say you can't Hitchens: because you're haven't got the guts to stand up and fight or the evidence to back up your outrageous claims. You just want to sit around and have that gigantic ego stroked by people who think you're infallible while destroying the reputations of people who actually know what they are talking about.

We're waiting.