Part of Disappeared Parody Review Found

In this post some time ago I lamented the disappearance of a parody Amazon review of Michael Mann's book, The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars.

Why Is My Two Star Amazon Review Ranked Last?

When Naomi Oreskes and Eric Conway's book, The Collapse of Western Civilization, came out, I immediately purchased a Kindle copy of this short inexpensive book, because I wanted to write one of the first Amazon reviews of it. My review turned out to be the sixteenth one of the current total of 288. I gave it two stars, even though I really dislike their writing, because I felt it gave a concise look at their views. It has one comment by me where I included some non-Amazon links (Amazon does not allow them in a review). There are 31 two star reviews (11% of the total). The other day I thought I'd check how I was ranking and was surprised to find that my review was ranked dead last among two star reviews!

Now since I'm very critical of these two authors, I don't expect to get a very high ratio of helpful votes. But among the two star reviews, mine was clearly the longest. How did I end up dead last? So I made a table of the two star reviews that includes rank, helpful votes, total votes, the ratio of helpful to total votes and the number of lines of text that appear on my laptop screen, excluding blank lines between paragraphs.

Lysenkoism in Nature's Comments

Well maybe "Lysenkoism" is too strong a word, but it's really irritating when the winner of the Lukewarmers Way's coveted Climate Blogger of the Year Award, Brad Keyes, has his comments deleted -- and they were really good pithy comments! They were in this Nature post by,...  by transparent charlatan, Stefan Lewandosky and someone else. Well, anyway, I made copies of the comments for myself,  so here's a (sort of) cleaned up list of Brad's comments:

Update:  Cleaned up spacing to make it more readable.

I Suspect Ann Reid

Well, I've been trying to figure out why I've been banned from NCSE's blog. I don't know exactly why, but I do have quite a few ideas. As to who banned me, I'm a bit more certain. I suspect it was Ann Reid, the executive director, who has recently taken over from founder, Eugenie Scott.

To recap, I've been banned from NCSE's blog and had my comments from the last three posts I commented on deleted. The next earlier  post I commented on, had some of my comments put in perpetual moderation. Comments in earlier posts appear to be intact. I posted all my deleted comments on this page.

The last post was by Ann Reid entitled What We're Reading. It was a list of seven linked articles, some about climate. I made this comment on one about Bill Nye:

Bill Nye, the totalitarian guy, actually says:

"Part of the solution to this problem or this set of problems associated with climate change is getting the deniers out of our discourse. You know, we can’t have these people – they’re absolutely toxic."

I'm Banned at NCSE

I've been banned at NCSE's blog.  Also, the comments from the last three post I commented on have been deleted. Fortunately they use the DISQUS commenting system, which saves and displays your pending and removed comments, so I've posted my deleted comments on this page. On the  post I commented on before these three, I had a few of my comments put in perpetual moderation. I have a post about it here. All my other comments at NCSE appear to be intact. I intend to post more commentary on all this when I get it better sorted out. 

Links:

http://ncse.com/blog

https://disqus.com/home/explore/

http://canmancannedcomments.blogspot.com/p/my.html

http://ncse.com/blog/2015/10/who-counts-as-climate-scientist-0016688

http://canmancannedcomments.blogspot.com/2015/10/ncse-blogger-puts-my-comments-into.html

NCSE Blogger Puts My Comments into Perpetual Moderation and Quotes Mao

NCSE blogger Steven Newton had this post a couple of weeks ago. It was a rather bland description of a recent study about the consensus on climate change and he included some whining about the use of the word "skeptic" to denote climate skeptics and Climategate being a fake scandal. So I made a comment that included some quotes by Willis Eschenbach from this WUWT post. It was put in moderation with the option of allowing readers to see the post anyway.

Another commenter liked my comment and suggested that it might soon disappear. I replied that I had made preparations and included a link to this blog. Newton and some of his regulars belittled my blog. I also made a response to a comment by Newton that disappeared from the thread. I asked him if he deleted it and he replied that he didn't know what happened to it. He said as a rule that he was not deleting comments. And he included this quote from Mao: "let a thousand flowers bloom". I responded by reposting my comment and hazarding a guess as to what Mao's moderation policy might be.

NCSE uses the DISQUS commenting system. When you log into your own DISCUS profile, comments that are in moderation will include a red box that says "pending". Deleted comments will have a red box that says "removed".

Parody Amazon Review of Mann's Book Disappears

With the recent vanishing of the RICO20 letter and the impending vanishing of ringleader Jagadish Shukla's IGES, I thought I'd write about another obscure disappearance -- an Amazon review of Michael Mann's book, The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars.

It was a parody written in the style that a North Korean propagandist might use in a tribute to the late Kim Jong Il. It was fairly long (about seven or eight paragraphs) and very well done. I noticed it's absence because I had made a comment some time ago and went back looking to see if there were any newer responses.

(Update: If anyone saved a copy of this review, I would greatly appreciate it if they would post it in a comment here)

(Further Update: A small portion of this review has been found. See this post.)