Pharyngula Clone: Christopher Maloney is still a quack

Funny, the blogging software suggested that headline when I started typing Pharyngula... so I went with it.

I'm responding to a post on the Pharyngula blog about Christopher Maloney still being a quack.  Maloney put a post on his own web site warning about Pharyngula.  In this post he manages to get many things wrong.  This should not be surprising considering how much else he gets wrong.  I'll direct you to his page so as to not infringe on his copyright.  He starts:

Paragraph 1: The infamous PZ  Myers  asked those ... PZ probably did make such a request to spread the message.  The rest of the paragraph is woefully wrong.  The freshman isn't a freshman.  And the endless thread isn't the reason for the blogs popularity, it's a response to the popularity.   Technically, a clone site would only echo what PZ blogs.  Most of these alleged clones offer other commentary too.  However, agreeing with PZ is likely to occur for people who see the world as it really is and not how people like Maloney wish is were. Paragraph 2: When PZ Myers was questioned, ... The retraction was a correction since we discovered that we were wrong about who got the site pulled down.  It didn't change our opinion that Maloney is a quack.  Dr. Novella is perfectly capable of acting, and generally does act, without regard to PZ Myers' opinion.  Strangely, as people who view the world as it really is and not some fantasy they wish to see, they often agree. It never ceases to amaze me how that works Paragraph 3: As of early March, I seem to have been unspankable.  ... I'm not sure what Maloney means by unspankable.  I haven't read that thread, so I'll leave it to Dr. Novella to defend his own honor. Paragraph 4: The entire episode has left me with no respect for the skeptic ... Considering the level of respect Maloney shows for reality in general, I suspect he never had any degree of respect for skeptics.  I  have to ask Maloney, what medical studies?  I haven't seen any that provide a single shred of evidence that you are right and all of medical science is wrong.  That they can so easily tear down the "studies" presented must tell you something about the quality of the studies.  But then I forget, you don't see the real world, do you Maloney, you see the one you wish we lived in, where magic does work.  You so quickly dismiss these skeptics whose ideas really are based on scientific inquiry yet seem to have no real understanding of science yourself. Pat yourself on the back, you've convinced me... you're still a quack.