The Simkin Spectacle

[Albert Doyle]

Simkin allowed Von Pein to counter the progress of points with regressive form-type generalities. When the posts forced Von Pein into defending his denial of the evidence he would revert to some overly general rhetoric instead of living up to what was shown. Simkin then defended Von Pein as having a right to a contrary opinion. But that wasn't intellectually honest and Von Pein should have been censured for not living up to the progress of proven points. In short, Von Pein's arguments failed but he was allowed to keep making them under counter-productive and wrongly-invoked free speech rules.