I just ran into this pathetic loon on the Panda’s Thumb blog, which is dedicated to discussing topics relating to defending evolution and attacking Creationism.

http://pandasthumb.org/archives/2010/05/junk-dna-is-sti.html

The comments he left have been deleted by the blog moderators, but I managed to see and respond to one:

johnadavison said:

I thank Wes or Pee Zee or whoever is responsible for allowing me once again to opine here. I am disappointed that Ichthyic had to stoop to refer to my age. Since he asked, I will be 82 on June 25 next. Let me quote one of my contemporaries.

“You ain’t heard nothin’ yet.” Al Jolson

I have a book coming out soon which is a collection of my unpublished papers and essays dealing with the great mystery of phylogeny. I expect it to be reviewed here.

In the meantime I recommend the following link –

http://jadavison.wordpress.com/2008[…]ns/#comments

For a sample of what to expect, especially #249 and several preceding messages.

I replied:

Dale Husband | May 20, 2010 3:14 AM

Wow! You are even more insane and incompetent than I’d heard! Why have you never learned how to manage a blog properly?

Later, he said:

johnadavison said:

I see I was not allowed to respond to Dale Husband’s vicious attack on my integrity and sanity. My lengthy response was deleted after its brief appearance. That has become a trademark of Panda’s Thumb policy of intolerant protectionism and intellectual bigotry. Let’s see if this will be allowed to stand.

What does he think he is, an infallible prophet of God, and that therefore any denials of his competence and mental abilities is blasphemy?

Why did I insult him? Because of these incidents:

http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/plonk.php

Index of the Banned

These are the people who have earned a place in the blog’s filter settings. They are not allowed to post here any more, although some also have a predilection for morphing and sneak in now and then.

Miscreant – John A. Davison 

Crime – Stupidity, Wanking, Insipidity

Comments – A Legend. Has set up multiple blogs; each one consists of one post, inviting comments. Most of the comments are from himself. When he feels like that blog is “full”, starts another one. Here are some links, and a perfect parody of his style.

http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2006/05/department_of_cluelessness.php

Clear off a space on the floor near you, because soon you’ll be rolling around laughing on it.

You may recall that John A. Davison, infamous advocate of Intelligent Design, started a blog of his own, titled Prescribed Evolution, back in November of 2005. It generated a lot of hilarity because it consisted of one post. This is it.

I have my own blog now, only because I have been banned from just about all the others. Since I am computer illiterate, don’t expect very much from me. I welcome any comments about my published papers including my unpublished “An Evolutionary Manifesto: A New Hypothesis For Organic Change.” I will tend to ignore any denigrations either of myself or my distinguished sources. I will also not take seriously comments from anonymous posters although I will respond provided they are civil.

There follows a comment thread. It’s up to 847 comments now; it consists of Davison wondering where all the commenters are, lots of bickering, Davison threatening to ban DaveScot, DaveScot threatening to ban Davison from his blog, waa waa waaa, on and on. If I were trying to parody the inanity of the Designists, I couldn’t have topped this.

http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2006/08/update_your_blogrolls_um_not.php

John A. Davison has started a new blog. You may recall his previous blog, or the one before that. His technique is to post one article, invite comments, and when he gets tired of them, move on…not to a new article, a new blog. His first got 881 comments (many of them consisting of Davis wondering where everyone was, or arguing with DaveScot);

http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2007/04/the_most_important_battle_in_t.php

The most important battle in the history of mankind!

 

A bit more than a week ago, I mentioned this interview I did for a site called One Blog A Day. The comment thread on the interview has grown in a peculiar way — John A. Davison and his pet sycophantic monkey, VMartin, are babbling away in a most painfully lunatic fashion, cruelly egged on by wÒÓ†. It’s hard to beat this comment for delusions of grandeur:

Martin and myself are waging a very effective war against the forces of darkness on both sides of this idiotic debate, sides which are dead wrong and always have been. Our success is measured directly by the extent to which we share bannishmnet and ridicule by those same factions we have exposed as charlatans, as “prescribed” victims of their fates to be mindless spokespersons of ideologies devoid of rational foundation.

We are currently involved in the most important battle in the history of mankind which is our purpose in the infinite scheme of things. Martin and I represent the forces of reason and sanity in a world which has been and continues to be destroyed by the forces of evil, ignorance, and irreversible compulsive auto-destruction which characterizes the present intellectual scenario dominated as it is by atheists like Dawkins and Meyers on the one hand and Baptist bible-banging Christians like Dembski on the other.

You really don’t want to miss it. Two guys on a blog talking to themselves are fighting the most important battle in the history of mankind!

 http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2007/04/john_a_davison_fool_in_his_own.php

This simpering sycophant to John A. Davison has been spamming the site recently, yammering away to get everyone’s attention despite the fact that he has been banned. Please do not reply to V.Martin, or anyone who is babbling about Davison — their posts will be deleted as soon as I notice them. This particular irritating fool has not only been morphing his username to get past my filters, but has at least once imitated a regular here, a particularly obnoxious and contemptible strategem that guarantees that I won’t ever be lifting the ban.

http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2007/05/john_a_davison_is_such_a_tattl.php

He told on me! That wicked rat-fink has reported me to the provost of my university, and now I’m a-tremblin’ in my pajamas. Here’s the text of the letter he claims to have sent in, revealing my perfidy to the administration.

Dear Tom Sullivan, Provost, University of Minnesota,

My name is John A. Davison. I am a retired Professor Emeritus of Biology from the University of Vermont. I earned my Ph.D. in Zoology at the University of Minnesota in 1954. While I am retired, I am still writing papers and engaging in internet discussions concerning the mechanism of organic evolution, a phenomenon I feel is no longer in progress

I have summarized my views in several papers especially in my 2005 paper “A Prescribed Evolutionary Hypothesis,” which present a viable alternative to the Darwinian mechanism. Naturally, a non Darwinian hypothesis is bound to create controversy and, as expected, my views have not been found to be acceptable to many members of the academic community.

It is in that regard that I want to call your attention to the manner in which I have been treated by a member of your faculty, Professor P.Z. Meyers, Associate Professor of Biology at the Morris campus. In my opinion his forum, ‘Pharyngula,” reflects poorly on his role as a university teacher and scholar. While I have been banned from participation in his forum he has introduced comments, some of them obscene, using my name as the source of said comments. I regard this as the bottom of the intellectual barrel and it is for that reason that I feel compelled to call the matter to your attention It is also a very serious breech of academic protocol and civil discourse. It is my conviction that Meyers should be, at the very least ,severely disciplined if not summarily dismissed based on his continued abuse of those with whom he disagrees. I am by no means the only one that he treats in such a manner His chronic, arrogant behavior reflects very poorly on what I have always regarded as a great University which by coincidence also happens to be my alma mater.

I remain, Sincerely yours,

John A. Davison, Professor Emeritus , University of Vermont

Hmmm. Let’s distill this down a bit.

First two paragraphs: “I am a famous internet crank and crackpot.”

Third paragraph: “P.Z. Meyers is being mean to me. Please fire him.”

http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2007/05/its_still_going_on.php

I was interviewed on a website over a month ago, and unfortunately John A. Davison and his infected polyp, VMartin, took over the comments there and went on and on in their ridiculous way.

http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2010/05/i_get_email_55.php

I was cleaning out my filtered junk mail folder, and what do I discover? Mail after mail after mail from a long-banned kook, the infamously idiotic John A. Davison. Davison’s is notoriously incompetent: this is the fellow who has created multiple blogs, each with one entry, which he closes when it gathers enough comments…most of which are from Davison himself. He also tends to get in long running battles in blog comments, all over his dismissal of evolution, which he regards as the most important battle in the history of mankind!!!. He has also reported me to my university provost.