TrueEmpiricism
Basic Description
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</image> <group> <header>Information</header> <label>Gender</label> <label>Scientific Name</label> <label>Positions</label> <label>Debating Against</label> <label>Skills</label> <label>Links</label> </group> </infobox> Ronnie "TrueEmpiricism" Rodriquez, aka "Ron Ron the Magic Man" and Rocket Ronnie", is a self-professed creationist and is one of the foremost advocates of old Intelligent Design (ID) that was supported by Discovery Institute. Since 2010, he has engaged with various members of the Magic sandwich show: Thunderf00t, Aron Ra, DPR Jones, and HogTieChamp on the topic of evilution. He adamantly believes biological evolutionary theory inherently inferior to his proposed "theory." True is one of the "go-to" members of the Clown Car Posse for scientific information, although CCP members seem not to notice that he is as scientifically illiterate as they are. Not to mention the fact that he couldn't type a grammatically correct sentence to save his life. His method of constructing arguments seems to be to pick up a grade school level biology or chemistry textbook, memorize a few of the sciency-sounding words, and then string them together into sentences with no regard to their meaning or proper usage. True has built a reputation for himself over the years due to his astonishing lack of self-awareness and sheer dishonesty. Rarely do members of the GDC practice introspection but TE simply lacks the ability entirely. He's even gone as far as to claim that Alex Botten is a "hard solipsist" even though Botten was in the same hangout exclaiming the contrary. This hangout became known as the "Inner solipsism of solipsism" in reference to a quote made by TE towards Botten.[1] His hangouts are typically rife with equal amounts of self-aggrandizement and general scientific illiteracy. Ironically enough, he bemoans the "evolutionists" who "know nothing about science" whilst making egregious scientific claims himself. Upon allowing dissenters to join his hangouts he promptly hides them from broadcast and/or keeps their volumes muted. Most have figured out that this is something he does to control the conversation when he cannot respond to the claims being made and it a defensive tactic to save face. He's since stopped allowing dissenters to join his hangouts for fear of future criticism for this "habit." True has a love/hate relationship with Sam the Scientist and Dragnauct. Many have speculated that he is both jealous and envious of both individuals but harbors more anger towards Dragnauct because of his constant chiding. True keeps a running record of when he has "corrected" both Sam and Dragnauct and uses it in conversation as some form of leverage when criticism is levied against him. While both individuals have acknowledged that he (True) has accurately depicted some scientific phenomena, they are in accord with the assessment that True has very little overall knowledge in the field of biology but simply puts on airs as if he does.
Debate Techniques
- Coughing: This tactic is generally used to provide time to read scripts and webpages while trying to talk without producing pauses in the conversation.
- Considers the usage of Powerpoint to be a factor to losing the debate
- Hides his models. No model will be presented in debates to support own assertions. Why? because fuck it that's why.
Super Powers
- Dunning-Krueger Zen Master
- Black belt in Psychological Projection
- Ability to focus only on his own thoughts while not listening to the conversation (also known as the LALALALA technique...widely used by members of the CCP)
- Ability to master Bio 100, Chem 1&2, Orgo 1&2 and Physics 1&2 without prior knowledge on topics
- Ability to see motors and turbines
Awards
- Winner of the 2017 Dumbfuck of the Year contest run by Reds Rhetoric, with a staggering 839 votes.
Famous Quotes
"Just because I'm not a scientist, that doesn't mean I'm not an idiot."
"The inner solipsism of solipsism".
"Scientists sometimes use water in their aqueous solutions" [Someone please find the exact quote]
Once tried to calculate "the circumference of the diameter of pi"
Might be suffering from
- Massive case of butthurtitis
- Shows symptoms of recto-cranial inversion
- Suffers from delusions of reality, inflated ego, inability to listen and learn. Regularly convinced to know more on topics than MDs, PhDs and various professor or members of the academia.
Things to annotate
Thinks oxygen gives up four electrons to become oxidized rather than become reduced in complex IV of the Electron Transport Chain.
Claims DNA degrades in water such that if DNA goes into solution it "falls apart like tissue paper" and "breaks apart into it's constituent parts" and "loses its sequence".
Claims DNA is "sekwanchal specified information" (whatever that means), and that this is definitive proof of the Biblical God. Somehow. Because reasons.
Claims not to be a Young Earth Creationist, but uses Young Earth Creationist arguments.
Thinks 2000°C water can stay liquid at atmospheric pressure.
Has rage quit YouTube/ G+ more times than Brett Keane has.
Left in the middle of debate with Steve McRae before the Q-and-A.
TrueEmpricism did so bad in his debate with Steve McRae that Jesus was so embarrassed by it that he said that his sacrifice no longer covers TrueEmpiricism's sins.
TrueEmpricism is the only person known to have rage quit two of his own one man hangouts twice in the same evening.
Famous for his "inner solipsism of solipsism".
Really doesn't grasp the DMCA, causing him to run afoul of the YT rules.
Agreed live on air that birds fly by farting across the sky.
In a discussion on the League of Reason he claimed that DNA was a 4 character code just like computer code. Yes apparently binary code has 4 characters. He later tried to edit that page but was caught out by Fiona Robertson who notified the League of Reason and they restored the original which can be found here:
http://theleagueofreason.co.uk/viewtopic.php?p=152950#p152950
It was noted on last online/hangout debate between Steve McRae and TE that TE had no scientific model that could fight side by side, toe by toe, head by head and science by science to the powerful explanation of the Theory of Evolution (ToE) - a powerful battleship for Steve. This scientific weakness from Ronnie (TE) had caused Ronnie to lose his credibility to debate in science in where science deals with models. But Ronnie's attempt to show the errors of ToE from the perspective of the old ID is notable. - from MrIntelligentDesign
Typical example of Ronnie's incoherent babble: http://i.imgur.com/VXaRUO4.gifv
References
- ↑ 1 Alex Botten
