From TFA:

The university is going to let the crackpots say whatever they like, and then ignore them. Which is as it should be.

Yeah. All those smarty-pants scientists completely missed this.

Or it could be that brown-dwarf dark matter is inconsistent with what we know about primordial nucleosynthesis, plus it was searched for by gravitational microlensing experiments, and wasn't found.

Fine. Now please get back to us after you quantitatively calculate how this affects gravitational lensing by galaxies and clusters, and Cosmic Microwave Background acoustic oscillations. Also, we'll need a prediction for the two-point correlation function of galaxies, compared to the Sloan Digital Sky survey. If you want anybody to take you seriously, you will have to do these things at a minimum. The data are public.

The hard part is coming up with a theory that replaces GR. Simply asserting that GR is wrong is of no use to anybody.

Maybe. Maybe not. You seem awfully certain you understand what it isn't even though you don't appear to understand what it is.

It's cheap and easy to be dismissive without providing a viable alternative.

Why should he phrase it differently? There is a huge amount of evidence. As in, multiple, independent measurements that all point in exactly the same direction:

- Galactic rotation curves
- Gravitational lensing
- Cosmic Microwave Background acoustic oscillations
- Cluster baryon fractions from X-ray measurements
- Large-scale structure

All of these things require something like dark matter to make any sense at all.

Please substantiate this claim. There are lots of allegations out there of gifted programs in schools being applied in discriminatory ways (i.e. disproportionately available to white, upper-income students), but I can't find a single example of a gifted/talented program being shut down or even criticized because its existence was considered discriminatory against the non-gifted.

It's finally happened: whackjob libertarians have come full circle and are nicely in alignment with the Taliban.

Education is a civil right, which is why girls in fundamentalist Muslim societies are risking their lives to access it. Compulsory education doesn't violate children's civil rights, it ensures those rights, even if it is parents who want to deprive their own children of the right to an education. You have a right to be an ignorant asshole if you like. You do not have the right to force your own ignorance onto your children.

You're not allowed to crap on your desk, either.

If somebody asks you to stop doing something that makes them uncomfortable, the polite thing to do is stop doing it. It's pretty fucking simple.

Ah, ok. You pick "(b)" then.

Here's a quiz:

Q: An attractive young woman at your workplace tells you to quit staring at her like that, because it makes her uncomfortable. What is the correct response?

(a) Continue to stare at her tits until she complains to the boss and you get fired.
(b) Sulk back to your cube and post to the internet about how she deserved it because she was dressed like a whore.
(c) Spread rumors that she's been sleeping with one of her clients.
(d) Make a sincere effort to understand her point of view and treat her like a human being instead of a piece of meat.

Only one answer fully qualifies you as a human being instead of an entitled man-child who needs a good slap upside the head.

And I guess you're the person who gets to decide what's "dressing like a whore" and what isn't, right? Because what the world truly needs is you telling women how they are and are not allowed to dress.

Here's a hint: don't do it at work. Definitely don't do it at work if you are in a position of authority over the recipient.

See? It wasn't that hard, was it?