#40943: Steve — 09/21  at  02:16 PM
I'm a lurker... and actually your blog is one of my favorites. I check it right after Sadly, No! every morning. And in between classes. And once I get my wireless card working, during classes. I don't comment because... well I rarely have anything else to add to the discussion beyond "great post!" or "excellent point" or "omfg u pwned them!" or somesuch.

#40944: — 09/21  at  02:17 PM
Hello. I found you through Sadly, No! I love your blog, but I never comment because I don't usually have anything to add to the discussion and because I'm really shy. I wish I could have read this when I had to take science in school; I would not have been bored into hating it.

#40945: — 09/21  at  02:19 PM
Hälsningar från Sverige (hi from Sweden)

#40946: — 09/21  at  02:21 PM
Got here about a month ago via some forgotten reference and was hooked straight away. British; academia/publishing; enjoy this blog for its combination of high information & entertainment content with very low bullshit tolerance.

#40947: HP — 09/21  at  02:21 PM
I occasionally comment, and then almost immediately regret it -- I'm too long-winded, and usually come way late into a thread. I'm a technical writer, a jazz musician, and a freethinker. I love the science posts and the unabashed, unapologetic atheism. I sometimes skim over the anti-creationist posts, because frankly, while I'm forever grateful that you do it, how many times can I read the same damn thing?

#40948: — 09/21  at  02:24 PM
Long-time lurker. Middle-aged public interest lawyer representing people with HIV in Chicago. Proud member of the reality-based community. Appreciative reader.

#40950: — 09/21  at  02:26 PM
I've only been visiting the site since I saw your URL in Liberal Oasis, around the time the Kansas Board of Education fiasco. I'm a plant biogeographer, who fell a little short of a Ph D., work for the state of California addressing hazardous waste, and am trying to keep my atheist, materialist 13 year old geologist son on the planet and thinking long enough to get to the university where his point of view is more acceptable.

I was involved with the creationist crap at my school back in the late 1980's. Things don't seem to have changed.

#40951: — 09/21  at  02:27 PM
I am kind of a lurker, I've made a few innocuous comments here and there. I came over from Orac's blog -- who I often encountered on Usenet over the past few years.

After the unfortunate frog incident with the sadistic lab partner in 7th grade science, I avoided biology in school (I talked the high school counselor to into letting me skip 10th grade biology, so that I could take chemistry instead, and physics in 11th grade... because I intended, and did graduate a year early). I have a degree in aerospace engineering with a structures emphasis... But since having children, including one with special needs, I've been playing biology catch-up.

#40952: Reluctant Cannibal — 09/21  at  02:27 PM
UK Lurker here. Daily Pharyngula reader. Mostly I would just say "me too", so I don't say much. I lived in the US for a few years, and I find the political dimension of the Creationist movement fascinating and horrifying.

#40953: buck — 09/21  at  02:28 PM
hiya dr.myers

have been a lurker at pharyngula for about a year now.

i am from india. i came to the US 7 yrs back to pursue a masters program in engineering. i have lived here since. currently, i live in florida.

i check ur site several times daily, considering ur high posting frequency. i enjoy ur "brutal" style of writing
i also enjoy the high-quality comments ur posts elicit.

i remain silent coz doing otherwise would add to the "noise" component of the signal/noise ratio here.

#40954: Fuzzy — 09/21  at  02:28 PM
Eep. Hiya. Back to lurking.

#40955: — 09/21  at  02:34 PM
canadian, who's never felt the need to post since someone usually says what i want to say first. excellent blog though...a daily read.
oh, and the pirate thing was great.

#40956: — 09/21  at  02:35 PM
Yes, I am a lurker - sometime poster, mostly affirmations of your thoughts. Got on to your site through John Hawks, and to his site through my continuing interest in Anthro, which was my major in college, way back in the 70's. Got into retail sales after school, never looked back and now into marketing, which gives me time to read your site a couple times a day.

I leave it to you and your more eloquent and studied posters to make sure the IDiots don't get carried away, and carry away our country. Thanks for all the work on your site!

#40957: — 09/21  at  02:36 PM
I don't remember how I found this blog, but I've been reading it daily for over a year. I sometimes spend so much time reading that I'm forced to admire the time you must spend writing it and keeping up with the comments.

I dropped out of the highly regarded genetics program at the UW after two years. I still like biology. Sorry that I couldn't get off my butt to meet up with you in New York.

#40958: — 09/21  at  02:37 PM
Alright I guess since you twisted my arm. My brother "the Pooflinger" (pooflingers.blogspot.com) sent me your way and now I check it all the time. BTW if anyone's interested, his site has some pretty pictures of my severely sprained ankle. You should check them out.

#40959: — 09/21  at  02:37 PM
Arrr PZ, ye scurvey dog!
I've commented a couple of times, but generally lurk. I love your acid touch. I*think* I came here from OGM, but it might have been BoingBoing.
40-something IT consultant from New Zealand, tired of the crap organised religion makes of the world.

mark

#40960: — 09/21  at  02:41 PM
Hey PZ. Computer guy by occupation, biologist by training. I've been reading your blog (and associated links) for the last 5 months or so. Keep up the good work.

#40962: — 09/21  at  02:43 PM
Hi there! I suppose I count as a lurker, since I've only commented a couple of times. As someone who recently obtained a master's degree in evolutionary biology I am awed by your ability to combine the normal requirements of academia (keeping on top of your professional teaching duties, research, and staying current in pertinent literature) with reading widely from the biology and philosophy blogging community and posting multiple times a day. You must never sleep. But I appreciate it. I've been coming to your site a couple of times a day for the last year and have come to depend on you as a secondary net helping ensnare the coolest stuff from the vast oceans of cyberspace. Thanks a lot!

#40963: — 09/21  at  02:44 PM
Hey! I was turned on to your blog by surfing for anti-Creationist websites. I am a PhD. student in biological anthropology and an instructor for Forensic Anthropology at my institution. I just like to lurk to find responses to questions my students ask me about evolution in non-human animals and other biological questions that are not directly biological anthropology because my knowledge deals almost exclusively with hominids and other primates rather than general biological information.

#40964: — 09/21  at  02:45 PM
Good evening from a lurker from across the water! I'm a scientific editor with a pretty strong (PhD) level biology background, but I've been left floundering for cogent argument at times as creationism begins to creep into UK schools. My son is now 17, studying biology, and I need all the ammunition possible to help him stand up and say that ID is barely worth dignifying with the term 'bad science': it just isn't science. Thanks to you and many fellow US bloggers for convincing me that there's still plenty of sanity in the States and people willing to voice these beliefs stridently.

#40965: — 09/21  at  02:45 PM
Thanks - I'm a daily reader. I'm a Canadian MD, with a background in physics. We share similar politics, and a disdain of religion, especially organized religion.

Truly enjoy your synopses of major biological concepts; and your sharp rebuttals of creationist arguments.

#40966: hellbender — 09/21  at  02:47 PM
Read it every day ...
John Stone
Microbiology/Genetics

http://curbstonecritic.blogspot.com/

#40967: PZ Myers — 09/21  at  02:49 PM
Errm, wow. I put up this little blurb, go off to teach a class (well, the students taught it this time. Neuronal migration, very cool), and when I come back I find so many comments I thought I was under a spam attack.

There is much pent up expression here. Comment more, people!

#40968: — 09/21  at  02:49 PM
Hi. I also lurk at UW Milwaukee as a physics grad student. I read four blogs right now, every single one of which celebrated International Talk Like a Pirate Day, including a physics blog, a comedian's blog, and a gal living in Paris.

#40969: — 09/21  at  02:50 PM
I've been lurking your site for the past few months. I work in corporate IT, but my initial interests as a child were astronomy first and paleontology second. A woeful science curriculum in high school (woeful because of its emphasis on public exam competency rather than fundamental ideas which stimulate the mind) weaned me from these interests and my tertiary interest, personal computers, took over. I have spent the past few years re-acquainting myself with my childhood interests, and I appreciate your ability to present information about the biological sciences in a format understandable by non-experts such as myself.