# I pit DrDeth **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 28, 2021, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971 "2021-02-28T19:52:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 123
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2025, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/2445 "2025-06-12T15:18:26Z")
> [@EinsteinsHund](#): > > I won’t be too harsh on him, because I think he’s a hopeless, cynical drunk, and I rather feel sorry for him. Agreed. And he generally moves on after the drive-by posts, so this is a minor annoyance compared to the people on my (blissfully short) ignore list who are tenacious about being jerks. ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2025, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/2446 "2025-06-12T18:29:02Z")
Thanks. I dismissed his claims very curtly, without even going into why they’re pseudoscience, because I have a certain brittleness of character than does not suffer fools gladly. I could have done better detailing of how exactly they’re wrong. Like, there are graves north of the Caucasus of folks who’d migrated from south of the range. This is presented as evidence that the Aryan languages migrated north from India to Russia. Hello, skeletons don’t speak languages. The graves say absolutely nothing on the question of IE migrations. There was not a whit of context cited for these graves. In the cited paper, the context makes it clear that the migrants were part of the well-known Anatolian farmer expansion, which was _not_ IE. That’s the level of crap those articles deal in. The Indigenous Aryan Theory was definitively exploded in 2018, with the DNA from Rakhigarhi showing that the Indus Valley Civilization excluded the possibility of Indo-Aryan presence at that time. Some indigenous Aryanists had the chutzpah to claim that Rakhigarhi proved the exact opposite, so they’ve been laughed into oblivion. I could have picked apart those flimsy claims one by one, but the topic ban has been imposed in that thread now. I’m ready if he tries to start it again. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2025, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/2447 "2025-06-12T19:00:13Z")
> [@Johanna](#): > > Like, there are graves north of the Caucasus of folks who’d migrated from south of the range. This is presented as evidence that the Aryan languages migrated north from India to Russia. Hello, skeletons don’t speak languages And when skeletons _do_ speak, it’s time to _run_. ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2025, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/2448 "2025-06-12T19:44:35Z")
Especially the lost ones from Cadavera! ---
**Author:** ![ASL\_v2.0](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asl_v2.0/32/3525_2.png) [@ASL\_v2.0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASL_v2.0)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2025, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/2449 "2025-06-12T21:59:54Z")
> [@TokyoBayer](#): > > And once he gets something in his head, he can never let it go. So you’re saying **DrDeth** with an idea is like a dog with a bone? ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2025, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/2450 "2025-06-12T22:58:53Z")
In this case, he latched on the word “hypothesized” in the PIE article - and decided it meant that PIE was a hypothesis. It has been hypothesized that Dr Deth isn’t as bad as he seems - which means that his existence is just a theory and he might not exist. ---
**Author:** ![Dissonance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/85f322/32.png) [@Dissonance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dissonance)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2025, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/2451 "2025-06-12T23:09:12Z")
> [@madmonk28](#): > > He’s gives off that vibe of a guy who worships his father, but the father is an asshole. Like the character Corey Feldman played in Stand By Me. It’s sad. You could very well be right. My only caution would be that the only source we have for all of these fantastical, and demonstrably untrue stories about his father come from DrDerp himself. Who deliberately and compulsively lies and misrepresents facts, cites, himself and other posters all the time. So, there’s really no way to know if his father is as much of a lying asshole as he is, or if DrDerp is just being a lying asshole about what he alleges his father told him and his father is a perfectly decent human being. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2025, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/2452 "2025-06-12T23:24:19Z")
> [@Dissonance](#): > > and his father is a perfectly decent human being. Who only failed in upbringing his son… ---
**Author:** ![ASL\_v2.0](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asl_v2.0/32/3525_2.png) [@ASL\_v2.0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASL_v2.0)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2025, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/2453 "2025-06-12T23:32:54Z")
> [@Andy\_L](#): > > It has been hypothesized that Dr Deth isn’t as bad as he seems - which means that his existence is just a theory and he might not exist. Once, while going through a particularly rough patch in my deployment to Iraq, I began to hypothesize that _I_ did not exist. But what kind of sick mind would conjure up the likes of **DrDeth** to bedevil it? In short, **DrDeth** must exist, or else I have gone well and truly insane. Well, either I have, or you have (if it turns out that I also am only a figment of your imagination). ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2025, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/2454 "2025-06-12T23:36:19Z")
> [@ASL\_v2.0](#): > > > [@TokyoBayer](#): > > > > And once he gets something in his head, he can never let it go. > > So you’re saying **DrDeth** with an idea is like a dog with a bone? It’s more like a compulsion to roll in rotting carcasses of bad ideas. ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2025, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/2455 "2025-06-12T23:41:11Z")
> [@Dissonance](#): > > You could very well be right. My only caution would be that the only source we have for all of these fantastical, and demonstrably untrue stories about his father come from DrDerp himself. My guess is his dad did a number on him, including feeding him a bunch of BS. ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2025, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/2456 "2025-06-13T00:00:28Z")
> [@ASL\_v2.0](#): > > > [@TokyoBayer](#): > > > > And once he gets something in his head, he can never let it go. > > So you’re saying **DrDeth** with an idea is like a dog with a bone? Although it’s rather insulting to dogs, I would say that’s an apt analogy. On the advice of a trainer, I taught my dog to sit while his dinner dish was doled out. He would sometimes literally salivate from the aroma of a hot stew or sausage, but would dutifully sit until called. He would also calmly take bites out of a hamburger while I held it. But give that dog a juicy beef bone, and he’d snatch it right out of my hand and run out into the back yard with it. You could not part that dog from that bone to save your life. That is Dr Dipshit on certain subjects – pretty much all subjects, actually, but it’s gun debates where he really drives me nuts. ---
**Author:** ![TroutMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troutman/32/6721_2.png) [@TroutMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroutMan)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2025, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/2457 "2025-06-13T00:29:14Z")
You know, many of us were making the point earlier that we weren’t insulting his dad, we were insulting DrDeth. Maybe we could go back to that. ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2025, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/2458 "2025-06-13T14:47:08Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > Right now the only poster I have on permanent ignore is @Gatopescado, who is incurably ignorant and incessantly hostile > [@Charlie\_Tan](#): > > I’ve only ever seen him doing drive-by snide posts. Yeah, I don’t recall Gatopescado ever making a hostile post; just, as C\_T says, the jokey one-liner drive-by posts. If he was ever hostile or mean-spirited, I missed it. Plus, we both have a love / hate relationship with Jeeps, so I feel a bit of a kinship with him there. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2025, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/2459 "2025-06-13T21:49:47Z")
> [@solost](#): > > Yeah, I don’t recall Gatopescado ever making a hostile post; just, as C\_T says, the jokey one-liner drive-by posts. If he was ever hostile or mean-spirited, I missed it. Agreed. The only time I noticed him being hostile was while gallantly and seemingly drunkenly defending the honor of his crush here. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2025, 8:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/2460 "2025-06-14T08:53:02Z")
I didn’t have **DrDerp** defending fascist ICE thugs on my bingo card, but I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised. After all, federal law enforcement agents stick together. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2025, 9:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/2461 "2025-06-14T09:15:09Z")
Personally, I want to thank him for giving us the opportunity to point out the ways the Nazis were actually _superior_ to ICE agents. ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2025, 11:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/2462 "2025-06-14T11:26:15Z")
> [@Cervaise](#): > > I didn’t have **DrDerp** defending fascist ICE thugs on my bingo card, but I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised. Yeah, for all his faults, I never thought he was a fascist, it was his one redeeming quality before this. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2025, 11:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/2463 "2025-06-14T11:53:25Z")
Huh? What thread? ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2025, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-drdeth/933971/2464 "2025-06-14T12:04:08Z")
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