# Jim Peebles, local idiot **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 7, 2020, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jim-peebles-local-idiot/849052 "2020-03-07T14:45:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![RitterSport](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rittersport/32/6326_2.png) [@RitterSport](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitterSport)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2020, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jim-peebles-local-idiot/849052/1 "2020-03-07T14:45:00Z")
First, he pushes some weird theory that coronavirus is no big deal and is really just that vaping disease that swept through the US a few months back: [https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=890706](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=890706) People tried to show him how many ways he was wrong, but he kept trudging right along with his ridiculous medical theory. While posters continued to give him the benefit of the doubt (just figured he was a stupid idiot), I’m pretty sure he was posting that as a loyal Trump ass-licker, trying to play down the seriousness of the disease so that the Trump administration’s inept response won’t seem quite so awful. Now, he’s pushing theories about light and particles that have been disproven for over a century: [https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=22175151&postcount=60](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=22175151&postcount=60) [https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=22176402&postcount=70](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=22176402&postcount=70) [https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=22176402&postcount=71](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=22176402&postcount=71) My favorite is when he “bets on ether”: > [@Local Idiot](#): > > Virtual particles are more ridiculous than ether. I am betting on ether. There is nothing wrong with the absolute reference frame that entails. Newton demonstrated that with his Bucket Argument, which you probably have the materials to try at home… I called him out in my idiotic Trump supporters thread, but I think his contributions to General Questions deserve their own thread. Question for the board: If someone is that wrong in GQ, is that reportable? It seems like a flat-earther coming into a GQ about whether the Earth is a perfect sphere or just an oblate spheroid (or whatever it is) should be banned from the thread. Since this is the pit, I should add: darn, shoot, dagnabbit! ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2020, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jim-peebles-local-idiot/849052/2 "2020-03-07T15:01:18Z")
Jim Peebles. Oh, right. A poster on the SDMB. I thought that you where talking about a Republican Senator. Pretty much the same I guess. I stopped giving any of them any consideration about 2 years ago. One moron is pretty much the same as another. ---
**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:** [March 7, 2020, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jim-peebles-local-idiot/849052/3 "2020-03-07T18:11:47Z")
> [@RitterSport](#): > > Question for the board: If someone is that wrong in GQ, is that reportable? It seems like a flat-earther coming into a GQ about whether the Earth is a perfect sphere or just an oblate spheroid (or whatever it is) should be banned from the thread. > > Since this is the pit, I should add: darn, shoot, dagnabbit! Based on my experience, if a person comes into a GQ thread that hasn’t received a real answer and pushes an ignorant guess or crazy pet theory that can be subject to warning. It’s like replying to a question with a joke; you wait until the answer is in the thread before getting silly. But I don’t think posting incorrect information in general is disallowed nor should it be. Fighting the ignorant is part of fighting ignorance. It’s helpful to see misinformation corrected in GQ. That’s one of its purposes. Of course if a person persists in pushing things after being told their views are flawed, that can be sanctioned. I’ve seen plenty of people banned from the site for that. It only comes after a pattern is established and they have ignored previous warnings. I’m no mod of course and the above is my opinion based on what I’ve seen here so I may be incorrect. Oh, and clearly Jim Peebles is a chronic fuckwit. Ether? Really? ---
**Author:** ![KarlGauss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karlgauss/32/3713_2.png) [@KarlGauss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGauss)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2020, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jim-peebles-local-idiot/849052/4 "2020-03-07T19:21:52Z")
The first time I saw his name, for a split second I thought it might be this Jim Peebles - [Jim Peebles - Wikipedia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Peebles) ---
**Author:** ![RitterSport](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rittersport/32/6326_2.png) [@RitterSport](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitterSport)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2020, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jim-peebles-local-idiot/849052/5 "2020-03-07T19:29:56Z")
> [@KarlGauss](#): > > The first time I saw his name, for a split second I thought it might be this Jim Peebles - [Jim Peebles - Wikipedia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Peebles) Well, the one you mention is an astrophysicists and so could be expected to reply to a thread about light moving. I suspect the physicist’s answer may be different from our local idiot’s. ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2020, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jim-peebles-local-idiot/849052/6 "2020-03-20T23:57:22Z")
I wonder if he still believes this. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2020, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jim-peebles-local-idiot/849052/7 "2020-03-26T02:01:26Z")
Holy fuck he’s stupid. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2020, 9:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jim-peebles-local-idiot/849052/8 "2020-03-26T09:44:04Z")
In [this fascinating thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=892537) he is disturbed that some state governors are clamping down on chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine (the subject of his OP) because as is well-known by now it’s a therapy of choice for Covid-19 (see his [Post #9](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=22210848#post22210848)). > [@Legality of Nevada malaria treatment ban](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/legality-of-nevada-malaria-treatment-ban/850247/9): > > I’m not worried about it [the virus], but one is considered a public health threat if one says that. I’m convinced the antimalarial drugs work (when combined with zinc and azithromycin), and on the off chance I get a serious case I would ask my doctor for it. I don’t see how it is legal for a governor to tell doctors they cant give antimalarials to patients with serious cases of coronavirus. ETA: I think there may be a Darwin Award awaiting, with this guy’s name on it. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2020, 11:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jim-peebles-local-idiot/849052/9 "2020-03-26T11:31:32Z")
Are we sure this isn’t just trolling? ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2020, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jim-peebles-local-idiot/849052/10 "2020-03-26T12:14:13Z")
What’s with all the right-wing idiots so concerned about Democratic Governors impinging on their “freedom” by trying to contain the epidemic? Are these the same idiots that oppose mandatory vaccines? If Gun & Ammo shops offered free delivery, would their objections to Stay-at-Home go away? ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2020, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jim-peebles-local-idiot/849052/11 "2020-03-26T12:35:50Z")
I wonder if his brain melts and flows out of his ears if somebody would try and explain the double slit experiment to him. ---
**Author:** ![RitterSport](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rittersport/32/6326_2.png) [@RitterSport](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitterSport)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2020, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jim-peebles-local-idiot/849052/12 "2020-03-26T12:49:38Z")
I came back her to post that thread that **Senegoid** posted. I have to say, **JP** is actually stupider than I gave him credit for. He’s not just an idiot, he’s a dangerous idiot. I know that people were stupidly accused of worshiping Obama back in the day, but this guy actually seems to hang on every word our Dr. Orange says. He firmly believes that that drug mixture works based on Trump’s say-so, from what I can tell. What a fucking idiot. Does he post non-idiotic things in Cafe Society or the Game Room? Or, is he all idiocy, all the time? ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2020, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jim-peebles-local-idiot/849052/13 "2020-03-26T14:15:21Z")
I dispute your labeling of **Jim Peebles** as a local idiot. Given the wonders of the Internet, he’s at least a national idiot. ---
**Author:** ![74westy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/74westy/32/3950_2.png) [@74westy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/74westy)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2020, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jim-peebles-local-idiot/849052/14 "2020-03-26T14:15:33Z")
> [@Ike\_Witt](#): > > I wonder if his brain melts and flows out of his ears if somebody would try and explain the double slit experiment to him. If you watch it only flows out of one ear but if you don’t watch, you can tell by the interference pattern that it flowed out of both ears simultaneously. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2020, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jim-peebles-local-idiot/849052/15 "2020-03-26T14:28:18Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > Holy fuck he’s stupid. > [@Senegoid](#): > > In [this fascinating thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=892537) he is disturbed that some state governors are clamping down on chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine (the subject of his OP) because as is well-known by now it’s a therapy of choice for Covid-19 (see his [Post #9](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=22210848#post22210848)). Aye; this is what prompted my post. That’s weapons-grade stupidity on display right there. ---
**Author:** ![RitterSport](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rittersport/32/6326_2.png) [@RitterSport](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitterSport)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2020, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jim-peebles-local-idiot/849052/16 "2020-03-26T14:29:27Z")
> [@El\_Kabong](#): > > I dispute your labeling of **Jim Peebles** as a local idiot. Given the wonders of the Internet, he’s at least a national idiot. It’s a fair cop. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2020, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jim-peebles-local-idiot/849052/17 "2020-03-26T14:48:29Z")
> [@74westy](#): > > If you watch it only flows out of one ear but if you don’t watch, you can tell by the interference pattern that it flowed out of both ears simultaneously. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2020, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jim-peebles-local-idiot/849052/18 "2020-03-26T14:55:37Z")
> [@El\_Kabong](#): > > I dispute your labeling of **Jim Peebles** as a local idiot. Given the wonders of the Internet, he’s at least a national idiot. It’s the **W** orld **W** ide **W** eb. He’s a _global_ idiot. Potentially viral. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2020, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jim-peebles-local-idiot/849052/19 "2020-03-26T16:16:36Z")
Well, as they say, we’re living in a global village, and every village has its idiot. ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2020, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jim-peebles-local-idiot/849052/20 "2020-04-06T17:04:30Z")
The moron is at it again. [https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=22232616&postcount=5](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=22232616&postcount=5) Apparently, he’s giving up on the COVID-19 = vaping idea, and is now on to another harebrained one. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jim-peebles-local-idiot/849052.md?page=2)