# 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:** 6\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2020, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jim-peebles-local-idiot/849052/61 "2020-04-11T20:59:08Z")
> [@RitterSport](#): > > At this point, it’s just potentially dangerous misinformation. I wish a moderator would step in. > > I like when someone asked him for a peer-reviewed cite so he links to an ABC-TV segment. > > Is his behavior reportable at this point? If someone was urging people to drink Clorox to cure the disease, would the mods shut them down? It depends on what he means by \*curing \*the disease. You could argue that after drinking Clorox you don’t have any disease anymore. Your problems are solved. Forever. Something he could heed by preaching by example… 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2020, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jim-peebles-local-idiot/849052/62 "2020-04-17T16:39:25Z")
[I had a feeling they were waiting until he returned to the thread.](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=22254571&postcount=113) ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2020, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jim-peebles-local-idiot/849052/63 "2020-04-17T16:45:30Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > I would never have thought to open a thread on a subjunctive. Why would anyone? (Was that an auto-correct innovation?) I’d be surprised if anyone was to do that. ---
**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:** [April 17, 2020, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jim-peebles-local-idiot/849052/64 "2020-04-17T16:50:06Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > [I had a feeling they were waiting until he returned to the thread.](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=22254571&postcount=113) Yeah, well-earned warning there. A couple more of those and **Miller** will have to come by and close this one down. ---
**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:** [April 17, 2020, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jim-peebles-local-idiot/849052/65 "2020-04-17T19:17:17Z")
Mr. Peebles will probably start getting busier in the coming months going door-to-door campaigning for Trump, so we may start hearing less from him about magical cures. Maybe he can hand out pamphlets on COVID cures along with the Trump propaganda. The slack-jawed imbeciles who take the latter will undoubtedly be impressed as all hell by the former. Expect a shortage of aquarium cleaners and zinc. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2020, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jim-peebles-local-idiot/849052/66 "2020-04-17T22:34:22Z")
> [@Ludovic](#): > > I’d be surprised if anyone was to do that. I like what you did there. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jim-peebles-local-idiot/849052.md?page=3)