# Why are the moderators here biased and intellectually dishonest?

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**Created:** [July 1, 2010, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-the-moderators-here-biased-and-intellectually-dishonest/545149 "2010-07-01T02:37:02Z")
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### Author: ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)
#### Post date: [July 1, 2010, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-the-moderators-here-biased-and-intellectually-dishonest/545149/73 "2010-07-01T15:05:45Z")

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> [@lekatt](#):
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> Posting a video does not imply it is research

Here’s what **tomndebb** actually said when he moderated your posts:

> [@Believers: Why are you so sure of your beliefs?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/believers-why-are-you-so-sure-of-your-beliefs/543965/203):
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> This is a direct violation of the instructions you have received to refrain from pointing to your blog, particularly when claiming to be addressing scientific issues, when your blog page provides neither science nor links to scientific papers on the topic.
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> You are again Warned that your behavior is inappropriate.

He did not use the word research or say you implied it is research. He said you claimed it addressed a scientific issue, which you definitely did. I should have used the same wording, but I simplified it to “research.” The issue is not that you claimed the videos were research as if they were published and peer-reviewed. It’s that you have been told many, many times not to link to your blog, and that you are not to state that you’re addressing scientific issues when you aren’t. You violated those rules by linking to videos on your blog, and by making the statements I quoted, which clearly were supposed to pass off these videos as legit science.

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