Daniel Peterson wrote:Really minor league stuff, but (in order to illustrate the kind of fantasies that are routinely spun about me in certain places) I've just learned on Dr. Shades's Obsession Board that I fled in terror yesterday from a poster here who called herself "Refuge" and, in desperation, had her banned. I've also discovered that I personally deleted a number of posts from "Refuge" so as to prevent her from getting in touch with another poster (a wonderful, kindly person of the type that I allegedly cannot abide).
Zounds! Why can't he just let it go? After all, she was banned! If he wants to talk things over, why not come over here, where he's just as welcome as everyone else? Anyways, in the second part of his post, he took the opportunity to take a pot-shot at Rollo and myself:
Daniel Peterson wrote:None of this has even the slightest relationship to reality. (For what it's worth, too, the Mormons here [as elsewhere] are racists, hypocrites, and incapable of thinking.) But it will be well received on Dr. Shades's Obsession Board, where, for example, I'm continually and falsely depicted by two of the most vocal posters as a leading orchestrator -- self-admitted, no less! -- of a vicious and unethical (and wholly imaginary) smear campaign against the former LDS historian Mike Quinn. Ironically, these two post under pseudonyms.
There's nothing "imaginary" about it, I'm afraid. A simple search of the MAD archives will turn up DCP's numerous attacks on Quinn's scholarship, and his moral fiber. Obviously, the Good Professor dislikes us talking about this because it is an example of his sins being exposed to the light of day.