'Darwin, by repeating the idea that no naturalist read or noticed Matthew's book, repeated a self-serving statement that he knew to be factually incorrect, because Matthew himself had pointed this out. These facts are not in dispute. Sutton describes these facts by saying it is "100% proved" that Darwin "lied".In the cited web site, the case made by author Mike Weale is entirely based on quibbling about "lied" and "100 % proved", while bending over backward to give His Holiness Charles Darwin the benefit of the doubt. According to Weale, when His Infallible Holiness Charles Darwin says that "nobody read it", we must interpret this as the kind of harmless exaggeration that occurs every day-- of course His Holiness must have known that the book would have been read by *someone*, so obviously he wasn't intending to be taken literally (*). To accuse his holiness of "lying" would be to impute deception, which cannot be proved "100 %" because it requires an inference of motives (according to Weale).Thus, Weale's case against Sutton rests on the same kind of scholarly double standard that we are now accustomed to seeing: (1) insisting on a literal interpretation of a rhetorically loaded version of Sutton's argument, while Darwin gets off easy precisely because Weale *refuses to hold Darwin to a literal interpretation*, and (2) insisting that Sutton can't rely on inferences or touch on the issue of intentions by invoking "lied", while Weale is free to defend Darwin precisely by appeal to inferences about Darwin's knowledge and motives (sentence above with *). '

Supermyths are myths about myths that are created and compounded by experts, spread by pseudo-skeptics and destroyed by evidence. Braced myths are a sub-type of supermyth, created by orthodox expert authorities that are so powerful they are believed to be true by respected scholars who unwittingly promote them as examples of the need to be healthily sceptical of counterknowledge and then, with unintended irony, use them as argument winners to refute other fallacious knowledge.
The Dysology Hypothesis
Saturday, 13 August 2016
Irony of Cranks in Science
Friday, 10 June 2016
The Guardian on my Spinach Supermyth Bust
I'm very pleased to see my Spinach mythbust is cited with a link to it in the Guardian today https://t.co/SKuHFTQYWX pic.twitter.com/JNlJIn1x1c
— Dr Mike Sutton (@Dysology) June 10, 2016
Monday, 16 May 2016
Thursday, 28 April 2016
Busting the Mythbusters
Delighted to see objective investigative journalists in hot pursuit of my Supermythbusting: https://t.co/9YYuGFQIR6 pic.twitter.com/pRVP47T91x
— Supermythbuster (@supermyths) April 28, 2016
Wednesday, 29 July 2015
Hey Royal Society: So Where's My Darwin Medal?
The Royal Society is Nought but a Darwin and Wallace Glee Club!

Sir Gavin de Beer (FRS) wrote in the Wilkins Lecture for the Royal Society (de Beer 1962 on page 333):
What the expert Royal Society member Sir Gavin Rylands de Beer, British evolutionary embryologist, Director of the British Museum (Natural History), President of the Linnean Society, and receiver of the Royal Society's Darwin Medal for his studies on evolution
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The book that re-wrote the history of the discovery of natural selection |
So where's my Darwin Medal for being proven a better scholar than de Beer on his own subject?
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Royal Society Darwin Medal |
Tuesday, 21 July 2015
Professor Donald Forsdyke on the Patrick Matthew Supermyth
The Throstles are Coming Home to Roost!
On Mike Weale's Patrick Matthew Project, Forsdyke's research reveals additional evidence that
confirms Darwin plagiarized Patrick Matthew's prior publication of the theory of natural selection.
More on the Patrick Matthew Supermyth here.
Read all the evidence in Nullius,