VenusPrincess has been banned for continued breaking of the rules on civility and bad faith arguments. 

OneWorldOneNumber banned as a sockpuppet of CuriosOne

Bill McC has been suspended for soapboxing. So...much...soapboxing

(the fact that many of the unsupported claims can’t be supported owing to being utterly wrong is not a loophole)

Prof Reza Sanaye has been banned for continuing to hijack threads and argue in bad faith

IDNeon has been banned because, good grief, they wouldn’t leave it alone.

Repeated personal attacks, thread hijacking and soapboxing. Over and over again, without much science to dilute the crap.

Sargon Torchrise has been banned as a sockpuppet of an existing account.

Tom Booth suspended for repeatedly bringing up a discussion that was locked, despite multiple warnings.

John2020 has been suspended for 3 days for soapboxing and insisting on commercial links.

RichardReMark has been banned for repeated hijacks and trolling

John2020 has been banned as a sockpuppet of Ioannis

robbin66 has been banned as a sockpuppet of bearnard44 and bear33

AlexandrKushnirtshuk has been banned for repeated soapboxing. Frequency doesn't improve error.

Bond777 banned as a sockpuppet of Moreno

Anand_Haqq has been suspended for 3 days for continued soapboxing after being warned. This is a discussion forum. It's more like conversing with each other around a table. Stop jumping on top of it and preaching at us, please.

PrimalMinister has been suspended for dredging up a topic they were told to avoid.

But we will give them one more chance to make their case.

Andrew William Henderson has been suspended for repeated and blatant soapboxing and failing to argue in good faith.

MerieuxMarylandPfeifield has been banned for serial hijacking and ignoring the rules. Good discussion requires more rigor and less peeing on the furniture.

Holmes is suspended for three days.

And now Holmes has been banned, obviously at the limits of their reasoning abilities. We wish them luck elsewhere.

Alex Mercer has been suspended for a month for an unforgivable violation of our civility rules. If he comes back, he'll be in the mod queue.

Anand_Haqq has been banned for avoiding science, soapboxing, and hijacking threads, all behavior that is anathema to a science discussion forum.

philo2001 banned as a sockpuppet of altaylar2000

fredreload has been banned for repeated bad faith arguments and soapboxing 

jayb has been suspended for a month for foul posting. Civility is required here.

On 8/28/2021 at 11:14 AM, Phi for All said:

jayb has been suspended for a month for foul posting. Civility is required here.

This has been upgraded to a permanent ban.

EldadEshel banned as a sock puppet of Eldad Eshel and Eldad Eshel 2