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Crown Sterling is a crank company that exists at the intersection of pseudoscience (numerology, Pythagoreanism, snake oil cryptography), and New Age occultism (including, but not limited to, pyramidology). It is a subsidiary of Strathspey Crown, both of which were founded by Robert Edward Grant.
The company has presented several fraudulent claims about being able to break cryptographic algorithms, and peddled cryptographic snake oil products such as a cryptocurrency and a messaging app.
The beginnings of Crown Sterling revolve around the 24-sector dartboard of quasi-primes, that the company's CEO, Robert Edward Grant, has been rehashing ever since he uploaded his PDF "Prime Number Pattern Associated with Icositetragons" online on June 6, 2018.
#RationalWiki #crownsterling #pseudomathematics #cryptocurrency #quantumwoo #RobertEdwardGrant
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Cultural Marxism generally refers to one of two things:
1. Extremely rarely in popular discourse — "cultural Marxism" (lower C, upper M) refers to a strain of critique of popular culture by the Frankfurt School, framing such culture as being imposed by a capitalist culture industry and consumed passively by the masses.
2. In common usage in the wild — "Cultural Marxism" (both uppercase) is a common snarl word used to paint anyone with progressive tendencies as a secret Communist. The term alludes to a #conspiracy theory in which sinister left-wingers have infiltrated media, academia, and science, and are engaged in a decades-long plot to undermine Western culture. Some variants of the conspiracy allege that basically all of modern social #liberalism is, in fact, a communist front group.
#RationalWiki #culturalmarxism #redbaiting #communism #antisemitism https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Cultural_Marxism
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Crown Sterling is a crank company that exists at the intersection of pseudoscience (numerology, Pythagoreanism, snake oil cryptography), and New Age occultism (including, but not limited to, pyramidology). It is a subsidiary of Strathspey Crown, both of which were founded by Robert Edward Grant.
The company has presented several fraudulent claims about being able to break cryptographic algorithms, and peddled cryptographic snake oil products such as a cryptocurrency and a messaging app.
#RationalWiki #crownsterling #Strathspeycrown #scams #robertedwardgrant #cryptocurrency #quantumwoo #pseudomathematics
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Cedarville University is an independent Baptist school located in #Cedarville, #Ohio, which teaches its academics "by Christian tradition" — meaning, believing that their take on religion is the only right view, that free speech is a no-no, that gays are evil, that evolution is religion and creationism is science, that the Bible is a history textbook and that any TV show/movie/video game/book they don't like is sinful. The school teaches Young Earth Creationism and complementarian gender roles and requires students to take a minor in Bible studies regardless of their major.
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The Carnivore diet (also known as the meat only or zero-carb diet) is a pseudoscientific fad diet popular on social media platforms such as Twitter and YouTube. You can only eat meat on the diet and you have to dogmatically avoid all carbohydrates, fruits, and vegetables because they are apparently evil.
The carnivore diet has been condemned by medical experts as dangerous and unscientific; any supposed benefits are based on anecdotal evidence. Eating only meat deprives the body of necessary nutrients and causes vitamin deficiencies. The carnivore diet is in direct opposition to science by condemning the consumption of all vegetables. Most advocates of the carnivore diet end up giving it up as it is not sustainable long-term. There is strong evidence that diets high in red meat increase risk of colorectal cancer.
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Kirk Cameron is an American washed-up former child television star, who, like many such former child stars, has grown up to become a dysfunctional adult. However, while many merely become addicted to drugs or went on to do porn, Cameron found a much more dire fate being a hope dope dealer (televangelist), Biblical literalist, and worst of all, Ray Comfort's sidekick.
Cameron claims he used to be an atheist. Assuming that is true, it's not likely his atheism was well thought out as he claims to have become a saved Christian at age 17.
#RationalWiki #KirkCameron #biblicalliteralism #televangelist #film
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L. Brent Bozell III is a conservative Catholic Christian scold, self-styled "media watchdog" and all-around hatemonger. The nephew of leading conservative pundit William F. Buckley, he makes his uncle look like a revolutionary socialist by comparison.
Bozo Bozell is the mind (such as there is one) behind the Parents Television Council, the Media Research Center and NewsBusters.com. Bozell also claims to have coined the term "media bias". Most bloggers take no real notice of him, noting that he is a "right-wing conveyor belt of attacks on the press" that is "often loopy and fact-free... usually not worth rebutting in detail."
#RationalWiki #hatespeech #brentbozell #bozell #homophobes #bigotry #conspiracytheories
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#Bloodletting is a formerly widespread medical treatment. It is famous as one of the most common treatments of prescientific humoristic medicine, which postulated that disease was caused by imbalance of the body's humors: black bile, yellow bile, blood, and phlegm. If a person had a disease which indicated too much blood, bloodletting was used to correct the problem. Bloodletting was even thought to be a cure for anaemia.
Bloodletting has a long, venerable history of use in traditional and pre-scientific medicine as a panacea of sorts, and patients liked it so much, they had to be convinced not to be bled. As such, it should come as no surprise that general-purpose bloodletting is still used in alternative medicine as part of #Unani, #Ayurveda, and traditional Chinese medicine. One naturopathic textbook lists all three of these systems as being acceptable bases for naturopathic practice.
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There is debate among Christians about how The Bible should be best interpreted.
Biblical literalism is the theological view held by one group of Christians that one should regard the contents of the Bible as literally true and "inerrant". The text is not (according to this view) to be interpreted as allegory, or mythology, and is without fault in its claims, unimpeachably true in all matters. Literalism provides the bedrock for several different pseudoscientific positions, such as young-Earth creationism, deluge theory, geocentrism, and flat-Earthism. Biblical literalism, as applied in history, has also justified slavery, as well as bolstering racial segregation, Jim Crow laws, and Apartheid (Acts 17:26). Biblical literalists can find support both for monarchies and for theocratic republics. Take your pick.
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"The Bell Curve" is a highly controversial 1994 book by Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray. It purports to show that intelligence is dispositive in the trajectory of each person's life, and that can be used to predict such things as socioeconomic status and tendencies toward criminal behavior.
Much of the research in The Bell Curve is not disputed, but the conclusions drawn from it (low #IQ is to blame for the underclass) are frequently cited by #eugenics and white nationalist movements.
Murray is listed as a scholar for the American Enterprise Institute, which is sponsored by the Kochs. Murray is essentially a right-leaning libertarian who argues that innate individual differences help explain economic inequality.
#RationalWiki #thebellcurve #charlesmurray #crime #WhiteNationalism #economicinequality #charlesmurray #americanenterpriseinstitute #libertarianism
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Michael J. Behe is a Professor of Biological Sciences at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania. He is a prominent advocate of the #pseudoscience Intelligent Design, having coined the term irreducible complexity and testified as an expert witness and co-author of the intelligent design textbook that was the subject of the Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District litigation. He is a fellow of the Discovery Institute and his work is mentioned various times in the Discovery Institute's Wedge Document.
The vast majority of scientists regard Behe's positions on intelligent design as pseudoscientific and unfalsifiable. The Lehigh University Department of Biological Sciences, where Behe is a tenured professor, has seen fit to prominently dissociate itself from Behe's views on intelligent design. Behe acknowledges that most of his colleagues disagree with him.
#RationalWiki #michaelbehe #lehighuniversity #intelligentdesign #creationism #Discoveryinstitute
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"Dr." Glenn Beck is an American right-wing "commentator", former rodeo clown, former Fox News clown, and high school graduate who got lucky. He presented his eponymous Glenn Beck Show on the Fox News cartoon channel until it was dropped in 2011 due to low ratings.
He currently has his own radio show and originally appeared on CNN's Headline News until viewers couldn't take it anymore (rumors that they were also mad as hell are slightly exaggerated). Beck now owns the subscription-based internet network The Blaze (formerly GBTV), which his Fox show was transferred to in September 2011. The network somehow made it onto Dish Network; however, it has not been picked up by the many cable providers Beck thought it would have, despite his aggressive campaign to get it on every cable plan in America.
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The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons is a small group of physicians who, under a false authoritative name, advocate for #farright conservative values in the practice of medicine. While purporting to have high regard for the Hippocratic Oath, "the sanctity of the patient-physician relationship, and the "practice of private medicine", it appears to treat these concepts as terms of art. Despite also calling itself "non-partisan", its main focus appears to be #antiabortion, vaccination, universal health care coverage and Obamacare in particular, and birth control.
These concerns evidence a particular contempt for women's health and wellness. The #AAPS specifically opposes vaccination for HPV, a known cancer-causing virus for which a vaccine administered to young women is extremely effective. The group also makes the objectively false claim that there is a meaningful correlation between abortion and breast cancer.
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Jackson Hinkle is an American "MAGA communist" (i.e. #Trump-loving tankie), Lysenkoist (i.e. genetics denier), #Russian state media contributor, LaRoucheite, and failed political candidate. Formerly a marketing specialist, he's applied his experience by rebranding himself several times in just a few years. He started out in the environmentalist movement, and particularly its subsidiary anti-nuclear movement. After environmentalism, he shifted his focus to democratic socialism.Now, #MAGA communism. Today, he says environmentalism is "anti-human" and "green fascism" — probably meaning he disapproves.
Most recently, he's taken to spreading inflammatory misinformation online. This most often takes the form of anti-Western,Wikipedia pro-Kremlin propaganda. He especially utilizes Twitter to this end.
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The Ark Encounter is a $102 million amusement park in #Williamstown, #Kentucky; it features "a full-size Noah's Ark, built according to the dimensions given in the Bible", the world's third such structure, or, to be more accurate, "a boat-shaped building held together with riveted steel brackets". Ark Encounter opened in 2016 amidst controversy and chaos, as per usual for anything involving Ken Ham and Answers in Genesis.
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Edward Osborne (E. O.) Wilson was an American biologist, zoologist, naturalist, ecologist, and entomologist, known for developing the field of #sociobiology, the primary forerunner of evolutionary psychology. Wilson also pioneered the field of island biogeography.
Wilson was well-known and almost universally loved and admired. In the introduction to the PBS documentary about Wilson, he was described as "one of America’s greatest living thinkers". The Sarasota Herald-Tribune called him "A Hero of the Planet." Leonardo DiCaprio tweeted that he was "the Darwin of the 20th Century." But more controversially, Wilson supported some racialist ideas that live on in the modern-day so-called human biodiversity movement, and some have long claimed Wilson's sociobiology amounts to #hereditarianism and biological determinism.
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Laura Knight-Jadczyk is an American pseudohistorian and unified conspiracy theorist, but perhaps mainly known for her channeling of the "Cassiopaeans" and the fake news platform Sott.net. A self-styled "scientific mystic and PaleoChristian Shaman," PaleoChristianity is the little organized religion she had founded as her personal cult. Her websites and ventures in alternative media publishing and other things have branched out over the years of her Cassiopaean channeling and inspired research, but her audience remains much smaller than for example that of David Icke. Since 2003 she has lived in France together with part of her inner circle.
#laurknightjadczyk #conspiracytheorist #pseudohistory #personalitycult
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The alkaline diet is a diet fad that started gaining popularity in around 2010, based on the notion that it's possible to alter your blood pH through a change in diet to make it more alkaline, receiving numerous health benefits. There is no scientific evidence whatsoever for the alkaline diet and there is no connection between the foods the proponents recommend and the actual pH of those foods. This craze is fueled by the fact that acidity and alkalinity are chemical concepts that people are likely to remember from school. In practice, the diet follows mainstream dietary advice mixed with high amounts of nature woo. Once someone has been convinced consuming alkaline substances is beneficial, that opens the door to selling them the hard stuff: coral.
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New Portuguese-Language pages created on #RationalWiki in July:
#Português #PortugueseApelo à fé #appealtofaith #logicalfallacy #FaláciaLógica
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Apelo_%C3%A0_f%C3%A9#TDK (acrônimo para Tirei Do Ku) #PIDOOMA
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/TDKViés de sobrevivência #survivorshipbias
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Vi%C3%A9s_de_sobreviv%C3%AAnciaViés de seleção #selectionbias
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Vi%C3%A9s_de_sele%C3%A7%C3%A3oEvidência suprimida #cherrypicking
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Evid%C3%AAncia_suprimidaFalácia do holofote #spotlightfallacy
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Fal%C3%A1cia_do_holofoteTeoria da cegueira deliberada #willfulignorance #denialism
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Teoria_da_cegueira_deliberadaPost hoc, ergo propter hoc #posthocergopropterhoc
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Post_hoc,_ergo_propter_hoc_(portugu%C3%AAs)Superstição #Superstition
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New English-language pages created on #RationalWiki in July (Part 1 of 2):
Pat Robertson's book "The New World Order" #patrobertson #newworldorder
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/The_New_World_Order_(book)#Nebula (cosmos)
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Nebula#HeartMath Institute (New Age)
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/HeartMath_Institute#Polyvagal theory
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Polyvagal_theoryAnn Coulter's book "Treason" #anncoulter
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Treason:_Liberal_Treachery_from_the_Cold_War_to_the_War_on_TerrorismBernard Goldberg #BernardGoldberg
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Bernard_GoldbergRichard A. Passwater #richardpasswater
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Richard_A._PasswaterNayirah testimony #Kuwait #iraqwar
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Nayirah_testimonyAmbassador Baptist College #AmbassadorBaptistCollege
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Ambassador_Baptist_CollegeHarvey Weinstein #HarveyWeinstein
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Harvey_WeinsteinApollo Quiboloy #ApolloQuiboloy
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Apollo_QuiboloyLarge language model #Largelanguagemodel #AI
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Large_language_model#Stolzmonat #altright
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/StolzmonatRazib Khan #RazibKhan
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#WND (originally an initialism for #WorldNetDaily, or as it was affectionately known to its fans as WingNutDaily or WhirledNutDaily) is a far-right webshite founded by the impressively mustachioed Joseph Farah in 1997 as a project of his "Western Center for Journalism". The site espouses a #fundamentalist, #Christian, #creationist worldview with a healthy dose of #jingoism, and its coverage provides multiple sides of issues: the very #conservative viewpoint and the ultra-conservative viewpoint. Basically, it makes Fox News look positively moonbatty in comparison.
While they present themselves as news, WND is basically a tabloid for radical right-wingers. Their publishing standards are rock-bottom, and they have run stories from extremely questionable sources on many, many occasions. It's also one of the earliest and longest-running publishers of Ann Coulter's insipid columns…
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Anita Sarkeesian is a Canadian-American feminist social critic who documents sexist portrayals of women (and to a lesser extent #LGBT and North American racial minorities) in popular media such as video games and movies. Sarkeesian runs a YouTube channel and website, both titled FeministFrequency. She is the perfect demon for Reddit to hate: woman, and a feminist.
While Sarkeesian is well-known in Internet feminist circles and her work has been used in university classrooms, she is most noted for the hatred she has received from anti-feminists, especially #Gamergate, which include constant harassment and death threats. This transformation from feminist to target of often-misogynistic hate gave rise to the term "Anita's Law" and brought to light sexism in the video gaming community.
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New #RationalWiki pages created in the 2nd half of June (Part 1), starting with several book critiques:
•"The Case For Israel" by Alan Dershowitz
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/The_Case_For_Israel•"The End of Racism" by Dinesh D'Souza
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/The_End_of_Racism•"The Enemy at Home" also by D'Souza
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/The_Enemy_at_Home:_The_Cultural_Left_and_its_Responsibility_for_9/11•"God and Man at Yale" by William F. Buckley
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/God_and_Man_at_Yale:_The_Superstitions_of_%22Academic_Freedom%22•"Godless: The Church of Liberalism" by Ann Coulter
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Godless:_The_Church_of_Liberalism•"The Overton Window" by Glenn Beck
•"Churchill, Hitler, and the Unnecessary War" by Pat Buchanan
#bookreview #alandershowitz #dineshdsouza #williamfbuckley #anncoulter #glennbeck #patbuchanan
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Ayn Rand was a Russian-American novelist, screenwriter and playwright. She is the author of vast doorstop-sized tomes like Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead, among other thick, boring books espousing #libertarian themes and ideology. She empowered herself by trying to set the Women's movement back 50 years.
Rand claimed to be a philosopher, though she preferred the title "Objectivist." #Objectivism is a political movement based on Rand's teachings. In actual fact, her simplistic versions of philosophy were misunderstandings of #Aristotelian #metaphysical notions formulated thousands of years ago. Whether that makes it a philosophy ("Look, it's got an '-ism' at the end!") or just an excuse for being greedy, ignorant, and selfish is, ironically, subjective.
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#RationalWiki is a #wiki that is open for all to edit, no account is required.
The focus of RW is:
•Analyzing and refuting #pseudoscience and the anti-science movement;
•Documenting the full range of #crank ideas;
•Explorations of #authoritarianism and #fundamentalism;
•Analysis and criticism of how these subjects are handled in the media.New articles this month include (part 1/2):
•Monitoring Bias (aka i/o), a far-right Twitter account
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Monitoring_Bias•Richard Hanania is an American conservative, grifter
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Richard_Hanania•Scandza Forum, an annual gathering of neo-Nazis
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Scandza_Forum•Ray Blanchard, a sexologist and adjunct professor of psychiatry at the University of Toronto
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Ray_Blanchard•Vulcan, a hypothetical planet that was thought to orbit the Sun in an orbit inner to Mercury before the XX Century
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#Protochronism is a pejorative term referring to various #pseudohistorical, #pseudolinguistic, and pseudoarchaeological theories that claim that #Romania is the cradle of civilization, that all or many peoples are branches of Romanians, and that all or many languages are derived from Romanian, among other things. Like most pseudosciences, Protochronism does this by presenting the reader or viewer with a large quantity of half-truths, cherry-picked quotes, non sequiturs, misrepresentations of others' views, and outright falsehoods — an avalanche of arguments which the non-savvy might mistake for proofs.
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#Dacomania #Dacia
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In Abrahamic lore, Noah's #Ark was a gigantic wooden vessel in which #Noah supposedly saved every kind of animal of the Earth from an alleged great flood. This myth appears in the Torah and in the Qur'an; it most likely represents just one of a number of retellings of retellings of retellings of the same general Mesopotamian flood-story, as exemplified by the story of Utnapishtim, the King of Shurrupak, in the Epic of #Gilgamesh.
Any Bible-believer (for example, a creationist) who wants to argue that the Noah's Ark narrative is a scientific/historic story needs to give a clear answer to all of the questions outlined below - without invoking an act of God.
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#RationalWiki #noahsark #creationism #biblicalliteralism
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The Daily Mail is a reactionary right-wing #tabloid rag masquerading as a "traditional values" middle-class newspaper that is, in many ways, the second-worst of the British gutter press. The Mail has been so consistently bad that #Orwell called them out in Homage to Catalonia for supporting #Franco. The Mail has also infamously supported Oswald Mosley and #fascism.
The Mail is to the UK what the New York Post is to the US, and what the Drudge Report is to the Internet: to wit, gossipy tabloid "journalism" for those who cannot digest serious news, with a flippantly #wingnut editorial stance. … It is also notorious for its frequent #harassment of individuals, campaigns of hate directed at various minorities (focusing on Muslims), and willfully deceiving and lying to its readers.
#RationalWiki #thedailymail #DailyMail #oswaldmoseley #islamophobia #antiimmigrant #fascism
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#Confabulation, false memory, or less often pseudomemory is a term in cognitive #psychology defined as a recollection of something that never happened. This can range from something as minor as misremembering an item on a list to fabricating an entire detailed, vivid #memory out of whole cloth. While it is intuitively obvious that memory is fallible, a great deal of #pseudoscience and #woo is built on the idea that all or at least some memory is infallible, as in much #anecdotal evidence. This assertion is unsupported by current evidence. Memory, in essence, is not akin to a tape recorder but a process that reconstructs past experience. This makes it highly susceptible to errors.
The foundational works relating to confabulation in #memory were produced by Frederic Bartlett & Elizabeth Loftus.
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"Climategate" is the most common term that the media and blogosphere gave to a relatively effective #manufactroversy (in the US, at least) that followed the November 2009 release of thousands of illegally-obtained e-mails from the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK. Global-warming denialists immediately pounced on the story, claiming that much of the data supporting the existence of global warming were fabricated. The media quoted many of the e-mailsout of context to make it seem as if there was huge disagreement among #climatologists and that they'd faked or hidden their data.
By 2011, nine separate investigations by the British government and by multiple independent ethics committees had been completed. None found any evidence of fraud or manipulation of data. The CRU data was also independently replicated.
#RationalWIki #ClimateChange #denialism #UK
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Jack Thomas Chick (1924–2016) was an American cartoonist and the owner, manager, and editor of Chick Publications. Chick's publishing house is responsible for hundreds of abominable illustrated evangelical gospel tracts known as Chick tracts, tiny comic books printed on cheap paper that are ubiquitous in subway stations, rest stop bathrooms, inside the dresser drawers of hotel rooms, and littered around other public places nationwide.
As a general rule, Chick tracts read like the ramblings of an anti-Semitic, anti-Catholic, #homophobic, etc. fire-and-brimstone #conspiracy theorist that makes Pat Robertson look sane and mellowed out in comparison. The tracts create an "us vs. them" mentality where those who accept the message are part of the righteous few and the rest are sinners in league with the Devil.
#RationalWIki #jackchick #anticatholicism #antisemitism #homophobia #fundamentalism #christianity #trolls #conspiracytheories #comics
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Answers Research Journal is a "peer-reviewed" creation "science" #pseudojournal published by Answers in Genesis (AiG). ARJ features #pseudohistory, bad philosophy, and Biblical literalist analysis pieces, but not much in the way of science.
Upon creation of the journals, Nature, Scientific American and Discover quickly published criticism of the site. Slate and AiG themselves have also traded commentary, and several blogs such as the Sensuous Curmudgeon and Happy Jihad's House of Pancakes have routinely produced criticism of the journal.
#RationalWIki #biblicalliteralism #Creationism
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Vagina steaming is a hot newly revived alternative medicine practice in which a person with a vagina squats over steaming water. The practice is also called vaginal steaming, v-steaming, vaginal steam baths, yoni steaming, chai yok (차욕), or bajos.
Vagina steaming supporters, who include noted #pseudoscience promoters #NaturalNews and Gwyneth Paltrow, claim that it has numerous benefits. Vagina steaming is supposed to "cleanse" the vagina, increase #fertility, treat bad periods, and remove "toxins". There is no scientific evidence for any of these claims. Fully 14 of the 16 medical professionals who have commented on the practice say that vagina steaming is ineffective, or possibly harmful. In short, it is patent #bullshit.
However, vagina steaming may genuinely upset that little man in the boat.
#RationalWIki #GwynethPaltrow #vaginasteaming #toxins #menstruation
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George Santos is not the greatest #fabulist / #conman politician — but he's well on his way to being a contender if he manages to dodge prison.
Like Santos, Ignaz Trebitsch Lincoln was elected to a national legislature under dubious circumstances (ITL won a seat in UK's house of parliament before obtaining citizenship). Like Santos, ITL also participated in a coup attempt (the Kapp Putsch). ITL's lifestory is much more incredible and wide-ranging than Santos, but Santos is still young.
#RationalWiki #georgesantos
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NaturalNews.com and its sister sites are run by Michael Allen "Mike" Adams, B.S. (1969 or 1967–) (self-labeled "The Health Ranger") which promotes alternative medicine and related conspiracy theories. The site particularly specializes in vaccine denial and the alleged vaccines-autism link, AIDS/HIV #denialism, #quack cancer treatments, and conspiracy theories about "Big Pharma". If there's an alternative medicine or alternative medical treatment out there, you can guarantee that #NaturalNews has one article singing its praises to the sky and one more bashing the stupid "skeptics". A lot of the website's growth is due to its exposure on #Facebook, where it had over 3.5 million followers until it was banned (not for any of its content, mind you, but because it was violating Facebook's policy on #spamming).
#RationalWiki #alternativemedicine #conspiracytheories #antivax
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Kent E. Hovind (or, to use his full former academic title Kent E. Hovind, inmate #06452-017) (1953–) is a young Earth #creationist, promoter of imminent millennialism, con man, professional liar, and convicted felon.
Hovind promotes Young Earth creationist and #Christian #dominionist views in lectures and videos sold or publicized through his Creation Science Evangelism organization (despite having no legitimate degree).
Hovind created The Hovind "Theory" to explain how the global flood got all the water — namely, a comet did it. Hovind then proceeded to ignore all scientific evidence on dinosaurs gathered this side of 1960. Not satisfied with this record of failure, in 2001, Hovind started Dinosaur Adventure Land, an amusement park in his backyard.
#RationalWiki #kenthovind #youngearth #taxfraud #SovereignCitizen #dinosauradventureland
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@StrassenKatze There was a long scientific debate since the mid-1800s about the origins of #birds — whether they came from #dinosaurs or not. The scientific consensus that birds are dinosaurs only came about around 2011!
#evolution #ScientificConsensus
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