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The Oxford Recovery Center’s autism services’ ARTS programs, an integrative approach the center claims can lead to recovery, was <a href="https://www.fox2detroit.com/news/woman-running-autism-programs-at-brighton-facility-is-convicted-felon-has-fake-credentials">created and run by Casey Diskin</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">, a convicted felon with fake credentials stolen from a certified behavioral analyst – something the <i>the center was aware of for a long time</i> but did not do anything about since that’s the kind of organization we are talking about (“<i>As an organization founded by Christians, we believe in forgiveness and redemption</i>”, said ORC’s CEO Tami Peterson, obviously failing to recognize the <i>lack of credentials</i> issue). Bogner, in fairness, resigned from his position there in 2021. Currently, he seems to be promoting <a href="https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/functional-medicine-reams-of-useless-tests-in-one-hand-a-huge-invoice-in-the-other/">the nebulous quackery known as functional medicine</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">. </span><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Bogner has his own ideas about autism, and they are not based on reality, evidence or reason. Believing that autism is a neuroinflammatory condition, Bogner <a href="https://fierceautie.com/2020/02/24/quack-exposed-dr-christian-bogner/">is opposed to any pharmaceutical intervention</a></span><a href="https://fierceautie.com/2020/02/24/quack-exposed-dr-christian-bogner/"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"></span></a><a><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"></span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">, championing instead a plant-based diet, <a href="https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Hyperbaric_oxygen_therapy">hyberbaric oxygen chambers</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> and <a href="https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/dubious-stem-cell-trials-for-autism-and-the-darker-side-of-quackademic-medicine/">unproven and dangerous stem cell therapies</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">. And Bogner doesn’t treat just autism; he treats almost everything that his customers are willing to pay him to treat, <a href="https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/fake-diagnoses-not-fake-diseases/">including chronic Lyme disease</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">. He is also antivaccine (an advocate for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texans_for_Vaccine_Choice">‘vaccine choice’</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">), being a regular speaker at the antivaccine quackfest <a href="https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Autism_One">AutismOne</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> and author of antivaccine Letters to the Editor like ‘<i>Vaccines are a choice not a mandate’</i>. In particular, Bogner claims that <a href="https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/health-and-nutrition-you-asked/what-are-adjuvants-vaccines">adjuvants</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> (like <a href="https://vaxopedia.org/2018/06/04/how-aluminum-became-the-new-thimerosal/">aluminum</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">) plus heavy metals in vaccines activate the microglia, which purportedly causes inflammation and autism. It doesn’t, if reality is your standard, but it isn’t Bogner’s. Apparently <a href="https://vaxopedia.org/2019/05/01/do-vaccines-contain-pesticides/">glyphosate</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> is involved, too, as is <a href="https://vaxopedia.org/2018/04/08/which-vaccines-contain-aborted-baby-parts/">“<i>aborted fetal cells in vaccines</i>”</a></span><a href="https://vaxopedia.org/2018/04/08/which-vaccines-contain-aborted-baby-parts/"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"></span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">. Yes, Bogner is <a href="https://respectfulinsolence.com/2015/07/27/when-the-antiabortion-movement-meets-the-antivaccine-movement/"><i>that</i> kind</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> of practitioner.</span> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Bogner is most famous, however, for his pseudoscientific ramblings in favor of phytocannabinoid (marijuana)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>therapies for autism. Now, medical marijuana has become something of a new <a href="https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Herbal_supplement">herbalism</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">, a complete and largely (though not fully) pseudoscientific edifice with little root in actual evidence (for a good discussion, see <a href="https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/medical-marijuana-as-the-new-herbalism-part-4-cannabis-for-autism/">this</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">). The evidence for marijuana therapies for autism is more or less nil (<a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24778283/">there is evidence</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> for using medical marijuana for spasticity and pain, which is largely irrelevant but which advocates of cannabis for autism often refer to since some children with autism also suffer from seizures). Advocates have claimed “<i>peer reviewed evidence that cannabis not only has the potential to provide palliative relief of symptoms related to autism, but may also have the potential to target the underlying causes of autism itself</i>,” but the “peer reviewed” evidence in question in that quote is merely a blog post, ‘The Endocannabinoid System as it Relates to Autism’, published on the Cannabis for Autism blog written by Bogner and Joe Stone. And the reason it is not a peer-reviewed published article is rather obvious if one looks at it: Apart from some amazing <a href="https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Cherry_picking">cherry-picking</a></span><a href="https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Cherry_picking"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"></span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> forays, <a href="https://respectfulinsolence.com/2015/08/06/medical-marijuana-for-autism-and-autism-biomed-quackery-one-in-the-same-and-on-the-verge-of-approval-in-michigan/">they’ve got</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> <a href="https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Anecdotal_evidence">anecdotes</a></span><a href="https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Anecdotal_evidence"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"></span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> (<a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24595491/">mostly about epilepsy</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">), some potential correlations and lots of imaginative extrapolations from <a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25650954/">preclinical cell culture and animal studies</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> and studies that address other conditions, to conclude that cannabinoids are efficacious treating autism. They do not address the lack of <i>actual</i> clinical trial evidence. The current state of evidence on marijuana for neurological disorders is discussed <a href="https://www.skepticalraptor.com/skepticalraptorblog.php/part-3-marijuana-and-neurological-disorders-assessing-the-science/">here</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> (from 2015, but the situation remains generally sordid, and on autism there’s still really nothing that rises above the level of shoddy-borderlining-on-scientific-misconduct). </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">And no, Bogner did not attend medical school at Cornell, but in Poznan.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Diagnosis: Pseudoscience and crackpottery, yes, and with the usual yet remarkable opportunism and cynicism associated with the kind of business in which Bogner is involved. A shitty person. Avoid.</span></b></p> <p><style>@font-face {font-family:"Cambria Math"; panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:roman; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:-536870145 1107305727 0 0 415 0;}p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-unhide:no; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-parent:""; margin:0cm; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";}a:link, span.MsoHyperlink {mso-style-unhide:no; mso-style-parent:""; color:blue; text-decoration:underline; text-underline:single;}a:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed {mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; color:#954F72; mso-themecolor:followedhyperlink; text-decoration:underline; text-underline:single;}.MsoChpDefault {mso-style-type:export-only; mso-default-props:yes; font-size:10.0pt; mso-ansi-font-size:10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;}div.WordSection1 {page:WordSection1;}</style></p> <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'> <span class='post-author vcard'> Posted by <span class='fn' itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <meta content='https://www.blogger.com/profile/08875360501107597863' itemprop='url'/> <a class='g-profile' href='https://www.blogger.com/profile/08875360501107597863' rel='author' title='author profile'> <span itemprop='name'>G.D.</span> </a> </span> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <meta content='http://americanloons.blogspot.com/2022/09/2571-christian-bogner.html' itemprop='url'/> <a class='timestamp-link' href='https://americanloons.blogspot.com/2022/09/2571-christian-bogner.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' itemprop='datePublished' title='2022-09-29T03:57:00-04:00'>3:57 AM</abbr></a> </span> <span class='post-comment-link'> <a class='comment-link' href='https://americanloons.blogspot.com/2022/09/2571-christian-bogner.html#comment-form' onclick=''> 13 comments: </a> </span> <span class='post-icons'> <span class='item-control blog-admin pid-688393608'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=414946164942126209&postID=1413821801410530902&from=pencil' title='Edit Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='18' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> </span> <div class='post-share-buttons goog-inline-block'> </div> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-2'> <span class='post-labels'> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-3'> <span class='post-location'> </span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div></div> <div class="date-outer"> <h2 class='date-header'><span>Tuesday, September 27, 2022</span></h2> <div class="date-posts"> <div class='post-outer'> <div class='post hentry uncustomized-post-template' itemprop='blogPost' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <meta content='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh65Zik8Sjn7o1GGp2-2-41EutN6AfO2wUSG9q_YplOepP0-3JYoEa-nvZ9f_YCRUbkNhxIlEIsIo6GbRgUSOa4ZsAsTMPC4oc2iq-Ab8rbav5J1Mi-9odRS-xxGGFUfI9PcyxxKjEocGSa4GGdcco0rjSvHHW9XqopuWEVQxu3dz1qlXGevqMn9pYT/w133-h200/images.jpeg' itemprop='image_url'/> <meta content='414946164942126209' itemprop='blogId'/> <meta content='6529237745903265925' itemprop='postId'/> <a name='6529237745903265925'></a> <h3 class='post-title entry-title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://americanloons.blogspot.com/2022/09/2570-lauren-boebert.html'>#2570: Lauren Boebert</a> </h3> <div class='post-header'> <div class='post-header-line-1'></div> </div> <div class='post-body entry-content' id='post-body-6529237745903265925' itemprop='description articleBody'> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh65Zik8Sjn7o1GGp2-2-41EutN6AfO2wUSG9q_YplOepP0-3JYoEa-nvZ9f_YCRUbkNhxIlEIsIo6GbRgUSOa4ZsAsTMPC4oc2iq-Ab8rbav5J1Mi-9odRS-xxGGFUfI9PcyxxKjEocGSa4GGdcco0rjSvHHW9XqopuWEVQxu3dz1qlXGevqMn9pYT/s275/images.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="275" data-original-width="183" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh65Zik8Sjn7o1GGp2-2-41EutN6AfO2wUSG9q_YplOepP0-3JYoEa-nvZ9f_YCRUbkNhxIlEIsIo6GbRgUSOa4ZsAsTMPC4oc2iq-Ab8rbav5J1Mi-9odRS-xxGGFUfI9PcyxxKjEocGSa4GGdcco0rjSvHHW9XqopuWEVQxu3dz1qlXGevqMn9pYT/w133-h200/images.jpeg" width="133" /></a></div>Lauren Opal Boebert is a high-school dropout, conspiracy theorist and Representative for Colorado’s 3rd district in the US House of Representatives, <a href="https://coloradotimesrecorder.com/2020/09/boebert-poses-with-sign-linking-her-to-qanon/30759/">where she represents</a><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> the <a href="https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/QAnon">QAnon</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> & stupidity faction together with <a href="https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Marjorie_Taylor_Greene">Marjorie Taylor Greene</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> and <a href="https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Louie_Gohmert">Louie Gohmert</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">. </span><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Like so many candidates who run on an ostensible “law and order” platform, Boebert <a href="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5f4b155ca23dbb3ab868b37d/t/5f7527900df493541c537a83/1601513362385/LB+Rapsheet+Full.pdf">has a long criminal record</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">, in addition to <a href="https://www.denverpost.com/2021/09/22/lauren-boebert-rent-utilities-campaign-finance/">an even longer record</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> of <a href="https://www.salon.com/2021/08/27/lauren-boebert-admits-to-underreporting-fec/">morally questionable behavior</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">, having been court summoned and fined <a href="https://www.denverpost.com/2020/08/27/lauren-boebert-arrests-colorado-3rd-mitsch-bush/">a rather impressive number of times</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> for an interestingly variegated set of crimes. She also sports <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/06/25/canada-three-percenters-terrorist-entity/">a long record of payments to and cooperation with terrorist groups</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">, including hiring representatives of the <a href="https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Three_Percenters">Three Percenters</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> group <a href="https://coloradotimesrecorder.com/2020/07/boeberts-campaign-embraces-far-right-militia-movement/27416/">as security for her campaign events</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">QAnon and other conspiracy groups</span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">“<i>thank God for you guys and <a href="https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Proud_Boys">the Proud Boys</a></i></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">”</span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">-<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">       </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Boebert’s campaign manager Sherrona Bishop (“<i>you guys</i>” refers to some self-declared members of the group)</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Boebert’s official position on the QAnon conspiracy theories vary according to the principle of <i>opportunism</i>. In a May 2020 interview <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/ann-vandersteel-qanon-is-part-of-the-trump-campaigns-comprehensive-media-strategy-to-spread-conspiracy-theories/">on Ann Vandersteel</a>’s</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> QAnon web show SteelTruth, <a href="https://www.npr.org/2020/07/01/885991730/gop-candidates-open-to-qanon-conspiracy-theory-advance-in-congressional-races?t=1600007956140">she claimed to be</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> “<i>very familiar with</i>” the claims, and asserting that “<i>everything I’ve heard of Q, I hope that this is real because it only means America is getting stronger and better</i>.” She was also a follower of a number of QAnon-connected YouTube channels at the time. When her affiliation with the movement later faced some scrutiny, she deleted her YouTube account and denied everything. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">During a March 2021 town hall in Montrose, however, Boebert responded to an interlocutor wondering when Hillary Clinton and other former officials would be arrested (a recurring delusional dream among QAnon loons) by <a href="https://coloradotimesrecorder.com/2021/03/promoting-qanon-linked-conspiracy-boebert-says-resignations-will-soon-allow-gop-to-control-congress/35257/">claiming that</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> she knew someone involved with documents declassified by Trump during the closing days of his presidency, and that the documents would reveal corruption to trigger resignations that would <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/03/19/emerging-far-right-no-caucus-house/">allow Republicans to retake the House and Senate before 2022</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">. That particular <a href="https://www.mediaite.com/news/listen-rep-lauren-boebert-pushes-deranged-conspiracy-at-co-town-hall-there-will-be-mass-resignations-before-2022-election/">piece of Trump fan fiction</a> is</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> familiar e.g. from the ridiculous conspiracy theory outlet <a href="https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Falun_Gong#Epoch_Times"><i>The Epoch Times</i></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">. Boebert, however, urged people to just overlook the outlet’s status as a fake news purveyor (a status earned by fact checks establishing its systematic lack of reliability about anything whatsoever), claiming instead that they were using information from “<i>very good sources</i>” (the sources being, of course, not further specified). For the most part, however, Boebert prefers to ignite the Qanon crowd with the help of <a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/qjbka5/forget-the-typos-lauren-boeberts-tweet-is-a-qanon-dog-whistle">dogwhistles her critics tend to miss</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Stop the steal and Capitol storming</span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Boebert has been a staunch supporter of Trump’s false and baseless claims that 2020 election was stolen from him, and she <a href="https://www.vox.com/2021/1/6/22218058/republicans-objections-election-results">voted to overturn the results of the Electoral College vote count</a></span><a href="https://www.vox.com/2021/1/6/22218058/republicans-objections-election-results"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"></span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">She has, in particular, tirelessly spread misinformation and baseless conspiracy theories about Arizona’s election results, alleging widespread voter fraud and accusing everyone who intended to accept the “<i>results of this concentrated, coordinated, partisan effort by Democrats</i>” of having <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210116190825/https://www.denverpost.com/2021/01/06/congress-electoral-college-2020-biden-trump/">allied themselves with the extremist left</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">. In December 2021, Boebert reiterated the claim that hundreds of thousands of ballots were illegally mailed to voters. Did she provide evidence? What do you think?</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">She also supported the rioters who <a href="https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/2021_U.S._Capitol_riot">stormed the Capitol on January 6, 2021</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> (“<i>Today is 1776</i>”) and was herself an invited speaker at the March for Trump/Save America rally directly preceding the riot. During the riot itself, Boebert tweeted the location of Nancy Pelosi, which resulted in <a href="https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/01/12/nation/colorado-republican-tweeted-about-pelosis-location-during-capitol-siege-shes-now-facing-calls-resign/">widespread calls for resignation</a></span><a href="https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/01/12/nation/colorado-republican-tweeted-about-pelosis-location-during-capitol-siege-shes-now-facing-calls-resign/"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"></span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">. At least, her communications director had sufficient integrity to <a href="https://www.axios.com/2021/01/16/boebert-communications-director-quits">leave the clown ship over Boebert’s January 6 behavior</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">In June 2021, Boebert <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/15/politics/congressional-gold-medal-house-vote/index.html">voted against a resolution</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> to give the Congressional Gold Medal to police officers who defended the U.S. Capitol. She also rejects the term ‘insurrection’ for the January 6 events, <a href="https://coloradosun.com/2021/12/31/lauren-boebert-reelection-don-coram/">calling</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> the House inquiry into the attack a “<i>sham witch hunt</i>” and <a href="https://coloradotimesrecorder.com/2021/05/a-brief-history-of-boeberts-racism/36537/">equating the riot with</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> the Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests – which she anyways thinks should be prosecuted en masse and is linked to terrorism, which makes it unclear what her defense of the January 6 riots is really supposed to be. Boebert’s fans don’t seem to notice the tension, and neither does she. She freely used fear of another insurrection when <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/at-cpac-gun-toting-rep-lauren-boebert-rails-against-metal-detectors-and-pelosi/">applying for a concealed gun permit in DC</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">, but ranted against the metal detectors in the Capitol designed to prevent attacks on Congress because the detectors made it challenging for her to bring a gun to Congress.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.rawstory.com/lauren-boebert-kamala-harris/"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Here</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"></span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> is her reasoning for why Kamala Harris should be impeached, and it would have been sort of noteworthy if it hadn’t been so daft. (Biden should of course <a href="https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/lauren-boebert-imeach-biden/">be ‘<i>imeached</i>’, too</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">).</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Education</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Boebert supports eliminating the US Department of Education because “<a href="https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Critical_race_theory"><i>critical race theory</i></a>”</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">, which is not taught in schools but which <a href="https://www.durangoherald.com/articles/rep-lauren-bobert-calls-on-critical-race-theory-to-be-banned-in-schools/">should be banned from schools nonetheless</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Bigotry</span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">A full-time bigot, Boebert is of course opposed to marriage equality and any measure to ease the life of transgender people. She freaked mightily out over the 2021 Equality Act, <a href="https://www.rawstory.com/boebert-equality-act/">alleging that</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> it aimed to establish the “<i>supremacy of gays, lesbians and transvestites</i>,” which she probably genuinely believes, and it is very telling. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">She has also <a href="https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/2021/11/watch-lauren-boebert-accuses-ilhan-omar-of-cancel-culture-101-and-again-falsely-suggests-shes-a-terrorist/">gotten some attention for</a></span><a href="https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/2021/11/watch-lauren-boebert-accuses-ilhan-omar-of-cancel-culture-101-and-again-falsely-suggests-shes-a-terrorist/"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"></span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> her <a href="https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2021/12/lauren-boebert-is-only-going-to-get-worse/">altercations with Ilhan Omar</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">, whom Boebert <a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2021/11/30/politics/lauren-boebert-ilhan-omar-video-comments/">has described as</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> “<i>a full-time propagandist for Hamas</i>” and an “<i>honorary member of Hamas</i>”, <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/house/582147-boebert-faces-heavy-criticism-after-gosar-floor-speech/">referred to as</a></span><a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/house/582147-boebert-faces-heavy-criticism-after-gosar-floor-speech/"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"></span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> “<i>the Jihad Squad member from Minnesota</i>”, and <a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2021/11/26/politics/lauren-boebert-ilhan-omar-anti-muslim-comments/index.html">implied to be a terrorist</a></span><a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2021/11/26/politics/lauren-boebert-ilhan-omar-anti-muslim-comments/index.html"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"></span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">. <a href="https://www.npr.org/2021/11/29/1059858635/reps-boebert-and-omar-spoke-after-boeberts-islamophobic-comments-it-didnt-go-wel?t=1652260489787">According to Boebert</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">, she herself would put “<i>America first, never sympathizing with terrorists. Unfortunately, Ilhan can’t say the same thing</i>.” Of course, as opposed to Omar, <a href="https://coloradotimesrecorder.com/2020/07/boeberts-campaign-embraces-far-right-militia-movement/27416/">Boebert <i>has </i>associated with terrorists</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">, even financed them. The Denver Post apologized on Boebert’s behalf for her remarks, <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/lauren-boebert-newspaper-apologises-colorado-b1967849.html">saying that</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> it was embarrassing that a Colorado representative engaged in such behavior. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">COVID denialism</span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">As expected, Boebert is a COVID denialist with a lengthy record of attempts to downplay the severity of the COVID-19 pandemic, and her 2020 campaign was largely based on opposition to official COVID restrictions. She kept the restaurant she runs in Colorado open despite <a href="https://www.cpr.org/2020/05/14/rifle-restaurant-shooters-grill-defies-a-cease-and-desist-order-to-keep-serving-diners/">a cease-and-desist letter from the sheriff's office</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> and a later <a href="https://www.denverpost.com/2020/05/16/shooters-grill-rifle-license-suspended/">suspension of her restaurant license</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> – apparently, you only need to follow the laws you agree with, a principle she struggles to apply to others than herself, such as the Black Lives Matter movement. (Her restaurant, <a href="https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/05/lauren-boebert-profile-shooters-grill-rifle-gun-obama-pay-staff-employees/">the Shooters Grill</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">, was, before Boebert landed a seat in Congress, mostly famous for causing 80 people to contract food poisoning at a 2017 event <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6982537-Rifle-Rodeo-food-poisoning-report.html">due to unsafe food handling</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">. Currently, it <a href="https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/05/lauren-boebert-profile-shooters-grill-rifle-gun-obama-pay-staff-employees/">operates more likea Trump shrine</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> employing a number of hardcore Qanon adherents, having for instance hired <a href="https://www.salon.com/2021/09/30/lauren-boebert-hired-qanon-superfans-to-run-shooters-grill-staff-her-campaign-office/">Mona and Bud Demicell</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> as accountant and general manager, respectively.)</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">In Congress, Boebert has consistently opposed measures intended to prevent the spread of COVID-19, and has on several occasions posted misinformation and conspiracy theories related to face masks and COVID-19 vaccines (which <a href="https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/the-natural-immunity-is-real-act-real-or-an-act/">she keeps falsely calling “<i>experimental</i>”</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> because she doesn’t know what ‘experimental’ means). For instance, she <a href="https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/may/25/lauren-boebert/texas-has-recorded-covid-deaths-removing-mask-mand/">falsely claimed that</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> during the two months that followed the end of the Texas mask mandate, the state did not record any COVID-19-related deaths – a claim that <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/lauren-boebert-falsely-texas-no-covid-19-deaths-two-months-2021-5?r=US&IR=T">is easily fact-checked</a>, of course</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">, but Boebert, playing by Trump’s book, <a href="https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Post-truth">doesn’t really care</a></span><a href="https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Post-truth"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"></span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">. She subsequently introduced <a href="https://www.aspendailynews.com/news/the-boebert-enigma/article_24d25512-8169-11ec-b6d5-d37ce359dfc3.html">a bill that</a></span><a href="https://www.aspendailynews.com/news/the-boebert-enigma/article_24d25512-8169-11ec-b6d5-d37ce359dfc3.html"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"></span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> would ban all mask mandates on federal property and during travel in interstate commerce, which failed to garner sympathy even with her sometimes Congressional allies.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">And yes, of course she is antivaccine. Boebert has even employed <a href="https://www.politifact.com/article/2022/jan/27/why-holocaust-comparisons-anti-vaccine-activists-r/">the familiar antivaccine nonsense gambit</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> of <a href="https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Nazi_analogies">comparing vaccines to the Holocaust</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> (e.g. when comparing the federal government’s <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8351985/">COVID-19 vaccination efforts to</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> “<i>Biden [deploying] his Needle Nazis</i>”). Meanwhile, the COVID-19 virus is <a href="https://twitter.com/laurenboebert/status/1412765622207979526">just like communism</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">. And no, she really doesn’t know how vaccines – or contagious diseases – work: attempting to mock the point of herd immunity, Boebert wrote: “<i>I woke up with a headache this morning. I took some Tylenol. Now if everyone else could take some Tylenol too so mine would start working, that would be great</i>,” which must be one of the feeblest attempts at a gotcha since <a href="http://americanloons.blogspot.com/2012/01/280-chuck-missler.html">Chuck Missler</a>’s</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> <a href="https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Peanut_butter_argument">peanut butter argument against evolution</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Boebert <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/lauren-boebert-bullying-fauci-vaccine-b1880793.html">has also accused</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> Anthony Fauci, who told people to get the COVID-19 vaccine, of <i>bullying</i>, because encouraging people to do something they don’t want to do is just what bullying is and Boebert and her fans are apparently some really fragile flowers.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">In June 2021, <a href="https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/lauren-boebert-tweet-variant/">Boebert advised</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> <a href="https://www.dailydot.com/debug/lauren-boebert-deletes-tweet-covid-delta-cnn/">her constituents in Mesa County</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">, who were experiencing an uptick of Delta variant cases, <a href="https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/lauren-boebert-tweet-variant/">that</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> the “<i>easiest way to make the Delta variant go away is to turn off CNN [and] vote Republican</i>” (<a href="https://www.dailydot.com/debug/lauren-boebert-deletes-tweet-covid-delta-cnn/">she quickly deleted</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/lauren-boebert-covid-19-delta-variant-tweet_n_60dd5e33e4b0b94d34de3a12">that particular tweet</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">). </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Diagnosis: Stupidity is an interest well served in Congress, but Boebert is among its most systematic champions (though we grudgingly admit that she often seems to be cleverer than her opponents tend to realize). A serious gohmert and a major threat to civilization.</span></b></p> <p><style>@font-face {font-family:Wingdings; panose-1:5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0; mso-font-charset:2; mso-generic-font-family:decorative; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:3 268435456 0 0 -2147483647 0;}@font-face {font-family:"Cambria Math"; panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:roman; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:-536870145 1107305727 0 0 415 0;}p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-unhide:no; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-parent:""; margin:0cm; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";}a:link, span.MsoHyperlink {mso-style-unhide:no; mso-style-parent:""; color:blue; text-decoration:underline; text-underline:single;}a:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed {mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; color:#954F72; mso-themecolor:followedhyperlink; text-decoration:underline; 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And no: we don’t know whether the name is an alias. Nor is it entirely clear whether his show, Deadlinelive, is still operative.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Blood is in any case a <a href="https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/9/11">9/11-truther</a></span><a href="https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/9/11"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"></span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">. In fact, Blood doesn’t think <i>Bush</i> was behind the attacks; according to Blood “<i>it was a black op that was above his pay grade. Cheney was in the loop for sure</i>.” The 2008 financial crisis, too, was – just like 9/11 – “<i>engineered to bring about more centralization</i>”. <i>Centralization</i> seems to be the general goal of several og Blood’s conspiracy theories, and is apparently a threat to Blood’s freedoms.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">His main focus is in general on <a href="https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Deep_state">the <i>shadow government</i></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> – the <a href="https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Bilderberg_Group">Bildeberger group</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> and the <a href="https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Trilateral_Commission">Trilateral Commission</a></span><a href="https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Trilateral_Commission"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"></span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> and suchlike, the ones that are <i>really</i> pulling the strings. Most American presidents have been mere puppets – perhaps apart from Bill Clinton, who was “<i>likely the illegitimate son of Winthrop <a href="https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Rockefeller_conspiracy_theories">Rockefeller</a></i>”</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> and was ultimately really behind “<i>the 1993 WTC Bombings, the OKC Bombings, Waco, and TWA 800</i>”. Blood does engage in what he considers <i>research</i> for his claims, but it seems mostly to consist of reading other conspiracy theorists’ (like <a href="https://www.chronicle.com/article/the-professor-of-denial/">Jim Fetzer</a>’s</span><a href="https://www.chronicle.com/article/the-professor-of-denial/"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"></span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">) rants; and then they read him, and so it goes, completely independent of reality. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">And the shadow government is assassinating those that come to close to the truth – like Don Harkin, editor of the Idaho Observer, a famous conspiracy rag popular among the “patriot/survivalists”; Harkin was apparently murdered by “<i>NSA and associated intelligence groups who utilized extremely powerful ‘Psychotronic,’ Electronic Warfare on him</i>.”</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Diagnosis: A minor but colorful figure. We have no idea what, exactly, he’s up to these days, but we don’t exactly trust it to be to the benefit of humanity.</span></b></p> <p><style>@font-face {font-family:"Cambria Math"; panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:roman; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:-536870145 1107305727 0 0 415 0;}p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-unhide:no; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-parent:""; margin:0cm; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";}a:link, span.MsoHyperlink {mso-style-unhide:no; mso-style-parent:""; color:blue; text-decoration:underline; text-underline:single;}a:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed {mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; color:#954F72; mso-themecolor:followedhyperlink; text-decoration:underline; text-underline:single;}.MsoChpDefault {mso-style-type:export-only; mso-default-props:yes; font-size:10.0pt; mso-ansi-font-size:10.0pt; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgH55RinHs8SbLHvUHTb4rvZOS5E75HMBXgNmwa1K3cz_1o8GblNmJ14ysAHe83uVJezqFYyzDWZ-Zk_-V5Ey-u0lW9L1SJQm20pXbP7iQIcs6HnfwZyxQQmmfP78D0gnu2fGIqSnlSRmVQ6TaGdkh9jUYqcMr3LNXzQ2bdHh0W2o5_tRjBA24Auw3V/s275/Unknown-1.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="275" data-original-width="183" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgH55RinHs8SbLHvUHTb4rvZOS5E75HMBXgNmwa1K3cz_1o8GblNmJ14ysAHe83uVJezqFYyzDWZ-Zk_-V5Ey-u0lW9L1SJQm20pXbP7iQIcs6HnfwZyxQQmmfP78D0gnu2fGIqSnlSRmVQ6TaGdkh9jUYqcMr3LNXzQ2bdHh0W2o5_tRjBA24Auw3V/w133-h200/Unknown-1.jpeg" width="133" /></a></div>‘<i>Nourish the Inner Aspect</i>’ is the slogan of <a href="https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Gwyneth_Paltrow">Goop</a><a href="https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Gwyneth_Paltrow"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"></span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">, and it really captures the nature of that organization – utterly contentless, but with a vague air of feel-good <a href="https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Deepity">deepity</a></span><a href="https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Deepity"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"></span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> about it. Goop is of course <a href="http://americanloons.blogspot.com/2018/10/2084-gwyneth-paltrow.html">Gwyneth Paltrow</a>’s brand</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">, and although it is huge business, it is pseudoscientific drivel to the core – Paltrow is <a href="https://www.glamour.co.za/celebrity-news/is-gwyneth-paltrow-wrong-about-everything-17301682">wrong about everything</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">, has no standards that bear any resemblance to truth or accuracy, and really, really doesn’t care. Her project is big enough, however, that Paltrow was given a series on Netflix, which she used to promote the most bullshit of nonsense and woo. Naturally, some reasonable people reacted to that, <a href="https://www.thestar.com/life/2017/07/18/meet-the-canadian-doctor-whos-taking-on-goop.html">such as Dr. Jen Gunter</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">, given that much of Paltrow’s randomly insane advice is not always mere harmless drivel but potentially dangerous. </span><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikFrEi1aMGpTms3j6S1qcCn5kOy--ymUAkfHbBiWxv1UaAXJLb2pBxhSNBgtLjRwVERj-YOQFwF7KXzYHDxCJgzK0Mc_DB8wyd3KIrYHPrgwYIlh3rXih8uQYIQe6rzvmJ80RHnCrlCYHn_5X3EAjcovhrlnfg_hsu5OM2gMissnNvOCgVPxFu1T5k/s235/Unknown.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="215" data-original-width="235" height="183" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikFrEi1aMGpTms3j6S1qcCn5kOy--ymUAkfHbBiWxv1UaAXJLb2pBxhSNBgtLjRwVERj-YOQFwF7KXzYHDxCJgzK0Mc_DB8wyd3KIrYHPrgwYIlh3rXih8uQYIQe6rzvmJ80RHnCrlCYHn_5X3EAjcovhrlnfg_hsu5OM2gMissnNvOCgVPxFu1T5k/w200-h183/Unknown.jpeg" width="200" /></a></div>And predictably enough, the criticism from the side of reason received some pushback from Paltrow’s dingbat fans. And of course, some of them couldn’t help but employ the ‘we’re-oppressed’ gambit – criticism of Paltrow by people like Jen Gunter just because Paltrow is lying is misogyny and patriarchal oppression. That was the line deployed e.g. by Jennifer Block and (successful author) Elisa Albert, in a piece in the NY Times, where they dismissed criticism of Goop by people like Jen Gunter as “<i>classic patriarchal devaluation</i>”, or <a href="https://respectfulinsolence.com/2020/02/04/block-alberts-misogyny-patriarchy-skeptics-goop/">shorter Block and Albert</a><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">: “if you don’t lay off the pseudoscience promoted by Gwyneth Paltrow’s Goop, you’re treating women and their concerns about their bodies, emotional landscapes, and physiology with disrespect and a lack of humility”.</span><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Mostly, their screed was a long exercise in <a href="https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Whataboutism">whataboutism</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">, referring to historical and misogynist practices in medicine. But they really didn’t shy away from describing the stuff Paltrow recommends, including <a href="https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Psychic">psychics</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> and <a href="http://skepdic.com/energyhealing.html">energy healing</a></span><a href="http://skepdic.com/energyhealing.html"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"></span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">, as “<i>none of which lack actually lack sound evidence of benefit</i>.” Oh, but it most certainly does; many of the claims Paltrow makes don’t rise to the level of <i>meaningful</i>, but those that do are <i>almost</i> invariably false (Block and Albert try to back up their claim with a link to a press release by a <a href="https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Reiki">reiki</a> practitioner before quickly moving their focus to the few Paltrow claims that are defensible). And of course, because Block and at least Albert were semi-celebrities, they did get their nonsense screed published – and <a href="https://respectfulinsolence.com/2020/02/04/block-alberts-misogyny-patriarchy-skeptics-goop/">deservedly attacked</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The more general and important point here, though, is this: Falling for this kind of response is to <i>walk right into the Goop trap</i>, line, hook and sinker. Paltrow’s whole marketing strategy is to use references to empowerment and feminist language (not <i>content</i>) to <i>make a huge amount of money</i> selling fraudulent bullshit. She’s a <i>parasite</i> on the feminist movement and every fight for empowerment, a leech who uses the slogans and spirit of those movements in the most cynical way to promote pseudoscientific crackpottery. She is <i>exploiting </i>women (<i>knowledge</i> is empowerment; misinformation isn’t). And useful idiots like Block and Albert prop it up by mistaking slick marketing ploys with genuine emancipatory efforts. <a href="https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/new-york-times-goop-fail/">This one</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> provides a good summery. Ultimately, it is important to keep in mind what is overwhelmingly likely going on here: It is not that Block and Albert support feminism and mistake Paltrow’s efforts as a means to empowerment; it is that Block and Albert support <a href="https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Wellness">wellness woo</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">, and use whatever means they can to promote it or at least to justify it to themselves. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Diagnosis: It was probably inevitable that someone would endorse this kind of gambit. But it is stupid, and those who use it are genuine shitfucks. </span></b></p> <p><style>@font-face {font-family:"Cambria Math"; panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:roman; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:-536870145 1107305727 0 0 415 0;}p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-unhide:no; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-parent:""; margin:0cm; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";}a:link, span.MsoHyperlink {mso-style-unhide:no; mso-style-parent:""; color:blue; text-decoration:underline; text-underline:single;}a:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed {mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; color:#954F72; mso-themecolor:followedhyperlink; text-decoration:underline; text-underline:single;}.MsoChpDefault {mso-style-type:export-only; mso-default-props:yes; font-size:10.0pt; mso-ansi-font-size:10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;}div.WordSection1 {page:WordSection1;}</style></p> <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'> <span class='post-author vcard'> Posted by <span class='fn' itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <meta content='https://www.blogger.com/profile/08875360501107597863' itemprop='url'/> <a class='g-profile' href='https://www.blogger.com/profile/08875360501107597863' rel='author' title='author profile'> <span itemprop='name'>G.D.</span> </a> </span> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <meta content='http://americanloons.blogspot.com/2022/09/2568-jennifer-block-elisa-albert.html' itemprop='url'/> <a class='timestamp-link' href='https://americanloons.blogspot.com/2022/09/2568-jennifer-block-elisa-albert.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' itemprop='datePublished' title='2022-09-20T03:34:00-04:00'>3:34 AM</abbr></a> </span> <span class='post-comment-link'> <a class='comment-link' href='https://americanloons.blogspot.com/2022/09/2568-jennifer-block-elisa-albert.html#comment-form' onclick=''> 1 comment: </a> </span> <span class='post-icons'> <span class='item-control blog-admin pid-688393608'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=414946164942126209&postID=2461799510929784355&from=pencil' title='Edit Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='18' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> </span> <div class='post-share-buttons goog-inline-block'> </div> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-2'> <span class='post-labels'> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-3'> <span class='post-location'> </span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div></div> <div class="date-outer"> <h2 class='date-header'><span>Sunday, September 18, 2022</span></h2> <div class="date-posts"> <div class='post-outer'> <div class='post hentry uncustomized-post-template' itemprop='blogPost' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <meta content='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisl2t_9tMWj-1RBtBlN1hHqXErJeyMw4cwOpUsEjPCcypm0HwWnD03oFqXA_xb2ilDq3bbVPCkeZVVVHDe0uHxU0FAidPUDAHuKzDLKttw_-vexSAR-SN7G6z1W6yf9lYMmyH8Eg3GaKwfbt-GU1zJCmcK1nNT9RZgKIOV7JR5XKVWoUwLLggp1VbO/w200-h112/Unknown.jpeg' itemprop='image_url'/> <meta content='414946164942126209' itemprop='blogId'/> <meta content='4318985928564264290' itemprop='postId'/> <a name='4318985928564264290'></a> <h3 class='post-title entry-title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://americanloons.blogspot.com/2022/09/2567-bethany-blankley.html'>#2567: Bethany Blankley</a> </h3> <div class='post-header'> <div class='post-header-line-1'></div> </div> <div class='post-body entry-content' id='post-body-4318985928564264290' itemprop='description articleBody'> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisl2t_9tMWj-1RBtBlN1hHqXErJeyMw4cwOpUsEjPCcypm0HwWnD03oFqXA_xb2ilDq3bbVPCkeZVVVHDe0uHxU0FAidPUDAHuKzDLKttw_-vexSAR-SN7G6z1W6yf9lYMmyH8Eg3GaKwfbt-GU1zJCmcK1nNT9RZgKIOV7JR5XKVWoUwLLggp1VbO/s300/Unknown.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="168" data-original-width="300" height="112" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisl2t_9tMWj-1RBtBlN1hHqXErJeyMw4cwOpUsEjPCcypm0HwWnD03oFqXA_xb2ilDq3bbVPCkeZVVVHDe0uHxU0FAidPUDAHuKzDLKttw_-vexSAR-SN7G6z1W6yf9lYMmyH8Eg3GaKwfbt-GU1zJCmcK1nNT9RZgKIOV7JR5XKVWoUwLLggp1VbO/w200-h112/Unknown.jpeg" width="200" /></a></div>Bethany Blankley is “<i>a conservative political analyst and columnist who regularly appears on Fox News Radio</i>”, currently writer for the Center Square, and a hardcore, Taliban-style theocrat deeply influenced by people like <a href="https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/WallBuilders">David Barton</a><a href="https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/WallBuilders"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"></span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> and occasionally taking Barton’s <a href="http://www.liarsforjesus.com/index.html">inaccuracies, lies and general drivel</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> one step further.</span><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">For instance, in an article at the Christian Post, Blankley explains the relationship between the Ten Commandments and Constitutional and human rights, saying for instance of the various commandments that [beyond messing up the numbering]:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">-<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">       </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">“<i>Religious freedom and self-governance are defined in the First Commandment</i>”. Well, that <i>strict ban on having other gods</i> is what fundies mean by <a href="https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Religious_freedom">religious freedom</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> is rather explanatory.</span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">-<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">       </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">“<i>family governance in the Second</i>”. Just think about it. Blankley obviously didn’t (if she did, she’d be even more insane than we make her out to be).</span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">-<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">       </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">“<i>private property rights in the Fifth</i>”. One would think a ban on theft hardly <i>defines</i> private property rights but <i>presupposes</i> it, but to think that distinction makes sense to someone like Blankley would be almost as silly as conflating that distinction.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Most of the ten Commandments are of course unconstitutional to enforce in the US. To someone like Blankley, who understands neither the Commandments nor the Constitution (nor history, nor thinking), “<i>the founding fathers knew</i>” in their hearts the Biblical commands <a href="https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/The_United_States_as_a_Christian_nation">and shaped the US in their image</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> rather than the opposite. For more of her deep, deep confusions, see <a href="https://www.patheos.com/blogs/dispatches/2014/12/03/the-dumbest-christian-nation-argument-ever/">this</a>.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Blankley was also a champion of Donald Trump (“<i>a Cyrus or a Paul</i>”) <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/right-wing-bonus-tracks-32416/">due to his Christian virtues</a></span><a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/right-wing-bonus-tracks-32416/"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"></span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">, as opposed to e.g. Hillary Clinton (“<i>a worse successor of America’s current nemesis, Ahab: an evil queen Jezebel</i>”). For comparison, even <a href="https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Bryan_Fischer"><i>Bryan Fischer</i></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> recognized Trump’s meanness and lack of virtue (though he voted for him anyways … or perhaps rather precisely for that reason). In 2015, <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/right-wing-bonus-tracks-10915/">Blankley published</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> a list of 46 senators who “<i>should be tried for treason</i>” because they disagree with her (and by extension: God) on politics.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Blankley is not fond of gay marriage, either. You can read about her distaste for rainbow doritos <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/right-wing-bonus-tracks-92115/">here</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">. We feel no particular inclination to repost it, but it tells you quite a bit about what Blankley is thinking about and how.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">More recently, her columns have tended to focus on raging against COVID-19 restrictions and vaccine mandates because <a href="https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Health_freedom">health freedom</a>, as well as against measures to combat climate change. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Diagnosis: There are so many of these, and Bethany Blankley is overall relatively undistinguished. Still.</span></b></p> <p><style>@font-face {font-family:Wingdings; panose-1:5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0; mso-font-charset:2; mso-generic-font-family:decorative; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:3 268435456 0 0 -2147483647 0;}@font-face {font-family:"Cambria Math"; panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:roman; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:-536870145 1107305727 0 0 415 0;}p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-unhide:no; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-parent:""; margin:0cm; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";}a:link, span.MsoHyperlink {mso-style-unhide:no; mso-style-parent:""; color:blue; text-decoration:underline; text-underline:single;}a:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed {mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; color:#954F72; mso-themecolor:followedhyperlink; text-decoration:underline; text-underline:single;}p.MsoListParagraph, li.MsoListParagraph, div.MsoListParagraph {mso-style-unhide:no; 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mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-type:export-only; margin-top:0cm; margin-right:0cm; margin-bottom:0cm; margin-left:36.0pt; mso-add-space:auto; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";}.MsoChpDefault {mso-style-type:export-only; mso-default-props:yes; font-size:10.0pt; mso-ansi-font-size:10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;}div.WordSection1 {page:WordSection1;}ol {margin-bottom:0cm;}ul {margin-bottom:0cm;}</style></p> <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'> <span class='post-author vcard'> Posted by <span class='fn' itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <meta content='https://www.blogger.com/profile/08875360501107597863' itemprop='url'/> <a class='g-profile' href='https://www.blogger.com/profile/08875360501107597863' rel='author' title='author profile'> <span itemprop='name'>G.D.</span> </a> </span> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <meta content='http://americanloons.blogspot.com/2022/09/2567-bethany-blankley.html' itemprop='url'/> <a class='timestamp-link' href='https://americanloons.blogspot.com/2022/09/2567-bethany-blankley.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' itemprop='datePublished' title='2022-09-18T14:49:00-04:00'>2:49 PM</abbr></a> </span> <span class='post-comment-link'> <a class='comment-link' href='https://americanloons.blogspot.com/2022/09/2567-bethany-blankley.html#comment-form' onclick=''> 1 comment: </a> </span> <span class='post-icons'> <span class='item-control blog-admin pid-688393608'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=414946164942126209&postID=4318985928564264290&from=pencil' title='Edit Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='18' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> </span> <div class='post-share-buttons goog-inline-block'> </div> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-2'> <span class='post-labels'> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-3'> <span class='post-location'> </span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div></div> <div class="date-outer"> <h2 class='date-header'><span>Thursday, September 15, 2022</span></h2> <div class="date-posts"> <div class='post-outer'> <div class='post hentry uncustomized-post-template' itemprop='blogPost' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <meta content='414946164942126209' itemprop='blogId'/> <meta content='6403320610004625915' itemprop='postId'/> <a name='6403320610004625915'></a> <h3 class='post-title entry-title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://americanloons.blogspot.com/2022/09/2566-kirk-blankenship.html'>#2566: Kirk Blankenship</a> </h3> <div class='post-header'> <div class='post-header-line-1'></div> </div> <div class='post-body entry-content' id='post-body-6403320610004625915' itemprop='description articleBody'> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Kirk Blankenship is Associate Pastor at Meadowview Reformed Presbyterian Church. And Blankenship is a <a href="https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Creationism">creationist</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">. He wants public schools to <a href="https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Teach_the_controversy">“teach both sides”</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> of what he <a href="https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Manufactroversy">perceives to be the evolution–creation debate</a></span><a href="https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Manufactroversy"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"></span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">, which is not a scientific debate but which he confuses not only with a scientific debate but with a debate over atheism vs theism. In other words, Blankenship maintains a very simple worldview where all distinctions map nicely onto each other. He needs his worldview to be simple.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">So in his letter-to-the-editor s in <i>The Dispatch</i> of Lexington, North Carolina <a href="https://sensuouscurmudgeon.wordpress.com/2015/01/15/creationist-wisdom-508-preacher-teacher/">titled ‘Writers are dogmatic’</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">, he bemoans the narrow-mindedness of freethinkers and recounts his own stint as a … science teacher in public schools and the errors and lies he himself chose to tell his students. For instance, Blankenship <a href="https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Quote_mining">quote-mined</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> Darwin by attributing to him a claim admitting that problems (e.g. lack of transitional forms) “<i>would be fatal to the theory</i>.” That of course, was Darwin’s description of an <i>objection</i>, to which Darwin also <a href="https://literature.org/authors/darwin-charles/the-origin-of-species/chapter-09.html">responded comprehensively</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> (the current status of the record of transitional fossils <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_transitional_fossils">is also pretty impressive</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">, contrary to what Blankenship told his students). He also repeated a standard, dishonest creationist <a href="http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/quotes/mine/part1-2.html">quote mining of Stephen J. Gould</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Even worse, he said “<i>When I was teaching science to sixth-graders, they learned that part of the scientific method is being able to perform a repeatable experiment</i>.” And this is so dumb a misunderstanding of science that you know you are talking to a deranged creationist. No, science isn’t necessarily experimential, and – more importantly – “repeatability” refers to the possibility or <i>repeating the observation</i>, not repeating <i>the phenomenon the observation is evidence for</i>. That other scientists find the same kinds of fossils in the same layers is <i>successful satisfaction of the principle of repeatability</i>! Blankenship, of course, is just parroting the misunderstandings over at <a href="https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Answers_in_Genesis">Answers in Genesis</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">. He has no real idea about what’s going on about anything. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Diagnosis: Denialist moron, supremely unfit for instructing anyone about anything. A minor but harmful figure whose background in public schools is terrifying.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Hat-tip: <a href="https://sensuouscurmudgeon.wordpress.com/2015/01/15/creationist-wisdom-508-preacher-teacher/">Sensuous Curmudgeon</a> <br /></span></p> <p><style>@font-face {font-family:"Cambria Math"; panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:roman; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:-536870145 1107305727 0 0 415 0;}p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-unhide:no; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-parent:""; margin:0cm; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";}a:link, span.MsoHyperlink {mso-style-unhide:no; mso-style-parent:""; color:blue; text-decoration:underline; text-underline:single;}a:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed {mso-style-noshow:yes; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhELDQq3rpnN3Rejf2nR_GaWH13nLjsIOYD0mJTZIWY_vbBcx_PynrxagfdXRacyHQ5Uo5mtIao7ZMG21m25juWT2OENB2H2hDbN83jyrP27vyEWm8bIPXy_6_G5S59JRY_Ah8ExIOf62IWb_i3wQIGlPdjLELLN9j6rfSLxw-igRgJMtbOLIDecNxu/s260/Unknown.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="260" data-original-width="194" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhELDQq3rpnN3Rejf2nR_GaWH13nLjsIOYD0mJTZIWY_vbBcx_PynrxagfdXRacyHQ5Uo5mtIao7ZMG21m25juWT2OENB2H2hDbN83jyrP27vyEWm8bIPXy_6_G5S59JRY_Ah8ExIOf62IWb_i3wQIGlPdjLELLN9j6rfSLxw-igRgJMtbOLIDecNxu/w149-h200/Unknown.jpeg" width="149" /></a></div>Donald Leon Blankenship is an American business executive and (unsuccessful) political candidate. Blankenship is most famous as Chairman and CEO of the Massey Energy Company from 2000 until an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upper_Big_Branch_Mine_disaster">explosion at the Upper Big Branch coal mine</a> in 2010<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> killed 29 miners, cost him his position and landed him in jail for conspiring to willfully violate mine safety and health standards. He tried to run on the <a href="https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Constitution_Party">Constitution Party</a></span><a href="https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Constitution_Party"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"></span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> ticket in 2018 on a platform consisting mostly of opposing mining safety and environmental measures, as well as claiming that he was innocent of his crimes and would have walked free <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/right-wing-bonus-tracks-possessed-by-evil-spirits/">were it not for dirty politics and conspiracies</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">. Blankenship is otherwise an absolutely horrible human being, to the point of functioning quite well as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Blankenship#Controversies">a straightforward parody of a cartoon villain</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">.</span><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">His political campaigns have to a large extent targeted environmental “<i>crazies</i>” and “<i>greeniacs</i>”. Blankenship is of course a <a href="https://skepticalscience.com/">climate change denier</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> (“<i>I don’t believe climate change is real</i>”, saying “<i>Why should we trust a report by the United Nations? The United Nations includes countries like Venezuela, North Korea and Iran</i>” – one could point out that these countries also believe in <i>gravity</i>, but that might give him ideas). According to Blankenship “<i>the environmental movement isn’t a great cause, it’s a great business</i>”, as opposed to his own coal industry. In 2018, he modified himself a little, admitting that “<i>climate change is probably a fact</i>” but that <i>American-made</i> climate change is not, it’s just China’s contributions that actually lead to climate change.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">He also <a href="https://www.theintelligencer.net/news/top-headlines/2018/03/senate-candidate-and-former-coal-ceo-don-blankenship-considers-conviction-a-badge-of-honor-in-west-virginia/">rejects mainstream views on mine safety</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">, arguing against government airheads telling mining companies what to do: mining companies themselves are way better suited to the task and should have less oversight: “<i>Washington and state politicians have no idea how to improve miners’ safety</i>.” (The quote is from 2009, the year before the Upper Big Branch explosion.)</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">During his 2018 campaign, Blankenship tried to <a href="http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/386484-blankenship-im-trumpier-than-trump">promote himself as “<i>Trumpier than Trump</i>”</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> but complained that the establishment was pushing misinformation about him because they felt threatened. His campaign <a href="https://www.politico.com/story/2018/05/03/blankenship-mcconnell-china-568305">targeted in particular Mitch McConnell</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">, for instance by <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2018/05/04/the-kooky-tale-of-cocaine-mitch/">stating that</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> McConnell’s wife Elaine Chao was <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/04/chinaperson-and-the-sanitization-of-a-racial-slur/558989/">a “<i>China person</i>”</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> (when asked whether <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/don-blankenship-explains-cocaine-mitch-mcconnell-by-blaming-his-chinese-wife-for-drug-smuggling?source=articles&via=rss">the comment</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> was racist, Blankenship said it wasn’t, because <a href="https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/05/don-blankenship-uses-negro-in-race-discussion-after-china-person-ad.html">the Chinese are not a race</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">: “<i>Races are Negro, White Caucasian, Hispanic, and Asian</i>”. So there you go.) He also got into some controversy over <a href="https://thinkprogress.org/blankenship-racist-attack-ad-97b8acd4479f/">repeatedly calling</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> Mitch McConnell “<i>cocaine Mitch</i>”, relying a conspiracy theory based on conflating an <a href="https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/cocaine-mitch/">impressive number of degrees of separation</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> (Trump himself <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/07/us/politics/don-blankenship-trump-west-virginia.html">endorsed Blankenship’s opponent</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">).</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Diagnosis: A piece of absolutely putrid rot. One of the vilest pieces of garbage alive today. Absolutely everything, on every possible level, is wrong with this excuse for a person.</span></b></p> <p><style>@font-face {font-family:"Cambria Math"; panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:roman; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:-536870145 1107305727 0 0 415 0;}p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-unhide:no; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-parent:""; margin:0cm; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";}a:link, span.MsoHyperlink {mso-style-unhide:no; mso-style-parent:""; color:blue; text-decoration:underline; text-underline:single;}a:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed {mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; color:#954F72; mso-themecolor:followedhyperlink; text-decoration:underline; text-underline:single;}.MsoChpDefault {mso-style-type:export-only; mso-default-props:yes; font-size:10.0pt; mso-ansi-font-size:10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;}div.WordSection1 {page:WordSection1;}</style></p> <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'> <span class='post-author vcard'> Posted by <span class='fn' itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <meta content='https://www.blogger.com/profile/08875360501107597863' itemprop='url'/> <a class='g-profile' href='https://www.blogger.com/profile/08875360501107597863' rel='author' title='author profile'> <span itemprop='name'>G.D.</span> </a> </span> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <meta content='http://americanloons.blogspot.com/2022/09/2565-don-blankenship.html' itemprop='url'/> <a class='timestamp-link' href='https://americanloons.blogspot.com/2022/09/2565-don-blankenship.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' itemprop='datePublished' title='2022-09-11T08:26:00-04:00'>8:26 AM</abbr></a> </span> <span class='post-comment-link'> <a class='comment-link' href='https://americanloons.blogspot.com/2022/09/2565-don-blankenship.html#comment-form' onclick=''> 2 comments: </a> </span> <span class='post-icons'> <span class='item-control blog-admin pid-688393608'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=414946164942126209&postID=5247802247872192064&from=pencil' title='Edit Post'> <img alt='' class='icon-action' height='18' src='https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif' width='18'/> </a> </span> </span> <div class='post-share-buttons goog-inline-block'> </div> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-2'> <span class='post-labels'> </span> </div> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-3'> <span class='post-location'> </span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div></div> <div class="date-outer"> <h2 class='date-header'><span>Thursday, September 8, 2022</span></h2> <div class="date-posts"> <div class='post-outer'> <div class='post hentry uncustomized-post-template' itemprop='blogPost' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <meta content='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7F1DSVeGQTBsggwT7_s9b0rudkThK45V8t6HB6v2_UNugxXqs4wHxnDz5tpBbMKlRvkv5ThzGI9M89_mtlojI99jSi0ny4uPIUZ-Px_U9DFyW9kAaNfyQHNuhNdfdQ_9PZJYi0vvh81EZcq5Zt7w1cVAxWiTnXmyJo42UW6mBvReDBBQ_1T0vurTL/w200-h112/Unknown.jpeg' itemprop='image_url'/> <meta content='414946164942126209' itemprop='blogId'/> <meta content='4363526348653693198' itemprop='postId'/> <a name='4363526348653693198'></a> <h3 class='post-title entry-title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://americanloons.blogspot.com/2022/09/2564-jeffrey-bland.html'>#2564: Jeffrey Bland</a> </h3> <div class='post-header'> <div class='post-header-line-1'></div> </div> <div class='post-body entry-content' id='post-body-4363526348653693198' itemprop='description articleBody'> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7F1DSVeGQTBsggwT7_s9b0rudkThK45V8t6HB6v2_UNugxXqs4wHxnDz5tpBbMKlRvkv5ThzGI9M89_mtlojI99jSi0ny4uPIUZ-Px_U9DFyW9kAaNfyQHNuhNdfdQ_9PZJYi0vvh81EZcq5Zt7w1cVAxWiTnXmyJo42UW6mBvReDBBQ_1T0vurTL/s300/Unknown.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="168" data-original-width="300" height="112" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7F1DSVeGQTBsggwT7_s9b0rudkThK45V8t6HB6v2_UNugxXqs4wHxnDz5tpBbMKlRvkv5ThzGI9M89_mtlojI99jSi0ny4uPIUZ-Px_U9DFyW9kAaNfyQHNuhNdfdQ_9PZJYi0vvh81EZcq5Zt7w1cVAxWiTnXmyJo42UW6mBvReDBBQ_1T0vurTL/w200-h112/Unknown.jpeg" width="200" /></a></div>It’s pretty clear that Christopher Blair, the guy who runs <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/nothing-on-this-page-is-real-how-lies-become-truth-in-online-america/2018/11/17/edd44cc8-e85a-11e8-bbdb-72fdbf9d4fed_story.html"><i>America’s Last Line of Defense</i></a><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">, is – <a href="https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Last_Line_of_Defense">whatever he is</a></span><a href="https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Last_Line_of_Defense"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"></span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> – not exactly a loon. Jeffrey Bland is. Well, probably.</span><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Bland is the father of <a href="https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/functional-medicine-the-ultimate-misnomer-in-the-world-of-integrative-medicine/"><i>functional medicine</i></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">, a <a href="https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/functional-medicine-in-practice/">form of quackery</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> that encompasses a large number of <a href="https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/cleveland-clinic-publishes-functional-medicine/">unproven and disproven methods and treatments backed by pseudoscience</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">, <a href="https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Anecdotal_evidence">anecdotes</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">, hunches and conspiracy theories. Bland even readily admits that there is no evidence base: “<i>Unfortunately, <a href="https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Special_pleading">current research models do not have a way to test</a></i></span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> each individualized, patient-centered therapeutic plan that is tailored to a person with a unique combination of existing conditions, genetic influences, environmental exposures, and lifestyle choices</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">”, <a href="https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/functional-medicine-the-ultimate-misnomer-in-the-world-of-integrative-medicine/">says Bland</a></span><a href="https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/functional-medicine-the-ultimate-misnomer-in-the-world-of-integrative-medicine/"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"></span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">. <a href="https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/precision-medicine-hope-hype-or-both/">It is not true that there is noway of testing their claims</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> (and no, human biochemistry really isn’t that individual, even if we all want to feel special, and they could of course just <i>test whether their individualized plans worked … but of course they won’t</i>), and yes: the claim it’s really just a simple and feeble “get out of jail free” card and the same excuse quacks always use to not have to rely on evidence and instead do what they want and making it up as they go, <a href="https://respectfulinsolence.com/2016/04/18/the-quackery-of-so-called-functional-medicine-making-it-up-as-you-go-along/">which is exactly what they do</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">. That it also means that they <i>have</i> no evidence for their recommendations is left unsaid.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Allegedly, functional medicine focuses on the “<a href="https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/the-ethics-of-cam-more-harm-than-good/"><i>root causes</i></a>”</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">, <a href="https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/aafp-functional-medicine-lacks-supporting-evidence-includes-harmful-and-dangerous-treatments/">which is false</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> on any interpretation of ‘root’ and ‘cause’, based on purported interactions between the environment and the gastrointestinal, endocrine, and immune systems … but really based on <a href="https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/cleveland-clinic-genetic-experts-call-out-functional-medicine-on-worthless-genetic-testing-and-supplement-prescribing/">the opportunity to prescribe a number of useless and expensive tests</a></span><a href="https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/cleveland-clinic-genetic-experts-call-out-functional-medicine-on-worthless-genetic-testing-and-supplement-prescribing/"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"></span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">. As response to whatever they deem to be the root cause, functional medicine proponents develop “<i>individualized treatment plans</i>”, i.e. not based it on cold, hard, impersonal facts, but <a href="(https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/functional-medicine-reams-of-useless-tests-in-one-hand-a-huge-invoice-in-the-other/">whatever suits the interests of the practitioners at the momen</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><a href="(https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/functional-medicine-reams-of-useless-tests-in-one-hand-a-huge-invoice-in-the-other/">t</a>. There are decent primers on functional medicine <a href="https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/fuctional-medicine-fm-what-is-it/">here</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> and <a href="https://www.skeptic.com/reading_room/why-functional-medicine-is-bogus/">here</a></span><a href="https://www.skeptic.com/reading_room/why-functional-medicine-is-bogus/"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"></span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">That said, it is really hard to pin down precisely what functional medicine is supposed to be – it’s usually defined in terms of thoroughly vague, <a href="https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/bill-and-hillary-clinton-go-woo-with-mark-hyman-and-functional-medicine/">largely metaphorical terms</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> like “taking a whole-patient perspective” and “<i>imbalances</i>” in hormones and neurotransmitters – expressions that could mean anything and which functional medicine providers accordingly use to mean whatever they fancy. <a href="https://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2016/03/02/quackademic-medicine-wildly-successful-at-the-cleveland-clinic">According to Bland himself</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">, “<i>disease appears real and fixed, just as the earth seems flat, and time and space seem linear and solid</i>.” Apparently that is part of <a href="https://respectfulinsolence.com/2018/10/26/functional-medicine-fm-quackery-dissected/">a paradigm-shifting insight</a></span><a href="https://respectfulinsolence.com/2018/10/26/functional-medicine-fm-quackery-dissected/"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"></span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">. In reality, it is new age guru gobbledygock, nothing else. But <a href="https://www.sas.upenn.edu/~baron/journal/15/15923a/jdm15923a.pdf)">that kind of stuff has a rather significant audience</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Since 2014, the Cleveland Clinic has despite everything <a href="https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/quackademia-update-2014/">sported a Center for Functional Medicine</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">. Functional medicine remains pure quackery. But there is money in it, and what centers the Cleveland Clinic hosts is not decided by its medical personnel, far less by anyone working in science. It’s <a href="https://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2016/03/02/quackademic-medicine-wildly-successful-at-the-cleveland-clinic">apparently been very popular</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Bland founded The Institute for Functional Medicine (IFM) in the early 1990s as part of one of his companies HealthComm. Bland is not a medical doctor but a former chemist and <a href="https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/supplements-still-popular-despite-little-evidence-theyre-useful/">dietary supplement</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> hawker, whose companies have been <a href="https://www.skeptic.com/reading_room/why-functional-medicine-is-bogus/">fined an impressive number of times</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> by the FTC and FDA and have been <a href="https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/functional-medicine-ii/">ordered to stop making medical claims for their products</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">. At least the Nu-Day Diet Program and the UltraClear dietary program were obvious scams: they were <a href="https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Panacea">falsely claimed to</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> reduce the incidence and severity of symptoms associated with gastrointestinal problems, inflammatory or immunologic problems, fatigue, food allergies, mercury exposure, kidney disorders, and rheumatoid arthritis. Later, Bland’s company Metagenics got in trouble for falsely claiming that their products UltraClear®, UltraMeal®, UltraInflamX™, and UltraGlycemX™ , promoted e.g. for “<i>Support of Metabolic <a href="https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/detox-what-they-dont-want-you-to-know-2/">Detoxification</a></i>”</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">, were medical foods rather than bullshit. You can read more about Bland’s colorful adventures in the fields of fraud, scam, and con artistry <a href="https://quackwatch.org/consumer-education/bland/">here</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">. The IFM was arguably founded precisely to push the kinds of supplements Bland <a href="https://quackwatch.org/consumer-education/bland/">used to get in trouble for</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">, and the reason it is hard to pin down what functional medicine <i>is</i>, is presumably exactly because it was invented precisely as a ploy for Bland to sell his supplements.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Bland was also on the board of directors for Keats Publishing, possibly America’s most prolific publisher of questionable information about health, nutrition, and “alternative” health methods at least prior to the 2000s. <a href="https://quackwatch.org/consumer-education/bland/">He was also</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> on the “medical advisory board” of Healthshop, an online supplement recommending fraud and spam website. Also before he decided to invent functional medicine, Bland was a central promoter of nutritional supplements and gave talks to and adviced a range of rather influential quack cults trying to pose as legitimate medical associations, such as the Council on Nutrition (a <a href="https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Chiropractic">chiropractic</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> organization – Bland and functional medicine <a href="https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/the-dc-as-pcp-drug-wars-resume/">remains popular with chiropractors</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">, apparently). <a href="https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/harvard-medical-school-veritas-for-sale-part-ii/">He is even on</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> the Advisory Board of <a href="http://americanloons.blogspot.com/2013/02/412-julian-whitaker.html">Julian Whitaker</a>’s</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> lobbying organization known as the <a href="https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Health_freedom">American Association of Health Freedom</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> (AAHF). But of course he is. Ask him about his views on vaccines.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">What’s thoroughly scary, though, is that even in 2015, the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education would accredit organizations like The Institute for Functional Medicine, with speakers like Bland, <a href="https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/learning-quackery-for-continuing-medical-education-credit/">for continuing medical education credits</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">. He is regularly featured as a speaker by organizations and <a href="https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/a-report-from-the-bariatric-trenches/">groups that really should know better</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Diagnosis: One of the most influential quacks in the US, Bland is most of all a kind of spineless guru who seems to have evolved from cynically employing any scheme possible to push his supplements to becoming something like a true believer in whatever he makes up as he goes along. Yes, it’s hard to believe that he takes his own helpless metaphorical gestures seriously, but he seems to do. </span></b></p><p><style>@font-face {font-family:"Cambria Math"; panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:roman; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:-536870145 1107305727 0 0 415 0;}p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-unhide:no; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-parent:""; margin:0cm; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";}a:link, span.MsoHyperlink {mso-style-unhide:no; mso-style-parent:""; color:blue; text-decoration:underline; text-underline:single;}a:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed {mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; color:#954F72; mso-themecolor:followedhyperlink; text-decoration:underline; text-underline:single;}.MsoChpDefault {mso-style-type:export-only; mso-default-props:yes; font-size:10.0pt; mso-ansi-font-size:10.0pt; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6nRNTTMlf3dS2kJp5ETOQ-1rW-v1u2gmj7iDFmN1dyKvh6YrVNYuWpWAkjvmxaVuEFev0aknU7Y65zZgeAIZPZq-n7AuAp3LAqmo56g7hqs2bZFfkEyPVXejHXMsIi4mCq180nYA4t9NGSEFrSqwNP6lsNHHpkus4Xt-6LJODOGIdDRdKOkpI0x8z/s275/Unknown.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="275" data-original-width="183" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6nRNTTMlf3dS2kJp5ETOQ-1rW-v1u2gmj7iDFmN1dyKvh6YrVNYuWpWAkjvmxaVuEFev0aknU7Y65zZgeAIZPZq-n7AuAp3LAqmo56g7hqs2bZFfkEyPVXejHXMsIi4mCq180nYA4t9NGSEFrSqwNP6lsNHHpkus4Xt-6LJODOGIdDRdKOkpI0x8z/w133-h200/Unknown.jpeg" width="133" /></a></div>Gus Blackwell is a former member of the Oklahoma House of Representatives, from 2002 to 2014, representing the 61st district, after having spent 20 years with the Oklahoma Baptist General Convention – he is also a Campus Minister with Baptist Collegiate Ministries. (His tenure, by the way, ended precisely <a href="https://www.pressreader.com/usa/tulsa-world/20170119/281878708077694">one of the ways you’d expect from someone like him</a><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">). During his tenure, though, Blackwell campaigned ardently to destroy Oklahoma public education and, in particular, to replace <i>science</i> with his own favorite religious views in science classes. For instance, in 2012 <a href="https://sensuouscurmudgeon.wordpress.com/2012/02/22/oklahoma-creationism-sally-kerns-bill-returns/">Blackwell resurrected</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> <a href="http://americanloons.blogspot.com/2013/12/826-sally-kern.html">Sally Kern</a>’s</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> <a href="https://sensuouscurmudgeon.wordpress.com/2011/01/20/oklahomas-2nd-creationism-bill-for-2011/">House Bill 1551</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">, which would encourage students to “<i>explore alternative theories on controversial areas such as evolution and global warming</i>”, topics that are, of course, not scientifically controversial at all, but on which wingnuts don’t like the facts for religious reasons. The measure passed the Education Committee on a 9-7 vote (this is Oklahoma, remember) and headed on to the House floor before, apparently, dying.</span><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Blackwell <a href="https://sensuouscurmudgeon.wordpress.com/2014/02/18/oklahomas-second-creationism-bill-for-2014/">was at it again in 2013 and 2014</a></span><a href="https://sensuouscurmudgeon.wordpress.com/2014/02/18/oklahomas-second-creationism-bill-for-2014/"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"></span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">, this time with <a href="https://sensuouscurmudgeon.wordpress.com/2013/01/20/oklahoma-blackwells-2013-creationism-bill/">House Bill 1674</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> (with Kern, <a href="http://americanloons.blogspot.com/2013/04/521-josh-brecheen.html">Josh Brecheen</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> and Arthur Hulbert), which was closely modelled on the <a href="https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Discovery_Institute">Discovery Institute</a>’s</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> <a href="https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Academic_Freedom_Act">Academic Freedom Act</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> designed, explicitly, to provide a <a href="https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Wedge_Strategy">wedge</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> for teaching <a href="https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Creationism">creationism</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> in public schools. The bill (more <a href="https://ncse.ngo/antiscience-bill-passes-oklahoma-house">here</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">) even explicitly employed <a href="https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Teach_the_controversy">“strengths and weaknesses” language</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> and did, of course, focus heavily on <i>critical thinking</i>, something neither Blackwell nor the bill’s supporter has any real familiarity with – just like evolution or climate change, really. Blackwell clearly wouldn’t wish for Oklahoma students to become good critical thinkers. It <a href="https://sensuouscurmudgeon.wordpress.com/2014/03/04/oklahomas-2nd-creationism-bill-passes-house/">passed the Oklahoma House of Representatives on a 79-6</a> vote</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> before <a href="https://ncse.ngo/two-down-oklahoma">dying (from inactivity) in the Senate</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> – though it had supporters there, <a href="https://sensuouscurmudgeon.wordpress.com/2014/04/04/oklahomas-2nd-2014-creationism-bill-its-dead/">the bill was also obviously unconstitutional</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">, and the job of the Senate is, after all, in part to ensure that the State doesn’t get embroiled in legal battles that the State <i>will</i> lose. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Diagnosis: To quote the Sensuous Curmudgeon: “A creationist politician usually falls into one of three categories: (1) he does what he does because he fears the Lake of Fire; (2) he’s a hopeless imbecile; or (3) he has no beliefs, but he would cheerfully support creationism, sell his mother, or do anything else to win an election.” Blackwell would fall in all three categories. And he’s not alone: Oklahoma has a long, long history of introducing such bills. 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<a class='post-count-link' href='https://americanloons.blogspot.com/2023/02/'> February </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(9)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://americanloons.blogspot.com/2023/01/'> January </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(10)</span> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate expanded'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy toggle-open'> ▼  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://americanloons.blogspot.com/2022/'> 2022 </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(98)</span> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://americanloons.blogspot.com/2022/12/'> December </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(8)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://americanloons.blogspot.com/2022/11/'> November </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(11)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://americanloons.blogspot.com/2022/10/'> October </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(12)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate expanded'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy toggle-open'> ▼  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://americanloons.blogspot.com/2022/09/'> September </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(9)</span> <ul class='posts'> <li><a 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href='https://americanloons.blogspot.com/2022/09/2563-gus-blackwell.html'>#2563: Gus Blackwell</a></li> </ul> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://americanloons.blogspot.com/2022/08/'> August </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(8)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://americanloons.blogspot.com/2022/07/'> July </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(7)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://americanloons.blogspot.com/2022/06/'> June </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(7)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://americanloons.blogspot.com/2022/05/'> May </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(7)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://americanloons.blogspot.com/2022/04/'> April </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(8)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://americanloons.blogspot.com/2022/03/'> March </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(9)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a 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dir='ltr'>(6)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://americanloons.blogspot.com/2021/11/'> November </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(6)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://americanloons.blogspot.com/2021/10/'> October </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(8)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://americanloons.blogspot.com/2021/09/'> September </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(5)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' 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href='https://americanloons.blogspot.com/2021/05/'> May </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(5)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://americanloons.blogspot.com/2021/04/'> April </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(10)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://americanloons.blogspot.com/2021/03/'> March </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(13)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://americanloons.blogspot.com/2021/02/'> February </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(11)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://americanloons.blogspot.com/2021/01/'> January </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(11)</span> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://americanloons.blogspot.com/2020/'> 2020 </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(134)</span> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://americanloons.blogspot.com/2020/12/'> December </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(11)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> 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dir='ltr'>(11)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://americanloons.blogspot.com/2020/07/'> July </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(12)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://americanloons.blogspot.com/2020/06/'> June </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(12)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://americanloons.blogspot.com/2020/05/'> May </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(11)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> 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class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://americanloons.blogspot.com/2019/10/'> October </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(13)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://americanloons.blogspot.com/2019/09/'> September </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(11)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://americanloons.blogspot.com/2019/08/'> August </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(14)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://americanloons.blogspot.com/2019/07/'> July </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(10)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://americanloons.blogspot.com/2019/06/'> June </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(13)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://americanloons.blogspot.com/2019/05/'> May </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(17)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://americanloons.blogspot.com/2019/04/'> April </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(15)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://americanloons.blogspot.com/2019/03/'> March </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(16)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://americanloons.blogspot.com/2019/02/'> February </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(12)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://americanloons.blogspot.com/2019/01/'> January </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(14)</span> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span 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class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://americanloons.blogspot.com/2015/04/'> April </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(23)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://americanloons.blogspot.com/2015/03/'> March </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(30)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://americanloons.blogspot.com/2015/02/'> February </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(26)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> 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dir='ltr'>(28)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://americanloons.blogspot.com/2014/10/'> October </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(29)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://americanloons.blogspot.com/2014/09/'> September </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(25)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> ►  </span> </a> <a class='post-count-link' href='https://americanloons.blogspot.com/2014/08/'> August </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(8)</span> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' 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