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A woman should have the right to be in the home as a wife and mother.” She is the founder and head of the extremist rightwing, creationist, antivaxx, dominionist group the <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/eagle-forum-wonders-arizona-state-promoting-left-wing-agenda">Eagle Forum</a> (this <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/eagle-forum-nazi-hunters">one</a> on the connection between nazism and the welfare state, is particularly pertinent), and described by her neighbor as “an exponent of an extreme right-wing philosophy – a propagandist who deals in emotion and personalities where it is not necessary to establish facts or prove charges.”</div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> Schlafly’s work was pivotal in the victory of the “pro-family” <a href="http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,945990-1,00.html">movement</a> over the Equal Rights Amendment, which according to her would have led to “homosexual schoolteachers and unisex bathrooms” as well as many other ills. For instance, she laments the loss of “real men” who went to war to save damsels in distress, men <a href="http://freethoughtblogs.com/dispatches/2012/05/24/dumbass-quote-of-the-day-17/">like</a> the draft dodging wife beater John Wayne. </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> Schlafly, the heroine of the <a href="http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Values_Voter_Debate_2007">Values Voter Debate</a>, is a published author of nine books, three-time candidate for the U.S. Congress, a full-time law student at Washington University in St. Louis, editor of a monthly newsletter, a twice-a-week syndicated newspaper columnist, regular speaker at anti-liberal rallies, and employs a full-time housekeeper to take care of her mansion – in other words, she follows her anti-emancipatory <a href="http://scienceblogs.com/dispatches/2010/08/dumbass_quote_of_the_day_185.php">arguments</a> and consistently claims that women should stay at home as the Bible requires, by setting a splendid <a href="http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Hypocrisy">example</a>. Like her son Andy, Phyllis generally use “liberal” and “feminist” pejoratively, usually in connection with things she doesn’t like but haven’t really thought about and is pathologically clueless about (for instance <a href="http://scienceblogs.com/dispatches/2008/03/the_eternal_cluelessness_of_ph.php">this</a> or <a href="http://scienceblogs.com/dispatches/2010/04/schlafly_supreme_court_needs_a.php">this</a>). Like her offspring, Phyllis is also an avid conspiracy theorist. In her book “A Choice, Not An Echo” she claimed that a liberal conspiracy of “kingmakers” led by the <a href="http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Bilderberg_Group">Bilderberg group</a> had control over the Republican Party presidential nominating process and kept real conservatives from getting the nomination. She still peddles some predictable conspiracy <a href="http://scienceblogs.com/dispatches/2011/04/eagle_forum_turns_glenn_beck_o.php">theories</a>. She is, of course, also a creationist, and claims that she is persecuted for it (yes, it is backed up by the most outrageous <a href="http://scienceblogs.com/dispatches/2006/01/fisking_phyllis_schlaffly.php">lies</a>, as <a href="http://scienceblogs.com/dispatches/2008/05/schlafly_joins_chorus_of_lies.php">expected</a>); her writings on creationism have been endorsed by <a href="http://scienceblogs.com/loom/2006/08/jack_kemp_evolution_as_evil_pl.php">Jack Kemp</a> and David Horowitz, among others.</div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> The reputation of Washington University in St. Louis was forever tarnished in 2008 when some babbling idiots decided it was appropriate to <a href="http://feministlawprofs.law.sc.edu/?p=3498">award</a> Phyllis Schlafly with an honorary degree - especially given Schlafly’s views on public education. You can see a conversation between her and Christian <a href="http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Dominionism">reconstructionist</a> filmmaker E. Ray Moore, who thinks parents are mandated by the Bible to homeschool their children since public schools are “godless and pagan by precept and design” and that there should be “God in the math class and in the science class as much as in the Bible class,” <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/religious-right-filmmaker-godless-pagan-schools">here</a>.</div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> Michele Bachmann has called Phyllis Schlafly the most <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/bachmann-gushes-says-schlafly-most-important-woman-united-states-last-100-years">important</a> woman in US history the last 100 years, and calls Schlafly her <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/bachmann-picks-support-her-dear-mentor-phyllis-schlafly">mentor</a>. Tells you lot about both, really.</div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> <b>Diagnosis: Although she is an irrevocably insane (and probably undead) dimbulb, Schlafly has done some real harm and her influence should not be underestimated. The Eagle Forum remains a relatively powerful organization.</b></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> This site (<a href="http://www.theocracywatch.org/">http://www.theocracywatch.org/</a>) is useful for information on the Eagle Forum (among other things).</div> <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/07811612076302931506' itemprop='url'/> <a class='g-profile' href='https://www.blogger.com/profile/07811612076302931506' rel='author' title='author profile'> <span itemprop='name'>chaospet</span> </a> </span> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <meta content='http://americanloons.blogspot.com/2012/07/347-phyllis-schlafly.html' itemprop='url'/> <a class='timestamp-link' href='https://americanloons.blogspot.com/2012/07/347-phyllis-schlafly.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' itemprop='datePublished' title='2012-07-30T11:12:00-04:00'>11:12 AM</abbr></a> </span> <span class='post-comment-link'> <a class='comment-link' href='https://americanloons.blogspot.com/2012/07/347-phyllis-schlafly.html#comment-form' onclick=''> 12 comments: </a> </span> <span class='post-icons'> <span class='item-control blog-admin pid-1607141149'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=414946164942126209&postID=3075071021046381450&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 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/AVvXsEi8PD0v9TAJJVS5dzfabNJ7D3VUGCy0MXd5VvdusnJ6zmLp12K3E3i_WBWQQaIXrUzBmPmIqpFySRqgWJYhxyIw5R9FpDX0GKuetmuWC5OMYiBVdKggC9AoSUz3XvYb-B5fLl71HXx_H87t/s1600/andy_schlafly.png' itemprop='image_url'/> <meta content='414946164942126209' itemprop='blogId'/> <meta content='4810697577665882825' itemprop='postId'/> <a name='4810697577665882825'></a> <h3 class='post-title entry-title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://americanloons.blogspot.com/2012/07/346-andy-schlafly.html'>#346: Andy Schlafly</a> </h3> <div class='post-header'> <div class='post-header-line-1'></div> </div> <div class='post-body entry-content' id='post-body-4810697577665882825' itemprop='description articleBody'> <style>  </style> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8PD0v9TAJJVS5dzfabNJ7D3VUGCy0MXd5VvdusnJ6zmLp12K3E3i_WBWQQaIXrUzBmPmIqpFySRqgWJYhxyIw5R9FpDX0GKuetmuWC5OMYiBVdKggC9AoSUz3XvYb-B5fLl71HXx_H87t/s1600/andy_schlafly.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8PD0v9TAJJVS5dzfabNJ7D3VUGCy0MXd5VvdusnJ6zmLp12K3E3i_WBWQQaIXrUzBmPmIqpFySRqgWJYhxyIw5R9FpDX0GKuetmuWC5OMYiBVdKggC9AoSUz3XvYb-B5fLl71HXx_H87t/s1600/andy_schlafly.png" /></a></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> We won’t describe the antics of Andrew Layton Schlafly in <i>too</i> much detail; there is simply too much to mention (do check out the <a href="http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Lenski_Affair">Lenski affair</a>, though), and he has an extensive biography <a href="http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Andy_Schlafly">here</a> (or <a href="http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Andrew_Schlafly">here</a>, for one that sacrifices accuracy in favor of non-offensiveness). Schlafly is a blogger, conservative conspiracy theorist and – most famously – the owner of <a href="http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Conservapedia">Conservapedia</a> (famously described by his mother Phyllis: “He has started this thing on the Internet. I don't know what to call it.” Indeed). Schlafly is known to be currently undefeated in any debate due to his deployment of the Schlafly <a href="http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Conservapedia:Schlafly_Reversal">Reversal</a>, the Schlafly <a href="http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Conservapedia:Schlafly_Stretch">Stretch</a>, the Schlafly <a href="http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Conservapedia:Schlafly_Rearguard">Rearguard</a>, the Schlafly <a href="http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Conservapedia:Schlafly_Slip">Slip</a>, Schlafly <a href="http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Conservapedia:Schlafly_Statistics">Statistics</a>, and the fact that he can just ban anyone who disagrees with him from his site. As Richard Carnes <a href="http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/File:Kingme.png">aptly</a> put it “... arguing with Andy is like playing chess with a small child who doesn't know the rules”.</div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> Schlafly is also general counsel to the wingnut quack-organization <a href="http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Association_of_American_Physicians_and_Surgeons">Association of AmericanPhysicians and Surgeons</a> (not to be confused with the American Medical Association).</div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> He is, of course, a <a href="http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Young_earth_creationism">Young Earth Creationist</a> located somewhere around Ray Comfort and Linda Kimball. Combining his creationism, crackpottery, wingnuttery, <a href="http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/American-exceptionalist">American Exceptionalism</a>, endorsement of theocracy, Taliban fundamentalism, extreme conspiracy theory adherence, racism, misogyny, self-aggrandizing delusions (he purports to have superior <a href="http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Andrew_Schlafly/List_of_supposed_expertise">expertise</a> in, among other things, anthropology, astronomy, biblical scholarship and translation, the entertainment industry, microbiology, nutrition, oncology, psychiatry, mathematics, relativity, statistics, and world history) and general bigotry, he eventually launched the still dimmest, most powerful black hole of insanity (and bigotry) on the Internet (yes, Schlafly wins that one; no mean feat): <a href="http://scienceblogs.com/dispatches/2007/02/ladies_and_gentlemen_conservap.php">Conservapedia</a> (whale.to isn’t even in the running for that one).</div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> Constructed to rectify the liberal bias of Wikipedia, Conservapedia (Newcomers’ guide <a href="http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Conservapedia:Newcomer%27s_Guide">here</a>) is governed not by the definitional schema “x is liberal, hence x is evil”, but by “x is evil, hence x is liberal”, and the law that anything Schlafly does not particularly fancy is dismissed as “liberal evolutionist abortionist claptrap” (such as the idea that the Greek wrote comedies (disproven by the fact that humor cannot exist without Christianity) or that anything “useful has ever been built based on the theory of relativity” – in fact, relativity is a liberal <a href="http://scienceblogs.com/dispatches/2010/08/theory_of_relativity_liberal_p.php">plot</a>). <a href="http://jonswift.blogspot.com/2007/02/conservapedia.html">Conservapedia</a> is constructed to meet the educational needs of homeschoolers, and Schlafly offers courses on selected scientific topics for homeschooled kids. He considers Conservapedia to be one of the greatest achievements throughout history (special mention goes to one of the most active sysops, the Unification Church member <a href="http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Ed_Poor">Ed Poor</a>, who must rank as one of the most incompetent human beings ever to have walked the earth).</div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> Understandably, he is openly contemptuous of credentialed experts, especially when they disagree with his uncited assertions – much is summed up by his slogan “Don't read a book to learn, write a book to learn”. He has also suggested that editing Conservapedia is a better way to learn than “reading a book, attending a seminar, ... discussing with people” (“Most books (other than the Bible) are liberal claptrap”) and that “[i]n merely a few spare minutes or hours, the participants in The Conservative Bible Project have learned more than they could have after spending 10x or 100x many hours in any other medium”.</div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> … yes, the <a href="http://scienceblogs.com/dispatches/2009/10/the_conservative_bible_project.php">Conservapedia Bible Project</a>, the purpose of which is to <a href="http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2009/10/conservapdia_has_a_new_project.php">purge</a> the Bible of liberal bias. You’ll have to <a href="http://scienceblogs.com/goodmath/2009/10/the_conservative_rewrite_of_th.php">read</a> about it for <a href="http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Conservapedia:Bible_Retranslation_Project">yourself</a>. Words fail. </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> A “Best of Conservapedia” list is <a href="http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Conservapedia:Best_of_Conservapedia">here</a>. One among innumerable <a href="http://scienceblogs.com/authority/2009/02/todays_conservapedia_brain_twi.php">favorites</a>: “Atheistic theories of the origin of the Moon, widely taught for decades despite lacking the falsifiability requirement of science (see Philosophy of science), have been proven false”. For regular updates on the activities on Conservapedia, you can visit this <a href="http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Conservapedia:What_is_going_on_at_CP%3F">one</a> (or for updates on Conservapedia in the news, this <a href="http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Conservapedia:In_the_media">one</a>).</div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> <b>Diagnosis: ”Obviously many people refuse to read the Bible and thus miss out on the benefit of its foreknowledge. Had scientists carefully studied the walking on water with an open mind, then it may not have taken 1900 years before they recognized the existence of wave-particle duality. Ditto for many other phenomena.” [A. Schlafly] </b><br /> <br /> (<a href="http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Roger_Schlafly">Roger</a> “I suspect that high empathy measurements are correlated with an assortment of psychological problems” Schlafly is Andrew Schlafly’s older brother and has established his own credentials as a conservative activist with interminable lack of insight (see his take on the Violence against Women Act <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/roger-schlafly-denounces-violence-against-women-act-dismisses-congresswoman-who-sought-charg">here</a>. He is usually considered to be Andy’s saner counterpart, but Roger’s alleged sanity is visible only when compared to his brother (or mother). He does not deserve his own entry, however.)</div> <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/07811612076302931506' itemprop='url'/> <a class='g-profile' href='https://www.blogger.com/profile/07811612076302931506' rel='author' title='author profile'> <span itemprop='name'>chaospet</span> </a> </span> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <meta content='http://americanloons.blogspot.com/2012/07/346-andy-schlafly.html' itemprop='url'/> <a class='timestamp-link' href='https://americanloons.blogspot.com/2012/07/346-andy-schlafly.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' itemprop='datePublished' title='2012-07-30T03:32:00-04:00'>3:32 AM</abbr></a> </span> <span class='post-comment-link'> <a class='comment-link' href='https://americanloons.blogspot.com/2012/07/346-andy-schlafly.html#comment-form' onclick=''> 1 comment: </a> </span> <span class='post-icons'> <span class='item-control blog-admin pid-1607141149'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=414946164942126209&postID=4810697577665882825&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 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/AVvXsEiloDIaHeVWWsoeD4L5_yd-GqkTwD-jY2mTLf6koilICMit5JJX-Qhrqun6GMNCW_rs32DuFlACvHQ9ZH8kIwYQxOubOkAk9iAZ-dF1Tu9paDVmlZ1BEwHPdat04xTnuBzc9BdPIVVYndi-/s1600/lynette_schaefer.png' itemprop='image_url'/> <meta content='414946164942126209' itemprop='blogId'/> <meta content='4062016945413438879' itemprop='postId'/> <a name='4062016945413438879'></a> <h3 class='post-title entry-title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://americanloons.blogspot.com/2012/07/345-lynette-schaefer.html'>#345: Lynette Schaefer</a> </h3> <div class='post-header'> <div class='post-header-line-1'></div> </div> <div class='post-body entry-content' id='post-body-4062016945413438879' itemprop='description articleBody'> <style>  </style> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiloDIaHeVWWsoeD4L5_yd-GqkTwD-jY2mTLf6koilICMit5JJX-Qhrqun6GMNCW_rs32DuFlACvHQ9ZH8kIwYQxOubOkAk9iAZ-dF1Tu9paDVmlZ1BEwHPdat04xTnuBzc9BdPIVVYndi-/s1600/lynette_schaefer.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiloDIaHeVWWsoeD4L5_yd-GqkTwD-jY2mTLf6koilICMit5JJX-Qhrqun6GMNCW_rs32DuFlACvHQ9ZH8kIwYQxOubOkAk9iAZ-dF1Tu9paDVmlZ1BEwHPdat04xTnuBzc9BdPIVVYndi-/s1600/lynette_schaefer.png" /></a></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> I am not sure who Lynette Schaefer really is (hence the lack of a proper photo), but the people at RaptureReady endorse her <a href="http://www.raptureready.com/featured/schaefer/schaefer.html">writings</a> – they give no real bio, but point out that she is an avid Bible reader and born again evangelical. </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> At least Schaefer weighs in on important topics we have not covered in sufficient detail thus far. For instance, she dares ask the pertinent <a href="http://www.raptureready.com/featured/schaefer/tattoo.html">question</a> “Should Christians Wear Tattoos?” Well, guess what: even if you honestly believe you are “tattooing for Jesus” you are being deceived. And Schaefer tells you what tattooing really is, claiming for instance that “[s]tudies have also been done that link tattoos to homosexuality, lesbianism, and gross sexual perversion” (she doesn’t provide the sources, though). No wonder, since tattoos are signs of “paganism, demonism, Baal worship, shamanism, mysticism, heathenism, cannibalism and many other pagan beliefs". In fact, Lynette really thinks they are genuinely magical. Remember also: “Who really is the Master Tattooist?  Satan, of course!” Wonder what she’d say about <a href="http://freethoughtblogs.com/dispatches/2011/10/25/cherry-picking-the-bible/">this one</a>. </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> <b>Diagnosis: It’s good that someone takes issue with the things that really matter, those small everyday things we usually don’t think twice about but which could still become objects of obsessive lunacy. Schaefer is probably harmless, though.</b></div> <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/07811612076302931506' itemprop='url'/> <a class='g-profile' href='https://www.blogger.com/profile/07811612076302931506' rel='author' title='author profile'> <span itemprop='name'>chaospet</span> </a> </span> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <meta content='http://americanloons.blogspot.com/2012/07/345-lynette-schaefer.html' itemprop='url'/> <a class='timestamp-link' href='https://americanloons.blogspot.com/2012/07/345-lynette-schaefer.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' itemprop='datePublished' title='2012-07-30T01:13:00-04:00'>1:13 AM</abbr></a> </span> <span class='post-comment-link'> <a class='comment-link' href='https://americanloons.blogspot.com/2012/07/345-lynette-schaefer.html#comment-form' onclick=''> No comments: </a> </span> <span class='post-icons'> <span class='item-control blog-admin pid-1607141149'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=414946164942126209&postID=4062016945413438879&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 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/AVvXsEhu2EAEcOpVD_XuTCmtn5pEF8HvWSdP_U9K9EygSjEhE3cNnje6fl0yV_UMrYXn51ufB9p3HFsq8kkjCkRBxmxXxlx66DHmHTS5sCWqW4_K5SVeyhXNVHQCFOJqSLIBNsf4eAaYCj4uB0zY/s1600/rick_scarborough.png' itemprop='image_url'/> <meta content='414946164942126209' itemprop='blogId'/> <meta content='1821978969402615862' itemprop='postId'/> <a name='1821978969402615862'></a> <h3 class='post-title entry-title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://americanloons.blogspot.com/2012/07/344-rick-scarborough.html'>#344: Rick Scarborough</a> </h3> <div class='post-header'> <div class='post-header-line-1'></div> </div> <div class='post-body entry-content' id='post-body-1821978969402615862' itemprop='description articleBody'> <style>  </style> <br /> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhu2EAEcOpVD_XuTCmtn5pEF8HvWSdP_U9K9EygSjEhE3cNnje6fl0yV_UMrYXn51ufB9p3HFsq8kkjCkRBxmxXxlx66DHmHTS5sCWqW4_K5SVeyhXNVHQCFOJqSLIBNsf4eAaYCj4uB0zY/s1600/rick_scarborough.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhu2EAEcOpVD_XuTCmtn5pEF8HvWSdP_U9K9EygSjEhE3cNnje6fl0yV_UMrYXn51ufB9p3HFsq8kkjCkRBxmxXxlx66DHmHTS5sCWqW4_K5SVeyhXNVHQCFOJqSLIBNsf4eAaYCj4uB0zY/s1600/rick_scarborough.png" /></a></div> <span id="goog_461375661"></span><span id="goog_461375662"></span>Since the completely delusional <a href="http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Jonathan_Sarfati">Jonathan Sarfati</a>, famous for his attempt at <a href="http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Logic_and_Creation">grounding</a> logic in the Bible, hails from New Zealand, we jump right to another central force in the lunacy movement.</div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> Rick Scarborough is a former Southern Baptist and head of Vision America, Vision America Action and the Judeo-Christian Council for Constitutional Restoration. Scarborough believes that the tenets of fundamentalist Christian morality apply to all civic affairs, and says: “I'm not a Democrat, I'm not a Republican. I'm a Christocrat”. <a href="http://americanloons.blogspot.com/2010/11/100-tom-delay.html">Tom DeLay</a> counts Scarborough as one of his closest friends, though Scarborough has been <a href="http://scienceblogs.com/dispatches/2007/07/70_weeks_to_save_america.php">caught</a> working closely with Alan Keyes as well – the purpose is of course to establish a <a href="http://www.skepdic.com/ultrafundamentalism.html">theocracy</a> by any means possible (especially by <a href="http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2007/06/double_standards_in_the_public.php">targeting</a> school children). He doesn’t seem to like immigrants either, suggesting that “more non-white families” (in particular Hispanics) means more single-parent households, which in turn <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/rick-scarborough-worries-more-non-white-families-will-mean-less-christians-america">means</a> less Christians.</div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> He is also famous for opposing the otherwise moronic Texas Governor Rick Perry's decision to vaccinate sixth grade children against the most dangerous kinds of HPV (later repeated by Michele Bachmann), because STDs are God’s punishment for breaking His moral code about sex, and hence Just Punishment. “We can not overlook the moral dimension. The governor's action seems to signify that God's moral law regarding sex outside of marriage can be transgressed without consequence.” In other words, Scarborough unabashedly overlooks the moral dimension. Predictably, he has also claimed that AIDS is <a href="http://scienceblogs.com/dispatches/2011/04/scarborough_aids_is_gods_judgm.php">God’s punishment</a> for the immoral sexual behavior of gays. In 2011 he even attempted to channel Reagan to <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/religious-right-channels-reagan-condemn-cpac">condemn</a> the CPAC decision to let conservative gay groups speak at the event. It is worth mentioning, however, that he appears to be a Rick Perry fan in general – at least he thinks Perry’s Response <a href="http://freethoughtblogs.com/dispatches/2012/05/21/wingnuts-on-the-power-of-prayer/">prayer</a> rally actually did end the drought in Texas, and that prayer <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/how-prayer-ended-drought-texas-and-stopped-bp-oil-spill">controlled</a> the BP oil spill along the Gulf Coast - in spite of the fact that it didn't appear to do so particularly effectively (does it still count as a post hoc fallacy when the effect simply doesn’t exist?).</div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> Scarborough is the author of <a href="http://www.skepdic.com/dominionism.html">dominionist</a> books such as “Mixing Church and State” and “Liberalism Kills Kids” – the title of the latter, given Scarborough’s other views, may actually sound like an endorsement of liberalism for all the wrong reasons. He has <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/scarborough-objective-history-shows-god-gave-us-america">asserted</a> that “objective history shows that God gave us America”, though “objective” is obviously one of those three-syllable words Scarborough never mastered. He is also a firm critic of “activist judges” (and contributed to the book “Judicial Tyranny”), which apparently <a href="http://scienceblogs.com/dispatches/2007/07/scarborough_exclusive_access_f.php">means</a> anyone responsible for court rulings to the effect that other people and groups have the same rights he does.</div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> Like wingnut Taliban extremists, Scarborough suffers from a severe persecution complex, and thus considers all political decisions he does not agree with to be personal attacks against him (or Him, but that amounts to the <a href="http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Self_projection_as_god">same thing</a>, it seems) that surely <a href="http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/06/christian_conservatives_oppose.php">violate</a> the First Amendment. </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> He is also, shockingly, a <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/governor-and-christocrat-match-made-texas">birther.</a> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> A fine Scarborough resource can be found <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/individuals/rick-scarborough">here</a>.</div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> <b>Diagnosis: Taliban madman and theocrat. Usual stuff. Extremely influential and dangerous.</b></div> <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/07811612076302931506' itemprop='url'/> <a class='g-profile' href='https://www.blogger.com/profile/07811612076302931506' rel='author' title='author profile'> <span itemprop='name'>chaospet</span> </a> </span> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <meta content='http://americanloons.blogspot.com/2012/07/344-rick-scarborough.html' itemprop='url'/> <a class='timestamp-link' href='https://americanloons.blogspot.com/2012/07/344-rick-scarborough.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' itemprop='datePublished' title='2012-07-30T00:02:00-04:00'>12:02 AM</abbr></a> </span> <span class='post-comment-link'> <a class='comment-link' href='https://americanloons.blogspot.com/2012/07/344-rick-scarborough.html#comment-form' onclick=''> 5 comments: </a> </span> <span class='post-icons'> <span class='item-control blog-admin pid-1607141149'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=414946164942126209&postID=1821978969402615862&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>Wednesday, July 18, 2012</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/AVvXsEilcvrKuNnnUxzypAWnK3tI54zSEmQQgnmeN4fOM3AdgzqDcllyX60k0W2W6fRyKl1A_w4I1cvGH5cPwfFAzBhgE8oNldAi7raqnp5s9ccDN3W09t6K5JSfZ49vHxDATSVvrNm19gCyB7iL/s1600/rick_santorum.png' itemprop='image_url'/> <meta content='414946164942126209' itemprop='blogId'/> <meta content='877970938717107615' itemprop='postId'/> <a name='877970938717107615'></a> <h3 class='post-title entry-title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://americanloons.blogspot.com/2012/07/343-rick-santorum_18.html'>#343: Rick Santorum</a> </h3> <div class='post-header'> <div class='post-header-line-1'></div> </div> <div class='post-body entry-content' id='post-body-877970938717107615' itemprop='description articleBody'> <style>  </style> <br /> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilcvrKuNnnUxzypAWnK3tI54zSEmQQgnmeN4fOM3AdgzqDcllyX60k0W2W6fRyKl1A_w4I1cvGH5cPwfFAzBhgE8oNldAi7raqnp5s9ccDN3W09t6K5JSfZ49vHxDATSVvrNm19gCyB7iL/s1600/rick_santorum.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilcvrKuNnnUxzypAWnK3tI54zSEmQQgnmeN4fOM3AdgzqDcllyX60k0W2W6fRyKl1A_w4I1cvGH5cPwfFAzBhgE8oNldAi7raqnp5s9ccDN3W09t6K5JSfZ49vHxDATSVvrNm19gCyB7iL/s1600/rick_santorum.png" /></a></div> A.k.a. Frothy</div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> Rick Santorum is a demented madman who has, for some reason, been allowed to serve as a senator (Pennsylvania) and be chairman of the Senate Republican Conference before entering into the race for a presidential nomination in 2012 (his <a href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2003/04/30/santorum/">dimwittery</a> was pointed out early on). He is particularly well known for his dominionist tendencies (his connection to Ron Luce’s Teen Mania is discussed <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/remembering-rick-santorums-ties-ron-luce-cult-group-teen-mania">here</a>, and his (explicit) plan for sharia law is discussed <a href="http://freethoughtblogs.com/dispatches/2012/01/10/santorums-christian-sharia-plan/">here</a>), self-righteousness, feeble fails, lies, bigotry, smugness, and complete idiocy. That he did so well for a while in the nomination rounds tell you a bit about some of the problems civilization is facing at present. Shouldn’t it really be rather remarkable that a candidate who, on the topic of food stamps, <a href="http://freethoughtblogs.com/dispatches/2011/12/15/dumbass-quote-of-the-day-5/">says</a> “If hunger is a problem in America, then why do we have an obesity problem among the people who we say have a hunger program?” isn’t politically stone dead?</div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> At least he ended up cancelling his candidacy. He seems to have been very certain that he was called by God to run for president, and when he quit his <a href="http://freethoughtblogs.com/dispatches/2012/04/21/amusing-quote-of-the-day-6/">rationalization</a> was pretty feeble - though I guess it was the best one could do given making such a silly claim to begin with.</div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> In addition to being an (incoherently stupid) <a href="http://scienceblogs.com/dispatches/2011/04/santorum_law_should_comply_wit.php">theocrat</a> (yes, he is demonstrably a <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/santorum-gods-law-and-civil-law-must-be-same">dominionist</a>) he is especially well known for his stances on the U.S. invasion of Iraq, Social Security, <a href="http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Intelligent_design">intelligent design creationism</a>, homosexuality, <a href="http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2006/07/uhoh_double_trouble.php">science</a> (doesn’t like it, and especially dislikes scientists, who are <a href="http://scienceblogs.com/authority/2006/07/santorum_on_science_and_scient.php">immoral</a>), the <a href="http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Terri_Schiavo">Terri Schiavo</a> case, his views on <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/santorum-single-moms-not-marrying-their-boyfriends-so-they-can-collect-welfare">marriage</a>, and <a href="http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2012/01/04/santorum-will-tell-you-how-and-when-you-can-have-sex/">sexuality</a> (he really does, and admits that he does, want to decide when and how you can have sex, and is in general deeply <a href="http://freethoughtblogs.com/dispatches/2012/02/27/santorums-weird-obsession-with-your-sex-life/">obsessed</a> with people’s sex lives). “America is suffering a pandemic of harm from pornography. A wealth of research is now available demonstrating that pornography causes profound brain changes in both children and adults, resulting in widespread negative consequences,” <a href="http://freethoughtblogs.com/dispatches/2012/04/04/santorums-porn-nonsense/">claims</a> Santorum, completely unmoved by the fact that research doesn’t remotely say anything that resembles what he claims that it says. Going through his demented fuckwittery is a journey into the abyss, so we’ll content ourselves with a dip.</div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> Santorum was the one who introduced the term “Islamic fascism”, and he voted against Robert Gates to become Secretary of Defense due to Gates’s advocacy of engaging Iran and Syria to solve the Iraqi problem, claiming that talking to “radical Islam” would be a grievous error (he never specified what goal he thought would be thwarted by such dialogue, but one presumes it was his desire to usher in the endtimes). Apparently, however, it is <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/santorum-satan-systematically-destroying-america">Satan</a> who is currently systematically destroying America by replacing bombs with dialogue. Interestingly Santorum seems to be claiming that Romney and/or Gingrich is/are Satan; certainly that is the most obvious interpretation of <a href="http://freethoughtblogs.com/dispatches/2012/02/21/santorum-vs-satan/">this</a>.</div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> He used to be most famous, perhaps, for his advocacy of creationism. In 2001, he tried (unsuccessfully) to insert language that came to be known as the “Santorum Amendment” into the No Child Left Behind bill. The <a href="http://www.aaas.org/news/releases/2006/pdf/0219boardstatement.pdf">amendment</a> promoted the teaching of intelligent design creationism in public schools and questioned the “academic standing” (science) of evolution. The amendment was crafted with the assistance of the Discovery Institute.</div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> In a 2002 op-ed article Santorum wrote that intelligent design “is a legitimate scientific theory that should be taught in science classes” (argument by <a href="http://scienceblogs.com/dispatches/2006/02/ids_latest_trojan_horse_strate.php">assertion</a>, of course – Santorum wouldn’t be able to distinguish a scientific theory from an orthodox incantation if it hit him in the face), though by 2005 he had instead adopted the Discovery Institute's <a href="http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Teach_the_Controversy">Teach the Controversy</a> approach. The day after the <a href="http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Kitzmiller_v._Dover_Area_School_District/4:Whether_ID_Is_Science#Page_89_of_139">Kitzmiller v. Dover</a> decision Santorum announced that he was resigning from the advisory board of the Thomas More Law Center (who defended the Dover school board). He is still a creationist, however, and wrote the foreword for the book “Darwin's Nemesis: Phillip Johnson And the Intelligent Design Movement”, a collection of essays by Discovery Institute fellows (and no, he hasn’t toned down his creationism with his recent presidential <a href="http://freethoughtblogs.com/dispatches/2011/12/02/santorum-continues-to-crusade-against-evolution/">run</a>). He also rejects global warming, well, because there is scientific consensus about it, which to Santorum means that it must be <a href="http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2009/12/crank_magnetism_strikes_again.php">wrong</a> (yes, that’s the line, and it’s a frighteningly common one). There is actually reason to believe that the main difference between Romney and Santorum on global warming is that Santorum genuinely <a href="http://freethoughtblogs.com/zingularity/2012/02/17/the-difference-between-mittens-and-santorum-on-climate-change/">believes</a> the most dimwitted denialist talking points. Indeed, in discussing controversial classroom subjects such as evolution and global warming, Santorum <a href="http://freethoughtblogs.com/dispatches/2011/12/14/santorum-gets-it-exactly-backwards/">said</a> that “science should get out of politics” (duh) and that he was opposed to teaching that provides a “politically correct perspective.” At least he has come out, officially, as a full-blown global warming <a href="http://scienceblogs.com/denialism/2012/02/a_global_warming_conspiracy_th.php#more">conspiracy</a> theorist.</div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> Here’s some <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/santorum-and-green-dragon-faith-based-attacks-environmentalism-nothing-new-religious-right">background</a> on Santorum’s Biblically based rejection of science (more <a href="http://freethoughtblogs.com/dispatches/2012/02/25/the-bible-means-what-we-want-it-to-mean/">here</a>, including a brilliant example of argument from word salad). And yes, despite what some may claim, presidential candidates’ views on science do <a href="http://scienceblogs.com/tfk/2011/09/why_science_questions_matter_f.php">matter</a>.</div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> But Santorum doesn’t budge; instead he kicks it up a notch or two with some breathtaking lack of self-awareness and <a href="http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2012/02/20/keep-that-santorum-out-of-our-science/">idiocy</a> and ignorance about science, concluding that the <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/santorum-left-really-about-death-reason">left</a> is “the death of reason”. For instance, when Santorum <a href="http://freethoughtblogs.com/dispatches/2012/03/16/santorum-loves-him-some-carbon-dioxide/">says</a> “The dangers of carbon dioxide? Tell that to a plant, how dangerous carbon dioxide is,” some glib science-lover might say “And what do you mean your son drowned in a lake? Ask a fish how safe it is in the water.” His point, then, is surely that the leftist lovers of science, truth and reason sometimes don’t respect <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">his</i> reasons, since these are surely unconcerned with science, reason and truth.</div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> Santorum has also sparked some controversy about <a href="http://scienceblogs.com/dispatches/2011/03/santorums_frothy_mix_of_anti-g.php">homosexuality</a>. In response to a question about how to prevent sexual abuse of children by priests, Santorum said the priests were engaged in “a basic homosexual relationship” with “post-pubescent men”, and went on to say that he had “a problem with homosexual acts”; that the right to privacy, as detailed in Griswold v. Connecticut, “doesn't exist in my opinion in the United States Constitution;” and that, “whether it's polygamy, whether it's adultery, whether it's sodomy, all of those things are antithetical to a healthy, stable, traditional family.” Santorum later clarified that his remarks “were intended not to equate homosexuality with incest and pedophilia, but rather as a critique of the specific legal position that the right to privacy prevents the government from regulating consensual acts among adults.” But that is demonstrably false. He did make the equation. This is what led Dan Savage to coin the neologism “<a href="http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Santorum">santorum</a>”. Santorum is also enraged that our troops are being brainwashed into thinking that repealing <a href="http://scienceblogs.com/dispatches/2010/02/santorum_military_leaders_indo.php">DADT</a> isn’t really a big thing and that gay marriage may not mean the end to America, which it obviously <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2011/11/19/372875/santorum-our-country-will-fall-as-a-result-of-same-sex-marriage/">does</a>. Same thing with <a href="http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2011/04/the_frothy_mix_of_lube_and_fec.php">healthcare</a>, and its alleged <a href="http://freethoughtblogs.com/dispatches/2012/02/09/santorum-lies-about-death-panels-assisted-suicide/">death panels</a>: the reason Obama wants public healthcare is because he wants kids to be <a href="http://scienceblogs.com/dispatches/2011/04/dumbass_quote_of_the_day_282.php">addicted</a> to the state. Seriously. Furthermore, Medicaid <a href="http://freethoughtblogs.com/dispatches/2012/01/05/santorum-zomg-mussolini/">proves</a> that Obama is just like Mussolini.</div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> He also said concerning the Roman Catholic Church sex abuse scandal:</div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> “It is startling that those in the media and academia appear most disturbed by this aberrant behavior, since they have zealously promoted moral relativism by sanctioning “private” moral matters such as alternative lifestyles. Priests, like all of us, are affected by culture. When the culture is sick, every element in it becomes infected. While it is no excuse for this scandal, it is no surprise that Boston, a seat of academic, political and cultural liberalism in America, lies at the center of the storm.” Robert Traynham, Santorum's Director of Communications, explained that “[i]t's an open secret that you have Harvard University and MIT that tend to tilt to the left in terms of academic biases. I think that's what the senator was speaking to.” </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> Santorum has also elsewhere expressed his hatred for <a href="http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2012/02/24/that-anti-intellectual-santorum/">universities</a>, given that science has to do with figuring out reality and reality has a tendency to disagree with Santorum (and that the fascination with reality tends to produce people who don’t vote for him). He doesn’t like <a href="http://freethoughtblogs.com/dispatches/2012/03/07/santorum-doesnt-like-preschool-either/">preschool</a> either. Apparently he realizes that one doesn’t need very much education to start to suspect that Santorum’s claims have a tendency to be a little off.</div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> There have, of course, been <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/09/AR2005090901930.html">other</a> <a href="http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06258/722043-153.stm">scandals</a> as well, and his entrance into the presidential race opened up for a whole slew of new insanity. You can find his attempt to argue that forcing people to adopt his bigoted and arbitrary views on sexuality increases liberty <a href="http://freethoughtblogs.com/dispatches/2011/08/12/robert-obrien-nominee-rick-santorum/">here</a>, and <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/santorum-same-sex-marriage-helped-destroy-economy-0">here</a> is his attempt to explain how marriage equality is what ruined the nation’s economy (any semblance to reality anywhere in Santorum’s mind is apparently purely coincidental). But of course, it isn’t he, but everyone else, who is <a href="http://freethoughtblogs.com/dispatches/2011/09/08/robert-obrien-nominee-rick-santorum-2/">bigoted</a>. So when he attacks other candidates for not being anti-gay enough, the problem is apparently that <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">they</i> are <a href="http://freethoughtblogs.com/dispatches/2011/10/19/santorum-attacks-fellow-candidates-as-not-anti-gay-enough/">too bigoted</a>. Who knows, perhaps they even disagree with his contention that <a href="http://freethoughtblogs.com/dispatches/2012/01/11/santorum-imprisoned-parent-better-than-gay-parent/">an imprisoned father is better than a gay one</a>, and obviously it is maliciously bigoted to disagree with him regarding that claim. Among his policy suggestions is curtailing single-motherhood, since single mothers apparently constitute the <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/santorum-curtail-single-motherhood-reduce-democratic-appendage">foundation</a> for the Democratic party. Part of his strategy in that respect is to go after <a href="http://freethoughtblogs.com/dispatches/2011/10/21/santorum-goes-after-contraception/">contraception</a>. Some might point out that there is a certain discrepancy between means and ends in the case of that strategy, but then Santorum was never particularly bright (also <a href="http://freethoughtblogs.com/dispatches/2012/02/17/santorums-birth-control-problem/">here</a>).</div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> <a href="http://freethoughtblogs.com/dispatches/2012/02/28/santorum-on-evolution-and-sex/">Here</a> is Santorum on evolution and sex. He fails both.</div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> Apparently he found a soul mate in our good old friend <a href="http://americanloons.blogspot.com/2011/01/130-bryan-fischer.html">Bryan Fischer</a>, who gave him a chance to display his ridiculous <a href="http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Persecution_complex">martyr complex</a> on his <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/santorum-appears-extremist-talk-show-love-fest-ensues">show</a>. Santorum used the opportunity to <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/santorum-media-attacks-me-because-i-have-deeply-held-religious-beliefs">claim</a> that the “media attacks me because I have deeply-held religious beliefs,” rather than, you know, because he says some fantastically stupid shit. He followed it up by <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/santorum-tells-fischer-obama-thinks-he-more-emperor-president">saying</a> some fantastically stupid shit. And to clinch it, he claimed that Obama has put America on the <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2012/02/09/421882/santorum-obama-has-put-america-on-the-path-of-executing-religious-people-by-decapitation/?mobile=nc">path</a> of executing religious people by decapitation. Bryan Fischer chimed in, claiming that <a href="http://freethoughtblogs.com/dispatches/2012/02/28/fischer-an-attack-on-santorum-is-an-attack-on-jesus/">an attack on Santorum is an attack on Jesus</a>, but you’ve come to expect this level of delusion from that source.</div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> Finally, for some miscellaneous items: Here is one <a href="http://freethoughtblogs.com/dispatches/2012/01/27/santorum-lies-about-obama-and-abstinence-only-sex-ed/">outright lie</a> from Santorum, <a href="http://freethoughtblogs.com/dispatches/2012/02/13/santorum-lies-about-obama-and-female-priests/">here</a> is another; here:  is a <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/santorum-embraces-religious-rights-latest-lie">third</a>. You get the pattern. Here Santorum <a href="http://freethoughtblogs.com/dispatches/2012/01/08/santorum-rejects-idea-of-individual-rights/">rejects</a> the notion of personal autonomy, and <a href="http://freethoughtblogs.com/dispatches/2012/02/07/dumbass-quote-of-the-day-10/">here</a> he gets his perspectives … well, “wrong” doesn’t quite describe it.</div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> At least Santorum is <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/santorum-wins-backing-fringe-religious-right-leaders">fully backed</a> by the batshit crue. Among the more central characters who supported Santorum’s presidential candidacy you find:</div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> - Texas Eagle Forum’s <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/state-eagle-forum-president-becomes-head-texas-gop">Cathie Adams</a>, who <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/eagle-forum-un-using-environmentalism-remove-god-and-take-over-world">thinks</a> the UN is trying to “subvert our children’s faith in God by elevating its earth-centered zealotry that would grant the UN dominion over the earth.”</div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> - Patron saint of all things wingnut, <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/people/gary-bauer">Gary Bauer</a> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> - <a href="http://americanloons.blogspot.com/2010/11/107-james-dobson.html">James Dobson</a> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> - Elaine Donnelly, who <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/people/elaine-donnelly">thinks</a> that repealing DADT is equivalent to “forced sodomy” </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> - Homeschooler activist for Generation Joshua and marriage equality opponent <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/religious-right-panics-over-marriage-equality">William Estrada</a> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> - <a href="http://americanloons.blogspot.com/2011/01/126-joseph-farah.html">Joseph Farah</a>, professional village idiot</div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> - Virulent bigot <a href="http://americanloons.blogspot.com/2011/01/139-maggie-gallagher.html">Maggie Gallagher</a> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> - Pennsylvania Family Institute’s <a href="http://www.goodasyou.org/good_as_you/2011/01/audio-what-michael-geers-art-of-marriage-means-for-us.html">Michael Geer</a> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> - <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/people/rebecca-hagelin">Rebecca Hagelin</a> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> - The eternally <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2011/09/21/324005/tea-party-supports-repealing-gay-education-in-ca-because-constitution-not-taught-enough-says-right-wing-leader/?mobile=nc">confused</a> Tim Lefever </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> - <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/people/william-murray">WilliamMurray</a> of the Religious Freedom Coalition, who fights ardently against any semblance of religious freedom, and who claims that <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/gays-cause-train-crashes">gays cause train crashes</a></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> - <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/people/penny-nance">PennyNance</a> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> - <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/why-didnt-tfp-call-cavalry">Preston Noell III</a>, of the <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/tfp-releases-new-report-pro-homosexual-clubs-dictatorship-tolerance">pseudo-militaristic</a> American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family, and Property </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> - Pam Olsen of the Florida Prayer Network, a hardcore Seven Mountain <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/topics/seven-mountains">dominionist</a> who plans to <a href="//www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPnu6DMJhSo&feature=player_embedded">raise</a> people from the dead, and who believes that gay rights cause natural disasters</div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> - <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/people/john-stemberger">John Stemberger</a> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> - <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/people/richard-viguerie">Richard Viguerie</a> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> Yes, it’s guilt by association, but what association!</div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> Here’s a <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2011/06/06/237112/rick-santorums-top-12-most-offensive-statements/">2011 list</a> of the 12 most offensive things that had fallen out of Santorum’s mouth until then. It needs to be updated.</div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> <b>Diagnosis: A fanatic mullah whose lunacy, evil, and stupidity know few bounds. It is an understatement to point out that he is hardly even worthy of his own name.</b></div> <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/07811612076302931506' itemprop='url'/> <a class='g-profile' href='https://www.blogger.com/profile/07811612076302931506' rel='author' title='author profile'> <span itemprop='name'>chaospet</span> </a> </span> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <meta content='http://americanloons.blogspot.com/2012/07/343-rick-santorum_18.html' itemprop='url'/> <a class='timestamp-link' href='https://americanloons.blogspot.com/2012/07/343-rick-santorum_18.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' itemprop='datePublished' title='2012-07-18T12:14:00-04:00'>12:14 PM</abbr></a> </span> <span class='post-comment-link'> <a class='comment-link' href='https://americanloons.blogspot.com/2012/07/343-rick-santorum_18.html#comment-form' onclick=''> 9 comments: </a> </span> <span class='post-icons'> <span class='item-control blog-admin pid-1607141149'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=414946164942126209&postID=877970938717107615&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>Monday, July 9, 2012</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/AVvXsEhg5SJVxeA5xdnIVttg4F39qjLlzQQ73UgtZqKFFpTT0m3ZE3vYQbk1pa4B1Fao0QNu-8pys7rcB0FYTz3gYgI-kbRcp5hLQlgPP6t_4MC1WJX-tdVqfiD1zH_UImWcUR277j_psehvbO_e/s1600/mike_salla.png' itemprop='image_url'/> <meta content='414946164942126209' itemprop='blogId'/> <meta content='6572992135616484048' itemprop='postId'/> <a name='6572992135616484048'></a> <h3 class='post-title entry-title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://americanloons.blogspot.com/2012/07/342-mike-salla.html'>#342: Mike Salla</a> </h3> <div class='post-header'> <div class='post-header-line-1'></div> </div> <div class='post-body entry-content' id='post-body-6572992135616484048' itemprop='description articleBody'> <style>  </style><br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhg5SJVxeA5xdnIVttg4F39qjLlzQQ73UgtZqKFFpTT0m3ZE3vYQbk1pa4B1Fao0QNu-8pys7rcB0FYTz3gYgI-kbRcp5hLQlgPP6t_4MC1WJX-tdVqfiD1zH_UImWcUR277j_psehvbO_e/s1600/mike_salla.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhg5SJVxeA5xdnIVttg4F39qjLlzQQ73UgtZqKFFpTT0m3ZE3vYQbk1pa4B1Fao0QNu-8pys7rcB0FYTz3gYgI-kbRcp5hLQlgPP6t_4MC1WJX-tdVqfiD1zH_UImWcUR277j_psehvbO_e/s1600/mike_salla.png" /></a></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">  The Australian-born, erstwhile international politics scholar Michael Emin Salla is perhaps the world’s leading expert on exopolitics. Yes, exopolitics – the political issues concerning aliens, their relationship to humans, political relationships between various types of aliens, why our governments keep their existence and doings secret, what our governments are really up to, what happened to Atlantis, how to heal yourself with <a href="http://www.skepdic.com/quantumhologram.html">quantum holograms</a>, and how to convince people that Stargate is a documentary shot in real time. Imagine the dumbest and most hilariously insane science fiction/conspiracy plots you can think of, and you are not even remotely close to the absurd insanity of what Salla mistakes for the real world (website <a href="http://www.exopolitics.org/">here</a>). You can read a pretty detailed explanation, and a set of recommendations, in his “Responding to extraterrestrial infiltration of clandestine organizations embedded in military, intelligence and government departments” <a href="http://www.exopolitics.org/Study-Paper-4-PF.htm">here</a>. Other research papers are <a href="http://www.exopolitics.org/Study-Papers.htm#Papers">here</a>. I don’t <a href="http://www.exopolitics.org/Study-Paper-12.htm">recommend</a> “False Flag Operations, 9-11 and the Exopolitical Perspective”  <a href="http://exopoliticsjournal.com/vol-3/vol-3-1-Salla.htm">or</a> “Are Celestials assisting Humanity in Relations with Extraterrestrial Life”, and in <a href="http://www.exopolitics.org/Study-Paper2.htm">particular</a> not “An Exopolitical Perspective on the Preemptive War against Iraq” (Ok; you have to read that one). In fact, Salla sent a letter to al-Jazeera in 2005 warning them about “the possibility of alien intervention in order to prevent a nuclear attack on Iran by the United States of America”. Lots of Kennedy shooting material there as well for those who wish to take their conspiracies just a couple of steps further into the beyond. You can find a critical assessment of Salla <a href="http://redstarfilms.blogspot.com/2005/03/case-against-michael-salla.html">here</a>, although this particular criticism somehow fails to get it quite right.</div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> Salla’s most recent academic position was in Washington at American University, Center for Global Peace. The Center does not want to be associated with Salla’s exopolitics.</div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> For his speculations Salla relies, to a certain extent, on testimonies from whale.to heroes or garbled rants from madmen with self-published books (Sitchin, Icke, and so on), but much of it seems to spring straight from his own powers of imagination. It seems both of these sources of data fall under what he calls “<a href="http://www.examiner.com/exopolitics-in-honolulu/u-s-military-is-liaising-with-extraterrestrial-life-according-to-independent-sources">independent sources</a>".  </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> In fact, Salla invented exopolitics. His first book claimed that a 1954 dentist appointment by President Eisenhower was a cover for a secret meeting with extraterrestrials; the president “met with two ETs with white hair, pale blue eyes and colorless lips” (what UFO enthusiasts call “Nordics”). These aliens “offered to share their superior technology and their spiritual wisdom with Ike if he would agree to eliminate America's nuclear weapons”. Eisenhower declined the offer because he had already agreed with another race of aliens that they could take livestock and humans with them for the purposes of experiments; these aliens have at present taken “millions” of humans. Salla had to admit that the evidence was “found by him on the Internet”. In terms of the different ET races we have the “‘good shepherd’ ETs [including] the Greys from Zeta Reticulum, Tall Greys (from Orion), Reptilians (Earth based), Draco-Reptilians from Orion, and the Anunnaki (giant humanoids from Nibiru” – yes, that <a href="http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Nibiru">Nibiru</a>). Former Canadian minister of Defence Paul Hellyer is a <a href="http://www.thestar.com/article/270984">fan.</a> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> Salla’s main concern is that governments should be open about their dealings with aliens to gain insights into their superior knowledge of energy and so on, and that mankind should make peaceful, open and lawful dealings with these civilizations. He travels around spreading the message, for instance at the fifth X-Conference event in Maryland (among the attendees here were (in addition to Salla and, of course, Edgar Mitchell) 2008 Utah Congressional Candidate Joseph Buchman, hypnotherapist <a href="http://exoconsciousness.com/">Rebecca Hardcastle</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Webre">AlfredWebre</a>, and US Air Force pilot <a href="http://exopolitics-aotearoa.blogspot.com/2009/01/fox-just-cant-seem-to-stay-away-from.html">Milton Tores</a>). </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> Among the important results of his research on Manipulative Extraterrestrials and mind control technologies, is his and John Lash’s idea that Alzheimer’s is a side effect of an alleged <a href="http://www.agoracosmopolitan.com/home/Frontpage/2009/01/14/03015.html">interference</a> in human cognitive functions. John Lash's research, if you ever wondered, focuses on Pagan Gnostics, and he has “documented” the gnostics’ discovery of these Manipulative Extraterrestrials. Pagan Gnostics is a constituency of Manipulative Extraterrestrials that apparently has played a key role in an alleged agenda of mind control against humankind, such as the “archons”. The archons are apparently what causes Alzheimer’s. Or something. See, what Lash and Salla do is very important. Their contribution is assessed <a href="http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2009/01/did_someone_say_cognitive_impa.php">here</a>. It should be rather easy to appreciate the irony of Salla and Lash speculating about cognitive impairments.</div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> <b>Diagnosis: Utterly immune to reason, rationality and reality, Salla wears his tinfoil crown with pride. He’s probably harmless enough.</b></div> <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/07811612076302931506' itemprop='url'/> <a class='g-profile' href='https://www.blogger.com/profile/07811612076302931506' rel='author' title='author profile'> <span itemprop='name'>chaospet</span> </a> </span> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <meta content='http://americanloons.blogspot.com/2012/07/342-mike-salla.html' itemprop='url'/> <a class='timestamp-link' href='https://americanloons.blogspot.com/2012/07/342-mike-salla.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' itemprop='datePublished' title='2012-07-09T01:57:00-04:00'>1:57 AM</abbr></a> </span> <span class='post-comment-link'> <a class='comment-link' href='https://americanloons.blogspot.com/2012/07/342-mike-salla.html#comment-form' onclick=''> No comments: </a> </span> <span class='post-icons'> <span class='item-control blog-admin pid-1607141149'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=414946164942126209&postID=6572992135616484048&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>Friday, July 6, 2012</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/AVvXsEgaj7s5RSmgGV-oJJxM7FZgLUKShUpamk7EgZujaixF3ZjP7KitiI51zI1yRldqJyjwmrh2EJOqPMhlxW0pzNsP00lJb2FX1MLL7xD8LaFYiFaJQHCaGqNJf-tH_nyOC9gOrb_ozqoDz1NP/s1600/mark_ryland.png' itemprop='image_url'/> <meta content='414946164942126209' itemprop='blogId'/> <meta content='8947672249636034420' itemprop='postId'/> <a name='8947672249636034420'></a> <h3 class='post-title entry-title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://americanloons.blogspot.com/2012/07/341-mark-ryland.html'>#341: Mark Ryland</a> </h3> <div class='post-header'> <div class='post-header-line-1'></div> </div> <div class='post-body entry-content' id='post-body-8947672249636034420' itemprop='description articleBody'> <style>  </style> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaj7s5RSmgGV-oJJxM7FZgLUKShUpamk7EgZujaixF3ZjP7KitiI51zI1yRldqJyjwmrh2EJOqPMhlxW0pzNsP00lJb2FX1MLL7xD8LaFYiFaJQHCaGqNJf-tH_nyOC9gOrb_ozqoDz1NP/s1600/mark_ryland.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaj7s5RSmgGV-oJJxM7FZgLUKShUpamk7EgZujaixF3ZjP7KitiI51zI1yRldqJyjwmrh2EJOqPMhlxW0pzNsP00lJb2FX1MLL7xD8LaFYiFaJQHCaGqNJf-tH_nyOC9gOrb_ozqoDz1NP/s1600/mark_ryland.png" /></a></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> With the recent demise of “memory of water” woo-meister <a href="http://theness.com/neurologicablog/?p=40">Rustum Roy</a>, it seems that the <a href="http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2010/01/the_three_musketeers_of_woo_attack_scien.php">three musketeers of woo</a> have been reduced to two. Since Roy disqualified himself for an entry, we’ll move back to the creationists. Yet again.</div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> Mark Ryland is former vice-president and fellow of the Dicovery Institute. He seems to have been responsible for hiring the PR firm Creative Response Concepts (that’s the organization <a href="http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Swiftboating">behind</a> Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, the <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/groups/republican-national-committee">Republican National Committee</a>, the <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/groups/christian-coalition">Christian Coalition</a>, and the Contract With America), and for pushing the NY Times publication of an idiotic anti-science essay (“Finding Design in Nature”) by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christoph_Cardinal_Sch%C3%B6nborn">Cardinal Schönborn</a>, archbishop of Vienna and medieval troll, criticizing neo-Darwinism and positivism. The incident was apparently counted a PR success by the Institute. It tells you a lot about what their creationist campaigns have to do with science.</div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> You can catch Ryland lying through his teeth <a href="http://scienceblogs.com/dispatches/2005/10/war_in_the_proid_camp.php">here</a>.</div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <b>Diagnosis: The epitome of honesty, integrity and understanding of scientific methodology, Ryland must be lauded for his ardent efforts to discuss science in an informed, unbiased manner. At least that’s the idea. Delusional madman.</b></div> <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/07811612076302931506' itemprop='url'/> <a class='g-profile' href='https://www.blogger.com/profile/07811612076302931506' rel='author' title='author profile'> <span itemprop='name'>chaospet</span> </a> </span> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <meta content='http://americanloons.blogspot.com/2012/07/341-mark-ryland.html' itemprop='url'/> <a class='timestamp-link' href='https://americanloons.blogspot.com/2012/07/341-mark-ryland.html' rel='bookmark' title='permanent link'><abbr class='published' itemprop='datePublished' title='2012-07-06T15:57:00-04:00'>3:57 PM</abbr></a> </span> <span class='post-comment-link'> <a class='comment-link' href='https://americanloons.blogspot.com/2012/07/341-mark-ryland.html#comment-form' onclick=''> No comments: </a> </span> <span class='post-icons'> <span class='item-control blog-admin pid-1607141149'> <a href='https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=414946164942126209&postID=8947672249636034420&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 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/AVvXsEjVO5-FzDNZLGbI-9f5k32_Msd-2my2GW5sdoaZ2aeSG9ejGtFU9hZ6PMWDuywi3FECZ1o-AiRTyPQ0mln4PVOkPexorAaCToDteiBhOUf3W6NW2BGcGKWZnalr5LfEEOvcKDbNS-uOkhNW/s1600/marcus_ross.png' itemprop='image_url'/> <meta content='414946164942126209' itemprop='blogId'/> <meta content='7156027909202869689' itemprop='postId'/> <a name='7156027909202869689'></a> <h3 class='post-title entry-title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://americanloons.blogspot.com/2012/07/340-marcus-ross.html'>#340: Marcus Ross</a> </h3> <div class='post-header'> <div class='post-header-line-1'></div> </div> <div class='post-body entry-content' id='post-body-7156027909202869689' itemprop='description articleBody'> <style>  <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVO5-FzDNZLGbI-9f5k32_Msd-2my2GW5sdoaZ2aeSG9ejGtFU9hZ6PMWDuywi3FECZ1o-AiRTyPQ0mln4PVOkPexorAaCToDteiBhOUf3W6NW2BGcGKWZnalr5LfEEOvcKDbNS-uOkhNW/s1600/marcus_ross.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVO5-FzDNZLGbI-9f5k32_Msd-2my2GW5sdoaZ2aeSG9ejGtFU9hZ6PMWDuywi3FECZ1o-AiRTyPQ0mln4PVOkPexorAaCToDteiBhOUf3W6NW2BGcGKWZnalr5LfEEOvcKDbNS-uOkhNW/s1600/marcus_ross.png" /></a></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> Marcus R. Ross is a vertebrate paleontologist and young Earth creationist, and has received some media coverage for the apparent <a href="http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2007/02/trained_parrot_awarded_phd.php">conflict</a> between his young earth creationism and his dissertation on tracking the diversity, biostratigraphy, and extinction of mosasaurs (short answer: he doesn’t believe his own work, which raises some <a href="http://scienceblogs.com/ethicsandscience/2007/02/intellectual_honesty_in_scienc.php">questions</a> concerning intellectual honesty to begin with). Larry Moran weighs in <a href="http://sandwalk.blogspot.com/2007/02/what-is-science.html">here</a>. This <a href="http://scienceblogs.com/principles/2007/02/stealth_creationists_and_illin.php">one</a> raises some important questions. How does Ross manage to compartmentalize to this extent? The answer explains why fire and brimstone fundie literalists are so fond of flakier-than-flaky <a href="http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2007/11/so_whats_marcus_ross_up_to_now.php">postmodernism</a> (see also <a href="http://scienceblogs.com/highlyallochthonous/2007/09/sorry_creationists_rocks_just.php">here</a>). Ross is currently an Assistant Professor of Geology in the Biology/Chemistry Department at Liberty University, and Assistant Director of the Center for Creation Studies. What kind of education is his students getting, one may wonder? Well, <a href="http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2009/03/creationists_in_denial.php">this</a> is illuminating.</div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> As a grad student, Ross was a fellow of the Discovery Institute and participated (with old earth creationist Fred Heeren) the infamous Kunming conference in China (which was notable for being secretly funded by the Discovery Institute to paint an aura of scientific legitimacy on intelligent design).</div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> The best statement on the Ross situation, and what it shows, can be found <a href="http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=200">here</a>.</div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> Ross, by the way, was the guy who presented the <a href="http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2008/04/ontogenetic_depth.php">paper</a> “ONTOGENETIC DEPTH AS A COMPLEXITY METRIC FOR THE CAMBRIAN EXPLOSION” with Paul Nelson back in the olden days (not yesterday).</div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <b>Diagnosis: Probably one of the world’s most skilled mental compartmentalizers, Ross used his unique skill to attain a whiff of authority that he currently deploys ardently to make the world a worse place. Sad.</b><br /> <b><br /></b> Update May 22, 2013: Note that Fred Heeren, mentioned in this entry, <a href="http://pandasthumb.org/archives/2013/05/evangelicals-ta.html">appears to have later renounced creationism</a> altogether.</div> <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/07811612076302931506' itemprop='url'/> <a class='g-profile' href='https://www.blogger.com/profile/07811612076302931506' rel='author' title='author profile'> <span itemprop='name'>chaospet</span> </a> </span> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> at <meta content='http://americanloons.blogspot.com/2012/07/340-marcus-ross.html' itemprop='url'/> <a class='timestamp-link' href='https://americanloons.blogspot.com/2012/07/340-marcus-ross.html' rel='bookmark' 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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/2020/03/'> March </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/2020/02/'> 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/2020/01/'> January </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(13)</span> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span 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href='https://americanloons.blogspot.com/2017/12/'> December </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/2017/11/'> November </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/2017/10/'> October </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/2017/09/'> September </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(14)</span> </li> </ul> 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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/2013/02/'> February </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(44)</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/2013/01/'> January </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(38)</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/2012/'> 2012 </a> <span class='post-count' dir='ltr'>(90)</span> <ul class='hierarchy'> <li class='archivedate collapsed'> <a class='toggle' href='javascript:void(0)'> <span class='zippy'> 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