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Desensitization

Desensitization is a psychological process used to overcome phobias and other extreme emotional reactions. For an example, if some person is suffering from , desensitization might involve exposing them to harmless snakes so they would get used to them and not panic at the sight of one. When desensitization is used in therapy as in this example, it's called "exposure therapy."
Another example of desensitization can be found in a link that some studies have established between excessive violence in media such as video games and a decrease in empathy for the victims of excessive violence.
==Desensitization and non-fanaticism==
The term has also been appropriated by certain political activists who use it to smear anyone who does not share an identical level of dedication to their particular cause. Their reasoning goes somewhat like this:
# When I see action X, I get sick to my stomach.
# When other people see action X, they do not get sick to their stomachs.
# Therefore, since they are not outraged, they must not be paying attention.
# But some people are paying attention and are not outraged.
# Therefore, these people have something wrong with their minds: they have been desensitized to the horrors of action X.
Among popular things crusaded against in this manner are violence and sex, or what the crusaders consider to be their root causes.
* Some people, such as the disbarred lawyer and anti-video-game crusader, Jack Thompson, have claimed that people who played violent video games were "desensitized" to violence itself and were therefore disproportionately violent.
* Others, such as the noted pseudo-sexologists Paul Cameron and Victor Cline, have advanced the idea that the viewing of pornography will desensitize people to horrid perverted aberrant behaviours, such as adultery and gay sex.http://www.ldsr.org/info/drcline.phtml
* Still others combine violence and sex, such as in the case of Andrea Dworkin's anti-pornography campaign, or the related claims that pornography "desensitized" serial rapists such as Ted Bundy.
==References==
Category:Psychology
Desmond Paul Allen

Desmond Paul Allen is the author of several mind-boggling incoherent articles on creationism, politics, and the "Question of Reality". No, he doesn't ever really become clear on what the "Question of Reality" actually is, either (though stringent scientific experimentation has determined the answer to be ""). Touting himself as an obsessive when it comes to mastering an interest, Allen can teach billiards, is a private pilot, is an accomplished oil painter...all of which he has abandoned because having conquered them, he is quite bored.http://desmondallen.com/Parent/Statements/Desmond%20Bio.htm The only thing he hasn't abandoned is theology and musing over quantum woo. He refers to himself as "Reverend", "Doctor", and always attaches Ph.D to the end of his name, primarily due to having "a doctorate of naturopathic medicine, a doctorate of philosophy, a master of business administration and a master of divinity". His affiliation is mostly to the creationist squad over at Answers in Genesis.
Following is a short list of this impresario's more famous contributions to the clogosphere:
* An Apology and Unification Theory for the Reconciliation of Physical Matter and Metaphysical Cognizance: Incomprehensible babble about how the physical and metaphysical shouldn't be treated separately, because something something quantum physics and Goddidit, because all of our reality is a "hologram depiction of God’s intent".No, really, you can't make this stuff up. It's a thing. PZ Myers debunking the crap.
* The Neglected Glory of Man: Male and Female Created He Them: The further we get away from God, the more devalued women become, because we were much more feminist when society was patriarchal and Biblical.Self-published, natch.
* Adam, Eve, and Procreation: "An apology for the acceptance of sibling procreation in the early generations of man, versus its prohibition in current times." Apparently, all of our genetic evolution comes from inbreeding. And thus, all sin. Oh God, no, ugh.
* The Apocalypse: Wise Shall Understand: RevDoc Allen explains the Pocky-clips for you. Because he's sure you won't get it.You Philistine, you.
==External links==
*Website of Desmond Paul Allen
==References==
Category:Creationists
Category:Living people
Category:Quantum woo
Devil's advocate

Devil's advocate is a phrase often used in the English speaking world.It is an idiom of the English language. It refers to when, for the sake of debate, someone presents a point of view they don't necessarily agree with, to make someone else consider an opposing point of view to their own. Colloquially, it may refer to saying something you don't believe to "mess with someone", for the sake of it or playful demeanour. An example of this would be if you were an atheist debating a fellow atheist, and you decided to present a theistic counter-argument, in order to help strengthen your fellow atheist's arguments. Another example would be on a mostly pro-choice forum, pretending to be anti-abortion to try and see how their arguments measure up. This is similar to real-life trolling, but not exactly the same: the person utilizing the devil's advocate is arguing in good faith and usually admits afterwards or in the middle of discussion (or possibly even before they begin) that they are just playing and is trying to put across an opposing view, and a troll is simply being an asshole who simply wants to be malicious, without revealing their true viewpoints, because a debate isn't their motivation.
The term originally referred to the Roman Catholic cardinal charged with arguing against a potential saint's canonization, before the role was greatly reduced by Pope John Paul II, though the Church does still often seek out opposing counsel during the canonization process.
== Notes ==
== See also ==
* Troll
* Just asking questions
Category:Language
Category:Catholicism
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders

The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (, affectionately and snappily known as DSM), currently (as of 2017) in its fifth edition, is a manual of psychiatric diagnosis. The Board of Trustees of the American Psychiatric Association (APA) makes decisions, subject to ratification or rejection by the general APA membership, on what disorders to include in it. The first edition, published in 1952, described eleven categories of mental disorders and listed 106 individual disorders. DSM-III (1980) included 265 disorders and DSM-IV (1994) and DSM-5 (2013) listed nearly 300.The Evolution of the Classification of Psychiatric Disorders Alina Surís, Ryan Holliday, and Carol S. North, 2015, Behavioral Sciences. Volume 6, Issue 1
The first and second editions listed homosexuality as a disorder, but DSM-II 6th Printing (1973) substituted "sexual orientation disturbance", which was in turn removed completely from the DSM-III-R in 1987. Narcissistic personality disorder was removed in 1968 and re-inserted in 1980. DSM-III (1980) jettisoned the terms "neurosis", "melancholia", and "manic depressive illness" and replaced them with "anxiety", "major depression", and "bipolar disorder" (respectively). Multiple personality disorder was included in DSM-III and renamed "dissociative personality disorder" in the DSM-IV.
DSM-5 (not "DSM-V"), published in 2013, finally removed the term "mental retardation" and replaced it with "intellectual disability". The DSM-5 sexual disorders work group abandoned its efforts to add hypersexuality (sex addiction), coercive paraphilia (rape) and hebephilia (statutory rape) as diagnosable disordersDSM 5 Rejects 'Hebephilia' Except for the Fine Print, Allen J. Frances, 3 May 2012, Psychology Today. when it became evident that there was massive disapproval from the broader APA membership and the rest of society. One concern was that these new diagnoses would over-medicalize human behavior.
American Sex and American Psychiatry, Christopher Lane, 1 May 2012, Psychology Today.
==Conflict of Interest among panel members==
According a study publish in the peer-reviewed journal PLOS Medicine; it was revealed that among all panels there was a staggering 69% incidence of conflicts of interest with the pharmaceutical industry. That is 67% on the panel for mood disorders, 83% for psychotic disorders, and 100% among sleep wake disorders. The speculation that one could engage in here is how many of the new diagnostic criteria come into existence solely for the purpose of allowing companies to create new medications, effectively allowing pharmaceutical companies to create their own market and demand.https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1001190
==References==
Category:Books
Category:Medicine
Category:Science
Dianic Wicca

Dianic Wicca or Feminist Dianic WitchcraftZ Budapest's homepage was historically the first part of the Goddess movement and an offshoot of Wicca notable for its second-wave feminism and exclusive worship of the Goddess - and for female only circles. And that means cisgender women only; many Dianic Wiccans consider it a core belief that "only women-born-women truly understand women's experience."The Dianic Tradition, Jade River, Witchvox
==History of Dianic Wicca==
Dianic Wicca was started on the winter solstice of 1971 by Z Budapest and it is notable for being the first modern all-female religion. In the early years it was so dominated by lesbians that declaring yourself a member was equivalent to coming out.
Z Budapest claims that her tradition comes from her mother, despite the strong likenesses to Gardnerian Wicca, with parts also borrowed from Aradia in much the same way as Gardener did.
==Appropriation and false history==
Dianic Wicca uses the pentacle as one of its symbols despite the fact that in other branches of Wicca it symbolizes the Triple Goddess with the Horned God and in ceremonial magic (Cornelius Agrippa, Eliphas Levi, Pythagoreans, et al) as the union between male and female.About.com: Pentagram, Five-Pointed StarBuzzle: Paganism Symbols
Dianic Wicca is commonly associated with the pseudohistory associated with the rest of the Goddess Movement and in particular the Burning Tymes.The Burning Tymes should not be confused with burning thyme, which would just be bad cookery.
==Other meanings==
There are other less famous branches of Wicca also known as Dianic Wicca, notably:
* The that worships the triple Goddess; the maiden, the mother, and the crone (whatever names they take). This allows in cis and trans women, and even some men (including McFarland's husband).Dianic Wicca, LearnReligions.com
* The Living Temple of Diana, an emerging shamanic witchcraft tradition of Dianic witchcraft started by Devin Hunter.
* Fluff Bunny Wiccans inspired by the writings of Z Budapest.
==Notes==
==References==
Category:TERFs
Dichloroacetate

A dichloroacetate is any salt of the dichloroacetic acid (DCA), usually sodium dichloroacetate. This class of chemical compounds have been making the news since 2007, when a study showed that they might be a cheap cure for cancer. The story has been slowly evolving since then, but there's still no valid clinical evidence that DCA is an effective cancer cure in humans. Science has not stood still, however, because DCA has been shown to be unsafe.
The usual conspiracy theory is that DCA cannot be patented, and lacking patent protection, Big Pharma would never conduct the required clinical trials. This is patently untrue (har har), because DCA has been in clinical trials since 1994.https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT00015015?term=dichloroacetate&recrs=deghim&rank=12 Second, there is an option to file a "use patent", which covers the use of a non-novel small molecule like DCA to medicate a certain disease.http://stm.sciencemag.org/content/6/248/248fs30 There has been some legitimate interest in DCA, because DCA can kill cancer cells in vitro, i.e in a sample of individual cells under a microscope. Then again, killing human cells with chemicals is not that hard; the hard part is not killing the whole human too in the process. As of August 2018, there are 20 completed or terminated clinical trials for DCA.https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/results?term=dichloroacetate&Search=Apply&recrs=d&recrs=g&recrs=h&recrs=e&recrs=i&recrs=m&age_v=&gndr=&type=&rslt= 
Before you start adding DCA to your morning cereal, be advised that DCA is still toxic, like other chemotherapic drugs. Pure dichloroacetic acid is corrosive, so it is usually administered as a sodium salt (sodium dichloroacetate). Even so, it is a metabolic poison that damages all types of cells, and damages the liver in high enough doses. The damage it causes to nerves (neuropathy) has forced even legitimate clinical trials to a halt. In nerve cells, it likes to strip off their protective myelin sheaths, which are necessary for their functioning.http://n.neurology.org/content/66/3/324 In high enough doses, it literally makes holes into your brain.https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1765225 Considering that clinical trials have found no clinical benefit with cancer, there's no good reason to subject patients to such toxicity.
As DCA is a relatively simple and easy to obtain, some cancer patients have started self-medicating. (Bad idea for a number of reasons, including the fact that it appears to be toxic in large doses.) A cottage industry of enterpreneurs quacks has sprung up to supply them. At least one US website selling DCA to patients has been shut down by the FDA. There have also been fraudsters selling fake DCA. You might ask if that's more ethical than selling the real stuff, given that medically unsupervised ingestion of DCA is dangerous and potentially fatal.
== References ==
==External links==
*The DCA zombie arises again, Respectful Insolence, 16 May 2011 (includes an index of all of Orac's post on this topic to the moment)
*, page at Wikipedia
Category:Medicine
Category:Chemistry
Dickwad theory

The Dickwad Theory or John Gabriel's Greater Internet Fuckwad Theoryhttp://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/03/19/ – they also produced a version euphemised to "dickwad" states that:
Face it, this explains everything.
==Examples and applications==
When your group considers being an asshole a virtue, well, the process accelerates.
*4chan
*8chan — for the subgroup who found 4chan to be insufficiently nasty 
*Encyclopædia Dramatica
*Kiwi Farms
*Niggermania
*Reddit
*The Slymepit
*Troll
*Twitter
*Yahoo! Answers (Also in the comments of every Yahoo! News article)
*YouTube
*You. You know what you did.
== Variations ==
Yahtzee Croshaw of Zero Punctuation fame has postulated that the theory is actually too complex and proposes removing the "Anonymity" and "Audience" sections to leave the formula as "Normal Person = Total Fuckwad", on the basis that *all* people are fuckwads and that it's not so much the presence of anonymity or an audience that causes issues but more the lack of consequence for being outwardly the complete dick someone necessarily is on the inside.Extra Punctuation, "On Multiplayer", 1 December 2009
==See also==
*Fun:Asshole
*Internet law
*Internet tough guy
==References==
 
Category:Internet
Category:Neologisms
Category:Internet culture
Didache

The Didache ("teaching"), also known as The Teaching of the Twelve Apostles, is an early Christian writing that just barely missed being included in the canonical Bible. Some of the early church did accept it as scripture.
It is usually dated to the late 1st century CE, although the older view was that it was early 2nd century and some still adhere to this; the earliest datings place it as one of the first Christian texts, preceding the four canonical Gospels.Didache, BBC Religion, 2009-08-04 The full text was lost for hundreds of years, and rediscovered in 1873, although it was also quoted by many other early Christian writers.Didache, Early Christian Writings
==Contents==
It offers a basic summary of church doctrine and ritual and church organisation. There are four sections:
# The Way of Life and the Way of Death, an account of good and bad behavior. The Way of Life draws on the Ten Commandments and Jesus' teaching about meekness and turning the other cheek; the Way of Death is more fun if you like "cursing, murders, adulteries, lusts, fornications, thefts, idolatries, witchcrafts, charms, robberies, false witness, hypocrisies, a double heart, fraud, pride, malice, stubbornness, covetousness, foul speech, jealousy, impudence, haughtiness, boastfulness."
# Rituals: baptism and the Eucharist, the and fasting.
# A section on how to treat apostles and prophets and what kind of hospitality should be offered them (including advice to beware anyone who stays more than two days), and how to choose bishops and preachers.
# A prophecy of the end times and Second Coming.
Unlike any of the books that did get included in the New Testament, the Didache contains an explicit prohibition of abortion. Maybe the anti-abortion movement can still get it added to the Bible yet.
==External links==
*Various translations on Wikisource
==Notes==
==References==
Category:Christianity
Category:Apocrypha
Category:Abortion
Die Glocke

Die Glocke (German for "The Glock pistol Bell") is a rumored top secret Nazi project that's either a weapon, an anti-gravity engine, or a time travel viewer, depending on who's telling the story. A Polish crank named Igor Witkowski originated all this bullshit.
==Origin==
Igor Witkowski was plodding along as a low level editor of Polish technical magazines when he was allegedly contacted in 1997 by an unnamed Polish intelligence agent, who let him read a transcript of postwar interviews with war criminal and former Nazi SS officer Jakob Sporrenberg. Sporrenberg unsuccessfully tried to stave off his execution with fanciful tales of top secret Nazi weapons programs he'd been privy to. He told his interviewers of a mysterious high-tech machine he called "The Bell" that was capable of "vortex compression" and "magnetic field separation." Witkowski wrote it all up in an obscure Polish-language book called The Truth About The Wonder Weapon that was promptly ignored.
Nominally mainstream British journalist Nick Cook latched onto Witkowski's story and retold it in his 2002 book The Hunt for Zero Point, suggesting it was anecdotal evidence that the U.S. government has been working on Nazi anti-gravity technology in secret for the last 50 years."The Hunt for Zero Point" by Nick Cook Fringe UFO conspiracy theory cranks such as Joseph P. Farrell quickly joined the party like musicians riffing on a new melody. They claimed "The Bell" supposedly emitted radiation that killed 60 Nazi scientists and could be used to "see into the past". Hitler supposedly ordered the device be taken to South America on a U-Boat at the end of World War II. Or Antarctica. Or the Americans captured it and moved it to the USA, where it was used to power a UFO that landed in Kecksburg, PA. Or it's hidden somewhere in Area 51.http://discaircraft.greyfalcon.us/DIE%20GLOCKE.htm 
	
Die Glocke has also worked its way into pop culture, being featured in video games like Call of Duty and TV programs like Ancient Aliens. It's just one more batshit notion clogging the minds of history-challenged American teens.More than a few teens think the Civil War was fought to gain US independence from England Which could be what the Nazis, known for their sardonic sense of humor, intended for it all along.
==Specifications==
As the name suggests, it is shaped like a bell. As reports said it had some concave mirror-like siding, as well as having to be said to warp space and time, it was quite basically, surprise, surprise, a kind of time machine.
==See also==
*Nazi UFOs
*Ernst Zündel
==References==
Category:Nazism
Dietary supplements

*Herbal supplements
*Orthomolecular medicine
*Soylent — not a supplement but a total food replacement that tastes like shit grit
*Soylent Green, made with soy, lentils, and plankton from the sea, and supplemented with a special "dietary supplement". Remember: Tuesday is Soylent Green day.
*Vitamin and mineral supplements
(No pun intended on the "fork page" bit.)
==See also==
*Nutritionist
Category:Food supplement woo
Digital Millennium Copyright Act

The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (Shortened as DMCA) is a bill passed in 1998 that gives internet service providers some immunity from lawsuits and legal hassles with users who offer downloads on their servers that infringe on copyright. The bill merges two WIPO treaties, the WIPO Copyright Treaty and the WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty, and adds some US-only laws."THE DIGITAL MILLENNIUM COPYRIGHT ACT OF 1998 U.S. Copyright Office Summary." http://www.copyright.gov/legislation/dmca.pdf
International provisions:
*Criminalizes anything that allows people to illegally access DRM-restricted materials.
==Criticism==
Like many laws attempting to regulate the internet, DMCA has had some unintended consequences especially in the area of research and innovation. One primary area of concern is cryptography. There is a concern that attempts to crack security coding with the legitimate goal of improving such security, are actually illegal under this act. Cryptoanalyst Niels Ferguson has made public claims that he will not publish anything related to his security work for Intel, even though it would help other companies protect themselves against similar weaknesses simply because of fears stemming from this law. 
The DMCA takedown process also makes for a really handy means of censoring views someone doesn't like,YouTube to Terminate Account of Scientist who Debunked Aids Denialist Movie due to its assumption that claims of infringement are valid until proven otherwise and the near total lack of consequences for false takedown notices. One widely-publicised example was that of gaming YouTuber Mafia Game Videos, then known as Modded Games, who uploaded a video of a mod for Grand Theft Auto V depicting a as a sticky bomb weapon in a parody of the smartphone's exploding battery issues.GTA 5 MOD - Samsung Galaxy Note 7 (Bomb). Mafia Game Videos. Retrieved on 7 September 2022 Samsung took great offence and filed takedown notices against Modded Games and a few others who made similar videos, only for said legal actions to backfire and cause a Streisand effect. The original video was then reinstated not long after.Martindale, Jon. "It's back! YouTube video showing Note 7 blowing up cars in 'GTA V' is restored." 20 October 2016. Retrieved 7 September 2022 Strangely enough, Samsung only went after those who made gameplay videos of the mod, but not GTA fan sites hosting the mod itself.
==External links==
THE DIGITAL MILLENNIUM COPYRIGHT ACT OF 1998 U.S. Copyright Office Summary.
==References==
Category:Censorship
Category:Copyright
Category:Government incompetence
Category:Internet