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Joe Power

Joe "I just need to use your bathroom" Power is a particularly aggressive Scouse psychic medium who was featured on one of Derren Brown's programs.
==Techniques==
Aside from the usual cold and hot reading tricks, Power appears to have a weak bladder and insists on using the bathroom at a client's house before readings in order to glean information about the household, such as noting the presence (or lack of) male grooming products when performing a reading for a single woman.
==Detective Fail==
In February 2008, 9 year old Shannon Matthews disappeared, sparking a nationwide missing persons hunt with much media attention.BBC News — Shannon Matthews timeline Power met with Shannon's mother, Karen Matthews, and made a prediction about the kidnapper being "a man driving a car with a baby seat and a brown cushion in the back, and a religious card hanging from the rear-view mirror." This prediction turned out to be false when it was discovered that Karen Matthews had planned the kidnapping of her daughter for financial gain, and had instructed her boyfriend's uncle to keep her locked in his bedroom. He has retrospectively changed his story claiming he was correctJoe Power — Police investigations despite not noticing he was standing next to the masterminds of the operation at the time of the prediction.
==Derren Brown Investigates==
Power was the subject of one episode of Derren Brown Investigates titled "The Man Who Contacts the Dead".YouTube: The Man Who Contacts the Dead His tricks were exposed, and he became agitated when Derren (openly stating he was cold reading) performed a more-accurate reading on an actor from Hollyoaks. Power then jumped in and stated that the actor drove a Mini, which was correct, but it was later revealed that he was standing outside when the actor drove past and parked at the studio. He has since claimed that he could not have seen the car as he was talking at the time. It would appear men are indeed incapable of multitasking.
Since the show aired, Power has claimed that he was set up and has provided various other excuses for his actions.Statement from Joe regarding Derren Brown — Investigates (WayBack snapshot)
==Skeptics are paedos!==
In an awesome example of an ad hominem attack, Power claimed that skeptics are just as bad as paedophiles, adding:
Power also made false claims to the police about death threats from the Merseyside Skeptics Society.Joe Power, non-Psychic non-Detective: A Clarification
==Further Reading==
*Merseyside Skeptics — Joe Power portal
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Joel's Army

Joel's Army is a spiritual warfare movement based on -2.2:1 Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain: let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of the LORD cometh, for it is nigh at hand;	
"The day of the LORD cometh, for it is nigh at hand."
2:2 A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness, as the morning spread upon the mountains: a great people and a strong; there hath not been ever the like, neither shall be any more after it, even to the years of many generations. It is linked to Dominionist movementsJoel's Army and The Call, Right Wing Watch and to the now-disgraced Florida megapastor Todd Bentley. They believe that Roe v. Wade constituted a new Passover.
==History==
The origins of the movement are sketchy, but trace back to at least two influences, the Latter Rain movement and Dominionism. 
The Latter Rain movement gained traction in the 1950s as a movement holding Pentecostal beliefs but largely outside the existing Pentecostal denominations, teaching the imminent rise of a victorious church that trenscended denominational organizations and endowed with supernatural power through miraculous working of the Holy Spirit. The early Latter Rain movement is sometimes linked to William Branham, although most reject Branham's Jesus-only baptism beliefs, and may have also had some influence on parts of the Jesus Movement and on the Discipling and Shepherding movement. Among the Latter Rain movement's teachings were that the rise of a victorious church of "overcomers" endowed with supernatural power to wage spiritual warfare and perform miracles would usher in the second coming of Christ. The terms "Manifest Sons of God" and "Joel's Army" referred to these "overcomers". 
Dominionism is a movement that began in the 1970s with Calvinist roots, teaching that the Biblical admonition for Christians to "take dominion" over all the earth includes taking dominion over civil government and law, and that civil law should be based on Biblical teachings.
==Recent developments==
A combination of Latter Rain and Dominionism began to take form in recent years, especially within non-denominational megachurches, and at revival meetings where engaging in "spiritual warfare" and performing miracles such as faith healing has often taken place side by side with sermons encouraging Christians to be active in the political realm "taking back" civil government. Believers see themselves as part of an End times army of overcomers, supernaturally empowered, with a mission to take control of the earth for God in preparation for the second coming of Christ, see millennialism.
==Related movements==
Closely related movements exist not using the Joel's Army name, but with identical beliefs in an end-time army engaged in spiritual warfare to take dominion over the earth. One such movement calling itself the New Apostolic Reformation has been linked to Rick Perry's 2012 U.S. presidential campaign.The Evangelicals Engaged In Spiritual Warfare. Fresh Air. National Public Radio. 2011 August 24.
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Joel Brind

Joel Brind is a professor at Baruch College, City University of New York and a anti-abortion advocate, best known for pushing the discredited link between abortion and breast cancer. After he published a meta-analysis in 1996 which was sharply criticized,An editorial in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute he has preferred to push this link via his organization, "The Breast Cancer Prevention Institute". Also, he seems to be an IDiot, as evidenced by the presence of his name on the Discovery Institute's A Scientific Dissent from Darwinism list.See page 18
==Lecturing==
Since 1992, Dr. Brind has written and lectured extensively on his pseudoscientific claim about a connection between abortion and breast cancer, having been invited to discuss his claims on news programs of major television and radio networks, including CNN, CBS, CBC, NPR, and ABC, as well as writing articles for newspapers (the NYT and Wall Street Journal) and magazines (Time, Newsweek, and US News and World Report).Biography of Joel Brind, Ph.D
==References==
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John A. Davison

John A. Davison was an American biologist most well known for his opposition to the neo-Darwinian synthesis.John Davison at Encyclopedia of American Loons
==Career==
Davison earned a PhD in biology and had a 30-year career as an associate professor of zoology at the University of Vermont.John A. Davison Obituary However later in his life his papers were mostly only published by creationist groups.
==Evolution==
Davison claimed to be a Roman Catholic and a creationist yet he accepted common descent and advocated non-Darwinian evolution. He promoted the idea that evolution had stopped millions of years ago and would usually cite early 20th century biologists in his defence of this view. He also claimed natural selection and mutation were not evolutionary mechanisms. Davison is known for many of his papers one of which was his A Prescribed Evolutionary Hypothesis.Davison paper 
==Online trolling==
Towards the end of his life Davison would spend hours spamming websites and blogs about how Darwin's theory of evolution was wrong and unscientific and how the neo-Darwinists had ruined science. Davison was banned from many forums and even banned from intelligent design websites for his constant trolling. He was known for sending abusive emails to scientists who he claimed were "brainwashed" by Darwinism.The late John A. Davison
==External links==
*John A. Davison archived from the original at the University of Vermont
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John A. Keel

John Alva Keel, born Alva John Kiehle, was a noted American woo-ologist. He was the author of several works of fiction; however Jadoo, published in 1957, was the last of these to be honestly labeled as such. His later inventions, such as The Mothman Prophecies, are marketed as "true stories". In the mid-1960s he, along with Gray Barker, was one of the primary popularizers of the original men in black stories.
He was also a prominent UFO researcher throughout the 60s and one of the more prominent ones to reject an extraterrestrial explanation, preferring a more spiritual or psychic explanations. One of his theories was that UFOs were due to an advanced (possibly non-human) civilization that wasn't visiting Earth, but was in fact from Earth.
==Bibliography==
* Jadoo (1957)
* UFOs: Operation Trojan Horse (1970)
* Strange Creatures From Time and Space (1970)
* Our Haunted Planet (1971)
* The Flying Saucer Subculture (1973)
* The Mothman Prophecies (1975)
* The Eighth Tower (1975)
* Disneyland of the Gods (1988)
* The Complete Guide to Mysterious Beings (1994) (revised version of Strange Creatures from Time and Space)
* The Best of John Keel (Paperback 2006) (Collection of Keel's Fate Magazine articles)
==See also==
*Mothman
*Aliensdidit
*Conspiracy theory
 
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John Ankerberg

John Ankerberg is a televangelist from Chattanooga, Tennessee, who is mostly known for denouncing "cults", which in his case means just about anyone who isn't a Southern Baptist. He is probably best known for his feud with rival televangelist Jim Bakker which led Ankerberg and Jimmy Swaggart to break the untimely news about Bakker's adultery scandal.http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/1987-04-26/news/0120370205_1_john-ankerberg-jim-bakker-ptl His ministry is called the Ankerberg Theological Research Institute and he is the author of some 87 books and counting, including such titles as God in 60 Seconds (which is not about car theft). He believes Roman Catholicism is a false religion,http://ankerberg.com/Articles/archives-rc.htm and believes the current interest in such texts as the Nag Hammadi texts and the hypothetical Q gospel is a liberal plot to undermine the credibility of the canonical New Testament.
He also has a wiki,The Ankerwiki and has the chutzpah to include a science section on his websitehttp://ankerberg.com/catalog/science.html where we are confronted with such profound questions as "Are the Genesis Creation Days 24 Hours or Long Periods of Time?" and a DVD ironically titled Scientific Evidence for Skeptics.
==References==
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John Ashcroft

thumb|right|165px|Calico cat is spying on you. 
John Ashcroft was a United States politician from Missouri who famously lost his seat in the US Senate to a dead guy"In the end he ran for Senate re-election, but lost his seat to a dead man" before being appointed Attorney General by George W. Bush. He also famously went after Martha Stewart and has an honorary degree from Bob Jones University.
He had a thing for calico cats. That would be an extreme paranoia of them, based on his belief that calico cats are Satan's minions.Ok, so he formally denies it, but Vanity Fair holds by their article
He is a Pentecostal Christian, ordering the covering of a statue's breasts and removing the word "Pride" from all Justice Department documents due to its status as a sin. Most notoriously, Ashcroft helped facilitate the extrajudicial reasonings conducted by the Bush administration over their police state measures during the War on Terror.http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2002/03/fundamental-john-ashcroft/
Sadly, it turned out that this insanely conservative and ultra-religious man was far too decent for the Bush administration. Apparently, Alberto Gonzales attempted to get him to sign off on warrantless wiretapping while drugged up after surgery (knowing he wouldn't sign off on it any other time). Still, he refused, saying he was in no condition to sign anything and forcing them to deal with his skeptical assistant.
Ashcroft has opposed voting rights or civil rights.John Ashcroft: the Controversial Issues (January 6, 2006) ABC News. He has also given an interview with the neo-Confederate magazine Southern Progress, in which he supported the Lost Cause of the South narrative.The ugly truth about Republican racial politics: The GOP needs to do a lot more than rebuke Trent Lott to make up for its legacy of pandering to white bigots and suppressing the black vote. by Joan Walsh (December 14, 2002 8:50PM EST) Salon. Welch advised them to book rooms in separate hotels and to and tell no one of their real reasons for traveling.Birchers: How the John Birch Society Radicalized the American Right by Matthew Dallek (2023) Basic Books. ISBN 1541673565.
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John C. Landon

John C. Landon is an American intelligent design author and internet troll.
==Education, or lack thereof==
Landon has no education in science or any qualifications yet claims on his websites, blogs and postings on forums that there is no scientific evidence for evolution.
==Intelligent design==
He is the author of an anti-evolution book World History And The Eonic Effect (2012).World History And The Eonic Effect By John Landon The book rejects "macroevolution" and claims mutation and natural selection have nothing to do with evolution. Landon also rejects any other natural evolutionary mechanism and the book advocates a version of intelligent design and human exceptionalism.Book Review Landon also posts many positive reviews of young earth creationist books under the username of "nemonemini".Nemonemini Reviews
==Evolution==
Landon owns a creationist website called "Darwiniana" where he posts against "neo-Darwinism" which he claims is a conspiracy to remove God from science and writes that there is no evidence for macroevolution. On some of his postings he still claims he accepts evolution yet this is not true as Landon denies common descent, denies any evidence for speciation and claims like all creationists do that only microevolution exists.History, Evolution, and the Darwin Debate
In his book World History And The Eonic Effect Landon wrote: 
==See also==
*Hugh Dower
*Shaun Johnston
==References==
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John C. McAdams

John C. McAdams was an associate professor of political science at Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He had a generally undistinguished career but is notable for the website The Kennedy Assassination Home Page,The Kennedy Assassination, Marquette which was created in 1995 and still looks like it.
In an internet awash in conspiracy theories about the Kennedy assassination, McAdams' website has become essential by default as one of the few websites for people looking for facts and sanity about the events of 1963. As a result, McAdams has become the Emmanuel Goldstein of the JFK conspiracy buffs, who subject him to penetrating and insightful inquiries like wondering if he is a "CIA disinformation asset, or just plain Crackpot?""Who is John McAdams?"
Otherwise, he was a Walmart shill,Wal-Mart Enlists Bloggers in P.R. Campaign ultraconservative, pro-capital punishment campaigner (even once testifying as an expert before CongressAn Examination of the Death Penalty in the United States) who ran a blog devoted to criticizing liberals and "political correctness" (which seems to just refer to stuff he didn't like), focused on Marquette University.Marquette Warrior In 2014 McAdams was suspended after he criticized another professor for allegedly prohibiting criticism of homosexuality in her classes.Marquette suspends prof’s teaching, orders him off campus The university maintained this was actually because he had published the names of both the professor and a student, violating privacy rules, saying it was his third violation. His full reinstatement required McAdams to write a letter of apology, which he refused. After a lawsuit, the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled for McAdams and ordered him reinstated.McAdams v. Marquette University, Wisconsin Supreme Court No. 2017AP001240 (July 6, 2018) McAdams died on April 15, 2021.
==References==
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John C. Sanford

John C. Sanford is an American plant geneticist and young earth creationist. 
==Biography==
Sanford has BSc in horticulture and an MSc and PhD in plant genetics. He was an assistant professor of Horticultural Sciences at Cornell University, and from 1986 to 1998 was an associate professor of Horticultural Science. He retired 1998 but continues at Cornell as a courtesy associate professor. He has published over 70 scientific publications in peer reviewed journals.John C. Sanford at the New York STate Agricultural Experiment StationProfile for John C. Sanford
==Devolution==
He argued for devolution in his book Genetic Entropy & the Mystery of the Genome (2005).Sanford, John C. (2005). Genetic Entropy & the Mystery of the Genome. Ivan Press. ISBN 978-1-59919-002-0 The book has gone through three editions.
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John Edward

:Not to be confused with the former senator from North Carolina, .
John Edward is a hack mentalist who pretends to talk to the dead. He was named "Biggest Douche in the Universe" by the prestigious celebrity auditing firm of Parker and Stone.
==Techniques==
Edward uses a combination of cold reading and plain old subterfuge. Each 22-minute episode is, in reality, condensed from a 3-4 hour "session," thus eliminating the hours on end where Edward doesn't have a clue and is obviously guessing. In addition, Edward is known for placing "plants" in the audience who, during the 30-60 minute delay between seating and Edward's appearance, will speak with real audience members about who they're trying to contact, then surreptitiously relay that information back to Edward's producers. Edward studiously prefaces his statements with weasel phrases, such as "I feel the need to acknowledge".
==9/11 Attacks==
===Failure to Predict===
The evening of September 10, 2001, John Edward appeared as a guest on CNN's Larry King Live. The worst civilian attack in United States history would occur less than twelve hours later, yet this "psychic" did not mention it in any way.Edward's Larry King Live transcript
===Offer to "Contact" Victims===
Following the attacks, Edward offered to air a series of specials where he would "contact" the various victims to relay "last messages" to their families. Even for Edward, this was an incredible show of bad taste, and the idea was soon shelved.
==External links==
*John Edward bingo card
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John Eidsmoe

John Eidsmoe (1945–) is a Pike Road, Alabama attorney with some impressively conservative opinions, which may include a nuanced position about slavery. Right-wing watch on Eidsmoe Nuance could mean apologetics. 
Eidsmoe was of momentary interest in American politics because of his connection to Republican presidential contender Michelle Bachmann. She studied with Eidsmoe while attending Coburn Law School at Oral Roberts University. Bachmann describes him as, "one of the professors who had a great influence on me." She was his research assistant on the 1987 book Christianity and the Constitution, which argues that the United States was founded as a Christian theocracy. That claim contradicts the historical record but what is absolutely certain is that it was founded as a regime that tolerated African slavery.
As of 2023 Eidsmoe is the senior counsel and resident scholar at the Foundation for Moral Law in Montgomery, Alabama Moral Law Staff.
==Education==
According to his home page, Eidsmoe holds a J.D. from the University of Iowa, and a doctorate in "ministry from the Oral Roberts University." Homepage He also collected a Masters of Divinity degree from Lutheran Brethern Seminary, a Master of Arts degree in biblical studies at Dallas Theological Seminary and a B.A. in political science from St. Olaf College.
==See also==
* Christianism
* Dominionism
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John Enders

John Franklin Enders was an American immunologist, microbiologist, and biomedical researcher sometimes referred to as the father of modernVaccines had been around since Edward Jenner, however, John Ender's contribution was to dramatically reduce the costs and time involved in studying and growing viruses.Katz SL (2009). "John F. Enders and measles virus vaccine—a reminiscence". Measles. Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology. 329. pp. 3–11. vaccines. Enders initially studied English literature after serving in the First World War before turning to a career in biomedical research. After completing his degree, Enders joined the bacteriology faculty at Harvard Medical School, he remained there for the rest of his career."John F. Enders, Ph.D." The American Association of Immunologists. 
==Poliomyelitis and measles==
In World War II he was a civilian consultant on infectious diseases to the U.S. War Department. From 1945 to 1949 Enders served the U.S. Army in a like capacity, with particular work on the mumps virus and rickettsial diseases. During this period Enders, with his coworkers Weller and Robbins, began research into new methods of producing in quantity the virus of poliomyelitis. Until that time the only effective method of growing the virus had been in the nerve tissue of living monkeys, and the vaccine thus produced had been proved dangerous to humans. The Enders–Weller–Robbins method of production, achieved in test tubes using cultures of nonnerve tissue from human embryos and monkeys, led to the development of the Salk vaccine for polio in 1954. Similarly, their production in the late 1950s of a vaccine against measles led to the development of a licensed vaccine in the United States in 1963. Much of Enders’ research on viruses was conducted at the Children’s Hospital in Boston, where he had established a laboratory in 1946."John Franklin Enders | American microbiologist". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 2020-01-07. For their work Enders, Thomas Weller, and Frederick Robbins received the 1954 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine."The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1954". NobelPrize.org. Retrieved 2020-01-07.
==See also==
*Jonas Salk
==Notes==
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