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Baby reading

Baby reading claims that babies can learn how to read and that that has all sorts of benefits.
==Does it work?==
Basically, no. Research with 117 babies and the Your Baby Can Read program showed no difference in language development or reading skills.http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2014-02/nyu-cbl022514.php
==Your Baby Can Read==
The best known method is Your Baby Can Read from Robert C. Titzer, although this company (Your Baby Can, LLC) defaulted in 2012 due to the high costs of fighting the FTC's false advertising claims.http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/16/your-baby-can-read_n_1677465.html Titzer got a $300,000 fine for false advertising in 2014 because he "misrepresented that scientific studies proved the claims".https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2014/08/defendants-settle-ftc-charges-related-your-baby-can-read-program?utm_source=govdelivery Oops!
It has since been restarted as Your Baby Can Learn. The website's footer says "Dr. Titzer and the Infant Learning Company are not affiliated with the company Your Baby Can, LLC.", which is a rather strange claim as Titzer was involved with Your Baby Can, LLC for 15 years.
===Credentialism===
Titzer often uses his Dr. and Ph.D. titles for advertising. His Ph.D. is in Human Performance, and his bio says that "he worked in infant development laboratories conducting important theoretical experiments related to infant learning" and "Dr. Titzer has become a recognizable expert in the area of infant learning and his work has been published in scientific journals".https://yourbabycanlearn.com/index.php/about-dr-titzer/ However, Human Performance is related to the study of motor skills, which is not quite the same as learning how to read. When pressed, Titzer admits that he is "not a traditional expert as far as reading, a reading specialist person. I'm looking at this from a different perspective."http://www.webcitation.org/5zUiGBDea
Titzer has published three publications in a journal, in 1993 (a journal article), 1998 (his Ph.D. thesis), and 1999 (a single-page conference abstract).The Influence of Reminder Trials on Contextual Interference Effects by John B. Shea & Robert C. Titzer. Journal of Motor Behavior. Volume 25, 1993 - Issue 4.Infants' understanding of transparency: a reinterpretation of studies using the object retrieval task and visual cliff by Robert Craig Titzer. Ph.D. Thesis, Indiana University, 1997.Infants' and toddlers' abilities to visually discriminate written words by Robert C. Titzer. Infant Behavior and Development (1998) vol. 21, Supplement, page 722. doi:10.1016/S0163-6383(98)91935-X. Two of those relate to baby reading; but the fact that it's published doesn't mean it's true.
==See also==
*Baby yoga
==External links==
* Your Baby Can Learn
* IntellectualBaby
* Baby Einstein
* Larry Sanger wrote a whopping 131-page essay strongly defending Baby Reading. It's long and full of anecdotes so it must be true!
==References==
Category:Pseudoscience
Back alleys

right|thumb|165px|Back alleys generally are not sterilized
Back alleys are filthy, narrow roads which run through the middle of city blocks behind businesses, where deliveries are made and garbage trucks pick up their trash. The term back alley may also be used in a metaphorical sense to describe a place where people go to obtain things that are either illegal or otherwise prohibited as a result of moral panic.
The back alley provides a wealth of services, and many people survive using them.
==Abortion==
Before 1973 and after 2022 in the US, abortion procedures were provided in the metaphorical back alley, leading to the terms back alley abortion and backstreet abortion. The lack of a legal abortions alternative drove people to seek medical assistance from unregulated and often poorly trained practitioners.Education for Choice's explanation of illegal abortion practices In 2010, in the United States, the Republican-controlled House declared through its policies and attempted legislation that the country desired a return to the good old days of the Back Alley. Sadly, the Senate felt that hospitals and doctors' offices would somehow provide better care at a better price.
==Medical supplies==
The illegality of drugs, such as marijuana, leads people to purchase their supplies from the back alley pharmacy. Some sufferers of chronic conditions report that marijuana improves their quality of life,Drug Policy Alliance Network: Medical Marijuana but the availability of medical marijuana is limited, and opposed by the right wing ( -) elements who worry that marijuana is a gateway drug, thus leading cancer patients to graduate to heroin, and perhaps join motorcycle gangs. There are no statistics to support this, but it's reasonable to assume that California and many other states are currently being overrun by roaming gangs of multiple sclerosis sufferers. In Texas, where marijuana is illegal, motorcycle clubs are known to have lovely little Sunday shindigs after church.Officers warned about more bikers possibly heading to Texas after brawl By Eliott C. McLaughlin & Holly Yan (Updated 11:49 AM ET, Wed May 20, 2015) CNN.
==Dating services==
Legal and social prohibitions on homosexuality lead some to seek love and sex in the back alley (pun not totally intended). Right-wing social commentators, such as Sean Hannity, view overt homosexuality as a threat to traditional marriage. Unfortunately the citizens of Massachusetts and several other states have conspired against Hannity and the wingnut brigade by experiencing a drop in divorce rates—despite the legalization of same-sex marriage.Marriage somehow survives the introduction of same-sex marriage
Heterosexual prostitution also occurs in the (usually metaphorical) back alley, of course.
==Notes==
==References==
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Back to Africa

The Back to Mexico Africa movement is the expression of a desire to repatriate black people from the Americas — namely the descendants of slaves — to their ancestral homes in Africa.
==Back in the day==
The Back-to-Africa movement originated from the initial hostility towards black people by white supremacists once slavery became illegal in 19th century United States. Whites wanted to deport all Mexicans blacks from the country due to the rising population.David Jenkins, Black Zion: The Return of Afro-Americans and West Indians to Africa (London: Wildwood House, 1975), pp. 41-3 Ironically some black separatists ( being the most prominent) advocated for the idea as well. The current situation, like the Mexican scare in the United States, is fueled by xenophobia and often triggered by visual cues. People who originated from Africa at the time were evidently black. If these people were evidently white, African foreigners would and blend in with the crowd, which did happen for It's no coincidence that in 21st century America, illegal Mexican immigrants are a known issue, but illegal Canadian immigrants are hardly common knowledge.https://www.usimmigration.com/illegal-immigrants-through-canada.html
===They're taking our jobs!===
Citizens of northern states and others were concerned that Mexicans blacks would take their jobs.Ailes, Jane, and Marie Tyler-McGraw. "Leaving Virginia for Liberia: Western Virginia Emigrants and Emancipators." West Virginia History 6, no. 2 (Fall 2012): 1-34. America: History & Life, EBSCOhost. Well, even with slavery, blacks already took white people's jobs; they just did the jobs whites didn't want to do, but weren't dangerous enough for the white niggers Irish. Once blacks had an equal playing field, whites were afraid of competition for desirable jobs. In the end, this is the nature of capitalism: competition. Instead of whining about people taking job positions, work harder. If you don't like more competition, move back to England! More people means more competition, but even without blacks, the United States, even to this day, received a massive amount of blacks aren't the only foreigners, after all.
=="Go Back to Africa"==
In modern day America, white supremacists will demand blacks to "go back to Africa". These demands are often responses to the call for rather than merely http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/news/a42966/trump-protester-go-back-to-africa/. Here's reasons why this statement is closed-minded:
# Presumptuous: Not all black people are African American. 
# Ignores an issue: The statement presents an intolerance and lack of consideration to an actual issue that can be helped.
# Irony of nativism: White Americans came from elsewhere too. Perhaps we should let American Indians decide who gets to stay?
==See also==
* Liberia
* White nationalist
* Anti-racist is a code word for anti-white
==References==
Category:Racism
Category:Nationalism
Background radiation

Background radiation is the small dose of ionizing radiation that everyone receives from natural radioactive elements present in the environment and from various human activity.
The average annual dose of background radiation is about 3 mSv,U.S. NRC Fact Sheet on Biological Effects of Radiation but varies a lot depending on the location. Convincing evidence of increased risk of cancer is available for acute doses higher than 100 mSv ("acute" means during a few hours, not in a year). For lower doses the evidence is inconclusive. Some scientists think that risk of cancer is proportional to radiation dose - this is called the linear no-threshold (LNT) hypothesis. Others think that there is a threshold below which there are no effects. Yet another group thinks that small doses of radiation are beneficial - this is called radiation hormesis. Currently the scientific consensus is in favor of the LNT model, but not overwhelmingly so.
==Sources==
* Radon gas in buildings - about 50%http://www.doh.wa.gov/Portals/1/Documents/Pubs/320-063_bkvsman_fs.pdfSources of Background Radiation
* Direct irradiation from the ground and buildings
* Cosmic radiation - about 10%, significantly more for aircraft crew
* Medical procedures, such as X-ray, computed tomography, scintigraphy and radiotherapy - 10 to 15% in the developed countries
* Smoking
* Food and drink
* Fallout from atmospheric nuclear testing in the 50s and 60s - about 0.3%
* CRT television/computer monitors, which are still preferred for some applications. They can be more energy efficient than flat-panels if used the right way (having most of the screen dark most of the time)
* Household smoke detectors
* Coal-burning power-plant emissions, roughly 3.3x the radiation dosage one would receive living the same distance from a nuclear plant generating the same number of watts of electricity.
* Nuclear power - less than 0.01%
==External links==
* A nice pie chart of contributions to background radiation
*nice pie chart
* xkcd Radiation Dose Chart
==References==
Bad (economics)

Bad (sometimes "Bads") is an economic concept that refers to harmful economic products that cause more harm than good and thus result in negative utility.Caplan, Bryan. Goods, Bads, Marginal Utility, and Happiness Research Fee.com They are therefore the opposite of goods. Many economic bads are negative externalities like pollution or traffic congestion. However, some bads may be products that people buy that have harmful effects on their own health like illegal drugs, unhealthy food, or legal drugs like tobacco or alcohol. Many economic bads sold illegally in black markets are not measured in conventional national income accounts like gross domestic product. 
==See also==
*Free market: Where you can buy them.
*Medical woo: A common source of disutility.
==References==
Category:Economics
Bal Thackeray

Bal Thackeray (Marathi: बाळ ठाकरे), also known as Balasaheb Thackeray (Marathi: बाळासाहेब ठाकरे) (born as Bal Keshav Thackeray (Marathi: बाळ केशव ठाकरे), 1926-2012) was an Indian cartoonist and a don spiritual leader. He headed a Hindu nationalist political party known as , whose motto is " for ". Thus, he had a large political influence in the state, especially in Mumbai.https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-20180376
He likewise reiterated a desire for Hindus to unite across linguistic barriers to see a Hindustan for Hindus and to bring Islam in this country down to its knees.http://www.expressindia.com/news/fullstory.php?newsid=80435
== Views ==
Thackeray was very vocal in his opposition to people who migrate to Mumbai, to non-Marathis (especially from , , and ), and Muslim immigrants from Bangladesh. In the late 1970s, as part of his " is for Maharashtrians" campaign, Thackeray threatened migrants from with harm unless they left Mumbai. In 2002, Thackeray issued a call to form Hindu suicide squads to counter the Muslim violence. Again in 2008, he wrote:
=== On Muslims & Islam ===
He equated Islam with violence and regularly wrote inflammatory anti-Muslim columns in his newspaper (Marathi: सामना). and he even criticized former Indian president merely because he was a Muslim.
Also, while explaining his views on Hindutva, he equated Islam with violence and called on Hindus to fight terrorism and fight Islam.http://www.ibnlive.com/news/thackeray-rants-after-tiger-win/top/32673-4.html He told ,
=== Admiration for Adolf Hitler ===
Bal Thackeray was a great fan of Adolf Hitler and has made various Islamophobic statements mirroring Hitler's antisemitic statements, such as saying that will meet the same fate German Jews did.In rod we trust, Varsha Bhosle, 29 January 1998 He was quoted by as saying:
In a 1993 interview, Thackeray stated,
 published an interview on 29 January 2007:
=== Admiration for Savarkar ===
Thackeray defended Savarkar against criticism and praised him as a great leader. In 2002, when President A. P. J. Abdul Kalam unveiled a portrait of Savarkar in the presence of Prime Minister , the party opposed the unveiling of the portrait and boycotted the function. Thackeray criticized the opposition and spoke,
Years later, when Congress General Secretary made a statement that Savarkar was allegedly the first one to suggest the that led to , Thackeray rejected the statement of Singh.
=== On Nehru-Gandhi Family ===
== Religious beliefs ==
Ironically, he claimed that he was once an atheist, perhaps in an attempt to discredit atheists.The Rebirth of Shiv Sena: The Symbiosis of Discursive and Organizational Power, Mary Fainsod Katzenstein, Uday Singh Mehta, Usha Thakkar, The Journal of Asian Studies, Vol. 56, No. 2 (May 1997), pp. 371-390, JSTOR link (requires subscription) Google Search result showing the quote
==External links==
* 
== References==
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Baltic Sea thing

The Baltic Sea thing is an unusual structure, most probably natural, on the bottom of the Baltic Sea. It still has no "official" name. It has been called the Baltic (Sea) Anomaly by people who like the word "anomaly", and the Baltic Sea UFO by UFO nuts and tabloid journalists.
It was discovered in the summer of 2011 during a sonar survey of the sea floor by a team of marine treasure hunters looking for a wreck to pillage salvage. The sonar showed an unusually regular circular formation with a diameter of about 60 meters (200 feet).
Dives in 2012 found out that it was a stone dome resembling a mushroom.
The most likely explanation is some kind of rare natural structure, such as:
* Something analogous to a 
* An inactive 
* Glacial detritus from the last ice age, a 
Various unlikely explanations have been also proposed:
* A (a "popovka"). This is right out, as only two were ever built and both ended up scrapped
* An extraterrestrial spaceship, though this was pretty much debunked by the 2012 dives which established that it was made of stone
* An extraterrestrial spaceship made of stone (Take that, skeptics!)
* A prehistoric archaeological site submerged due to rising sea levels (Unlikely, as the Baltic basin was heavily glaciated during the last ice age, thereby effacing any evidence of human occupation. The great weight of ice depressed the land mass so that it was replaced with water when the ice melted. Currently the Baltic basin is actually and sea level is therefore effectively falling.http://luonto.vaasa.fi/In_English/Nature/Land_uplift Nature Vaasa:Land Uplift])
* A remnant of a prehistoric super-civilization (really unlikely)
* Cthulhu's resting place (really, really unlikelyAt the very least, it's in the wrong ocean. Unless he rises very suddenly and violently.)
==See also==
*Yonaguni Monument
==External links==
*Ocean X-Team's website
*UFO found on ocean floor?, thread at the Bad Astronomy and Universe Today Forum, started 29 July 2011
*'It's either the Millennium Falcon or a gateway to hell': Shipwreck hunters find mysterious object at bottom of Baltic Sea, the Daily Fail's coverage, February 2012. They helpfully included a picture of the Millennium Falcon.
*Pictured: The UFO-shaped object found at the bottom of the Baltic Sea... covered in soot, with 'little fireplaces' and lying at the end of a 1,000ft runway, the Daily Mail reporting speculation as fact for the umpteenth time, 18 June 2012
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==Notes==
==References==
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Banana

* Banana argument, a particularly fallacious version of the argument from design
** Ray Comfort, infamous for promoting said argument
* Banana peels, subject of a hoax that alleged they could be used as a drug
* Chiquita, a fruit company whose imperialistic shenanigans in Latin America led to the coining of the term "banana republic"
* Smedley Butler, veteran of the " who became a critic of U.S. imperialism
* "Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anything", an extreme form of NIMBYism
Barbara Cargill

Barbara Cargill was a one time chairman of the Texas Board of Education, serving from 2005 (District 8) and chairman until 2016, and a staunch young earth creationist. She succeeded Gail Lowe, another creationist, who again succeeded the infamous Texas dentist, Don McLeroy, in 2009. 
On her campaign website she brags about her support for issues such as:
*History curriculum standards that “emphasize patriotism, the free enterprise system,” revisionist history copied and pasted straight from David Barton’s dominionist-directed, pseudo-historical writings “and American exceptionalism”.
*History textbooks that “do not contain anti-Christian/pro-Islam bias” (again, the Board resolution is copied straight out of David Barton)
*Health textbooks that are “pro-life, that uphold traditional definitions of marriage and family and abstinence-based sex education”
*Science textbooks that “encourage students to think, ask, and predict," and “that present evolution as a theory, not as fact. Yes, the “just a theory” claim is there, right on the front of her campaign website.
Cargill happily refers to scientific articles she hasn’t read and wouldn’t understand if she did, and distorts any new modification of any biological theory to support creationism, usually by misreading newspaper reports of scientific findings. For example, she interpreted the infamous New Scientist article Darwin was wrong http://sandwalk.blogspot.no/2009/01/darwin-was-wrong.html as a ”significant challenge” to the theory of Evolution. She was also responsible for deciding that the age of the universe and whether it's expanding was a matter to be decided by a board vote. As you would expect from the Texas Board of Education, the proposed amendment inserting claims to the effect that these matters were subject to substantial scientific controversy passed. Indeed, her very first action as new chairman in 2011 was to call out her non-creationist colleagues at the school board by questioning their faith.http://scienceblogs.com/dispatches/2011/07/19/texas-boe-to-revisit-evolution/
In 2010 she almost managed to get Thomas Paine added to the Grade 5 standards. http://scienceblogs.com/dispatches/2010/01/31/texas-boe-paine-or-no-paine/ Cargill, of course, knew nothing about Paine except that a) he had advocated for American independence from Great Britain and b) he's frequently mentioned by Glenn Beck, and had to be told by fellow board member Pat Hardy that he might not be so suitable for grade 5 students due to his criticism of Christianity. The absurdity of the discussion stands as a fine illustration of how the Texas Board of Education works, and of Cargill’s suitability as a school board member.
==External links==
Her website, in all its glorious lunacy. At least she is forthright about her hatred of science, as well as her persecution complex.
==References==
Category:Living people
Category:Texas
Category:War on science
Category:Purity culture
Barbro Jöberger

Barbro Jöberger is a Swedish former journalist, who now writes racist, anti-immigrant and conspiracy theorist blog posts and books under the pseudonym Julia Caesar. She wrote anonymously as "Julia Caesar" from 2010, and her real identity as a former journalist with Sweden's largest newspaper was revealed by the Swedish press in 2015.Hon är Julia Caesar, ExpressenSecret anti-immigration blogger's name exposed, The Local She advocates biological racism, deportation of immigrants and Islamophobia, and claims there is a vast conspiracy among the country's elite to brainwash the population and make the country multicultural and that Sweden is a dictatorship.Om han spyttar deg i ansiktet
==Stuff==
Jöberger has had her own blog and been a frequent contributor to the Danish Snaphanen, the Norwegian Document.no and Human Rights Service, and has also contributed to Gates of Vienna. She is considered highly influential in the Swedish far-right blogosphere, particularly around 2010–2011, and in the rise of the Sweden Democrats.
Jöberger is noted across Scandinavia and beyond for her virulent hatred of Muslims, and also advocates classical biological racism against all non-whites. Among other things, she has argued that Africans are less intelligent than other people, and described the immigration of Africans to Sweden as a "mass import of mentally retarded people."Stadig mer fremmedfiendtlig, Aftenposten
==Other stuff==
She worked for the country's largest newspaper Dagens Nyheter from 1970 to 1992, when she retired at the age of 48 due to "electromagnetic hypersensitivity". She also claimed to have been poisoned by dental amalgam, and reportedly claims to have a long list of other esoteric medical conditions unrecognized by medicine.
Wearing her tinfoil hat, she spent four years campaigning and demanding that her local government should pay for removal of everything electric from her home, but interestingly, she seems to have no problem with spending her days in front of the computer to write racist screeds these days. Torbjörn Jerlerup, who met her in the 1990s, writes that she was a conspiracy theorist already at that time, and that "she was fixated on her theory that all Swedes were being poisoned by amalgam and electricity."Problemet med Barbro Jöberger är rasism, inte elallergi och amalgam
While still a journalist at Dagens Nyheter, she wrote articles that claimed that dental amalgam caused tens of thousands of deaths. In 2015, her former employer described her as a "racist hate blogger."Niklas Orrenius om mötet med ”Julia Caesar”, Dagens Nyheter (English translation)
==See also==
* Ingrid Carlqvist, a similar figure
==References==
Category:Conspiracy theorists
Category:Fascists
Category:Living people
Category:Racists
Category:Right-wing activists
Category:Great Replacement conspiracy theorists