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Shooters and Fishers Party

The Shooters and Fishers Party is an Australian political party focused on the promotion of shooting and other gun-related activities. The group is particularly infamous for its "Shooting in Schools" policy and harbors a deep loathing for anyone who dares to contradict them.
==Policies and political stance==
The enlightened policies of the party include, but are not limited to:
*Shooting as a school sport
*Opposition to action on climate change, because "it doesn't exist" (yes, really)
*Relaxation of gun control
*Abolition of Marine and National Parks
*Legalisation of private game reserves
*Legalisation of all forms of hunting in any areaThey really want to play 
*A Moratorium on all immigration into AustraliaThe Sydney Morning Herald: O'Farrell over a barrel as the Shooters take aim 13 April 2011
*Opposition to what it calls "extreme Green policies" and the "left-leaning social reconstructive agenda" of the Greens.
==See also==
*National Rifle Association (United States)
*Privatization of wildlife
==External links==
*The party website
==References==
Category:Australian political parties
Category:Gun control
Shyster

A shyster (possibly derived from the German Scheißer, "shitter"The term's etymology is not agreed upon. It may have derived from German, or a lawyer named Schuster, or perhaps even Shylock from The Merchant of Venice. See here.) is an individual who tends to be flexible with his choice of words and sensitive to the sensibilities of his audience when he discusses fiscally pertinent topics. 
Translation: a shyster is accustomed to excrete torrents of bullshit over the heads of suckers, who then reward the shyster by handing over enormous wads of cash for 'safe' keeping.
==Examples==
A large number of ministers of religion fall into this category, particularly cult leaders and televangelists. This category also includes such creationists as are not completely insane, but are merely shilling for pseudoscience.
Extremist politicians, such as those in the right wing of today's Republican Party, or the CPUSA (especially ), as well as politicians who pander to extremists, are often shysters; for example, Ronald Reagan announced his sympathy with creationism to win over the fundamentalist voters, and promptly got elected, later being rewarded with canonization.
The term is also sometimes applied to certain trial lawyers, particularly of the ambulance-chasing variety.
==See also==
* Denialism
* Mostly shysters
* Sucker
* Charlatan
==References==
Sikivu Hutchinson

thumb|right|165px|Hutchinson, speaking at the Center for Inquiry in 2010
Sikivu Hutchinson is a secular humanist activist involved in the promotion of atheism, skepticism, and social justice issues such as feminism. She holds a Ph.D. in performance studies from New York University and has taught courses on women's studies, cultural studies, urban studies, and education at UCLA, the California Institute of the Arts, and Western Washington University. Her essays have been published in a number of magazines and online venues including Social Text, California English, Black Agenda Report, American Atheist Magazine, New Humanist, and richarddawkins.net. She is also a commentator for the Pacifica Radio stations KPFK (Los Angeles) and WBAI (New York) and a contributor to Freethought Blogs' Black Skeptics blog.Sikivu Hutchinson profile, Secular Student Alliance
==Moral Combat==
In 2011, Hutchinson published Moral Combat: Black Atheists, Gender Politics, and the Values Wars. The book looks at the intersection of religion, secularism, race, gender, sexual orientation, and class in America. Hutchinson explains how black churches provided a bulwark against white supremacy and a means of organization and mobilization during the Civil Rights era. However, she criticizes black churches for their shift in political orientation during recent times. According to Hutchinson, many black religious leaders have hopped in bed with the Religious Right, promoting anti-abortion and anti-LGBT policies and perpetuating sexism and homophobia. She discusses how renouncing religion is seen as renouncing the black identity within the African-American community and calls for secular humanist organizations to help fill the role that these churches once played in promoting social justice. She also criticizes the New Atheists for their scientism, which blinds them to a number of social and political issues surrounding religion and helps to reproduce oppressive hierarchies within secular movements.Norm Allen on Moral Combat: Black Atheists, Gender Politics and the Values Wars, Black Skeptics Hutchinson has reiterated these criticisms in a number of articles and essays.The White Stuff, Daylight AtheismTo Be Atheist, Feminist, and Black, Religion DispatchesForked Road Ahead, The New Humanism
==Godless Americana==
Godless Americana, published in 2013, is an exploration of recent social trends in religion. It concentrates on the relationship between right-wing evangelical Christianity and the Black church. Hutchinson argues that a right-wing backlash is driving more people of color to renounce religion altogether.
==Publications==
* Imagining Transit: Race, Gender, and Transportation Politics in Los Angeles (2003) ISBN 978-0578071862
* Moral Combat: Black Atheists, Gender Politics, and the Values Wars (2011) ISBN 978-0578071862
* Godless Americana (2013) ISBN 978-0615586106
==External links==
*blackfemlens (personal blog)
*Black Skeptics (contributor)
*Black Agenda Report (contributor)
==References==
Category:Atheists
Category:California
Category:Left-wing activists
Category:Feminists
Category:Living people
Category:Radio
Category:Secularism
Category:Skeptics
Silva method

The Silva method, also known as Silva Mind Control, is a hypnosis-based self help program developed by a repairman named José Silva. It claims, among other things, to increase your IQ and help you talk with God by staring into space several times a day.
==Method and madness==
The heart of the Silva method relies on a fundamental misunderstanding of the brain. Silva came across some work pointing out the differential functions of the left and right hemisphere of the brain and came to the conclusion that the right brain is "mystical" and all-powerful and that everyone is stuck in the left hemisphere. This is patent nonsense and goes against every bit of evidence in neuroscience. Silva, however, ran with it and claims his method unlocks the power of the right hemisphere, allowing people to manifest anything they could possibly want. 
Some parts of the method should not be taught to children, or only taught with proper care for their use. In particular, "glove anaesthesia" can get kids in trouble if they just "will the pain away" without attending to the underlying issues.
Category:Woo-related stubs
Category:New Age
Category:Pseudoscience
Category:Psychology
Category:Woo
Silver bullet

A silver bullet is any proposal or belief that rests on some one simple thing being the solution to a massive and complex problem. It's one of those things that sounds like common sense, but in reality is completely idiotic — a favorite device of the intellectually lazy who do not want to deal with your petty complications and nuance. Silver bullets show up in fake science and fake economics, and should be an immediate red flag that somebody is desperately trying to find a rationale for a conclusion that they arbitrarily chose at some point in their adolescence.
The term is derived from werewolf folklore, where a bullet is required (or at least by far the most effective method) to kill the beast. Since silver bullets are effective for killing just about anything in your average monster story, the term is also used to describe an object or idea which should "fix everything".http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/silver-bullet.html In real life, a bullet made from 100% silver is not only much more expensive than a bullet made from more mundane material like lead, copper, tungsten, or depleted uranium (essentially waste), but also less effective in terms of accuracy in tests using modern weapons (attributed to the level of precision required in silver bullet manufacture)."Hollywood Gunslingers", Mythbusters Ep. 189
==See also==
*Panacea
*The Hyperloop is one, according to Saint Elon
*Conservatives blame the flagging economy on "over-regulation" by the FDA, the EPA, and other watchdog groups.
**Libertarians believe that taxation is a form of theft, but paying the same amount or more to a private enterprise is a mutual exchange. Hence proposals for a "Fair" or "Flat Tax", which would add trillions more to the deficit.
**Ancaps simply want to privatize everything.
*"Fucking Jews....Jews are behind all the wars in the world!"
*If you believe America has "turned away from God", then it's very easy to blame society's ills on the separation of church and state.
*Nationalists like to blame immigration for everything: See Secure the border and Britain is full.
*Lost a war? Government corruption getting out of hand? The economy is crashing? Why, you have to turn to Islam! That will cure it! (According to Islamists, that is.)
*Golden hammer
==External links==
*No Silver Bullet: Essence and Accidents of Software Engineering by Frederick P. Brooks, Jr.
*Silver Has Mystic Powers, TV Tropes
==Notes==
==References==
Category:Evaluating arguments
Simon Jenkins

Sir Simon Jenkins is a prominent UK journalist (he was knighted in 2004 for services to journalism) and author, mostly on social issues and architecture. He was chairman of the National Trust from 2008 to 2014Green Belt is 'near meaningless', says Sir Simon Jenkins, The Telegraph, 2015. He used to edit The Times and before that was political editor of The Economist. He writes columns for the Guardian and the Huffington Post. Politically he is conservative with a small c, and often comes across as a grumpy old man railing against modernity.
He is a depressing reminder of how anti-science sentiment is not restricted to the religious right. He is of the opinion that scientists and mathematiciansMaths? I breakfasted on quadratical equations, but it was a waste of time (Guardian, 2008-06-06) are useless, egoistical money-grubbers who demand an undue amount of attention in the popular media and state curricula, and that science is simply a giant scam for cash.Martin Rees makes a religion out of science so his bishops can gather their tithe (Guardian, 2010-06-04) When an Italian court sentenced a couple of seismologists in 2012 for failing to predict an earthquake, he didn't miss the occasion to rant again in the same vein.Wave a banknote at a pundit and he'll predict anything, The Guardian, 25 October 2012
==External links==
* Guardian columns
* Huffington Post columns
==References==
Category:Journalists
Category:Living people
Simon Singh

Simon Singh is a British physicist and science author. His books include Fermat's Last Theorem, Big Bang, Trick or Treatment? Alternative Medicine on Trial, and, of course, The Simpsons and Their Mathematical Secrets.
==BCA lawsuit==
Singh was sued by the British Chiropractic Association (BCA) following allegations of libel due to his (correct) characterization of chiropractic woo as "bogus". The offending article was removed from The Guardian pending the result of the legal process, but is now available again.The Guardian - Beware the spinal trap It's possible that the litigation raised the profile of the more crank positions of chiropractic medicine well above what people previously thought.
In a more recent turn, the BCA published (and quickly retracted) an allegation that Singh was motivated by malice — a defamatory statement that opens up the possibility for Singh to counter sue the ass off the BCA (we at Rational Wiki aren't saying he should follow such childish litigation, but we won't lose sleep if he does).Jack of Kent - BCA Defame Simon Singh This was summed up quite nicely in the Science, Reason and Critical Thinking blog.Science, Reason and Critical Thinking - The BCA Press Statement
On April 1 2010, Singh won an appeal that granted him the right to use a defence of fair comment.Science writer Simon Singh wins libel appeal, BBC News The BCA vowed that they would appeal, but finally dropped the case on April 15.Case dropped against Simon Singh, BBC News
He is the chair of the Good Thinking Society.
==Books==
* Fermat's Last Theorem (1997) — on the namesake theorem in number theory. ISBN 978-185702521
* The Code Book (1999) — a history of cryptography. ISBN 978-1857028799
* Big Bang (2004) — origins of the universe. ISBN 0007193823
* Trick or Treatment?: Alternative Medicine on Trial (2008) (with Edzard Ernst) — critical of alternative medicine. ISBN 0593061292
* The Simpsons and Their Mathematical Secrets (2013) — mathematics in The Simpsons. ISBN 1620402777
==See also==
*Ben Goldacre
*Chilling effect
*Skeptics in the Pub
*Vereniging tegen de Kwakzalverij
==External links==
* Singh's website
* Website of the Good Thinking Society
* 
* 
==References==
Category:Authors
Category:British people
Category:Living people
Six Easy Pieces

Six Easy Pieces (), first published in 1994, is an abridged version of The Feynman Lectures on Physics, compiled by famed physicist Richard P. Feynman.
==Purpose==
The Lectures were designed with the purpose of recruiting and ultimately retaining the next generation of physics students-to-become-physicists at the California Institute of Technology during the sixties. Feynman, who had spent most of his career lecturing to graduate students and fellow physicists, envisioned teaching first and second year students (many who were not majoring in physics but for whom four semesters of physics was a belaboring prerequisite) in the "Feynman style" which emphasized layperson's terms, appropriate analogies, and a light-hearted, often comical vocal delivery. Thankfully, for those of us who were in grade school (or diapers, or nonexistent) by the time he died, Feynman intended from the start of the project that the Lectures be recorded for posterity.
Six Easy Pieces compiles the simplest of the Lectures, utilizing no mathematics, and requiring only a basic understanding of atomic chemistry, for the scientist and non-scientist alike to read, understand, and (ultimately) love.
==Content==
The book begins with some humorous anecdotes about Feynman from fellow physicists/CalTech lecturers, and an introduction from Feynman explaining the purpose of his lectures, as well as some rather funny bits about some of the problems he had putting them together.
The actual lectures themselves, each roughly thirty pages long, contain primer lectures on atomic motion, basic concepts of physics, physics in relation to other sciences, conservation of energy, the theory of gravitation, and basic quantum mechanics.
==Style==
The "Feynman style" is hard to quantify without reading or hearing his lectures. Among some of the elements seen in Six Easy Pieces:
* Use of analogies or reference points to quantify large ratios; for example, an apple in relation to the size of the Earth roughly equivalences the relative size of the nucleus in a carbon atom compared to its electron shell.
* Use of commonly known substances and energies, such as water or radio, to illustrate the physics behind different chemical and atomic processes.
* Use of diagrams, most of which he acknowledges as inaccurate due to scaling and the fact that such diagrams are not three-dimensional.
* Italicizing important new terms and topics, a cue for readers with highlighters.
* Acknowledgement, almost apologetically, of that which is still yet unknown in physics, but with hope that the reader will work to further innovation and discovery.
==Not to be confused with==
* Five Easy Pieces, a film starring Jack Nicholson and Karen Black (IMDb)
* , a book much beloved by Oprah Winfrey until it was discovered to be fictional
Category: Books
Category:Physics
Skeptical Libertarian

The Skeptical Libertarian is a blog which seeks to debunk pseudoscience and conspiracy theories. The blog's preferred targets are "libertarians" that promote woo and conspiracy theories. http://blog.skepticallibertarian.com/about/
==Make your own conspiracy theory!==
After attempts at mocking conspiracies fell through, the folks at the Skeptical Libertarian decided to make a guide of how to make your own conspiracy theory:http://blog.skepticallibertarian.com/2012/04/18/build-your-own-conspiracy-theory/
* Pick bad thing X that happened (it doesn’t matter what or when).
* Postulate a conspiracy was behind it (it doesn’t matter who or why). This is all you need to get going, but there are a few techniques you can use to fill in the blanks about what really happened during X.
* Cherry pick factoids, take details out of context, mine quotes from public figures, elevate obscure minor incidents to center stage, juxtapose unrelated events, obsess over coincidence, point to suspicious lack of evidence that (if it existed) would support your theory, and always, always have pictures with big red arrows pointing to nothing in particular.
* The general rule is: stitch together everything that vaguely supports your theory or calls into question the mainstream explanation, and ignore or deny everything that does not fit.
* In later stages, once your campaign to uncover the truth is well-developed, create a really poorly-produced internet “documentary,” set it to scary music, and have your college roommate narrate it.
* Denounce skeptics and scientists who debunk your claims as tools of the conspiracy, and make it clear that anyone who doubts your theory is a Moreaun human-sheep hybrid creature afflicted with narcolepsy. Tell them they need to, “Wake UP, SHEEPLE!”
* Compile a list of a tiny number of “experts” that support some of your claims, and use it to lend a veneer of scientific credibility to your theory. Wherever possible, use misattributed, unsourced, and out-of-context quotes from experts who do not support your theory to imply they do.
* Create lists of “unanswered questions” that, regardless of how well-answered, will always remain “unanswered.”
==External links==
*Skeptical Libertarian
==References==
Category:Libertarians
Category:Websites
Skepticism about science

Skepticism about science is an interesting angle one encounters when discussing matters of science with, usually, pompous gits people of faith who are bright, but find that some science utterly contradicts their deeply held beliefs.
Rather than apply the concepts and knowledge of well-known science to their firmly-held faith, they pursue science that is poorly presented, or not well-worked out yet, in the arrogant belief that their "skepticism" shows that they are intelligent, questioning people. The extra psychological turn of the screw for them is that by showing that some backwater or less well-lit areas of science are weak, they feel they cast a vague, general aspersion on the fields of science (usually much better worked out) that conflict with their religion or politics.
==Intelligent design==
One example of this is the ID attack of "irreducible complexity" on less-well understood biological mechanisms, in order to try to cast all of evolutionary theory into doubt. Their first big "woo" was the bacterial flagellum, which could not possibly have evolved in part, due to its "irreducible complexity". Since the Dover trial, they are no longer thumping this tub loudly (and the principal exponent, one Dr. Michael Behe, has moved on to criticizing malaria for not evolving to cope with human solutions to it). Biologists have not only worked out theoretical paths to the flagellum where every tiny change is beneficial (à la Darwin's eye), but have found examples of each of these stages in nature.
==Conclusion==
So, yes, skepticism in science is a good thing. It leads to new discoveries and explanations. Skepticism among the faithful, however, is rare, and still often leads to premature death in others.
==See also==
*Cognitive dissonance
Category:Science
Category:Skepticism
Category:Woo
Skeptics Canada

Skeptics Canada is an Canadian organization devoted to promoting public awareness of philosophical skepticism, science, and pseudoscience.
==History==
The organisation was founded in 1984 by the late Henry Gordon. In the years since its founding it has worked to educate the public about issues which require a skeptical approach, and has held a number of exhibitions to promote reason and debunk pseudoscientific concepts. One of the founding members, Michael DeRobertis, has conducted pre-tests for the James Randi Educational Foundation’s Million Dollar Challenge, and was instrumental in preventing York University from allowing the Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College to become part of that institution.
Skeptics Canada is also a participant in the world-wide ‘Skeptics in the Pub’ nights. This is a regular event held once a month at which participants may informally discuss their interests in a casual environment. Guest speakers and various entertainments are also a part of these evenings. Although based in Toronto the membership is composed of people from across Canada.
==External links==
*Skeptics Canada Website, eh?
Category:Skeptical organizations
Category:Canada
Skull and Bones

Skull and Bones is a club at Yale University, occasionally accused by conspiracy theoristsMostly from people who (erroneously) accuse S&B's like Bush Jr. of being Freemasons. Basically, crazy people think all secret societies are the same. of having links with the Freemasons. It is a popular subject for conspiracy theories which allege it is some sort of secret society for hand-picking and grooming future world leaders while initiating them into service to the New World Order through Satanic or occult rituals, but (and this can be said of any Ivy League organization) only the first half is true. Or something.
Since John Kerry and George H. W. Bush were both members, it is clear that Skull & Bones controls both sides of the American political debate and manipulates a mirage of debate between the left and right to keep the masses distracted while they secretly rule the world. Or something. Alternatively, the successful political advancement of so many former members of this small society just goes to show how incestuous and elitist the American political system really is.
Members are sworn to silence about the proceedings, which apparently include dining with Hitler's old silverware — an effective means of convincing them to keep mum about it.
It has been claimed that Skull and Bones has the remains of Native American firebrand, Geronimo, and some of his descendants have sued the society.Skull and Bones sued over Indian chief’s remains
According to their statements, Skull and Bones is dry, meaning no alcohol allowed.A rare look inside the Skull & Bones Society Since this organization is basically a college fraternity there is only one rational response.
==Notes==
==References==
Category:Conspiracy theories
Category:Educational institutions