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Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear

The Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear was a political rally led by Jon Stewart, host of The Daily Show of Comedy Central fame, on October 30, 2010 on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. The rally was intended to contrast with the more radical and crazed rallies put on by the Tea Party, and more specifically Glenn Beck's "Restoring Honor" rally. It was a resounding success, drawing "well over 200,000 people."http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/10/30/rally-to-restore-sanity-attendance_n_776547.html
==Background==
Originally, Stephen Colbert was going to have a satirical counter-rally, called the March to Keep Fear Alive, in the same place at the same time. Later on it was "revealed" that Stephen hadn't gotten a permit, so he and Jon merged their rallies into one and titled it the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear.
The rally drew a large crowd and had a number of guest speakers and performers, among them The Roots, John Legend, Adam Savage, Jamie Hyneman, Don Novello, Ozzy Osbourne, Cat Stevens Yusuf Islam, the O'Jays, Kid Rock, and Sheryl Crow.
The overall theme was of rational concern (sanity) vs. crazed panic (fear), with Jon Stewart representing the sanity side and Stephen Colbert acting as the fear side. Throughout the rally, Colbert nagged Stewart about fears and threats, but was "defeated" by the chanting crowd, whereupon Stewart gave a speech about the importance of not letting fear and panic take control.
==See also==
*Insanity
*Sean Hannity
==References==
Category:United States politics
Ralph René

Ralph René was a conspiracy theorist and a self-proclaimed expert in physics, notable mostly for claiming that the Apollo missions were faked and for writing a book about it.
His writings are usually accepted as gospel by YouTube conspiracy theorists. such as Jarrah White, who has been described as René's "honorary heir". A central component of White's video "Better Eight Than Never" was René's flawed calculations regarding the volume of cooling water required by the Apollo astronauts' life-support systems.Apollo VIII: Better Eight Than Never. Jarrah White, YouTube, 12 April 2014. René's mathematical errors resulted in a volume of 48 liters of water for an eight-hour EVA which Jarrah illustrated using 24 two-liter bottles of milk. The correct volume of water is approximately five liters.
==Other conspiracies/beliefs==
As it is case with many conspiracy believers, René was a supporter of other conspiracy theories.
*He believed that the September 11 attacks were a result of a conspiracy (but not the one everyone is familiar with) and he wrote a book about that too (money, money, money).
*He claimed that Einstein's theory of relativity and Newton's law of universal gravity are invalid/faulty and the number pi is actually 3.146264.
==Bibliography==
*The Last Skeptic Of Science, 1988 (originally MENSA Lectures, before Mensa sued him), self-published
*NASA Mooned America!, 1994, self-published
==See also==
*Moon landing hoax
==External links==
*Ralph Rene's website is still online, maintained by Jarrah White (It's written in Comic Sans. No comment.)
==References==
category:Pseudoscience promoters
Ralph W. Moss

Ralph W. Moss is an alternative cancer "guru". Never seen in public without the title "Dr.", he holds a Ph.D. in classics (not an M.D. or any scientifically relevant qualification). He claims to have been an associate director of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC), but they say he was just a science writer.Letter from MSK re Moss's appointment He was dismissed by MSKCC in 1977 after accusing them of suppressing information supportive of laetrile. Moss cites this as evidence that laetrile works and is suppressed by the medical establishment. A cynic might agree that attacking your employer for failing to support quackery is a great reason for being dismissed.
He is the author of several books promoting various forms of cancer woo, and seems to be the canonical source of the term "cancer industry" in his book of the same name. His books are hugely popular with people like Mike Adams, Joseph Mercola and of course the real cancer industry, the cottage industry of quacks, scammers, frauds and cynical bastards that exploit the desperate and vulnerable for personal gain, all of whom promote them tirelessly, never forgetting to call him "Dr." and often repeating his false claim to have been an associate director of MSKCC. They don't understand the appeal to authority fallacy, poor dears.
==External links==
*Cancer Decisions
==References==
Category:Cancer woo
Category:Pseudoscience promoters
Category:Living people
Category:Alternative medicine promoters
Ramtha

Ramtha is an alleged old dead guy channeled by J.Z. Knight (born Judith Darlene Hampton) , who lives on a compound in Yelm, near Tacoma, Washington, whence she also runs her channelling operation and sells books and trinkets.
"Ramtha" is allegedly a Lemurian who led a large army of warriors to conquer two-thirds of the Earth, by fighting the Atlanteans during a period of cataclysmic Earth changes 35,000 years ago.DeepTranceNow:Ramatha Predictably, "Ramtha" predicts more such "Earth changes" coming very shortly and suggests we prepare. Otherwise, "Ramtha" teaches anyone who will listen that "you are God," and expresses much knowledge of conspiracies and world affairs, but doesn't seem to know what a carrot is. How this jives with his earlier efforts at world conquest, no one knows.
Shirley MacLaine, something of a woo-meister in her own right, promoted Knight and "Ramtha" in her book Dancing in the Light.
In recent years, J.Z. Knight (and Ramtha by extension) have jumped aboard the Trump Train, calling for a military takeover of the US in the wake of Trump losing the 2020 election.Eric RosaneJZ Knight Called for ‘Military Coup’ After Biden Took Lead in Presidential Bid Nisqually Valley News Knight is also a believer in QAnon and has invited QAnon promoters to Ramtha's School of Enlightenment to lecture about their shared mass delusion.Will Sommer Teams Up With Alleged Cult Leader The Daily Beast "Ramtha" has also promoted extreme racism, homophobia, and antisemitism.
==Ramtha's School of Enlightenment==
 (or RSE for short) is where people go to study Ramtha's teachings. According to the official site, his teachings are "a unique science" and the school teaches various new age and paranormal practices, including remote viewing, telepathy, stuff about spirits and other wonderful assortment of woo.What will you learn?, 'RSE'
The school has been considered a cult by ex-members,Joe, Bobbi, Why I quit the ramtha school of enlightment 'Frank report', 2nd August 2019 including a support group for ex-members called Life After RSE,One-time insider tells RSE experience, Megan Hansen, Cult Education Institute 26 September 2008 and by skeptics.Shermer, Michael, Why people believe weird things, p. 295, 1 September 2002
==See also==
*What the Bleep Do We Know?
*Lemuria
*Ancient aliens
==References==
Category:Ancient aliens
Category:Antisemitism
Category:Cults
Category:Homophobia
Category:Living people
Category:New Age
Category:Paranormal
Category:Pseudohistory
Category:QAnon
Category:Racism
Rand Flem-Ath

Rand Flem-Ath (His surname is a portmanteau of his and his wife Rose's surnames) is a crappy author and loony pseudoscientist who's published a number of books wherein he expands on the crustal displacement theories of Charles Hapgood. His day job is as a librarian, and he claims to have been on "History Channel, the Discovery Channel, NBC, CBC, and the BBC as well as on numerous radio shows".Atlantis Beneath the Ice: The Fate of the Lost Continent by Rand & Rose Flem-Ath (2012) 2nd ed. ISBN 1591431379. From the back cover, as reported by Amazon (archived from 12 Dec 2020 18:34:05 UTC). Rand also appeared briefly in the schlockumentary The Mysterious Origins of Man.The Mysterious Origins of Man (1996 TV Movie): Full Cast & Crew IMDb. One of his core beliefs is that not only is Atlantis real, but due to crustal displacement, it currently lies under several miles of ice in what we now call Antarctica. Which is, to say the least, wrong, and largely unsubstantiated.
==Bibliography==
*When the Sky Fell: In Search of Atlantis by Rand & Rose Flem-Ath (1995) ISBN 0297816284.
*Field of Thunder: A Thriller by Rose Flem-Ath (1997) ISBN 0773730427.
*Atlantis Blueprint: Unlocking the Ancient Mysteries of a Long-Lost Civilization by Colin Wilons & Rand Flem-Ath (2001) ISBN 0385334796.
*The Murder of Moses: How an Egyptian Magician Assassinated Moses, Stole His Identity, and Hijacked the Exodus by Rand & Rose Flem-Ath (2019) ISBN 1591433363.
*Atlantis Beneath the Ice: The Fate of the Lost Continent by Rand & Rose Flem-Ath (2012) 2nd ed. ISBN 1591431379.
==See also==
*Graham Hancock 
==External links==
*Homepage
==References==
Category:Authors
Category:Living people
Category:Pseudohistory promoters
Randal Rauser

Randal Rauser is a Christian apologist from Edmonton, Alberta. He is an associate professor of historical theology at Taylor Seminary. He is really no different from Ray Comfort or Pat Robertson, being an expert at Lying for Jesus but he likes to pretend that he is so much better than them. Rauser claims that atheists should stop calling themselves atheists because they don't know what the word means.Randal Rauser doesn’t know how to speak English by Chris Hallquist. patheos.com, 22 February 2012. 
Rauser has, however, poked fun at creationist Ken Ham's Noah's Ark project.A defense of Ken Ham’s fake Noah's Ark. randalrauser.com, 1 March 2014.
==External links==
*John Loftus, Dr. Randal Rauser is a Liar! A Liar For Jesus. There is No Escaping this.
*Randal Rauser's Twitter account
==References==
Category:Living people
Category:Christian apologists
Randell Mills

Randell L. Mills, M.D. is a dairy farmer's son who purports to have invented "the new fire" by debunking quantum mechanics and, in the process producing the book, Grand Unified Theory of Classical Physics.The Grand Unified Theory of Classical Physics by Randell L. Mills (2016) Blacklight Power. ISBN 0963517147. Scientists say he's a kook if not a con artist who has been promising a energy revolution for decades, with some accusing him of bilking investors of tens of millions of dollars. However, his company boasts some directors with impressive business backgrounds.http://brilliantlightpower.com/advisory-board/https://brilliantlightpower.com/management/
The American Physical Society's Robert Park says of the farm boy cum Einstein, "It's the American story but he's still wrong."
Steven Chu (Nobel laureate physics and Obama's Secretary of Energy) says, "I feel sorry for the funders, the people who are backing this." 
The list of comments like this from authorities like this goes on to the point of being boring — although some are amusing enough to quote for a tl;dr:
Phillip Anderson (Nobel laureate physics), regarding Mills's "hydrino" form of hydrogen providing the Duke Nukem Forever energy revolution quips, "If you could fuck around with the hydrogen atom, you could fuck around with the energy process in the sun. You could fuck around with life itself. Everything we know about everything would be a bunch of nonsense. That's why I'm so sure that it's a fraud."
Oh, and in case you were wondering whether he has a suppressed cure for cancer that was published in Nature, as well the suppressed Grand Unified Theory, you're in luck!
==In real physics==
In physics, quantum mechanics is widely regarded as the most successful quantitative theory ever produced while Mills attacks the statistical basis of QM and claims instead that nature is best described by classical, Newtonian, physics.
==External links==
*Brilliant Light Power — Mills' company that touts his free energy device
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==References==
Category:living people
Category:Pseudophysics
Category:Alternative medicine
Category:Conspiracy theories
Category:Cancer woo
Category:Quantum woo
Category:Free energy
Random Designer: Created from Chaos to Connect with the Creator

Random Designer: Created from Chaos to Connect with the Creator is a controversial theistic evolution book written in 2004 by Richard G. Colling, an American Christian microbiologist.
==Overview==
The book presents a new idea of using the concept of randomness to unite both evolution with a designer. Colling has written that the universe and all naturalistic processes were designed to look random by a designer who he identifies as the Christian God. The main thesis of the book is that the random designer uses randomness in nature to accomplish his purposes. Colling does not believe the Bible should be read as a scientific book and opposes those who read the Bible literally. His model accepts common descent and evolution and opposes creationism.A Random Universe by Richard G. CollingReview of Random Designer Colling proclaims he has presented a new vision of God’s design a model which is fully compatible with modern science and evolution.Random Designer BookBook Review Random Designer Unlike some other theistic evolution writers Colling does not dispute anything at all in science.
==Reception==
Colling and his book were banned from Olivet Nazarene University, the Christian university where he had taught for twenty-seven years, because of writing the book. His book has also been banned from other Christian schools in America, which only demonstrates just how terrifying science is to fundamentalists. Joseph H. Lechnera, a professor of Chemistry, gave the book a positive review and said that Colling does not dispute any science, but just adds that a random designer is doing it.Review by Joseph H. Lechner, Professor of Chemistry
==Criticism==
How does one differentiate between a random designer and no designer? Colling admits he cannot prove that God exists.Richard Colling - Random Designer: Created From Chaos, To Connect With the Creator - Part 7 Colling is also accused of cherry picking what suits his concept of a loving creator.
==See also==
*Can You Believe in God and Evolution?: A Guide for the Perplexed
*Finding Darwin's God: A Scientist's Search for Common Ground Between God and Evolution
==References==
Category:Christianity
Category:Religious books
Category:Theistic evolution
Rapid prompting method

The rapid prompting method (RPM) is a pseudo-scientific, utterly debunked method that purports to help non-communicative autistic, blind, deaf, Down Syndrome and other disabled individualshttps://www.researchgate.net/publication/287216044 to communicate.https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007%2F978-1-4419-1698-3_1896 The method involves repeatedly asking questions to the victim test subject that she/he can answer by pointing, writing or typing with the help of a facilitator. It has been characterised as a rebranded form of facilitated communication.https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.3109/17518423.2012.749952 As with FC, there is no scientific evidence to support the method and practitioners refuse to let scientists study it.https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007%2F978-1-4419-1698-3_1896
==History==
Soma Mukhopādhyāy, mother to an autistic son, is commonly credited as the creator of RPM. An immigrant from India, she had already captured amerikanski international attention when she came to the USA in 2001, in the wake of a fellowship from the Cure Autism Now Foundation (which merged in 2007 with Autism Speaks). In 2005, Helping Autism Through Learning and Outreach (HALO) started helping her further spread her (perhaps initially well-meaning, but ultimately harmful) beliefs, which are the self-admitted result of postulation rather than research. She has not been publicity-shy,https://www.theverge.com/2018/1/9/16866062/apple-autism-ad-webby-award-bad-science which has both helped her spread her nonsense and bring on legitimate, and much-needed scientific criticism.https://doi.org/10.1007%2Fs40489-019-00175-w
==How it (doesn't) work==
A non-verbal person is asked to point at a letter board that is being moved by an automated device incapable of inducing suggestion a facilitator, and thereby spell out words. Of course, the facilitator isn't prompting the individual to point at particular letters/words, and it's clear that the test subject's agency is shining through,https://www.csicop.org/specialarticles/show/autism_wars_science_strikes_back even in cases where she/he responds in a language that she/he has never been exposed to, but the "facilitator" has.https://doi.org/10.1007%2F978-1-4419-1698-3_1896
==Risks and harm==
As with FC, RPM can be actually harmful to the individuals who find themselves unfortunate enough to be subjected to it. While proponents of RPM argue that scientific testing would be "stimatizing" and "harmful" to themselves the individuals they purport to help, investigators rightly point out that disabled individuals are being manipulated and robbed of their agency.https://skepticalinquirer.org/exclusive/of-eye-movements-and-autism-the-latest-chapter-in-a-continuing-controversy/ Furthermore, it gives parents and guardians a sense of false hope.
==Evidence for RPM==
==References==
Category:Pseudoscience
Category:Disability
Category:Autism woo
Rapoport's Rules

Rapoport's Rules (also Rappaport's Rules or Dennett's Rules), named after game theorist and philosopher Daniel Dennett respectively, are a set of rules intended to encourage productive, critical discourse. In particular, the rules seek to avoid straw man representations of an opponent's argument (similar to the ""steel man" conceptUtilize the "Steel Man" Tactic to Argue More Effectively by Eric Ravenscraft (9/09/14 10:30am) Lifehacker.) and to avoid the backfire effect that criticism often provokes. The rules are most commonly seen in Daniel Dennett's reformulation:How to Criticize with Kindness: Philosopher Daniel Dennett on the Four Steps to Arguing Intelligently, brainpickings
==Full passage from Dennett's book==
Daniel Dennett's book about intuition pumps includes a further discussion of importance and origins of the rules:Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking by Daniel C. Dennett (2013) W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 0393082067. Rapoport's Rules are on pp. 33-35.
Dennett also writes on the ups and downs of applying the rules in practice:
Dennett concludes that:
Indeed.
==See also==
*Fallacy fallacy
==Notes==
==References==
Category:Valid logical methods
Rapture Letters

Rapture Letters is a Christian website built around the belief that the Rapture is going to happen Any Day Now. It is a free service, offered to those who think they will be taken up (but are actually those most likely to stay behind), designed to clarify the mystery of all the missing people to those poor, hellbound atheists who've been left behind. It's basically a nice cover-all for those who haven't been that gung-ho when it comes to spreading the word of God to their less religious friends. Now Rapture Letters can give them a big nudge in the ribs, once you're sipping ambrosia with Jesus and his saints.
They've even got around the "well, who sends the mails?" question by having a "dead man's switch" linked to the mailing program, which will immediately send the mails if not reset. 
The site offers a sample letter that wannabe Rapture-ites can send to their poor, doomed friends and relatives who will receive God’s Love, which really reads out like a smarmy "na-na-nana-na." The basic premise is that the sender is now in Heaven, and if only you'd read and believe the attached Bible verses rather than lying to yourself and taking them out of context, you could be picking out your own harp as we speak. It goes on to add that it's not too late to be saved, even though chances are you're going to get the Heaven the hard way by only repenting now.
As of December 21, 2013, at the cost of $7 per email recipent you can send your letter on the Friday after the rapture to your left behind loved ones. 
Assuming that you're not too busy being engulfed in a lake of fire to read the letter in the first place, chances are that the tone of the letter will leave you feeling relieved that you don't have to spend eternity with those smug bastards.
==See also==
*Rapture Ready
==External links==
*Rapture Letters home page.
*Sample letter.
*The Post-Rapture Post - does the same as RL, but has atheists who will post the letters. Bonus!
category:Fundamentalist Christian websites
Raspberry ketone

Raspberry ketone is a substance purported to be an effective natural weight loss aid. This is problematic, because a) there is no evidence it is good for anythingRaspberry Ketone, WebMD. and b) extracting raspberry ketone from actual raspberries is very expensive, so synthesizing, which is much cheaper, is usually (but not always) done instead,Why no Raspberry Ketones at NOW Foods?, The Herbal Insider. meaning the name is often misleading.
Raspberry ketones (if you believe some, at least) can be either toxic, deadly, pharmaceutical poisons, or safe, gentle, natural cures, depending on the method used to produce it, even though in either case, the end molecule is exactly the same. One herb company tried to find a chemical test that could distinguish between synthetic and natural raspberry ketones but failed, so they decided not to sell the stuff at all in order not to sell any "harmful" artificial chemicals. This raises the question: if there is no way to tell the difference, how do you know there is one?
==References==
Category:Food woo
RationalWiki (slovensky)

RationalWiki (RW) je wiki komunita spolupracujúca na hľadaní a poskytování informácií o širokej škále tém, ktoré sa točia okolo vedy, skepticizmu a kritického myslenia. Momentálne má tento wiki portál článkov.
RationalWiki patrí neziskovej organizácii RationalMedia Foundation (RMF). RationalMedia Foundation síce vlastní servery, na ktorých RationalWiki beží a vlastní niektoré ochranné známky spojené s RationalWiki, ale nijak neriadi jej komunitu a ani jej nepatrí nič, čo komunita vyprodukuje (texty komunity sú dostupné komukoľvek pod licenciou CC-BY-SA 3.0).
Naše poslanie tu na RationalWiki:
# Analýza a vyvracanie pseudovedeckého a anti-vedeckého hnutia;
# Dokumentovanie celého spektra šialených myšlienok;
# Preskúmavanie autoritárstva a fundamentalizmu;
# Analýza a kritika toho, ako sú tieto témy spracované v médiach.
==Jazykové sekcie==
Aj keď väčšina editorov hovorí anglicky, RW má tiež články v iných jazykoch, medzi tie nejväčšie sekcie patrí:
*Ruská: 1003 článkov ku koncu júna 2018, táto sekcia dostala i svoju vlastnú doménu RW;
*Francouzská: článkov;
*Španělská: článkov;
*Portugalská: článkov.
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Category:Slovensky
RationalWiki (česky)

RationalWiki (RW) je wiki komunita společně pracující na nalézání a poskytování informací o široké škále témat, které se točí okolo vědy, skepticismu a s kritickým myšlením. Momentálně má tento wiki portál článků (do toho se nepočítají diskuze, šablony a ani portály). 
RationalWiki patří neziskové organizaci RationalMedia Foundation (RMF). RationalMedia Foundation sice vlastní servery na které RationalWiki běží a vlastní některé ochrané známky s RationalWiki spojené, ale nikterak neřídí její komunitu a ani jí nepatří nic co komunita vyprodukuje (texty komunity jsou dostupné komukoliv pro použití pod licencí CC-BY-SA 3.0).
Naše poslání zde v RationalWi:
# Analyzování a vyvracování pseudovědeckého a anti-vědeckého hnutí;
# Dokumentování širokého spektra šílených nápadů;
# Prozkoumávání autoritářství a fundamentalismu;
# Analyzování a kritizování toho jak jsou tyto témata zpracována v médiích.
==Jazykové sekce==
I když většina editorů mluví anglicky, RW má také články v jiných jazycích, mezi ty největší sekce patří:
*Ruská: 1003 článků ke konci června 2018, tato sekce dostala i svoji vlastní verzi RW;
*Francouzská: článků;
*Španělská: článků;
*Portugalská: článků.
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Category:Česky