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Rick Ross

Rick Alan Ross (so as not to be confused with the rapper of the same nameWho he sold rickross.com to, in case you're wondering what happened to old links., or with the drug dealer after whom the rapper was named) is an anti-cult activist. He got into the cult thing when he discovered a Pentecostal cult infiltrating the Jewish nursing home his grandmother was in and got just a bit pissed off at that sort of thing.
He used to do deprogramming but got sued to bankruptcy over a case that went wrong and now sticks to exit counseling and making information on cults available.
He is the founder of the Cult Education Institute, formerly the Rick A. Ross Institute, a non-profit organisation with a mission "to study destructive cults, controversial groups and movements and to provide a broad range of information and services easily accessible to the public for assistance and educational purposes online through the Web."About Us, Cult Education Institute, accessed Aug 22, 2019Rick Ross, Cult Education Institute, accessed Aug 22, 2019
His site is a gold mine of good-quality information on all manner of cults, coercive groups, and questionable and manipulative organisations.
Ross appeared in two episodes of Penn & Teller: Bullshit! criticising New Age woo and life coaches.
Penn & Teller: Bullshit!, episode 2.07, Yoga, Tantric Sex, Etc. and episode 3.04, Life Coaching.
==Controversy==
During the 51-day Waco standoff in 1993, the FBI consulted Ross because he claims to be a "cult expert". Scholars blamed the violent ending of the Branch Davidian siege on the fact that the FBI took advice from Ross (who has no formal education on the subject) rather than academics.
http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/hush-hush-sweet-charlatans-6426159
==External links==
*The Cult Education Institute (formerly the Rick A. Ross Institute)
*Cult News from Rick Ross
==References==
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Rick Warren

Rick "Let Us Pray" Warren is a retired televangelist and the former pastor of Saddleback Church, a really big megachurch formerly part of the Southern Baptist Convention."Pastor Rick Warren’s final Saddleback Church sermon is a lot like his first one in 1980" by Salvador Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 2022 August 29"Saddleback Church just ordained three women as pastors. The Southern Baptist Convention says only men should be." by Bob Smietana, Washington Post, 2021 May 11
Besides pastoring a real big megachurch that makes yours look so small that, well never mind heh heh, Rick Warren also wrote a bestseller called The Purpose-Driven Life,Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life. Zondervan, 2002, . which probably goes more into the self-help category than anything approaching serious theology. He then parleyed his fame and fortune into hosting a Presidential debate or something like that. Yawn.
There was a shit-ton of controversy when Barack Obama invited Warren to deliver the invocation at the inauguration. Gay rights groups opposed this, as Warren had supported the anti-gay marriage Proposition 8 in California. The ceremony seems to have cemented Warren's position as "America's pastor" despite him being a right-wing anti-gay nutjob. Commentators now seem to refer to Warren as being a "new" evangelical who, despite believing all the same crazy shit as the old evangelicals, is supposed to be markedly different from Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson and other fire-breathing loons. On the other hand, judging by his predictable reaction (blaming it on teaching evolution in public schools) to the shootings in Aurora, Colorado, maybe he isn't.Rick Warren: Aurora shooting the fault of evolution
In May 2021, Warren made some headlines by actually ordaining three women pastors to Saddleback Church, despite a ban on female pastors being official policy of the Southern Baptist Convention since 2000 (a sign of the that slowly took over the SBC in the 1980s and 1990s). Since the mere idea of a women speaking in church in a leadership role outraged SBC leaders like seminary President Saddleback Church (along with 5 other churches) were kicked out of the SBC on February 2023."How did Saddleback get kicked out of the SBC? It’s complicated." by Bob Smietana, Religion News Service, 2023 February 24 In June 2023, Warren issued on social media an "apology to Christian women" for failing to "speak up" on their behalf during what Warren called his prior "years of ignorance"."My biggest regret in 53 years of ministry is that I didn’t do my own personal exegesis sooner on the 4 passages used to restrict women", Rick Warren (@RickWarren), Twitter, 2023 June 10, archived on 2023 June 11
==See also==
*Saddlebacking
*Homophobia
==References==
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Robert Charroux

Robert Joseph Grugeau , better known by his pseudonym Robert Charroux, was a French author lunatic who is known for his amalgamation of two very different ideas, ancient astronauts and esoteric Nazism.
In his books, with such fantastical titles as Legacy of the Gods and One Hundred Thousand Years of Man's Unknown History, Charroux proposes the notion of an extraterrestrial Nordic white race who lived on the (fictitious) island of Hyperborea, situated between Greenland and Iceland. These aliens purportedly came from a cold planet far away from the sun.Robert Charroux, The Mysterious Past, Futura Publications Ltd., 1974 pp. 29-30 How they could so quickly adapt to Earth's much more temperate climate is anyone's guess. Anyway, according to Charroux, these extraterrestrial Nordics, along with Celts, are the ancestors of the entire human race. Well, them and the Atlanteans, who were shoehorned into the story for seemingly no reason other than to make it even more batshit insane.Robert Charroux - Histoire. (French) In support of this "theory" he appeals to the geoglyphs of ancient American civilizations, such as the Nazca lines, and their apparent similarity to the Long Man of Wilmington in England.Lost Worlds, Robert Charroux, p97 Charroux rejected human evolution, of course, instead adhering to human devolution (with a "d"), which states that we, as a species, are slowly descending from our lofty heights of blond-haired, blue-eyed, white-skinned glory. Such a pity.Lost Worlds: scientific secrets of the ancients, Robert Charroux, 1974, pp. 39-44
The load of bullshit stated above has evidently been adopted, at least to some degree, by some of the folks over at Metapedia, who make reference to the ideas of devolution and the "master race" in their articles on Nordicism and Hyperborea.
Erich von Däniken's claims were inspired by Charroux's in part. Charroux's publisher threatened a lawsuit for copyright violation due to Von Däniken plagiarizing him. As a result, von Däniken added citations of Charroux in later editions.
==See also==
*Savitri Devi
*Woden's Folk
*Ernst Zündel
==References==
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Robert France

Robert France is a ufologist who, according to some people, is an alien, or possibly just possessed by one. France's partner Shelagh Yeoman has also claimed that France is guided by the spirit of a Native American shaman named Red Eagle, who has given him miraculous healing powers.
==Morphing into an alien==
Shelagh Yeoman has said that in 1991 she saw his head temporarily morph into that of a large-eyed, pointy-nosed alien shortly after he kissed her.
 Screencap "Did a human called Robert France previously exist?", ponders ufologist David Moncur. "Was he murdered somehow, then an alien exploit in technological ability used to generate an illusion that that familiar human image is still there to kiss you goodnight?"http://www.truthseekers-uk.org/tr8shimmers.html
France, Yeoman and a third ufologist, Clive Potter (described by Yeoman as "a man with many years of experience with these people who are ‘aliens’ and ‘Christs’" Screencap), teamed up to form an organisation called Pendragon. This outfit is notable largely for collaborating with the rock band C.E.IV to release an audio tape called The Shadow of Man in 1992; Pendragon broke up shortly after this project. C.E.IV member Brian McMullan has expressed a belief that France was "possessed by a formidable unknown entity".http://www.ceiv.co.uk/music/http://www.ceiv.co.uk/experiences/entry?id=1 Grey Shapeshifting Replacement People - corroborated witness
McMullan claims to have seen France turn into a grey alien in the doorway to a shop, as Clive Potter relates:
Some commentators have worked France's alleged shapeshifting into David Icke's mythology of reptilian aliens masquerading as humans.http://edinburghforteansociety.org.uk/Archives/shapechange.htmlhttp://invisionfree.com/forums/e2wufos/ar/t359.htmhttp://ufoculture.blogspot.co.uk/2009/12/full-text-of-david-icke-expose-andrew.html
==See also==
*Raëlism
==References==
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Category:Native American woo
Robert Graves

Robert Graves was an English poet, novelist and classical translator. He wrote I, Claudius and Claudius the God in the 1930s, and his memoir Goodbye To All That is considered one of the great autobiographies of the 20th century. He also had 'homosexual experiences' as an adolescent,Ian Firla, Robert Graves - A Critical Biography. robertgraves.org. though we're not so sure why that is relevant. Graves has had a considerable amount of influence on the Neo-Pagan movement that exists today, particularly Wicca and Goddess worship. 
==The White Goddess==
In 1948, Graves published The White Goddess: a Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth, a book-length essay on the nature of poetic myth-making. In it, he argues that true or pure poetry is inextricably linked with the ancient cult-ritual of his proposed White Goddess and of her son. The book has proved influential among today's Neo-Pagan community. There has been at least one notable Pagan website which derives its name from this text.About the White Goddess Site. thewhitegoddess.co.uk (from Wayback Machine) The White Goddess is said to have had a profound influence on Gerald Gardner, the influential Wiccan, who is credited with the modern reinvention of Paganism.The White Goddess by Robert Graves, sacred-texts.com. Due to the continuing influence of the book among the modern Pagan community, it has gone through four editions, in 1948, 1952, 1960 and 1997, and remains in print.The White Goddess, Macmillan Publishers. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 
==The Greek Myths==
Graves's two volume collection of The Greek Myths (1951) is one of the most frequently encountered and widely distributed synopses of Greek mythology. A typical entry in this tome will consist of two sections. The first will be a fairly accurate, if not based even on scholarship current in 1951, retelling of a Greek myth referenced generously to original sources. The next will be an interpretation of the previous story in terms of Graves' personal mythology of the White Goddess. This will be unreferenced, for the excellent reason that Graves has made it up entirely from his own imagination. As Nick Lowe has written, Graves' personal mythology is "a posher cousin of H. P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu mythos: an elaborate shared-world fantasy prehistory for later writers to colonize, as most novelists of Mycenaean Greece have ended up doing one way or another."Nick Lowe, "Killing the Graves Myth"; (review of Songs on Bronze by Nigel Spivey).
==King Jesus==
Graves published his semi-historical novel King Jesus in 1946. The book presents Jesus of Nazareth not as the son of God, but as a philosopher with a legitimate claim to the throne of Judaea through King Herod. The historical accuracy of the book is dubious at best and Graves excused himself from writing a historical justification for its content with a note stating:
Needless to say, it is a frequent target of criticism from Christians.
==See also==
*Ogham
==References==
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Robert L. Park

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Robert L. (Bob) Park was an emeritus professor of physics at the University of Maryland, former Director of Public Information at the Washington office of the American Physical Society, author of popular science articles and books and all-round good egg. He maintained a weekly column and mailing list called what's new in which he discussed recent, mainly scientific, developments. He was a Fellow of the American Physical Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Vacuum Society and had spoken at TAM, which of course trumps all of the aforementioned.
He was known for his criticism of pseudoscience and was also outspoken on the misrepresentation of science by the media, the general level of scientific illiteracy in the media, the blithering idiocy of much "science" coverage in the aforementioned media, and politics; especially the killing off of the Office of Technology Assessment (by frauds who hated the fact it showed they were frauds) and the creation of NCCAM (by frauds who wanted to appear less like frauds).
His book Voodoo Science: The road from foolishness to fraud is an essential item in the Skeptic's library. It defines and discusses the related but different concepts of pathological science, junk science and pseudoscience. With examples. Oh, and fraudulent science, too, which is sort of like junk science only worse (see Burzynski Clinic). The term voodoo science is by now popularly identified primarily with Park and his book, which deals killer blows to such cherished institutions as homeopathy, ufology, free energy and telepathy.
Park's classic "Seven Warning Signs of Bogus Science" identifies seven indicators that a scientific claim lies well outside the bounds of rational scientific discourse:
#The discoverer pitches the claim directly to the media.
#The discoverer says that a powerful establishment is trying to suppress his or her work.
#The scientific effect involved is always at the very limit of detection
#Evidence for a discovery is anecdotal.
#The discoverer says a belief is credible because it has endured for centuries.
#The discoverer has worked in isolation.
#The discoverer must propose new laws of nature to explain an observation.Robert L. Park, Seven Warning Signs of Bogus Science. Quackwatch, 1 November 2019. Originally published in The Chronicle of Higher Education, 31 January 2003.
Other issues of What's New focused on radiation woo, discussing Fukushima, electrosensitivity and the difference between ionising and non-ionising radiation (with some excellent snarks aimed at credulous fools who do not understand this).
== Publications==
*Park, Robert L. (2002). Voodoo science: the road from foolishness to fraud. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 
*Park, Robert L. (2010). Superstition: Belief in the Age of Science. Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press. 
==External links==
*bobpark.org, the refreshingly clunky-looking "What's New" column
==References==
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Robert Sungenis

Robert Sungenis is the founder of Catholic Apologetics International.Also known as Catholic Apologetics International Publishing, Inc. robertsungenis.org. Retrieved on 2 February 2018. He is an antisemite, Holocaust denier, and International Jewish conspiracy crank.Speaker row cancels Catholic conference Currently, he is very much involved with trying to prove geocentrism.
Sungenis is also a promoter of pseudoscience and conspiracy theories more generally. 
He holds a "doctorate" from Calamus International University in the Republic of Vanuatu, a noted diploma mill.List of diploma mills worldwideRobert Sungenis,biographysSome Background on Robert Sungenis
==Assorted wild beliefs==
* Sungenis promotes the idea that the moon landings never happened. He believes that "Any intelligent person who has studied the issue is going to have doubts as to whether the United States had the capability to put a man on the moon in 1969."
* He believes that the United States government is actively producing crop circles. He thinks that "crop circles can be made from space with lasers or plasma projectors," and that NASA would simply have to "put a digital pattern in a laser/plasma projector aboard a satellite and then shoot it down to earth, and presto, you have a crop circle." The point of such an exercise? "It gets everybody talking about UFOs… getting our minds off the Bible and Christ by making it look like neither are true."
* He believes that Al-Qaeda was not responsible for the 9/11 attacks. He instead blames Israel, suggesting they probably used low-yield nuclear weapons. 
* Sungenis claims that dinosaurs co-existed with humans but that there's a conspiracy to suppress the evidence.
* He believes that God is directing him to promote geocentrism.The Principle’: Geocentrism is What Real Biblical Literalism Looks LikeRobert Sungenis He is currently promoting a book (Galileo Was Wrong, The Church Was Right) and a film (The Principle) that promote the idea that the Earth is at the center of our solar system. 
Sungenis hawks publications ranging from relatively cheap introductions to geocentrism to books costing a hundred bucks a pop.Store
==External links==
*Official webshite
*Some Background on Robert Sungenis
*Is Robert Sungenis The Anti Semite, The Liar, And The Coward He Makes Himself Appear To Be? 
*Geocentrism Disproved: How Newton's Laws Prove the Earth Orbits the Sun, Ken Cole and Robert Sungenis Dialogue
==References==
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Robert Temple

Robert K. G. Temple is an American author best known for his book The Sirius Mystery, which argues that the Dogon people were contacted by fish-like aliens.
== Credentials ==
Temple has an undergraduate degree in Oriental Studies and Sanskrit,Robert Temple. An overview by Jason Colavito. but strangely, his website also lists the following qualifications:Academic Affiliations, Robert-Temple.com.
*"Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society". The RAS accepts anyone willing to pay the entry fee.Membership, Royal Astronomical Society.
*"British School of Archaeology at Rome". Also open to anyone willing to pay the entry fee.The BSR Annual Fund << The British School at Rome
Showing these titles is somewhat like a scientist proudly advertising the fact that they're a member of National Geographic.
== Claims of suppression ==
Temple has claimed that various government agencies from around the world are trying to suppress his works.Who Was Moses?Robert Temple and the CIA Persecution: Where's the Proof?, Jason Colavito. That's obviously why The Sirius Mystery is available on Temple's site (which is, of course, suppressed and online at the same time), Amazon, and Barnes & Noble.
== Influence ==
Barbara Weber Ray, in The 'Reiki' Factor in The Radiance Technique, claims Reiki is very ancient and goes back thousands of years. She cites The Sirius Mystery's description of the Dogon people's knowledge and suggests it is possible that Reiki may also be of extraterrestrial origin.
== External links ==
*His site
*THE SIRIUS MYSTERY: ANSWERING THE CRITICS
*The Sirius Mystery (excerpt from UFOs and Outer Space Mysteries), a skeptical analysis by James Oberg.
==References==
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Robert W. Felix

Robert W. Felix was a crank extraordinaire promoting his own brand of Earth changes, which acted as a framework that he could shoehorn various other types of crankery into. All of his "theories" revolved around pole shifts and cosmic rays. 
==Ice Age Now==
Felix believed the reversal of the Earth's magnetic poles is imminent and that their reversal causes environmental cataclysms which lead into ice ages. One of his two websites was Ice Age Now, which was where he peddled this facet of his theory of everything. Ice Age Now is mostly dedicated to global warming denial, survivalism (better stock up on dry goods and fuel), conspiracy theories (he believed the government is covering up evidence of the coming ice age), and abiotic oil crankery. The sidebar is a long laundry list of denialist PRATTs, which makes it like Skeptical Science without the rebuttals. The "news" section seems to exist mostly to document any time at which a snowflake falls anywhere in the world (proof of the coming ice age!) and parrot whatever the latest denialist idiocy is, usually something from Piers Corbyn or Tim Ball. He also hawked his thoroughly "researched" books here.
George Monbiot specifically debunked one of his claims, that 555 of 625 of the Earth's mountain glaciers are advancing.
==Evolutionary Leaps==
Evolutionary Leaps was Felix's other site where he pushed a deranged (but somewhat original, at least) pseudoscientific version of evolution. He basically took Stephen Jay Gould's ideas about punctuated equilibrium and shoehorned his Earth changes crankery into it. According to Felix, the pole shifts that cause ice ages are responsible for mass extinctions with one element of these events being fiery carbon nanodiamonds raining from the skies. That's where the abiotic oil crankery played into his grand "theory." WorldNutDaily columnist Jerome Corsi occasionally makes guest posts on the subject. Felix claimed evolution is driven by cosmic rays and other radiation in addition to these pole shifts. To do this, he drew on a number of old crank tomes (mostly Immanuel Velikovsky and some creationists) and fabricated "facts" and mixed it with generously cherry-picked and quote mined research done by actual evolutionary biologists, paleontologists, and archaeologists.
==Quotes on Felix==
==See also==
*Alan Caruba, a frequent contributor to Ice Age Now and promoter of Felix's crankery.
*Crank magnetism applies in spades.
*Vault-Co recommends Ice Age Now.
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Robert Williams

Robert Williams is an esteemed African-American psychologist and Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the Washington University at St. Louis.Williams' personnel page He is known for his diametric opposition to racialism and supposed racial discrepancies between the IQs of white people and black people. He is also known for coining the term "," which is another word for African American Vernacular English (or "AAVE" for short). 
==BITCH==
Williams created the Black Intelligence Test of Cultural Homogeneity by drawing from a glossary of African-American speech and personal experience “Danger: Testing and De-humanizing Black Children” Though structured similarly to traditional IQ testing, European Americans scored consistently lower on the BITCH than African Americans. Williams did not conclude this proved the intellectual inferiority of White Americans, which is something working in favor of Williams against white psychologists, whom when conducting "studies" on the supposed differences in cognition between races tended to believe that this proved the intellectual inferiority of Black Americans.The Evolution of Human Psychology for African Americans, pg. 113
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