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University of South Los Angeles

The University of South Los Angeles (formerly Life University) is a fundie school located in Los Angeles, California. The school is accredited by the Transnational Association of Christian Colleges and Schools. University of South Los Angeles, tracs.org. There is an actual campus with actual staff. While the university is fundamentalist Christian, it is oddly mixed with oriental medicine woo. The University of South Los Angeles is located in the Korea Town section of LA and has a strong focus on Korean/Korean American students.University of South Los Angeles Catalog, 2019
==Academics==
UoSLA is divided into School of Business and Management, School of Theology, School of Languages and School of Oriental Medicine. The state of California authorized the university to offer bachelors up to doctoral degrees. All degrees are claimed to be research-based.
The School of Business offers an Associate of Arts (AA) degree in accounting along with a bachelors through doctorate in business administration (BBA, MBA, DBA). 
English as a Second Language (ESL) is a certificate program with three types of certificates.
Like any fundie school, there are theology degrees. As stated before this school focuses on students of Korean descent. Why is this mentioned again? Because there are courses in Korean church development. Degrees include a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in theology, a Master of Divinity (MDiv), a Master of Theology (ThM), a Doctorate of Ministry (DMin) and a Doctorate of Theology (ThD). The purpose of these degrees usually involves ordination as a pastor, evangelism and religious education. 
Last up is a masters and doctorate in oriental medicine (OMM, OMD) from the School of Oriental Medicine. The School of Oriental Medicine is what really sets the University of South Los Angeles apart from most fundie schools. Very few fundie schools actually offer alternative medicine degrees due to many having New Age philosophy behind them.
The school describes themselves as being:
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===Oriental Medicine Clinic===
UoSL has a clinic dedicated to practicing oriental "medicine" on suckers patients for pretty much every medical condition known to man and ten known to monkeys. These include acupuncture, Herbs, Moxibustion, Cupping, Tui-Na Massage, Qi Giong, Tai Ji, Meditation, Acupressure and Physical Exercise. Like the creationism the school already teaches you get an extra helping of pseudoscience , additional text. !
==See also==
*Alternative medicine
*Traditional Chinese medicine
*Georgia Central University
*Haven University
*TRACS
==External links==
*Official website
==Notes==
==References==
Category:California
Category:Christianity
Category:Crank schools
Category:Fundie schools
Category:Pseudoscience promoting organizations
Category:Woo
Unplanned

Unplanned is a maudlin, emotionally manipulative anti-abortion propaganda movie unintelligently designed in 2019. It preaches to the choir of the American Republican white Evangelical Christian anti-choice crowd that thinks that showing filmgoers bloody pictures of late-term abortions will melt their hearts and sway their opinions.
==Plot and reception==
Unplanned earned 40% on the TomatometerRotten Tomatoes, accessed Oct. 4, 2019. and overwhelming critical dislike at Metacritic, at 10 out of 100."Unplanned," Metacritic, as accessed Oct. 4, 2019. However, it was upvote-bombed at both sites by, one suspects, hordes of true believers, the Westboro Baptist Church, QAnon followers, GitHub bots, and perhaps, just to shake things up, a couple of bored Roman Catholic cardinals.
The film is written and directed by Chuck Konzelman and Cary Solomon, who wrote God's Not Dead and God's Not Dead 2. The movie and script are based on a memoir of questionable veracityNate Balkeslee, "The convert," Texas Monthly, Feb. 2010, as displayed Aug. 2, 2019.Amanda Marcotte, "The earth-shaking abortion that never happened," Slate, Jan. 7, 2010, as accessed Apr. 17, 2019. by Abby Johnson, a former Planned Parenthood director–turned-anti-abortion activist (except the Bible does not forbid abortion,The Skeptic's Annotated Bible but let's not get bogged down in details!). That story, by sheer unbelievable chance, also happens to be the plot.
The film strangely does not star Kirk Cameron. Seemingly they could not afford such a big movie star, as they also saved money by using straw men for anyone involved in Planned Parenthood, an organization which, the film is compelled to mention, was funded by George Soros.
==Selected coverage of the film==
*Glenn Beck on YouTube: 'Unplanned' is the Story of Abby Johnson You Have to Hear to Believe
*Fox News on YouTube: Pro-Life Actress Plays Abby Johnson in 'Unplanned': Role 'Worth It,' Even If I'm Blacklisted
==See also==
*Jack Chick
==External links==
*The film's official website
*Unplanned on IMDb
*Unplanned on TV Tropes
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==References==
Category:Abortion
Category:Antisemitism
Category:Christianity
Category:Films
Category:Propaganda
Category:Texas
Unsolved Mysteries

Unsolved Mysteries is an American television showUnsolved Mysteries that dramatically presents unsolved mysteries. While mostly focusing on solving crimes or reuniting people, it was also known for presenting paranormal stories in a respectable way that made them seem plausible and, occasionally, frightening. The first few seasons had an epically terrifying theme song that perfectly set the tone for a night spent with the light on.
The show began as a series of specials in 1987 on the NBC network, then as a series from 1988 to 1997. It moved to CBS from 1997 to 1999, then to the cable channel Lifetime (2001-2002), then Spike (2008-2010), and back to Lifetime (2010-present).
== Cases ==
Cases usually fall into one of four categories:
*Wanted - murderers, rapists, fraudsters, oh my.
*Missing - missing and kidnapped people
*Lost loves - people would appeal to the audience for any knowledge of lost loved ones (as in children given up for adoption, good samaritans that helped after an accident, etc.). Fortunately, almost every case had a happy ending.
*Paranormal - the (in)famous feature of Unsolved Mysteries. Bigfoot, Loch Ness Monster, UFOs, lost history, psychics, ghosts, conspiracies, and out of body experiences - to name a few.
==See also==
*Schlockumentary
==External links==
*Unsolved Mysteries (1987-2010) and Unsolved Mysteries (2020-) on IMDb
*Unsolved Mysteries on TV Tropes
==References==
Category:Media-related stubs
Category:Television programmes
Category:Woo
Unverifiable personal gnosis

Unverifiable personal gnosis (UPG)Personal gnosis is a neopagan concept. The general idea of UPG is that some insights into divinity and the universe come unbidden to a particular individual, and cannot be tested or verified by anyone else. This is most often the case with neopagans who feel "called" to a particular god or pantheon.
When someone's UPG is mild and irrelevant to anyone else, most neopagans are willing to go along with it. For instance, when someone with a strong interest in and knowledge of a particular pantheon feels called by a member of that pantheon, most neopagans will go along and moreso if the attributes given to the god(ddess) in question are the ones most people expect on him/herSay, the goddess Hecate carrying one or two torch(es) and dressed in either Classical Greece fashion or the standard fantasy sorceress attire of a robe with a hood.. However, every neopagan has their personal limits. (Usually, when the UPG in question starts giving completely culturally inconsistent attributes to a deity, other neopagans start to avoid the person in question.)
Sometimes, however, a neopagan will attempt to push their particular UPG on a whole group. This usually becomes either a cult or a really lonely neopagan. 
Of course, strict rationalists will consider the whole idea to be a pile of bunk. Even some of the more rational neopagans look askance at the whole idea (even while secretly accepting it), while others tend instead to subscribe to the Socratic saying, 
Curiously, though, if you slap the label "Holy Spirit" on this insight, you get a pretty accurate parallel in the core pillar of the belief system of that bastion of Christian "reasonable faith", William Lane Craig:
==Verified personal gnosis==
According to one pagan site, verifiable personal gnosis is an UPG "backed up by accurate historical sources" (i.e., the insight corresponds to how the god(dess) appears in such kind of sources and the Neopagan knows nothing beforehand.) This is nonsensical because the example given is itself mythological ("Zeus is associated with lightning"). Rather, VPG is an appeal to ancient wisdom, where there is some documentation of what ancient people believed.
==Shared Personal Gnosis==
Shared Personal Gnosis (SPG) is the same as Unverifiable Personal Gnosis, but when such insights are shared by other Neopagans who do not know one to each other.
==See also==
*Falsifiability
*Non-Overlapping Magisteria
*Prophet
==References==
Category:Paganism
Urban caveman movement

The urban caveman movement, a lifestyle fad from the 2010s, apparently involves:
* elements of the caveman diet
* elements of the early 1990's men's movement
* frequent fasting to mimic the long stretches paleolithic people might have gone between meals
* a lot of broscience
It is in part a bodybuilding and fitness fad. Urban cavemen go so far as to frequently donate blood (to mimic the many injuries a caveman might incur), and engage in barefoot running and "hunting and gathering" in city parks. Because most live in industrialized society, most do not seem to show any inclination to give up their cars, computers, plumbing, electricity, access to modern medicine, nor the refrigerators in which they keep their raw venison and fresh berries (which are not the supermarket variety).New York Times article
Adhering to and using junk science to promote the paleo diet are also common.
"" form a closely-related subculture which engages in extensive, ritual body-modification (piercings, tattoos, scarification, play piercings, flesh-hook suspension, etc) combined with a desire to emulate primitive cultures in an urban setting. It is highly advised to avoid this movement if you have a low tolerance for pain. (On the other hand, one must suffer to become hip.)
==References==
Category:Bodybuilding woo
Category:Machismo
Usenet

Usenet is an online discussion system established in 1980. Users read and post messages to categories known as "newsgroups".
Usenet was the first widespread Internet forum system. Established in the days of dial-up modems, Usenet was strictly text-only (with binaries in their own ill-propagated subsection), a format which continued into the early 2000s, even as the World Wide Web came into more common use. did exist, but was often scorned as a waste of bandwidth. (Small examples were sometimes tolerated as custom signatures for posts.)
It was host to an insane amount of crankery, the reaction to which was the beginning of the modern skeptical Internet.
What remains of Usenet these days is mostly binary pornography and copyright infringement, with occasional remaining communities still camped out there.
Google attempted to absorb Usenet into the Googleverse through its "Google Groups" project, but ended Usenet support in 2024. However, Google Groups still maintains an archive of Usenet posts from 1981 through 2024.Google Groups ending support for Usenet. Google, 2024.
==Relevant newsgroups==
*alt.atheism is a newsgroup about atheism and related topics, such as skepticism and the creation-evolution "controversy". Unfortunately it attracts a lot of trolls such as "Jahnu", "Joe Bruno" and "Zachy".alt.atheism's Trollpedia page Other topics of discussion include politics, religion (obviously), social justice, and miscellaneous topics not related to this wiki's mission.
*alt.folklore.urban was a fountain of snark, with a nominal focus on urban legends. Today it is about as lively as one might expect — that is to say, not very.
*sci.skeptic was the first newsgroup on the Internet to discuss matters on skepticism. Its current incarnation has turned into a wasteland of spam and inane comment chains.
*alt.tasteless was an early source of internet trolling as well as a progenitor of sorts to the 4chan /b/ imageboard.The Birth of the Internet Troll by Ashley Feinberg (10/30/14 3:36pm) Gizmodo.
*talk.origins is a massive "evolutionist" newsgroup that, over the years, compiled massive amounts of evidence against creationism, evidence for evolution, and rebuttals to creationist claims. Its archive is also the premier source on the evolution-creation controversy on the web.
==Not a newsgroup==
*True.Origins: True.Origins was the creationist counterpart to Talk.Origins, with (attempted) counter-rebuttals (and a mimicked Usenet-style website name).
==External links==
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==References==
Utne Reader

Utne Reader is an American magazine and website that republishes articles from left-leaning "alternate press" publications and websites. Utne operates as a sort of Readers Digest for the left, but in a full-size format and without the meddlesome trimming that made RD what it is. The goal of Utne is to collect essays on politics and sociology that the most popular mainstream media outlets ignore, then package them in a slick magazine that is shelved next to current events magazines like Time, Newsweek, The New Republic, and The American Spectator. Unfortunately, Utne's reliance on "alternate press" publications will occasionally lead to the republication of articles that take favorable views of less-favorable topics like alternative medicine, food woo, and vaccine hysteria.
The magazine is named after its founders, Eric Utne and Nina Rothschild Utne.
==External links==
*Utne Reader Online
Category:Magazines
Utopia

A utopia refers to the result or aim of any effort to make the world or humankind perfect. It derives from the book Utopia by Sir Thomas More (1516), about an ideal society where everybody is happy and has everything they need, although the concept is much older, particularly in religious writing.The history of utopian thought, Joyce Oramel Hertzler, Cooper Square Publishers, New York, 1965 In the original version of More's book, there was an addendum by More which in part said, "Wherfore not Utopie, but rather rightely my name is Eutopie, a place of felicitie".A Short Meter Utopia Written by Amemolius, Poet Laurete and Nephew to Hythloday by his Sister. "Eutopia" in Greek means "Good Place", while the near homophone Outopia means "No Place".
In many cases, the word "utopian" can be used as a snarl word. Marxists were accustomed to contrasting their "scientific" socialism with the pre-Marxist "utopian" socialist philosophies. It can also be applied by conservatives to liberal or leftist reformers with an equal amount of irony. 
One drawback a utopian "planner" must deal with is that one person's utopia is often another person's Hell; another is that humans are flawed, and since society is populated and run by humans, it’s inevitable that society will be flawed as well; lastly, there are few utopian ideas that are not by now completely worn out.
==Examples==
* The City of God (426 CE) by Augustine of Hippo sets out a contented, spiritual city in opposition to an evil earthly city of the flesh.
* Utopia (1516) by Thomas More
* Robert Owen (1771-1858) was a British textile manufacturer who tried to construct model communities for his workers, such as New Lanark in central Scotland, where workers' children were educated, and workers could buy things at fair prices rather than be forced to shop at rip-off company stores.Robert Owen, socialist and visionary, BBC Wales blogs
* Charles Fourier (1772-1837) was an early utopian socialist thinker whose writings described a society where everybody would co-operate and live in harmony.Charles Fourier Archive, marxists.org
* Étienne Cabet (1788-1856) was a utopian socialist who described his ideal society in Voyage to Icaria (1840)
* Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward: 2000–1887 (1888) set out a vision of a socialist society based on nationalization (which he confusingly called nationalism) and was a massive bestseller in the USA.
* A Modern Utopia (1905) by H. G. Wells described an ideal future society by a writer better known for nightmarish visions of the future. It proposed a society where energy was the currency, mechanization meant most people didn't need to work, and men and women were equal, with marriages lasting a few years unless children were produced. However, it was also based on an asceticism derived from Wells's idea of the samurai, including a ban on alcohol and drugs.
==See also==
*Dystopia
*Golden age
*Libertarian paradise
==External links==
*Open Utopia
==References==
Category:Futurism
category:Government
Category:Political theory
Category:Political terms
VNNforum

VNNforum or Vanguard News Network Forum is a white supremacist, Holocaust denial and neo-Nazi message board founded in 2000 by Alex Linder. The forum is also an extension of the Vanguard News Network. 
The forum is most known for hosting more extreme antisemitic material than other white nationalist, neo-Nazi sites (except The Daily Stormer) and even has the not-so subtle subtitle "No Jews. Just Right". According to a Stormfront thread, most of its membership are "disgruntled ex-SF members" who were banned for being misogynistic, or posting excessively crude racism,VNN criticism thread on Stormfront Stormfront (archived from February 16, 2012) and when Stormfront bans someone for racism, you know there's a problem.
==References==
Category:Antisemitism
Category:Fascism
Category:Holocaust denial
Category:Internet hate sites
Category:Internet kooks
Category:Neo-Nazism
Category:Propaganda
Category:Racism
Category:Sexism
Vaccine

*Anti-vaccination movement anti-vaccination quacks and those that believe them
*Autism omnibus trial the trial with plaintiffs trying to get money by claiming damages from the disproved claim that vaccines induced autism
*Herd immunity the idea that when a certain percentage of a population is vaccinated, those within the population who are not vaccinated are protected from the disease
*HPV vaccine the needlessly controversial vaccine for a sexually transmitted disease
**HPV vaccine FAQ rebuttal point-by-point rebuttal of Conservapedia's HPV vaccine FAQ
*Hepatitis B vaccine the not-as-controversial hepatitis vaccine
*COVID-19 vaccine — the coronavirus vaccine
*Flu shot basic idea and principles
*MMR vaccine covers measles, mumps, and rubella; hysteria over it basically started the anti-vaccine movement
*Smallpox smallpox and its vaccine
*Vaccination Information Network a rabid anti-vaccination organization
Valarie Hodges

Valarie Hodges (yes, that's really how it's spelled) is a member of the Louisiana House of Representatives, ex-missionary, and tea partier.
Hodges was an enthusiastic supporter of Governor Bobby Jindal's school voucher program to fund religious schools. However, she failed to realize that "religious" included religions besides Christianity.http://www.au.org/blogs/wall-of-separation/louisiana-revelation-school-voucher-funding-it-s-not-just-for-christians Now that Muslim schools can be funded with taxpayer dollars, she wants to call takebacks.
==See also==
*The United States as a Christian nation
==References==
Category:Tea Party
Category:Christians
Category:Islamophobes
Category:United States politicians
Category:Living people
Valerie Plame Affair

The Valerie Plame Affair is one of political intrigue and shenanigans.RationalWiki's perspective on this is not the partisan politics so much as the bogus "science" involved in ignoring the evidence uncovered by the US government, in order to pursue the administration's agenda.
A brief outline of the events:
#Valerie Plame was a covert C.I.A. operative working on weapons proliferation.
#Her husband, Joe Wilson, was sent to Niger by the C.I.A. to investigate the allegation that Saddam Hussein was supposedly trying to obtain "yellowcake" uranium ore from Niger.
#George W. Bush referred to the attempts by Saddam Hussein to get uranium from Africa in his State of the Union address after the C.I.A. had already determined that the story was a hoax.
#Joe wrote a NY Times op-ed pieceWhat I Didn't Find in Africa, The New York Times debunking the administration's claims regarding the yellowcake - i.e., pointing out that the intelligence showed was not "fact-based."As usual.
#Now it gets murky. In what appeared to be political retribution for Joe's op-ed piece, Ms. Plame's identity as a covert op was leaked to the media. The suspected pathway was from Dick Cheney's office to columnist Robert Novak, among others.
#The illegalSome argued that it was within the power of the President or Vice President to declassify any classified information. However, as leak ≠ declassification, and since neither the POTUS nor the Veep were willing to actually claim/own up to having declassified/disseminated the information (or authorised this to be done), this is a pretty esoteric concern. release of this classified information destroyed Plame's cover, her work and perhaps career, and the cover of the sham company for whom she "worked."
#After many machinations and much political opinion-mongering, Cheney aide Scooter Libby was convicted of perjury and obstruction of justice in the ensuing investigation of the "outing" of Plame. Many powerful people submitted amicus briefs calling for leniency. He was fined and given a jail sentence. President Bush commuted the jail sentence, but did not pardon him. In April 2018, however, Trump pardoned Libby.Baker, Peter. "Trump pardons Libby in a case that mirrors his own." New York Times, April 13, 2018. Accessed September 3, 2019.
#The most positive result from all this was a 2010 movie, Fair Game, directed by Doug Liman and starring Naomi Watts as Plame. According to IMDB trivia, there's a coded message concealed in the end credits.
==External links==
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*No Ordinary Spy, 60 Minutes
==Notes==
==References==
Category:Journalism
Category:United States politics
Category:Government incompetence
Category:Conservative deceit
Category:Iraq