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The Skeptic's Dictionary

The Skeptic's Dictionary is a website and a book that has entries on pseudoscientific, occult, paranormal, and other junk beliefs in an encyclopedic order. Edited by former professor, atheistTodd Carroll Ph.D. Who's Who (archived from 10 Jan 2016 23:05:25 UTC). and skeptic Robert Todd Carroll , the site was launched in 1994 and now boasts more than 750 entries "from abracadabra to zombies" (the actual list starts with 2012 doomsday theories and includes entries on Abraham-Hicks and abracadabra, which come before acupuncture alphabetically).From Abracadabra to Zombies The Skeptic's Dictionary
The website is popular and is an antidote to the vast amount of paranormal, pseudoscientific, and other dubious material and quackery available online and offline. 
==See also==
*Encyclopedia of American Loons
*Quackwatch
==External links==
*The Skeptic's Dictionary
==References==
Category:Books
Category:Websites
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe is a weekly podcast produced by the New England Skeptical Society. The podcast deals with topics of interest to skeptics, such as intelligent design, homeopathy, and other pseudoscience staples. The podcast is hosted by Steven Novella, president of the New England Skeptical Society. The regular panelists are Bob Novella, Jay Novella, Evan Berstein, and Cara Santa Maria. Each show follows a regular format, starting with a discussion of news items. Other features include a weekly interview and a "Science or Fiction" quiz for the panelists.
The podcast hosts have also written a book by the same name.The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe: How to Know What's Really Real in a World Increasingly Full of Fake by Steven Novella et al. (2018) Grand Central Publishing. ISBN 9781538760536. The book, The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe, provides a high-quality and readable introduction to skepticism, providing examples for some of the same core ideas behind RationalWiki.
The organization of the book is as follows (corresponding pages from RationalWiki are in parentheses):
==See also==
*RationalWiki:Rational podcasts
==External links==
*The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe website.
==References==
Category:Books
Category:Podcasts
Category:Skeptical organizations
The Skeptics Society

The Skeptics Society is "a scientific and educational organization of scholars, scientists, historians, magicians, professors and teachers, and anyone curious about controversial ideas, extraordinary claims, revolutionary ideas, and the promotion of science" (but apparently not those curious about apostrophes) founded by Michael Shermer. Its main resource is Skeptic Magazine. Two of the most important subjects are Intelligent Design and Creationism.
During 2017, the magazine published by the society has taken a turn for the less credible, publishing an elaborate defense of Milo Yiannopoulos' endorsement of pedophilia, celebrating a suspect hoax paper that got rejected from prominent journals as discrediting gender studies, and justifying the sexual assault against minors coverups by Jerry Sandusky because a psychologist was invited as an expert witness about the harm of child abuse.Trial by Therapy: The Jerry Sandusky Case Revisited. Skeptic.com. 
Additionally, among its masthead, it has hereditarianism proponent and "race realist" as a senior editor.Skeptic masthead. Miele worked as a contributor to the infamous Mankind Quarterly when he was an undergraduate and worked as an assistant and consultant for Richard Lynn.
For some reason, the Skeptic magazine has been hoaxed for three years by allowing John Glynn, who fabricated credentials in psychology, to write articlesShermer, M. (2019). "The Fabulist and the Publisher: A Journalistic and Academic Fraud Exposed". Skeptic Retrieved October 22, 2019. dealing with various topics such as the relationship between violent video games and gun crimes. Glynn has also written for various publications ranging from Quillette to Psych Central to Areo to Huffington Post to Spectator. Shermer noticed only when Glynn asked Shermer to lend money to help deal with his troubles with Xavier Medical School.
The Skeptic magazine these days pushes transphobic and anti-woke pieces, one example being the republishing of Harriet Hall's positive review of Abigail Shrier's anti-trans screed Irreversible Damage.https://www.skeptic.com/reading_room/trans-science-review-of-abigail-shier-irreversible-damage-transgender-craze-seducing-our-daughters/
==External links==
*The Skeptics Society
==See also==
*Skepticism
==References==
Category:Racialism
Category:Skeptical organizations
Category:Transphobia
The Surrendered Wife

The Surrendered Wife () is a 1999 book by Laura Doyle, a self-proclaimed "feminist and former shrew," purporting to expound a solution to troubled marriages, such as the one experienced by the author's parents.
==Contents==
As is typical of such works, it spends hundreds of pages stating what fits in one sentence; in this case, a couplet written in 1723 by Samuel Wesley the Younger:
Or, in prose form, as interpreted by Doyle: "Shut up and be a nice little doormat for your husband to walk all over; then you won't have any marital troubles." Some more specific examples include:
* A woman should not tell her husband that he missed the freeway exit to Interstate 5 in Seattle, instead letting him .She seems to be missing the point that wives were specially made to nag their husbands until they ask for directions, thus enabling them actually to reach their destination. (Editor's note: Is it just me, or do we have a misandrist in the room?) (Nah, the Bible claims woman was created to be a help to man. Nagging is just a form of helping) (That'll teach him!)
* A woman should let her husband feel that he is in charge by giving him total control over the household finances, then from time to time begging for pin money getting an allowance payment. This is apparently true even if has done Ph.D.-level work in economics while her husband and tends to run up really big debts.Jonathan Weisman, Reagan Policies Gave Green Light to Red Ink. The Washington Post, 9 June 2004.
* A woman should not suggest that her husband get therapy, lest she be a mistrustful busybody and control freak. (But this, of course, to husbands that are in need of .)
* A woman should not buy her husband's clothes, even if he has only slightly more fashion sense than an English professor.
* A woman should "allow herself to be vulnerable," thus making intimacy the priority rather than control.
==Influence==
The book, being a New York Times bestseller, is popular enough to have caused the emergence of a contingent of surrendered wives, who under Mrs. Doyle's direction have set up a network of seminars throughout the U.S. taught by specially trained instructors. For $20, you too can learn how to fall in love all over again!http://www.surrenderedwife.com/surrendered_wife_seminars.html
==See also==
* Lies Women Believe
* Kinder, Kuche, Kirche
* Phyllis Schlafly
* Kaotins
==External links==
* Sample chapter of The Surrendered Wife
==Notes==
==References==
Category:Books
Category:Sexism
The Thinking Atheist

The Thinking Atheist is a radio podcast and video series produced and hosted by Seth Andrews. It is arguably the most popular atheist podcast/show after The Atheist Experience, with over one million downloads per month of over 200 shows. Seth does not call himself "The Thinking Atheist" (and it is improper to do so) but rather the identifier is meant as the slogan above.
==Podcast==
At over 200 shows and hitting one million downloads per month it is currently the most popular podcast on Blog Talk Radio where it is broadcast.http://blogtalkradio.com/popular Episodes range from serious topics such as dealing with being in the closet to light-hearted and just for fun episodes like the annual telling of ghost stories before Halloween. Also included are interviews of famous atheists such as Richard Dawkins, David Silverman (President of American Atheists) and Lawrence Krauss. The show is rarely contentious and genuinely passive in tone, with callers to the show generally being of the atheist mindset, an almost complete inversion of The Atheist Experience (though Matt Dillahunty is a frequent guest). The format starts with an introduction monologue from Seth (typically not related to the topic at hand), to diving into the topic with the interview or information about the topic and finally turning into a call-in show.
==Video series==
In addition to the show, videos are produced to supplement the podcast. Some are short interviews with people, some are videos of Seth's talks and presentations but the most prominent videos are of monologues and animations either promoting science or refuting religion. It also contains an archive of every podcast episode.
==Seth Andrews==
Seth Andrews is the host and producer of the show. He is a former Christian radio broadcaster (explains the production quality being so absurdly good) and currently works in video production. He lives somewhere outside Tulsa, Oklahoma (the buckle of the dreaded Bible Belt) and went to a private Christian school for most of his time. He eventually deconverted at the age of 37.
Seth Andrews is not The Thinking Atheist and this needs repeating since people are still getting it wrong.
==See also==
*RationalWiki:Rational podcasts
==External links==
*The Thinking Atheist
*Blog Talk Radio
*The Thinking Atheist on YouTube
==References==
Category:Podcasts
Category:Skeptics
Category:YouTube
Category:Internet
Category:Living people
The Twilight Zone

:Not to be confused with Twilight, for the love of God.
The Twilight Zone was a brilliant television series hosted, written, and produced by from 1959–1964. While many episodes dwelt on cosmic questions and ideas, some were little more than ghost stories, albeit well executed. Most episodes had a surprise twist ending which made the viewer reappraise everything they had seen up to that point. However, many of them are famous for providing thought-provoking morals that resonate even today, ranging from how paranoia can destroy society to the evils of totalitarianism. Notably, Rod Serling received death threats after was aired, an episode that portrayed Hitler as a bad person.
The show has appeared in three separate incarnations, airing in the 1950–60s, the mid 1980s, and in 2002. Neither of the two revivals was nearly as prolific as the original, both having been rather quickly canceled. One lasting side effect of the 1980s revival is that J. Michael Straczynski and Harlan Ellison became friends, which set the stage for their cooperation on Babylon 5. A third revival, hosted by Jordan Peele, ran from 2019–20.
==Film==
In the early 1980s, work began on The Twilight Zone: The Movie. A tragic incident overshadowed the film itself, however. During the filming of one scene, a helicopter crashed on-set in California, killing three actors, two of them children.Paul Feldman, "'Twilight Zone' trial to begin this week," Los Angeles Times, Aug. 31, 1986, accessed Oct. 6, 2019.
==See also==
*RationalWiki's list of things to be scared of because of the Twilight Zone
==External links==
*Episode guides
*The Twilight Zone on IMDb
*The Twilight Zone on TV Tropes
==References==
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category:Science fiction
category:Television programmes
Category:Horror
The Viking and the Red Man

The Viking and the Red Man: The Old Norse Origin of the Algonquin LanguageDespite the name, the book is actually about Algonquian as a whole (which is considered to be a language family, not a single language), not just the . is an etymological dictionary in eight volumes published between 1940 and 1956 by the Norwegian-American Reider Thorbjorn Sherwin (1894-??) in which he attempts to demonstrate a linguistic connection between Old Norse and Algonquian.The Viking and the red man; the Old Norse origin of the Algonquin language, by Reider T. Sherwin HathiTrust. The book is essentially a list of Algonquian words, where each word is followed by Sherwin's attempt to derive it from Old Norse. In short, it's an example of pseudolinguistics.
==Of ghouls and... fogcomeouts?==
Sherwin's methodology consists of taking an Algonquian word (or multiple cognates of the same word in different Algonquian languages) and finding an Old Norse or Norwegian word or group of words that resembles it, with the latter often having only a tenuous semantic connection to the former. Just look at the entry for the word skudakumootc:
The problem with this kind of methodology is that it could be used to derive any word from any language. After all, who's to say that skudakumootc isn't really from "ask the dead guy much", or the French est-ce que des gars meurent? ("are some guys dying?") Or, for that matter, that the German word Schadenfreude isn't from the English "shake the friend off"?
In reality, if Algonquian were descended from Old Norse (or if it borrowed words from Old Norse; it's not clear which of these situations Sherwin believes to be the case), then there should be regular sound correspondences between the two languages that could be applied to find the Old Norse equivalents of Algonquian words. But instead of showing that such correspondences exist, Sherwin prefers to merely pile up as many Old Norse or Norwegian words as he can until he gets a result that sounds more or less like whatever Algonquian word he's currently looking at.
==Reception==
Unsurprisingly, The Viking and the Red Man has not been favorably received by academics, with two book reviews in scholarly journals panning it.Siebert, Frank T. "The Viking and the Red Man, the Old Norse Origin of the Algonquin Language by Reider T. Sherwin".Hollander, Lee M. "The Viking and the Red Man. The Old Norse Origin of the Algonquin Language. By Reider T. Sherwin".
==See also==
*1421 theory
*Juan Móricz
*Welsh Indians
==External links==
*Book review: The Viking And The Red Man, a partial refutation
*The Viking and the Red Man, Volume 5
*The Viking and the Red Man, Volume 6
*The Viking and the Red Man, Volume 7
==Notes==
==References==
Category:Books
Category:Nationalist pseudohistory
Category:Native American woo
Category:Pseudolinguistics
Category:Woo
The Voyage that Shook the World

The Voyage that Shook the World is a creationist propaganda flick world-class documentary from Creation Ministries International about the life of Charles Darwin. It's only 52 minutes long, so it was clearly aimed at television.
In April 2015, the film received a AUD$90,504 tax-rebate (20% of the entire production cost of AUD$452,518) from Screen Australia despite only taking in AUD$116,436.Christian creationist film gets nearly $100,000 in taxpayer funds, The Australian, April 29, 2015.
==The rogues' gallery==
The film features interviews with real live scientists. These were apparently obtained in a similar manner as the interviews for Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed, by establishing a front company so said scientists would be unaware that creationists had anything to do with the film. Some people claimed this deceptive behavior violated the Ninth Commandment; a big-shot with CMI admitted the deceit, but replied (paraphrase) "The ends justify the means! Pay no attention to the man behind the screen underhanded movie-making tactics! Look at this wonderful film we've made!"http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/ni/2009/06/creationists_defend_darwin_fil.html
==Reception==
To date, the film has been noticed about as much as a grain of sand dropping into a lake. As of July 2012 it has a rating of 5.3/10 at the IMDb, although, strangely, there are a very high number of glowing reviews giving the film a perfect 10 out of 10 stars, with many casting doubt on Darwin's ability as a scientist. Even more strangely, a large number of these fabulous reviews were given by people who had only ever reviewed this one film.http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1447799/ How very obviously deceitful odd. At least one blogger has stated that it is standard creationist fare.http://lippard.blogspot.com/2009/07/voyage-that-shook-world.html
General screening in Canada, UK, US and South Africa supposedly started September 2009, but even Fox News didn't review it.
==External links==
*Skeptic.com - Distorting Darwin (Review of The Voyage that Shook the World)
==References==
Category:Evolution
Category:Propaganda
The Wartburg Watch

The Wartburg Watch is a Christian blog that critiques trends towards authoritarianism within Evangelical Christianity that have been increasingly promoted by well-organized conservative parachurch organizations. These include cult-like congregational disciplinehttp://thewartburgwatch.com/permpage-church-discipline-and-abuse/ and gender complementarianism that goes so far as to distort the Trinity.http://thewartburgwatch.com/2017/08/25/kevin-giles-on-complementarians-who-now-reject-wayne-grudems-view-of-the-trinity/ 
The Watch is written by female bloggers Dee Parsons and Wanda Martin.Wikipedia – The Wartburg Watch They primarily oppose Calvinist groups like 9Marks and the Gospel Coalition, characterizing their teachings on congregational discipline as abusive and legalistic.http://thewartburgwatch.com/2017/02/22/what-should-we-do-about-9marks-and-other-abusive-churches-guest-post-by-dale/ 
The Watch reminds us that although fundamentalist Evangelicals like to position themselves as offering a "personal relationship with God" as opposed to a "religion" that follows the "teachings of a man", their churches are increasingly becoming authoritarian to the extent that members who are under church discipline may be barred from leaving. Sola Scriptura is no longer there to allow members freedom of belief and conscience; it is there to allow the religion's leaders to act as "mini popes" who have the authority to interpret scripture their own way detached from Christian history, excommunicating those who "cause division" or are "insubordinate". It is in this context of valuing authority over truth that Evangelicalism changed from the religion of civil rights to the religion of political extremism and creationist pseudoscience.
==References==
==External Links==
* The Wartburg Watch
Category: Christianity
Category: Journalism
The Weight of Clouds

"The Weight of Clouds" is a document by Harun Yahya that purports to show that the Qur'an contains scientific foreknowledge when it "predicted" that clouds have weight.
The following is a side-by-side rebuttal.
==Rebuttal==
 
==Summary==
==See also==
*Qur'anic scientific foreknowledge
*Harun Yahya
==References==
Category:Qur'anic scientific foreknowledge
Category:Side-by-side articles
The Wonders of Creation Reveal God's Glory

The Wonders of Creation Reveal God's Glory is a video released in 2009 by the Jehovah's Witnesses with the intent of persuading the viewer that Jehovah created the universe, the Earth and plants and animals.
While it has a great deal of the expected propaganda about intelligent design, and appreciation for the works of Jehovah, it is replete with interesting scientific facts about various aspects of our world. Refreshingly, these scientific explanations are much more accurate than earlier publications of the Jehovah's Witnesses. The photography is truly beautiful, and the production quality is extremely high.
Topics covered include iridescence, fractals, Fibonacci sequences in nature, the nature of freezing water, the moon, the Goldilocks Zone and comments on the size of earth (though some suspect this point is overstated in the video), numerous ingenious solutions to problems that evolution has solved... and attributes all of these things to God.
==External links==
*Jehovahs-Witness.net: the movie in 12 parts
Category:Films
Category:Intelligent design creationism
The Year of Living Biblically

The Year of Living Biblically () is a 2007 book by American author A.J. Jacobs, in which he recounts his year-long experiment in living according to the commands of the Christian Bible.The Year of Living Biblically, A.J. Jacobs.Author's website Rather than attempting to adhere to the principles, he instead determines that he will try to obey every direct rule or restriction that he finds. He devotes some days to special attention for one rule or another, such as spending a day telling the absolute truth without any shade of deceit. Nine months are devoted to the Old Testament and three months are devoted to the New Testament. This is in recognition of the preponderance of Biblical commands found in dense books such as Leviticus. Jacobs admits that his division of the year also reflects his secular Jewish upbringing and greater familiarity with the Bible's first half.
By design, Jacobs' experience is a difficult one. Many of the rules of the Bible are ridiculous and silly, which make them perfect for this gimmick. The author has no background in theology and very little spiritual insight, and The Year of Living Biblically seldom engages with any of the philosophy or greater messages of the material. This may in part be because this is not his first year-long experiment; an earlier book, The Know-It-All, was about his year spent reading the Encyclopedia Britannica.The Know-It-All, A.J. Jacobs.
Jacobs does not break any laws, so he is unable to stone adulterers, enslave non-believers, or engage in any of the other abhorrent commands of the Bible. Instead, he engages in various substitutions for those instructions: he drops a pebble on a blasphemer's shoe, pretends his intern is a "slave," and so on. But aside from this mitigation of the most disgusting parts of the text, he genuinely strives to follow the rules. He carries around a special stool so he's not in danger of sitting on an unclean seat (one a menstruating woman might have touched), he grows an enormous beard and side-locks in obedience to the command not to shave, and he even goes to Israel and herds some sheep.
By the time the book concludes, Jacobs seems surprised that his year of immersion in the Bible yields some genuine religious feeling. His daily attempts to pray have become a peaceful moment of meditation, and he feels a connection with the material. This is perhaps the equivalent of spending a year in a pool and being surprised that you learned to swim; cram your life with anything for a year and you'll find a connection to it. After a year of cramming yourself with the Bible on a daily basis, you'll probably feel closer to it. You might even justify some of the atrocities within it to yourself, as Jacobs recounts in one anecdote:
==External links==
*Jacobs's TED Talk about the experience on YouTube
==References==
Category:Books
Category:Bible
Category:Religious books