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Sustainability

Sustainability means different things in different contexts, but always incorporates the tenet that we should concern ourselves with future needs.
Emerging from the environmental movement, the concept of sustainable development was made prominent by the Brundtland Report (1987) as "development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs". Later on it gained a stable foothold as a topic of interest in politics through international summits like the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro (1992) and the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg (2002). Policies upholding this central idea encompass many social, economic and environmental aspects of topics like water, energy, poverty, climate change and biodiversity.
Sustainability in ecology may refer to the "state wherein anthropogenic use of natural resources is kept to a limit or made adequate for human needs thus avoiding to inflict harm to other life forms and future generations, preserving biodiversity, and promoting a period of natural restoration".Definition from Biology Online In economics, sustainability may concern "the specification of a set of actions to be taken by present persons that will not diminish the prospects of future persons to enjoy levels of consumption, wealth, utility, or welfare comparable to those enjoyed by present persons".D. W. Bromley The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, Second Edition, 2008 These understandings of sustainability are considered to be closely inter-related, but not identical.
Key tools to determine how sustainable a specific product or process is are life cycle assessment and the waste hierarchy.
==As a buzzword==
"Sustainability" has become a new buzzword in the advertising world as a means of greenwashing, viz. "Product X has been approved as a sustainable product by our Department of Sustainable Sustainability and is manufactured in a sustainable environment in a sustainably sustainable manner for all your sustainable needs."One example from Southern Fried Science
==References==
Category:Advertising
Category:Economics
Category:Environmentalism
Category:Global warming
Suzanne Venker

Suzanne Venker is an anti-feminist journalist blogger and pundit who writes articles propaganda for Fox News.
She is also the niece of Phyllis Schlafly and has co-written books with her, published by WND Books. Her writing is very much like what you would expect from a conservative member of the Schlafly family.
==Examples of WTFery==
In November 2012, Venker chimed in on Fox News' "War on Men", their attempt to rebrand the War on Women using an MRA tilt.Fox News: The War on Men 26 November 2012 One is quick to note from the article that, unlike her cousin, she does not homeschool her children.
In February 2013, Venker asserted that in order to be happy in marriage, one must admit that men and women are not equal, spouting typical patriarchal heteronormative bullshit. The original article on FoxNews.comFox News: To be happy, we must admit women and men aren't 'equal' 5 February 2013 gained a lot of recognition because a Twitter user pointed out that the wedding picture was of two women getting married.Tweet from Jessica Valenti, 8 February 2013MediaITE: Oops! Don’t Tell Fox News They’ve Got Pic Of Lesbian Couple For Column On Traditional Marriage Gender Roles by Andrew Kirell, 8 February 2013
In February 2017, Venker wrote a piece claiming that society has bred "alpha women incapable of love". In her words: "women have become too much like men. They’re too competitive. Too masculine. Too alpha."http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2017/02/08/society-is-creating-new-crop-alpha-women-who-are-unable-to-love.html All of this before going on to talk about even more patriarchal/heteronormative bullshit.
==References==
Category:Antifeminism
Category:Living people
Svali

Svali is a person who claims to be a whistleblower for the Illuminati. She's pretty popular among conspiracy nutters.http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread405453/pg1http://www.answers.com/Q/Was_Svali_interview_with_Greg_Szymaniski_a_Hoax She is claimed to be an ex-Illuminati programmer (whatever that means) who escaped and turned to Christianity. She self-published a book on how to break free of a cult, "which several experts in the field have said has 'invaluable information' for the survivor of ritual abuse."http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sociopolitica/illuminati/svali.htm Her story is unusually elaborate compared to the likes of John Todd.http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sociopolitica/illuminati/svali.htm She is claimed to have gone missing, probably to fuel the claim that she's a whistleblower.http://www.rense.com/general75/svali.htm
Her writing is happy to identify industries as being run for the benefit of the Illuminati, citing incredible detail on standard operating procedures, alleging huge numbers of agents, facilities, and possessed business but not putting forth a single example of any such agent, business, or facility. The contradiction of perfect, in-depth understanding of all operations against total ignorance of any verifiable specifics continues throughout her writing.
Her writing on "cult programming" descends into constant and nonsensical brainwave woo, alleging that EEG machines can be used to "induce a delta state" and other such claims.
==External links==
*Her site
*Another site of hers
*The loooong interview
==References==
Category:Conspiracy theorists
category:Authors
Category:Living people
Swami Vishwananda

Swami Vishwananda or Paramahamsa Sri Swami Vishwananda (born in 1978 in as Visham Komalram)http://www.ezw-berlin.de/downloads/Materialdienst_08_2013.pdf is the leader of a particular brand of Hinduism personality cult marketed as Bhakti Marga. His business concept seems to be a carbon copy of Sathya Sai Baba, namely spitting out golden eggs and giving out pendants to his devotees that he hid somewhere in his wide clothes before and pretends to 'materialize' for them. 
Sometimes, he acquires these artefacts by stealing them from Catholic churches. A Swiss judge found in 2007 that he had done so in at least 23 churches, mostly around 2001.
His followers see him as a personification of God. He allegedly took advantage of this devotion by secretly sexually molesting underage male followershttps://www.cultnews101.com/2015/03/swami-to-be-probed-over-claims-of-abuse.html while preaching celibacy to all his devotees and amassing a fortune.
==Religious practice==
Vishwananda is celebrated as an Avatar, an incarnation of God, and advertised as effectively "the new Jesus". Sometimes, his disciples claim that Vishwananda is the only way to find enlightenment, other times they are a bit humbler and simply claim that it's the easiest, most feasible path to find it through him.
Meditative practice often consists of chanting songs in Hindi that more or less all go "Oh Vishwananda you are our savior, please guide us".
===Luring in===
In newcomer events where new followers are supposed to be attracted, it's claimed that Vishwananda has supernatural abilities, like spitting out golden eggs and 'manifesting' vibhuti (holy ash) on food and religious objects. In newcomer event presentations, quantum woo is used in what might be the most amateurish form. A video of the is shown. It is then claimed, "as you can see, all matter consists of and is affected by vibrations, and therefore, by chanting 'OMM', we can create vibrations and transform the negative energy of the Holocaust into positive one."Newspaper article in German, "Rheingau-Taunus: Om-Singen für die Opfer des Holocaust" Wiesbadener Kurier
==Documentary about alleged rapes published on German TV==
In March 2022, a documentary and podcast was published on the German TV station Bhakti Sāhasikyam, Bhakti Marga, Just Love Documentary - Coercive Rape and Abuse by Vishwananda Cult. rumble.com, 29 March 2022.
The documentary contains allegations of the rape of young men and the story of how Vishwananda was once sent to prison for stealing Catholic Church relics. These relics continue to reside in a room at their German headquarters. 
However, at present, the cult has paid for a Canadian lawyer to invoke certain German laws that currently prevent Germans from being able to see the documentary in their country. At present a legal case continues.
==External links==
*Paramahamsa Vishwananda
*Swami Vishwananda — Twitter
*Just Love podcast
==References==
Category:Cult leaders
Category:Hindus
Category:Living people
Category:Religious leaders
Swedish Model Report

The Swedish Model Report was a report on the "Sex Purchase Act" introduced in 1999 in Sweden, commonly called the "Swedish Model"https://www.swarmcollective.org/blog/the-swedish-model or "Nordic Model" by both anti-prostitution and sex workers' rights activists.
The report claimed great success on the part of the Swedish Model, which criminalized buying, but not selling, sex (in short: you can legally prostitute yourself, but if caught, your customers would be arrested). This initially led to great rejoicing among anti-prostitution activists, until further analysis revealed the report to be one of the most ideologically-driven studies to ever claim scholarly merit.Susanne Dodillet and Petra Östergren. "The Swedish Sex Purchase Act: Claimed Success and Documented Effects." Decriminalizing Prostitution and Beyond: Practical Experiences and Challenges (conference). 3 March 2011.
Amongst other things, the study assumed correlation equaled causation (there was an international trend of decreasing street sex workers, which could just as easily explain the decrease in the number of street walkers), assumed the highest possible number of sex workers from before the act was passed (despite their estimate having a margin of error of 50%), ignored the possibility that sex workers might simply have become more difficult to document now that they had to protect their clients (prostitution had previously been legal in Sweden), and generally fell victim to mountains of confirmation bias.
According to a study examining Sweden's prostitution laws that was conducted in 2014, "the law has failed in its abolitionist ambition to decrease levels of prostitution, since there [is] no reliable data demonstrating any overall decline in people selling sex."Jay Levy & Pye Jakobsonn, "Sweden’s abolitionist discourse and law: Effects on the dynamics of Swedish sex work and on the lives of Sweden’s sex workers", Criminology and Criminal Justice, 31 March 2014
==References==
Category:Europe
Category:Government incompetence
Category:Sexuality
Swiss People's Party

The Swiss People's Party (German: Schweizerische Volkspartei, SVP; French: Union démocratique du centre, UDC) is a nationalist political party in Switzerland disguised as a "conservative" populist party. Their party logo is a cutesy smiley sun but there's nothing sunny about this party. They won popularity in the 2003 election, and since then, have come under fire for their anti-immigration stances and racism.BBC: Swiss row over black sheep poster by Imogen Foulkes They are largely responsible for numerous referenda that were blatantly xenophobic and racist, and they have worked to curtail immigration in Switzerland. Most notable of these referenda are a ban on minarets on mosques and an implementation of strict immigration quotas.BBC: Swiss immigration: 50.3% back quotas, final results show
While they insist that they are merely "anti-mass immigration", their posts are explicitly racist,New York Times: Immigration, Black Sheep and Swiss Rage by Elaine Sciolino employing racist caricatures of immigrants.Leudi, J. (March 20, 2016). "Switzerland’s Trump and the rise of the right". Global Risk Insights. Retrieved July 4, 2020. These posters, often strongly resembling Nazi propaganda, also insinuate a Jewish conspiracy and depict people who need government assistance as worms crawling over an apple or rats tearing open a wallet.
==Gallery of hate==
	
==References==
Category:Antisemitism
Category:European political parties
Category:Far-right political parties
Category:Islamophobia
Category:Racism
Category:Misnomers
Symbolic logic

Symbolic logic is a logical technique that allows reduction of a logical argument stated in natural language to mathematical logic. This helps to avoid issues of semantics that plague many logical debates. A proof in symbolic logic is only as true as its premises.
==Example==
Let A be defined as "Water has memory of chemicals dissolved in it."
Let B be defined as "Nearly every chemical has been dissolved in the oceans at some point."
Let C be defined as "The oceans have memory of nearly every chemical."
Let D be defined as "The oceans are as effective a homeopathic treatment as anything you could buy."
Postulates:
1: A
2: B
3: A&B→C
4: C→D
Proof:
Line a: By 1, 2, and 3: C
Line b: By 4 and a:D
Conclusion:
D
Category:Logic
Synergydetox

Syenergydetox is a company that sells quack "detoxification" products. Unlike most detox products, its products are marketed solely for the purpose of helping people pass drug tests, not for alleged general health purposes.
==Amazing products==
===Hair drug test productshttps://synergydetox.com/hair-test-products.html===
The webpage actually contains correct information about drug tests. Even though the page claims the reader can read how the products work at the bottom of the page, it doesn't do so in a manner to help the products' scientific credibility. The bottom reading material instead bombards the reader with information about drug test procedures, how to use the products, and how the products work on a 
Studies aren't cited in the piece, and it is not explained why the "Toxin Wash Shampoo" only works for "a person that uses drugs fewer than twice a week". The writing doesn't account dosage but rather frequency of use.
The writer avoids how the products work because hair cannot be "detoxed"; no blood vessels flow through your hair, and the core of the hair strand would still be untouched by surface shampoos. It doesn't help that the ingredients don't do anything at all.
===Urine test productsPass A Urine Drug Test===
It is not elaborated why the "Permanent Detoxification" products work better than the "Temporary Detoxification" and what active ingredients give the aforementioned products certain properties.
===Total body detox systemPass All Drug Tests===
This product's page, unlike the other previous one, boasts that the product is FDA approved; so are the other products not FDA approved? No citation is provided. By the way, this wiki is FDA approved too.
===Lyophilized human urineLyophilized Human Urine===
Ever wanted to freeze your own piss? No? Now you can!
	
Synergydetox wants you to know that it does not "intended to violate any federal or state laws" even though it's supposedly selling you products to cheat drug tests.
==Conclusion==
Overall, the company Synergydetox neglects to present the reader with a low level understanding of the function of its products, and it seems more concerned about selling the reader products. Therefore, it is appropriate to dismiss the products as alternative medicine.
==External links==
*Synergydetox website
==References==
Category:Medicine
Category:Pseudoscience
Søren Løvtrup

Søren Løvtrup https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb121296852https://www.gravsted.dk/person.php?navn=soerenloevtrup was a Danish biologist who taught in Sweden and an embryologist known for his evolutionary theory of macromutation in opposition to neo-Darwinism.
==Biography==
Løvtrup was born in Copenhagen and finished his master's in biochemstry there in 1945.
After obtaining his doctorate in embryology, he taught at the University of Göteborg, Sweden, and in 1965 became professor of embryology at the Department of Animal Physiology, University of Umea, also in Sweden.https://www.gravsted.dk/person.php?navn=soerenloevtrup He headed the organisation of Swedish Developmental Biologists, SDB, from 1979 to 1987, and served as its first chair.
==Evolution==
He is the author of the controversial book Darwinism: The Refutation of a Myth (1987) which sets out to show that Darwin was not the founder of evolution and that the micromutation theory of neo-Darwinism is false. The book endorses non-Darwinian evolution and Løvtrup supports an alternative theory of evolution by macromutations for the origin of major taxonomic groups of organisms.Kathryn E. Hood, Carolyn Tucker Halpern, Gary Greenberg, Richard M. Lerner Handbook of Developmental Science, Behavior, and Genetics p. 70
His book has received mixed reviews from the scientific community, but the main criticism is that he provided no real empirical evidence for his alternative theory of evolution driven by macromutations.Book Review by W. Dohle
==Creationist quote mine==
Religious creationists are known for quote mining Løvtrup's book, usually the following single line:
 
The quote is taken out of context. Whilst it is true Løvtrup was a non-Darwinian and a critic of the neo-Darwinian synthesis, he was not rejecting the fact of evolution. His book Darwinism: The Refutation of a Myth (1987) is a discussion on the mechanisms on evolution, not denying or questioning the fact of evolution like the creationists claim. Unfortunately creationists are known for setting up a straw man definition of evolution and erroneously equating evolution with "Darwinism". 
There are many creationist articles and books which distort the views of Løvtrup on evolution.Creationist Review Løvtrup has been quote mined by Jerry Bergman and Ray ComfortQuote mines from Jerry Bergman and Ray Comfort and has been cited in hundreds of other creationist publications. Løvtrup was not anti-evolution and did not dispute the fact of evolution, but no matter how many times this is stated, the creationists still continue to quote mine his book.
==Selected publications==
*Darwinism: The Refutation of a Myth (1987)
*The Phylogeny of Vertebrata (1977)
*Epigenetics: A Treatise on Theoretical Biology (1974)
==References==
Category:Authors
Category:Biologists
T. Boone Pickens

Thomas Boone Pickens, Jr. is the chairman of the hedge fund BP Capital Management (no relation to that ), and a major corporate raider from the 1980s, known for putting many small oil companies out of business. In recent years he has become a major proponent of peak oil theory, and called for increased utilization of nuclear energy and natural gas as energy sources. His "Pickens Plan" calls for the nation to reduce dependency on natural gas as a source for electricity, switching to wind power, so that the natural gas can then be used for transportation.
On the sleazier side, he supported the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, and is a major investor in wind power, meaning his plan may be a bit self-serving. Still, he's one of the saner Republicans to have a RationalWiki page written about him.
== External links ==
*The PickensPlan website
Category:Energy
Category:Business
TED Talks

TED Talks are a venue for speakers to give short academic or semi-academic talks about a talking bear that co-starred with Mark Wahlberg subjects they feel need public attention in fields like medicine, design, science, art, or society. Its tagline is "ideas worth spreading".
Unfortunately, this doesn't come with very good quality control - particularly under the brand of their TEDx offshoot - and often pseudoscientific ideas get presented totally seriously.TED under fire for pseudoscience AGAIN (UPDATE) Doubtful newsLlewellyn Hinkes-Jones points out shitty TED talks (January 17th, 2014) The Awl (archived from January 19th, 2014). Even ignoring these failings, the general tone for TED conferences can seem a lot like slacktivism, drawing attention to a problem, and discussing it, without doing anything about it.
On the plus side, NaturalNews hates them for having a presentation correctly describing the (lack of) risks from GMOs.boo hoo, scientists are so unfair
==See also==
*Rupert Sheldrake
==External links==
*A good TED conference on the differences between science and pseudoscience and bad science
==References==
THC Ministry

The THC Ministry proclaims itself to be a religion that believes that cannabis is a sacrament. In their opinion, cannabis is "the original sacrament of Hebrew, Muslim, Christian, Hindu, Shinto, Buddhist, Rasta and more, and fulfills the prophesies to ‘raise up for them a plant of renown…" It was founded in 2000 by Roger Christie of Hawaii, who, while serving in the United States Army in 1970, became "became galvanized to action by the wrongful nature of war," successfully fought for conscientious objector status, and became a marijuana activist.History, Beliefs and Practices of the THC Ministry. thc-ministry.org. The ministry claims to have affiliates in many states and countries.Roger Christie: A Promotion From God. Profile from High Times magazine. The "THC" of the ministry's name refers to the active ingredient of cannabis.
The primary purpose of the ministry appears to be providing a loophole in drug laws, by ordaining members as "practitioners" and thus presenting them with a "defense to prosecution" in terms of (one assumes) US law. Their web site only points to Hawaii's definition of the law, as well as that state's definition of "practitioner."Definition of "Practitioner", thc-ministry.org.
For $250, you can purchase a "sanctuary kit", which includes "Sanctuary Plaques, ID Cards, Sacramental Plant tags, THC Ministry Cannabis and Religion Guide" whatever they may be. They also say "The best religious defense to prosecution for any marijuana charge is based in your own sincerity and in the legitimacy of your religious organization," then add the handy caveat, "The sincerity part is up to you!" However, a Colorado judge saw otherwise, convicted a man who tried to claim cannabis use as a sacrament and fined him $450.Colo. man who claims pot as sacrament is convicted. Archived from the original at 9news.com, 9 March 2010.
The secondary purpose of the ministry appeared to be growing large amounts of marijuana in Hawaii. In 2010, Christie and 13 others associated with the THC Ministry were busted by the Feds and charged with marijuana possession and trafficking. Over five million dollars worth of marijuana plants were seized in the bust.Marisa Yamane, New details in the major marijuana bust on the Big Island. Archived from the original at khon2.com, 9 July 2010. Christie was convicted in 2014 and served four years in jail.THC Minister Roger Christie sentenced. bigislandvideonews.com, 30 April 2014. 
==External links==
*THC Ministry: The Hawai`i Cannabis Ministry
==References==
Category:Drugs
Category:Religion
TTIP

The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership or TTIP is a proposed free trade agreement between the United States and the European Union. As with many other free trade agreements, it has gained support from neoliberals and free trade capitalists, but has garnered opposition from the anti-globalization movement, and is quite divisive amongst the fair trade movement. In most free trade agreements, one party gets the short end of the stick, in this case the EU. They will face the strengthening of corporate intellectual property rights, and it may possibly cause issues for public healthcare. The anti-GMO movement is also quite strong in Europe, and the TTIP may introduce GM produce to the EU. As with everything, the TTIP's effects on the UK are confusing since, from what it looks like, Brexit is on pause forever.
Progress on TTIP effectively came to a halt in 2016 in part because of increased skepticism from the French and Germans.Hopes of EU-US trade agreement put on ice, say Brussels sources, Daniel Boffey, Guardian, 5 Jun 2017 As of June 2017, there had been no further progress.
==See also==
*TPP
==External links==
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==References==
Category:Economics
Category:Politics