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Hopi

The Hopi are a Native American people who live in what is nowadays Arizona. Aspects of their mythology and culture have been hijacked by woo-pushers, most likely because of Frank Waters' popularization of Hopi culture with his 1963 Book of the Hopi.Book of the Hopi by Frank Waters (1963) Viking. Waters' book has largely been rejected by serious scholars.
==Kachina==
In Hopi mythology, Kachina are supernatural beings representing various natural forces and/or ancestral spirits. The term is also used for the traditional dolls and the ritual dancers depicting them. Advocates of the ancient astronauts theory hypothesis meme have tried to use them as supporting evidence for alien visitation in the past, citing the "Kachina-as-teachers" myths and drawing a parallel between the Kachina masks and astronauts' helmets, even though the latter are rarely adorned with feathers. Maybe these ancient astronaut buffoons are thinking of cargo cults?
==Prophecies==
Several "prophecies" (or variants of a single one) attributed to the Hopi have been used to support various apocalyptic claims, such as the 2012 apocalypse.
It has become a fundamental tenet of woo theology that those wise old Hopi had it right and we should look for a Blue Kachina in the form of a blue star. This either means the total destruction of the planet, or the impending arrival of the extraterrestrials, or possibly a special offer on tableware in Aisle 6.
Chief culprit for this rubbish seems to be Bob Frissell, who wrote it in a 2003 book Something in this book is true. Frissell says that Chief White Feather told him of eight signs, starting with:
:This is the First Sign: We are told of the coming of the white-skinned men, like Pahana, but not living like Pahana, men who took the land that was not theirs.
Well, they got that right, anyway.
==Language==
In the 1950s, Benjamin Lee Whorf (the Whorf in the "Sapir-Whorf hypothesis") claimed that the Hopi language lacked the concept of time (had “no words, grammatical forms, construction or expressions that refer directly to what we call “time.”) He's wrong, as you might expect.http://www.native-languages.org/iaq7.htm
==See also==
*Noble savage
==External links==
*Official website (yes, they do have one)
*Hopi prophecies, page at 2012hoax.org
*Page with purported Native American prophecies, including several Hopi ones
==References==
Category:Ancient aliens
Category:Anthropology
Category:Native Americans
Category:Woo
Horizon problem

The horizon problem refers to the former mystery of why the Universe is homogeneous and isotropic despite distant regions of space failing to be causally connected. Science has since provided an explanation.
==Against rationalists==
When confronted with the starlight problem, Young Earth Creationists occasionally counter that the Big Bang theory has a "starlight problem" of its own.
Light-travel time: A problem for the Big Bang from Answers in Genesis. Retrieved September 14, 2007.
Leaving aside the fact that this argument fails to address the problems with the YEC model, this criticism has been refuted.
Scientific circles know the problem with the Big Bang that the creationists refer to as the horizon problem. The horizon problem states that the universe is homogeneous and highly isotropic (it's largely the same in every direction we look) despite insufficient time for regions far away from each other to "communicate" and become roughly the same in temperature, density, and other properties. This means that a region a few hundred thousand light years away looks similar to a region ten billion light years away. However, an explanation consistent with these and other observations has existed since the early 1980s.
==Argument refuted==
The explanation, known as inflation, was proposed by Alan Guth and holds that the Universe underwent a brief period of rapid accelerated expansion very early in its history. Inflation accounts for the observed homogeneity and isotropy of the Universe, as well as the flat geometry of the Universe. Furthermore, inflation predicts very small but observable differences in temperature of the cosmic microwave background radiation, which have since been confirmed by satellite-based measurements.NASA article on WMAP. Retrieved September 14, 2007.
The inflationary Big Bang theory continues to be, overwhelmingly, the best scientific explanation for the beginning of the observable universe.
==Notes==
==See also==
*Essay:Inflation theory 101
==References==
Category:Science
Category:Creationism
Hormone replacement therapy

Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) is a therapy for women who have gone through age-related menopause or surgically-induced menopause (removal of ovaries and/or uterus due to disease), thus requiring additional hormones to replace the ones their bodies are no longer producing. There has been considerable concern in recent years due to links between long-term HRT in post-menopausal women and breast cancer. at Breastcancer.org Combined estrogen–progestogen menopausal therapy is carcinogenic in the breast and endometrium of women.IARC Monographs on the Evaluation of Carcinogenic Risks to Humans. Volume 91: Combined Estrogen-Progestogen Contraceptives and Combined Estrogen-Progestogen Menopausal Therapy
== HRT in transgender therapy ==
HRT is also prescribed to transgender individuals, who wish to ease gender dysphoria, improve gender euphoria, or neither at all in order to suppress naturally-occurring hormones and replace them with greater quantities of those which determine secondary-sex characteristics of the opposite physical sex, usually for the purpose of making their body match what they associate with their psychological gender identity.
According to the World Professional Association for Transgender Health's Standards of Care,WPATH Standards of Care, 7th Version a mental health professional (which is loosely defined by the Standards of Care as someone with "[clinical] training [...] within any discipline that prepares mental health professionals for clinical practice, such as psychology, psychiatry, social work, mental health counseling, marriage and family therapy, nursing, or family medicine with specific training in behavioral health and counseling") must diagnose a patient with gender dysphoria and provide a letter approving HRT in order for therapy to commence. However, as this process can take quite a while, and some mental health professionals may have unreasonable expectations, many self-medicate as HRT medications for transgender women are not controlled substances in most countries. However, for transgender men, testosterone is considered a Schedule III controlled substance.Bioidentical Testosterone - Hudson's FTM Resource Guide
==References==
Category:Biology
Category:Human carcinogens
Category:Medicine
Category:Transgender
Category:Social justice
Horoscope

A horoscope is a divination from an astrologer, who, by taking no more into account than their client's date, time, and place of birth, tells them incredible things about themselves that they already knew, and usually some nice things that will happen to them soon.
People have a tendency to assign detail and specific meaning to generalized statements or events — that's the Forer effect. Also, if you read enough horoscopes, once in a while one is bound to apply!This author has read two uncannily accurate horoscopes in the daily paper! Count 'em, two! Wooooo!!! When subjected to double-blind tests horoscopes have been shown to fail miserably time after time.http://psychicinvestigator.com/demo/AstroSkc.htmhttp://www.digitaljournal.com/article/223414http://open.salon.com/content.php?cid=12265
An adjunct to casting the wonderful spell is drawing up the gullible fool's client's "chart", which consists of a diagram of where the Sun, Moon and planets were at their time and place of birth, and what they were "doing". Very often the "actions" of these celestial bodies are critical to the actions the client should pursue in the present and near future.
The word horoscope may also refer to the chart itself, which plots ecliptic longitudes of sun, moon, and planets for a specific date/time, and usually house positions for the specific location at that time.
==Common horoscopes==
Today, most people come across horoscopes in newspapers and dating websites. These are based totally off of zodiac signs, the implications of this being that at least one of the twelve horoscopes every publication would apply to more than 500,000,000 people.This is directly from the pigeonhole principle — barring any birth irregularities, on average every horoscope would apply to around 500,000,000 people. To get around this, they are incredibly vague to the point of meaninglessness. Some people believe that their horoscope signs need to match in order to find or keep a partner. Actual relationship experts advise daily communication with your loved ones and not keeping secrets from them.
===Examples===
In the interests of science, RW has gathered various horoscopes from the same day. If there was any truth to them, they should be the same.For Cancer on May 15th 2009 However, this hypothesis remains inconclusive as they're are indeed too vague to make something of. Readers should pay particular note of the "ifs" in the second two examples, which serve to remove that phrase if they don't apply, thus disguising a complete miss as a mere indirect hit.
==See also==
*Chinese astrology
*Cold reading
*Fortune-telling
==Notes==
==References==
category:pseudoscience
category:woo
Houri

Houri are the womanly delights apparently promised the devout Muslims in Paradise.
==More on womanly delights==
They are, allegedly, and paradoxically, perpetually virgins,There is an underlying assumption that devout Muslims are interested in houris and not, for example gay men, after all gay sex is forbidden in Islam. Both genders are covered, assuming they are straight and not asexual.For the varieties intended for male consumption, at least. despite any sexual congress they engage in and, in an odd echo of the myths surrounding Mary (Mother of Jesus), their virginity is miraculously restored after each session of intercourse.
These beings seem to be remarkable in some ways, as we are told by Muhammad al-Bukhari in his collection of Hadiths Sahih Bukhari:
All of which (especially the "sixty cubits" part, which would make them 90 to over 100 feet tall [depending on your cubit], and a proportionally sized vagina about half a meter in diameter) may go some way to explaining their perpetual virginity. All in all, this scenario suspiciously resembles a teenage boy's fantasy, which may provide some insight into the intended target demographics of the original preachers.
== Ghilman ==
The ghilman (ghulam in singular) are eternally youthful boys that serve both men and women in Paradise, and are often likened to waiters or eunuchs who serve their masters (but we know what they're really there for, you closeted jihadists!). Incidentally, the word "ghilman" was also the name for slave-soldiers in the Ottoman, Mughal and Persian empires.
==See also==
*Heaven
*Hell
*Limbo
*Purgatory
*Nephilim
==External links==
*: A more extensive examination can be found on Wikipedia, along with the suggestion that the famous 72 virgins should perhaps be translated as 72 grapes.
*A permanent link just in case Islamic Wikipedians delete the reference to white raisins
*The Skeptic's Dictionary on Houri.
==Notes==
==References==
Category:Islam
Category:Qur'an
Category:Sexuality
Category:Mythology
House Committee on Science, Space and Technology

The House Committee on Science, Space and Technology, unsurprisingly, is the United States House of Representatives committee that deals with issues related to science, space, and technology. The committee was established in 1958 after the launch of Sputnik gave a sense of urgency to the question of scientific research.History of the Committee
According to its website, the committee:
Some of the government agencies that the committee oversees include the United States Geological Survey, the Department of Energy, the National Science Foundation, and the EPA.
==Otherwise known as the Brain Slug Party==
At least two representatives who were members of the committee in 2012 have important conflicts between their understandings of how science works and the committee's mandate. Paul Broun is a young Earth creationist and a global warming denialist. Todd Akin seems to have no grasp of basic human anatomy.
Republicans have packed the Committee with climate change deniers. The Chairman, Ralph Hall, says that scientists "concoct evidence to obtain grants"Ralph Hall Speaks Out on Climate Change, Science and said of the Deepwater Horizon disaster, which killed 11 men and caused more pollution than the Exxon Valdez:
It gets worse. Vice-chair, Jim Sensenbrenner, believes the Earth is cooling and not warming up. He also doesn't believe that CO2 is a pollutant. If it were, he says, we'd all "need to put catalytic converters on all our noses. The fact that people think CO2 is a pollutant … basically goes into propaganda."Sensenbrenner: ‘CO2 Is A Natural Gas. Does This Mean That All Of Us Need To Put Catalytic Converters On Our Noses?’
==References==
Category:United States politics
Category:Government incompetence
Category:Science
House of Numbers

House of Numbers is a 2009 film directed and produced by Brent Leung, which purports to objectively examine the hypothesis that HIV causes AIDS. Of course, what it turns out to actually be is a "weaselly support pamphlet for AIDS denialists" and "a dreary and pernicious piece of AIDS denialist propaganda."
The film consists mostly of Leung interviewing a range of scientists and HIV denialists, including Christine Maggiore, an HIV-positive denialist whose 3-year-old daughter died of untreated AIDS, and who herself succumbed to AIDS-induced pneumonia before the film was released, although her death is only mentioned in small print in the closing credits along with a claim that it was "unrelated to HIV."
The film makes liberal use of cherry-picking, and many of the scientists interviewed for the film complained that they had been interviewed under false pretenses, and that their answers to Leung's questions were selectively edited to convey a false impression that the scientific community disagrees on the basic facts about HIV/AIDS. Two interviewees later cited examples supporting the allegation that Leung misrepresented their words in a "surely intentional" manner. A panel discussion of the film at a Boston film festival was disrupted by Leung and other HIV/AIDS denialists in the audience, who attempted to shout down members of the panel they disagreed with.
Reaction from the scientific community was, predictably, negative. Someone should really take the time to rebut all the arguments individually, but basically it's just the HIV/AIDS denialist version of Expelled.
==External links==
*House of Numbers on IMDb
*Debunking the AIDS Denialist Movie House of Numbers on YouTube
==References==
Category:Films
Category:HIV/AIDS
Howard Ahmanson

Howard Fieldstead Ahmanson, Jr. is the shadowy, reclusive multi-milionaire heir of the Home Savings bank fortune built by his father Howard Fieldstead Ahmanson, Sr. (his reclusion seems to be partially caused by suffering from Tourette’s Syndrome).https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2005/mar/06/arts.artsnews#:~:text=Howard%20F%20Ahmanson%20Jr%20is%20the%2021st%20century's%20answer%20to%20Howard%20Hughes.&text=Even%20in%20Orange%20County%2C%20California,of%20his%20talking%20for%20him. Junior uses his money to finance several right wing cults, think tanks, and causes. He is a major financial contributor to the Discovery Institute.Politicized Scholars Put Evolution on the Defensive He also provided $1,395,000 to the "YES on 8" campaign for Proposition 8.Proposition 8: Who gave in the gay marriage battle? In 2014, Ahmanson has decided to up the stakes from indirect influence to campaign financing, providing major funding to the House of Representatives campaign of California State Senator Mimi Walters.Republican Candidate Funded by Reconstructionist
As a Calvinist, Ahmanson used to be part of R.J. Rushdoony's Christian Reconstructionism movement. Though he claims not to support the death penalty for homosexuals, and has said that he "no longer consider[s] [it] essential" to stone people who have committed acts that the Old Testament deems immoral, he does not think it is immoral for a country to have this law or for someone to follow it. "But I don't think it's at all a necessity."
TIME Magazine covered the Ahmansons in their 2005 profiles of the 25 Most Influential Evangelicals in America, classifying them as "the financiers".
Due to his reclusivity, his wife, Roberta Ahmanson, performs most of his public communication duties on his behalf and is likewise a Christian fundamentalist.
==Quotes==
* My goal is the total integration of biblical law into our lives Proposition 8, total integration of biblical law into our lives
==External Links==
*SourceWatch: Howard F. Ahmanson, Jr.
==References==
Category:California
Category:Christians
Category:Discovery Institute
Category:Fundamentalists
Category:Homophobes
Category:Living people
Category:Paleoconservatives
Category:Pseudoscience promoters
Hu Jintao

Hu Jintao was the Paramount Leader of the People's Republic of China from 2002 to 2012, a position formerly filled by Chairman Mao Zedong, Deng "Tiananmen Square" Xiaoping, and a couple of other people who did little of note. Coming from a humble background, Hu rose through the ranks to head the CCP's Youth League and administrator of an integral part of China before becoming Communist Party's general secretary and the preeminent fashion icon for its legions of hip young bureaucrats. His term as Party General Secretary ended in November 2012, and he was succeeded by Xi Jinping.
In this role he advocated a "peaceful development" of his country; this involves overseeing construction of their first aircraft carrier, stealth fighter plane, fast attack boats and the largely-defensive weapon of Dong Feng missile.Which is very, very scary when all you've got to counter this are a couple thousand nukes and a conventional military that costs almost as much as those fielded by the rest of the world combined. This was very successful, and so obviously helped to prevent trouble further down the line, and also aided good long-term relations with the USA, and other countries.
Domestically, he promised the Chinese people to build a "harmonious society" that is supposed to alleviate the sharp divergences in income and wealth that developed in the wake of China's economic opening. It has also helped to "harmonize" the sharp divergences of opinions held by dissidents such as Liu Xiaobo or Ai Weiwei.In fact, the term "harmonious society" has become so synonymous with Internet censorship in China that the authorities censored the Chinese word for "harmonious" on the internet. In response, Chinese internet users began using a similar-sounding Chinese word which means "" as a replacement to get around the censors, creating what may have been the first Chinese internet meme. This has so obviously made the lives of the majority of people better, and made some good progress for poor people in China who are now living in better conditions than ever.
==See also==
*Deng Xiaoping
*Xi Jinping
*Mao Zedong
==Notes==
Category:Asian politicians
Category:Communists
Category:Chinese politics
Category:Dictators
Category:Living people
Hugh Dower

Hugh Dower is a young-earth creationist and essayist, best known for his criticism of neo-Darwinism.
==Biography==
Dower is from a Quaker upbringing and claimed in the past to support Elaine Morgan’s Aquatic ape theory and the ideas of Rupert Sheldrake.Biography of Hugh Dower
==Views on evolution==
Like Shaun Johnston and Charlie Wagner, Dower states that he accepts the theory of evolution, but is interested in alternative evolutionary mechanisms. In practice, this involves much criticism of natural selection and advocacy for mechanisms such as Lamarckism (which he states might be considered the forerunner of punctuated equilibrium theoryDower essay on Lamarck). This sort of argument has often paralleled the arguments of creationists, as in Dower's book The Alternative Life, which echoes much intelligent design literature.The Alternative Life by Hugh Dower As an example, Dower has argued that random mutation is unlikely to have had anything to do with evolution; in one essay, he criticizes "the improbability of a one-off mutation becoming established across a widespread species," a key concept of the theory of evolution by natural selection.Essay by Hugh Dower
It turns out from reading Dower's website that he doesn't believe in "macroevolution". When he says he believes in evolution, it is only "microevolution". This is a typical fallacy from creationists.
==Young earth creationism==
Similar to Richard Milton (who he claims was his biggest influence), Dower believes the earth is only a few thousand years old, writing:
However, there is no controversy over radioactive techniques.
==References==
Category:Authors
Category:Chemists
Category:Living people
Category:Pseudoscience promoters
Hulda Clark

Hulda Regehr Clark was an author who wrote several books on alternative medicine. Clark received a doctoral degree in zoology from the University of Minnesota in 1958.Register of Ph.D. Degrees Conferred by the University of Minnesota, July 1956 through June 1966 University of Minnesota (archived from October 4, 2013). Many of her views advanced the pseudoscientific claim that all maladies, from cancer to HIV, are actually caused by parasites. Predictably, these parasites could be flushed from one's body by purchasing and using the costly herbs and electronic devices that were also, as it happened, marketed by Clark.
One of these products, the Zapper, is a machine designed to send a low-voltage current through the body (read: give you a slight electric shock) in the hope of killing all of the hidden nasties that Clark insisted make people sick. It caused serious arrhythmia when used by a patient with a cardiac pacemaker.Furrer M, Naegeli B, Bertel O. Hazards of an alternative medicine device in a patient with a pacemaker New England Journal of Medicine, 2004 April 15;350(16):1688-90. PMID: 15084709.
Ms. Clark ran several clinics in the US until the US Trade Commission began to look into her activities including several complaints about illness and death associated with her products, thus inspiring her to move to the sunny land of Tijuana, free from all those legal hassles.
==Death==
Hulda Clark died on September 3, 2009. According to her own website, she died of complications from a spinal cord injury, but a copy of her death certificate lists the causes as anaemia and hypercalcemia with multiple myeloma (i.e. cancer) as a contributing factor.
==The Zapper lives on==
After the death of Hulda Clark, her business was taken up by her son Geoffrey Clark, who continues to promote the Zapper relentlessly, primarily through the Self Health Resource Center. Tim Bolen, Hulda's publicist, was also involved in continuing the Zapper legacy until he ran into a bit of tax trouble. Precision Herbs‎ also continues to manufacture a range of different bogus zappers that the FDA attempted to seize due to their being considered unapproved medical devices.Inspections, Compliance, Enforcement, and Criminal Investigations: Precision Herbs, LLC 12/1/11
==See also==
*David P. Amrein
*Morgellons disease
==External links==
* on Wikipedia
*Extended video analysis of Clark's claims by ExtantDodo on YouTube
*Quackwatch - The Bizarre Claims of Hulda Clark
*Casewatch - Hulda Clark Associate Barred from Making False Claims about "Zappers" and Other Products
*CancerGuide - Quacky Mexican Clinics
*Dr Hulda Clark
*Science Blogs - Requiem for a Quack
==References==
Category:Alternative medicine promoters
Category:Biologists
Category:Canadians
Category:Cancer woo