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Sky News Australia

Sky News Australia is a 24-hour satellite and cable news channel that exists in Australia providing news and opinion on the politics Down Under and in the Pacific. It is one of only two such channels in Australia, with other one being the public broadcaster ABC News channel. It is owned by News Corp Australia, who also owns much of the media in the Pacific including the several newspapers such as The Australian, The Daily Telegraph, the Advertiser and the Courier-Mail.
In the past it used to be affiliated with the British channel of the same name, Sky News, however Sky UK was purchased in 2020 by Comcast, which also owns MSNBC. The two now have no link and only share the name and a similar logo — Sky News UK is a fairly normal centrist news channel. Sky News UK occasionally takes the piss out of Sky News Australia.
It is probably the only real Jekyll and Hyde channel in existence. During the day, it is a straight up news channel like any other news channel like the American CNN or the British BBC World News. However, in the evening which it calls "After Dark", it turns in a local version of Fox News with Liberal Party and One Nation talking heads. Notable rent-a-gobs includes; openly racist newspaper columnist Andrew Bolt, sports caster who famously suggested that the prime minister Scott Morrison should put a sock down the throat of his New Zealand counterpart,Australian PM slams Alan Jones' call to 'shove a sock down throat' of Jacinda Ardern Stuff NZ Alan Jones didn't say this on Sky News Australia, but on his show on the radio station 2GB. He has since then apologised on air, and his contract wasn't renewed. Trumpian Tony Abbott’s former chief of staff and former Liberal media adviser The current chief executive of GB News Angelos Frangopoulos, worked beforehand at Sky News Australia. 
The channel has been regularly criticised by the ABC's long-running media analysis programme Media Watch for conservative bias, agenda pushing and climate change denial.Sky’s drought hero, ABC Media WatchIce Age warning, ABC Media Watch The channel has been up for COVID-19 denialDangerous and misleading, ABC Media Watch and pushing unscientific remedies including hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin, which has led to the channel being hit with a wet noodle banned from YouTube for a week.Sky News Australia says suspended from YouTube for one week, Reuters
==External links==
* Sky News Australia's website
==Notes==
==References==
Category:Australian media outlets
Category:Broadcasting
Category:Fascism
Category:Journalism
Category:Murdochsphere
Category:Racism
Slacktivist

Slacktivist is the pen-name for liberal evangelical"If you're reading this you may be, like me, an evangelical Christian..." (Note that you need to turn JavaScript off to view the original comments) Christian blogger Fred Clark, probably best known for his exhaustive deconstruction of the Left Behind series of novels.
In Exhuming McCarthy, he criticizes Conservapedia, mentions RationalWiki, and makes the following point:
==External links==
*Slacktivist, the blog's current incarnation at Patheos
*The Slacktiverse, once Fred's blog site, then a fansite, now an archive.
*The Slacktiverse (2), the place where the fansite moved after they couldn't mainain the original blog anymore. Now a redirect.
*The Slacktiverse (3), where the fansite ended up after that.
*Left Behind Index (the whole thing)
==References==
Category:Left-wing activists
Category:Bloggers
Category:Living people
Sleep paralysis

Sleep paralysis is a condition that occurs when there is an ill-timed disconnection between the brain and the body when coming into or going out of sleep (hypnagogia).Medical Definition of Sleep paralysis MedicineNet. This results in the sufferer finding themselves unable to move for a few seconds or several minutes, and occasionally longer.
==Causes==
thumb|left|According to Wikipedia, sleep paralysis makes demons squat on the chests of beautiful women.
Sleep paralysis strikes most often as a person is moving into or out of REM sleep. This is the deepest part of the sleep cycle, during which the body is disconnected from the brain, in order to prevent the dreamer physically acting out their dreams. This does, however, leave the body paralysed. 
Sleep paralysis is being studied as an explanation for terrors in the night, as many people who have experienced the phenomenon report feeling a "presence" that is often described as malevolent, threatening, or evil. An intense sense of dread and terror is very common. The presence is likely to be vaguely felt or sensed just out of sight but thought to be watching or monitoring, often with intense interest, sometimes standing by, or sitting on, the bed.Sleep Paralysis and Associated Hypnagogic and Hypnopompic Experiences University of Waterloo (archived from March 10, 2008).
==Supernatural interpretations==
Although the physical effects of sleep paralysis rarely last more than a few moments, the memories of the frightening sensations felt during an attack can last long after the episode. It is believed that sleep paralysis accounts for some (or all) of the old claims of attacks by witches, manifestations by ghosts, and the more recent "reports" of nocturnal abduction by space aliens, e.g., as in the case of Whitley Strieber's book Communion.The Skeptic's Guide to the Universe by Steven Novella (2018) Grand Central Publishing. ISBN 1538760517.
Sleep paralysis goes by many names, including the "old hag" in Newfoundland, based on the myth of an old witch who would sit on the chest of the victim. In the West Indies, it's "kokma", named for a ghostly baby who jumps on the sleeper's chest and attacks the throat. In China and Japan, it's "ghost pressure" (鬼压床 guǐ yā chuáng, or 金縛り kanashibari, respectively), because a ghost sits on the sleeper's chest and assaults the sleeper. In Medieval Europe, demons called incubus and succubus were said to attack women and men, respectively, usually sexually.
==See also==
*Ghosts
*Alien abduction
*Incubus and succubus myths
*Lucid dream
*Shadow people
==External links==
*Waterloo University's coverage of sleep paralysis
*How to cope with sleep paralysis
==References==
Category:Psychology
Category:Medicine
Category:Sleep
Category:Horror
Slothful induction

Slothful induction or "appeal to coincidence" is a logical fallacy in which an inductive argument is denied its proper conclusion in spite of strong evidence; this is either in favor of an alternative conclusion with no evidence or a vague non-specific conclusion that is impossible to rule out by stating nothing concrete (such as stating it was merely a "coincidence"). Often, slothful induction becomes a game of moving the goalposts. 
The fallacy is an ad hoc fallacy and an informal fallacy.
==Alternate names==
*appeal to coincidence
*gravity game
==Form==
*Strong evidence suggests X results in Y.
*In spite of this, someone insists Y was caused by something else.
Implicitly, this "something else" either has weak or no evidence in support of it, or it's a kind of vague unfalsifiable notion such that Y happens simply coincidentally, and has no real relation to many occurrences of X. All the while, no testable alternative to Y is offered. 
==Examples==
A drunkard has had seven car accidents in the last seven months. Each time, the drunkard had immediately prior visited a bar. Each time, the drunkard tested positive for alcohol above legal limits. Each time, bystanders report that the drunkard's car had been acting erratically. It is strongly evident that the drunkard's alcohol causes their accidents. Yet the drunkard insists that it is just a coincidence and was simply distracted for reasons that are not his fault.
An example of slothful induction is when creationists often ask for "proof" of evolution, and act triumphant when none is forthcoming that meet their criteria, and yet they will still cling to their preferred hypothesis of creationism despite no such "proof" being present; hell, without even provisional evidence for its occurrence. This is a rather egregious double-standard in what constitutes adequate evidential support. 
William Dembski's Explanatory Filter is a good example of this fallacy.
==External links==
*Slothful Induction, Stephen Downes
Category:Ad hoc
Category:Informal fallacies
Slut

Slut, in modern vernacular, is a slur used to describe a sexually promiscuous individual, usually a woman.https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/slut The practice of using the word "slut" to insult a person is called "slut-shaming". In common with pretty much all other words in the English language, its meaning has changed over time. The earliest use of "slut" or "sluttish" (from the Middle Ages) was in the works of Chaucer, to describe a poorly kept man.History of the word slut This quickly shifted from untidy men to untidy women, and since untidy women were generally lower class and thus assumed to be promiscuous, eventually the word shifted meaning to its present form.
Originally, the term was exclusively pejorative, and is still generally used that way which is inherently sexist; if a man were to resort to the same activities that would have women branded sluts, it would be unlikely that the same negative connotations would apply (like with the word "stud")Arguably, the word “Pornography” or “Pornographic”behaves the same way, especially in the West. However, more recently it has seen increasing use as a positive term, which has incidentally resulted in its being applied to men as well (cf. "man-slut", or sometimes just the gender-neutral "slut" to encompass genderqueer, genderfluid, or agender persons). There have also been explicit attempts to reappropriate the term as a positive one, as with the SlutWalk movement.
Synonyms of "slut" include:
* 'Whore' (or 'ho' if you be pimpin')
* 'Easy'
* 'Loose'
* 'Damaged goods'
* 'Roastie'
* 'Stacy' (used by incels to denote an attractive, promiscuous woman)
* 'Thot' (That Ho Over There)
== See also ==
*Sexism
*Fun
*Woman
==External links==
* — a book describing the polyamorous movement
==References==
Category:Purity culture
Category:Rape culture
Category:Sexism
Category:Sexuality
SlutWalk

A SlutWalk is a feminist gathering intended to raise awareness of rape, rape apologetics, and other forms of violence against women, generally distinguished from other such gatherings by the fact that a number of participants will be dressed like "sluts".
It is essentially third-wave feminism's version of a Take Back the Night march, an alteration of style that has made some people rather upset.http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/05/17/rundle-the-phones-are-manned-vote-now-on-sl-twalk/
==Origin==
The SlutWalk concept originated in Toronto in April 2011, when a Toronto police officer stated to a crowd at York University that to avoid being made victims of sexual violence, "women should avoid dressing like sluts." This statement is based on an horrible old myth that many people have been at great pains to debunk, and is highly erroneous: first because most rapes occur between acquaintances rather than strangers, second because what "dressing like a slut" actually means can vary widely (see: Sharia countries), third because some people are narrow-minded assholes that think every woman is a slut whose purpose is to receive sex, fourth because rapists are not concerned so much with women's clothes or bodies as they are with dominating and degrading them, and finally because women shouldn't have to dress in certain ways to avoid being assaulted, any more than people should avoid driving expensive-looking cars to avoid carjackings. 
In response to this incident, activists began holding demonstrations to protest the sentiments expressed by the officer, carrying signs that were mostly variations on the theme, "Nobody asks to get raped." Furthermore, and more noticeably, they decided to put the word "slut" in the center of their rhetoric by seeking to redefine the term as "someone who is in control of their own sexuality."http://www.torontoobserver.ca/2011/03/30/slutwalk-set-to-strut-past-queens-park-to-police-hq-on-april-3/ This resulted in many people coming out in slut outfits, despite tut-tutting from such second-wavers as the British/Israeli/American anti-pornography feminist Gail Dines, who was concerned that these women were giving in to patriarchal ideology as well as providing fodder for rape apologists, and Maiy Azize, who claimed that these women were "defining their sexuality on male terms."http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/slutwalk-turns-apathy-into-action-on-sex-attacks-20110612-1fzaf.html?from=smh_sb Other groups decided to copy this approach, and thus the SlutWalk movement was born.http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-13320785
==References==
Category:Sexism
Category:Feminism
Category:Purity culture
Category:Rape culture
Smedley Butler

Smedley Darlington Butler was a United States Marine Corps Major General, the highest rank authorized at that time, and at the time of his death the most decorated Marine in U.S. history. During his 34-year career as a Marine, he participated in military actions in the Philippines, China, Central America, and the Caribbean during the and France in World War I. Butler later became better known as an outspoken critic of U.S. wars and their consequences. He also blew the whistle on the infamous an alleged fascist conspiracy to overthrow the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration of the United States government.Credulity Unlimited, The New York Times, November 1934.
Butler became an icon of the anti-war movement with his speech (and later book) War is a Racket,War Is a Racket by Smedley Darlington Butler (1935) New York Round Table Press.War is a Racket by Smedley Butler – Still ringing true 80 years on, Ruairi Wood a scathing critique of the corporate interests that lay behind the imperialist wars he had fought.
==War is a Racket==
After retiring from military service, Butler became widely known for his outspoken lectures against war profiteering, U.S. military adventurism, and what he viewed as nascent fascism in the United States.
In December 1933, Butler toured the country with James E. Van Zandt to recruit members for the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW). He described their effort as "trying to educate the soldiers out of the sucker class." In his speeches, he denounced the Economy Act of 1933, called on veterans to organize politically to win their benefits, and condemned the FDR administration for its ties to big business. The VFW reprinted one of his speeches with the title "You Got to Get Mad" in its magazine Foreign Service. He said: "I believe in… taking Wall St. by the throat and shaking it up." He believed the rival veterans' group the American Legion was controlled by banking interests. On December 8, 1933, he said: "I have never known one leader of the American Legion who had never sold them out — and I mean it."New York Times: "Butler for Bonus out of Wall Street", December 10, 1933, accessed January 10, 2011
In addition to his speeches to pacifist groups, he served from 1935 to 1937 as a spokesman for the American League Against War and Fascism. In 1935, he wrote the exposé titled 'War Is a Racket', a trenchant condemnation of the profit motive behind warfare. His views on the subject are summarized in the following passage from the November 1935 issue of the socialist magazine Common Sense:
==See also==
*Chiquita — His employer during the Banana Wars
*Gunboat diplomacy
*Military-industrial complex — another general's perspective
==External links==
*War is a Racket by Smedley Butler – Still ringing true 80 years on, Amity Underground
*A Veteran's Warning | Smedley Butler, Knowing Better
*Behind the Insurrections - When Rich Fascists Almost Took Over America, Behind the Bastards
==References==
Category:Anti-imperialism
Category:Anti-war activists
Category:Authors
Category:Military
Category:Rightists who turned left with age
Category:War
Category:Whistleblowers
Snake

*A kind of reptile in the order squamata
*Original sin, some trouble a snake started
*Serpent seed doctrine, even more trouble kicked up by the snake
*Sea serpent, these snakes really are trouble
*Snake handling, better learn to deal with those snakes
*Snake Carnivory Origin — an awful (offal?) article published by Creation Ministries International
==See also==
*Snake oil — another disambiguation page
Snake Carnivory Origin

Creation Ministries International, in the September 2009 issue of their prolefeed magazine, Creation, published an article about snakes, entitled Snake Carnivory [sic] Origin.
While in most of their articles they attempt to pretend that they are writing on scientific subjects, this one quite openly deals with a theological conundrum; viz., that since snakes were known to exist in the prelapsarian"Prelapsarian" refers to the period between the creation of the world and the Fall of Man. world, but (as everyone knows) death did not exist at that time, how could snakes possibly be carnivorous?
CMI's attempts to explain why are somewhat more amusing than most of their drivel, so we are offering this point-by-point giggle fest for the reader's edification.
==A pre-Fall purpose?==
==References==
Category:Creationism
Sniffex

The Sniffex (later SniffexPlus and HEDD1) is (at least according to its manufacturer) a bomb-detection device invented by a Bulgarian engineer. It looks suspiciously like a glorified dowsing rod. It also doesn't work as a bomb detector, though it may be somewhat effective in enriching the people who sell it to unsuspecting clients. It was tested by the US Navy (the Naval Explosive Ordnance Disposal Technology Division) in 2005 who found out that "The SNIFFEX handheld explosives detector does not work."PDF of the Navy report 
James Randi noticed the Sniffex website in August 2005 and invited the CEO of Sniffex, Inc. to submit it to the million-dollar challenge.Another Silly Dowsing Rod, the Swift newsletter, August 12, 2005
==See also==
*ADE-651
==External links==
*The Sniffex European website
*Sniffex explosive detector test & review, Anaheim, California, 26-27 April 2006 (has videos)
*Questions About Sniffex, ADE651, GT200, H3 Tec, HEDD1, AL-6D and Other Explosive Detectors, a single-issue blog
*UK government promoted useless 'bomb detectors', BBC Newsnight (contains video; mentions also ADE651), 27 January 2011
==References==
category:military
Snåsamannen

Joralf Gjerstad , also called Snåsamannen or Snåsakallen ("the man from "), was a self-declared Christian faith healer and psychic from Norway.
Snåsamannen was portrayed in the media and by himself as a humble, mild-mannered and kindhearted rural old man, and a good Christian who supposedly drew his powers from his faith.
Although virtually unknown outside the country, he enjoyed great fame and admiration nationally. Despite Norway being one of the least religious countries in the world, 1 in 2 believes this man truly had supernatural powers.VG.no: "Annenhver nordmann tror på Snåsamannen" (Norwegian) Even high ranking politicians and others who should have known better endorsed and consulted with him.VG.no: "- Snåsamannen kurerte min sønn" (Norwegian)
The 'warm hands' were his trademark as a faith healer. His methods included priming ("Can you feel the heat? Can you feel the heat?"),Tjomlid.com: "Snåsamannen sutrer over folkeopplysning" (Norwegian) cold reading and to some extent warm reading.Tjomlid.com: "Snåsamannen – en dyktig cold reader" (Norwegian) Needless to say, he declined any scientific testing, including a personal invitation from James Randi to the million-dollar challenge.Aftenposten.no: "Tilbyr Snåsamannen én million kroner" (Norwegian)
==Was he a charlatan?==
Snåsamannen did not, in fact, charge anyone for his services, and that is a big reason he is famous. He did, however, accept gifts, and they came to be expected.Ronnie Johanson, "Snåsamannen: Helbredelsene, spådommene, løgnene", 2014 Nevertheless, he was quick to denounce competing faith healers as "greedy".
Self-described as a "modest and humble man", he wrote no less than three highly commercially successful autobiographies. Unfortunately, the few books critical of his act weren't as well received by the public.
Whether he genuinely believed in his own supernatural abilities, or was a full-blown trickster and fraud, is hard to say for certain. He was caught being deceitful and lying outright in his books about the number of people he had 'healed', allegedly 50,000, and the nature of their illnesses.Tjomlid.com: "Snåsamannen - En koselig løgner" (Norwegian)
==Lapdog of the media & the media as his lapdog==
Snåsamannen's fame wouldn't have been possible without the media. There's a symbiosis between the two, even though it's ultimately detrimental to the media's goal of conveying the truth. National newspapers and TV gave him an inordinate amount of publicity while often being completely uncritical in their journalistic efforts. As a psychic he made many predictions about trivial matters in the near future, such as sports results, but because of confirmation bias and sensationalism, the failed ones rarely got reported.Tjomlid.com: "Snåsamannen spår feil igjen: 5 av 7 spådommer feil" (Norwegian)
Princess Märtha Louise has not fared as well in the media as Snåsamannen.
==See also==
*Paul the Octopus
*Peter Popoff
*Baba Vanga
==References==
Category:Alternative medicine promoters
Category:Christians
Category:Norway
Category:Psychics