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Judeo-Christian

The term Judeo-Christian can refer to the aspects of a culture (including an assumed direct connection and shared history) that reflect that culture's roots within the Christian and Jewish world. In a historical or academic context, it would refer to anything that rises from ancient Christianity or from Judaism; however, in the real world, the "Judeo" generally only refers to Judaism in so far as Christianity adopted the Old Testament "from" Judaism. "Judeo" does not refer to actual practices, beliefs, or worldviews of contemporary Jewish people, or of contemporary Judaism as a religion. 
Originally, the term was used simply to refer to Jewish converts to Christianity. It didn't come into use in its modern sense until some time during the interwar period (WWI-WWII) in the US. Growing anti-Semitic sentiment led theologically liberal Christians and Jews to promote the notion of a common "Judeo-Christian" heritage as a reaction. It wasn't until the post-war era that conservative and fundamentalist Christians would lay claim to Judeo-Christian values (but remain uninterested in the inclusion of liberal Christians, liberal Jews, and non-Republican Palestinian Christians).
Since 9/11 (2001), conservative rhetoric about the "Judeo-Christian roots" of the United States has frequently carried an unspoken subtext of expressly excluding Muslims. Dennis Prager, who was born into an Orthodox Jewish family, is an example, making sure that good old Christian values have the prefix "Judeo-" in them, while never mentioning that other Abrahamic faith with which they also share principles.
See his videos about morality on PragerU (YouTube channel).
==See also==
*God's Love
*Divine retribution
*Abrahamic religion
==External links==
*What Do We Mean By 'Judeo-Christian'? Shalom Goldman, Religion Dispatches
Category:Abrahamic religions
Category:Judaism
Category:Christianity
==References==
Judith Curry

Judith Curry is a climatologist at Georgia Tech infamous for flirting with the denier community on the basis that some of them have "good ideas" and can't get their contrarian papers published. For instance, she has posted on Anthony Watts' blog, as well as Steve McIntyre's Climate Audit. (She invited McIntyre to talk at Georgia Tech."An Open Letter from Dr. Judith Curry on Climate Science", LOLWUWT This makes her a massive enabler.) She has further embarrassed herself (and her university) by using refuted denier talking points and defending the Wegman Report, eventually admitting she hadn't even read it in the first place.Judith Curry Plants Her Flag, ScienceBlogs This and other shenanigans led Tamino of Open Mind to say, "Judith, your credibility is now below zero.""Bag of Hammers II", Open Mind Curry has agreed with Trump's description of climate change as a "hoax", writing in 2016 that the UN's definition of manmade climate change "qualifies as a hoax".https://archive.is/ikMN6 In short, she's the Richard Lindzen of the South. Or maybe the Roy Spencer of Georgia, take your pick.
==Libel suit==
Following a prolonged, public feud with Michael Mann, Curry got fed up to the point of teaming up with the Koch brothers, the Competitive Enterprise Institute, and the National Review against the aforementioned in his famed defamation suit. All in order to defeat the ebil warmist gub'mint shill.
==Some stuff she's been wrong about==
*The article The implications for climate sensitivity of AR5 forcing and heat uptake estimates was widely panned by other climatologists
*Maybe the Heartland Institute isn't so bad after all!"Why target Heartland?" (Waaah.)
*The BEST team tried to "hide the decline," because there has been "no warming since 1998." (This was widely quoted in a Daily Mail article.)Climate cynicism at the Santa Fe conference, RealClimate (The article in question)
*"We should use the satellite data. It's the best we have!" (Who else loves saying that? Oh yeah. Count Chocula.)
*(From the same Daily Mail article) "The models are broken." She later backed down about this on her blog, saying she was misquoted and "had no idea where it came from.""Pause Discussion Thread" 
*Murry Salby is right about CO2 and every other scientist is wrong.
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==See also==
*Bjorn Lomborg
*The implications for climate sensitivity of AR5 forcing and heat uptake estimates
==External links==
*A Scientific American article about her
*Her Skeptical Science Page (more on her Daily Mail brouhaha and "preference for mild Curry")
*Is Judith Curry Peddling Disinformation?, Collide-a-Scape at Discover Magazine
*Go Judy, Stoat (Can't think of any more amusing Curry jokes?)
*Greenfyre sums up all her antics in one place.
*It's Gettin' Hot in Here: The Big Battle Over Climate Science, Discover Magazine (Curry vs. Mann)
*Uncertain science: Judith Curry's take on Climate Change, NPR
==References==
Category:Climatologists
Category:Pseudoscience promoters
Category:Living people
Judy Blume

Judy Blume is an American author of fiction for children and young adults. Her works are frequently attackedMost Frequently Challenged Authors, American Library Association for their frank discussion of such taboo topics as masturbation,Then Again, Maybe I Won't premarital sex,Forever and menstruation.Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret
Blume has described how censorship was almost nonexistent at one point in her career, but the American election of 1980 and the rise of the Moral Majority changed matters:
Of course, they couldn't keep the occasional anecdote from reaching me: the mother who admitted she'd cut two pages out of Then Again, Maybe I Won't rather than allow her almost thirteen-year-old son to read about wet dreams. Or the young librarian who'd been instructed by her male principal to keep Deenie off the shelf because in the book, Deenie masturbates. "It would be different if it were about a boy," he'd told her. "That would be normal."
The stories go on and on but really, I wasn't that concerned. There was no organized effort to ban my books or any other books, none that I knew of, anyway...
 
Then, almost overnight, following the presidential election of 1980, the censors crawled out of the woodwork, organized and determined. Not only would they decide what their children could read but what all children could read. It was the beginning of the decade that wouldn't go away, that still won't go away almost twenty years later. Suddenly books were seen as dangerous to young minds. Thinking was seen as dangerous, unless those thoughts were approved by groups like the Moral Majority, who believed with certainty they knew what was best for everyone.Places I Never Meant to Be
Following her experiences with censorship, Blume has become a noted opponent of book-banning, arguing that censorship sends the message that "books are dangerous, there's something in this book we don't want you to know."Judy Blume for the Banned Books Virtual Read-Out, YouTube The censorship on those subjects also promotes the dangerous idea that there is something wrong with normal and healthy sexual impulses. Her situation is arguably another example of the Streisand effect; she has won 90 literary awards since.
==External links==
*Official website
==References==
Category:Authors
Category:Living people
Category:Sexuality
Category:Jews
Juhan af Grann

Heikki Juhani Grann ,Juhan af Grann on kuollut. better known by his pseudonym Juhan af Grann, was a Finnish film director, scriptwriter and producer. His best-known work are "documentaries" about ufology and related conspiracy theories. In Finland, he was one of the best known popularizers of the ufology scene.Juhan Af Grann Tässä Hei! interactive.sanoma.fi. Besides his documentaries, what attracted attention was his flamboyant character and dress, mixed with unashamed self-promotion, claims about telepathic connections to aliens, claims of persecution, and doomsday predictions. The surname style "af Grann" instead of "Grann" implies noble ancestry - no such noble family has been introduced to Finland.Finlands Riddarhus Archived from riddarhuset.fi, 17 February 2012. Indeed, it is a pseudonym and he hasn't officially adopted it.
Born in Joroinen, Finland, he worked as a journalist for the TV channel MTV3 until he was fired due to his confrontational nature and disagreements about content. Subsequently, he founded his own TV production company. In 1992-2002, he published four "documentaries" about ufology: Visitors from Space (1992),Visitors From Space on YouTube UFOs & Paranormal Phenomena (1995), The New Apocalypse — Mankind's Last Exodus (1998) and Intruders (2002). Most of these present and recycle the common American or international ufological conspiracy theories. Obviously, he also received criticism, which he took very poorly, blaming the media of persecution.
According to Grann, aliens can possess a human, who then gains abilities like telepathy, clairvoyance and prophecy.Juhan af Grann: ET voi ottaa persoonasi. Archived from tudio55.fi, 16 January 2017. He claims to embody a mystical entity called "The J.A.G.", which makes him a messiah as a spokesman for this entity. As such, he has supposedly predicted many disasters and events in advance. Another claim of his is that aliens visit the Earth every day, and have placed "alien hybrids" to implement their conspiracies. He also was visited in Kuopio by gray aliens from "Reticum-4" (is this a misspelling of Zeta Reticuli or rectum? The latter might explain where these ideas come from) when he was four, and has been in contact with them in near Jaffa in Israel, if we were to believe him. He claims the gray aliens abduct human fetuses.Vielä sarastaa Uusi Maiailma! asiakas.kotisivukone.com. He predicted that in the future, an Orwellian tyranny will be imposed on Earth, in which microchips will be implanted to humans for monitoring.
However, basically only 1990s kids remember him now. He left Finland in early 2000s,Muistatko ufo-dokumenteilla kohauttaneen Juha af Grannin? 72-vuotias tekee paluuta - "olen tainnut olla monissa asioissa oikeassa". iltalehti.fi, 2017. but returned, resided in Espoo in Ufomies hätkähdytti Espoossa! Juhan af Grann lastasi Alkon ostoskoriin kosmista viiniä – kuvat!, Seiska, 24 March 2020
==External links==
*Juhan af Grann at IMDb
*Archived version of af Grann's homepage
==References==
Category:Finland
Category:Film-makers
Category:Ufology
Juicing

Juicing is the process of extracting juice from fruit and vegetables. Juicing machines for personal use are called juicers and range in price from a few dollars to over a thousand, and drinking juice from these things is supposed to cleanse the body of non-specific toxins. The real purpose of these frequently expensive devices, though, is to empty the buyer's wallet, as drinking juice from a juicer is no healthier than eating the whole foodJuicing: What are the health benefits?, Mayo Clinic. or (by extension) drinking a smoothie made with an ordinary blender. (Those who really want or need pure liquids can just buy any inexpensive juicer or filter blender-made smoothies with a strainer.)
Advertisers make some amusing claims, such as "this juicer is more efficient than any other juicer on the market"; of course, eating the actual food is 100% efficient, and using a blender is nearly so (depending how thoroughly you scrape out the blender into your glass). They also frequently highlight the fact that you can add sweet fruits to vegetable cocktails to make them tastier. What they don't tell you is that doing this has a side effect: Since juicers put all the solid parts into one bin, when the juice is done you're left with stringy, unpalatable, orange-broccoli-apple-spinach-grapefruit-tomato-carrot leftovers, which you'll probably throw out. So much for efficiency.
Juicing removes most of the fiber from the product, so it'd be healthier to just make a smoothie.
==External Links==
*Cherie Calbom, a/k/a "The Juice Lady", claims to be "America's most trusted nutritionalist", who allegedly shit-out "a tumor the size of golf ball" after consuming nothing but juice for five days.
==References==
Category:Food woo
Julia Assante

Julia Assante is an American crank author, medium and spiritualist.
Assante claims to have been a medium and psychic from 1977. She charges large amounts of money for her mediumship services and has lectured on woo topics such as remote viewing and energy healing.Julia, The Intuitive Assante however was not originally a spiritualist crank, she received a doctorate in Archaeology and Art History of the Ancient Near East from Columbia University.Julia, The Scholar 
Assante is the author of the book The Last Frontier: Exploring the Afterlife and Transforming Our Fear of Death (2012). The book is well known for its endorsement of quantum woo and fraudulent mediums which she claims have scientifically proven the afterlife. Assante has written that Helen Duncan and her ectoplasm "spirits" were genuine. This seriously undermines her credibility as Duncan was exposed throughout her career as a fraud. The ectoplasm of Duncan was made from a painted papier-mâché mask draped in an old sheet and in other cases from cheesecloth. 
According to Assante the Irish medium Eileen Garrett channeled information from deceased persons from the R101 airship that crashed, however, the alleged R101 séances have been refuted by skeptics. She also claims reincarnation has been scientifically proven. Assante does not refer to any skeptical material in her book and ignores any evidence of fraud. 
Assante is involved with past life therapy which she believes can cure many ills.
The scientific community have rejected the credulous paranormal claims of Assante. She is well known as a pseudoscience promoter and her only supporters are other crank spiritualists such as Michael Prescott and Michael E. Tymn.“The Last Frontier”: An Interview with author Julia Assante, Ph.D. by Michael E. Tymn
==External links==
*Julia Assante
==References== 
Category:Paranormal
Category:Pseudoscience promoters
Category:Psychics
Category:Living people
Julia Galef

Julia Galef is a podcaster and journalist.
Galef hosts the official podcast of the New York City Skeptics, the Rationally Speaking podcast. For the first five years it was co-hosted with philosopher Massimo Pigliucci and sat between the skeptic, atheist, and LessWrong 'rationalist' communities. In February 2015 (episode 114) Pigliucci stepped down to pursue other projects and more and more guests and questions started to come from LessWrong circles.
She presented herself as inquisitive and broad-minded but rarely asked hard questions when young wealthy educated guests suggested radical new policies, usually giving the impression that she was undecided between the different perspectives she was hearing. She also blogs for the Rationally Speaking Blog,Rationally Speaking Collaborators, Rationally speaking blog. Retrieved 5-10-2012 and was a founding board member of LessWrong spinoff the Center for Applied Rationality (CFAR) in Berkeley,CFAR Collaborators, Center for Applied Rationality. Retrieved 10-5-2012 which originally marketed itself as an exercise in applied skepticism, but pivoted in 2016 to admit it was all about AI Risk in the LessWrong sense.http://lesswrong.com/lw/o7o/cfars_new_focus_and_ai_safety/ She left the board after 2016, the year of the pivot, and as of 2025 is listed under "staff alumni."https://rationality.org/about/staff In 2021 she published a book arguing for approaching problems with curiosity not a predetermined conclusion, and the podcast went on hiatus. Since then she has been less visible in public.
== Popular talks ==
* The Straw Vulcan, Skepticon 4, 2011.
* Why you think you're right — even if you're wrong (contrasting "soldier" and "scout" thinking), TEDxPSU Feb 2016.
==Bibliography==
*The Scout Mindset Galef, Julia (Penguin, 2021) ISBN 9780735217553
==References==
Category:Bloggers
Category:Journalists
Category:Podcasts
Category:Skeptics
Category:Living people
Julian Whitaker

Julian Whitaker is an American alternative medicine practitioner, anti-vaxxerSteve Novella vs. Julian Whitaker on vaccines at FreedomFest, cholesterol denialist and vitamin woo promoter who operated the "Whitaker Wellness Institute" in California. He holds an MD from Emory and was a board certified physician in the field of integrative and preventative medicine.
In 2019, Whitaker retired and the Whitaker Wellness Institute was closed.https://whitakerwellness.com/ He has promoted the ketogenic diet.https://www.faim.org/should-you-try-a-ketogenic-diet
==Woo==
Whitaker promotes chelation therapy, is part of an anti-vaccination movement, and practices "anti-aging medicine". Note that "anti-aging medicine" is a specialty not recognized by the American Board of Medical Specialties. Whitaker recommends using human growth hormone to slow down aging. He is also a mental illness denier, putting him in the same league as Scientology. Apparently, vitamins can cure mental illness. Whitaker is a huge promoter of vitamins curing everything. He also believes he can cure asthma in 4 days, as well as thinking he can make you almost immune to cancer. His newsletter, which is full of tripe, such as claiming he can cure arthritis in three days, is on Quackwatch's list of non-recommended publications.Quackwatch — list of nonrecommended periodicals
The National Council Against Health Fraud have received complaints from Whitaker's former patients.Julian Whitaker, M.D.. National Council Against Health Fraud.
==Cholesterol denialism==
Whitaker is a cholesterol and statin denialist. He believes that high blood cholesterol levels do not increase the risk of cardiovascular disease and statins are "ineffective, expensive, side effect–riddled fraud". He is grossly misinformed and not up to date with recent medical research demonstrating the opposite of what he claims.The Cholesterol Controversy. Science-Based Medicine. Unsurprisingly, his solution to treat various cardiovascular disorders is a dubious nutritional supplement regimen.
==Eggs==
Whitaker has written that "Don’t worry about eggs raising your risk of heart disease. Contrary to popular perception, eating an egg a day does not increase risk".https://whitakerwellness.com/degenerative-eye-disease/ However, there is no "popular perception" that a single egg per day will increase heart disease risk. The American Heart Association have concluded that "Healthy individuals can include up to a whole egg or equivalent daily".https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CIR.0000000000000743
==External links==
*His website
*Yet another one of his websites
*Julian Whitaker -- Encyclopedia of American Loons
==References==
Category:Alternative medicine promoters
Category:Anti-vaccination movement
Category:Cholesterol and statin denialists
Category:Living people
Category:Low-carb fanatics
Category:Pseudoscience promoters
Julie Beischel

Julie Beischel is an author, spiritualist, and co-founder of the Windbridge Institute. 
==Biography==
Beischel is the co-founder of the Windbridge Institute for Applied Research in Human Potential, a psychic woo organization that claims that things such as levitation, psychokinesis to mediumship are scientifically genuine. Beischel obtained a Ph.D. in Pharmacology and Toxicology with a minor in Microbiology and Immunology (2003) from the University of Arizona.Julie Beischel, PhD Windbridge Institute.
Beischel published the pseudoscientific book Among Mediums: A Scientist's Quest for Answers (2013) which claimed that mediums such as Leonora Piper communicated with the dead. The book ignored any evidence of fraud in the mediums that she wrote about. She has also supported the controversial experiments of Gary Schwartz, which have been rejected by the scientific community.Interview with Afterlife Researcher Julie Beischel
Beischel has published many pseudoscience articles in parapsychology journals claiming that mediums can contact the dead.Talking to the Dead by Julie Beischel Her claims have been rejected by the scientific community and her only supporters are other spiritualists such as Alex Tsakiris and Robert McLuhan.Dr. Julie Beischel’s Research Asks — Does a Reading From a Psychic Medium Help Relieve Grief?
==Publications==
*Among Mediums: A Scientist's Quest for Answers (2013)
*Meaningful Messages: Making the Most of Your Mediumship Reading (2013)
==External links==
*A skeptical look at the mediumship claims of Julie Beischel
*Julie's blog
==References== 
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Category:Authors
Category:Paranormal
Category:Pseudoscience promoters
Category:Psychics
Junichiro Koizumi

Junichiro Koizumi (小泉 純一郎) is Japan's former prime minister (26 April 2001 – 26 September 2006), a right-wing populisthttps://www.duo.uio.no/bitstream/handle/10852/24218/Lindgren.pdf?sequence=2 and a Japanese nationalist. He is considered to have been the politician who has turned elitist Japanese politics into populist and nationalist tendencies.
Economically, he was a politician with a very strong neo-liberal inclination within the Liberal Democratic Party.
Diplomatically, Koizumi maintained a very pro-U.S. and neoconservative line similar to Tony Blair. He actively supported George Bush's War on Terror. He was also active in sending the Self-Defense Forces to Iraq and other foreign countries. This sparked the complaint that under his leadership, Japan violated Article 9 of its Constitution (a Constitution America help write), which states that Japan cannot use armed forces except in self-defense of its own soil. (To be fair, this provision is controversial in Japan itself, and other Second World War Axis-aligned belligerents, such as Germany and Italy, do not have this provision since they were allowed more freedom to write their own Constitutions.)
Koizumi is regarded as a politician who fundamentally changed the LDP. The LDP was a very elitist party, but its right-wing populist nature grew after Koizumi altered the views of the party. He turned the party's inclination toward nationalistic populism, which in turn resulted in a far-right nationalist politician Shinzō Abe and Yoshihide Suga becoming prime minister, who created the current political situation in Japan that dominated the LDP.
==References==
Category:Culture wars
Category:Japanese politics
Category:Living people
Category:Nationalism in Japan
Category:Neoconservatives
Category:Nippon Kaigi
Category:Right-wing activists
Junk science

"Junk science" can mean different things to different people.
*To scientists, science journalists, and people who support science, "junk science" means either pseudoscience or very badly conducted science (conclusions based on no experimental controls or no peer review).
*To pseudoscientists and pseudoscience promoters (read: idiots and/or charlatans), "junk science" means science that disagrees with one's presuppositions, often based on a profit motive.
**Steven Milloy is a major proponent of this latter meaning of "junk science", taking money from libertarian think tanks Cato Institute and Competitive Enterprise Institute to promote unscientific ideas or to deny scientific ideas for the tobacco and fossil fuel companies.