Armoured Skeptic

Gregory Fluhrer ,Based on one of his tweets, he turned 32 in 2016 and was therefore born in 1984. According to other tweets his birthday is on August 11., Armoured Media better known as Armoured SkepticNote the "U"; he hails from Ontario, Canada. (also Sir Skeptalot or AJ),Not his real name; apparently a reference to his dog. is an atheist YouTuber who considers himself a critic of religion, conspiracy theories, feminism / "SJWs" and ideological posturing in general. Many "skeptics" like the first two; somewhat fewer like the last two. His channel has supported an increasing amount of anti-SJW content.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1viRMmJU6gs&list=PLtceUZJedz1n0hp5ow3HbybJu7DHKmcQy At different points in his YouTube career, he considered himself a centrist, a liberal, and a leftist.
As of January 2019, Fluhrer's main YouTube channel had over 492 thousand subscribers and 46 million views., YouTube According to Patreon, he makes over $600 per video., Patreon
==Life==
As a child, Fluhrer was a member of a Messianic Jewish cult. Fluhrer describes the members as very nice people but highly deluded. After watching videos from thunderf00t, TheAmazingAtheist, and CultOfDusty, he questioned his beliefs and became an atheist.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oKfWapjNCA&feature=youtu.be&t=24s
http://armouredmedia.com/blog/identity-and-gender-politics-every-community
The first atheist group that Fluhrer joined was an "Atheism+" group which promoted societal equality. For questioning their ideas, said group doxxed him and told his boss that he was a rapist, which nearly got him fired. Exact words: "I personally was called a rape apologist because I denied there was a rape culture and I was called a rapist because I denied that consensual drunk sex was in any way a form of rape." As a result, he considered Atheism+ almost a cult and created the Armoured Skeptic channel to combat Atheism+, but he says that he has ultimately gone towards a more generally anti-bullshit channel.
==Views==
===Antifeminism===
Fluhrer claims not to mind feminism but thinks it needs "evidence" to support its claims.
*Fluhrer believes that Anita Sarkeesian is a "mouthpiece" for "extreme left nonsense" and that Christina Hoff Sommers is a second-wave feminist trying to "reconcile third wave feminists with reality."http://ask.fm/ArmouredSkeptic/answers/127979641691
*Fluhrer doesn't believe the gender wage gap exists as a result of discrimination and thus isn't worth addressing:Comment on "Is the Gender Pay Gap Real?" by vlogbrothers
*His reply video to one of Steve Shives' (where Shives argues that "Atheism and feminism are complementary to one another") is titled "Feminism is My God Now" and argues, in part, that "the only people I hear en masse perpetuating the concept that women are not equal to men are third wave feminists".https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLMdXzy9gxA PZ Myers heavily criticized this video,http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2015/12/15/oh-crap-another-youtube-misogynist to which Fluhrer released a response arguing against Myers' criticism.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yU-RT6kJpZI In his response, Fluhrer states that Myers didn't properly criticize his work, which is justifiable as Myers neglected to address and debunk Fluhrer's points properly in his criticism. In a tweet, he claimed that Myers "[called] me misogynist and anti-feminist for disagreeing with a feminist".https://twitter.com/ArmouredSkeptic/status/677082053469425665 Myers' accusation of antifeminism, at least, is also justifiable as Fluhrer used the same arguments as many anti-feminists: a prime example being his claim that the gender pay gap should be questioned.
===Anti-religion===
Fluhrer's main body of work consists of rebuttals to creationist Christian arguments videos by his character (a guy in a modern suit and a knight helmet).
Notable videos:
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* (Discusses the cosmological argument.)
* and 
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* (On the burden of proof of atheism.)
* (On the burden of proof of atheism.)
===Atheism+===
Fluhrer believes skeptics fail to apply skepticism towards feminism. Fluhrer heavily opposes "identity politics" in atheism, which here largely means feminism.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0E1MVwN0Fs For example, he writes:
===Anti-bullshit===
Before Fluhrer went fully off the deep end, he did create some generally anti-bullshit videos:
* (On evolutionism and evolution and morality.)
* and follow-ups , , 
* (Maybe the moon is artificial, as Spirit Science says.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaDeiBRifm8 Or not.)
===Pseudohistory===
In 2019, amidst his typical schtick, Fluhrer uploaded a video called "History is a Lie?" where he claims that a global flood was covered up and history before about 200 years ago is distorted.History is a Lie? Armoured Skeptic on YouTube, 11 June 2019. He continued this into a series, referring to it briefly as "The Armoured Conspiracy Files" and later "Tinfoil Helmet". He finally settled on calling this series "History is a Lie", and has since released dozens of entries.
These initial videos are almost entirely unsourced and cover a wide range of topics, including but not limited to conehead skulls,Alien Skulls are Real? Armoured Skeptic on YouTube, 26 November 2019. Nikola Tesla, Tartaria, free energy,Free Energy is Real? Armoured Skeptic on YouTube, 1 September 2019. geopolymers, the Giza pyramids, Rapa Nui, and, of course, Atlantis.History is a Lie - Atlantis Armoured Skeptic on YouTube, 20 July 2020. Fluhrer synthesizes all this into his pseudohistorical theory: in ancient history, humans were ruled by a race of cone-headed albino giants, the Denisovans. Atlantis was a global society of these giants, and they utilized the advanced technology found in architecture around the world. All this was either forgotten or covered up after a global mud flood in the early 1800s. Since then, Fluhrer has continued to release videos about topics such as the moon landing, crop circles, and Hollywood conspiracies.
==General problems==
Fluhrer does not post any sources on his videos, which would be useful for proving that he's right or wrong on scientific issues. While he sometimes highlights sections of web pages or videos that he thinks help prove this point, this is vastly less useful than the relevant links. In this way, he often relies on snark and assertion to make his points.
Fluhrer has been criticised for his overinflated ego and tendency to act as if he is an expert on topics of which he is demonstrably ignorant. A notable example is Fluhrer's video about free speech in Canada.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVVDQnkqh8M He made numerous factual errors, making it evident that he was either deliberately lying or had done barely any research. A pair of videos by YouTuber Logicked highlighted the factual inaccuracieshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd95T66YjSQ&t=7m39shttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd95T66YjSQ&t=14m20shttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd95T66YjSQ&t=17m20shttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd95T66YjSQ&t=48m44shttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfL5pTVlbIo&t=2m30shttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfL5pTVlbIo&t=42m20shttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfL5pTVlbIo&t=3m20s in Fluhrer's video. Possibly his most egregious error was when he said, " is a Bill that prohibits people from misgendering or using the wrong pronouns when addressing people who identify as trans." The Bill said nothing about misgendering but was instead about adding gender identity to the list of prohibited grounds of discrimination in the Canadian Human Rights Act.http://www.ourcommons.ca/Content/Bills/421/Government/C-16/C-16_1/C-16_1.PDF In essence, it makes it illegal to deny services, employment, or accommodation to individuals based on their gender identity.
==RationalWiki==
Fluhrer is pissed at RationalWiki and questioned its name.https://m.ask.fm/ArmouredSkeptic/answers/129874504795https://m.ask.fm/ArmouredSkeptic/answers/129872209243https://m.ask.fm/ArmouredSkeptic/answers/129874504795https://m.ask.fm/ArmouredSkeptic/answers/133671909211 (At the time, RationalWiki's entry on him described him as a Gamergater and conspiracist.http://rationalwiki.org/w/index.php?title=RationalWiki:Vlogroll&oldid=1508254#Controversial_secularists)
Fluhrer responded to Steve Shives's claim that he (Fluhrer) had cultivated a following "by making content that panders to racists, rape apologists, and misogynists", which Shives backed up with a link to this page. Fluhrer correctly noted that this page doesn't include the words "race, white, black, [or] supremacist" and didn't support any of these claims. He says:, YouTube
==See also==
*Shoe0nHead — fellow YouTube antifeminist & atheist. They were previously engagedhttps://twitter.com/ArmouredSkeptic/status/947646412443082753 and have collaborated often in the past.
*Sargon of Akkad — once a close friend
*Chris Ray Gun
*TheAmazingAtheist
*Thunderf00t
==External links==
*Website Deactivated
:*ArmouredSkeptic Channel and ArmouredMedia Channel at YouTube
:*Account at Twitter Deactivated
:*Account at Facebook Deactivated
:*Account at Google+ Deactivated
:*Ask.fm Deactivated
*Armoured Media Wikia
*WikiTubia page
*Guest: Armoured Skeptic UNMASKED!, Drunken Peasants
:*Drunken Peasants Wiki page
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