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David Yeagley

David A. Yeagley was a right-wing Comanche pundit, composer, and supporter of terrorism. He is known largely for supporting what essentially amounts to white nationalism.
==Views==
Yeagley had some rather dodgy views about race. "I recognize in America the White Anglo-Saxon Protestant as the foundation of the country and the society", he said in an interview. "Yes, there are a number of other significant European peoples (nationalities) which had major roles in the building and shaping of modern America; [but] they must never be thought of as equal to that foundation, or as important."http://communities.washingtontimes.com/neighborhood/conscience-realist/2012/jun/30/thoughts-of-a-conservative-comanche/
He was concerned about Islam, particularly amongst Arabs, and held that all Arab Muslims should be deported from America.http://www.badeagle.com/2010/06/01/the-arab-in-context/ He endorsed media portrayals of Native Americans as savage warriors, arguing that Indians should be savages to fight off the combined threats of Islam and socialism.http://www.bluecorncomics.com/stype1c2.htm
==Support for Anders Breivik==
Yeagley professed to feel a "profound admiration" for Anders Breivik: "There was a day when such men were called knights", he said. "They drove the Muslims and their infernal religion out of Europe. Because of men like Vlad Tepes (Dracula), Europe remained Christian, and white."http://www.badeagle.com/2011/07/27/anders-behring-breivik-a-modern-hero/ He goes on:
==External links==
* Loonwatch article highlighting some of his more extreme comments
==References==
Category:Racists
David de Hilster

David de Hilster is a physics crank and a notorious Internet proponent of autodynamics.
He founded NeWiki ("An Encyclopedia For a New World") in 2007 after his original research had repeatedly been removed from Wikipedia. The wiki only has a couple of hundred pages, quickly assembled and then left as a ghost wiki until it finally disappeared in 2016. The wiki was not open to outside editors and listed two other committee members: Matthew Stroul and Travis Brainbridge. Apparently, he establishes and then abandons ghost sites quite a bit.NeWiki.org (Monday, April 23, 2007) the observers hunch
==Qualifications==
He has a bachelor's degree in mathematics with a minor in architecture and a master's in computational linguistics.About David de Hilster Note the absence of physics qualifications. He also makes films.
==Expanding Earth==
Not content with just one crackpot theory, de Hilster has also gone on to advocate the perhaps even-more-ridiculous expanding earth hypothesis: "200 million years ago, the earth's continents were all together on a much smaller orb and since then, the earth has been growing significantly."David de Hilster, The Growing Earth, Google document.
==External links==
*David de Hilster Archive.org (January 23, 2009) of his own entry on NeWiki
==References==
Category:Pseudophysics promoters
Category:Living people
Category:Silly "Earth" theories
Day of Tears

The Day of Tears is advocated by anti-abortion activists as a day when flags across the United States should be lowered to half-staff and the nation should pause to mourn the 58 million unborn fetuses who have been legally aborted because of the 22 January 1973 Roe v. Wade decision.https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HR268 It is controversial because lowering flags to half-staff is usually reserved for honoring military dead (including commanders in chief),http://www.richmond.com/news/virginia/virginia-house-approves-day-of-tears-resolution-to-encourage-half/article_8fbfe938-86d9-5d33-9816-616c601c7e75.html and the event demonizes people that have made their decision to abort (usually from difficult circumstances), equating them to murderers.
==References==
Category:Abortion
Daylight Origins Society

The Daylight Origins Society is a British Catholic Young Earth Creationist Organization.
The organization's stated purpose is to inform Catholics and others of the "scientific evidence" supporting recent creation as well as highlight teachings from Church fathers, Popes, doctors, saints and Church councils down the ages. The society believes that the true discoveries of science are in conformity with Catholic doctrines; in other words, they reject science they don't like.
Daylight Origins draws support primarily from conservative and reactionary Catholics. 
The Daylight Origins Society was founded in 1977 by John G. Campbell as the Counter Evolution Group. Campbell launched a newsletter called Daylight, which ceased publication in the early 1980s, but the pseudojournal was relaunched in 1991.http://www.daylightorigins.com/origins-science-magazine-archive/daylight-magazine-2000s-edition/
Members of the society occasionally work closely with the Kolbe Center for the Study of Creation, http://www.daylightorigins.com/kolbe-center-marriage-seminar/ an American Catholic ministry defending Church doctrines and science denial.http://kolbecenter.org/
==References==
Category:Creationism
Category:Catholicism
Dean Radin

Dean Radin is a parapsychologist and pseudoscience promoter.
He is a member of the Institute for Noetic Sciences and former president of the Parapsychological Association. In addition to his books, he has become popularly associated with the Global Consciousness Project. 
He is also one of the chief editors of Explore: The Journal of Science and Healing, a pseudojournal run by Elsevier.http://www.explorejournal.com/content/edboard
==Pseudoscience== 
Radin published the book The Conscious Universe: The Scientific Truth of Psychic Phenomena (1997). The book contained many errors. The British mathematician I. J. Good in the scientific journal Nature gave the book a negative review. Good discovered flaws in Radin's method for evaluating the file-drawer effect.I. J. Good. (1997). "Where has the billion trillion gone?". Nature 389 (2): 806–807 can be found free online here According to Victor Stenger:
 
Radin has written the results from psi research are as consistent by the same standards as any other scientific discipline but according to Ray Hyman many parapsychologists such as Dick Bierman, Walter Lucadou, J.E. Kennedy, and Robert Jahn, openly admit the evidence for psi is "inconsistent, irreproducible, and fails to meet acceptable scientific standards".Ray Hyman. (2008). Anomalous Cognition? A Second Perspective. Skeptical Inquirer. Volume 32. Radin has written that fraudulent mediums were genuine and ignores skeptical literature on the subject. He mentioned the Fox sisters in his publications but did not mention that they publicly confessed their spirit communications were fraudulent.Chris French. Missing the Point? in Stanley Krippner, Harris L. Friedman. (2010). Debating Psychic Experience: Human Potential Or Human Illusion?. Praeger. pp. 149-150 Radin's woo book Supernormal: Science, Yoga, and the Evidence for Extraordinary Psychic Abilities (2013) was published by Deepak Chopra.
==Publications==
*Supernormal: Science, Yoga, and the Evidence for Extraordinary Psychic Abilities (2013)
*Entangled Minds: Extrasensory Experiences in a Quantum Reality (2006)
*Captain of My Ship, Master of My Soul: Living With Guidance (2001), with F. Holmes Atwater, Joseph McMoneagle, Skip Atwater
*The Conscious Universe: The Scientific Truth of Psychic Phenomena (1997, HarperCollins, ISBN 0061778990). Note: in Great Britain this book is entitled The Noetic Universe.
==External links==
*Dean Radin homepage
*Robert Todd Carrol on Radin:
**Articles: What if Dean Radin is Right?
**Reviews: The Conscious Universe, Entangled Minds
==References==
Category:Living people
Category:Parapsychology
Category:Pseudoscience promoters
Category:Psychologists
Death clock

A death clock is, as the name suggests, an estimate of the time left until one dies. Numerous "death clock" websites can be found onlineJust Google "death clock." which require one to fill out a bunch of lifestyle information, such as the average number of cigarettes smoked, the number of intoxicants ingested, and the amount of alcohol taken in a specific time period, as well as family health history, the age of one's parents' death, and other such things. Perhaps the most popular death clock website — the creatively and memorably named "deathclock.com" — claims to be "The Internet's friendly reminder that life is slipping away…"http://www.deathclock.com/
==Popular culture==
*A death clock was parodied in an episode of the animated comedy Futurama, in which Professor Farnsworth invented a clock which displayed the date of one's death simply by the user pushing a button on the device.
*In an episode of the British sitcom the IT Crowd, the character Roy unknowingly partakes in an online death clock test, which specifies a date and a specific time (3 p.m.) for his death.
*The 2019 horror movie features a demonic death clock app that hastens its users' deaths if they attempt to avoid their deaths. Of course, practically everyone in the movie breaks the user agreement, so the entire plot revolves around trying to beat the Countdown app.
==See also==
*Doomsday Clock
==References==
Category:Pseudoscience
Category:Woo
Debby Bruck

Debby "Duck" Bruck was a homeopath, shill and contributor to sites within the walled garden used by homeopaths to reinforce their shared delusion that their practices have some degree of scientific validity. 
The easiest place to find her was on Twitter where @DebbyBruck continues to spam links to a variety of quack websites via automated services. Prior to her death in 2018,Debra Sue Bruck, Cary, North Carolina, 1952 - 2018, legacy.com. her tweets were usually to her own "homeopathy world community" ("creating waves of awareness" no less),Homeopathy World Community a site where the infidel horde often can't even view the content let alone register or post. This is the site that came up with the idea of trying to stop the UK's Advertising Standards Authority from addressing the false claims of homeopaths by dredging up some Pakistani and Indian users and playing the race card.Complaints About Homeopaths To The UK Advertising Standards Authority, Homeopathy World Community (archived) Maybe that's where Error Denton got the idea.
Examples of her output may be seen at sites where quacks, frauds and charlatans typically go to promote views they can't get into Wikipedia, such as hubpages.com.Debby Bruck at HubPages. She also "presented" on the inaccurately-titled podcast site Blog Talk Radio.Homeopathy World Community, Blog Talk Radio. Retrieved October 27th, 2021. 
She was also an anti-vaccination crank.Do Scientific Facts Determine Societal Action Regarding Vaccines? Debby Bruck. December 24, 2012. Archived from the original.
==External links==
*Her Twitter
==References==
Category:Anti-vaccination movement
Category:Pseudoscience promoters
Category:Spammers
Debunkatron

Debunkatron.com is a website that has debunked or provided debunk-ready resources for an absurdly large number of topics, including:
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In addition, the site provides hefty lists of skeptic tools & communities:
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Sister sites include:
*Wackos.Gallery, an alphabetic list of the biggest nutters out there.
*Placebo Mart, a selection of the strongest non-active ingredients
==See also==
*Talk.Origins
*Nodes of Science
==External links==
*Debunkatron
==References==
Deconstruction

Deconstruction (AKA Deconstructionism) is an approach to literary theory that evolved out of a critique of Western metaphysics by postmodern philosopher Jacques Derrida.
As an approach to interpreting texts it begins by attempting to establish a case that the text is trading on some kind of unstated binary opposition—for instance, male and female—and then show how, rather than being clear cut opposites, each concept is in fact very much wrapped up in the other. Once the binary opposition has been shown to be less strict than assumed, it is used to show how a text contradicts itself, attempting to terminate in a place of much more ambiguity than other methods of interpretation.
Deconstruction was enormously controversial in the 1980s, due largely to a combination of its adherents making extremely provocative claims and its critics having trouble understanding the deliberately obscure bullshit often very difficult writings of Derrida and his followers. The Derrida-craze in both French and English literary scholarship has largely subsided which has allowed for more level headed treatments of his work to emerge.Like this one.Or this one.
Criticism of deconstruction usually centers on a couple of key aspects. First is the allegedly excessive difficulty of the writings of major deconstructionists. Second is the argument that reducing texts to conflicted ambiguities is nihilistic, or amounts to a claim that communication is impossible. The second would largely be denied by deconstructionists, and has been vociferously denied at several points by Derrida, who was in fact extremely politically active, and a ferociously savage critic of those who he felt misunderstood his writings.
Having largely peaked as a school of thought in the 1980s, the term has largely become a generic term referring to any work that actively displays and dismantles its components. For example, deconstructionist food refers to things like "salads" that consist of the various ingredients of the salad, and assemble them in a different manner than a salad, or - by those who take the whole concept a little too literally - laid out separately and individually on a plate. Such things have little to nothing to do with anything Derrida has ever said or written.
==Notes==
==References==
Category:Literature
Category:Philosophy
Category:Postmodernism
Deep time

Deep time is the idea, held to be credible by natural researchers since the early 19th century, that the Earth is millions or billions of years old, rather than the few thousand that young Earth creationism claims. 
==History==
The concept was first formally proposed by James Hutton, a Scottish geologist, in 1788. Hutton and his various contemporaries challenged the then-standard concept of a 6,000 year old Earth by studying the geological strata and stating he could find no rational "beginning of time", if layers were consistently formed, a basis of Lyell's Uniformitarianism. The continuing process whereby rocks are eroded and new sedimentary rocks form out of the remains of older eroded rocks was previously known. Hutton, however, observed further this process takes so long that the Earth must be much older than a few thousand years. Although he was an absolutely terrible writer, his friends translated his observations into something at least somewhat readable so it could reach a broader audience.James Hutton: The Founder of Modern Geology
==Evidence==
Evidence for deep time includes:
* Geological strata
* Geological formations, like canyons cut by rivers, and the Triassic Cliffs cut by the sea.
* Fossil records, though there is large dependence on the geological strata, for fossils to "prove" an age of the Earth.
* Radiometric dating systems, which use the constant rate of radioactive decay of unstable nuclides in the Earth's crust to place the age of the Earth at 4.5 billion years.
* Dating of the Sun and Moon
* Dating of the formation of our Solar system
* Evidence for the age of the Universe
==Other uses==
In cosmology, "deep time" can mean forecasts about the ultimate fate of the universe. Such forecasts often look trillions of years into the future,And sometimes still away many many times the universe's current age.
==See also==
*Age of the Earth
*Branches of science you have to ignore to believe in Young Earth Creationism
*Lower limit on the age of the universe
*Radioactive decay
*Science
*Scientific method
*The incontrovertible evidence for common descent
*James Ussher — who first claimed to have calculated the age of the Earth based on the Bible, and is the source of young Earth creationism
*101 evidences for a young age of the earth and the universe — a "side by side" rebuttal.
==External links==
*Deep Time: A History of the Earth -Interactive Infographic
*Deep Time Walk: A History of the living Earth
*Working Group: The Archives of Deep-Time Sciences
==References==
Category:Science
Definitional fallacies

Definitional fallacies are logical fallacies that occur when some definition fails to properly explain some term.
Definitional fallacies are fallacies of ambiguity and informal fallacies.
==Circularity==
If a term is defined by itself, the definition carries no new information.
==Too broad==
The fallacy of "too broad", or "discarded differentia", occurs if when defining a term, instances are included that aren't usually called by that term.
For example:
:A fish is an aquatic vertebrate.
This definition would include animals like whales and turtles, which are not fish, so the definition needs to be refined:
:A fish is a cold-blooded aquatic vertebrate with two sets of paired fins that is covered with scales.
This definition now excludes those animals that wouldn't be considered fish.
==Too Narrow==
The fallacy of "too narrow" occurs if when defining a term, instances aren't included that are usually called by that term.
For example:
:A rectangle is an object with four perpendicular sides of equal length.
This would exclude all rectangles that aren't square. Instead, rectangle must be defined as:
:A rectangle is an object with four sides, each one perpendicular to its adjoining sides.
==Ambiguity==
A term is ambiguous if it's unclear what it means.
==External Links==
*Too Broad, Stephen Downes
*Too Narrow, Stephen's Guide
Category:Fallacies of ambiguity
Category:Informal fallacies
Del Mar skull

The Del Mar skull is a human skull found in 1929 at a sea cliff near San Dieguito River in Southern California, USA. It is often cited by American Indian creationists.
==History==
The skull was found in 1929 on a sea cliff by archaeologist Malcolm T. Rogers. It was not examined until 1974 when Jeffrey R. Bada, a chemist of Scripps Institution of Oceanography, used a new dating system to date the skull by using an amino acid technique and pronounced the Del Mar skull to be 48,000 years old.J. L. Bada, R. A. Schroeder, and G. F. Carter, New Evidence for the Antiquity of Man in North America Deduced from Aspartic Acid Racemization, Science, Vol. 184, p. 791-793 (1974).Jeffrey L. Bada and Patricia Masters Helfman World Archaeology Vol. 7, No. 2, Dating: New Methods and New Results (Oct., 1975), pp. 160-173 The skull made a brief appearance on a fourth season episode of the television program In Search of... entitled "Earth Visitors". Quoting the results of the Bada dating test, the program offered the skull as evidence that the Americas had been explored by ancient civilizations well before the arrival of Native Americans.
Bada's dating methods for the skull were controversial and have been rejected by many scientists. A subsequent study carried out by James L. Bischoff and Robert J. Rosenbauer in 1981 of the United States Geological Survey reported that based on radiometric dating, the Del Mar skull was 11,000 years old. According to more recent studies cited by Stuart J. Fiedel in Prehistory of the Americas (1992) the Del Mar skull was dated in 1984 by using a newly developed C14 acceletator mass spectrometry process which revealed that the Del Mar skull is only 4,900 years old. This date is no longer controversial.Brian Regal Human evolution: a guide to the debates 2004, p. 157Joseph L. Chartkoff, Kerry Kona Chartkoff The archaeology of California 1984, p. 35
==Creationism==
American Indian creationists have argued that the Del Mar skull is Paleo-Indian in origin and is evidence that their ancestors originated in America, as opposed to migrating from Asia.New West, Volume 6, 1981, p. 63 Anthropologist Jeffrey Goodman cites the skull's supposed 70,000-year age in support of this conclusion in his 1981 book American Genesis, arguing that the skull proves that man originated in the Americas.Jeffrey Goodman American genesis: the American Indian and the origins of modern man Summit Books, 1981, p. 84Jeffrey Goodman and the Del Mar skull Fellow anthropologist George F. Carter, though not going quite so far, used a dating technique called amino acid racemization on related skulls to support his hypothesis that man has existed in the Americas for up to 100,000 years. Unfortunately for him, the technique was proven unreliable in the 1980's and more recent methods have estimated Carter's bones to be around 10,000 years old.George F. Carter In general, scientific consensus holds that none of these claims carry any water.Stuart J. Fiedel Prehistory of the Americas 1992, p. 44
==References==
Deliberate offence

The tactic of taking deliberate offense is a common one in debates in politics and on the Internet. It consists of finding or creating an interpretation of an opponent's words that is repugnant in a racist, sexist, or otherwise inflammatory way, bypassing the actual topic of argument. This gives the "offended" party the automatic advantage of victimhood, and ensures that future replies must tread very carefully.
Like many rhetorical tactics, it can be difficult to discern deliberate offense. Sometimes a sentiment can be actually offensive ("I'm not saying that all black people are stupid, just that they're all thieves."), sometimes offense is being manufactured ("I can't believe you said that Margaret Thatcher is ugly! That's just a slur against all women!"), and sometimes the person is just being stupid ("wtf y u say that everyone in a synagogue is jewish.") More often than not, they're just being stupid.
On the Internet, this is a frequent tactic of concern trolls, who will contort an opponent's words into any possible position to find a way to make them offensive. It is also particularly frequent during discussions of affirmative action, with charges of racism thrown around by both proponents and opponents, and during discussions of Israel, where any criticism of the country is labeled anti-semitic.
==See also==
*Concern troll
*Inflammatory language
*Political correctness
*Racism
*Sexism
*Microaggression
*Bad faith
Category:Political terms
Category:Internet culture
Delusion

A delusion is a false belief about external reality that is evidently false or that remains unchanged despite obvious evidence to the contrary.APA (2013). DSM-5 Glossary pp. 819-820 It is commonly (but not exclusively) the result of a mental disorder, such as schizophrenia or psychosis. Delusions are often bizarre, meaning physically impossible.
Systematically shared beliefs between close social groups, such as religious systems, are commonly regarded as delusions amongst scientists, philosophers, and psychologists, but are typically considered exempt by most clinical diagnostic criteria (e.g., the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders states that the belief must not be accepted by the person's culture or subculture). The noted New Atheist, Richard Dawkins, wrote a book entitled The God Delusion, in which he asserted that the question of God's existence was tied to the question of special creation, and then argued that since special creation has largely been demonstrated to be false, belief in God is a delusion.
==See also==
*Crank
*Creationism
*Fanatic
*Face on Mars
*Fake news
*Donald TrumpWhat we talk about when we talk about Donald Trump and ‘gaslighting’ by Caitlin Gibson (January 27 at 1:25 PM) The Washington Post.
*Hallucination
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==References==
Category:Psychology
Category:Cognitive biases