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Waterford Whispers

Waterford Whispers is an Irish satirical news website founded and edited by comedy writer Colm Williamson, who sometimes writes under the pen name "Bill Badbody". It is considered the Hibernian equivalent of the American site The Onion, the Australian or the British site, The Daily Mash. It was started by Williamson when he was laid off as a pub manager in Dublin at the beginning of the Great Recession in 2008. He later relocated himself to the small town of Tramore, near the south-eastern county town of Waterford. Since then, the site has grown to be notable in Irish "news" and entertainment and has spawned several books,https://www.google.ie/books/edition/Waterford_Whispers_News/4r3srQEACAAJ?hl=en a theatre tour and work for the entertainment division of RTÉ.
Headlines for its tongue-in-cheek articles include:
* Church Hires JK Rowling To Rewrite The Bible
* ‘Will Gay People Eat My Children?’ & Other Referendum Questions Answered (In reference to the 36th amendment referendum on same-sex marriage)
* Woman Next To You On Plane Doing That Annoying Quiet Crying Thing (In reference to Irish women going on short holidays to England)
* Journalism Graduate Lands Dream Job Copying & Pasting Tweets
* Taoiseach Treated For Severe Criticism In Dublin Hospital
* Penneys Have Unveiled A €12 Dress That Disintegrates After Its First Wash
* Everyone In Pub Footage Was A Dub, Danny Healy-Rae Confirms
== Bréagnuacht ==
Unfortunately, like other satirical websites, its articles have been mistaken for genuine news, including one about a successful North Korean space exploration mission to the Sun that was picked up by Canada Free Press.Report: North Korea claims to have landed a man on the sun, Canada Free PressWhoops... Media outlets duped by North Korea 'rocket to the sun' story, TheJournal.ie Others include; Michelle Obama thinking that the Irish are ugly motherfuckers,“There Are Some Seriously Ugly looking Motherfuckers living On This Island.”: Michelle Obama, Waterford WhispersDoes Michelle Obama think Irish people are "ugly m*****f*****s"?, TheJournal.ie and the Catholic Church saying that Jesus isn't coming back.“Jesus Not Coming Back By The Looks Of It” Admits Vatican, Waterford WhispersJesus Is Not Coming Back, Vatican Says, Snopes
==External links==
*Waterford Whispers' website
==References==
Category:Ireland
Category:Parodists
Category:Websites
Watermelon

* A tasty fruit that, true to its name, is composed of 92% water. It has a number of health benefits, but as with other "superfoods", it shouldn't be taken as a miracle cure or anything of the sort.The Health Benefits of Watermelon, Stephanie Booth, WebMD 31 August 2024
* A common stereotype of environmentalism, that it's allegedly a front for socialism or communism (because a watermelon is "green on the outside, red on the inside")
** A book by right-wing author James Delingpole that makes said allegation
* A racist stereotype against black Americans, likely originating from a Jim Crow-era smear campaign against the fruit as emancipated blacks were the primary growers and sellers of watermelons at the timeHow the watermelon stereotype came to be weaponized against Black Americans, Angelica Cheyenne, Business Insider 13 November 2022
* A symbol of Palestinian liberation, first used as a stand-in for the Palestinian flag, which Israel had banned, during the 1967 Six-Day War. The emoji form of the watermelon, 🍉, is frequently used to indicate that someone is a supporter of Palestine.How the Watermelon Became a Symbol of Palestinian Solidarity, Armani Syed, Time 20 October 2023
==References==
Category:Food
Way of the Master

The Way of the Master is an evangelical Christian organization based in Bellflower, California that provides "pop culture apologetics for Evangelical Christians."The Cynic Way of the Master episode. freethunk.net. Retrieved on 20 December 2015. Formed in 2002 by former child actor Kirk Cameron, author Ray Comfort, and radio host Todd Friel, the ministry produces Christian based television shows, books, pamphlets and tracts. It also provides online services and Bible evangelical classes. The logo of the ministry incorporates the letters, WDJD, standing for "What Did Jesus Do?"
==The Masterful approach==
The basic evangelistic approach followed by the organization can be summarized as:
Have you ever done something bad? If so, God will send you to hell. Repent, turn to Jesus and buy religious material that Ray Comfort supplies.
This approach raises some important questions:
*Why would a loving God make us so we all cannot stop ourselves sinning and send most of us to Hell for what we can't prevent?
*Why would Jesus need to die on the cross? Since God supposedly made us imperfect we are not at fault for our imperfections.
*And...why did Jesus have to suffer and die in the first place? Couldn't God have chosen to forgive us without requiring a human sacrifice?
==Media==
The Way of the Master includes a television show hosted by Cameron and Comfort. They produce thirteen episodes a season, and thus far have made it to Season 4. The website Atheism Wiki has critical reviews of most of the shows in the first three seasons.Summary of videos in The Way of the Master series. wikia.com. Retrieved on 20 December 2015.
The Way of the Master Radio was a syndicated two-hour, daily radio show hosted by former stand-up comedian Todd Friel. The show ran from January 2006 until November 2008, when it was renamed Wretched Radio, broadcast through FamilyNet.Wretched Radio, About us. wretchedradio.com. Retrieved on 20 December 2015.
==Key Members==
Apart from Ray Comfort, Kirk Cameron, and Todd Friel, other key members of the organization include the following;
*Tony "Law Man" Miano worked for 20 years as a deputy in the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department with the latter part of that career as a chaplain to the law enforcement community. He's also one of the instructors, heading the evangelism training conducted by Way of the Master through their "Ambassadors Academies".
*Emeal "EZ" Dwayne is the General Manager of Way of the Master/Living Waters ministries, and the force behind the commercialization of the organization.
*Trisha Ramos is a pawn of "wretched" radio; most of her videos are just applications of the good person test via fishing for marks and other similarly flawed methods of evangelism, while pushing the various products that Living Waters Ministry produces.
==External links==
*Official site
*The Way of the Master Archived from the Iron Chariots Wiki
==References==
Category:California
Category:Creationism
Category:Organizations
Category:Ray Comfort
We Hunted the Mammoth

We Hunted the Mammoth (formerly Man Boobz) is a feminist blog dedicated to poking fun at various instances of egregious sexism on the Internet (and sometimes outside of it).Such as when he commented on a Victorian painting. Its usual targets include MRAs, PUAs, MGTOW, Christian Patriarchy types, other assorted anti-woman cranks, and whatever else caught the author's attention, so you don't have to read them yourself (they're all duly linked, but after you've checked a few you'll be just fine with trusting the blog). It's also hilarious.
It is written by David Futrelle, a freelance journalist who also blogs for Time and had previously covered the MRAs in various media.http://www.davidfutrelle.net/ One good thing about the site is that the comment sections can go into hundreds of comments and still be relatively intelligent, apposite and written by (usually) nice people, but it's officially not a safe space. This is largely helped by the site's tightened comment policy implemented in July 2015, in which comments by all new posters are automatically sent through moderation (among other rules and filters).http://www.wehuntedthemammoth.com/comments-policy/ The comment sections, however, tend to drift off-topic, although we can't blame them given the subject matter. Futrelle also created "Confused Cats Against Feminism",Confused Cats Against Feminism a viral Tumblr blog that parodies the "Women Against Feminism" movement.
We Hunted the Mammoth announced on August 15, 2023 that it was going on an "indefinite" hiatus.David Futrelle (August 15, 2023). "Thank you and goodnight: WHTM is going on hiatus". We Hunted the Mammoth. It came back on 24 July 2024 announcing a pivot to video.https://www.wehuntedthemammoth.com/2024/07/24/we-hunted-the-mammoth-is-back/
==External links==
*We Hunted the Mammoth homepage
*We Hunted the Mammoth YouTube
==References==
Category:Blogs
Category:Feminism
Category:Men's rights movement
Category:YouTube
We the People Act

The We the People Act is a bill introduced by Republican Congressman Ron Paul. Most recently in 2009 as H.R. 539, and back in 2004 as H.R. 3893. The bill intends:
:To limit the jurisdiction of the Federal courts, and for other purposes.
The bill intends to please both the God-fearing religious right and the big-government-fearing libertarian right by doing the following:
* Prevents the Supreme Court and all federal courts from making decisions regarding:
** State and local laws concerning free exercise an establishment of religion
** the right of privacy including sexual practices, orientation or reproduction
** the role of the Equal Protection clause on the right to marry.
* Prevents the reliance on any federal court decision on any of the above topics.
* Prevents the Supreme Court from "redefining marriage" using the Equal Protection clause
* Allows the Congress or the President of the United States to impeach judges who breach the act.
In Congressman Paul's own words:
It is being supported by the Traditional Values Coalition, and opposed by many secularists.
In its 2009 version, it was cosponsored by Rep. Walter B. Jones (North Carolina) and, appropriately enough, Rep. Ted Poe (Texas). The 2004 version was cosponsored by Rep. Roscoe G. Bartlett (Maryland).
Category:United States politics
Category:Misnomers
Weapon salve

A weapon salve is an ointment which aims to heal a wound caused by a bladed weapon. Method: apply an herbal preparation -, not to the abrasion itself but to the blade of the weapon that caused it. You can see how this won't work.
Belief in action at a distance was common among practitioners of Paracelsian medicine (Paracelsus, incidentally, coined the concept of "the dose makes the poison"). Typically the salve would include blood from the wound caused by the weapon. 
Paracelsus's recipe for such a salve:
The use of a weapon salve involved a form of sympathetic magic. The weapon and the wound joined magically, as one caused the other. The ingredients for the salve itself all have magical properties associated with healing, with the alignment of the stars, or with other magical processes. The human blood is a form of life magic, common in any sacrificial ritual.
==References==
* J.N. Hays. 2009. 'The Burdens of Desire: Epidemics and Human Response in Western History. Rutgers University Press. P. 97. ISBN 9780813546131.
==References==
Category:Alternative medicine
Wedge issue

Wedge issues in politics are generally issues on which people have strong opinions that can be "owned" as part of a political base. In modern-day America, most of these are social issues with religious overtones, such as abortion and homosexuality. Other favorites include gun control, taxation, being "tough on crime", global warming denialism, critical race theory, and militarism.
They are phrased or argued so that the opposing viewpoint, if there is one, can be easily labeled in a derogatory manner, thus creating a false dilemma. Resulting examples would include being "soft on crime", "weakening America" (or "emboldening our enemies"), "against family values", "coming to take your guns away", etc. It is hoped that this would cause supporters of said opponent to flip-flop to the other side, or bring in neutral voters.
Category:Culture wars
Wedge of Aiud

thumb|right|165px|The opportunity to name it the "Atomic Wedgie of Aiud" was sadly lost.
The Wedge of Aiud (Romanian: călcâiul din aluminiu de la Aiud or obiectul din aluminiu de la Aiud) is one of those supposedly "mysterious" out-of-place artifacts. It was found in Aiud, Romania in 1974.
Details are hard to verify, but the 4-to-5-pound wedge-shaped aluminum object was allegedly found during digging on a construction project, along with two mastodon bones in 35 feet of sand. Someone gave it to the Museum of History of Transylvania, where it lay ignored in a storeroom for 20 years, before editors from a Romanian UFO magazine found it in 1995. (It is not clear why UFO enthusiasts were poking around a national museum storeroom. Maybe that is just how they do things in Transylvania.)
Based on it being found in the same layer as the mastodon bones, the wedge is claimed to be at least 11,000 years old, if not millions.
==Aluminum==
The fact that this wedge-shaped thing is made from aluminum gets some people very excited because, prior to 1825, metallic aluminum effectively did not exist. And the first exciting explanation they come up with is (you guessed it) aliens.
Yes, according to some unnamed engineer, the wedge is a piece of the landing gear from a VTOL-type (Vertical Take-Off and Landing) craft. This, of course, delights UFOlogists, who say an alien starship must have lost it when they blasted off after a visit to Earth thousands of years ago.
Fantasy buffs speculate that it is something left behind by a time traveler making a hasty retreat from attacking mastodons, or partying with a band of early humans at the barbecue where the mastodon dropped.
==Spoil-sport skepticism==
thumb|left|150px|Check your bucket.
Yet, there is a much more rational (albeit boring) explanation. The wedge is simply a tooth from a modern-day excavator bucket, the kind used by workers digging foundations for construction projects.
The results of metallurgical tests made on the wedge are somewhat consistent with modern 2000 series which oxidizes fairly rapidly, accounting for the aged appearance of the wedge, and which can be to a degree similar to mild steel. 
Aluminum will not strike sparks as steel might, which makes the alloy desirable for service in environments with combustible gases or vapors, such as the coal mines that flourished for a while in Romania.
With a decline in coal mining, the excavators may be reasonably supposed to have been turned to other uses. It is extremely likely that one of these excavators lost a tooth while digging the hole in Aiud; someone unfamiliar with the machine found it in the sand near the mastodon bones, and assumed it to be an anachronism.
See many examples of excavator teeth, here, a number of which closely resemble the so-called "out-of-place" artifact.
==See also==
*Out-of-place artifact
==References==
Category:Out-of-place artifact
Category:Pseudoarchaeology
Category:Romania
Category:Ufology
Weekly World News

The Weekly World News (aka WWN) was everybody's favorite spoof newspaper. The paper regularly featured stories on the pseudoscience-du-jour. Batboy sightings! Presidential candidates meet with space aliens! Man pregnant! 8000 pound woman loses 7800 pounds on a vinegar and garlic diet! Batboy pregnant! Batboy pregnant with Bigfoot's baby!
Several stories first run by the paper in the early 1990s proved to be their most popular, and became running gags associated with the paper since: "Batboy", and a series of meetings by space aliens with U.S. presidential candidates. WWN also ran a regular column by Ed Anger, "My America", a spoof of right-wing populist rants that was difficult to tell from the real thing.
Sadly, on 24 July 2007, the print version of Weekly World News ceased publication, a victim of competition from the Internet. In 2008 "Bat Boy LLC" bought the rights to the company and launched a Weekly World News website. They hope to someday revive the print version.
Some unfortunate souls took Weekly World News articles seriously. Those people are generally considered to be at the pinnacle of stupidity. For instance, in October, 2010, the Weekly World News reported that the Los Angeles Police Department was going to buy 10,000 jetpacks.The Weekly World News Jetpacks story Fox News reported it as serious story,[Gawker.com: archive.is, web.archive.org Coverage of Fox's coverage] only to retract it an hour later.
The Weekly World News originated as a spin-off from the National Enquirer as a way of separating the spoof UFO and Bigfoot articles from the Hollywood gossip columns. The void left by the demise of the Weekly World News in the realm of U.S. supermarket tabloids is filled by the Sun, the other major tabloid to focus on spoof pseudoscience.
== See also ==
*Private Eye
*The Onion
*WorldNetDaily
*Pravda Online
==External links==
*Official website
*Batboy: The Musical
==References==
Category:Newspapers
Category:New York
Category:Websites
Weigh down diet

The Weigh down diet is a particular form of fad diet whereby weight loss is assisted by spirituality. The book (as fad diets inevitably come in the form of self-help books) was originally published by Christian author Gwen Shamblin in 1997, and has since gone on to sell over a million copies.
==Pray yourself thin?==
Not quite,Someone else came up with that one 40 years prior: Pray Your Weight Away by Charlie W. Shedd, Lippincott, 1957. although obviously prayer and spirituality is a part of the program. It is a well known and studied fact that prayer doesn't do much, so the success of the diet (when it is successful) is due to the more material aspects of it. Shamblin states that people should "listen to their bodies" and only eat when hungry, equating excessive eating with the sin of greed. In this respect, the diet can produce short-term weight loss, but like any other based simply on "not eating so damn much", has been shown to be futile, if not counter-productive, for long-term weight loss.http://motivatedandfit.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/Diets_dont_work.pdfhttp://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1105816 However, the additional window dressing of religion around it is pure woo, and used mostly as a form of support for any individual going through the diet — if you eat less, you will lose weight regardless of whether you lean on God, your best friend or the Flying Spaghetti Monster for assistance.Although the Flying Spaghetti Monster does have a bigger chance of making you think about food.
==Possible bad effects==
While the diet doesn't advocate anything bad, it may lead people to possibly starve themselves unnecessarily — like any crash diet — if they take it too far. The human body produces hunger and thirst pains for a very good reason and ignoring these can be outright dangerous. Like many diets, it also wholly concentrates on the aspect of food. This has the potential to turn anyone on the diet into a food obsessive, and those sorts of people are no fun to be around. Because of the focus on food, dieters tend to ignore exercise, and even if they were to lose weight, their general fitness would probably decrease.
==See also==
*Pray the gay away
==External links==
*Wdworkshop.com - the official website
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==References==
Category:Diet woo
Weight

In common language, weight refers to the mass of a body; however, in physical terms it means the force on a body due to the earth's gravity, usually denoted by "Fg" or "Fw" or just "F" like any other force. It is equal to:
F_g = m\cdot g
Where g is a "constant" approximately equal to 9.80665 m/s2 at sea level at a latitude of 45.5°. However, g is inversely proportional to the square of the distance to the center of the Earth. Because of the oblateness of the planet (which results in a slightly greater distance between the earth's surface and its center, at latitudes closer to the equator) one is advised to go to the equatorial regions if one wishes to lose "weight." 
At the equator, not only is one farthest from the center of the planet, but one also benefits from a centrifugal acceleration of 0.0336 m/s2. This is absent at the poles.
==Weightlessness==
You feel your weight when standing, sitting or lying, because the planet is pushing back at you with exactly the same force as that with which your weight is attempting to push the planet downwards (physicists call this the Normal force). Good thing, otherwise you'd drop through the planet.
If you're actually falling (as when skydiving, in the brief moment before air resistance begins slowing your fall) you feel weightless because there's no longer a planet pushing at your feet. Being in orbit is a special case of falling. You're falling toward Earth but with so much tangential velocity that you never get there. So you're weightless until Mission Control tells you to stop playing around and come home.
Note that just being at orbital altitude doesn't take your weight away. Imagine a really really long spiral staircase, with a landing at the top. As you climb, you progressively lose weight until, at the altitude of the Space Station, you weigh roughly five kilos less but you can still stand on the landing quite happily (as long as you don't need to breathe) watching the ISS whizz past.
==See also==
*Weight loss woo
*The Weight of Clouds
Category:Science
Category:Physics
Werner Gitt

Werner Gitt is a German engineer and a young earth creationist who has written on various pseudoscience topics for Answers in Genesis.Articles by Werner Gitt at Answers in Genesis. 
==Information theory==
Gitt wrote the book In the Beginning was Information (1997), in which he proposes that no information can exist without a code, and that information has to have a mental origin—which he claims comes from God. Gitt's arguments consist of a lot of arm waving, contradictory statements, assertions without proof, and circular reasoning. Scientists have explained in detail where he goes wrong.
Information Theory and Creationism. talkorigins.org.
Errors in Werner Gitt's work with Information Theory. Archived from the original at ccrnp.ncifcrf.gov.
==External links==
*His personal site
*Werner Gitt, In the Beginning was Information. ISBN 9780890514610
*Werner Gitt, Did God Use Evolution? Observations from a Scientist of Faith. ISBN 0890514836
==References==
Category:Authors
Category:Engineer woo
Category:Living people
Wes Penre

Wes Penre is a conspiracy theorist and crank who floods the internet with a lot of green ink. He owns several webshites used for self-promotion and promulgation of his nutty writings. His main topics include not only the Illuminati and conspiracies, but also spiritual forces and development, aliens and mythological themes, and his personal conspirituality blend of conspiracy thinking with various New Age and esoteric themes.SITE MAP | The Wes Penre Papers
Penre has also self-published several books with his message, including Beyond 2012–A Handbook for the New Era (2013) and Synthetic Super Intelligence and the Transmutation of Humankind (2016).
==Illuminati News==
Penre owns Illuminati News, a poor quality website that spreads conspiracy theories about the Illuminati. It appears not to have been updated since 2018. The site claims that there is more than one Illuminati group and that it focuses on the Power-Hungry one you hear about everywhere. Oh, and apparently, many people already admitted to being a part of it.
==See also==
* Hidden Hand – A self-proclaimed Illuminati insider's message, which Wes Penre and Illuminati News has covered and helped popularize.
==External links==
*The Wes Penre Papers
*Wes Penre Books
*Illuminati News
*Wes Penre Videos
*Battleground Earth – Blog, was earlier titled "News From Behind The Scenes"
==Notes==
==References==
Category:Authors
Category:Conspirituality
Category:Living people
Category:Webshites