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Dena Churchill

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'''Dena Churchill''' is a disgraced [[Canada|Canadian]] former Nova Scotia “[[chiropractic|chiropractor]]” who was forced to surrender her license to practise chiropractics in 2019 for promoting [[Anti-vaccination movement|anti-vaccination]] [[conspiracy theories]]<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20190701054841/https://www.casewatch.net/foreign/churchill/notice_2018.shtml</ref><ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20191203045904/https://www.chiropractors.ns.ca/images/Notice-of-Hearing-regarding-Dr.-Dena-Churchill.pdf</ref> on her [[Social_media_platforms#Facebook|Facebook]] page<ref>http://www.facebook.com/DrDenaC/</ref> and her blog ''Dr. Sexy Mom''.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20181125225230/https://www.drsexymom.com/</ref>

Churchill continues to peddle [[woo]] such as [[essential oils]]<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20190518070859/https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/health-care-vaccines-cancer-chiropractor-dena-churchill-1.4676037</ref> through social media such as [[YouTube]]<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20201117040409/https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC53ZHcLg96UrW_S2zgjE7HA</ref> and [[Social_media_platforms#Twitter|Twitter]],<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20190701053914/https:/twitter.com/drdenachurchill/status/1145103714379866113</ref> and like the disgraced MD [[Andrew Wakefield]], misleadingly continued to use the title "doctor" as of June 2019.

In July 2019, she lost her license and was fined CAD 100,000 (about USD 77,000 or €68,000) as damages for the Nova Scotia College of Chiropractors as part of a settlement for bringing the "profession of chiropractics into disrepute." She was given 10 years to repay this fine.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20190704211234/https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/dena-churchill-chiropractor-discipline-vaccines-1.5200017</ref>
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Categories: Canadians, Living people, Alternative medicine promoters, Anti-vaccination movement‏
Derek Ogilvie

[[Image:Randiogilvie.jpg|thumb|300px|left|Derek Ogilvie and [[James Randi]]]]{{psychic}}
'''Derek Ogilvie''' is a [[UK]] [[medium]] who takes [[cold reading]] one step further by claiming to read the minds of babies and [[children]]<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/media/2006/jun/19/familyandrelationships.tvandradio The man who can read babies' minds], The Guardian, June 19, 2006</ref>, who are usually too young to pipe up and debunk the words he is putting into their mouths. Derek managed to fail not only the [[James_Randi|JREF]] [[Million-dollar challenge | Million Dollar Prize]], but also a test at Goldsmiths College, University of [[London]],<ref>http://www.randi.org/site/index.php/swift-blog/224-swift-october-3-2008.html</ref><Ref>http://www.badpsychics.co.uk/thefraudfiles/modules/news/article.php?storyid=860</ref> and yet still seems to believe he has [[psychic]] powers. The sort of money he continues to make can be seen by a 2017 lawsuit where he sued his Dutch promoters over what he called "an astounding amount of money", over £1 million, in a contract dispute.<ref>[https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/business-consumer/scottish-psychic-didnt-see-1million-11467305 Scottish psychic didn't see £1million court case with Dutch TV firm coming], Daily Record (Glasgow), 5 Nov 2017</ref>

==References==
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Categories: Living people, Pseudoscience promoters, Psychics
Desensitization

{{psychology}}
'''Desensitization''' is a psychological process used to overcome phobias and other extreme emotional reactions. For an example, if some person is suffering from {{wpl|Ophidiophobia|ophidiophobia}}, desensitization might involve exposing them to harmless snakes so they would get used to them and not panic at the sight of one. When desensitization is used in therapy as in this example, it's called "exposure therapy."

Another example of desensitization can be found in a link that some studies have established between excessive violence in media such as video games and a decrease in empathy for the victims of excessive violence.

==Desensitization and non-fanaticism==

The term has also been appropriated by certain political activists who use it to smear anyone who does not share an identical [[Fanaticism|level of dedication]] to their particular cause. Their reasoning goes somewhat like this:

# When I see action '''X''', I get sick to my stomach.
# When other people see action '''X''', they do not get sick to their stomachs.
# Therefore, since they are not outraged, they [http://www.zazzle.com/if_youre_not_outraged_youre_not_paying_attention_bumper_sticker-128834207281856062 must not be paying attention.]
# But some people ''are'' paying attention and are not outraged.
# Therefore, these people have something wrong with their minds: they have been desensitized to the horrors of action '''X'''.

Among popular things crusaded against in this manner are violence and [[sex]], or what the crusaders consider to be their root causes.

* Some people, such as the disbarred lawyer and anti-video-game crusader, [[Jack Thompson]], have claimed that people who played violent video games were "desensitized" to violence itself and were therefore disproportionately violent.
* Others, such as the noted pseudo-sexologists Paul Cameron and Victor Cline, have advanced the idea that the viewing of [[pornography]] will desensitize people to horrid perverted aberrant behaviours, such as [[adultery]] and gay sex.<ref>http://www.ldsr.org/info/drcline.phtml</ref>
* Still others combine violence ''and'' sex, such as in the case of [[Andrea Dworkin]]'s anti-pornography campaign, or the related claims that pornography "desensitized" serial rapists such as Ted Bundy.

==References==

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[[Category:Psychology]]

Categories: Psychology
Devil's advocate

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'''Devil's advocate''' is a phrase often used in the English speaking world.<ref group=note>It is an ''idiom'' of the English language.</ref> It refers to when, for the sake of [[debate]], someone presents a point of view they don't necessarily agree with, to make someone else consider an opposing point of view to their own. Colloquially, it may refer to saying something you don't believe to "mess with someone", for the sake of it or playful demeanour. An example of this would be if you were an [[Atheism|atheist]] debating a fellow atheist, and you decided to present a theistic counter-argument, in order to help strengthen your fellow atheist's arguments. Another example would be on a mostly [[pro-choice]] forum, pretending to be [[anti-abortion]] to try and see how their arguments measure up. This is similar to real-life [[Don't feed the Troll|trolling]], but not exactly the same: the person utilizing the devil's advocate is arguing in [[good faith]] and usually admits afterwards or in the middle of discussion (or possibly even before they begin) that they are just playing and is trying to put across an opposing view, and a troll is simply being an [[asshole]] who simply wants to be malicious, without revealing their true viewpoints, because a debate isn't their motivation.

The term originally referred to the [[Roman Catholic Church|Roman Catholic]] cardinal charged with arguing against a potential saint's canonization, before the role was greatly reduced by [[Pope]] [[John Paul II]], though the Church does still often seek out opposing counsel during the canonization process.

== Notes ==
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== See also ==
* [[Troll]]
* [[Just asking questions]]

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Diagnosis

{{fork}}
*[[Medical]] diagnosis by a qualified medical professional
*[[Self-diagnosis]]
*[[Quack]] diagnostic techniques such as:
:*[[Pulse diagnosis]]
:*[[Iridology]]
:*[[Live blood analysis]]
:*[[Hair analysis]]
:*[[Applied kinesiology]]
:*[[Waste analysis]] — while not quackery ''per se'', there is a lot of [[woo]] surrounding it
Dianic Wicca

{{Paganism}}
'''Dianic Wicca''' or '''Feminist Dianic Witchcraft'''<ref>[http://www.zbudapest.com/ Z Budapest's homepage]</ref> was historically the first part of the [[Goddess movement]] and an offshoot of [[Wicca]]  notable for its second-wave [[feminism]] and exclusive worship of the [[Goddess]] - and for female only circles.  And that means [[TERF|cisgender women only]]; many Dianic Wiccans consider it a core belief that "only women-born-women truly understand women's experience."<ref name='river'>[http://www.witchvox.com/va/dt_va.html?a=usxx&c=trads&id=8359 The Dianic Tradition], Jade River, ''Witchvox''</ref>

==History of Dianic Wicca==
Dianic Wicca was started on the winter solstice of 1971 by [[Z Budapest]] and it is notable for being the first modern all-female religion.  In the early years it was so dominated by lesbians that declaring yourself a member was equivalent to coming out.<ref name='river'/>

Z Budapest claims that her tradition comes from her mother, despite the strong likenesses to [[Wicca|Gardnerian Wicca]], with parts also borrowed from Aradia in much the same way as Gardener did.

==Appropriation and false history==
Dianic Wicca uses the pentacle as one of its symbols despite the fact that in other branches of Wicca it symbolizes the Triple Goddess with the Horned God and in ceremonial magic (Cornelius Agrippa, Eliphas Levi, Pythagoreans, et al) as the union between male and female.<ref>[http://altreligion.about.com/od/symbols/ig/Occult-Symbols/Five-Pointed-Star.--6F.htm About.com: Pentagram, Five-Pointed Star]</ref><ref>[http://www.buzzle.com/articles/paganism-symbols.html Buzzle: Paganism Symbols]</ref>

Dianic Wicca is commonly associated with the [[Goddess movement#Claims of the historical religion|pseudohistory associated with the rest of the Goddess Movement]] and in particular the [[European witch-hunts#Place in pseudohistory|Burning Tymes]].<ref group=note>The Burning Tymes should not be confused with burning thyme, which would just be bad cookery.</ref>

==Other meanings==
There are other less famous branches of Wicca also known as Dianic Wicca, notably:
* The {{wpl|McFarland Dianic|McFarland Dianic tradition}} that worships the triple Goddess; the maiden, the mother, and the crone (whatever names they take). This allows in cis and trans women, and even some men (including McFarland's husband).<ref name=learnreligionsdianic>[https://www.learnreligions.com/what-is-dianic-wicca-2562908 Dianic Wicca], LearnReligions.com</ref>
* The Living Temple of Diana, an emerging shamanic witchcraft tradition of Dianic witchcraft started by Devin Hunter.
* [[Fluff Bunny Wicca]]ns inspired by the writings of Z Budapest.

==Notes==
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==References==
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Dickwad theory

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The '''Dickwad Theory''' or '''John Gabriel's Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory'''<ref>http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/03/19/ – they also produced a version [http://www.penny-arcade.com/docs/internetdickwad.jpg euphemised to "dickwad"]</ref> states that:

{{cquote|Normal Person <nowiki>+</nowiki> Anonymity <nowiki>+</nowiki> Audience <nowiki>=</nowiki> Total Fuckwad}}

Face it, this explains ''everything''.

==Examples and applications==

When your group considers being an [[asshole]] a virtue, well, the process accelerates.

*[[4chan]]
*[[8chan]] — for the subgroup who found 4chan to be insufficiently nasty 
*[[Encyclopædia Dramatica]]
*[[Kiwi Farms]]
*[[Niggermania]]
*[[Reddit]]
*The [[Slymepit]]
*[[Troll]]
*[[Twitter]]
*[[Yahoo! Answers]] (Also in the comments of every Yahoo! News article)
*[[YouTube]]
*You. ''You know what you did.''

== Variations ==
Yahtzee Croshaw of Zero Punctuation fame has postulated that the theory is actually too complex and proposes removing the "Anonymity" and "Audience" sections to leave the formula as "Normal Person = Total Fuckwad", on the basis that *all* people are fuckwads and that it's not so much the presence of anonymity or an audience that causes issues but more the lack of consequence for being outwardly the complete dick someone necessarily is on the inside.<ref>[http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/video-games/columns/extra-punctuation/6832-On-Multiplayer.2 Extra Punctuation, "On Multiplayer", 1 December 2009]</ref>

==See also==
*[[Fun:Asshole]]
*[[Internet law]]
*[[Internet tough guy]]

==References==
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Didache

{{biblenav}}
The '''Didache''' ("teaching"), also known as '''The Teaching of the Twelve Apostles''', is an early [[Christian]] writing that just barely missed being included in the canonical [[Bible]]. Some of the early church did accept it as scripture.<ref name=wp>{{wpa|Didache}}</ref>

It is usually dated to the late 1<sup>st</sup> century CE, although the older view was that it was early 2<sup>nd</sup> century and some still adhere to this; the earliest datings place it as one of the first Christian texts, preceding the four canonical [[Gospels]].<ref>[http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/christianity/texts/didache.shtml Didache], BBC Religion, 2009-08-04</ref> The full text was lost for hundreds of years, and rediscovered in 1873, although it was also quoted by many other early Christian writers.<ref name=wp/><ref>[http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/didache.html Didache], Early Christian Writings</ref>

==Contents==
It offers a basic summary of church doctrine and ritual and church organisation. There are four sections:
# The Way of Life and the Way of Death, an account of good and bad behavior. The Way of Life draws on the [[Ten Commandments]] and [[Jesus]]' teaching about meekness and turning the other cheek; the Way of Death is more fun if you like "cursing, murders, [[Adultery|adulteries]], lusts, [[fornication]]s, thefts, [[Idolatry|idolatries]], [[witchcraft]]s, charms, robberies, false witness, [[Hypocrisy|hypocrisies]], a double heart,{{efn|Does this mean the Doctor is going to Hell?}} fraud, pride, malice, stubbornness, covetousness, foul speech, jealousy, impudence, haughtiness, boastfulness."
# Rituals: [[baptism]] and the [[Eucharist]], the {{wpl|Lord's Prayer||,}} and [[fasting]].
# A section on how to treat [[apostle]]s and [[prophets]] and what kind of hospitality should be offered them (including advice to beware anyone who stays more than two days), and how to choose bishops and preachers.
# A prophecy of the [[end times]] and [[Second Coming]].

Unlike any of the books that did get included in the [[New Testament]], the Didache contains an explicit prohibition of [[abortion]].  Maybe the [[anti-abortion]] movement can still get it added to the [[Bible]] yet.

==External links==
*[[wikisource:en:Didache|Various translations]] on Wikisource

==Notes==
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==References==
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Die Glocke

{{ufology}}
'''Die Glocke''' ([[German]] for "The 
Glock pistol
 Bell") is a rumored [[Nazi UFOs|top secret Nazi project]] that's either a weapon, an [[Anti-gravity machine|anti-gravity engine]], or a [[Time machine|time travel]] viewer, depending on who's telling the story. A [[Polish]] [[crank]] named Igor Witkowski originated all this [[bullshit]].

==Origin==
Igor Witkowski was plodding along as a low level editor of Polish technical magazines when he was allegedly contacted in 1997 by an unnamed Polish [[intelligence (government)|intelligence]] agent, who let him read a transcript of postwar interviews with [[war crime|war criminal]] and former Nazi [[SS]] officer Jakob Sporrenberg. Sporrenberg unsuccessfully tried to stave off his execution with fanciful tales of top secret Nazi weapons programs he'd been privy to. He told his interviewers of a mysterious high-tech machine he called "The Bell" that was capable of "vortex compression" and "magnetic field separation." Witkowski wrote it all up in an obscure Polish-language book called ''The Truth About The Wonder Weapon'' that was promptly ignored.

Nominally mainstream [[British]] [[journalist]] Nick Cook latched onto Witkowski's story and retold it in his 2002 book ''The Hunt for Zero Point'', suggesting it was [[anecdotal evidence]] that the [[U.S.]] government has been working on Nazi anti-gravity technology in secret for the last 50 years.<ref>[http://www.salon.com/2002/08/05/zero_gravity/ "The Hunt for Zero Point" by Nick Cook]</ref> Fringe [[UFO]] [[conspiracy theory]] cranks such as Joseph P. Farrell quickly joined the party like musicians riffing on a new melody. They claimed "The Bell" supposedly emitted radiation that killed 60 Nazi scientists and could be used to "see into the past". Hitler supposedly ordered the device be taken to [[South America]] on a U-Boat at the end of [[World War II]]. Or [[New Swabia|Antarctica]]. Or the Americans captured it and moved it to the USA, where it was used to power a UFO that landed in [[Kecksburg]], [[PA]]. Or it's hidden somewhere in [[Area 51]].<ref>http://discaircraft.greyfalcon.us/DIE%20GLOCKE.htm </ref>
	
Die Glocke has also worked its way into pop culture, being featured in video games like ''Call of Duty'' and TV programs like ''[[Ancient Aliens]]''. It's just one more batshit notion clogging the minds of history-challenged American teens.<ref>[http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2012/02/03/this-video-of-teens-failing-miserably-at-a-civics-quiz-is-so-depressing-its-funny More than a few teens think the Civil War was fought to gain US independence from England]</ref> Which could be what the Nazis, known for their sardonic sense of humor, intended for it all along.

==Specifications==
As the name suggests, it is shaped like a bell. As reports said it had some concave mirror-like siding, as well as having to be said to warp space and time, it was quite basically, surprise, surprise, a kind of time machine.

==See also==
*[[Nazi UFOs]]
*[[Ernst Zündel]]

==References==
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[[Category:Nazism]]

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Dietary supplements

{{fork}}
[[File:Spirulina tablets.jpg|thumb|right|165px|
Soylent Green
 Spirulina tablets]]
*[[Herbal supplement]]s
*[[Orthomolecular medicine]]
*[[Soylent]] — not a supplement but a total food replacement that tastes like grit
*[[Soylent Green]], made with [[soy]], lentils, and plankton from the sea, and supplemented with a special "dietary supplement".  Remember: Tuesday is Soylent Green day.
*[[Vitamin and mineral supplements]]

(No pun intended on the "fork page" bit.)

==See also==
*[[Nutritionist]]

[[Category:Food supplement woo]]

Categories: Food supplement woo
Discovery

{{fork}}

*[[Discovery Channel]] — a broadcast channel that airs equal parts [[science]] and [[pseudoscience]], a perverse rendering of the [[Fairness Doctrine]]
*[[Discovery doctrine]] — the long history of the [[Catholic Church]] endorsing a type of [[colonial]] [[reasoning]] for laying claim to a land that one has "discovered", even though people already live there
*[[Discovery Institute]] — a [[think tank]] advocating [[creationism]]
*[[Multiple discovery]] — a type of [[coincidence]] that occurs when more than one person independently makes a scientific or [[Technology|technological]] discovery at about the same time, the antithesis of the [[Great man theory]]
Discredited evolutionary theories

{{sources needed}}{{evolution}}
Scientists who study '''evolution''' come in many varieties, with conflicting theories about the nature and causes of evolution. Many theories eventually fall by the wayside, but can provide [[Quote mining|ammunition]] for the more scattershot of [[creationist]]s who think that ''any'' attack on evolution by a biologist undermines evolutionary theory as a whole.

==Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1744-1829)==
{{main|Jean-Baptiste Lamarck}}
Lamarck theorised that organisms evolve through passing on characteristics acquired in life. In the years before Darwin, Lamarck's ideas were favoured, but eventually drifted from their previous esteem for lack of supporting evidence. Only in [[France]] did Lamarckism survive in academic circles, and then only through misplaced [[patriotism]]. Lamarckism was also an influence on [[Lysenkoism]].

==Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1772-1844)==
An early 19th-century naturalist, {{wpl|Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire|Geoffroy's}} theories on evolution had far to go before they could be accepted. In fact his lack of evidence for his ideas (which relied in part on non-materialist thinking), in the face of attack by brilliant rivals such as Cuvier, meant that evolutionary theory was slow to take hold in scientific circles at the start of the century.

==Herbert Spencer (1820-1903)==
{{main|Herbert Spencer}}
Spencer originally based his evolutionary ideas on Lamarck's until the works of [[Charles Darwin]] were published, which Spencer incorporated into his own writings. Spencer is considered to be one of the most prominent exponents of [[social Darwinism]].

==Francis Galton (1822-1911)==
{{main|Francis Galton}}
A half-cousin of Charles Darwin, Galton was a staunch proponent of [[Darwinism|Darwinian evolution]]. However, he also originated the concept of [[eugenics]] by applying it to society and politics.

==Nils Heribert Nilsson (1883-1955)==
{{main|Nils Heribert Nilsson}}
While Nilsson's works, in particular a short article in German, have been used to discredit evolution, his outlandish theory of [[emication]] cannot be taken seriously these days. Only the most badly-informed and foolhardy of creationists would use him as a weapon against the evil Darwinian baby-eaters.

==Trofim Lysenko (1898-1976)==
{{main|Lysenkoism}}
Lysenko propounded a Lamarckian-derived version of evolution and denounced [[Gregor Mendel|Mendelian]] [[genetics]] as a "[[bourgeois pseudoscience]]." He was the recipient of [[Josef Stalin]]'s political favoritism and helped to cause [[Holodomor|famine]] in the [[Soviet Union]].

==Stuart Pivar (1930-)==
{{main|Stuart Pivar}}
Pivar holds that there is an archetypal substance, a self-organized pre-embryonic structure, which shapes the form of all living organisms. He has no evidence of such a substance, and likes to sue people who say it ain't so.

==Christian Schwabe (1930-)==
{{main|Christian Schwabe}}

Christian Schwabe denies common descent, partly because there are no intermediate forms between molecules. Or something. 

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