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Parasite

[[File:Tb brucei.jpg|thumb|left|165px|A trypanosome, the parasite that causes {{wpl|African trypanosomiasis|sleeping sickness|.}}]]
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'''Parasites''' are a proof of the wonders of creation. That a benign divinity could create such beauty and elegance as the autumn leaves, the butterfly's wing, and the {{wpl|rusty-spotted cat||,}} which ''AAARGHKLGHlgh'''<small>lghghgllgh...</small>''

Ahem.

We apologise for the poor quality of that opening paragraph. Here instead is a better one:

Parasites are, of course, disproof of a benign [[god]]. Why would a benign being create a creature that survives only by causing disease and suffering? Answer: because the creature wasn't created, it [[evolution|evolved]]. The possibility that [[Problem of evil|god created it, but is not benign]], isn't really a starter among [[fundamentalist]]s, and is possibly [[blasphemy]]. Parasites used to be thought to be failed results of evolution, but in fact, they are some of evolution's "greatest achievements". Almost perfectly adapted to their environments, some are able to ensure they get to the right host if they fail the first time around. Toxoplasma, the most successful parasite in the world, is a prime example. Many parasites are also experts in sustainable resource exploitation, stopping ''well'' short of outright killing their hosts, since that would screw the parasite over too.

==Alternative uses==
In an ill-informed commentary on the [[social contract]], "parasite" was a [[snarl word]] used by [[Ayn Rand]] to denigrate [[welfare queen|people who relied on government services to survive]]. She [[Hypocrisy|refused to explain]] why the same couldn't be applied to [[Libertarianism#Arguments against strict libertarianism|business owners earning profits from their workers]], nor when [[Ayn Rand#Biography|she herself signed up for Social Security checks]].

==See also==
*[[Disease]]
*[[Insect]]
*[[Symbiosis]]
*[[Lawyer]]
*[[Toxoplasma gondii]]

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Parents of ROGD Kids

[[File:Parents of ROGD Kids logo.png|thumb|Obviously, their logo looks like a frog.]]
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'''Parents of ROGD Kids''' (often shortened to '''P.O.R.K.'''), also known among trans people as '''Parents of Frogged Kids''', is a [[transphobic]] [[webshite]] dedicated to spreading the debunked notion of [[rapid-onset gender dysphoria]]. It smears gender-affirming healthcare  through using [[quote mining|quotes mined]] from the [[Linking to authority|paper that actually proves it works]],<ref>https://www.parentsofrogdkids.com/the-lie</ref> as well as providing information on how to find a [[conversion therapy]] practitioner.<ref>https://www.parentsofrogdkids.com/therapists</ref>. You can even find some of them here!<ref>https://www.parentsofrogdkids.com/list-of-therapists</ref> It has a [[PIDOOMA|made-up]] list of "causes" for gender dysphoria.<ref>https://www.parentsofrogdkids.com/other-causes-for-gender-dysphoria</ref> 

Claims that children decide to transition due to being "naïve and impressionable" are not supported by any legitimate science... well, at least they discovered that they are transgender.

Despite claiming to fight "political ideology dressed up as science", the authors themselves are [[Hypocrisy|unable to support their own claims]], making this website ideological in nature.

The creators of the website are anonymous because they [[bullshit|know the truth behind its content]].

==External links==
* [https://transdatalibrary.org/organization/parents-of-rogd-kids/ Trans Data Library on Parents of ROGD Kids]
* [https://parentsofrogdkids.com/ Their webshite]
* [https://twitter.com/p_rogdk And their Twitter]

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Paris Lees

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'''Paris Lees''' {{lived|1986}} is a [[British]] journalist and kicks considerable arse as a campaigner for [[transgender]] rights. She is a preeminent figure in the push for better [[media]] representation and treatment of trans people. Her eloquence and tireless activism is especially well-known in the blogosphere,<ref>[http://lastofthecleanbohemians.wordpress.com/ Last of the Clean Bohemians] blog.</ref> and she is active on [[YouTube]].<ref>[http://www.youtube.com/user/LuciferWasAnAngel Channel]</ref>

As of 2012 her work with UK media monitoring group Trans Media Watch<ref>[http://www.transmediawatch.org/ transmediawatch.org]</ref> and ''META Magazine''<ref>[http://www.pocketmags.com/viewmagazine.aspx?titleid=946&title=META META magazine website]</ref> has elevated her to something of an authoritative status on trans issues, especially the controversial topic of transgender youth. She has blogged<ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20120315033529/http://www.bbc.co.uk/diversity/blogs2.shtml The BBC and Diversity]</ref> for the [[BBC]] and appeared as a guest on the BBC Breakfast programme during its 2012 coverage of the James family media clusterfuck.<!--**commenting out deadlink**<ref>[http://transgenderuk.org/2012/02/paris-lees-and-livvy-james-on-bbc-breakfast-video/ Lees' appearance thereupon]</ref>--><ref>[[HuffPo]] [http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/02/07/livvy-james-schoolgirl-with-gender-dysphoria-feels-suicidal-from-school-taunts_n_1259402.html article] on the story before the British [[Daily Mail|gutter]] [[The Sun|press]] turned it into a national fiasco.</ref>

Her first book, ''What It Feels Like For a Girl'', a hybrid memoir-novel, was published in 2021.<ref>[https://www.dazeddigital.com/life-culture/article/52949/1/paris-lees-what-it-feels-like-for-a-girl-novel-memoir-interview-2021 Dazed interview] May 27, 2021</ref>

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Park Young-sun

[[File:박영선 국회의원 인터뷰.png|thumb|left|165px|Park in 2020]]
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{{cquote|We all oppose anti-[[Discrimination|discrimination]] laws, homosexuality laws, [[Human rights|human rights]] laws. Who would approve of this? (...) Especially this gay law, which goes against the providence of nature and [[God]].<ref>https://www.huffingtonpost.kr/2016/03/02/story_n_9363986.html</ref>}}

'''Park Young-sun''' (박영선) {{lived|1960}} is a major politician of the [[Minjoo Party of Korea]]. She has been constantly criticized by [[LGBT rights]] groups for her extreme [[homophobic]] beliefs. However, by Korea's political standards, which have strong tribalist logic, she is considered to be more [[Political spectrum#Leftism|left-wing]] than [[Keum Tae-sup]], who is closer to social liberalism because of her party affiliation and [[Moon Jae-in|pro-Moon]] standards. She is recognized as a centrist liberal politician in South Korean politics.<ref>https://www.hankyung.com/politics/article/202102075881Y</ref>

She turned a blind eye to Korea's poor sexual minorities' human rights issues, thinking that the entire sexual minority is [[Appeal to nature|abnormal and contrary to nature's regulations]]. 

However, in recent years, the Minjoo Party has broken with the pro-Moon faction, and is classified as non-Moon by criticizing the president. In fact, she is also extremely [[Islamophobia|anti-Islamic]].<ref>http://www.hani.co.kr/arti/politics/politics_general/732944.html</ref> Minjoo Party supporters still seem to recognize Park Young-sun as progressive and Keum Tae-sup as conservative (by European standards, Keum Tae-sup, will be seen as a relative liberal centrist and Park Young-sun as a [[Fundamentalist Christianity|Christian fundamentalist]] right-wing).

She was the Minjoo Party nominee in the 2021 Seoul mayoral by-election. She lost to Oh Se-hoon, a member of the right-wing [[People Power Party]].

==See also==
* [[Homophobia]] 
* [[Transphobia]]
* [[Islamophobia]]
* [[Fundamentalist Christianity]]

==External links==
*[https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/박영선_(1960년) Korean-language Wikipedia page]

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Parti Communiste Français

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The '''Parti Communiste Français''' (French Communist Party) is a political party in [[France]]. Once a popular party, it has become mostly irrelevant,{{cn}} although they still get members elected in the parliament.
==Notorious members==
===Ambroise Croizat===
Ambroise Croizat is a famous French [[communist]] who had a major role in creating [[social Security|social security]].<ref>https://www.google.fr/amp/www.humanite.fr/node/428575%3Famp?client=safari</ref>

===Pierre Laurent===
Pierre Laurent is the current leader of the PCF. He allied the PCF with other left parties to create the ''Left Front'', which made [[Jean-Luc Mélenchon]] the fourth candidate of the 2012 elections.

Pierre Laurent believes that the centralized version of collective property is outdated but that social appropriation of wealth (he gives, for example, social security) is still a good thing, and his version of communism isn't contradictory to private enterprises.<ref>http://www.liberation.fr/france/2012/08/15/le-communisme-n-est-pas-une-societe-parfaite-a-atteindre_839913</ref> He wrote a book called ''99%'' and uses the classic criticism of the 1% owning too much. He is also a supporter of [[gay rights]] and [[women's rights]].

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Party for Democracy and Peace

[[File:KPDP.png|thumb|right|165px|Logo of the Party for Democracy and Peace]]
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The '''Party for Democracy and Peace''' (민주평화당) was a [[South Korea]]n centrist,{{efn|By South Korean political standards.}} [[liberal]] (''de jure'') and [[Christian democracy|Christian democratic]] (''de facto'') party. On February 24, 2020, it merged into the '''[[Party for People's Liveihoods]]''' alongside the [[Bareunmirae Party]], {{wpl|New Alternative Party (South Korea)|New Alternative Party}} and the Party for Democracy and Peace.

The party supported appeasement measures against [[North Korea]], and supported economic justice but opposed [[Pro-choice|abortion rights]] and [[homosexuality]]<ref>[http://www.newsnjoy.or.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=217924 Major political parties in the run-up to the local elections "opposed homosexuality and homosexual marriage". newsnjoy. (Korean)]</ref> (but did not insist on social exclusion and abhorrence of homosexuals like the right-wing [[Bareunmirae Party]] and the main opposition [[Liberty Korea Party]]).

This party was regionalist and used the middle-aged people of Jeolla province<ref>[https://www.hankyung.com/politics/article/2019020635887 "Honam(=Jeolla) party" is back again... political touch ahead of next year's general elections. The Korean economy. (Korean)]</ref>{{efn|During the far-right military dictatorship in the 1980s, the [[Gwangju Uprising|May 18 Democratic Movement]] took place in Gwangju, a downtown district of Jeolla Province. That's why it's a rural area with a strong political liberal leanings. But socially, it is also conservative in South Korea.}} as its main support base.

In addition to liberalism, the party in question also advocated for [[egalitarianism]], supported [[affirmative action]] for women and the elderly.<ref>[https://news.v.daum.net/v/20180205140001669 Open the platform of the Party for Democracy and Peace. "The spirit of the age of equality.". 노컷뉴스. (Korean)]</ref>

It was the third largest opposition party. The main supporters were the liberal elderly and the Jeolla province people.



==See also==
* [[Christian democracy]] and [[Social conservatism]] (socially)
* [[Liberalism]] (politically)
* some [[progressivism]] (economically)
* Jeolla regionalism
* [[Centrism]]
* [[Minjoo Party of Korea]] - more leftist than the Party for Democracy and Peace.
* [[Bareunmirae Party]] - more rightist than the Party for Democracy and Peace.

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Passing

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'''Passing''' (also called '''blending''') is the sociological term used to define and classify the actions of people who are able to be regarded as members of social groups other than their own, or the ability of a person to be regarded as a member of the [[gender]] they physically present. Passing does not necessarily or automatically imply deception on any level, in most instances.<ref group=note>It also has been argued that "passing" among trans people has as much to do with gender attribution by others as the behavior of the trans individual themself.</ref>

Because of the high-profile, political nature of [[race|racial identity]] and [[sexuality]] passing, these are the two forms of passing that the media and popular culture most often focus on. However, passing is more common than most people realize. In fact, it's possible that incidents of racial and sexual passing are not the most common forms of passing, just the most well-known. Some examples of other forms of passing include:

*An [[atheist]] raised in a religious family who pretends to still have religious beliefs when visiting family and childhood friends;
*A job applicant who lies about previous experience, education and qualifications, and then must maintain the lie after being hired.
*A person raised in an upper middle class or wealthy family who pretends to be a "self-made" middle class person, especially if they can make obscene profits from their "ordinary guy" image; (e.g., [[Rush Limbaugh]], [[Bill O'Reilly]], [[Kevin Trudeau]], [[Tucker Carlson]], [[Donald Trump]])
*An [[Autism|autistic]] person taught that "autistic behaviors" are "socially inappropriate" will attempt to suppress their own neurology in an attempt to appear [[normal]]. This is no more humane than forcing left-handed people to do everything the way "normal" (read: right-handed) people do everything.
*A Jew "passing" for a non-Jew by not wearing religious symbols like the Kippah and trimming his beard if male<ref group=note>This is impossible for orthodox observant Jews but rather common for secular and less religious Jews; sometimes this is done intentionally in areas known to be "dangerous" to Jews</ref>

==External links==
*[http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23168113/ns/health-behavior/t/i-married-gay-man/#.TpSNMLLlYap "I Married a Gay Man"]: An interview with an anonymous [[Christian]] woman who confirmed that her closeted husband was gay after he gave her [[venereal disease|chlamydia]] while she was [[pregnancy|pregnant]].

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Passover

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[[File:Soldiers at Passover meal, circa 1945 (8580208108).jpg|thumb|rightt|165px|Soldiers having a seder in 1945]]
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'''Passover''' ('''Pesach''' or '''פֶּסַח''') is an [[Jewish holidays|annual celebration]] in the [[Judaism|Jewish]] faith which falls on 14 Nissan, the first month of the Jewish year.  It commemorates the escape of the ancient Jews from [[slavery]] in [[Egypt]], which is often considered to mark the beginning of the Jews as a people.  It is one of the most important holidays in the Jewish calendar and is one of the three pilgrimage festivals (the other two being Sukkot and Shavuot) on which everyone was expected to make pilgrimage to the Temple in [[Jerusalem]].  Passover has a variety of names, including 'The holiday of matzoh' (Chag HaMatzot) and 'holiday of our freedom.' (Zman Cheiruteinu)

The holiday is celebrated for seven days in [[Israel]] and eight in the rest of the world as during the Second Temple period the signal fires used to communicate the start of the new month (and thus when the holiday would fall) were frequently interfered with by the [[Samaritan]]s seeking to disrupt the Jewish community. It is a holiday full of symbolism, of which the best known is the matzoh, or unleavened bread, eaten to remind us that we had to leave Egypt so quickly, we couldn't wait for bread to rise. (Matzoh is a little like an unusually tasteless cracker, and is the subject of a lot of jokes.)

The holiday begins with the lighting of the candles at sunset, followed by the evening (Ma'ariv) service at the synagogue.  The highlight is the festive ceremonial meal called a seder, in which the escape from Egypt is recalled, and the participants are urged repeatedly to consider themselves as personally having escaped from slavery.  This involves drinking four cups of [[Alcohol|wine]] and yelling about frogs, and concludes with the story of {{wpl|Chad Gadya|dad's poor little goat.}}

The solar calendar dates vary, since Judaism uses a combined solar-lunar calendar which keeps the holidays aligned with a specific season. (In contrast, the [[Muslim]] calendar is completely lunar so that holidays like [[Ramadan]] will occur in different seasons of the year.)  

The [[Christianity|Christian]] [[Easter]] holidays were originally based on the timing of Passover, since that was why [[Jesus]] was in Jerusalem. [[Last Supper|The Last Supper]] was a celebration of Passover. However, both the Western and Eastern churches long ago divorced the exact timing of their Easter observations from the Jewish celebration, in order to make them less "Jewish".

==External links==
*[http://www.aish.com/h/pes/t/g/48959286.html Aish HaTorah]

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Pathological science

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'''Pathological science''' is "the science of things that aren't so", a form of intellectual black hole where the holder of an idea cleaves to that idea despite mounting [[evidence]] to the contrary. They will conduct experiments using [[pseudoscientific method]]s, [[Confirmation bias|seeking to confirm]] rather than test their [[hypothesis]].<ref name=langmuir>[https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~ken/Langmuir/langmuir.htm Langmuir's talk on Pathological Science (December 18, 1953)] ''Princeton University''.</ref>

Probably the most commonly cited example of pathological science is the [[cold fusion]] advocacy movement, a [[walled garden]] of researchers with their own [[Pseudojournal|journals]] which they [[peer review]] and circulate among themselves, their own conferences, and apparently their own [[physics]]. Other examples include [[N-rays]], {{wpl|polywater||,}} and some forms of [[woo]] such as [[homeopathy]] (though this is usually closer to [[tooth fairy science]] or [[cargo cult science]]).<ref>Bart Simon, Undead Science: Science Studies and the Afterlife of Cold Fusion. Rutgers University Press, 2002. {{isbn|0813531543}}</ref><ref>Thomas F. Gieryn, Cultural Boundaries of Science: Credibility on the Line.  University of Chicago Press, 1999. {{isbn|0226292622}}</ref>

A key difference between pathological science and other forms of pseudoscience is that in pathological science, the belief system did not pre-date initial experiments. René Blondlot did not go looking for N-rays because he believed such things existed, rather he saw some odd results and tried to explain them. The pathology set in when his explanation was increasingly devoid of evidence to support it, yet Blondlot refused to accept this.<ref name=langmuir/> The pathology required him to make ever-more bizarre explanations of how it worked, eventually violating well-known laws of physics to do so.

In contrast, homeopathy existed before anyone attempted to do experiments to prove it. Those experiments started with the assumption it worked and demonstrated to their satisfaction that it did, imagine that. In these cases, there is no developing pathology, nor is there any science in the normal meaning. For these examples, the term "pseudoscience" is descriptive.

The term was coined by {{wpl|Irving Langmuir}}<ref name=langmuir /> and is notably discussed by [[Robert L. Park]] in his book ''Voodoo Science: The Road from Foolishness to Fraud''.<ref>Robert Park, ''Voodoo Science: The Road from Foolishness to Fraud''. Oxford University Press, 2000. {{isbn|0198604432}}</ref>

==Further reading==
*[http://www.columbia.edu/cu/21stC/issue-3.4/turro.html Toward a general theory of pathological science] by Nicholas J. Turro, Columbia University

==See also==
*[[Confirmation bias]]
*[[Denialism]]

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Patrick Glynn

'''Patrick Glynn''' is a [[Christian apologetics|Christian apologist]], currently the Senior Technical Policy Advisor for the Office of the Deputy Director for Science Programs at the U.S. Department of Energy<ref>[http://science.energy.gov/sc-2/staff/patrick-glynn/ Deputy Director for Science Programs], US Department of Energy</ref> in [[Washington, D.C.]] and former arms negotiator for the [[Ronald Reagan|Reagan]] administration. Glynn holds a Ph.D. in English and American literature from Harvard<ref>https://science.osti.gov/sc-2/Staff/Patrick-Glynn</ref>. Glynn describes himself as a former [[atheist]].

He is a strong promoter of the [[anthropic principle]], which he believes more and more scientists are beginning to accept, though he does not provide any solid evidence that this is so.

==Publications==
*''[[God: The Evidence]]: The Reconciliation of Faith and Reason in a Postsecular World''

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