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Heaven Is for Real

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'''''Heaven Is for Real: A Little Boy's Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back ''''' ({{Isbn|9780849946158}}) is a 
giant [[Reddit|r/thathappened]] post
 2010 best-selling book by [[Christianity|Christian]] pastor Todd Burpo, co-written with "co-author" Lynn Vincent. The book tells the story of Burpo's son Colton, who claims to have visited [[Heaven]] during a [[near-death experience]] at the age of four.

Colton claims that he was carried into Heaven by an [[angel]], where he saw [[Jesus]] wearing a white robe with a purple sash and riding 
[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|Rainbow Dash]]
 a rainbow horse. He also saw his great-grandfather and a sister who had been miscarried.<ref>[http://www.samharris.org/blog/item/science-on-the-brink-of-death Science on the Brink of Death]</ref>

A great deal of what Colton described emerged through questioning by his parents over two years. It is unclear how much of the book's content is directly from Colton, as opposed to input from people subsequently involved in the project, including his father and the book's co-writer, Lynn Vincent, a noted conservative writer and author of [[Sarah Palin]]'s book ''Going 
Rouge
 Rogue''.<ref>[http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2014/april-web-only/heaven-is-for-real-fact-or-fable.html?start=2 Heaven Is for Real: Fact or Fable?]</ref>

Naturally, when they're told that a four-year-old claims to have seen things in Heaven he couldn't possibly have known about, by the boy's father who's a highly knowledgeable pastor who stands to make quite a bit of money from of the publicity regarding this story, the standard reaction among the target audience of 
gullible
 [[Evangelicalism|evangelical]] Christians was to unquestioningly accept everything the book said.  Mercifully, at least ''someone'', namely Susan "Spirited Atheist" Jacoby of ''[[The Washington Post]]'', has taken these people to task for their ridiculous naivete.<ref>[http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/life/books/news/2011-04-21-burpo21_CV_N.htm "Only in America could a book like this be classified as non-fiction."]</ref>

A movie version of the book has been produced.<ref>[http://heavenisforreal.net/ Heaven is for Real website]</ref> 

==See also==
*[[Lying for Jesus]]

==External links==
*[http://www.faithstreet.com/onfaith/2012/11/20/heaven-exists-or-does-it/21205 "The Spirited Atheist" Susan Jacoby on Heaven is for Real and other related books (and there are quite a few)]
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7V6gdpYuUQ Colton Burpo's Visit to Heaven (update)] A video interview of Colton Burpo aged 14 and his family.  Colton apparently has loving parents and his community see him as special; despite this, worry lines are already appearing on the boy's face.  What pressure do kids in [[Fundamentalist Christianity|Fundamentalist Christian]] families face?
*[http://www.heavenlive.org/about/ Heaven is For Real Monostries]

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Hedonic Calculus

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The '''Hedonic Calculus''' was formulated by the [[philosopher]] Jeremy Bentham. It is used by practitioners of the Benthamite school of [[Utilitarianism]] to measure how much pleasure/pain actions will create. Actions are "good" if they maximise pleasure and minimise pain for the greatest number. However, unlike [[John Stuart Mill]], Bentham had no hierarchy of pleasure, and so went for quantity over quality (Mill classified intellectual pleasures as superior to base bestial pleasures; e.g. learning the violin was superior to having an orgy). 

The criteria for measuring whether actions are moral are as follows:<ref>[https://philosophy.lander.edu/ethics/calculus.html Philosophy 302: Ethics: The Hedonistic Calculus] ''Lander University''.</ref>
# Intensity: How strong is the pleasure?
# Duration: How long will the pleasure last?
# Certainty or uncertainty: How likely or unlikely is it that the pleasure will occur?
# Propinquity or remoteness: How soon will the pleasure occur?
# Fecundity: The probability that the action will be followed by sensations of the same kind.
# Purity: The probability that it will not be followed by sensations of the opposite kind.
# Extent: How many people will be affected?

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Helen Caldicott

[[File:Caldicott.jpg|thumb|right|165px|'''TLDR:''' Nuclear? BE AFRAID!]]{{nuclear}}
'''Helen Caldicott''' (1938–) is a key self-proclaimed leader of the [[anti-nuclear movement]].<ref>http://www.helencaldicott.com/books/if-you-love-this-planet/</ref> Never one to let facts get in the way of emotion,<ref>http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2011/apr/05/anti-nuclear-lobby-misled-world</ref> she has been relying on a [[medical]] [[argument from authority|degree]]<ref> http://joannenova.com.au/2013/02/abc-helen-caldicott-sinks-to-mocking-the-unwell-monckton-responds/</ref> and misinformation<ref> http://www.ntanet.net/holloway.html</ref> to spread [[radiophobia]] since the 1970s.<ref>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/marianne-schnall/an-interview-with-environ_b_1500898.html</ref> Whether it's claiming millions of deaths from the [[Chernobyl|Chernobyl Disaster]]<ref>http://www.theguardian.com/environment/georgemonbiot/2011/apr/13/anti-nuclear-lobby-interrogate-beliefs</ref> or raving about a [[WHO-IAEA conspiracy]],<ref>http://www.nuclearfreeplanet.org/blogs/who-and-why-they-should-not-be-in-bed-with-the-iaea.html</ref> she will be there, trying to get her picture on TV while attempting to name-drop her way to credibility.<ref> http://iview.abc.net.au/programs/one-plus-one/NU1452H010S00</ref> She could be seen as a living example of the [[Dunning-Kruger effect]] in action.
She advocates for "lighting with candles instead of lightbulbs, in the effort of reducing energy consumption."<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qaptvhky8IQ</ref><ref>This would actually be ''less'' energy efficient... it's just easier to ignore the source of the energy.</ref>

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Hendrik Möbus

[[File:Hendrik Möbus.jpg|thumb|right|165px|Möbus.]]{{nazism}}
'''Hendrik Möbus''' (1976-) is the [[Germany|German]] version of [[Varg Vikernes]]: a [[neo-Nazi]] black metal musician who murdered, together with his bandmates in the group Absurd, a 15-year-old boy named Sandro Beyer in 1993.

After violating parole in 1998, he escaped to the [[United States]] and stayed with [[William Luther Pierce]]<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20170910063426/https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/intelligence-report/2000/arrest-german-neo-nazi-reveals-growing-internationalization-white-power-music-scene "Arrest of German neo-Nazi reveals growing internationalization of 'white power' music scene," Southern Poverty Law Center ''Intelligence Report'', Fall 2000 (Dec. 6, 2000), accessed Sep. 18, 2019.]</ref> before being caught and sent back to [[Germany]], where he faced added [[prison]] time.

Released in 2007, Möbus has since continued promoting white supremacy, speaking for example at Pact of Steel 2018 conference along with [[Fróði Midjord]] and others.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20190313035218/http://militant.zone/pact2018/ Pact of Steel conference III 2018, ''The Militant Zone'', accessed Sep. 18, 2019.]</ref>

He currently spends his online time on [[Webshites]] like The Black Vault (a huge [[neo-nazi]] circlejerk), where his "reputation" is protected by his delusional buddies.

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Henry A. Wallace

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[[file:Henry A. Wallace.jpg|upright|thumb|Wallace looking at something interesting.]]{{uspolitics}}
'''Henry Agard "Loony Toons" Wallace''' {{lived|1888|1965}} was the [[Vice President of the United States|Vice President]] of the [[United States]] during [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]]'s third term as [[President of the United States|president]], from 1941 to 1945. He was also the secretary of Agriculture from 1933 to 1940, for most of Roosevelt's first two terms, then led the Commerce Department briefly under Roosevelt and [[Harry S. Truman]] after he was circulated out as VP; Truman fired him in 1946.

Wallace was relatively intelligent, absurdly [[Liberalism|liberal]] for his day (opposing [[segregation]] and [[Sexism|sex discrimination]] in the era when half the [[Democratic Party]] voted down a federal anti-lynching bill) ... and just a little bit of a kook. His downfall was ultimately a result of anti-[[Asia]]n racism, [[red-baiting]], and back-room jockeying.

After a long and public pro-[[Soviet Union|Soviet]] record during the [[World War II|war]], the Democratic Party bosses decided they wanted to slide into the VP seat a more hardline figure: Harry Truman. After FDR dropped dead, Truman inherited an alliance with [[Joseph Stalin]], which soon [[Cold War|broke down]].

Not having been in the right place at the right time to slide into the [[White House]], in 1945, he ran as a third-party candidate for president in 1948 as a Progressive Party candidate against Truman, [[Thomas Dewey]] (a liberal [[Republican Party|Republican]]), and [[Strom Thurmond]] (a [[States' Rights Democratic Party|Dixiecrat]]). He and Thurmond got about 2% each of the popular vote, which [[Dewey Defeats Truman|didn't keep Truman from winning]]. Wallace ran to the left of Truman, in part against the Cold War and the emerging new [[Red Scare]]. Other parts of his program included [[universal health care]], a [[minimum wage]], nationalizing the [[energy]] industry, and more regulations on most other industries. The [[Communist Party USA]] endorsed Wallace in a "popular front" strategy that year rather than run their own candidate.

Wallace was also into all sorts of nonsensical [[bullshit]]. In a twirly-whirly trip from [[Presbyterianism]] to [[Roman Catholicism]] before becoming a High Church [[Episcopal Church|Episcopalian]] [[Church of England|Anglican]], he got into the [[woo]] of a [[guru]] named Nicholas Roerich. His private correspondence with Roerich was made public by his enemies, and they were cynical enough to call him insane for wishing blessings from the wrong god in his salutations, while simultaneously invoking [[Jesus Christ]] being outlawed by the damned Commies.

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Henry Bauer

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'''Henry H. Bauer''' (born 1931) is a former professor of chemistry at Virginia Tech and notorious [[crank magnetism|crank magnet]]. In the realm of [[pseudoscience]] he is probably best known for his writings [[HIV/AIDS denialism|denying that HIV causes AIDS]],<ref>[http://www.collegiatetimes.com/news/ex-prof-says-hiv-not-sexually-transmitted/article_deca2c85-58c9-5317-b3b8-b37259c4b766.html Ex-prof says HIV not sexually transmitted], Collegiate Times</ref><ref>[http://www.dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11127-007-9233-2 Favorable review of one of his HIV/AIDS denialist books]</ref><ref>[https://respectfulinsolence.com/2011/11/15/hivaids-denialism-versus-science/ Debunking of his denialist arguments by the blogger Orac]</ref> though he is also known for arguing in favor of the existence of the [[Loch Ness Monster]].<ref>[http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.500.8880 The case for the Loch Ness ‘‘Monster’’: The scientific evidence], Journal of Scientific Exploration</ref> He was formerly the editor-in-chief of the "peer-reviewed" [[pseudojournal]] ''the [[Journal of Scientific Exploration]]''.<ref>[https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2015.00030/full Commentary on “Questioning the HIV–AIDS hypothesis: 30 years of dissent”]</ref>
==External links==
*[https://henryhbauer.homestead.com/ Personal website] (warning: contains high levels of crankery)
*[http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=vt/viblbv00558.xml Archive of his papers on all sorts of topics]
*[https://debunkingdenialism.com/2012/01/16/the-breathtaking-inanity-of-henry-bauers-hiv-aids-denialist-balderdash/ One of many blog posts on the Debunking Denialism blog debunking Bauer's bogus HIV/AIDS denialist arguments]
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Henry Heimlich

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'''Henry Judah “Hank” Heimlich, M.D.''' {{lived|1920|2016}} was the inventor of the maneuver that bears his name (also known as abdominal thrusts).<ref>[https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/henry-j-heimlich-inventor-of-lifesaving-technique-for-choking-victims-dies-at-96/2016/12/17/8ec77758-243c-11e6-8690-f14ca9de2972_story.html?utm_term=.972b8cfcb311 Henry J. Heimlich, inventor of lifesaving technique for choking victims, dies at 96], ''[[The Washington Post]]'', 17 December 2016.</ref> As such, he is responsible for saving the lives of untold numbers of people, quite likely including someone that you know. Heimlich was a chest surgeon, and years before inventing the Heimlich maneuver, he also invented a special valve that kept the lungs of people with thoracic injuries — notably soldiers who had been shot — from filling up with blood. 

Unfortunately, Heimlich later became a noted flogger of bad medicine. His descent from revolutionary medical genius to [[woo]] meister began when he started to advocate using the Heimlich maneuver as a treatment and even a preventative measure for asthma. He then began to argue that the move was the best course of action for drowning, something the American Red Cross advises strongly against (mouth-to-mouth resuscitation is still the way to go). 

{{quackbox|For years Heimlich and his associates have promoted abdominal thrusts—the so-called Heimlich maneuver—as a first measure in the treatment of near-drowning. His advocacy appears to be based on observations of eight cases. Heimlich and his spokespeople  have regularly stated that “thousands of lives” have been saved by use of abdominal thrusting. However, they have produced no objectively collected, widely accepted data to support the claim.|<ref>Robert Baratz, [https://quackwatch.org/11Ind/heimlich/ Dr. Henry Heimlich Widely Criticized]. Quackwatch, 23 October 2008.</ref>}}

Later, Heimlich boasted that he developed potential cures for [[cancer]] and [[Lyme disease]], as well as an [[AIDS]] cure that uses what he calls "[[malaria]] therapy". This involves infecting a patient with malaria, with the logic that the high fever kills viruses.

His wife, Jane Murray Heimlich (1926-2012), daughter of dance instructor Arthur Murray, was a promoter of [[alternative medicine]].<ref>[http://www.the-sidebar.com/search/label/jane%20heimlich Articles tagged with "Jane Heimlich"], the-sidebar.com.</ref><ref>Maesimund B. Panos and Jane Heimlich, [http://www.narayana-verlag.com/Homeopathic-Medicine-At-Home-Maesimund-B-Panos-Jane-Heimlich/b9248 Homeopathic Medicine At Home]. ISBN 978-0-8747-7195-4</ref>

==External links==
*[http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000047.htm How to save a choking victim using the Heimlich maneuver].
*[http://www.quackwatch.org/11Ind/wulsin.html "Victoria Wulsin Linked to Unethical 'Malariotherapy' Experiments"] at [[Quackwatch]].
*[http://medfraud.info/ Website by Peter Heimlich], Henry's son, where he criticizes his father, plus his blog, [http://www.the-sidebar.com The Sidebar], where he also criticizes alt med.

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Henry Lee Lucas

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'''Henry Lee Lucas''' {{lived|1936|2001}} was, or perhaps wasn't, a serial killer (although he was a known [[Domestic violence|wife beater]], [[Child sexual abuse|child molester]], and possible [[necrophilia]]c, according to A&E's ''Biography'') and was walking proof of just how idiotic the justice system can be when you push it. In 1960, Lucas was arrested and convicted of [[murder]]ing his mother. In 1983, on trial for murder for the second time in the state of [[Fun:Texas|Texas]] and realizing that he had no chance of a fair trial, Lucas decided to symbolically protest his fate by confessing to the murder in question and 600 additional murders. Amazingly, not only was his confession accepted, he began being treated like a celebrity by the police.

This began a period of Lucas touring around the country, going to police precincts in various locations where murders had been committed, even when he couldn't possibly have been there at the time, just to confess and get the crime off the books. By the end, he had confessed to committing 3,000 murders, generally being allowed to read the files on them first to make sure his information would check out.

While he was on [[capital punishment|death row]] for a while, the then-governor of Texas, [[George W. Bush]], made one of his few good decisions and ended the whole travesty by commuting his sentence to life (the only death row inmate he ever commuted).  He died of heart failure in 2001 at the age of 64.

While most of his confessions were ludicrous, he ''was'' convicted of two murders, he was a known "[[homosexuality|companion]]" of serial killer Ottis Toole, and during a few of his confessions, he seemed to have information he had not been given ahead of time, so whether or not he was actually a serial killer depends on who you ask.

==External links==
*[http://www.houseofhorrors.com/lucas.htm Henry Lee Lucas: Portrait of a Serial Killer]
*''[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1336621/ Drifter: Henry Lee Lucas]'' — a movie based on the killer. At 4.0 out of 10 from IMDB, you ''know'' it's good!
*''[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099763/ Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer]'' — a much better movie about the case.
*''[https://www.netflix.com/title/80213588 The Confession Killer]''
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Hepatitis

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'''Hepatitis''' is a spectrum of diseases with various causes involved, the most common being infection by [[Hepatitis B|several]] strains of hepatitis [[virus]] and [[alcohol]]ism. The nature of some of the viruses having almost no cure (if any) results in the disease being a buzzword for various woosters to push their [[food woo|wootrition]] and [[Alternative medicine|snake oil]].

==What it does, how it spreads==
The underlying causes of hepatitis causes damage to liver cells as in necrosis. The liver possessing some amount of regenerative capacity allows it to recover after some amount of repeated damages but eventually the complete regeneration capacity gets overused and {{wpl|Cirrhosis|scarring occurs|.}} Hepatitis A and E are mainly spread by contaminated food and [[water]]. [[Hepatitis B]] is mainly [[Sexually transmitted disease|sexually transmitted]], but may also be passed from mother to baby during [[pregnancy]] or [[childbirth]]. Both hepatitis B and hepatitis C are commonly spread through infected blood such as may occur during needle sharing by intravenous drug users. Hepatitis D can only infect people already infected with hepatitis B. Alcoholic hepatitis spreads via [[alcohol|forbidden Jesus waters turned red]]. As of this writing, only hepatitis A and B are preventable via vaccination,<ref>[https://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/prevention-15/vaccines/need-hepatitis-vaccines Do I Need the Hepatitis A and B Vaccines?] by Neha Pathak (July 12, 2017) ''WebMD''.</ref> a massive pain for the [[antivaxxer]]s who want vaccines gone. Both hepatitis B and C cause [[cancer]] in humans.<ref>[https://monographs.iarc.fr/iarc-monographs-on-the-evaluation-of-carcinogenic-risks-to-humans-62/ ''Hepatitis Viruses''] Volume 59 IARC Monograph Series (1994) ''International Agency for Research on Cancer''.</ref>

==Wootrition==
The nature of Hepatitis being almost incurable turns most patients into terminal desperate crazies looking for a cure, which is where every [[Nutritionist|wootritionists]] and doctor [[woo]]s (not to be confused with {{wpl|Doctor Who|that doctor}}) jump in with their liver [[cleanse]]s, hepatoprotective agents, [[Herbal supplement|herbal cures]] that [[Big Pharma]] suppresses and so on. None of the cures work.

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Herb Titus

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'''Herb Titus''' {{lived|1937|2021}} was an [[United States|American]] attorney, [[Author|writer]], and [[politician]]. He was a strong supporter of the [[Christian Reconstructionism]] movement and often falsely portrayed himself as an American historian, misleading the public with [[pseudohistory]].

He was the author of a book entitled God, Man and Law: The Biblical Principles.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20111007031641/https://www.spirit-filled.org/titus.html</ref>

==Education and degrees==
Titus held a law degree from Harvard University and a B.S. degree in Political Science from the University of Oregon, from which he graduated Phi Beta Kappa.

==Vice-Presidential candidate==
Titus ran as Vice-President of the United States in the 1996 U.S. presidential election on the [[Constitution Party]] ticket.

==Religious beliefs==
In 1975, Titus was dramatically converted to Christ on the last weekend of July. In 1976-77, he studied with Dr. Francis Schaeffer at L'Abri in Switzerland. In 1979, he left his tenured position as professor of law at the University of Oregon, becoming a member of the charter faculty of a Christian law school at Oral Roberts University.

==Political agendas==
Along with [[Roy Moore]], Titus was an original drafter of the Constitution Restoration Act.<ref>[http://www.waff.com/Global/story.asp?S=1644862 Judge Roy Moore Introduces Constitution Restoration Act 2004] WAFF News, February 13, 2004</ref> This Act sought to take out of federal court jurisdiction cases that involved public officials who acknowledged God as the sovereign source of law, liberty, or government and provided for the [[impeachment]] of federal judges who disregarded the act. The act did not pass either time it was introduced.

==See also==
*[[Christian Reconstructionism]]

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