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Ipse dixit

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{{cquote|If you need to invoke your academic pedigree or job title for people to believe what you say, then you need a better argument.|||[[Neil deGrasse Tyson]]<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20190801051151/https://twitter.com/neiltyson/status/370994287510450176?lang=en If you need to invoke your academic pedigree or job title for people to believe what you say, then you need a better argument] by Neil deGrasse Tyson (12:41 PM - 23 Aug 2013) ''Twitter'' (archived from August 1, 2019).</ref>}}

'''''Ipse dixit''''' is a [[Latin]] phrase meaning "He himself said it."<ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPQE3GfkrOo …And it's greatly to his credit, That he is an Englishman! That he is an E-E-E-E-Ennggglishman!] ''HMS Pinafore'', Gilbert and Sullivan.</ref> It refers to what is basically an [[Argumentum ad verecundiam|appeal to authority]], with oneself as the authority. In other words, the perpetrator of an ipse-dixitism makes an unfounded assertion and expects his word to be the final say.

For example, Richard Mains asserts a privileged perspective because of his work in space industry without explaining the logic of the relationship between his claims and his claimed experience.<ref>[http://www.commercialspacegateway.com/item/28433-spacefaring-2-paths-to-realization Spacefaring (2): Paths to Realization] by Richard Mains (08/21/09) ''Commercial Space Gateway'' (archived from September 11, 2009).</ref>

Good old [[Ayn Rand]] used her genius to take ''ipse dixit'' to a quite superior level by quoting herself as an expert indirectly via some of her own made-up characters in novels. For instance, her book ''The Virtue of Selfishness'' states at the beginning, "Since I am to speak on the [[Objectivist]] [[Ethics]], I shall begin by quoting its best representative — John Galt…"<ref>[http://sqapo.com/rand.htm Ayn Rand, The Virtue of Selfishness] by Glyn Hughes, ''Squashed Philosophers''.</ref><ref>''The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism'' by Ayn Rand (1964) Signet.</ref>{{rp|13}} [[John Galt]] is a fictitious character in Rand's novel ''[[Atlas Shrugged]]''.

==Form==
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|2=A says that X is true.
|4=(implicit) A gets to decide because A is an expert.
|5=C|6=X is true.
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==See also==
*[[Argument by assertion]]
*[[Vicarious autotheism]]

==External links==
*[http://ksuweb.kennesaw.edu/~shagin/logfal-pbc-falseauthority.htm False Authority]

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Iridium flare

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[[File:Iridium-Flare.jpg|thumb|left|keep watching the skies.]]
An '''Iridium flare''' or '''satellite flare''' is a flash of light in the sky caused by sunlight reflected off an artificial satellite. More precisely, the term "Iridium flare" refers specifically to a flare produced by the first Iridium series of communication satellites, whose large, reflective, panel-like antennae caused very bright, predictable flares.

When they occurred, they could be the brightest things in the night sky and, because of the speed at which satellites orbit, could appear to move very quickly. The flares were short-lived, as the satellite's solar orientation and angle relative to observers on the ground changed fast with the satellite's orbital motion and the [[rotation of the Earth]]. As a result of their unique appearance and general ignorance about Iridium flares, Iridium flares were one of the phenomena most commonly mistaken for [[UFO]]s and [[extraterrestrial|little green men]], second only to {{wpl|light pillar||s}} and refracted light from celestial bodies.

In the late 2010s, Iridium Communications replaced its original communication satellites with a new series called [https://www.iridium.com/blog/iridium-next-review/ Iridium NEXT]. These provide higher bandwidth, but have a different design that does not produce the iconic flares. Most of the original satellites were deorbited in December 2019, and Iridium flares have become correspondingly extremely uncommon. Similar flashes are, however, still produced by some other satellites.

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==External links==
* [http://www.heavens-above.com/ Heavens Above] provides a collection of online astronomy tools, mainly centered around satellite tracking, including prediction of satellite and ISS flyovers and Iridium flares
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yulzAk25b10 YouTube video of a guy catching a predicted Iridium flare]
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iftO1k41fC4 A zoomed-in video of another flare], note the drastic increase in brightness
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Irritable bowel syndrome

'''Irritable bowel syndrome''' (IBS) is a set of symptoms including stomach cramps, bloating, diarrhea and other abnormalities of bowel habit. It is a functional or symptomatic disorder: though it may have an underlying organic cause such as celiac disease, it generally does not.<ref>[http://www.quackwatch.com/03HealthPromotion/ibs.html IBS], [[Quackwatch]].</ref>

As a diffuse, distressing, cyclic disorder with no single cause it is, needless to say, ripe for exploitation by [[quack]]s, [[woo]]-mongers and other frauds. A search for "natural remedies for irritable bowel" turns up over a million hits, with [[Joseph Mercola]] at the head of the list. 'Nuff said.

Medical treatment for symptomatic relief includes butylscopolamine (trade name Buscopan) for bloating and cramps and loperamide for diarrhea. Dietary modification may reduce the severity and frequency of attacks, as can lifestyle changes (reducing stress, for example).<ref>[http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/Irritable-bowel-syndrome Irritable bowel syndrome] at NHS Choices.</ref>

Quack treatments are legion. Some quacks claim to "cure" it (despite the lack of any known distinct cause), others claim to improve or manage it. Some of the treatments offered are plausible… but plenty of others flip off the diving board backwards into a pool of steaming [[Bullshit|horse-shit]].<ref>[http://ibs.about.com/b/2011/03/09/watch-out-for-ibs-quacks.htm Watch out for IBS quacks], Barbara Bolen.</ref> You can always tell if a purported cure for IBS is quackery: it purports to be a cure for IBS.<ref>[http://www.theibsnetwork.org/whatisibs.asp What is IBS?], IBS network.</ref>

The two chief dangers of quack cures for IBS are: becoming convinced of the virtue of quackery; and delaying medical diagnosis, if there is an underlying organic cause such as [[cancer]] or celiac disease.

==See also==
*[[Feces therapy]]
*[[Konstantin Monastyrsky]]

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Iscador

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'''Iscador&reg;''' is an [[alternative medicine|alternative]] [[patent medicine]] [[cancer]] treatment that uses extracts of European mistletoe, ''Viscum album''. It was invented by [[Rudolf Steiner]] as part of [[anthroposophy]], though it's not clear on what basis he thought it would work.

Unsurprisingly, it does bugger-all to treat cancer. It kills cancer cells ''in vitro'' (which, in alternative medicine terms, is huge success), so is the subject of continuing research, but has shown no clinical effectiveness as a drug.<ref name=cancer.gov />

Surprisingly, it ''might'' do a little to alleviate the side effects of [[chemotherapy]] and radiotherapy.<ref name=cancer.gov2>National Cancer Institute. [http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/pdq/cam/mistletoe/patient/18.cdr#Section_18 5. What preclinical (laboratory or animal) studies have been conducted using mistletoe?]</ref> Research is ongoing.

As a popular form of [[cancer woo]], it is highly controlled in the US to keep the [[quack]]s out. You can only even import the mistletoe extracts into the US for approved research or for "individual use," and then have your quack doctor inject it for you.<ref name=cancer.gov>National Cancer Institute. "[http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/pdq/cam/mistletoe/HealthProfessional/page4 Mistletoe Extracts (PDQ).]"</ref> It's apparently readily available in Eastern Europe, though.

Although the mistletoe plant and berries are poisonous, the extract is not considered likely to harm you directly.<ref>Unless you are the Norse deity Balder</ref> Particularly when, as is common, it's prepared [[homeopathic]]ally.

==See also==
*[[Carnivora]]
*[[Michael Uzick]]

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Ishmael

[[File:François-Joseph_Navez_-_Agar_et_Ismaël_dans_le_désert_(cropped).jpg|right|thumb|165px|Watching boys nearly die of thirst is apparenty something God does for fun.]]
:''Not to be confused with the narrator of the novel {{wpl|Moby-Dick}}.''
'''Ishmael''' was the illegitimate son of the prophet [[Abraham]] by his wife's maidservant. He is held by [[Islam|Muslims]] to have been the sacrifice offered to [[Allah]] by Abraham, and also to have been the direct ancestor of the prophet [[Muhammad]]. [[Judaism|Jews]] and [[Christianity|Christians]] believe that it was [[Isaac]] whom Abraham tried to sacrifice to [[YHWH]]. As evidence for the patriarchs is minimal at best, who can tell which way it supposedly happened?  If, indeed, it happened at all.

In one of many examples of God and the patriarchs being cruel, Abraham was told by his wife Sara and by God to cast out Ishmael and his mother Hagar, who was Abraham's concubine. Ishmael nearly died in the desert before God told them where to find water. ({{bible|Genesis|21|8|21}}) He spent the rest of his life in the desert and according to tradition was ancestor of 12 tribes including the "pure" Arabs of the Arabian peninsula, whose number included the prophet Muhammad.<ref>{{wpa|Ishmael}}</ref> (Today the word "Arab" has a much greater geographical extent than those allegedly descended from Ishmael, if it matters.)
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IslamQA (中文)

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'''伊斯兰问答网站'''（英语 '''IslamQA'''）是沙特阿拉伯教士谢赫穆罕默德·萨利赫·穆南志德的网站。<ref>http://theislamicfarrightinbritain.wordpress.com/muhammad-salih-al-munajjid/</ref> 它是一个问题与答案的列表；答案的根据是[[fundamentalism#Islamic fundamentalism|伊斯兰原教旨主义]]。该网站有些文章含有严重冒犯人类基本道德的极端谬论，并不一定代表普通穆斯林人的想法。

==危险极端言论==
极端主义披着宗教的衣服，提倡各种违反人类基本道德底线的荒唐谬论。可怕的是，因为极端主义者声称神支持自己的想法，人们容易质疑自己的理性和基本价值观，陷入极端主义的陷阱。

穆罕默德·萨利赫·穆南志德在他网站上称，男人有权拥有女[[slavery|奴隶]]并且与她们进行性关系，老婆不认许制止或表达反对。<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20160106101656/http://islamqa.info/en/10382</ref>

网站称，[[homosexuality|同性恋者]]因判[[death penalty|死刑]]，解释说同性恋是“最严重的罪之一“<ref>http://islamqa.info/en/ref/38622/homosexuality</ref> 离开伊斯兰教，<ref>http://islamqa.info/en/ref/12406/</ref>修炼[[witchcraft|巫术]]，<ref>http://islamqa.info/en/ref/69914/</ref>，或亵渎先知[[Muhammed|穆罕迈德]]的人也都必须处死。（如果亵渎者忏悔，他可能会在宣判日被原谅，但他仍需被处死）。<ref>http://islamqa.info/en/ref/22809</ref>

另外，伊斯兰问答网站建议其读者不要与非穆斯林人有亲密的友谊，<ref>http://islamqa.info/en/ref/2179</ref> 为[[female genital mutilation|残割女性生殖器]]做辩解，<ref>http://islamqa.info/en/ref/60314/female%20circumcision</ref> 说女性不应担任公职，<ref>http://islamqa.info/en/ref/20677</ref> 并且提倡一个男人可以与一位六岁女孩结婚，只要等到她身体长大能够支持性行为知后再完婚这个支持[[pedophilia|恋童癖]]的荒唐无道德理论。（在有关案例中，先知穆罕迈德第三妻子啊伊沙完婚时年龄仅九岁）。<ref>http://www.islamqa.info/en/ref/1493/aisha</ref>

该网站也在[[jinn|镇尼（幽灵）]]这个话题上提供了“智慧”。网站警告，人们会被这些幽灵[[demonic possession|附身]]；<ref>http://www.islamqa.info/en/ref/1819/jinn</ref>幽灵有时会绑架人；<ref>http://www.islamqa.info/en/ref/7871/jinn</ref>厕所的肮脏为邪灵提供藏身之地，所以上厕所前必须念”以真主的名义，主啊，求你护佑我免遭男女恶魔的伤害。“.<ref>http://www.islamqa.info/en/ref/26816/jinn</ref>

===封建迷信===

有趣的是，伊斯兰问答网站有一次发表了名称”关于吃美人鱼的裁决“的文章（现在已被删除）。该文章开头讨论美人鱼是否存在，结论是“需要更深探讨”，然后引用多个伊斯兰学者的话提供关于是否可以食用美人鱼的想法。<ref>http://web.archive.org/web/20100503210918/http://www.islamqa.com/en/ref/8892/doc</ref>

==参见==

* [[Islamic Awakening|伊斯兰唤醒]]
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注：如果您现在在中国大陆，因IslamQA网站含有极端谬论和错误内容，IslamQA网站已被封闭，访问该网站可能违法。
* [http://www.islamqa.info/en/ IslamQA英语网站]
* [http://www.islamqa.info/zh/ IslamQA中文网站]
* [http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Muhammad_Munajid More lunacy from Muhammad Salih Al-Munajjid]
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Islamic Party of Britain

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The '''Islamic Party of Britain''' was an Islamist political party with the slogans "Common Sense" and "For A Better Future With [[Islam]]". It was founded in 1989 and (alhamdulillah) has been defunct since 2006, and its website doesn't appear to have been updated since 2005. Thank God for small mercies.

Members of the party have supported [[George Galloway|Galloway]]'s [[Respect Party]]; one of their leading members, home affairs spokesman {{wpl|Mohammad Naseem}}, stood for and funded the party.<ref name=GayGrauniad />

==Policy on homosexuality==
"Whilst few dare speak out against the practice of homosexuality due to the pressure exerted by gay rights groups and echoed in the media, the majority of the population do not regard it as an acceptable way of life", reads the party's official website. "Islam condemns and outlaws homosexuality... the rules are that the state does not interfere in the privacy of people's homes, but it would need to safeguard public decency by preventing any public advocacy for homosexuality." The site assures its readership that the death penalty would be reserved for "a public display of lewdness witnessed by several people."<ref name=GayParty>{{cite web|url=|title=[http://www.mustaqim.co.uk/ipb-archive/question/ans41.htm Question Forum: Islamic View on Homosexuality]|work=Islamic Party of Britain}}</ref> One might be inclined to wonder [[Quran|where]] they got the requirement for several eyewitnesses.

The site goes on to compare homosexuality to [[pedophilia]], arguing that "both are unnatural and a danger to society. UK law, however, accepts one and outlaws the other, simply on the basis of greater pressure and support for the former." "God eradicated the city of Lot," it states; "in an Islamic ruling system, people may only decide their own affairs inasmuch as they do not transgress the clear boundaries already demarcated in the divine revelation."<ref name=GayParty/> Naturally, these wildly [[homophobic]] policies attracted the ire of LGBT rights advocates such as [[Peter Tatchell]].<ref name=GayGrauniad>{{cite news|url=|title=[http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2005/nov/25/uk.gayrights Gay group tells Galloway to cut ties with donor]|last=Muir|first=Hugh|date=25 November 2005|work=The Guardian}}</ref>

==External links==
* [http://www.islamicparty.com/default.htm Official website]

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Islamophilia

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'''Islamophilia''' is neologism attributed to [[right-wing]] [[crank]] [[Daniel Pipes]]<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20070602214925/http://larison.org/2007/05/29/ramadan-pipes-and-neocon-islamophilia/</ref> and is intended to denote the inverse to the concept of [[Islamophobia]]. [[Irony|Ironically]], as Pipes is himself a notably raving Islamophobe,<ref>http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Daniel_Pipes#So_what_does_Pipes_think_of_Muslims.3F</ref> the term is — at least in the context of Pipes using it — entirely reducible to a [[tu quoque]] [[snarl word]].

Literally translating to "[the] love of [[Islam]]", the term is intended to describe attitudes which are ''completely'' uncritical of Islam, and which conclude that Islam either ''lacks'' any negative attributes, or has ''only'' positive qualities. The question if [[Straw_man|people like this ''actually exist'' or not]] (outside of suicide bomber [[echo chamber]]s) remains open, however.

The outlook of Islamophilia would contend that the central theme of dogmatic Islam [[No_True_Scotsman|is actually ''irrelevant'']] to explaining the actions of terrorist groups such as [[DAESH]], concluding instead that even ''[[fundamentalist]]'' Islam just implies ''more of'' [[Code_word|the religion of peace]]. Obviously, a near-[[Poe's_Law|Poe]] position that is impossibly held in earnest by an educated person.

However, there actual Islamophiles exist, who admire the culture because of the attractive aspects of the religion. In some cases, this admiration and respect leads such people to convert to the religion and become Muslims themselves.

==See no evil, hear no evil==
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[[Nutpicking|Consummate]] [[Cultural relativism|cultural relativists]] would make for ideal Islamophiles, admiring the [[Appeal_to_tradition|exoticness of an ancient belief]] in a loving and peaceful sky patriarch, who ''[[Not_as_bad_as|only sometimes]]'' encourages murder, torture and extreme cruelty towards innocents, all the while brushing the vile treatment of women, homosexuals, atheists and anyone else who will not submit to a [[Theocracy|utopian muslim society]] under a very large carpet, encouraging some rather selective playing of the [[Nihilism|"Who am I to judge?"]]-card.

==The love of straw men?==
It is unclear to which extent Islamophiles actually exist in the west, as being one to the extent that Piper defines would require [[Willful_ignorance|willful ignorance of such obviously Islamic phenomena]] as [[DAESH]], [[Islamism]] generally, and [[Sharia law]] — including the quite explicit penalties it proscribes, including decapitations, amputations, stoning (not the [[Marijuana|pleasant kind]]), whippings and so on, often for ''very'' modest "[[Manufactroversy|crimes]]", such as simply being [[gay]] or [[Feminism|rejecting ''mandatory'' burka wearing]].

==See also==
*[[Islamophobia]] - its polar opposite.

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Isopathy

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'''Isopathy''' is a subform of [[homeopathy]] invented by Johann Joseph Wilhelm Lux in the 1830s. Rather than "like cures like" (which is based around symptoms), isopathy uses "the same thing cures the thing". i.e., isopathic preparations are made from the actual cause of the illness or its byproducts, such as pus.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20120115154756/http://www.altmedicinezone.com/homeopathy/what-is-isopathy AltMedZone: What is Isopathy?]</ref> This pus remains highly diluted, of course. Most "homeopathic vaccines" are made this way, differing from normal [[vaccine]]s by the [[potentisation]] process and the fact that live, rather than inactivated pathogens, are used.

==See also==
*[[Nosode]]

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JPANDS

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The '''''Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons''''' ('''''JPANDS'''''... 
why isn't it JA... ohhhhh
, formerly '''''Medical Sentinel''''') is the official journal of the [[Association of American Physicians and Surgeons]].  As such, you can pretty much expect what they publish to be crap, whether it be the link between [[vaccine hysteria|vaccinations]] and [[autism omnibus trial|autism]],<ref>8(4):103-107, 2003; 9(2):38-45, 2004; 9(3):66-67, 2004; 11(1):8-13, 2006</ref> the link between [[abortion]] and breast cancer,<ref>8(2):41-45, 2003; 10(1):11-14, 2005; 10(4):105-110, 2005; 12(2):38-39, 2007; 12(3):65, 2007; 12(3):72-78, 2007; 12(4):97-99, 2007; 13(1):12-15, 2008; 13(2):33, 2008</ref> or the link between potatoes and death.<ref>The last one's a lie, but did you know that 100% of the people who ate a potato in the 18<sup>th</sup> century are now dead?</ref> They've published material by some notorious [[crank]]s including the [[Geier family]].
Also, they have some [[HIV denial|AIDS-dissidents]].<ref>15(3):69-74, 2010</ref>


The archive can be found in their General Online National Access for Doctors and Surgeons.


==External links==
*[[Respectful Insolence]]: [http://web.archive.org/web/20090221143232/http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2009/02/the_journal_of_american_physicians_and_s.php The Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons: Medical "science" as dubious as it gets] (archived copy from February 21, 2009)

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Jack

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*[[Billy Jack]], film series by Tom Laughlin
*[[Jack Abramoff]], [[GOP]] [[lobbying|lobbyist]]
*Jackalope, a [[cryptid]] that is actually just a rabbit with [[cancer]]
*[[Jack Chick]], fundamentalist [[Christian]] comic artist
*[[Jack Cuozzo]], [[young-Earth creationist]]
*[[Fun:Jack Daniel's|Jack Daniel's]], a well-known brand of [[whiskey]]
*[[Jack Donovan]], "[[androphile|androphilic]]" [[MRA]]
*[[Jack Dorsey]], ex-CEO of ex-[[Twitter]]
*[[Jack Houck]], creator of the [[spoon bending party]]
*[[Jack Hyles]], ex-[[pastor]] of the First Baptist Church of Hammond, [[Indiana]]
*[[Jack Idema]], deceased [[America]]n [[vigilante]] and [[war criminal]]
*[[Jack Kennedy]], [[John F. Kennedy assassination conspiracy theories|assassinated]] [[POTUS|U.S. President]]
*[[Jack Mormon]], a non-practicing cultural [[Mormon]]
*[[Jack o' lantern]], a carved pumpkin for [[Halloween]]
*[[Jack Parsons]], rocket scientist and [[occult]]ist
*[[Jack Posobiec]], [[alt-right]] [[troll]]
*[[Jack the Ripper]], infamous London serial killer
*Jack Ruby, [[Lee Harvey Oswald]]'s assassin
*[[Jack Straw]], former British [[Labour]] MP
*[[Jack Thompson]], [[law]]yer who went after [[video game]]s
*[[Jack Van Impe]], [[televangelist]]
*[[Spring Heeled Jack]], Victorian [[England]] [[urban legend]]
*Union Jack, flag of the [[United Kingdom]]
Jack Cuozzo

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'''Jack Cuozzo''' {{lived|1937|2017}}<ref>[https://obits.nj.com/obituaries/starledger/obituary.aspx?n=john-cuozzo&pid=184712836& Dr. John Cuozzo 1937-2017], obits.nj.com, 26 March 2017.</ref> was a [[dentist]] and [[Young Earth Creationist]] who believed that [[Neanderthal]]s are ordinary [[human]]s who lived for hundreds of years, causing their skulls to continue to grow.  His career as a dentist was actually somewhat [[Irony|ironic]], as he should have known that age can be judged in fossilized individuals based on an examination of several types of tooth development, and that such research has confirmed that Neanderthals did '''not''' live for hundreds of years.<ref>[http://www.pnas.org/content/104/51/20220 Rapid dental development in a Middle Paleolithic Belgian Neanderthal], PNAS (full text available at link)</ref>

==Scientific qualifications==
BS, biology major, philosophy minor, Georgetown University. MS, oral biology, Loyola University / Chicago Graduate School of Dentistry (Certificate of Specialty in Orthodontics). DDS, University of Pennsylvania.<ref name=AIG>https://answersingenesis.org/bios/jack-cuozzo/</ref>

==External links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20240415120643/https://www.jackcuozzo.com/ Official website] (From Wayback Machine)

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