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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">So for all my blog readers this is a diatribe I wrote for a rhetoric class I am in at UC Berkeley as a response to an hour long discussion we had in class. I refer often to things that happened in class but I think it is clear enough that you don't need to have been in my class to understand the point. Trump is a fucking asshole.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">In class on
Tuesday we spoke about some very contentious issues surrounding Donald Trump
and the upcoming presidential election.
While our school has its liberal reputation for very good reason, I have
no doubt that there are at least a few in our class and many on campus who
support Trump. For this reason, I am
writing this, in order to address some of the comments made in class, as well
as the issues I hoped to raise but was unable to because so many people wanted
to speak. Since this is a class in
rhetoric we focus on words. I have been
reminded many times by our professor that words matter. This is true, words do indeed matter, but
only in the context of the facts that surround them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Trigger
Warning: I will be reprinting here Trumps comments regarding women in the video
released over the weekend so that those who haven’t seen what he said can know.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I will also be
using foul language because curse words are able to convey a certain intensity
and emotion that is valuable when using a written medium rather than verbal
communication. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Early
in our class on Tuesday I referred to Donald Trump as a steaming pile of human
waste. I want to begin by apologizing
for this characterization as it is abjectly wrong. The much more correct characterization that I
should have used to refer to Donald as is a flaming bag of dog shit; however, I
was concerned about using such language in class. Trump is a bigot, a racist, a xenophobe, and
an all-around asshole. I fully contend
that being a Trump supporter in itself is an exercise in self-delusion and truth
avoidance. Trump supporters in the media
have irreparably damaged American discourse with their partisan bullshit. They are able to deflect and deny all of
Trump’s wrongs in order to maintain the false reality they desperately want to
believe. The truth, however, is
undeniable and no mere words can ever change it. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">All People Deserve Respect, Freedom
And Equality Regardless Of Race, Gender, Creed, Orientation, Or Any Other
Categorization.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I
have but one simple caveat for that statement.
A person no longer deserves respect when they have proven themselves to
be unworthy of it. Trump, more than
almost any public figure today has definitely proven himself to be unworthy of
respect. The United States has reached a
point in our history where all of the progress we have made through science,
logic, reason, and cooperation threaten to be turned around. I would never suggest that Trump has
accomplished this himself, rather that he has given a public voice to the worst
dregs of our society; people who had remained relatively silent on the national
level for a long time because most people had ignored them. We can ignore this threat no longer.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The
first issue I want to address from class is a comment made that Secretary
Clinton could possibly be in prison because of the issue with her Emails. Those of us who have been motivated enough to
do the research know that this claim is almost certainly abjectly false. It is propaganda widely circulated through
the right wing and has been baselessly used to demean her. I do not expect anyone to take my word for
it, but instead you can listen to a Harvard educated Lawyer, Andrew Torrez, explain
clearly and efficiently why this is so on a podcast called Opening Arguments by
following <a href="http://openargs.com/oa13-hillary-clintons-damned-emails/">this link.</a> You can also read
his accompanying blog article on the same topic<a href="http://patorrez.com/2016/09/25/lock-her-up/"> here</a>. And of course, there are the words of FBI director
James Comey<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Although there is evidence of
potential violations of the statutes regarding the handling of classified
information, our judgment is that no reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case.
… In looking back at our investigations into mishandling or removal of
classified information, we cannot find a case that would support bringing
criminal charges on these facts. All the cases prosecuted involved some
combination of: clearly intentional and willful mishandling of classified
information; or vast quantities of materials exposed in such a way as to
support an inference of intentional misconduct; or indications of disloyalty to
the United States; or efforts to obstruct justice. We do not see those things
here.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Secretary
Clinton does not deny that using a separate email server was a stupid decision,
she accepts full responsibility and has said so multiple times, but under the
claims of Donald Trump that she should be in prison are perverse exploitation
of what is in reality a dumb mistake.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">But
Trump’s absolutely fucking idiotic call to lock her up is completely emblematic
of his campaign. As we all saw in the
debate earlier this week he was unable to answer most questions and merely
resorted to attacking Secretary Clinton.
When asked what he would do about Syria Trump instead turned to
attacking Secretary Clinton. He actually
had to be asked the question a second time by moderator Martha Raddatz after he
used his initial 2 minutes on attacks.
This is a man whose campaign is so disturbingly distanced from reality
that his vice presidential candidate is an evolution denier. I have a shrimp in my fish tank that is more
intelligent than Donald Trump, but none of this comes even close to Trumps
treatment of women, minorities, and the LGBTQ community. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">While
Trump continually tries to claim that he truly cares about African Americans
his past is riddled with disturbing truths that show otherwise. In 1973 Trump and his father were sued for discrimination
in housing practices. The lawsuit
claimed that Trump Management Inc. (of which Donald Trump was then the
president) either refused to rent to African Americans in some cases, or in
others offered only apartments in buildings that were primarily inhabited by
other African Americans. While the
lawsuit was eventually settled without an admission of guilt it is but one
event in a long chain of discriminatory actions and statements that plague the
entire Trump family. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Not
long ago, Donald Trump Jr. tweeted a picture of a bowl of skittles with the
caption “If I had a bowl of skittles and I told you just three would kill you.
Would you take a handful?” This
disgustingly simple minded evaluation of the Syrian refugee issue is absolutely
disgraceful. Before responding to it
myself I want to give you the words of Comedian and magician Eli Bosnick who
created a minor internet sensation with his response. He tweeted the image of the same bowl of
skittles with the following caption.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“If I gave you a bowl of skittles and
three of them were poison would you still eat them?”<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Are the other skittles human lives?”<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“What?”<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Like. Is there a good chance. A
really good chance. I would be saving someone from a war zone and probably
their life if I ate a skittle?”<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Well sure. But the point-”<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“I would eat the skittles.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Ok-well the point is-”<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“I would GORGE myself on skittles. I
would eat every single fucking skittle I could find. I would STUFF myself with
skittles. And when I found the poison skittle and died I would make sure to
leave behind a legacy of children and of friends who also ate skittle after
skittle until there were no skittles to be eaten. And each person who found the
poison skittle we would weep for. We would weep for their loss, for their
sacrifice, and for the fact that they did not let themselves succumb to fear
but made the world a better place by eating skittles.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Because your REAL question…the one
you hid behind a shitty little inaccurate, insensitive, dehumanizing racist
little candy metaphor is,<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> IS MY LIFE MORE IMPORTANT THAN THOUSANDS UPON
THOUSANDS OF MEN, WOMEN, AND TERRIFIED CHILDREN…<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">… and what kind of monster would
think the answer to that question… is yes?”<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The
truth is powerful. The truth is that we
live in one of the most prosperous and well off nations in the world, but many
of us suffer from the delusion that we have no responsibility to the rest of
the world. That these imaginary
boundaries that we drew and we named countries have any more meaning than we
give them and that for some reason being born in one as opposed to another
makes our lives more valuable. Trump
initially called for a ban on all Muslims entering the United States, and as I
have made very clear in class I am an atheist.
I have no love for Islam, or Christianity, or Judaism, or any other
religion across the planet, but I do not hate the person who believes something
because it is what they were taught. One’s
religious beliefs are usually just a result of what you were taught by your
family and the people around you, and they are no reason to hate the
person. The truth is indeed that the
vast majority of all religious people are peaceful. The vast majority of all non-religious people
are peaceful, but Trump wants to prevent thousands of people from escaping the
absolute horrors of war simply because his xenophobic little mind can’t
comprehend that he is no better than they.
Look up pictures of the city of Damascus before and after the civil
war. The difference is heart
wrenching. Any person who can look upon
them and feel no ounce of sympathy, no desire to help in any way possible is a
cruel heartless bastard who does not deserve to be our president.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">On
LGBTQ rights Trump’s position is as hypocritical as humanly possible. Trump openly says that he is a better choice
for the LBGT community while also openly opposing marriage equality. His reason? Of course it is blame Secretary
Clinton. Since the Clinton foundation once
received donations from Saudi Arabia he is suddenly better for some
reason. Of course that’s if you don’t
consider the millions Trump has made in business with the Saudis. Or the fact that donations to the Clinton
foundation are irrelevant to Secretary Clinton’s support of human rights. I say let’s take all of the money we can get
from the Saudis and funnel it directly to humanitarian projects WHICH IS WHAT
THE CLINTON FOUNDATION FUCKING DOES. I’m
sure Trump also thinks that his support of the North Carolina is also a pro-LGBT
move (sarcasm). Of course it’s no
surprise that Southern Poverty Law Center listed hate groups like the Family
Research Council, the Ku Klux jackasses and David Duke support the upstanding
hatemonger that is Donald.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Of
course no conversation on Donald Trump can ignore his views on women… As
property. Since women are half of the
population it surprised me greatly that someone would suggest there were things
more important than this. We live in a
country where women are still treated as inferior to men, a country where
nearly 20% of women report having been raped or experiencing sexual
assault. In short we live in a country
where rape culture is alive and well.
Here at UC Berkeley in the past few months we have had several instances
of rape and sexual assault reported and undoubtedly there have been more that, sadly,
the victims have not been able to report.
It is an uncomfortable thing to think about, but beyond that it must be
discussed and it must be confronted. We
must also recognize that the culture of masculinity is the problem. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">At
this point I am going to discuss the recent video of Donald Trump talking about
women with Billy Bush. In the video, the
asshole says<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“I
moved on her actually. You know she was down on Palm Beach. I moved on her, and
I failed. I'll admit it. I did try and fuck her, she was married”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Followed
later by<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“I
moved on her like a bitch. I couldn't get there and she was married. Then
all-of-a-sudden I see her, she's now got the big phony tits and everything.
She's totally changed her look.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Then
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“I
better use some Tic Tacs just in case I start kissing her. You know I'm
automatically attracted to beautiful... I just start kissing them. It's like a
magnet. Just kiss. I don't even wait. And when you're a star they let you do
it. You can do anything.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">And
the worst<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Grab
them by the pussy. You can do anything.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">That
anyone would try to apologize for or distract from the disgusting nature of
Trump’s comments is insulting to the women of our country. This is not locker room talk. I have, in my life, played just about every
sport there is to play, from soccer to ice hockey, and I have never heard anything
that disgusting. This is not how men
speak when we are alone. It is the way a
desperate sad narcissist talks about people he views as mere objects for his
pleasure. Do we want someone leading our
country who doesn’t respect half of the population? Someone who even the Westboro Baptist Nutjobs
see as “too fringe”. Do we want a
president that says he wants to take away a woman’s right to choose what
happens to her body? Do I even need to
remind everyone that Trump currently stands accused of sexually abusing a 13
year old girl at parties hosted by a convicted sex offender? Do I have to point out that Anderson Cooper
had to ask that disgusting excuse for a pile of rotten flesh <b>three times</b> whether he had ever done
the things he said in the video before Trump finally said no. I desperately hope not.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I could
write for hours, I know, and not do any good.
The Trump supporters would point out that Trump has not been convicted
of rape (yet), that he settled his housing discrimination lawsuit and never
admitted guilt. They would deflect and
bring up the emails, and the Saudi donations and all the bullshit claims Trump
has made. I know this because at one
point in my life, that I am not proud of, I was one of those idiots. I was raised in a republican household and I
went through a phase where I was a radical conservative. I thought it was cool, and that I was so much
smarter than those stupid liberals. I
called democrats communists and made a general ass of myself. I opposed what I now see as the basic human
freedom of the right to love and marry anyone you wish. I suppressed my own sexuality, unwilling to
admit that I was bisexual because of the oppressive religious ideas I was
raised with. I am disgusted with who I once
was, but I understand the mindset. Trump
supporters live in an echo chamber where the only information they see is that
which re-confirms their pre-determined conclusions. If they encounter contradictory information
they label it lies by the liberal media.
My parents still live like that and it pains me deeply.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">But at the
same time I can’t blame Trump supporters for believing a lie. I can’t do that because it truly isn’t their
fault. We are all just products of our
surroundings, and most likely they were raised in households where they were
taught to think that way. It is an
incredibly difficult thing to escape, and it only happened for me when I became
an atheist. I can, however, blame Donald
Trump for promoting the toxic ideas he does.
He has millions upon millions of dollars, enough to have access to any
information in the world. He is
surrounded by advisors who cannot ignore the truth and effectively do their
jobs, and he was given by his father one of the best educations that money can
buy at Wharton. There is no excuse
except malicious intent to obviously know the truth but ignore it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">So with all
of this the only thing that really matters is how do we fix it? I think the answer is an incredibly hard one. I think it takes all of us confronting the
issues we face as a society. It takes
white, middle class, educated, men like myself confronting our privilege and
realizing that we, more than everyone else, have a duty to work to fix what our
ancestors have caused. This doesn’t mean
we have to walk around apologizing for the way we were born, but it means
actively working to support those who were not born with the advantages that we
were. It means educating others who want
to maintain the status quo, because education is truly the only way to break them
from the ideas they were raised with. It
means being an ally to the LGBTQ community.
But most importantly it means trying to understanding one another. People are the same all over. We all want to live happy healthy lives in
the presence of those that we love. We
should all live in a society that doesn’t make anyone feel that they are an
outsider. I know that this seems like a
pie in the sky fantasy world that we will never get to, but it truly is closer
than we suspect. We came to Berkeley because
we believe in change. We want to better
ourselves so that we can better the world, and in a few short years most of us
will be out there actually trying to do so.
I hope that we can all stand by each other one sunny day in a world
where there is no more hatred, oppression, and division. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">If you
managed to make it all the way to the end, thank you. I completely realize the irony that this rant
is almost as long as the midterm I turned in last week, but I find it quite cathartic
to put my thoughts down in writing. I
know much of my anger came through as well as some of my sappy optimism and
other emotions but I truly do believe every word. If you take offense at anything I wrote or
think I am wrong feel free to tell me.
There are few things I relish more than a good debate. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12755410287284155235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8883224607726201991.post-28717231571471787522016-09-08T00:50:00.002-07:002016-09-08T00:50:30.012-07:00A Reason To Have Faith In Network Television, Courtesy Of The Blacklist.Like many people today I rarely watch T.V. In fact, in my dorm I don't have access to cable, or satellite. So like most, I rely on Netflix, which means waiting months for the next season of any show I like to pop up and then binge-watching the whole season while neglecting my studies. Well that is exactly what happened today when I noticed that season three of one of my favorite shows The Blacklist starring James Spader. The particular episode is episode 4 of season 3 entitled "The Djinn". While many viewers may have just watched for the action and suspense, or perhaps for Spaders' witty quips, but at the end of the episode Spader has a monologue that absolutely made me light up.<br />
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As a skeptic, secular humanist, and fervent believer in equality, it should come as no surprise to anyone that I support gay rights and especially detest religious hatred aimed at members of the LGBTQ community. Furthermore, as a political science major, I wouldn't have chosen UC Berkeley if I didn't believe in social justice. <br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">SPOILER ALERT!!!!!!!!!!</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">IF YOU DON'T WANT TO KNOW THE END WATCH THE EPISODE FIRST BEFORE READING ON.</span><br />
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So the premise of the episode is that a woman named the Djinn allows people to torture or otherwise take revenge on people who have wronged them. Midway through the episode an Iranian businessman dissapears and it is revealed his Daughter Nasim kidnapped him for revenge. Reddington (played by Spader) and Keen (played by Meghan Boone) eventually find out that Nasim is the Djinn and then procede to reveal her secret.<br />
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Here is the transcript of the inspiring speech given by Spader about the situation:<br />
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Reddington: Was it so horrific to discover that your 19 year old son, your eldest son was gay. So horrific that you forced him against his will to go under the knife, change his gender, to give you a daughter instead of your son? Who was gay.<br />
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Father: The clerics accept. People can get trapped in the body of the wrong sex.<br />
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Nasim: I wasn’t trapped. I liked my body, I liked men.<br />
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Father: I wanted to protect you Nasim. They could have killed you.<br />
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Reddington: For being Gay! They’re so homophobic that being gay is a hideous crime, but chopping off a man’s penis isn’t? Honestly is it just me or is the human race armed with religion, poisoned by prejudice, and absolutely frantic with hatred and fear Galloping pell mell back into the dark ages? Who on earth is hurt by a little girl going to school, or a child being gay?<br />
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For more on this real issue view the <a href="https://news.vice.com/article/transgender-iranian-refugees-are-struggling-to-outrun-prostitution-and-violence">Vice News report on the subject from 2015</a>. Religious fundamentalism truly is trying to drag us back into the dark ages and it is up to individuals of rational mind to fight against it. Every person in the world has the intrinsic right to live free of judgement about their sexual preference, free of persecution, free of fear of death and imprisonment over issues that no one else has any right to even know about. <br />
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<br />Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12755410287284155235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8883224607726201991.post-91423815608955968542016-08-19T16:11:00.000-07:002016-08-19T16:15:50.124-07:00I'm So Sick of Mike Adams' Racism and BullshitAfter my several week long hiatus on writing about the Health Ranger, today I decided to peruse several of the most recent articles he has written. Recently he has been on a political kick, writing about things like the election, Black Lives Matter, and of course the ever coming collapse of America. Over the years, and certainly in this election cycle, the Trump supporting megalomaniac Mike Adams has become increasingly caustic and racist. In <a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/054977_Black_Lives_Matter_Milwaukee_violence_citizen_self_defense.html">one of his most recent about how apparently we are in the middle of a race war</a> he babbles about how BLM is really a black terror group and the race war Obama has been planning for years is finally upon us. Of course Mike Adams doesn't miss an opportunity for product placement!! He conveniently links his reader to an online gun store <a href="https://www.budsgunshop.com/catalog/index.php/cPath/2084_21_43/Glock/">Bud's Gun Shop</a>, so you too can shoot people in the pelvis just as Mike describes in the article. One of his more sickening quotes is this,<br />
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Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12755410287284155235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8883224607726201991.post-4388576357369310412016-08-19T15:24:00.003-07:002016-08-19T15:24:40.100-07:00Why I Haven't Been WritingAs some of you may know, I am a college student, and for the last several years I have been attending American River College in Sacramento California. Well my ship has finally come in and earlier this year I found out I had been accepted to UC Berkeley. Needless to say I am incredibly excited to start at one of the top academic institutions in the world. My hope is that the people I meet there will give me new resources to draw upon and allow me to write better, more informative articles about all the pseudo scientific woo I abhor. Between my recent vacation and my frantic preparations for my move this Sunday I have not had time to write about the lunacy of your favorite online gurus, but rest assured I shall return. In the meantime GO BEARS!!!<br />
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<br />Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12755410287284155235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8883224607726201991.post-22119014360459845842016-08-01T11:41:00.000-07:002016-08-01T11:59:53.153-07:00My Vacation.Tomorrow at 6 in the morning I am leaving for a weeklong vacation canoeing in the boundary waters between Minnesota and Canada. I did this trip a few years ago with my Dad and younger brother, and we had such a great time we decided to go again. I have to say, being absolutely alone in the wilderness for days, when you see not one single other human being, is amazing. The stars are brighter than I have ever seen them, we catch more fish in one week than I think I've ever caught in a lifetime of going to Minnesota for summer vacations. I cannot recommend it enough to those who love the outdoors. So for the time being you will not be getting new blog posts from me unfortunately, but rest assured that when I return I will have plenty of pictures and stories to share.Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12755410287284155235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8883224607726201991.post-72255370725807119752016-07-30T23:42:00.001-07:002016-07-30T23:42:25.492-07:00Changes to blog layoutI'm doing a bit of fooling around with my layout and such for a few days so be patient with me, things might seem a bit weird for a bit. Hang in there, more great stuff to come.Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12755410287284155235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8883224607726201991.post-81495854658580002472016-07-29T14:57:00.000-07:002016-07-29T14:57:06.698-07:00Consumer Wellness Center Labs Identity Crisis<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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When Kevin Jenco Talks About Kevin Jenco on Kevin Jenco's blog, Kevin Jenco usually uses the words I or my. When Mike Adams Talks about himself on the bowl of pig rectums he calls a web site, he talks about Mike Adams. I just couldn't help but notice in a recent article Mike wrote titled :<a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/054822_heavy_metals_testing_lab_well_water_soils_analysis.html">CWC Labs announces heavy metals water and soils testing services to the public; 20 toxic metals, minerals and trace elements analyzed via ICP-MS</a>, he refers to himself in the third person. He writes<br />
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<span style="line-height: 14px;">CWC Labs also claims it is only open to commercial clients, which raises another question about another conflict of interest. In another post on this site I wrote called <a href="http://skepticrebuttal.blogspot.com/2016/07/jerking-off-in-mirror-mike-adams-story.html">Jerking off In the Mirror: The Mike Adams Story</a>, I discussed how Adams is the <a href="http://www.consumerwellness.org/Board.html">sole listed board member of the nonprofit Consumer Wellness center</a>. The connection between the lab and the charity are hard to discern. Adams call the lab the "analytical science branch of the consumer wellness center". The Consumer Wellness Center is located in Cody Wyoming and has no listed upcoming activities. But it does have a web site OF COURSE. I don't think Adams can resist the urge of going more than a week without making a new web site. other than links on their web sites it is unclear how the lab is connected, bringing up the question over conflict of interest if the lab is performing for-profit work like commercial testing. It seems that perhaps Adams created a charity in order to use the name and establish legitimacy for his lab.</span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 14px;">All I had to do was one google search to find a number of mail in water testing kits for much less than that price. For example, <a href="http://www.karlabs.com/watertestkit/kit90.htm">a kit from KAR Labs</a>, a much older laboratory with a very good reputation is only $59.99 with prepaid postage both ways.</span><br />
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"Dr" Joseph "don't talk about any of my FDA letters, the FTC settlement, or my Better Business Bureau report" Mercola, is an osteopath who's clinic in Illinois is permanently closed (thankfully). Unfortunately, however, his web site <a href="http://mercola.com/">Mercola.com</a> remains one of the largest quackology outlets on the web. He peddles all of the usual bullshit, homeopathy, natural remedies, anti-vax rhetoric, but of course as <a href="http://www.mercola.com/forms/background.htm">he says on his web site</a><br />
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I have to imagine that Mike Adams' morning routine starts with him looking at himself fully naked in a mirror doing his very best <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0ilk2NfOyw">Buffalo Bill impersonation</a> from the <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102926/">Silence of The Lambs</a>. That is the only way I can visualize the amount of absolute narcissism displayed through his writing, twitter, you tube videos and every damn thing he does. The clear efforts at deception he employs at hiding his involvement in so many different thing is disgusting. I mean I recently read an article on his site, naturalnews.com by S.D. Wells that listed the <a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/054805_health_heroes_clean_food_movement_natural_medicine.html">Top 6 most influential leaders of the clean food movement in 2016 and beyond</a>, or, as S.D. humbly refers to them, heroes. The list includes the usual suspects, Vani Hari, David Wolfe, Dr. Oz, but I bet none of my readers could possibly guess who #1 is. Mike Adams The Fucking Health Ranger Himself. How strange that he would be named the number one health leader by a writer <b><span style="font-size: large;">That Fucking Works For Him. </span> </b>Of course the article contains no traces of self awareness or recognition of the fact that Adams owns this web site, pays this writer, or is even affiliated in any way. If this weren't enough for you to picture mike making out with himself, try to also picture the mostly blank mind that is able to come up with such gems as;<br />
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Exactly how narcissistic do you have to be to constantly pay people to praise you on your own web site as the greatest fucking human to ever live? Maybe the answer is that you have to be the kind of person who starts a 'charity" called the consumer wellness center. Maybe on that site is a link to the page for the board of directorS<span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span>(I made that S large for a reason, you'll know in a moment). Of course when you look at the board of directorS you encounter something that made me laugh for a full minute. </div>
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Either the person who wrote the site doesn't understand that an S indicates there are multiple of something, or Mike is just a jackass who relies on people to only read headlines and not dig into anything. I mean who else but a narcissistic douchebag would have the balls to have multiple websites that post dozens of articles every day making health claims about products he sells and other bullshit, and then at the very bottom in script so tiny and hard to read that they are not responsible for any of the content they publish and that this is not a substitute for real medical advice? The same asshole that criticizes pharmaceutical companies, food manufacturers, and just about god damn everybody out there for hiding the truth, not putting proper warning on labels or online and and any other crackpot conspiracy that makes it through his tin foil hat is a god damn hypocrite.</div>
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Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12755410287284155235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8883224607726201991.post-9095895472693981952016-07-28T15:19:00.001-07:002016-07-28T15:19:40.505-07:00A Broken Clock Twice A Day, Mike Adams And Pizza The BearWhile almost all of my posts so far have been highly critical of Mike Adams, I have to admit that very, very, very, very occasionally he posts something good. Usually this takes the form of animal pictures he tweets or benign memes riddled with platitudes, but recently he did release a<a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/054794_Pizza_the_polar_bear_animal_rights_China.html"> story authored by one of his staff writers Amy Goodrich.</a> The story is about the polar bear Pizza whose home is a Chinese shopping mall, and to be completely fair the article Mrs. Goodrich wrote is just straightforward reporting of what other groups have said and done regarding the bear. It is a sad story, and the bear looks very sad, if one wishes to indulge in anthropomorphism. Having visited China in 2008 for the Olympics i can say that I would not be surprised at all if the bear was not treated well by Western standards. I saw things on that trip like dozens of live chickens crammed into cages so small they were popping out the sides, people beating dogs in the street, and the many stray dogs roaming Beijing. I understand that these are cultural differences and it's considered bigoted to apply our values to them, but that does not make it any less sad for an animal lover like myself. So on this count I agree with Amy Goodrich. If they could just post these articles quit the conspiracy shit, I would be a fan.<br />
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I have to admit that up until about three months ago I had never heard of Miracle Mineral Solution. I have no idea why, but it was simply something that had never crossed my radar. The first question anyone should ask about a product like this is does it work, the second, is it dangerous. Well <b>does MMS work?</b> A<b>bsolutely not, </b>and is MMS safe? I'll give you three guesses. Called many things by many different people, what it really comes down to is Sodium Chlorite, NaClO2. Sodium Chlorite is industrial bleach used in paper mills. I'm not using that like Vani Hari or other fearmongers would, making a wild claim about part of a compound or mixture that is similar to an industrial chemical, Sodium Chlorite is literally the exact same chemical used to bleach paper. Simply checking a <a href="http://www.cleartech.ca/msds/sodchlorite.pdf">Material Safety Data Sheet for Sodium Chlorite</a> shows a myriad of harmful side affects and conditions it can cause. The MSDS I link to is for a 25% solution admittedly, of course proponents will likely point out that this is far different from the<b> 28% Solution!!! that is MMS. </b>When used "properly" the solution creates Chlorine Dioxide another hazardous chemical. <b> </b><a href="http://www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/Newsroom/PressAnnouncements/ucm220747.htm">This warning letter to consumers from the FDA</a> warns that MMS "poses a significant health risk to consumers". I'm sure many of the MMS users are either the religious who are fooled by the word miracle in its name, or otherwise probably the usual conspiracy crowd who believe that the government and medical establishment are evil and engaged in a conspiracy to keep us sick, but most of us actually have a functioning brain and should realize that this is a dangerous false panacea, just one more in a long line of them.<br />
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Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12755410287284155235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8883224607726201991.post-81166557215043611842016-07-28T11:29:00.001-07:002016-07-29T16:34:45.406-07:00Deconstructing Danger, The Story of Mike Adams, The Health Ranger: Part 1<br />
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I thought that for one of these first few blog posts a good
idea would be to let my audience know about my little ball of yarn, The Health
Ranger. The man behind the self
aggrandizing pseudonym is actually Mike Adams, an ex-software company CEO whose
advice should be labeled under the category "the idiots guide to
experiencing natural selection first hand"
There are a number of articles out in publications and blogs about Adams
that any reader should go to in order to better understand who he is and what
he does. Dr. David Gorski has written a
number of good articles about Mike Adams an example of which can be found <a href="http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2016/06/29/a-huckster-is-rebuffed-by-the-victims-of-a-cancer-fraudster-hilarity-ensues/">here</a>. Brian Dunning of <a href="http://skeptoid.com/">Skeptoid.com</a>, a
terrific science education site, <a href="https://skeptoid.com/episodes/4495">called Adams' main site</a>, <a href="http://naturalnews.com/">Naturalnews.com</a>,
"Without a doubt, the wrongest site on the internet" But I figured a novel way to go about it is
to dissect <a href="http://www.healthranger.com/Health-Ranger-Biography.html">Adams' own biography on his web site</a> Healthranger.com. I encourage anyone who wants a good laugh to
read it, as it reads like a child describing how great he is to his friends at
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On the home page of his personal site <a href="http://healthranger.com/">Healthranger.com</a>, the first thing a
person sees is a photo slide show, showing several awards Adams has won for
outstanding journalism, followed by (when I visited) a photo of Mike with the
caption "Health Ranger calls for improved science education in America". i can assure you all that the very last thing
mike Adams wants is improved science education because it would drastically
reduce his own income. These awards for
journalism were given at the <a href="http://sacredfiregala.com/">Sacred Fire Of Liberty Gala</a>. A few google searches reveals that the event
was sponsored by Emord & Associates, a law firm notorious for defending the
fringe supplement and natural products industry. <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jon-entine/gmo-labeling-science-and-_b_8871680.html">They are also, according to The HuffingtonPost, attorneys for Mike Adams.</a> <o:p></o:p></div>
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Adams' biography is incredibly long and self aggrandizing,
playing himself as a savior sent to save the world from just about
everything. It seems to have been
written around 2012 because of some dates used, but for this article's sake,
I'll assume not much has changed. To
start with, Mike calls himself an outspoken health advocate, award winning
investigative journalist, and science lab director among other things. I'll come back to the science lab director
part later, but first I want to address the award winning journalist claim. I am unaware of when and if Mike Adams
currently is or ever was a client of Emord & Associates, however if, as the <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jon-entine/gmo-labeling-science-and-_b_8871680.html">Huffington Post claims, Adam's is a client of Emord</a>, and if he was their client
before 2014 when he received his awards, then it certainly takes much of the
wind out of those awards he prominently displays on his site. Most of the other mentions of awards I was
able to find were from small radical groups in the same vein as Adams. Next, a list of several of Adams' websites,
<a href="http://naturalnews.com/">Naturalnews.com</a>, <a href="http://counterthink.com/">CounterThink.com</a>, <a href="http://foodinvestigations.com/">Foodinvestigations.com</a>,
<a href="http://healingfoodreference.com/">Healingfoodreference.com</a>, and <a href="http://honestfoodguide.com/">Honestfoodguide.com</a> are listed, leaving out
others like <a href="http://newstarget.com/">Newstarget.com</a> <a href="http://naturalpedia.com/">Naturalpedia.com</a> and many others. All of these web sites are continuously
linked, citing each other as primary and secondary sources, to the point where
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MIT? That's where all the idiots go to
school. The biography does not say where Adams actually went to college, but
only that he has a bachelors in science from "a prominent university in
the midwest". It is somewhat
strange that the man who loves to trumpet his achievements and awards does not
say where he went to college or display his diplomas. The biography does say
that Adams chose not to attend graduate school, begging the question how can he
claim a scientific expertise in nutrition and health. This section also describes Mike's experience
as a CEO of what he merely calls a "software company". For a very good detailed history of this
company and what it did, read this <a href="http://healthwyze.org/reports/616-special-report-the-legend-of-mike-adams-and-the-reality?showall=&start=1">excellent article in Health Wyze,</a> part of a
whole series on little Mikey. What Mikes
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education. Claims made here include that
he started college before graduating high school, a practice common for many
seniors at least in California where I grew up, that he studied many different
topics (in other words a general lib arts education), and that he was offered a
position as head of sound design for a theater department at a "large
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gifted". My little brother and i
recently spent about half an hour on You Tube laughing our asses off at the
amazing impression Mike does of a two-bit karaoke star (oh wait, those are his
music videos). I encourage anyone who is
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is not true, Mike has very bad judgement, or he is a crazy super genius that
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<li>I swear that the first thing I thought of when I read this
was a memory from kindergarten having someone say "well yeah I have
superpowers, I just don't want to use them right now, because i'm
tired". But what if Adams really
does have such technology? (Which I doubt).
Would it not be absolutely immoral for him to withhold life saving technology that could incredibly benefit the human race? So either way, whether this is a lie, or a truth, i think all can agree Mike is an asshole because of it.</li>
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So it comes to no one's surprise that Mike was the original
inventor of a Google Glass-like device.
Unfortunately he just didn't have the money for the patent process in
1995 (after he has already started his software company). Today, the cost of a
patent application is a $150 filing fee, attorneys fees, some drawing fees and
others that attorney <a href="http://www.ipwatchdog.com/2015/04/04/the-cost-of-obtaining-a-patent-in-the-us/id=56485/">Gene Quinn estimates average to about $14,080</a>. That's no chump change, but for someone who
at that time had their own software company and who claims to have already
invented software at that time that could beat market averages by 20%, it
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And of course, Mikey is developing the world's greatest
battlefield soldier active camouflage ever.
Because I'm sure Mike's superpower as a kid was always invisibility...
and every other superpower (we all remember that kid). Well Mike there's one thing we can agree on
here, I also wish you could dissapear.<o:p></o:p></div>
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If you've made it this far CONGRATULATIONS. I know this was a very long article, but I'm
not joking when I say how long, redundant, and unbelievable his own Bio page is
on his web site. Please look for yourself
at this link to the the Mike Adams Biography.
Unfortunately I'm not even done writing about this pile of slop, I'm
barely even halfway, but for my readers enjoyment and my own sanity, I will
stop for the time being until I can muster up the intestinal fortitude to write
part two. As always, thank you for
reading, and science is power.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: inherit;">Update 7/29/16: In this article I referenced an outfit called Healthwyze. I should have mentioned that Health wyze is an alternative medicine and naturopathy outfit that supports many thing that have no scientific basis, the usual natural cancer cures etc. However, much of the report they wrote on Adams is quite good journalism if you ignore the wacky health bits they claim. I reached out to the editor to ask for an interview regarding their reporting on Mike and have not heard back yet, but hope I will get to hear more about why they wrote it and how they feel now, three years later. Hopefully soon I'll have that story for my readers.</span></span>
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Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12755410287284155235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8883224607726201991.post-43927587329855432692016-07-27T16:59:00.002-07:002016-07-27T16:59:40.680-07:00The Value Of Open Discussion and DebateWhile on twitter I may seem to be a bit of an asshole, and it does seem very one sided to just write refutations of other people's work, there is incredible value to be found in discussing these issues. Mainly that value lies in the ability to make people aware of the facts. As far as I am aware I have only ever convinced one hardcore conspiracy theorist that they were wrong about something, and that was a close friend and it took quite literally hours to convince him. All I was able to convince him was that Fluoride was not poison. He still thinks 9/11 was an inside job, that Kennedy wasn't shot by Oswald, and a myriad of other conspiracy theories, but I'm proud of that one little breakthrough. It took hours of discussion, lots of googling, and a ton of explaining basic science and pointing out the flat out deception of the online conspiracy buffs. So my policy on this blog will be to not censor any comments at all unless they cross very clear lines of using racist slurs or other solid lines of human decency. If i do remove a comment I will let you know why and give you a chance to repost.<br />
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I want to do the best i can of addressing any evidence anyone thinks they have that for alternative medicine conspiracies etc. I will either respond in my own comment or write a post if the answer is lengthy. Please, ask questions, point out my faults and discrepancies, because this is how we reach a conclusion that we can say is true. I may not change your mind, but I hope I can make you think.Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12755410287284155235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8883224607726201991.post-4135318142794799222016-07-27T15:44:00.000-07:002016-07-27T15:44:55.111-07:00Ignoring, Well... Everything. Mr. David "avocado" WolfeDavid Wolfe may be one of the most clueless alternative health and lifestyle gurus on the net today. How he arrives at his conclusions, I do not know. Whether he reads articles before he allows his team to post them, I highly doubt it. In a story<a href="http://www.davidwolfe.com/birth-defects-stillbirths-miscarriages-rise-fukushima-radiation/"> by Katherine Crofton on David Wolfe's blog</a>, she claims that birth defects, still births, and miscarriages have risen significantly since the Fukushima incident. Somewhat hilariously the link for birth defects goes to a story about birth defects among the survivors of the nuclear explosions in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. <a href="http://www.rerf.jp/radefx/genetics_e/birthdef.html"> A St<b>ory </b>Th<b>at </b>Says:</a><b> </b><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><br /></b></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b> <span style="background-color: red;">"<span style="color: #333333; line-height: 24px;">No statistically significant increase in major birth defects or other untoward pregnancy outcomes was seen among children of survivors"</span></span></b></span><br />
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I'm not joking, that is the very first line of the linked article. I have to imagine that Mrs. Crofton didn't even bother to read it, but just picked a page she assumed no one else would look at beyond the headline. <br />
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The only other sources listed are a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAc8K_to1Vc&feature=youtu.be">you tube video interviewing survivors</a> that is entirely in Japanese with subtitles, and is the very un-provable or irrelevant anecdotal evidence that the nuts thrive on, as well as a link to a story by counterpunch.org, a radical left wing site with a strong anti nuclear stance. While I have no issue with counterpunch taking ideological stances on issues, but when it comes to provable science they should defer to the experts. For a very excellent and unbiased look at the Fukushima disaster 5 years later (that provides real sources), try <a href="http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/energy/a19871/fukushima-five-years-later/">this article from Popular Mechanics.</a>Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12755410287284155235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8883224607726201991.post-42106166787831787512016-07-27T13:15:00.003-07:002016-07-27T15:44:03.446-07:00Baking Soda and lemon, a combination to... taste grossI keep tabs on the various internet ignoramuses primarily through social media. That way I don't have to keep visiting their web sites every time they post a new article. Most of the sites I keep tabs on post a large amount of articles every day. <a href="http://www.mercola.com/">Joseph Mercola</a> posts three to five a day, the Food Babe seems to post nonstop, Mike Adams has so many web sites and writers it's hard to even say exactly how much he spews about the web each day. So twitter and facebook are valuable resources for keeping tabs on the nuts. Mike Adams usually posts at least one item an hour and I often notice that the twitter headline is much different from the article headline, which is commonly much different from the article's actual content. One such example occurred today. The <a href="https://twitter.com/HealthRanger/status/758279304446869504">twitter post</a> read:<br />
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<i>"Alkalize your body to prevent cancer"</i></div>
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Of course anytime i read a cancer claim i have to look, as these are the most dangerous claims of all that often convince people not to pursue real cancer treatment. So when i clicked on<a href="http://www.newstarget.com/2016-07-26-baking-soda-and-lemon-a-combination-to-heal-cancer.html"> the article</a> I was not surprised to read the headline on Mike Adams' newstarget.com that said:<br />
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<i>"Baking soda and lemon - A combination to <b>HEAL</b> Cancer" </i>(Emphasis added)</div>
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I have found that conflicting messages are a regular mainstay in the world of alternative medicine so this was absolutely right at home.<br />
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Of the three links provided in the article two of them go directly to another site selling products. One link to a water filter, and the other to some vegetable growing apparatus. The third link leads to fresh.news, another site that appears to be a subsidiary of Adams' main site, Naturalnews.com. Rather than linking to any article that provides supporting evidence for what the writer, Vicki Batts, claims, the link goes to the home page of fresh news. <br />
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The main claim of the article is that a study published by <i>Cancer Research</i> says sodium bicarbonate (baking soda) has been shown to alkalize the environment around the cell and prevent cancer growth etc. The leap then made is that eating more alkaline foods can prevent cancer, claiming that eating alkaline foods will make the body alkaline. This of course completely is at odds with the truth, since <a href="http://www.biologyreference.com/Ho-La/Homeostasis.html">homeostasis keeps the body's PH at a relatively stable level</a>. and the old Vitamin C is more powerful than chemo bit. To be honest Vicki did cover her ass by saying that studies suggest these things rather than making the blanket unsupported claim, but did not link to any of the claimed studies, did not list them after the article, and did not give hardly any identifying information that could be used to identify and track them down. However, Dr. David Gorski, the amazing Orac has repeatedly debunked the vitamin C claim <a href="https://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/the-return-of-the-revenge-of-high-dose-vitamin-c-for-cancer/">here</a>, <a href="https://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/high-dose-vitamin-c-and-cancer-has-linus-pauling-been-vindicated/">here</a> and <a href="https://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/vitamin-c-strikes-out-again/">here</a>. now perhaps Vicki has access to elite information us mere mortals could not hope for, but I highly doubt it. So for the time being, since there is no reputable research to support these claims just try to stay away from the usual B.S. about alternative cures and prevention to cancer. I repeat, all reputable scientific information refutes these claims, and with no sources i am able to look into, i must conclude that Vicki Batts engaged in very creative or deluded writing that Mike Adams was more than happy to publish.<br />
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<br />Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12755410287284155235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8883224607726201991.post-45849983561238606182016-07-26T12:59:00.001-07:002016-07-27T08:53:41.439-07:00A MASSIVE Leap for logical fallacyMy favorite whipping boy Mike Adams never fails to present me with countless articles and you tube videos every single day, all ripe for the picking with juicy low-hanging fruit of absolute stupidity. I was absolutely overjoyed when I saw an article that Mike himself wrote with the wonderful headline <a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/054785_DNC_leaks_conspiracy_theories_Russians.html">"Leaked DNC emails prove once and for all that the conspiracy theorists were RIGHT all along"</a>. I j<span style="font-family: inherit;">ust knew that this one would be golden, and it did not disappoint. The article starts of with the perfect line:</span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 14px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i style="background-color: red;">"To anyone who has ever been called a "conspiracy theorist," the world owes you a massive apology"</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 14px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Well i'm getting ready to apologize Mike, what have you got for me?</span></span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 14px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 14px;"><i style="background-color: red;">"The only thing that makes this conspiracy any different than all the other true conspiracies </i></span></span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 14px;">happening </span></span><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 14px;">right now is that </span><b style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 14px;">they got caught</b><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 14px;">."</span></i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 14px;"><br />The premise? Because this really happened and it was technically a conspiracy all conspiracies must be true. From there Mike goes into a diatribe about the Russian explanation being an excuse and </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 14px;"><br /></span></span><span style="line-height: 14px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i style="background-color: red;">"democrats are corrupt criminals who are willing to sell anything to the Russians (as long as the </i></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: red;"><span style="line-height: 14px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><br /></i></span></span>
<span style="line-height: 14px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>donation fee is high enough to the Clinton Foundation)."</i></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 14px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I have to admit that when I read the majority of the article I imagined Adams speaking incredibly fast like a rambling maniac, which actually made it sound much more logical. </span></span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 14px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Rest assured, little Mikey has much more absurdity to come, and i will be there to laugh my ass off while I read it. But for now, I'm not going to apologize.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 14px;">Mike, you are a conspiracy theorist, and beyond that, also a conspiracy nut, and you are </span></span><span style="line-height: 14px;">disastrously</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 14px;"> wrong about almost everything you believe. </span></span>Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12755410287284155235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8883224607726201991.post-84587661679322664742016-07-26T10:52:00.002-07:002016-07-27T10:35:35.051-07:00Fighting the Danger Ranger<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
The Health Danger<o:p></o:p></div>
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I first
became interested in investigating pseudoscientific health claims years ago
after seeing my first episode of Penn and Teller’s “Bullshit”. At that time I was in my late teens and
hadn’t quite dipped my toe fully into the Skeptical pool yet. However, my skeptical energy was renewed a
few months ago by a statement my mother made.
She told me, very matter of factly, that her friend had that lemon water is more powerful than
chemotherapy. Naturally I was alarmed
that people believed something so obviously false, especially my own mother. I wondered who could possibly be saying these
things, since as far as I was aware no doctor with a conscience would ever make
such outrageous claims. Then I
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So from
there I began asking Dr. Google what diseases I could cure with lemon water,
and as it turns out it’s just about everything.
Also unsurprisingly, I quickly realized a striking similarity that the
vast majority of these dangerous and unscientific claims shared. A very significant portion of them can be
traced back to my own personal Darth Vader, Mike Adams A.K.A the Health Ranger. It was on Adams’ site Naturalnews.com that I
first encountered <a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/054329_lemon_juice_baking_soda_cancer_prevention.html">the
lemon (and baking soda of course) water fallacy portrayed as fact</a>. Adams, who has been quite deservingly derided
by the skeptical community and individuals like Dr. David Gorski, is one of the
world’s preeminent peddlers of pseudoscience, naturopathy, anti-vax rhetoric,
conspiracy theories, Anti-GMO bullshit, and just about any other area of
stupidity you can imagine. Adams owns
several web sites, most of which can be found by clicking the embedded links in
any of his sites various articles, giving them the feel of a choose your own
wacky conspiracy theory adventure story.
The chain of web sites forms a sort of self-referencing echo chamber, in
which just about anything can sourced from another article on another one of
his sites. External sources are rare,
and when used usually dubious, misinterpreted, or taken out of context. In a recent <a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/054721_neurodevelopmental_chemicals_cognitive_impairment_young_democrats.html">article</a>
from July 20, 2016 Adams quotes a <a href="http://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/EHP358/">statement</a>
from Project TENDR that was published in Environmental Health Perspectives,
which holds an impact factor of <a href="http://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/">8.44</a>
for 2015. Not a bad score compared to
many of his usual sources, however rather than reporting on the statement’s
call to restructure the system for evaluating health based risks of
environmental chemicals, Adams’ article claims that the environmental chemicals
warned about in the study have caused brain damage to millennials (of course in
Adam’s view the brain damage really is the cause of liberalism). My favorite quote from that article is of
course the giant subtitle that reads <i>“They
used to be designated as mentally retarded... now they're called
"millennials”</i>. I attempted to contact one of Project TENDR's listed co-authors of the statement, but received no reply <o:p></o:p></div>
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While childish insults and
stupidity from Adams are to be expected, the disturbing fact is that so many
people actually follow and believe him.
On YouTube Adams has over 104,000 followers<a href="file:///C:/Users/kjenco/Documents/Overstepping%20Reality%20HR.docx#_edn1" name="_ednref1" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%;">[1]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>. On Twitter he has again over 100,000<a href="file:///C:/Users/kjenco/Documents/Overstepping%20Reality%20HR.docx#_edn2" name="_ednref2" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%;">[2]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>. Many of these are almost certainly following
Adams’ advice, which includes not seeking chemotherapy, radiation, or surgery
for cancer, <a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/040624_cancer_industry_documentary_lies.html">he
claims that cancer treatments kill more people than cancer does</a> (his story
tends to change but often he cites the big pharma and the cancer
conspiracy). In an <a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/049146_vitamin_C_vaccines_natural_health.html">article
from March 2015 that Adams reposted on twitter just a day ago</a>, one of his
writers claims that Vitamin C is a “silver bullet” that can cure all variety of
diseases from polio to diphtheria, and insinuates that Vitamin C can cure
cancer. Rather unsurprisingly, Adams
sells his very own <a href="http://store.naturalnews.com/Health-Rangers-Nutrition-Rescue-Non-GMO-Buffered-Vitamin-C-Powder-125-grams_p_947.html">Health
Ranger’s Nutrition Rescue™ Vitamin C</a> for a mere $19.95. While it is not very strange for a health web
site to sell vitamins, when reading through his articles one can see that Adams
seems to sell the vast majority of solutions for various ailments in his very
own store, and conveniently most of them are bear the quality seal of the
Health Ranger himself a.k.a. the Health Ranger Select brand. A question that crossed my mind while looking
through both the store and the thousands of articles and YouTube videos Adams
has posted was, where does this cross the line from the FDA’s allowed structure
function claims and allowable vagueness into the realm of outright
illegality. While the products
themselves may not bear any medical claims on them, taken as a whole, the
claims made on his sites about items sold in Adams’ store could constitute an
infraction of FDA and FTC guidelines. <o:p></o:p></div>
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While Adams masquerades as a
pioneering Health guru focused on saving the human race, what his articles all
seem aimed to do is guide the reader towards purchasing any of the innumerous
products available in the <a href="http://store.naturalnews.com/">Naturalnews.com
Store</a> and reap advertising income. Indeed my biggest regret in investigating the
“Health Ranger” is that I have to visit his sites and bring him ad revenue. Adams hypocritically admonishes
pharmaceutical companies, GMO developers, the medical community, and any other
group he feels like attacking for greed, while simultaneously reaping massive
amounts of money from the boom in pseudo medicine that he has helped to create. In fact it seems that Adams is very keen to
brag on the wealth he has accumulated, as seen in the <a href="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/collideascape/2014/05/16/mike-adams-alt-medicine-purveyor-calls-health-ranger-threatens-sue-forbes-writer/#.V4_ZodKANBc">threats</a>
he sent to Jon Entine for an expose Entine wrote about Adams in Forbes. Adams stated <i>“You are also aware that I am in command of the financial resources to
see these efforts through, regardless of their cost or duration”. </i>In fact Adams is notoriously fond of
sending threatening letters claiming the lawsuit is on the way, writing
threatening articles that Libel and Defame skeptics (most notably in recent
months Dr. David Gorski). In a <a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/053736_Dr_David_Gorski_medical_conspiracy_allegations_Karmanos_Cancer_Center.html">long
winded rambling letter to the FBI and other authorities</a> posted on his site, and in numerous
other articles written both by mike Adams and his proxy writers at Natural
News, News Target, and the web of other Adams owned sites. While the threats have been reported, I can
find no information online that Adams has ever actually filed suit. My personal belief is that this is because he
knows that filing a lawsuit could lead to him being called to the stand, where
all of his dirty laundry and utterly false statements could be questioned on
record. It is a case I actually hope to
see someday actually, Mike Adams destroyed by his own words.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12755410287284155235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8883224607726201991.post-76602559929963291582016-07-26T10:19:00.003-07:002016-07-27T10:36:54.828-07:00The "Big" EnemyIt seems to have become a cliche to call any large industry or powerful group the "big". Whether it be Big Pharma, Big oil, Big Data, Big Government and on and on. There are very legitimate reasons to criticize the various "bigs" but more often than not you hear it from the nuts over at the conspiracy theory water cooler. I wanted to write this short post because I recently saw one on my favorite nutbag garbage heap Naturalnews.com that literally made me spit out my sandwich onto my keyboard in laughter. Ladies and Gentlemen and all in other, may I present you <a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/054782_glyphosate_bread_companies_pre-harvest_dessication.html">Big Bread</a>. The point of this pile of monkey feces thrown at a computer screen is actually about Monsanto and Glyphosphate, a recent favorite of Mikey Adams and his crew of trolls, but it amused me that instead of the usual anti GMO rhetoric and Monsanto bashing, the headline goes straight to Big Bread. I think the staff writer that wrote this piece may have actually had a sense of humor. Of course my fervent hope is that someday we will find out that Natural News is actually a satire site operated by The Onion.Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12755410287284155235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8883224607726201991.post-49205214733181472342016-07-26T09:15:00.001-07:002016-07-27T10:37:31.378-07:00Mike Adams "The Health Ranger" Goes Full RetardNow, for any of you shocked or upset by my use of the word retard in the title, let me say right out that i am using it for a very specific purpose. I am an advocate of the Autistic community and would never dream of calling a handicapped child that word. My point is that Mike Adams (whose name I hesitate even to capitalize) seems to have found his new favorite word. The point is to show the hypocrisy of a man who claims to be an advocate for the mentally handicapped, but is really merely a delusional bigot who makes millions selling supplements to the brainwashed masses that peruse his many web sites.<br />
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On July 14th my personal Darth Vader wrote and published an article on his stream of drivel web page Naturalnews.com entitled <a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/054664_Black_Lives_Matter_police_departments_social_justice.html">"Black Lives Matter Protesters Go Full Retard"</a>. In the article I counted over ten uses of the word "retard" in a derogatory manner interspersed by what can only be described as the wet dream ramblings of David Duke with a touch of Joe Arpaio. The article is nothing but a self righteous, racist distortion of a comment made by a few deluded memb<span style="font-family: inherit;">ers of Black lives Matter. Of course Adams acts as though it is the point of the entire movement. I'll give you a small sample so you don't have to go to his smut site and give him advertising revenue. Adams writes, </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i> <span style="background-color: red;"> </span></i><span style="background-color: red;"> <b> "<span style="line-height: 14px;">If it wasn't for the cops' presence on the streets of America, every single U.S. city </span></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="line-height: 14px;">would </span></b></span><b style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 14px;">almost instantly collapse into a gang banger free-for-all that begins with the mass raping </b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red;"><b style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 14px;">and </b><b style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 14px;">murdering of the very same pathetic white people who are now supporting </span><span style="line-height: 14px;"><a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/Black_Lives_Matter.html" style="color: #3366cc; text-decoration: none;">Black Lives </a></span></b></span><br />
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<b style="background-color: red; font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 14px;"><a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/Black_Lives_Matter.html" style="color: #3366cc; text-decoration: none;">Matter</a></span><span style="line-height: 14px;"> protests. Hint to the Retard Coalition: Many of those </span><span style="line-height: 14px;">criminal</span><span style="line-height: 14px;"> black lives would love </span></b><br />
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<span style="background-color: red;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="line-height: 14px;">nothing </span></b></span><b style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 14px;">more than for the police to be stripped of the right to use force. It's every criminal's </b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red;"><b style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 14px;">greatest </b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 14px;"><b>fantasy </b></span></span><b style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 14px;">to be able to carry out all their crimes </span><span style="line-height: 14px;">with no opposition from police"</span></b></span><br />
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I have long suspected that Mike Adams had more than a few screws loose, and this sort of thing only reinforces that belief. For someone who made millions founding a company that helps get spam email into your inbox (thats right, he made spam email software), one would hope Mike was a better writer too, but unfortunately he comes across as the dumb kid in class who just yells over everyone when he isn't taken seriously. When I started writing this blog I first did a quick search of Naturalnews.com to find the article I had read about a week earlier. Rather surprisingly, when I searched for the word "retard" 14 pages of results showed up on the natural news search page. To be entirely honest many of them are the verb form of the word used in various legitimate contexts, however on the first three pages alone I counted 6 articles that used it in the derogatory manner to refer to someone or some group (not counting the many times the search returns were repeats or referenced each other). I can't fault Adams for having strong opinion, as i too have a very strong opinion that he is an asshole, but the hatred and idiocy he spews are dangerous because he has many many followers.Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12755410287284155235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8883224607726201991.post-83601001038223532542016-07-22T09:22:00.001-07:002016-07-27T10:37:48.904-07:00First Post On My New BlogHello and welcome, I hope anyone visiting my site is doing just fine, Unless you are Mike Adams, who i hope is on his phone while driving and crashes. I started this blog primarily as a place to post counter arguments to stupidity or to just write angry rants, whatever the case i hope you enjoy it!Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12755410287284155235noreply@blogger.com0