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May 19, 2013

The Skepchick 12 Steps

Posted by franc hoggle under cranks, cults, drugs, education, new new atheism, pseudo-science | Tags: 12 steps, alcohol, alcoholics anonymous, drugs, freethoughtblogs, narcotics anonymous, Rebecca Watson, recovery, skepchick, SMART Recovery |
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The Skepchick Serenity Prayer – click to embiggen

A twelve-step program is a set of guiding principles (accepted by members as ‘spiritual principles,’ based on the approved literature) outlining a course of action for recovery from addiction, compulsion, or other behavioral problems. Originally proposed by Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) as a method of recovery from alcoholism, the Twelve Steps were first published in the book Alcoholics Anonymous: The Story of How More Than One Hundred Men Have Recovered from Alcoholism in 1939. The method was then adapted and became the foundation of other twelve-step programs. — the cesspit of lies

Powerlessness, Twelve-Stepism, and the Siege Mentality

“We admitted we were powerless over alcohol–that our lives had become unmanageable.”

The idea that he is powerless over alcohol lets the user off the hook by absolving him from personal responsibility for his addiction while simultaneously granting ultimate power to the addiction itself, power so great as to be invincible by human standards. (more…)

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March 22, 2013

Donglegate

Posted by franc hoggle under disinformation, gender, hyperreality, information technology, internet, Jacobins, misandry, moral panic, populism, propaganda, shrieking hysteria, social sites, stupidity, yellow journalism | Tags: adria richards, I'mBlackFemaleAndEntitled, lynch mobs, McCarthyism, PyCon, Rebecca Watson, SendGrid, skepchick |
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Adria, could you please explain what the t-shirt means?

Not a lot I can say about this that hasn’t been said elsewhere, and frankly, it’s not my horse race anyway. Yet another example of gender fem-bot Jacobinism rearing it’s ugly head – the godless and the gamers are far from the only ones under siege. I’ll leave the concise summary to ArsTechnica -

“Donglegate” is classic overreaction—and everyone pays

Adria Richard’s (her site looks like it’s currently being DDoS’ed) version -

Forking and Dongle Jokes Don’t Belong At Tech Conferences

I would have let this idiocy slide and left it to the propeller heads but for one item in the commentary on Richard’s piece – (more…)

March 14, 2013

The Threat Narrative

Posted by franc hoggle under gender, media, misandry, populism, propaganda | Tags: amanda marcotte, beached whales, Blaghag, cfi, Ellenbeth Wachs, freethoughtblogs, genderratic, Jen mccreight, Melody Hensley, ophelia benson, professional victims, prunes, PZ Myers, Rebecca Watson, skepchick, Stephanie Zvan, SurlyAmy, typhon blue |
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I always feel humbled by great examples of atyphia – where precision clarity is expressed in it’s most concise and simple form. Typhon Blue (also) explains in just over three and a half minutes what I have squandered untold thousands of words on.

January 17, 2013

The Face Of US Skepticism – Blocked By CFI

Posted by franc hoggle under disinformation, ethics, hyperreality, Jacobins, misandry, new new atheism, propaganda, pseudo-skepticism, toilet slaves, yellow journalism | Tags: atheismplus, cfi, charlatans, confidence tricksters, dereliction of duty, frauds, freethoughtblogs, Kool-aid, liars, middle class and entitled, pudgy pink princesses, Rebecca Watson, Ron Lindsay, skepchick, SkepticInk |
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How CFI deals with criticism under CEO Ronald A. Lindsay

There was I time when I would be surprised by this. That time is long gone. (more…)

January 15, 2013

Kicking 2012′s Carcass Out The Door, And Maybe CFI’s Too

Posted by franc hoggle under censorship, disinformation, gender, hyperreality, idiocy, Jacobins, misandry, moral panic, new new atheism, nihilism, populism, propaganda, pseudo-skepticism, yellow journalism | Tags: atheismplus, cfi, charlatans, confidence tricksters, dereliction of duty, Ed Clint, frauds, freethoughtblogs, Kool-aid, liars, middle class and entitled, Paul Kurtz, pudgy pink princesses, Rebecca Watson, Ron Lindsay, Russell Blackford, skepchick, SkepticInk, slanderers |
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The Center for Ideology

Let me paint a landscape for you as 2012 ceased to be…

On November 12 2012, Russel Blackford, in a rare moment of absolute exasperation, tweeted what most folks actually feel, but restrain themselves from articulating -

I will NOT be attending any convention / conference that features Rebecca Watson as a speaker. What were the Australian Skeptics thinking? smh

— Russell Blackford (@Metamagician) November 12, 2012

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On November 10, Rebecca Watson took her very own brand of air-headed cluelessness to new heights in a talk at Skepticon 5, dragging evolutionary psychology through the mud as some kind of tool of patriarchal oppression. Whether Blackford’s tweet was a direct result of this exhibit of buffoonery or not is not known, but doesn’t seem likely given the video was not posted until November 20. If by some chance it did, it only vindicates Blackford’s outburst as Watson now consistently paints a picture of skeptics and atheists to the outside world as a bunch of ill-educated, poorly read, perpetually squabbling clowns. Remember Galileo Becky? No, that was not an excusable “slip up” – it’s basic junior high school level history/science knowledge. It reeked of the pig ignorance of a stupid girl-child that fills her vast expanses of idle time between booze ups playing video games and tweeting snark instead self-education – the latter being what many folks would assume came as a minimum responsibility for someone that feeds at the teat of the community and claims to represent it. (more…)

January 13, 2013

A desperate plea from an ex-muslim [external content]

Posted by franc hoggle under atheism, islam, media, middle east, politics, theocracy | Tags: apostates, atheismplus, beached whales, Dear Muslima, drama queens, first world problems, frauds, freethoughtblogs, middle class, professional victims, prunes, pudgy pink Americans, PZ Myers, Rebecca Watson, Richard Dawkins, skepchick, white and entitled |
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“In despair I decided to make this video and I know almost no one will listen.”

– Aly Aly at the conclusion of the video

Well, we’ll see about that. I’m just going to leave your words as they are. They say all that needs saying -

Direct video link – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8LaNTrLeKU

References / links -

Aly Aly’s Youtube channel -

https://www.youtube.com/user/alyraly

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January 13, 2013

Adam Lee – The Toady’s Toady

Posted by franc hoggle under disinformation, ethics, fascism, hyperreality, Jacobins, misandry, new new atheism, propaganda, pseudo-skepticism, toilet slaves, yellow journalism | Tags: Adam Lee, ass-suckers, change.org, DaylightAtheism, freethoughtblogs, petition, Rebecca Watson, skepchick, slanderers, Stephanie Zvan, Thunder00t, toadies, weasels |
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Wormtongue – what Adam Lee hates seeing in the mirror

When you look at the whole menagerie of A+, freefromthoughtblogs and Skepchick and the various toilet slaves, snake oil peddlers, shills, frauds and confidence tricksters that squirm around it like maggots in carrion, it is a daunting task to try and determine which is the most obsequious toady of the lot.

I think that title has to belong to Adam Lee / DaylightAtheism though. He’s come from nowhere in the last few months, but with sheer bloody minded determination has made even yay-yap slugs like oolon look like ethical pillars of independent thinking, dignity and self-respect.

Adam’s first claim to fame was the glossy, clinically fact-free, propaganda advertorial he managed to inject into Salon – and leave a sour taste in many people’s mouths that Salon too can be consigned to the pile of online media portals that have “editorial integrity” as a marketing buzzword and not something that they actually waste any time on practising. (more…)

November 29, 2012

Found

Posted by franc hoggle under disinformation, great idiots of the world, hyperreality, misandry, new new atheism, propaganda, pseudo-skepticism, puritanism, shrieking hysteria, yellow journalism | Tags: atheismplus, charlatans, confidence tricksters, Dear Muslima, frauds, freethoughtblogs, Kool-aid, liars, middle class and entitled, pudgy pink princesses, Rebecca Watson, Richard Dawkins, SGU, skepchick, Skeptics Guide to the Universe, Steve Novella |
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I’ll just leave this here. Only had shitty 3rd party screencaps before. Says everything about Rebecca Watson and the hysterical numbskulls that support her. Yes, I’m looking at you Novella.

https://twitter.com/rebeccawatson/status/87864951514992641

(The multitudes in Watson’s block list can view it if they log out of Twitter.)

September 10, 2012

Addendum – The Dealing With Atheism+, FTB And Skepchick Survival Guide

Posted by franc hoggle under fascism, new new atheism, nihilism, populism, shrieking hysteria, terrorism, yellow journalism | Tags: atheismplus, baboons, bottom of the barrel and then some, brownshirts, character assassination, doxxing, frauds, freethoughtblogs, girlwriteswhat, personal attacks, PZ Myers, Rebecca Watson, skepchick, WoolyBumblebee |
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“pssst, franc did it…”

Baboons are so giving. Within a day of the Survival Guide post, they have barfed up some perfect examples of exactly how vile they can be when they gather in their echo chamber and start their paranoid whispers about how cruel the world is to them.

The first is merely amusing. The fact that Reddit Atheism+, much like freefromthoughtblogs and skepchick, is being censored with the zeal of a North Korean newspaper is a given and not a surprise to anyone. What is a surprise though (at least to me) is that they found a way to disable the Reddit post “dislike” arrow. I guess clicking the “dislike” arrow on what someone says is a coat of paint away from violent rape at knife point – if you listen to Marcotte and Skeptifem enough it is anyway. So they removed it.

There is a special added bonus with this to boot – now, r/atheism+ can really state that EVERYONE agrees with what they say, and technically, they will be telling the truth. Who says the Naked Emperor can’t teach new tricks? This style of lie-that-isn’t-really-a-lie is his main area of expertise. (more…)

September 9, 2012

Because I’m Sick Of Typing Responses

Posted by franc hoggle under great idiots of the world, misandry, new new atheism, pseudo-skepticism, shrieking hysteria, stupidity, toilet slaves, yellow journalism | Tags: atheismplus, baboons, bottom of the barrel and then some, character assassination, frauds, freethoughtblogs, Jen mccreight, liars, ophelia benson, personal attacks, PZ Myers, Rebecca Watson, skepchick, Stephanie Zwan |
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Now one handy graphic -

Clarification – not all people seem to “get” the point of this graphic due to not having been exposed to freefromthoughtblogs idiocy long enough. The citation needed! squawk is a stock standard get out of jail card used by baboons when cornered on some kind of vileness they know they can’t defend. Usually, it is about something that has been proven beyond a shadow of a doubt a 100 times previously (e.g. Watson’s calls to boycott Dawkins; her vandalism and subsequent ban from randi.org) and some new commentor points it out, without also including all of the evidence from scratch – the response is Pavlovian: Citation needed!

In many ways, this is the FfTB equivalent of the Creationist’s squawk of “but what about the gaps!”

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The Skepchick 12 Steps

The Threat Narrative

The Face Of US Skepticism – Blocked By CFI

Kicking 2012′s Carcass Out The Door, And Maybe CFI’s Too

A desperate plea from an ex-muslim [external content]

Adam Lee – The Toady’s Toady

Found

Addendum – The Dealing With Atheism+, FTB And Skepchick Survival Guide

Because I’m Sick Of Typing Responses

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