“How much truth is contained in something can be best determined by making it thoroughly laughable and then watching to see how much joking around it can take. For truth is a matter that can withstand mockery, that is freshened by any ironic gesture directed at it. Whatever cannot withstand satire is false.” — Peter Sloterdijk
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March 29, 2013
Too Much Gibberish Online
Posted by franc under censorship, cults, disinformation, hyperreality, Jacobins, misandry, moral panic, new new atheism, propaganda, pseudo-skepticism, toilet slaves, yellow journalism | Tags: clarity, Cynics, falsehood, frauds, Sloterdijk |[7] Comments
March 13, 2013
Ophelia Benson – It’s Not Link Whoring When I Do It
Posted by franc under disinformation, hyperreality, misandry, new new atheism, propaganda, pseudo-skepticism, puritanism, yellow journalism | Tags: airheads, Butterflies and Wheels, charlatans, crazy cunt lady, deadbeats, despair, frauds, freethoughtblogs, human tapeworms, human vacuums, Lawrence Krauss, link whoring, ophelia benson, parasites, please love me, prunes, Richard Dawkins, riding on the work of others, vanity spam, worthlessness |[18] Comments
Has Ophie ever done *anything* of value *anywhere*?
link whoring – (Internet, idiomatic) The practice of going out of one’s way to place links to one’s website on someone else’s webpage.
21 Ways to legally steal traffic to your blog from the big boys –
#3. Rant Aloud: Ranting to steal traffic legally is a great way you should go if you desperately need traffic to your blog site. Here, you go to where the sites you need are. All you need to do here is to rant…
Let’s face it – blatant link whoring is a vile practice, probably as old as spam itself (and it is, in effect, little more than spam). Many of us, at one time or another, have experienced spikes in blood pressure from repeat infringements by its more shameless abusers. (more…)
February 26, 2013
This Is What Harriet Hall Gets For Negotiating With Terrorists
Posted by franc under disinformation, gender, hyperreality, misandry, new new atheism, nihilism, populism, propaganda, pseudo-science, pseudo-skepticism, stupidity, toilet slaves, yellow journalism | Tags: Adam Lee, baboons, charlatans, DaylightAtheism, frauds, FTB, Harriet Hall, liars, narcissists, psychopaths, PZ Myers, Science Based Medicine, sociopaths |[5] Comments
The humility of a psychopath. Otherwise, I’m quite speechless.
https://phawrongula.wikia.com/wiki/TAM_2012_T-Shirt_Manufacturversy
http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/index.php/author/harriet-hall/ (more…)
February 21, 2013
Melody Hensley – Executive Director CFI-DC
Posted by franc under disinformation, gender, hyperreality, Jacobins, misandry, new new atheism, populism, propaganda, pseudo-skepticism, yellow journalism | Tags: amanda marcotte, cfi, csi, hypocrisy, McCarthyism, Melody Hensley, Ronald A. Lindsay, slander |[29] Comments
The censor never sleeps –
I was genuinely shocked. Not that Marcotte blocked me, but that I wasn’t already blocked preemptively according to the distributed wisdom of CFI Director Melody Hensley in her efforts to sanitise the internet and create a rape-free safe space where people from all walks of life can furiously nod in agreement with each other. I had never interacted with Marcotte prior to this, and the reply box being visible and active proved too much of a temptation. (more…)
February 14, 2013
The Thought Terminating Cliche
Posted by franc under cranks, cults, disinformation, fascism, gender, hyperreality, Jacobins, misandry, new new atheism, nihilism, nonsense, populism, propaganda, pseudo-skepticism, puritanism, shrieking hysteria, stupidity, toilet slaves, yellow journalism | Tags: 1984, atheismplus, brainwashing, charlatans, dogma, frauds, freethoughtblogs, gender feminism, Maoism, orwell, personality cults, skepchick, Stalinism, Stasi, thought control |[8] Comments
Cesspit of lies link
I’m going to pull an Ophelia Benson and just do a block text dump, add a line or two and pretend I’m a huge intellectual.
Loading the Language
The language of the totalist environment is characterized by the thought-terminating cliche. The most far-reaching and complex of human problems are compressed into brief, highly reductive, definitive-sounding phrases, easily memorized and easily expressed. These become the start and finish of any ideological analysis. In thought reform, for instance, the phrase “bourgeois mentality” is used to encompass and critically dismiss ordinarily troublesome concerns like the quest for individual expression, the exploration of alternative ideas, and the search for perspective and balance in political judgments. And in addition to their function as interpretive shortcuts, these cliches become what Richard Weaver has called “ultimate terms”: either “god terms,” representative of ultimate good; or “devil terms,” representative of ultimate evil. In thought reform, “progress,” “progressive,” “liberation,” “proletarian standpoints” and “the dialectic of history” fall into the former category; “capitalist,” “imperialist,” “exploiting classes,” and “bourgeois” (mentality, liberalism, morality, superstition, greed) of course fall into the latter. Totalist language, then, is repetitiously centered on all-encompassing jargon, prematurely abstract, highly categorical, relentlessly judging, and to anyone but its most devoted advocate, deadly dull: in Lionel Trilling’s phrase, “the language of nonthought.” (more…)
January 22, 2013
The Art Of Fearmongering
Posted by franc under conspiracists, cranks, cults, disinformation, hyperreality, Jacobins, misandry, moral panic, new new atheism, nihilism, populism, propaganda, pseudo-skepticism, shrieking hysteria, terrorism, yellow journalism | Tags: charlatans, Charles Manson, frauds, freethoughtblogs, hysteria, Jim Jones, Kool-aid, Marshall Applewhite, ophelia benson, PZ Myers, snake oil |[10] Comments
Ophelia Benson learns a new big word – stochastic
Blood libel (also blood accusation[1][2]) is a false accusation or claim[3][4][5] that religious minorities, usually Jews, murder children to use their blood in certain aspects of their religious rituals and holidays.[1][2][6] Historically, these claims—alongside those of well poisoning and host desecration—have been a major theme in European persecution of Jews.[4]
Blood libels typically allege that Jews require human blood for the baking of matzos for Passover, although this element was absent in the earliest cases that claimed (the contemporary) Jews reenacted the crucifixion. The accusations often assert that the blood of Christian children is especially coveted, and, historically, blood libel claims have been made to account for otherwise unexplained deaths of children. In some cases, the alleged victim of human sacrifice has become venerated as a martyr, a holy figure around whom a martyr cult might arise. Four of these have been previously canonized as saints, namely William of Norwich, Little Saint Hugh of Lincoln, Simon of Trent (Simon was decanonized[7] in the 20th century), and Gavriil Belostoksky who remains canonized in the Russian Orthodox Church. — the Cesspit of Lies (more…)
January 20, 2013
Does Ed Brayton Realise How Stupid He Sounds?
Posted by franc under disinformation, hyperreality, new new atheism, propaganda, pseudo-skepticism, toilet slaves, yellow journalism | Tags: charlatans, Ed Brayton, frauds, freethoughtblogs |[7] Comments
“Thanks for the ‘heart surgery’ donations! LOL!!! What a bunch of chumps. But the ribs were delicious”1
Almost certainly. And given the median intellect of the knuckle-draggers that read him, it’s not an issue.
After close to a year of shadowy insinuation about Michael Shermer being some kind of monstrous misogynist and sexual predator, freefromthoughtblogs has now clicked into full gear and is openly demonising him. To the surprise of nobody.
The flag to release the hounds came when Shermer responded to a series of stock standard FfTB smears and misrepresentations directed at him by Ophelia “the prune that talks” Benson –
Nontheism and Feminism: Why the Disconnect?
At the time of writing, that article is offline, but the cache copy can be seen here.
This is more of the same quote mined gibberish that Benson barfs up on a daily basis – “context” is evidently a tool of patriarchal oppression which can be dismissed and reality is best defined by the cultural Marxist practice of selective editing and imbuing meaning to what they really said through the filter of guilt by association and social demographic. (more…)
January 17, 2013
The Face Of US Skepticism – Blocked By CFI
Posted by franc 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 |[21] Comments
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 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 |[27] Comments
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
dilbert.com
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
Adam Lee – The Toady’s Toady
Posted by franc 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 |[11] Comments
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…)
grey lining 