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pharyngula | July 9, 2007Now their insane denial of the legitimacy of modern psychiatry leads to an insane woman butchering her family. It's appalling: the parents were scientologists who refused to give anti-psychotic drugs to their daughter, and the end result is that they and another daughter are slaughtered.
This is where delusional, irrational, wishful thinking leads you — to a rejection of reality that has the potential to crash in on you in lethal ways.
pharyngula | June 23, 2007What is wrong with these people?
God Hates the World
Be sure to catch the cute little toddler's solo at the end. Tell me, is this child abuse yet?
pharyngula | June 18, 2007A name I'd like to see banished to oblivion is that of Paul Hill, the religious fanatic and murderer who gunned down Dr John Britton and James Barrett at an abortion clinic. I don't care whether you are pro-choice or anti-woman, only the most wretched, insane god-walloper can possibly approve of assassinating health-care providers to protect fetuses. And there can't be that many of them, can there? And they are going to face universal public censure, right? Cruelly, archy tells me otherwise.
Behold, Paul Hill Days.
A couple of deranged Christian organizations are planning to send their…
pharyngula | May 20, 2007He wanted to be a preacher. He was a good Christian. His wife was a true believer, too. Their baby, though, was a godless heathen who never read the bible.
So I'm sure it was perfectly reasonable to put the baby in the microwave and cook her.
And their excuse that Satan made him do it? Quite sensible, I'm sure.
Isn't faith a wonderful thing?
pharyngula | May 19, 2007South Dakota: very conservative, very Republican, very concerned with women's reproduction, and none of it in a good way. This story just personifies the worst of South Dakota's repressive residents perfectly.
A former South Dakota lawmaker is accused of molesting his own foster children and legislative pages.
Ted Klaudt, 49, a Republican rancher from Walker, faces a long list of charges: eight counts of rape, two counts of sexual exploitation of a minor, two counts of witness tampering, sexual contact with a person under 16, and stalking.
Court documents mention five possible victims. Three…
pharyngula | April 17, 2007The entire shrieking, howling, raving mob of religious lunatics at Westboro Baptist Church, who are planning to attend the funerals of the slain students and staff.
pharyngula | April 16, 2007First commentator to tie the Virginia Tech shootings to Muslims, without a lick of evidence: Debbie Schlussel. And if it isn't connected in any way to Islamic terrorism?
Even if it does not turn out that the shooter is Muslim, this is a demonstration to Muslim jihadists all over that it is extremely easy to shoot and kill multiple American college students.
She'll connect it anyway.
The killer was Chinese. With the anticipated satisfaction, Schlussel sees that as a vindication — kick out all the foreign students!
pharyngula | April 16, 2007This is horrifying: somebody went on an armed rampage at Virginia Tech and killed at least 21 before killing himself. No clue yet on why this happened.
pharyngula | April 1, 2007Over at Street Anatomy, you can find some utterly stunning anatomical images from a series of books called Pernkopf Anatomy; really, it's beautiful stuff, with artfully posed models and exquisite detail. If you get on Amazon and look up the books, you'll see that you might be able to find used copies for $500 and up — far out of my price range, but for the quality, they might well be worth that.
Except, unfortunately, for this little detail…
Like Pernkopf, the artists for his atlas were also active Nazi party members. Erich Lepier even signed his paintings with a Swastika, which up until 15…
pharyngula | March 26, 2007Nigeria is experiencing an unimaginable horror for this academic: widespread sexual harassment of women students. It's injust, it's a corruption of the student-teacher relationship, and it harms their country, that half their potential leaders are abused and blocked from progress.
For years, sexual harassment has been rampant in Nigeria's universities, but until recently very little was done about it. From Associated Press interviews with officials and 12 female college students, a pattern emerges of women being held back and denied passing grades for rebuffing teachers' advances, and of…
pharyngula | March 13, 2007Some have complained that my post on the snake slaughter gave them nightmares. If that's you, do not click on this next link! I'm usually fairly tough about seeing grisly gore, but this video of a dolphin harvest in Japan is extremely unsettling. A slaughterhouse is always going to be an ugly piece of work, but what's on display there is also callous indifference to the suffering of the animals, and methods that increase stress and pain. This video shows animals in agony. Even if I were to accept the argument that they are "mere" animals being processed for food, there is no excuse for the…
pharyngula | February 20, 2007SWAT teams training for drug raids casually shoot target dogs, so guess what they do on the real raids? Fascist scumbags. In anything other than a police state, you'd expect the law enforcers to be held to the highest possible standards of conduct; in the US, the police with the biggest guns are unrestrained by ordinary decency. Slaughtering family pets is what I'd expect of a psychopath.
(via Jim Lippard)
pharyngula | January 2, 2007Am I going to face the wrath of the anti-vaccination kooks for linking to this? Bring them on. Orac has an article that thoroughly disgusted me: a report on the infamous MD, Andrew Wakefield, who published an article in The Lancet that claimed to have found a link between the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine and autism. I had no idea that it had such a strong effect.
Wakefield's work for the lawyers began two years before he published his now notorious report in The Lancet medical journal in February 1998, proposing a link between the vaccine and autism.
This suggestion, followed by a…
pharyngula | November 24, 2006Brock at Stupid Evil Bastard finds a fascinating map of US hate groups at the Southern Poverty Law Center. If you're wondering what nastiness can be found in your neighborhood, it's a handy reference. Minnesota has more Neo-Nazis and Christian Identity groups than I like to see, but you'll have to look at the maps of California and Texas to see more scary stuff than this.
This is a slightly weird map—the Christian Identity group that looks like it is close to Morris is actually in Burnsville, south of Minneapolis, and should be way over to the east, near the cluster of swastikas. More…
pharyngula | November 16, 2006Rob Helpy-Chalk has a horrific video of a student being repeatedly shocked with a taser…for not exiting a UCLA library quickly enough. If you'd rather not listen to a hand-cuffed young man screaming in pain, you could just read the story. There are a few campus police officers who need to be sacked immediately and publicly; there are no excuses for their abuse of power.
pharyngula | October 4, 2006I've long respected the Amish—they aren't Luddites, as typically portrayed, but a community that consciously deliberates over the effects of technology on social interactions, and limits those effects (in ways I would find personally disagreeable, but hey, it's their life), and I like the fact that they are willing to let young members explore the life outside their communities. The recent murders were monstrous, their perpetrator sick and evil, and I can't even imagine the pain those families have to be going through. This comment, though, says that at least some Amish also live a life of…
pharyngula | September 11, 2006A reader sent me a link to this unpleasant video of Scientologists in Clearwater, FL. I recognize the work: it's by Mark Bunker of XenuTV, where you'll find a whole collection videos documenting the kind of religious fascism Scientology, the creepiest cult on the planet, sponsors.
Bunker's videos show how these grim fanatics can take over a whole town by terrifying the residents and coopting the police—it's very unsettling.
pharyngula | August 18, 2006Schools teach people how to think. This abomination is about learning not to think. It's also an example of child abuse by smiling, cheerful parents, and a contemptible media outlet that blandly and merely reports the way religious fanatics poison kids' minds.
pharyngula | July 26, 2006He only has a few radio and television programs, his own university, tens of millions of dollars to throw at his political causes, and a few million voters in his pocket, so Jerry Falwell* is just a marginal nut, right? We can just ignore him when he says things like this:
It is apparent, in light of the rebirth of the State of Israel, that the present day events in the Holy Land may very well serve as a prelude or forerunner to the future Battle of Armageddon and the glorious return of Jesus Christ.
Those rapture freaks who are cheering on the bloodshed in the Middle East certainly don't…