Podcasts about Conservapedia

This is a preview of a bonus episode! listen to the full conversation on our patreon This week, we're joined by journalist and Wikipedia editor Molly White, to talk about the right's war on wikipedia, the production and conservation of knowledge online, and what it takes in order to preserve it. We also talk about the work of a wikipedia editor, how it differs from other kinds of fact-checking, and the ways in which Wikipedia's dedicated army of human writers and editors are able to thwart the attempts to replicate them by challengers, ranging from ChatGPT to Conservapedia (yes, we do talk about the Gay Penguin controversy) Read Molly's essay here: https://www.citationneeded.news/elon-musk-and-the-rights-war-on-wikipedia/ Subscribe to Citations Needed here: https://www.citationneeded.news/ ------ PALESTINE  AID LINKS You can donate to Medical Aid for Palestinians and other charities using the links below. Please also donate to the gofundmes of people trying to survive, or purchase ESIMs. These links are for if you need a well-respected name attached to a fund to feel comfortable sending money. https://www.map.org.uk/donate/donate https://www.savethechildren.org.uk/how-you-can-help/emergencies/gaza-israel-conflict -------- PHOEBE ALERT Phoebe! Okay, now that we have your attention; check out her Substack Here! Check out the relaunched Masters of our Domain with Milo and Patrick, here! -------- This show is supported by Patreon. Sign up for as little as $5 a month to gain access to a new bonus episode every other week, and our entire backlog of bonus episodes! Thats https://www.patreon.com/10kpostspodcast -------- Ten Thousand Posts is a show about how everything is posting. It's hosted by Hussein (@HKesvani), Phoebe (@PRHRoy) and produced by Devon (@Devon_onEarth).

Zero discusses Biden, pullin' out, Kamala, Sleepy Joe, Trump, Lupe Fiasco, Kendrick Lamar, Maxxxine, Long Legs, Oddity, hip hop, jealousy, Democrats, Republicans, Conservapedia, racism, and so much more. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/zero-grav/support

Why do conservatives want us to read about Mien Kamf so much??? Today's mini is a journey into the conservative version of Wikipeida, created apparently by homeschooled teenagers. We get to learn a lot about homophobia, the fetuses of the Titantic, and even more homophobia! Why are we talking about Conservapedia? Because Donald Trump got shot in the ear.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/book-cult--5718878/support.

Mr. P sits Mrs. P down and explains that this week he did his research a bit differently. On This Episode of Pearlmania500 Presents: Too Many Tabs, we learn all of our facts from conservative version of Wikipedia: Conservapedia!From Barack Obama to dogs to a lack of salsa, Mrs. P is taken on a journey that none of us were prepared for. As announced on this episode, Alex will be performing live in Philly on April 12th or 13th: Tickets Here! To become a Team leader: Join our patreon (not a cult): https://pearlmania500.netThe Pearlmans have a Post Office Box: P.O. Box 72549, Thorndale, PA 19372.Follow us on Instagram: @Pearlmania500@mrs.pearlmania500Our theme song and all of the music for our show comes from our friend's project called "His Name Was Dusk." Check out his website for more info at: hisnamewasdusk.com Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Be Skeptikal Dammit:  see researched segment Environment:  newly discovered way to break down major class of forevrer chemicals Wildlife:  some updates on the mass elephant deaths of 2020 Researched:  the alternative reality that is Conservapedia Positive:  vollunteers shovelling snow for those who can't Show Notes:   new tech for breaking down 'forever chemicals'   https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/scientists-find-a-new-technique-for-breaking-down-forever-chemicals-180980623/   https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/cheap-new-method-breaks-down-forever-chemicals/   https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/08/scientists-are-figuring-out-how-to-destroy-forever-chemicals/     bacterium may have caused mystery elephant deaths   https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-67197251   https://www.nature.com/articles/d44148-023-00307-9   https://www.livescience.com/animals/deadly-bacteria-may-be-the-culprit-behind-mysterious-elephant-die-off     conservapedia   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservapedia   https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Conservapedia   https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2007/mar/02/wikipedia.news   https://www.conservapedia.com/Main_Page     snow shovelling volunteers  https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/whitehorse-residents-paying-it-forward-shoveling-snow-for-those-who-cant-1.7071470#:~:text=A%20group%20of%20Whitehorse%20residents,three%20years%20ago%20from%20India.

Denne fredagen har Astrid, Klara, Sigrun og Anja pratet om Natt & Dag sin Vixen anmeldelse, amerikanere som ikke kan Europa og conservapedia!

Over this week's cuppa, David and Christina discuss the Independent State Legislature Theory in light of the just-concluded SCOTUS arguments regarding Colorado's assertion that the 14th Amendment empowers the state to remove certain individuals from its primary ballot; Breaching the Mainstream project by the Institute for Research and Education on Human Rights; a case for open primaries; the latest NAR-cissistic doublespeak coming from C. Peter Wagner-anointed “apostle” Lance Wallnau; a win against Project Veritas; the disbanding of Moms for Liberty in Lehigh County; and an introduction to Conservapedia, the alt-fact reference site.Thanks for listening! Now follow us on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and Threads. And please consider becoming a Patreon supporter at www.patreon.com/podcastunreasonable. It's a small price to pay to help keep America from becoming a theocracy, dontchya think?

Conservapedia.com ville oppsummert denne episoden slik: "I krysningspunktet mellom jul og halloween, mellom Fortnite og sosiologi, og mellom Haaland og D-vitamin, finner vi Astrid, Sigurd og Carina. Deres bidrag til noen av kulturens mange diskusjoner vil lenge bli husket som et vendepunkt for The Gay Agenda". Takk til Malin for strålende teknikk

This week we're off to space as Scott plays Starfield and Dallin plays Sea of Stars. We are also celebrating our 150th mainline episode by bringing back a few old segments. 0:00 - Opening chat and Deswitchptions (sp?) 19:20 - Sea of Stars Review 40:45 - Starfield Review 1:18:12 - Reading from Conservapedia and having a laugh --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mgspodcast/message

This week, we talk in-depth about our experiences with Star Wars Jedi Survivor and The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom; both wonderful games that improve on their predecessors in many ways. We also spent a few minutes having a laugh at entries on Conservapedia. 0:00 - Opening chat and Conservapedia 17:30 - Star Wars Jedi Survivor 46:00 - Watch Dogs Legion 50:00 - The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mgspodcast/message

Sometimes it feels like the online world is split into multiple, incompatible perceptions of reality. This is not a new development. In fact, in the mid-aughts one man tried to create an isolated island of American christian conservative thinking by launching a website called Conservapedia. Though it was advertised as being free from the supposed liberal bias of Wikipedia, Conservapedia became a home of pseudoscience, conspiracy theories, and general right-wing grievances. It even launched a project to create a new English translation of the Bible that was manlier and more conservative than previous translations. To help us understand the history of Conservapedia, we recruited our resident reddit atheist debunker, Travis. He's going to walk us through the story of Conservpedia's creation and show off some of the latest additions to the online encyclopedia, which is still active after 17 years. References https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jun-19-na-schlafly19-story.html https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Conservapedia https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Conservapedia:Night_of_the_Blunt_Knives https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Lenski_affair https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/belief/2009/oct/11/conservative-bible-project-liberal-conservapedia Subscribe for $5 a month to get an extra episode of QAA every week + access to ongoing series like 'Manclan' and 'Trickle Down': http://www.patreon.com/QAnonAnonymous QAA's Website: https://qanonanonymous.com Music by Pontus Berghe. Editing by Corey Klotz.

With so much misinformation out there, it's hard to tell what's true and what isn't. For years Wikipedia and other online encyclopedias have been referred to as "not a reliable source of information". But, may I introduce you to Conservapedia? Described as a "complete disaster" and "instant fail" that is heavily influenced by fundamentalist Christian beliefs such as: gravity is an unproven theory, Einstein's General Relativity "has nothing to do with physics", only followers of Christianity are capable of religious faith, atheists are incapable of being moral, and Jews are "touchy" about the Holocaust. It's an absolute blast once you get the their list of "Worst Liberal Movies", so stick around for that. Linktree Find out more at http://20kleaguespod.com This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Dr. Dan talks with Andy Schlafly about Government involvement in the doctor-patient relationship.Andy Schlafly has practiced law for nearly 30 years, specializing in litigation on constitutional issues.  He is General Counsel for the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, a position he has held for two decades. He currently has a lawsuit pending against the Biden Administration over its “Disinformation Governance Board,” which is a kind of Orwellian “Ministry of Truth.”  He has won jury trials in state and federal courts and has filed many amicus briefs in cases having heightened significance.Andy has testified before state legislative committees in New York, New Jersey, Texas, Indiana, and Louisiana.  He has a college engineering degree from Princeton and graduated from Harvard Law School, where he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review along with Barack Obama.  Andy founded Conservapedia, an online conservative encyclopedia, and has been active in politics since an early age.E144: Andy Schlafly - Doctors In the Lion's Den (Part 2 of 3)E144: Andy Schlafly - Doctors In the Lion's Den (Part 3 of 3)

Dr. Dan talks with Andy Schlafly about Government involvement in the doctor-patient relationship.Andy Schlafly has practiced law for nearly 30 years, specializing in litigation on constitutional issues.  He is General Counsel for the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, a position he has held for two decades. He currently has a lawsuit pending against the Biden Administration over its “Disinformation Governance Board,” which is a kind of Orwellian “Ministry of Truth.”  He has won jury trials in state and federal courts and has filed many amicus briefs in cases having heightened significance.Andy has testified before state legislative committees in New York, New Jersey, Texas, Indiana, and Louisiana.  He has a college engineering degree from Princeton and graduated from Harvard Law School, where he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review along with Barack Obama.  Andy founded Conservapedia, an online conservative encyclopedia, and has been active in politics since an early age.E144: Andy Schlafly - Doctors In the Lion's Den (Part 1 of 3)E144: Andy Schlafly - Doctors In the Lion's Den (Part 3 of 3)

Dr. Dan talks with Andy Schlafly about Government involvement in the doctor-patient relationship.Andy Schlafly has practiced law for nearly 30 years, specializing in litigation on constitutional issues.  He is General Counsel for the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, a position he has held for two decades. He currently has a lawsuit pending against the Biden Administration over its “Disinformation Governance Board,” which is a kind of Orwellian “Ministry of Truth.”  He has won jury trials in state and federal courts and has filed many amicus briefs in cases having heightened significance.Andy has testified before state legislative committees in New York, New Jersey, Texas, Indiana, and Louisiana.  He has a college engineering degree from Princeton and graduated from Harvard Law School, where he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review along with Barack Obama.  Andy founded Conservapedia, an online conservative encyclopedia, and has been active in politics since an early age.E144: Andy Schlafly - Doctors In the Lion's Den (Part 1 of 3)E144: Andy Schlafly - Doctors In the Lion's Den (Part 2 of 3)

In a more casual episode, Martin and Cornbread talk about a variety of topics: College football The victory of leftist Chilean presidential candidate Gabriel Boric Ostracism and other stuff about the ancient Greeks and revisit Conservapedia for more laughs --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ministrymodus/message

Sorry folks, this week we have one thing and one thing on the agenda, and that is Conservapedia. I need not say more or I will spoil the fun...but boy howdy...this was...something...enjoy if you can.Talking Points: Conservapedia's List of Greatest Conservative songs and movies.Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Hevel-A-Zillenial-Podcast-100891458536002/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hevelcast/Twitter: https://twitter.com/hevelcastTik Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@hevelcast

Martin and Cornbread react to the "trustworthy encyclopedia" and learn a lesson on evaluating online sources of information. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ministrymodus/message

Cuteservative isn't the only word on the block you need to know! That's right, I'm expanding your vocabulary and giving you the ABC's of politics!

In this episode of The Tall Friendly Atheist Dad Podcast, I collaborate with Kenny & Monica from "Questioning Faith" to discuss Young Earth Creationist theology, including the bad logic, use of personal opinion to interpret scripture and why YEC theology is more in line with the scriptures as originally intended, as well as their entry in to ministry. Referenced: Answers In Genesis, Creation Ministries International, Elephant skulls, Jesus Camp, Kent Hovind, Dr. Jason Lisle, The Two-Way Speed Of Light Hypothesis, Dr Gerald Schroeder, Six Day Science and their hypothesis, Dr. Sarah Salviander, Ken Ham, The different 'kinds', Bill Nye vs Ken Ham debate, Conservapedia & The Post-Flood Volcanioc Diaspora (now relegated to a Talk page), the Moon Dust argument, the Jupiter Losing Heat argument, the Sea Salinity argument, the Population Argument, "we all have the same evidence, just different worldviews", "A Man After God's Own Heart" episode, did Ham rape Noah?, and MUCH more. Find the Questioning Faith podcast at Buzzsprout here. Contact Questioning Faith on Twitter here. –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– For more thought-provoking content, head over to the Tall Friendly Atheist Dad blog at http://www.tallfriendlyatheistdad.com, check out the tweets at http://www.twitter/com/tfadpod, and check out the book "The Best Religion For The Task At Hand" available on iTunes and Google Play. –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Trick or Treat (instrumental) by RYYZN https://soundcloud.com/ryyzn Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0 Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/l_trick-or-treat Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/uNPXJ9CDzbc ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

Owned by half the human race yet often shrouded in shame, secrets and lies, the (mostly) female sexual anatomy finally gets the scrutiny and plain talk it deserves. Author Zoe Mendelson discusses the heroic, misunderstood pussy.* FULL TRANSCRIPT *TEDDY ROOSEVELT: Surely there never was a fight better worth making than the one which we are in.BOB GARFIELD: Welcome to Bully Pulpit. That was Teddy Roosevelt, I'm Bob Garfield. Once there was the encyclopedia. The digital age gave us Wikipedia and a whole mess of other online information repositories from Investopedia, to Baby Names Pedia, to Pancreapedia, for one stop shopping on all things pancreas, to Conservapedia, for evangelical Christians sick of being brainwashed with science and facts.MAN: Wikipedia has become unsuitable because it's become very biased. It's become very anti-American. It's become very anti-Christian.GARFIELD: After four years of online collaboration by 200-some contributors on three continents, we now have a hardcover book titled Pussypedia, about the anatomy, physiology, culture and fraught history of the mostly female organs and structures for reproduction, urology and pleasure. The book is learned, informative, poignant, often infuriating, and often also very funny. But what most distinguishes Pussypedia is that it's an FAQ for questions that have been answered incorrectly suppressed, deemed taboo, gone bizarrely uninvestigated and/or steeped in shame off and on for most of human history. Just for one meager example, this 1969 educational film strip from a right-wing organization agitating against sex education.NARRATOR: Every emotional and psychological aspect of sex is presented. But without the introduction of any moral concepts of right and wrong. Sexual intercourse between unmarried young people is presented as acceptable. Masturbation is not only acceptable, but a desirable means of relieving tension. Having an illegitimate baby is nothing to be ashamed of. Youths are instructed in use of every manner of contraceptive device and may obtain them without cost. But moral concepts of right and wrong rejected.GARFIELD: To my knowledge, there is no comparable screed associated with pancreas information. Into this environment enters Pussypedia, illustrated by Maria Conejo and written by Zoe Mendelson, who joins me now. Zoe, welcome to Bully Pulpit.ZOE MENDELSON: Thank you. Thanks for having me.GARFIELD: OK, let's start with the title. It isn't Vaginapedia, although that is the body part most associated with the slang word pussy. Isn't that like calling every Baltic state Lithuania?MENDELSON: Yes, it is. Yes, totally. The vagina is only the tube that connects the, the uterus to the outside. It's only the vaginal canal. So when we call the whole thing a vagina, leaving out a lot of really important parts. Also it means swordholder. So we're really calling our vaginas like that thing that's made to hold a penis.GARFIELD: It only exists in relationship to male equipment.MENDELSON: Right. And it's not an object of service to the penis.GARFIELD: The book itself is part sex manual, part comprehensive Mendelson's anatomy of XX plumbing and part history of suppression. You cite just absolutely infuriating examples of misogynistic superstition, religious orthodoxy, sexual repression and a sort of moral fascism that has come in waves over the centuries to inflict shame and to propound ignorance. Can you give me just some lowlights?MENDELSON: I think that the best example is the history of the erasure of the clitoris, and that can mean erasure conceptually, it can mean clitoridectomies becoming popular. As late as in the 20th century, people were performing clitoridectomies because masturbation was being blamed for all sorts of health ailments.GARFIELD: And you're talking about in the West, you're not talking about sub-Saharan Africa.MENDELSON: In Europe and in the United States. I mean, the clitoris has been known about since ancient times. And there was many times throughout the history of medicine where people said, well, what's this thing? And authorities in anatomy said, nothing, nothing. Don't ask about it. For a long time it was because the clitoris didn't fit into this model that we, that we had, which was that the vagina was just an inside out penis. When a fetus is growing, the genital clump either becomes a penis or a clitoris and they're made of the exact same parts. A clitoris is about nine centimeters flaccid on average, which is the same for a penis. But they thought that the vagina was an inside out kind of messed up penis gone wrong. So it didn't fit into that model, which is why for a long time they didn't want to acknowledge its existence even though they knew it was there.GARFIELD: Who's they?MENDELSON: Authorities on anatomy and biology. One of my favorite texts from a guy that dug it up — in 17-something — he wrote that he was really surprised that it hadn't been priorly documented since it was so perceptible to sight and touch. Kind of saying: This thing, it's right there. Nobody ever noticed this big organ? What?GARFIELD: Now, when you say text, you're not talking about SMS. You're talking about medical literature, medical clitoriture. See what I did there?MENDELSON: Clitoriture. Exactly. And then it was taken out of Gray's Anatomy like 1948. Which was like what? They just took it out, you know, and I suppose that's because it was profane. It is back in a lot of medical textbooks. But for example, when little kids learn about the reproductive system in school, little girls are shown images of the quote unquote female reproductive system and it has no clitoris. It's just this like, this huge organ missing. And it's like, well, God forbid little kids with pussies should know that their bodies are capable of producing pleasure. Like, what's going to happen? Is society going to implode? I remember in school learning about boys having wet dreams as part of puberty and stuff, but nothing was ever mentioned about pleasure in the pussy at all.GARFIELD: This is a thought to which will return. But meantime, I want to play you a clip from a movie around the time where there was no clitoris in Gray's Anatomy. It's The Night of the Hunter from 1955. It's set, though, in the 30s, somewhere in the Ohio River Valley. And in this scene, an older married woman is talking about marital sex.OLDER WOMAN: That wasn't love. That was just flapdoodle. Have some fudge lambs. When you've been married to a man 40 years, you know, all that don't amount to a hill of beans. I've been married to my Walt that long and I swear in all that time, I just lie there thinking about my canning.GARFIELD: Now, Zoe, that is pretty much the definition of low expectations.MENDELSON: It's no expectations because her pleasure's not even part of the equation at all. It's not implied that she should be enjoying it.GARFIELD: And this goes to the heart of what you're battling. You didn't undertake Pussypedia to be ironic or snarky or transgressive, but out of meaning and purpose. Which purpose begins with the little girl Zoe Mendelson? Can you tell me about her?MENDELSON: The book starts by saying I was a horny kid. I was, and I remember really clearly, slowly learning to be ashamed of that. I remember eventually becoming very embarrassed about those feelings and thinking that there was something wrong with me. And I'm not alone in that. I think that a lot of people with pussies are taught to be very ashamed of their sexual desire, that their sexual desire is profane, that it's immoral, that it's gross, that it's slutty, taught not to masturbate. You know not my parents. They didn't teach me not to masturbate. They said that's something you do when you're alone in your room, which was pretty reasonable of them to say.GARFIELD: Well, unless you write for The New Yorker.MENDELSON: Exactly. But a lot of people with pussies are taught that masturbating is wrong implicitly. Even if it's not something that they're taught, they somehow end up thinking that.GARFIELD: Conquering shame is an admirable mission. But I do want to ask you about your journey. Watergate began when Carl Bernstein had to cover a burglary at the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee. The Pentagon Papers were published after a government contractor decided to leak a classified report on the history of American intervention in Vietnam. And Pussypedia began how?MENDELSON: I was Googling whether or not all women can squirt. I was in a relationship with an a*****e who was really, really intent on making me squirt and insisted that every woman that he'd been with could squirt, that every woman could squirt. And so I just Googled it and everything I found was crap. It was geared towards cis men: How to make a woman squirt! And I thought that was really sad. And so I started reading these medical journal articles and I have no science background at all. And so it's really hard to understand. And I had to look up the definitions of a lot of words. And I just thought this is a huge problem, that this content is so inaccessible. That quality information about our bodies in general is inaccessible because even sort of the good sources were contradictory. And so I thought I should tackle the pussy.GARFIELD: What did you discover about female ejaculation, which is a staple of porn and I believe every issue of Cosmopolitan since about 1979?MENDELSON: Well, first of all, there's two kinds of female ejaculation, and squirting is not considered by the scientists who record, first recorded female ejaculation and established it as a real thing, as ejaculation. I consider it ejaculation because it's shooting liquid out of you when you're aroused or orgasming. To me, that's ejaculation. But the truest form of female ejaculation is what is created by the periurethral glands. And it's just like a small amount of milky liquid, just a very small amount usually. And squirting is clear and it comes out of the urethra and it's different. It's also not pee. People are really kind of obsessed with whether or not it's pee, it's not pee. But you can't answer the question, can all women squirt? Because it's very hard to prove the negative cases. It's very hard to prove that somebody cannot and never will squirt.GARFIELD: All right. So ejaculation has been trending the past couple of decades, let's say. But the most debated question about women's sexual response has to be orgasm. Sigmund Freud claimed there was clitoral orgasm and the far superior vaginal orgasm, which was enjoyed, he said, only by psychologically mature women, whatever that was supposed to mean. And then a century later, we learned of the supposed G spot, another Cosmo staple. So is it real or some sort of fanciful myth like the Loch Ness Monster or bipartisanship?MENDELSON: (laughing) Bipartisanship. So, a vaginal orgasm is a clitoral orgasm. It's still stimulating the clit through the vagina. Also, it's usually the same thing as a G-spot orgasm. The G spot is how the clitoris gets stimulated through the vagina. And it is real. Cosmo ran this horrible article last April saying that it doesn't exist, and they're really sorry for saying that it existed all these years. The G spot definitely exists. First of all, like less than a third of people with pussies can reliably orgasm through only vaginal stimulation. So it's very important that people understand that you don't have to be able to do that. You may never be able to do that. And that's incredibly normal. But the G spot is where the urethral sponge presses up against the front wall of the vagina. And the urethral sponge is erectile tissue, just like around the urethra in a penis, like a sweater. And inside that tissue are the periurethral glands I just mentioned that create the ejaculate. It's also called the female prostate. I don't like calling it the female prostate, because we don't say like the female liver, the female kidneys. Also, it sort of assumes the gender of the person whose body it's in. But yeah, it is the prostate, just like the prostate in the male body. Air quotes when I say male and female body. But just like that prostate, it produces the ejaculate. And it's also why people with pussies, if you've ever tried to pee after you have an orgasm and it's really hard, it's because that sponge is squeezing your urethra closed. It's very intricately connected to the clitoris through blood vessels and nerves. They share nerves and it's all connected with the bulbs of the clitoris that go around the vagina, the front wall of the vagina. And so it presses up against the front of the vagina and stimulates the clitoris.GARFIELD: All right. You just said a whole bunch of, you know, words. But I just want to make sure I understand this right. This tiny piece of flesh that we think of as the clitoris is just the nerve rich glands, like the glands of a penis, connected to tissues and structures lurking unseen below, actually on the outer wall of the vagina. Right? Not the inner one. So it's like a tip of the iceberg kind of deal.MENDELSON: Yeah, it's the tip of the iceberg. The vagina is surrounded on either side by the clitoral bulbs, which are also erectile tissue, sort of like a penguin with these fat legs. It's hard to describe. (laughing) It's very hard to describe, but there's many diagrams of it in the book.GARFIELD: I'm just, I guess probably will have the penguin image in my head forever now. The penguin with cankles, I guess I don't I just.MENDELSON: Penguin with cankles, that's it! So what happened in the aftermath of Freud saying that it was a pathology if you couldn't have a vaginal orgasm, that you were frigid — and there was really no clitoral stimulation certainly happening — and so all of these women in droves started showing up to … you can read these kind of funny papers from conferences, psychoanalysis conferences, about why do we have a national epidemic of frigidity? Why are so many women frigid? One person who wrote about this in a very funny way is Ernst Grafenberg, who the G spot is named after. He didn't name it after himself. A team of scientists named it after him, but much later he wrote it's because they hate their husbands. It took a very long time, 'til almost the end of the decade, for somebody to say perhaps Freud was wrong.GARFIELD: All right. We've been disdainful of Freud and kind of ridiculed women's magazines, not kind of ridiculed, explicitly ridiculed women's magazines. But at least they were talking about this stuff. As you mentioned, a lot of the literature over the centuries seems to erase the clitoris altogether and with it any acknowledgment, let alone endorsement, of female sexual gratification. Information was the exception, abnegation the rule. Why?MENDELSON: Okay, so this is the question that most gets me into talking and sounding like I think the patriarchy is this like table of old white men plotting about how to keep women oppressed, which I do not think. But sometimes it's really hard to believe that it's not that because I think keeping pleasure away from people with pussies is such an effective tool for oppressing them.GARFIELD: Is it a strategy or is it just a symptom?MENDELSON: That's a very good question. And I think it's sort of both. An empowered person with a pussy who owns their sexuality and is vocal about that will be met with a lot of backlash. And so in that context, it's a strategy because people see that empowered state and they want to crush it. That's gross. You're a slut. Put that away. Cross your legs. Nobody wants to hear about that. There's so much online sexual harassment toward people with pussies who aren't even talking about sex. And it's very easy to get flooded with, "I'm going to rape you. You're a w***e." I think that's a symptom, and a strategy.GARFIELD: On that subject, I just want to play you another excerpt from that same movie, The Night of the Hunter. This is later in the film when the scoundrel preacher Robert Mitchum shames his new bride, the widow woman Shelley Winters, on their wedding night.MITCHUM: Look at yourself. What do you see, girl? You see the body of a woman, the temple of creation and motherhood, you see the flesh of Eve that man since Adam has profaned. That body was meant for begetting children. It was not meant for the lust of men.MENDELSON: Right, it's made for making babies and it's like: Wait, the lust — what about her lust? Her lust, it's like it couldn't even possibly exist in his mind. You know, it's like, "don't let men f**k you." Not even saying, "don't f**k men."GARFIELD: It's taking away all of your sexual agency and your humanity along with it.MENDELSON: Exactly.GARFIELD: All right. So he's a preacher, which is obviously not a coincidence. Whether it's power or religion or financial incentive, the notion of female sexual shame does seem to be woven into the entire social fabric. The idea that women's bodies are too unclean even to be spoken of plainly. This is from an educational film in the early 60s.MOLLY: Hello. Oh, hi, Peggy. Sure, just a minute, I'll ask. Mom, can I go swimming with Peggy tomorrow after school?MOTHER: I don't think I would Molly.MOLLY: But I'd be home by 5:30.MOTHER: No, it's not a good idea the first two or three days of your period. You might get chills and catch cold.MOLLY: Oh, that's right. Peggy, of course, I can't go swimming. You know I've got the curse.GARFIELD: Poor little Molly. On one hand, she's battling puberty. On the other, the moral collapse of American society.NARRATOR: Here's a place where I want to make a brief comment about the influence about the advertising world in stimulating sexuality. Sales pitches for titillating devices such as perfumes, clothes, makeup are designed to lure the young girl or her overanxious parent into accepting this exaggerated emphasis on sexuality or sex appeal as the standard, and the use of these devices as essential for competing sexually.GARFIELD: That film, Zoe, like many others of the era, did a pretty good job — and I think you referred to this earlier discussing reproductive physiology — but it defaulted to the prevailing Victorian disdain of human sexuality as being inherently perverse. And the question is, what the f**k?MENDELSON: (laughing) I don't have an answer to that. I just spent five years trying to answer it, and I really just at the end of the whole thing, feel like it's all very silly. You know? She doesn't use even a euphemism, a neutral euphemism. Like she doesn't say it's that time of the month. She says it's a curse.GARFIELD: Yeah, "Charlie's visiting" you can sort of live with, although it's weird.MENDELSON: I would prefer that we didn't use any euphemisms because why should humans feel shame about anything that we can't stop our bodies from doing? You know, if you are going to the bathroom and you have to walk across your office, you shouldn't hide your tampons in your hand. So many menstrual products have been marketed saying it's so discreet, nobody will notice. Why are you so concerned with being so discreet that your body is functioning properly?GARFIELD: Zoe, I now, having read your book, know so much about you. You are not shy about sharing your own sexual experience in pretty granular detail. I have been married to people I know less about, and as an author myself, I've been imagining a scene from your writing life. So at some point in the past few months, you tell your mom that you're almost done with your book and she says: Oh, so you must let me read it. And you say: I'm still not ready. I'm still working on it. And she says, Just read me the beginning. And you say, Come on, Mom, I don't know. It's a work in progress. And and she says, No, you come on, Zoe, just the first paragraph, just the first sentence. And you say, fine: Chapter one. I have a hairy ass crack. Are you really ready for this level of intimacy with your readers?MENDELSON: I am. It's a political decision. Look, I did a lot of scholarship here. I did a lot of very serious scholarship too. And I don't want it to go to waste. I don't want people not to read it. So first of all, it's about fighting shame. I don't f*****g care. This is my body. This is how it was made. I love it. It moves me through the world. It does its job. I refuse to live with a kind of shame about my body that just disempowers me in a more general way in my life. And I hope that I can impart that to others, this feeling of freedom. And on the other hand, I did a literature review about all of these topics. So the bibliography of the book is enormous and it's the part that I'm most proud of. And I shared so much personally because it's fun. That's what people want to read.GARFIELD: That's a very eloquent response. But what did Mom say?MENDELSON: Oh, nobody in my family was surprised by this whatsoever. I actually just read that chapter to my grandparents and they laughed. But there was not an ounce of surprise. Our whole family is very kind of, you know, it's either poop and sex or serious intellectual debate and nothing else is really worthwhile.GARFIELD: Zoe, thank you so much.MENDELSON: Thank you, Bob. Thanks for having me on.GARFIELD: Zoe Mendelson is a journalist and author of Pussypedia, published by Hachette and on sale now. Bully Pulpit is produced by Mike Vuolo and Matthew Schwartz. Our theme was composed by Julie Miller and the team at Harvest Creative Services in Lansing, Michigan. Bully Pulpit is a production of Booksmart Studios. I'm Bob Garfield. Get full access to Bully Pulpit at bullypulpit.substack.com/subscribe

Tim, Ian, and Lydia host former founder of Wikipedia to discuss the suspension of James O'Keefe from Twitter, Wikipedia's practices surrounding information relegation, ultra-woke tribalists and their roles in editing Wikipedia, Conservapedia's unique form of its own bias, and Pfizer's new instruction for people to receive a third vaccination, even after the completion of the first set of shots.

Leo (@LCDickens) joins Josiah and Jared to discuss Esports and a terrible list of 'conservative' songs. Josiah introduces a new segment to the show surrounding a Christian marital advice book. And, okay, to be honest, we struggled to stay on topic.

Sylvester Stallone is still kicking ass...kind of.  The new Rambo is out, none of us have seen it, but that's not going to stop us from giving our two cents.  Tyler came across a wonderful website called Conservapedia and we discuss their list of the greatest conservative movies ever made.  It's hilarious.  Mark shares a story about how he was told as a child that animals don't have souls.  We do a Sunday School with Nick about Jezebel and then we reminisce about Juicy shorts. Thanks for tuning in and listening.  We appreciate the support we've been getting lately.  Make sure to hit us up on Facebook where we livestream every Thursday.  We've got our tentative topics listed to the side and if you chime in on the chat, you get to choose what we discuss.  We'll see you there.  Cheers!

La Emperatriz Viuda Cixi ha muerto. En su lecho de muerte, designa a Puyi, un niño de dos años, como emperador. Luego sería conocido como ‘el último emperador’, pero por ahora es un niño de dos años que grita y patalea mientras es llevado a su nuevo trabajo. El Principe Chun, su padre, será el regente. Pero un niño de dos años en el metafórico, no real, trono de Jade invita conspiraciones, traiciones y puñaladas en la oscuridad. Es un momento convulso en el cual algunos quieren que China cambie y la influencia de la era de las revoluciones se sienta. Sun Yat-Sen, Liang Qicaho, Yuan Shikai, Li Hongzhang, Chiang Kai shek y un pibe que recién arranca, Mao Zedong, entre otros, serán los grandes jugadores que se enfrentarán en un lucha sin cuartel por el poder. ¿Quién ganará el juego de tronos chino? Imagen: Photoshop inmundo hecho por mí que combina a Shang Tsung con Ned Stark. Fuentes / Videos - CCTV ENGLISH (2016) Commemorating 150th anniversary of Sun Yat-sen's Birth. Youtube. - CGTN (2017) Sun Yat-sen’s legacy in China. Youtube. - EXTRA HISTORY (2018) Sun Yat-Sen. Youtube. - FEATURE HISTORY (2017) Chinese Civil War. Youtube. - IT'S HISTORY (2015) Sun Yat-Sen. Youtube. Fuentes / Sitios web - alphahistory.com - EcuRed - Conservapedia - mdbg.net - Wikipedia Música, en orden de aparición: El tema de la Tortulia es una versión de Caravan por Oleg Zobachev. El tema original es de Duke Ellington.

NOTA: Nueva versión del programa #169, ahora con buen audio. Para finales del siglo XIX, la tensión en China entre la población local y los extranjeros que habitaban parte de China estaba cerca de explotar. Numerosas sociedades secretas que combinaban la exhaltación de sentimientos anti cristianos y anti extranjeros, junto con lo místico y lo físico aparecieron espontáneamente al norte de china. Sus miembros hacían ejercicios y demostraciones espectaculares de artes marciales en público, a la vez que clamaban que las balas no les hacían daño. Así, los misioneros europeos que los vieron los llamaron “boxers”, es decir, boxeadores. Manipulando esta mística, crecieron en número e iniciaron una letal marcha hacia Beijing con el objetivo de echar a las delegaciones de los extranjeros, que se defenderían con sangre y fuego contra la embestida. Lo que seguiría sería un conflicto que como consecuencia a largo plazo causaría la destrucción de la china imperial. Imagen: No pude conseguir créditos. Fuentes / Videos * IT’S HISTORY (2015) The Boxer Rebellion | History of China. Youtube * IN SEARCH OF HISTORY (1997) China’s Boxer Rebellion. History Channel Fuentes / Sitios web * EcuRed * Conservapedia * mdbg.net * Thoughtco.com * Wikipedia Música, en orden de aparición: El tema de la Tortulia es una versión de Caravan por Oleg Zobachev. El tema original es de Duke Ellington.

Seguimos con fuertes problemas con el audio a causa de probar soluciones nuevas para grabar el podcast. Agradecemos la paciencia de los que estén dispuestos a pasar por eso y excusamos de escuchar este programa a los que no. Para finales del siglo XIX, la tensión en China entre la población local y los extranjeros que habitaban parte de China estaba cerca de explotar. Numerosas sociedades secretas que combinaban la exhaltación de sentimientos anti cristianos y anti extranjeros, junto con lo místico y lo físico aparecieron espontáneamente al norte de china. Sus miembros hacían ejercicios y demostraciones espectaculares de artes marciales en público, a la vez que clamaban que las balas no les hacían daño. Así, los misioneros europeos que los vieron los llamaron “boxers”, es decir, boxeadores. Manipulando esta mística, crecieron en número e iniciaron una letal marcha hacia Beijing con el objetivo de echar a las delegaciones de los extranjeros, que se defenderían con sangre y fuego contra la embestida. Lo que seguiría sería un conflicto que como consecuencia a largo plazo causaría la destrucción de la china imperial. Imagen: No pude conseguir créditos. Fuentes / Videos * IT’S HISTORY (2015) The Boxer Rebellion | History of China. Youtube * IN SEARCH OF HISTORY (1997) China’s Boxer Rebellion. History Channel Fuentes / Sitios web * EcuRed * Conservapedia * mdbg.net * Thoughtco.com * Wikipedia Música, en orden de aparición: El tema de la Tortulia es una versión de Caravan por Oleg Zobachev. El tema original es de Duke Ellington.

An entitlement mentality is a state of mind in which an individual comes to believe that privileges are instead rights, and that they are to be expected as a matter of course (Adopted from Conservapedia). An entitlement mindset can be seen in attitudes such as: A lack of appreciation of sacrifices for others, a lack of personal responsibility, an inability to accept that actions carry consequences, and this goes on an on. The difficult reality is that we all have some areas of our life where an entitlement mindset has been established. You are limiting your potential when you view the world through this lens. Any time you catch yourself feeling or thinking anything that starts off with: "I deserve..." you are feeling entitled. Don't go and justify why you feel you deserve _______. Be awake to the fact you feel this way and do the work necessary to not be entitled. The more powerful way of being, or in other words the better way of living is to not concede your life to the decisions of others. For example, if you feel you deserve a raise and you don't get one then you may feel resentment towards your boss and coworkers. How does this help? A better way is to recognize you don't deserve any thing and instead create the circumstances on your own to get that raise, that promotion, that faster car or bigger house, etc. The world is your oyster. Go create your pearl.

Moving away from the Earth-centric episodes since The Return of the podcast, this epsidoe addresses the concept of dark matter and claims that it is pseudoscience (and liberal pseudoscience at that!). Throughout the episode, we explore the history of the concept, how it arose, and why it arose, and then some alternative explanations. I make the case that it is not pseudoscience at all, but real, genuine, Grade-A science.

  Excerpts from Conservapedia article on Faith

  Excerpts from Conservapedia article on Faith

Guests - Susan Gerbic / Lei Pinter / Nix Dorf

Arya V and Jon IV. Ivan and Red discuss Men's Right's activists, Conservapedia, brown genital holes, cages, frilly dresses, The Peach, ICE!, the meaning of Walls, and so much more.

Special thanks to Vyckie Garrison  from Conservapedia - abstinence Godless Matt's fundraiser page: Twitter:

Special thanks to Vyckie Garrison  from Conservapedia - abstinence Godless Matt’s fundraiser page: Twitter:

Conservapedia - Noah's ark

Conservapedia - Noah’s ark

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Vi följer en helt vanlig dag i Urban Bäckströms liv, kollar det konservativa Wikipedia, diskuterar vinster och valfrihet i välfärden och hittar pinsamhet i Jakobs liv.

This Episode covers the week of Oct 3rd - 10th, 2011. Steve Jobs followed natural medine, Creationsts caught on camera, Occupy Wall St, Bill O'Reilly says people who need jobs should just get them, Herman Cain is delusional, Conservative infighting, Conservapedia: Border Patrol, Invisible man rapes girl. Clips used: The Nightline Face-Off: Does God Have a Future?, Creationism propaganda for children caught on camera, CSPN, Entertainment Tonight, WSJ.com Keep Conservatives United, A Few Good Men.

This Episode covers the week of Oct 3rd - 10th, 2011. Steve Jobs followed natural medine, Creationsts caught on camera, Occupy Wall St, Bill O'Reilly says people who need jobs should just get them, Herman Cain is delusional, Conservative infighting, Conservapedia: Border Patrol, Invisible man rapes girl. Clips used: The Nightline Face-Off: Does God Have a Future?, Creationism propaganda for children caught on camera, CSPN, Entertainment Tonight, WSJ.com Keep Conservatives United, A Few Good Men.

The Evangelicals Engaged In Spiritual Warfare Vaccine Cleared Again as Autism Culprit Deliberate ignorance GOP: No tax hikes -- except for the poor Attention Governor Perry: Evolution is a fact Michele Bachmann Takes Issue With 'Radical Environmentalists,' Signals Stance On Minimum Wage Nuclear Explosions hit vast USZ military tunnel network

The Evangelicals Engaged In Spiritual Warfare Vaccine Cleared Again as Autism Culprit Deliberate ignorance GOP: No tax hikes -- except for the poor Attention Governor Perry: Evolution is a fact Michele Bachmann Takes Issue With 'Radical Environmentalists,' Signals Stance On Minimum Wage Nuclear Explosions hit vast USZ military tunnel network

To tide you over until the next recording hits the digital airwaves, here's two outtakes from Episode 14: A Conservative Estimate. What we have is two subjects on the topic of homosexuality, as explained by Conservapedia. And really, who knows more about the gay lifestyle than a group of reactionary fundamentalists? Well, pretty much everyone, I suppose.

Edition #325 Where religion and ignorance meet Act 1: Conservapedia working on conservative bible - Colbert Report Act 2: Hume on Woods and religion - Counterspin Act 3: Interview on conservative bible - Colbert Report Act 4: Exporting homophobia to Uganda - The Progressive Act 5: Uganda be kidding me Part 2 - Rachel Maddow Act 6: Christmas billboard stirs seasonally inappropriate emotions - The Onion Act 7: Kill the gays law hits major news in US - Thom Hartmann Act 8: Prayer effort seeks right-thinking from liberals - NPR Act 9: Killing people to make magic potions Part 1 - Young Turks Act 10: Christ returns to NBA - The Onion Act 11: Killing people to make magic potions Part 2 - Young Turks Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content: Uganda be kidding me Part 1 Music: Blacking Out The Friction - Death Cab For Cutie Redemption song - Bob Marley God - The Dodos Hate me - Blue October Directions - Josh Rouse Carol of the bells - United States Army Field Band and Soldiers' Chorus Gods gonna cut you down - Johnny Cash Like a prayer - Rufio You're wrong - NOFX Jammin - Bob Marley Produced by: Jay! Thanks for listening! Check out the Best of the Left iPhone/iPod Touch App in the App Store! Visit us at www.BestOfTheLeft.com Contact me directly at Jay@BestOfTheLeft.com Vote for us and leave comments at www.PodcastAlley.com or Review the show on iTunes.

There's a group out there called Conservapedia, that thinks that the Bible we have today is too liberal.  So they want to change it.  Where have we heard this before?  Also, the Chinese government has had enough of Rogue Christians who refuse to worship in the state sanctioned churches, so much so that they attacked the only mega church in China, arrested the pastors and put the worshipers in the hospital.So, we decided to talk about the parable of the unjust judge, which Pastor Gary believes is mistitled.  Chinese mega church attackedhttp://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,579979,00.html?test=latestnewsConservative Bible translation...  these people think the bible is just too darned liberal.http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34270487/ns/us_news-faith/Church selling Tiffany Stained Glass window to help fund mission.http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34291880/

Jim is back from vacation with condolences to our fans in Tennessee. Moses vs. Jesus Is the Bible just too liberal? Sex offenders sue to go to church Praise the Lord and pass the ammo Women pastors get cut off Note: about 29 minutes in, we had some audio problems. When you get there, just skip ahead to 31 minutes, where it's fixed.

Jim is back from vacation with condolences to our fans in Tennessee. Moses vs. Jesus Is the Bible just too liberal? Sex offenders sue to go to church Praise the Lord and pass the ammo Women pastors get cut off Note: about 29 minutes in, we had some audio problems. When you get there, just skip ahead to 31 minutes, where it's fixed.

TAM London, the Revival Fellowship, curing sleep and Conservapedia. These things, and more, in episode 6 of Skeptics with a K!

A new Young Earth Fundamentalist online encyclopedia rears its ugly head.

The Show Notes: Something quick from James HDR Intro Upside-down answers Musicophilia and Oliver Sacks Geo's Mom Reads Jay-Z Lyrics - Say Hello from American Gangster Last minute military gifts from Military.com What do conservatives look at on Conservapedia? History Chunk Minoishe: Wish Ya' Happy Hanukkah! Religious Moron of the Week: Presidential Candidate Edition - Mitt Romney  from Patric Lawrence and Brian Brown - Mike Huckabee Ask George - Greek  from Clark in NJ - Ukrainian  from Michael Britvan Eyebobs contest: win a copy of Non-Coloring Book Show close ...................................... Mentioned in the show: Conservapedia's main page; the Eyebobs page with the contenders. This Holiday Season, give a gift from the Geologic Universe! Get George's music at CD Baby and iTunes, and Non-Coloring Book at Lulu, both as download and print editions. Have a comment on the show, a topic for Minoishe Interroberg, or a question for Ask George? Drop George a line and now you can write to Geo's Mom, too! Ms. Information says: The Geologic forum poll will close soon. Cast your vote in the sidebar or vote here. Thanks so much.