A tower of misinformation exposed
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Robert Pennock is a rare writer who is able to convey difficult concepts in science and philosophy.  In "Tower of Babel: The Evidence Against the New Creationism," he has demonstrated this ability. Inded this is one of the best summeries that I have read on the subject. As Pennock implies,
the gap between science and religion grows wider when certain self-styled experts insist on finding evidence for their pre-conceived notions. Pennock reports accurately that the creationist view (including the re-clothed "intelligent design" form) is only a part of a vast Judeo-Christian base (even discounting other faiths- Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, etc. in the debate) and it is ultimately dependent on a literal interpretation of scripture. It is thus not necessarily the "bedrock" Christian belief that its proponents would like us to think.  Many ardent Christians of the past (among them St. Augustine) were also supporters of whatever scientific truth emerged.  Some even warned of making Biblical inerrancy a church dogma.  The results of such dogmatic views (as well as the political climate of the times) led to Galileo's persecution and the embarrassment of the church of that period when it became obvious that he had been correct in his support of Copernicus.

It is unfortunate when one extreme part of a religious faith becomes so vocal that it seems to dominate and speak for the whole community. The literal interpretation of Holy Texts can easily slip into bibliolatry, or worship of the book (a form of idolatry.)  We recently saw the most unfortunate results of such radical theocracy in revolutionary Iran and in the terrorist actions on September 11, 2001 (both based on Islamic fundamentalism), but they also include the very "Christian" Inquisition and the Salem Witch Trials of the past. Pennock has done us all a great favor in exposing the tendency of a few to try to take over and speak for the many.

This is a well-reasoned and excellent book with only a few errors that I could discover.  It should be read by many, but unfortunately people who are of a similar mind will probably mostly read it.
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In light of the distortions published in this book, below are some
facts that were left out of this otherwise well-researched book. The
authors might call these deception my omission ACSH is a not for
profit organization led by a voluntary board of more than 350 leading
physicians and scientists from prominent hospitals and universities-

 ACSH's work is not only peer-reviewed by these leading independent
scientists, but ACSH reports are then further reviewed and published
by mainstream medical and scientific journals with no connection to
ACSH.
 Some of the scientific and professional journals that have
recently published ACSH's work include: Medscape (the online medical
journal edited by former JAMA editor Dr. George Lundberg), CRC
Critical Reviews in Clinical Laboratory Sciences, Exotoxicology and
Environmental Safety, Journal of Health Communications, Clinical
Therepeutics, and Technology.
 ACSH has a long history of going
where the science takes it, even when that science is counter to the
interest of its funders.
 For instance, ACSH regularly criticizes
industries who are guilty of making unscientific and overstated health
claims promoting dangerous natural supplements, failing to tell the
truth about scientific issues including industry's failure to defend
the safety of genetically modified foods.
In other words, its not
just tobacco. ACSH regularly criticizes all of those responsible for
distorting the truth about important public health issues.
 Bottom
line: ACSH is an organization that plays by the rules of science. ACSH
doesn't buy slick ads and make ad hominem attacks. ACSH focus their
resources towards responsible science. None of the wealthy Naderite
organizations can point to a board of scientific advisors as
prestigious as ACSH's, and unlike ACSH, they cannot point to a record
of independently published scientific work.  Its no wonder they are
forced to take the low road.
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I warily recommend this book as a very interesting and informative read, but one that is pretending to be something other than it is. In the Authors' Note at the beginning of the book the writing duo strenuously claim strict impartiality, saying of their central characters, Bush and O'Keefe, "The authors make no attempt to judge their actions as being good, bad or indifferent to the nation's interest."

This supposed impartiality is quickly shown to be an utter charade. Within a few pages, former NASA Administrator Dan Goldin is described as being in charge of a "nuthouse," a "Machiavelli" who is "dripping with ego and suspicion." Throughout the book he is described as demonic and incompetent in his personal and professional life. Others such as Bill Nelson suffer similar treatment, and even peripheral characters just as John Kerry are hauled into the fray to be swiped at and sniped at.

It is certainly an opinion, and the authors are entitled to it. However, to pretend that this book is not anything but heavily judgmental and biased is, frankly, laughable. A more accurate title for it would have been "Goldin Bad, O'Keefe Good." I am sure Sean O'Keefe loves every word in this book, but even he would not pretend it is impartial and must cringe at some of the more venomous attacks on his predecessor.

It's a great shame, as it is actually a pretty good book. The bureaucratic foibles of the Goldin era are in many cases reported very accurately, once you set aside the poisonous delivery. It's also very well written, in an engaging style that keeps you turning the pages through what could have been some rather dry bureaucratic deliberations. The authors' white knight on a charger, Sean O'Keefe, is thankfully shown to be human also at times. Once the rather fawning justification of his every action is skimmed over, there are some very insightful descriptions of the confusion in his inner circle on the day of the shuttle disaster, and other very illuminating glimpses at some key moments of recent NASA history. It's hard to know what to trust, however, when the book is so heavily slanted, and the authors do not admit their biases.

One of the authors, Keith Cowing, ran a website for many years called 'NASA Watch' which did a very important, in fact a vital job in pointing out many of the sillier bureaucratic decisions during the Goldin era. It appears that, with a change of administration, any critical thinking skills he had vanished, and he has now become the kind of apologist he once criticized. The book supports many of O'Keefe's decisions - such as the writing off of the Space Station when it was almost complete and finally ready to begin what it was designed for, and the ludicrous decision to abandon the Hubble space telescope - decisions that I suspect this book would have spent whole chapters criticizing if another administrator had taken such weak backward steps.

The long-term value of this book will only be known in a year or two. At the present time, it glorifies an event which so far has been a press conference with no real results. I support the aspirations of the authors for a reinvigorated NASA, but I suspect this book will turn out to be no more than a one-sided chronicling of another bureaucratic backwater in history.
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This is a great way of showing media control of the mass thinking of the audience. Still, it is fiction, and people that believe this are a bit, questionable.
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This is one of the most ridiculous things I have read in some time.  There is not the slightest bit of truth in this tract, it is nothing more than lies based on ignorance, fear, and malice.  Many of his associates, including Alberto Rivera (supposed former Jesuit) and John Todd were exposed, by Protestant journalists in Protestant magazines, as frauds.  I could claim that this is the work of the devil, attacking the Church.  In truth, it's just stupidity on parade.
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This book (and volume no. 1) deserves no any star, however because the incredible lies it contains makes it get 1 star as an example for those who still are confused; to proof how many people can be trapped in this idiotic but genious fabricated disinformation.

It's amazing and incredible how easy people can be getting catched by this secret government "setup theories" with false mathematical and wrong explanations and incorrect applications of the so called mathematical laws herein. Just think for example about the spiral case drawings made by halfway circles instead of an projection of the exponential function characteristics.

People must think for themselves. If they don't check the so called refered mathematical "explanations" for themselves, or they accept anything because it looks "mathematical beautiful", be very aware. Thus, the population wants beautifully fabricated images instead of a written truth.

Be aware ! I do not say the aliens do not exist. I do not state the old civilizations and original ancient sciences named here are incorrect or never did exist. I don not deny the spiritual and paranormal phenomena.

I state the suggestions and conclusions in this book are fabricated by a writer who has an AGENDA that fits to get confused people starving for truth and knowledge in his "New Agey" web by a dirty way of spreading disinformation and false hints.

BTW: every serious researcher of spiritual stuff and conspiracies would already have to know, the so called writer of this book is a PATSY for the New World Order Agenda.

The name Melchizedek suggests some integrity, well he isn't !

Using this aftername or synonym is a hot spot signal for the better would-be critical reader.

I know a lot of readers will dislike my review. I know people first shoot the messenger before they get grounded and finally wake up. That's the way how life is all about.

Sorry guys, I don't have a more comfortable message which maybe fits in your "Flower Life" expectations or "End of Time" philosophy with the availability of more of the so called "vibrational dimensions" given by Drunvalo.
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The first thing one can say is this: it is worrisome that there are so many 5-star reviews of people who believe this dribble.

Apparently most people who even know of this book are paranoid conspiracy theories with an anti-catholic chip on their shoulder.

There are several PROOFS that this book is nonsense. Here are some.

Proof 1:
First of all there is no "LUCIFER" telescope. Moreover if the Vatican would actually do something like the authors are claiming would they actually call the project "Lucifer"?

Let's be reasonable, such names are fit for comic book or video games villains, nothing more.

The Telescope at Mt. Graham is simply called "Large Binocular Telescope" or simply LBT.

The Acronym for "Large Binocular Telescope Near-infrared Utility with Camera and Integral Field Unit for Extragalactic Research" would then be "LBTNIUCIFUER"... and sure you can get "Lucifer" out of it if you CONVENIENTELY take away some of the letters... but that makes no sense at all.
Only paranoid people will read "lucifer" out of it.

Proof2:

Both NASA & The Vatican have nothing to do with the LBT or what is being dubbed by smear sites as LUCIFER (which, as said, is NOT the correct acronym!!!).

The Vatican Advanced Technology Telescope (VATT) is ALSO at Mt. Graham, but it's a different telescope and project than the LBT.

The VATT is funded by the Vatican Observatory Research Group, while the LBT by the LBT Consortium. Two completely different organizations!

They are both part of the MGIO, Mount Graham International Observatory, which is tied with the university of Arizona.

Hence; there NO project "Lucifer" and the book is confused entirely regarding which telescope is which, apparently.

Proof 3:

There is no "Planet X" or "Nibiru"

First of all the telescopes are dedicated especially to "Extragalactic Research", NOT for the search of the planet Nibiru or Planet X.

The scientific community has proven that there is NO planet X or Nibiru. This idea is a pseudoscientific planetary object described by Zecharia Sitchin, a person who is famous for pseudo-scientific research, and nonsense.

IN FACT the Babylonian planet Nibiru is most probably Mercury (see the article by  Michael S. Heiser. "The Myth of a Sumerian 12th Planet")

Proof 4:

pseudoscientific nonsense regarding biblical and archeological scholarship.

First of all the idea of "Petrus Romanus" is nonsense. Most scholars (Catholic and otherwise) consider the "prophecies of St. Malachy" to be forgeries. No mention of this document by anyone, not even St. Malachy biographers, has been made if not 400 years after St. Malachy's death.

Also the document prophecies are quite precise up to the year it was discovered, but very vague, if not often quite wrong, afterwards.

Consensus is it is a forgery.

Moreover all SERIOUS biblical scholars would LAUGH at the "ufology-based explanations" of some parts of the bible.

That is not research, but a (bad) science fiction story.

Read ANY work from some serious biblical scholar (even non believers like Bart Ehrman) and you will see that what these people are claiming is beyond ludicrous.

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IN CONCLUSIOJN:

This work is either a hoax at the expense of extremely gullible people OR the work of some disturbed and ignorant person.

MY RECCOMENDATION:

Unless you want to laugh, do not buy this book.

If you are one of those who actually believe what this book says, the I urge you to look up what the ACTUAL facts are! Read what the LBT and the VATT telescopes are and do from reputable sites, not crackpot site, search what academic reputable biblical scholars say. Study astronomy and history of science.
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This is a book more about deception than Flouride. It focuses on how big industry can muscle government regulators and the academic world to bury or distort uncomfortable issues. In this case, Christopher Bryson shows how this was done by the aluminium and chemical industris- who dump thousands of tons of flourine-based waste into the environment each year. The toxic effects of these wastes have been well-known since the turn of the 20th century, when Danish physician Kaj Roholm published his observations on Flourine intoxication of factory workers. Undeterred, Alcoa, DuPont, and Dow, amongst others, launched a campaign of biased research to muddy the waters regarding the dangers of flourine and perflourocarbons (PFC's). These are found in refrigerants and common household products such as Teflon and Scotchguard. The jewel in this public relations crown is the policy of flouridation of community water supplies. This policy was pushed on the unsuspecting public using extremely dubious evidence. To this day, the value of water flouridation is a sacred cow which may not be questioned. Never mind the fact that no other nation will allow flouridation of water supplies, and in fact most countries do not consider ANY level of flouridation to be safe. The benefits of water flouridation achieve two goals for industry: 1) a convenient place to dispose of waste PFC's (the same materials which the EPA would call pollutants if they were detected in a mountain stream!), and 2) as part of the legal strategy. In every flourine-related exposure lawsuit brought against the chemical industry, defense council simply points to flouridation of public waters and says "the government isn't worried about flouride- why should the jury think that flouride harmed you?" The level of dirty tricks, squelched public debate, intimidated whistleblowers, and the promotion of disinformation detailed in this book is shocking.
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You thought you'd heard it all.  WRONG!  And wrong, too, is the conception generally held as to what motivates "the man behind the curtain" to perpetrate deceit and treachery on a whole globe of bamboozled nations.  With a tracking of meticulously documented facts that return history to a trued narrative exposing those who have deviously pulled the wool over people's eyes, in Vigilant Christian III David Dionisi uncovers the guiding blueprint behind those responsible for the destruction of the World Trade Center.  When I finish reading this, my conviction level registers beyond a shadow of a doubt.
Notice has been taken that reviews of Dionisi's series of five Vigilant Christian books tend to suffer deletion, so I shall be watching this space.  Could it be that his shocking but well documented facts are creating nervousness?
Dr. T.J. King
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From Noah's ark, Mormon history, to the Blitz and inter-state highway legislation, it's all in here. There are pages and pages of off topic subjects that he thinks the reader needs to be informed. There is little more than a pamphlet's worth of material on the actual subject of hacking the computer systems of the electrical grid and what could be its after affects. Most of that I heard on the evening news. Still I did order a crank powered radio and now keep bottled water in the house even though our tap water comes from Hetch Hetchy.
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Keeling's book is riddled with falsehoods and exaggerations. He makes the absurd claim that the bombing of Hamburg killed "hundreds of thousands"(it was 40,000)and the still more absurd claim that nearly the entire population of Dresden was killed. He even says that German soldiers in occupied countries behaved correctly,which is unworthy of a rebuttal.

Keeling says that four million Germans were deported to the Soviet Union,which is thirteen times the actual number. His figure of three million Germans dying in the postwar expulsions is also inflated,at least if we go with the numbers provided by the German government and the German clergy in the 1980s.

 Then there is his charge that the Allied occupiers were starving Germans. Germans were certainly going hungry. But according to official statistics,during 1946 the British and American zones were getting over a quarter of a million tons of imported food per month.  Keeling denies there was a food shortage in Europe,something that goes against nearly all the data from the period. He quotes a number of people who said there was a famine in Germany. The problem is that the available statistics don't support these extravagant claims(Cf. John Farquharson, The Western Allies and the Politics of Food, and Alice Weintraub, Matters of Taste). Keeling cites Dorothy Thompson as saying that infant mortality in Vienna in the summer of 1945 was nearly 100 percent. The League of Nations said Vienna's infant mortality in that period was 32 percent.

While some of Keeling's charges are true, this is not a work that can be taken seriously as a source.
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The final verdict on Bugliosi's book 'Reclaiming History' has just been rendered by master JFK assassination researcher James DiEugenio in his new book 'Reclaiming Parkland'. I suggest you skip this masterpiece of lies and distortion known as 'Reclaiming History' and go right to 'Reclaiming Parkland' if you are interested in the truth. DiEugenio does a point by point refutation of Bugliosi's offerings in this book and shows beyond a doubt that Bugliosi did not do the thorough analysis and answering of all questions involving the Kennedy assassination that he promised. When DiEugenio is done it is very clear that Bugliosi bypassed and omitted some serious evidence that made his shameful advocacy of the infamous Warren Report the sham it is. Bugliosi's methodology created a large donut hole of missing evidence. DiEugenio fills in that void with damning information that refutes Bugliosi's specious conclusions and leaves no doubt as to the dubiousness of his book.

  Just Bugliosi's coverage of the brain autopsy alone is enough proof to show that, instead of covering the seriously exposing conflicts in the brain evidence, Bugliosi tap-danced around prima facie evidence of conspiracy in the swapping of Kennedy's brain and the glaring evidence for it. Really, as can be seen in this review section, the only people to still back Bugliosi's disinformation epic are obvious shills and unquestioning persons.
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Lets be honest, this book shouldnt be taken as fact.  It's another highly embellished anti-masonic writer who has something out for the Freemonry Brotherhood, but it's so full of conspiracy theories (written as conspiracy fact) that one wonders whether or not David Duchovny is tracking some Freemason X-file.  For anyone interested in pseudo-history, this is the book or them.  Not that it's all false.  It's much along the lines of "Holy Blood, Holy Grail".  There's some relatively unbiased stuff about the formation of the order.  I'm just glad i read it before Dan Brown can dissect it for his latest work of historical plagiarism.
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This is NOT the constitution - "it is a recruitment tool for a movement full of so much hate, misinformation and ignorance." LATimes It is written by the NCCS, a conspiracy think tank. "a number of the quotes in the NCCS version are either deliberate alterations or taken out of context." BUYER BEWARE
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This one should really make one sit up and think about the impact of disinformation impacts/undermines our government and our allies.  The source, Gen. Pacepa, is highly credible.  This is not mis-information it is disinformation...the two are quite different.  It will impact on how one believes what we are told by the government...either side of the aisle.
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Sure there are hidden agendas and intrigues in government and with people in powerful positions, but this book is way over the top. This book is from the "Grassy Knoll Conspiracy Society" and with a touch of Gnosticism.  Not to say that the author is not informed on numerous subjects and knowledgeable on the world's history, but this book is on the fringe of lunacy.  It is funny how so many people are skeptical over the biggest lie ever told and by that I mean monotheistic religion, but here we are told that mankind is being controlled by reptilians from the lower fourth dimension and we are supposed to be "enlightened?" The author offers up a lot of hereditary relations between world leaders and public figures with little or no supporting evidence.  These world leaders and royal family members are to be linked by blood to form a brotherhood that has lasted from the days of Babylon up to the present day.  These blue-bloods (reptilians) are controlling the minds of the masses and instigating wars in order to fulfill their agenda or master plan, whatever that is.  We are told in this book that these reptilians such as numerous US presidents, the Windsors of Britain, European aristocracy and other public figures are Satanists, they conduct human sacrifices with children, they are pedophiles, they can shape-shift, and many other such accusations.
I was unable to read this book straight through.  I read the first couple of chapters and then scanned through the rest.  I know that many people do not trust governments or what we are being told by the media however, this book is a bit much.  I believe there is a much more sane explanation as to why the world's governments or nations jostle with one another for power, prestige and control.  Every conspiracy ever imagined is wrapped up by the grand conspiracy of reptilian overlords in this book.  At least the author concludes that we can save the world through love and by changing our emotionally transmitted energies.  Reading books like this makes me really wonder about the state of world and how people can fall for such nonsense.  I would ask Mr. Icke, who is trying to control whose mind?  If anyone were a reptilian from the lower fourth dimension it would be the author himself.  I will keep my sanity and search for other answers to the various questions of why the events of this world happen throughout history.
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I was just in Borders Books,saw this on sale for 2.99. I picked up 5 for christmas presents. I think its a good overview for people who still believe the official lie. But I would recomend (The 9/11 Conspiracy)by James H.Fetzer. I believe the footage we saw of the 140 ton planes buttery smooth entry into a 500.000 ton steel building is fake. He goes into that in detail. But again,this is a good start for our friends and relatives who think Chris Matthews(Dorkball)is a place to get real news.