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Atheism, Free Thought, and Fun
Some Boston-area humanists, free-thinkers, and free-speech advocates.
Scientific Skeptics
Mind-control and "cults"
Religious Ultras and their foes
Some People We Love to Hate
Miscellaneous religion
Usenet groups
Some books

web sites

Atheism, Free Thought, and Fun

http://www.infidels.org/
claim to be "the most comprehensive site about agnosticism, atheism, freethought, humanism, and rationalism on the Web."
Their boast may well be justified. Among many other things, they host a FAQ for Usenet newsgroup alt.atheism, and the complete works of US agnostic Robert Ingersoll (1833-1899), whose intelligent and entertaining lectures are still worth reading today.

http://www.celebatheists.com/
The Celebrity Atheist page

http://www.talkorigins.org
A source of information on creationism and evolution.

http://www.weirdcrap.com/:
This site is run by an old member of the ADG who moved away. Now he makes trouble for religious nuts (including Jack Chick Publications) on the web.

http://www.subgenius.com
(Church of the Subgenius):
You need to get right with Bob. Don't know what this means? Better click on that there link now before it's too late!

The Pastor Corbin archive (of local interest in Boston MA) seems to have dropped off line since perhaps year 2004.

Betty Bowers is a better Christian than you.




Some Boston-area humanists, free-thinkers, etc:

MIT Atheists, Agnostics, and Humanists.
The "Boston Globe" wrote them up Tues 27 Oct 98 ("Metro" section, p. 1). You can retrieve the article from the "Globe"s archive with a search against "MIT atheists," but you might have to pay about $3 to download the actual article.

The American Humanist Association has a Boston chapter.

Free Speech -- local forums and activism

The Ford Hall Forum, of Boston MA, is the nation's oldest public lecture series.

Boston Coalition for Freedom of Expression

  



Scientific Skeptics

CSICOP (Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims Of the Paranormal) puts out the quarterly "Skeptical Inquirer."

They have a local affiliate, the New England Skeptical Society (NESS) that meets monthly in the Boston area
Some announcements of Boston area NESS activities.

Stephen Barrett, M.D.'s Quackwatch
"Your Guide to Health Fraud, Quackery, and Intelligent Decisions"

STATS (Statistical Assessment Service) helps journalists evaluate the science (if any) behind media scares and scams. Although their charter is ideologically neutral, some environmental activists have found them annoying. Look for their annual "Dubious data awards."

Steven J. Milloy's "Junk Science Home Page".

The Dept of Psychology at Mount St. Mary's College and Seminary, Emmitsburg MD, put together this list:

The James Randi Educational Foundation Randi, a professional stage-magician, debunks others (eg Uri Geller) who claim miraculous powers to do ordinary stage-magician tricks.

Welcome to the Urban Legends Archive

Witch Hunt Information Center debunks day-care "ritual abuse" hysteria, eg the notorious Fells Acres travesty of Malden MA.

False Memory Syndrome Foundation (FMS-F) Home Page. FMS-F debunks New Age "repressed memory" psycho-quackery.

The National Center for Science Education HomePage. Among other activities, NCSE have defended high school science courses from Creationists.

Mathematically Correct -- a site maintained by mathematics educators to oppose the latest New Age fad -- "New New Math," which teaches self-esteem rather than mathematical competence.

Mind-control and "cults"

http://www.freedomofmind.com/
Steven Hassan's site

http://www.factnet.org
All about mind control, cults, and Scientology, by a nonprofit library devoted to exposing mind control tactics.


http://www.xenu.com/
Andreas Heldal-Lund hosts "Operation Clambake," dedicated to "opening the secrets of Scientology."

Cult Awareness RESources, CARES. The "Cult Awareness Network" was bankrupted and captured by endless lawsuits from Scientologists. (Even the numerous failed lawsuits by those with "deep pockets" impoverished their target with heavy legal expenses. The final blow was a successful lawsuit, holding CAN partially responsible for an unsuccessful "deprogramming" of a Scientologist. Even before that, "deprogramming" had lost its attraction to cult opponents. Cult adherents will normally escape cults in their own good time, if physically able to.) CARes carries on the original CAN's informative mission, but is structured to be less vulnerable to harassment.

http://www.reveal.org/
An Organization of Former Members of the International Churches of Christ (ICC) (ICOC) [not to be confused with the mainstream "Universal Church of Christ"], Boston Church of Christ/"Boston Movement", and Crossroads Church of Christ/"Crossroads Movement"




Religious Ultras and their foes

Neal Horsley of the "Creator's Rights Party" maintains the Christian Gallery website. It offers links to other ultras, especially anti-abortionists.
"Christian Gallery"s most egregious link was the "Nuremberg Files Project," a hit-list of abortion doctors and their families. It included all the personal information needed (eg photos, addresses, car license numbers, names of other family members, etc., etc.) for the faithful to stalk and murder doctors and family members. In late January 1999, they were hit with a massive $107 million verdict by a jury in Oregon, and on 5 Feb 99, their ISP Mindspring took down their site. (They are looking for a new ISP).
I have reposted 3 pages from this site (sanitized of information that could track victims), so that readers can judge for themselves.

"Christian Reconstructionists" (hereafter CRs) would replace the Bill of Rights with the Old Testament, including stoning of social offenders. They sometimes use anti-government rhetoric to ingratiate themselves with US libertarian groups, while keeping a discreet silence about their planned replacement for the US Constitution.
The left-leaning Political Research Associates
1310 Broadway, Suite 201, Somerville, MA 02144. Voice: (617) 666-5300  Fax: (617) 666-6622
take a jaundiced view of CR at
http://www.publiceye.org/magazine/chrisre1.html

CR Gary North set up a Y2K panic-page at
http://www.garynorth.com/
but has since replaced it with non-political business offers.

"There's something about Gary" -
Libertarian activist Declan McCullagh gives background info about Gary North.
http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/17193.html

"Missionaries to the Unborn" (MTTU) offer Alternative Prolife Links, a large menu of anti-abortion links, ranging from merely obnoxious to downright crazy.

Dr. Laura -- Some of what she says on her nationally-syndicated radio call-in advice show makes sense (eg disparaging "repressed memory"). Nevertheless, her increasing subservience to the Religious Right, and her hypocrisy, eg as a working mother who condemns all other working mothers, have generated legions of non-fans.
"A hypocrite is somebody who says, 'Do as I say, not as I do.' A teacher is someone who says, 'Do as I do, not as I did.'" -- Dr. Laura Schlesinger
"We are left with a moral advisor who (a) sinned lustily, (b)enjoyed it, (c) profited from it, (d) denies it, and (e) tells other people not to do what she did." --"Eric, da Red" (a poster to Usenet newsgroup a.r.t.d-l)
FAQ for Usenet newsgroup alt.radio.talk.dr-laura:
http://www.angelfire.com/journal/artdljunkie/faq.html

Jerry Falwell

His "personal website"

Jerry Falwell's Liberty University
Jerry Falwell's Thomas Road Baptist Church

In a case that went all the way up to the US Supreme Court, he sued "Hustler Magazine" for a 1983 parody of a Campari liquor ad
A detractor's website. Includes link to "Teletubby" silliness.

http://www.adherents.com/
Adherents.com, a non-sectarian web research site of religious statistics

A list of freethought- and religion-related Usenet newsgroups is carried at
http://www.infidels.org/electronic/news/

The same folks also maintain a FAQ for newsgroup alt.atheism at
http://www.infidels.org/news/atheism

Robert Anton Wilson (with contributions from Miriam Joan Hill), Everything Is Under Control : Conspiracies, Cults, and Cover-Ups, Harper Perennial (Harper Collins Publishers), New York, 1998; cloth, 435 pp., $15

An amusing encyclopedia of conspiracy theories, by a co-author of the "Illuminatus" sci-fi/fantasy series. It had some of its own curious web links, eg

The Campus Crusade for Cthulhu (for those familiar with H.P. Lovecraft horror stories).

A virus hoax by Robert Morris III: The electricity worm.

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