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Date: November 18, 2017 01:34PM
Oh man, sorry BOJ, but the only thing Mike might possibly be guilty of is not putting this under its own thread, which it may well deserve. Given the connection between Rodney Meldrum and Dean Sessions, his choice of resurrecting this old one strikes me as a wholly reasonable attempt to provide "context for the nonsense/pseudo-science," since the obfuscatory tactics of these yayhoos are complex and convoluted; I'm going to have to make an emergency trip to Costco this weekend for more you-know-whats, seriously.
Mike is dead-on with his "follow-the-money" analysis; that's consistent with my "crashing" Meldrum's dog-and-pony-and-food-storage-and-survivalist show at Southtown Mall a year and a half ago. I'm in touch with RFM stalwart "Cricket," and I'm in the process of putting up my own web page on some of these subjects. Gotta keep Don Bagley on his toes :-)
Okay, I haven't seen Raptor Jesus for a while, but I'll suggest his "protocol" for visiting the ldsfreedomforum.com website is wise counsel for this one as well. Use the "buddy system," and be sure to check in after you return. It's also probably prudent to make allowances for disruptions in your personal life as you may well experience distortions in the "space-time continuum."
Yep, follow the money:
https://universalmodel.com/store/A brief, "probably safe even for small children" intro to pseudoscience at its "superficial best":
https://universalmodel.com/Moving forward:
https://universalmodel.com/blog-footer/um-response-defense-peer-reviewed-science/Yeah even YBU doesn't care for the "Universal Model":
http://archive.sltrib.com/article.php?id=5139231&itype=CMSID>A similar ad ran in the student newspaper of Utah Valley University, where the conference will be held between Thursday and Saturday. UVU physics and astronomy professor Joseph Jensen said he too was concerned about Sessions' assertions being legitimized through an event on a university campus.
>"This is pseudoscience," Jensen said. "It's people trying to make money on something that sounds scientific but has no basis in observation or reality, for that matter."
And oh myheck, there's even an "honest Republican scientist" out there:
https://bbickmore.wordpress.com/universal-model/>I recently stumbled on a fascinating example of crank science, namely, the Universal Model created by Dean W. Sessions. Sessions is not formally trained as a scientist, but since 1990, he has been doing experiments and making geological field observations. He says he immediately found that standard scientific theories couldn’t explain his results, but he found that conventionally trained scientists were unaware of and unconcerned with his “evidences.” His Universal Model (hereafter UM) supposedly overturns many of the most important scientific theories developed over at least the last 150 years, which he characterizes as “the Dark Age of Science”. He has now started a non-profit organization called “the Millennial Science Foundation” so he and his followers can continue the work and spread the word, and he has written an 800-page book, Universal Model: A New Millennial Science, Vol. 1, Earth System. Two more volumes are planned.
>To get an overview of the UM, go to their website and poke around, or watch this presentation on their YouTube channel. In a nutshell, Sessions rejects the existence of magma (deeply buried molten rock) and thinks the Earth has a core of ice instead of iron.
Roadkill...