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Abstinence education

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'''Abstinence education''' encourages unmarried teens to refrain from premarital sex for reasons of emotional, spiritual and physical health.
{{cquote|"Abstinence Programs Show Promise in Reducing Sexual Activity and Pregnancy Among Teens," an article printed by Family Research Council, states that an abstinence program for girls in the Washington D.C. area called [[Best Friends]] reported only one out of 400 girls become pregnant since the program began (1). Between 20 and 70 pregnancies are common for the same sized group of fifth to ninth grade girls in the District of Columbia" (1). Upon adopting an abstinence-only curriculum by Teen-Aid, Inc. entitled "Sexuality, Commitment, and Family", at San Marcos Junior High in San Marcos, California, only 20 girls became pregnant in two years compared to 147 girls the year before (1). Nathan Hale Middle School in a Chicago suburb had a number of already pregnant girls at which time they adopted an abstinence program. Many parents were skeptical until the school graduated three pregnancy-free classes in a row (2). <ref>[http://www.unm.edu/~abqteach/hdm/00-02-08.htm "Cost and Benefits of Life-Style Choices", Phyllis Sandoval] </ref>}}
Conversely,
{{cquote|"Teenagers who pledge to remain virgins until marriage are just as likely to have premarital sex as those who do not promise abstinence and are significantly less likely to use condoms and other forms of birth control when they do, according to a study released today.
The new analysis of data from a large federal survey found that more than half of youths became sexually active before marriage regardless of whether they had taken a "virginity pledge," but that the percentage who took precautions against pregnancy or sexually transmitted diseases was 10 points lower for pledgers than for non-pledgers. <ref>[http://scienceblogs.com/dispatches/2009/01/another_study_shows_failure_of.php</ref>}}

== Criticism ==
Abstinence education is often criticized by [[liberal]] groups such as the American Psychological Association,<ref>[http://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2005/02/sex-education.aspx Comprehensive Sex Education is More Effective at Stopping the Spread of HIV Infection]</ref> the American Medical Association,<ref name="ama">[http://www.ama-assn.org/ama1/pub/upload/mm/15/ph_sexual_health_ed.pdf American Medical Association – Issue Brief: Adolescent Sexual Health Education]</ref> the National Association of School Psychologists,<ref>[http://www.nasponline.org/about_nasp/positionpapers/SexualityEducation.pdf NASP Position Statement on Sexuality Education]</ref> the Society for Adolescent Medicine,<ref name="Adolescent Health">{{cite web | url = http://www.adolescenthealth.org/PositionPaper_Abstinence_only_edu_policies_and_programs.pdf | title = Abstinence only education policies and programs}}</ref> the American College Health Association,<ref name="Adolescent Health"/> the American Academy of Pediatrics,<ref name="aap">[http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/cgi/reprint/108/2/498 Sexuality Education for Children and Adolescents - Committee on Psychosocial Aspects of Child and Family Health and Committee on Adolescence 108 (2): 498 - Pediatrics]</ref> and the American Public Health Association.<ref>[http://www.apha.org/advocacy/policy/policysearch/default.htm?id=1334 APHA: Policy Statement Database]</ref> This is done primarily to advance the [[liberal agenda]] by promoting teen [[promiscuity]]{{citation needed}}.

==Notes==
<references/>

[[Category:Education]]

Abstinence education

2013-01-23T20:40:42Z

Esseph: /* Criticism */ Fixed broken link

'''Abstinence education''' encourages unmarried teens to refrain from premarital sex for reasons of emotional, spiritual and physical health.
{{cquote|"Abstinence Programs Show Promise in Reducing Sexual Activity and Pregnancy Among Teens," an article printed by Family Research Council, states that an abstinence program for girls in the Washington D.C. area called [[Best Friends]] reported only one out of 400 girls become pregnant since the program began (1). Between 20 and 70 pregnancies are common for the same sized group of fifth to ninth grade girls in the District of Columbia" (1). Upon adopting an abstinence-only curriculum by Teen-Aid, Inc. entitled "Sexuality, Commitment, and Family", at San Marcos Junior High in San Marcos, California, only 20 girls became pregnant in two years compared to 147 girls the year before (1). Nathan Hale Middle School in a Chicago suburb had a number of already pregnant girls at which time they adopted an abstinence program. Many parents were skeptical until the school graduated three pregnancy-free classes in a row (2). <ref>[http://www.unm.edu/~abqteach/hdm/00-02-08.htm "Cost and Benefits of Life-Style Choices", Phyllis Sandoval] </ref>}}
Conversely,
{{cquote|"Teenagers who pledge to remain virgins until marriage are just as likely to have premarital sex as those who do not promise abstinence and are significantly less likely to use condoms and other forms of birth control when they do, according to a study released today.
The new analysis of data from a large federal survey found that more than half of youths became sexually active before marriage regardless of whether they had taken a "virginity pledge," but that the percentage who took precautions against pregnancy or sexually transmitted diseases was 10 points lower for pledgers than for non-pledgers. <ref>[http://scienceblogs.com/dispatches/2009/01/another_study_shows_failure_of.php</ref>}}

== Criticism ==
Abstinence education is often criticized by [[liberal]] groups such as the American Psychological Association,<ref>[http://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2005/02/sex-education.aspx Comprehensive Sex Education is More Effective at Stopping the Spread of HIV Infection]</ref> the American Medical Association,<ref name="ama">[http://www.ama-assn.org/ama1/pub/upload/mm/15/ph_sexual_health_ed.pdf American Medical Association – Issue Brief: Adolescent Sexual Health Education]</ref> the National Association of School Psychologists,<ref>[http://nasponline.org/about_nasp/pospaper_sexed.aspx NASP Position Statement on Sexuality Education]</ref> the Society for Adolescent Medicine,<ref name="Adolescent Health">{{cite web | url = http://www.adolescenthealth.org/PositionPaper_Abstinence_only_edu_policies_and_programs.pdf | title = Abstinence only education policies and programs}}</ref> the American College Health Association,<ref name="Adolescent Health"/> the American Academy of Pediatrics,<ref name="aap">[http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/cgi/reprint/108/2/498 Sexuality Education for Children and Adolescents - Committee on Psychosocial Aspects of Child and Family Health and Committee on Adolescence 108 (2): 498 - Pediatrics]</ref> and the American Public Health Association.<ref>[http://www.apha.org/advocacy/policy/policysearch/default.htm?id=1334 APHA: Policy Statement Database]</ref> This is done primarily to advance the [[liberal agenda]] by promoting teen [[promiscuity]]{{citation needed}}.

==Notes==
<references/>

[[Category:Education]]

Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia

2013-01-21T19:09:26Z

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The '''Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia''' (FARC) is a [[Marxism|Marxist]] terror organization in [[Columbia]]. It has between 18,000 and 43,000 fighters.
== History ==
From 1948, militant conservative, liberal and communist groups fought against each other. In 1964 the Colombian army and the [[CIA]] won control over the cities. But on the 5th May of 1966, the militant communists formed a guerilla organization, called the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia. A second group was founded under the name [[Ejército de Liberación Nacional]] in 1964.
== Human rights ==
The organization obtains its money from drug trade and extortion. FARC is often criticized because child soldiers are fighting in the conflict.
==References==
* [http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/para/farc.htm FARC]

{{Terrorism}}

[[Category:Terrorist Organizations]]

Johns Hopkins University

2013-01-10T21:14:24Z

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'''The Johns Hopkins University''' (or JHU) is a [[private school|private]] [[university]] in [[Maryland]], which was founded as the nation's first [[research]] university<ref name="aboutus">{{cite web|url=http://www.johnshopkins.edu/|work=Johns Hopkins Institutions|title=About Us|format=HTML|language=English}}</ref> in 1876, under President Daniel Coit Gilman.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://webapps.jhu.edu/jhuniverse/information_about_hopkins/about_jhu/a_brief_history_of_jhu/index.cfm|title=A Brief History Of Jhu|work=Johns Hopkins University|format=HTML|language=English}}</ref> It is named after merchant Johns Hopkins, who died in 1873 and left $7 million to build a university and [[hospital]] in his name (the hospital opened in 1889).<ref name="aboutus"/>

The school ranked #14 in US News's 2008 "National Universities: Top Schools" list.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/usnews/edu/college/rankings/brief/t1natudoc_brief.php|title=National Universities: Top Schools|work=US News|format=HTML|language=English}}</ref> Johns Hopkins ranks first among [[United States]] universities in receipt of [[federal]] research and development funds.<ref name="ataglance">{{cite web|url=http://webapps.jhu.edu/jhuniverse/information_about_hopkins/about_jhu/facts_at_a_glance/index.cfm|work=Johns Hopkins University|title=Facts At A Glance|format=HTML|language=English}}</ref> The School of Medicine ranks first among medical schools in receipt of extramural awards from the [[National Institutes of Health]].<ref name="ataglance"/> The Bloomberg School of Public Health is first among all public health schools in research support from the federal [[government]].<ref name="ataglance"/>
==History==
[[Image:JHstamp.jpg|left|thumb|Johns Hopkins]]
After Hopkins's incorporation of both a university and hospital in 1867, [[George Peabody]] proposed the establishment of an institute in [[Baltimore]] to be comprised of a library, art gallery, academy of music, and a lecture series. The building of this school was completed in 1861, but the [[Civil War]] delayed its opening.<ref name="timeline">{{cite web|url=http://webapps.jhu.edu/jhuniverse/information_about_hopkins/about_jhu/chronology/index.cfm|work=Johns Hopkins University|title=Chronology|format=HTML|language=English}}</ref> It was incorporated as a part of Johns Hopkins University in 1977.

Johns Hopkins's first [[African American]] student came in 1887, when Kelly Miller sought a degree in [[mathematics]]. The school increased tuition by 25% two years later, due to the economic crisis, and Miller was forced to leave. Years later his former mathematics professor Simon Newcomb and President Gilman recommend Miller for a faculty position at [[Howard University]], his undergraduate alma mater, where Miller subsequently served for many years as professor of mathematics and dean of arts and sciences.<ref name="timeline" /> Johns Hopkins had an all male student body until 1970, when the first female students arrived on campus.<ref name="timeline" />
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== Allegations of Covert Pro-Communist Activities ==
Among JHU's more notable alumni was [[Alger Hiss]], who attended in 1922-26.<ref>Committee on Un-American Activities, House of Representatives, United States Congress, [http://ia360609.us.archive.org/1/items/hearingsregardin1948unit/hearingsregardin1948unit_bw.pdf Espionage in the U.S. Government: Hearings under Public Law 601] (Washington: United States Government Printing Office, 1948), p. 644 (PDF 154)</ref> According to Hiss, his favorite<ref>Matthew Richer, "The Ongoing Campaign of Alger Hiss: The Sins of the Father," ''Modern Age'', Vol. 46, No. 4 (Fall 2004), p. 310 (PDF p. 4)</ref> mentors at Hopkins included the committed [[Stalinist]]<ref>Jason Powell, [http://ehistory.osu.edu/osu/reviews/reviewview.cfm?id=2 Review: ''The Breaking Point: Hemingway, Dos Passos, and the Murder of Jose Robles''], eHistory at OSU (Ohio State University), January 2006</ref> [[José Robles]]<ref>Tony Hiss, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=SPV2AAAAMAAJ Laughing Last: Alger Hiss by Tony Hiss]'' (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1977), ISBN 039524899X</ref> (who would go on to serve in [[Spain]] as a [[Colonel]]<ref>Jeffrey Meyers, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=cuM6RAO9DxUC Hemingway: A Biography]'' (Da Capo Press, 1999), ISBN 0306808900, p. 307; John P. Diggins, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=inoVf72P4yIC Up from Communism]'' (Columbia University Press, 1994) ISBN 0231084889, p. 90</ref> in the Red Army<ref>Jason Powell, [http://ehistory.osu.edu/osu/reviews/reviewview.cfm?id=2 Review: ''The Breaking Point: Hemingway, Dos Passos, and the Murder of Jose Robles''], eHistory at OSU (Ohio State University), January 2006</ref> and [http://ducts.org/06_06/html/reviews/healy.html interpreter for] [[General]] [http://www.latfilma.lv/d/106/ Jānis] [http://milparade.udm.ru/25/096.htm Bērziņš]<ref>Paul Johnson, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=MAuzkb28pKQC Intellectuals]'' (HarperCollins, 1990) ISBN 0060916575, p. 156; James R. Mellow, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=LQptupxaGwsC Hemingway: A Life Without Consequences]'' (Da Capo Press, 1993) ISBN 020162620, p. 506; cf. Victor Alba and Stephen Schwartz, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=S0TLPvG_PwYC Spanish Marxism Versus Soviet Communism: A History of the P.O.U.M. in the Spanish Civil War]'' (Transaction Publishers, 2008) ISBN 1412807336, p. 233</ref> head of [[GRU|Soviet military intelligence]]),<ref>Hugh Thomas, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=6I126r99NQ4C The Spanish Civil War]'' (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994) ISBN 0671758764, p. 380; Burnett Bolloten, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=-VarDLHA3_YC The Spanish Civil War: Revolution and Counterrevolution]'' (Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 1991) ISBN 0807819069, pp. 307-308, 310, 312, 838 n. 11.</ref> and the well-known socialist<ref>"... a well-known socialist named Broadus Mitchell." Jeff Kisseloff, [http://homepages.nyu.edu/~th15/wars.html Distorted Reflections], The Alger Hiss Story: Search for the Truth</ref> [[Broadus Mitchell]].<ref>"My gifted economics teacher, Broadus Mitchell..." Alger Hiss, [http://homepages.nyu.edu/~th15/liberalism.html Draft of a Chapter Written By Alger Hiss on the Foundations For His Liberalism] ([http://holliscatalog.harvard.edu//?itemid=|library%2fm%2faleph|010072878 Alger Hiss papers], Small Manuscript Collection, [http://www.law.harvard.edu/library/special/index.html Special Collections], [http://www.law.harvard.edu/library/index.html Harvard Law School Library])</ref> Another JHU alumnus, [[Sidney Offit]], would later write that he became Mitchell's "radical protegé in waiting."<ref>Mitchell "adopted me as his radical protégé-in-waiting." Sidney Offit, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=KLgjrbu0LB8C Friends, Writers, and Other Countrymen: A Memoir]'' (Macmillan, 2008) ISBN 0312375220, pp. 71-72</ref> (Later serving as a Reserve Officer in Army Intelligence at a time when Communist couriers were infiltrating the US Merchant Marines,<ref>[Communist Activities Among Seamen and on Waterfront Facilities, Part I Communist Activities Among Seamen and on Waterfront Facilities, Part I], Hearings before the Committee on Un-American Activities, House of Representatives, 86th Cong., 2d Sess. (Washington: United States Government Printing Office, 1960), p. 1760 (PDF p. 22). Cf. FBI file: "Communist Infiltration of the American Merchant Marine," July 21, 1955</ref> Offit wrote, "it was my job to interview prospective crewmen for merchant marine ships to be sure no advocates of [[Karl Marx]] were allowed aboard. Somehow or other I always found a reason to pass on these workingmen regardless of their flirtations with the 'forceful overthrow of the United States government.'")<ref>Sidney Offit, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=KLgjrbu0LB8C Friends, Writers, and Other Countrymen: A Memoir]'' (Macmillan, 2008) ISBN 0312375220, pp. 13-14</ref> In addition, [[Owen Lattimore]], who was identified in a unanimous report of the bipartisan [[Senate Judiciary Committee]] as "a conscious articulate instrument of the Soviet conspiracy,"<ref>[http://ia360610.us.archive.org/0/items/instituteofpacif1952unit/instituteofpacif1952unit_bw.pdf S. Rpt. 2050: Institute of Pacific Relations], 82d Cong., 2d sess., Serial 11574, Report of the Committee on the Judiciary Pursuant to S. Res. 366, 1952 (Washington: United States Government Printing Office, 1952), pp. 214-218 (PDF pp. 222-226)</ref> was director of the Walter Hines Page School of International Relations at Hopkins in 1939-53. Most recently, State Department official [[Walter Kendall Myers]], sentenced in 2010 to life imprisonment for espionage,<ref>Spencer S. Hsu, "[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/16/AR2010071600684_pf.html Walter Myers, State Dept. analyst who spied for Cuba, gets life; wife 6 years]," ''Washington Post'', July 17, 2010, p. B1</ref> was for 20 years a faculty member at JHU's Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies in Washington.<ref>Del Quentin Wilber and Mary Beth Sheridan, "[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/05/AR2009060502359_pf.html State Dept. Retiree Accused of Spying: Official, Wife Passed Secrets to Cuba For Decades, Federal Prosecutors Say]," ''Washington Post'', June 6, 2009</ref>

== Schools Centers Affiliates ==

The Johns Hopkins University has 10 divisions:
*Homewood Campus
**Krieger School of Arts and Sciences
**School of Education
**Whiting School of Engineering
*East Baltimore Campus
**School of Medicine
**School of Nursing
**Bloomberg School of Public Health
*Downtown Baltimore
**Carey Business School
**The Peabody Institute
*Washington, D.C.
**Nitze School of Advanced International Studies
*Laurel, Md.
**Applied Physics Laboratory

==Athletics==
Most of JHU's teams are in Division III, however the Johns Hopkins Division I men's [[lacrosse]] team has won 9 championships and finished second 8 times.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ncaasports.com/lacrosse/mens/history|title=History - Past Champions|work=NCAA Sports|format=HTML|language=English}}</ref>

==Notes==
{{reflist|2}}

== See also ==
*[[Medicine]]

== External links ==
*[http://webapps.jhu.edu/jhuniverse/search/directories/ Directories] Johns Hopkins University.
*[http://www.peabody.jhu.edu/508 Peabody Directory Information] Johns Hopkins University.
*[http://webapps.jhu.edu/jhuniverse/libraries/ Libraries]

{{Nb_US_universities‎}}

Johns Hopkins University

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|colors=blue, black (athletic)/old gold, sable<ref>{{cite web|url=http://webapps.jhu.edu/jhuniverse/information_about_hopkins/about_jhu/frequently_asked_questions/index.cfm|work=Johns Hopkins University|title=Frequently Asked Questions|accessdate=2007-02-17|language=English|format=HTML}}</ref>
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'''The Johns Hopkins University''' (or JHU) is a [[private school|private]] [[university]] in [[Maryland]], which was founded as the nation's first [[research]] university<ref name="aboutus">{{cite web|url=http://www.johnshopkins.edu/|work=Johns Hopkins Institutions|title=About Us|format=HTML|language=English}}</ref> in 1876, under President Daniel Coit Gilman.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://webapps.jhu.edu/jhuniverse/information_about_hopkins/about_jhu/a_brief_history_of_jhu/index.cfm|title=A Brief History Of Jhu|work=Johns Hopkins University|format=HTML|language=English}}</ref> It is named after merchant Johns Hopkins, who died in 1873 and left $7 million dollars to build a university and [[hospital]] in his name (the hospital opened in 1889).<ref name="aboutus"/>

The school ranked #14 in US News's 2008 "National Universities: Top Schools" list.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/usnews/edu/college/rankings/brief/t1natudoc_brief.php|title=National Universities: Top Schools|work=US News|format=HTML|language=English}}</ref> Johns Hopkins ranks first among [[United States]] universities in receipt of [[federal]] research and development funds.<ref name="ataglance">{{cite web|url=http://webapps.jhu.edu/jhuniverse/information_about_hopkins/about_jhu/facts_at_a_glance/index.cfm|work=Johns Hopkins University|title=Facts At A Glance|format=HTML|language=English}}</ref> The School of Medicine ranks first among medical schools in receipt of extramural awards from the [[National Institutes of Health]].<ref name="ataglance"/> The Bloomberg School of Public Health is first among all public health schools in research support from the federal [[government]].<ref name="ataglance"/>
==History==
[[Image:JHstamp.jpg|left|thumb|Johns Hopkins]]
After Hopkins's incorporation of both a university and hospital in 1867, [[George Peabody]] proposed the establishment of an institute in [[Baltimore]] to be comprised of a library, art gallery, academy of music, and a lecture series. The building of this school was completed in 1861, but the [[Civil War]] delayed its opening.<ref name="timeline">{{cite web|url=http://webapps.jhu.edu/jhuniverse/information_about_hopkins/about_jhu/chronology/index.cfm|work=Johns Hopkins University|title=Chronology|format=HTML|language=English}}</ref> It was incorporated as a part of Johns Hopkins University in 1977.

Johns Hopkins's first [[African American]] student came in 1887, when Kelly Miller sought a degree in [[mathematics]]. The school increased tuition by 25% two years later, due to the economic crisis, and Miller was forced to leave. Years later his former mathematics professor Simon Newcomb and President Gilman recommend Miller for a faculty position at [[Howard University]], his undergraduate alma mater, where Miller subsequently served for many years as professor of mathematics and dean of arts and sciences.<ref name="timeline" /> Johns Hopkins had an all male student body until 1970, when the first female students arrived on campus.<ref name="timeline" />
{{clear}}

== Allegations of Covert Pro-Communist Activities ==
Among JHU's more notable alumni was [[Alger Hiss]], who attended in 1922-26.<ref>Committee on Un-American Activities, House of Representatives, United States Congress, [http://ia360609.us.archive.org/1/items/hearingsregardin1948unit/hearingsregardin1948unit_bw.pdf Espionage in the U.S. Government: Hearings under Public Law 601] (Washington: United States Government Printing Office, 1948), p. 644 (PDF 154)</ref> According to Hiss, his favorite<ref>Matthew Richer, "The Ongoing Campaign of Alger Hiss: The Sins of the Father," ''Modern Age'', Vol. 46, No. 4 (Fall 2004), p. 310 (PDF p. 4)</ref> mentors at Hopkins included the committed [[Stalinist]]<ref>Jason Powell, [http://ehistory.osu.edu/osu/reviews/reviewview.cfm?id=2 Review: ''The Breaking Point: Hemingway, Dos Passos, and the Murder of Jose Robles''], eHistory at OSU (Ohio State University), January 2006</ref> [[José Robles]]<ref>Tony Hiss, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=SPV2AAAAMAAJ Laughing Last: Alger Hiss by Tony Hiss]'' (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1977), ISBN 039524899X</ref> (who would go on to serve in [[Spain]] as a [[Colonel]]<ref>Jeffrey Meyers, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=cuM6RAO9DxUC Hemingway: A Biography]'' (Da Capo Press, 1999), ISBN 0306808900, p. 307; John P. Diggins, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=inoVf72P4yIC Up from Communism]'' (Columbia University Press, 1994) ISBN 0231084889, p. 90</ref> in the Red Army<ref>Jason Powell, [http://ehistory.osu.edu/osu/reviews/reviewview.cfm?id=2 Review: ''The Breaking Point: Hemingway, Dos Passos, and the Murder of Jose Robles''], eHistory at OSU (Ohio State University), January 2006</ref> and [http://ducts.org/06_06/html/reviews/healy.html interpreter for] [[General]] [http://www.latfilma.lv/d/106/ Jānis] [http://milparade.udm.ru/25/096.htm Bērziņš]<ref>Paul Johnson, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=MAuzkb28pKQC Intellectuals]'' (HarperCollins, 1990) ISBN 0060916575, p. 156; James R. Mellow, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=LQptupxaGwsC Hemingway: A Life Without Consequences]'' (Da Capo Press, 1993) ISBN 020162620, p. 506; cf. Victor Alba and Stephen Schwartz, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=S0TLPvG_PwYC Spanish Marxism Versus Soviet Communism: A History of the P.O.U.M. in the Spanish Civil War]'' (Transaction Publishers, 2008) ISBN 1412807336, p. 233</ref> head of [[GRU|Soviet military intelligence]]),<ref>Hugh Thomas, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=6I126r99NQ4C The Spanish Civil War]'' (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994) ISBN 0671758764, p. 380; Burnett Bolloten, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=-VarDLHA3_YC The Spanish Civil War: Revolution and Counterrevolution]'' (Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 1991) ISBN 0807819069, pp. 307-308, 310, 312, 838 n. 11.</ref> and the well-known socialist<ref>"... a well-known socialist named Broadus Mitchell." Jeff Kisseloff, [http://homepages.nyu.edu/~th15/wars.html Distorted Reflections], The Alger Hiss Story: Search for the Truth</ref> [[Broadus Mitchell]].<ref>"My gifted economics teacher, Broadus Mitchell..." Alger Hiss, [http://homepages.nyu.edu/~th15/liberalism.html Draft of a Chapter Written By Alger Hiss on the Foundations For His Liberalism] ([http://holliscatalog.harvard.edu//?itemid=|library%2fm%2faleph|010072878 Alger Hiss papers], Small Manuscript Collection, [http://www.law.harvard.edu/library/special/index.html Special Collections], [http://www.law.harvard.edu/library/index.html Harvard Law School Library])</ref> Another JHU alumnus, [[Sidney Offit]], would later write that he became Mitchell's "radical protegé in waiting."<ref>Mitchell "adopted me as his radical protégé-in-waiting." Sidney Offit, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=KLgjrbu0LB8C Friends, Writers, and Other Countrymen: A Memoir]'' (Macmillan, 2008) ISBN 0312375220, pp. 71-72</ref> (Later serving as a Reserve Officer in Army Intelligence at a time when Communist couriers were infiltrating the US Merchant Marines,<ref>[Communist Activities Among Seamen and on Waterfront Facilities, Part I Communist Activities Among Seamen and on Waterfront Facilities, Part I], Hearings before the Committee on Un-American Activities, House of Representatives, 86th Cong., 2d Sess. (Washington: United States Government Printing Office, 1960), p. 1760 (PDF p. 22). Cf. FBI file: "Communist Infiltration of the American Merchant Marine," July 21, 1955</ref> Offit wrote, "it was my job to interview prospective crewmen for merchant marine ships to be sure no advocates of [[Karl Marx]] were allowed aboard. Somehow or other I always found a reason to pass on these workingmen regardless of their flirtations with the 'forceful overthrow of the United States government.'")<ref>Sidney Offit, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=KLgjrbu0LB8C Friends, Writers, and Other Countrymen: A Memoir]'' (Macmillan, 2008) ISBN 0312375220, pp. 13-14</ref> In addition, [[Owen Lattimore]], who was identified in a unanimous report of the bipartisan [[Senate Judiciary Committee]] as "a conscious articulate instrument of the Soviet conspiracy,"<ref>[http://ia360610.us.archive.org/0/items/instituteofpacif1952unit/instituteofpacif1952unit_bw.pdf S. Rpt. 2050: Institute of Pacific Relations], 82d Cong., 2d sess., Serial 11574, Report of the Committee on the Judiciary Pursuant to S. Res. 366, 1952 (Washington: United States Government Printing Office, 1952), pp. 214-218 (PDF pp. 222-226)</ref> was director of the Walter Hines Page School of International Relations at Hopkins in 1939-53. Most recently, State Department official [[Walter Kendall Myers]], sentenced in 2010 to life imprisonment for espionage,<ref>Spencer S. Hsu, "[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/16/AR2010071600684_pf.html Walter Myers, State Dept. analyst who spied for Cuba, gets life; wife 6 years]," ''Washington Post'', July 17, 2010, p. B1</ref> was for 20 years a faculty member at JHU's Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies in Washington.<ref>Del Quentin Wilber and Mary Beth Sheridan, "[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/05/AR2009060502359_pf.html State Dept. Retiree Accused of Spying: Official, Wife Passed Secrets to Cuba For Decades, Federal Prosecutors Say]," ''Washington Post'', June 6, 2009</ref>

== Schools Centers Affiliates ==

The Johns Hopkins University has 10 divisions:
*Homewood Campus
**Krieger School of Arts and Sciences
**School of Education
**Whiting School of Engineering
*East Baltimore Campus
**School of Medicine
**School of Nursing
**Bloomberg School of Public Health
*Downtown Baltimore
**Carey Business School
**The Peabody Institute
*Washington, D.C.
**Nitze School of Advanced International Studies
*Laurel, Md.
**Applied Physics Laboratory

==Athletics==
Most of JHU's teams are in Division III, however the Johns Hopkins Division I men's [[lacrosse]] team has won 9 championships and finished second 8 times.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ncaasports.com/lacrosse/mens/history|title=History - Past Champions|work=NCAA Sports|format=HTML|language=English}}</ref>

==Notes==
{{reflist|2}}

== See also ==
*[[Medicine]]

== External links ==
*[http://webapps.jhu.edu/jhuniverse/search/directories/ Directories] Johns Hopkins University.
*[http://www.peabody.jhu.edu/508 Peabody Directory Information] Johns Hopkins University.
*[http://webapps.jhu.edu/jhuniverse/libraries/ Libraries]

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David Linden

2013-01-10T16:09:11Z

Esseph: This viewpoint is, of course, disputed by conservatives.

David Linden is professor of [[neuroscience]] at [[Johns Hopkins University]] in Baltimore, Maryland. He is chief editor of the ''Journal of Neurophysiology'', and the author of two books: ''The Accidental Mind: How Brain Evolution Has Given Us Love, Memory, Dreams, and God'' (2007), and ''The Compass of Pleasure: How Our Brains Make Fatty Foods, Orgasm, Exercise, Marijuana, Generosity, Vodka, Learning, and Gambling Feel So Good'' (2011).

Publisher's blurb for ''The Accidental Mind'' states<ref>http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674030589</ref>:

<blockquote>
A guide to the strange and often illogical world of neural function, ''The Accidental Mind'' shows how the brain is not an optimized, general-purpose problem-solving machine, but rather a weird agglomeration of ad-hoc solutions that have been piled on through millions of years of evolutionary history. Moreover, Linden tells us how the constraints of evolved brain design have ultimately led to almost every transcendent human foible: our long childhoods, our extensive memory capacity, our search for love and long-term relationships, our need to create compelling narrative, and, ultimately, the universal cultural impulse to create both religious and scientific explanations.
</blockquote>

''The Compass of Pleasure'' examines the neurophysiology of the experience of pleasure, asking why people prefer, and in some cases become addicted to, certain food, chemicals and behaviors. "There are variants in genes that turn down the function of dopamine signaling within the pleasure circuit," Linden explains. For people who carry these gene variants, their muted dopamine systems lead to blunted pleasure circuits, which in turn affects their pleasure-seeking activities. People with blunted dopamine systems are driven to overindulge. Linden explains, "In order to get to that same set point of pleasure that others would get to easily — maybe with two drinks at the bar and a laugh with friends — you need six drinks at the bar to get the same thing."

"Any one of us could be an addict at any time," Linden says. "Addiction is not fundamentally a moral failing — it's not a disease of weak-willed losers. When you look at the biology, the only model of addiction that makes sense is a disease-based model, and the only attitude towards addicts that makes sense is one of compassion."<ref>http://www.npr.org/2011/06/23/137348338/compass-of-pleasure-why-some-things-feel-so-good</ref> This viewpoint is, of course, disputed by conservatives.

==References==
<references/>

2012-08-07T02:45:50Z

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The New York Times

2012-08-07T02:39:56Z

Esseph: Broken link, leaving a complete sentence unsubstantiated.

'''''The New York Times''''' (NYT) is a [[newspaper]] that is published in [[New York City]] and distributed to readers worldwide. It was first published in 1851, and is often referred to as the ''Old Grey Lady''.

''The New York Times'' promotes an unrelenting [[liberal]] point of view.<ref>[http://www.timeswatch.org/ TimesWatch: Documenting and Exposing the Liberal Political Agenda of the ''New York Times'']</ref><ref>[http://www.nationalreview.com/nrof_luskin/luskin200407290744.asp Just Say It, Dan Okrent], National Review Online</ref> It is the third most widely circulated newspaper in the United States behind ''[[USA Today]]'' and ''[[Wall Street Journal|The Wall Street Journal]]''.<ref>Infoplease.com: [http://www.infoplease.com/ipea/A0004420.html Top 100 Newspapers in the United States]</ref> ''The New York Times'' is published by third generation publisher [[Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Jr.]] Sulzberger has denied the the ''Times'' has a liberal viewpoint, and has stated it has an "urban" viewpoint.<ref>http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/25/weekinreview/25bott.html?ei=5088&en=452926dcb11511a3&ex=1248667200&pagewanted=all&position=</ref> However, in the summer of 2004, the newspaper's then public editor (ombudsman), Daniel Okrent, published a piece on the ''Times'' liberal bias, and cited the example of their coverage of [[Homosexuality and Marriage|homosexual marriage]].<ref>http://www.cnsnews.com/facts/2007/facts2007914.asp</ref><ref>http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/25/weekinreview/25bott.html?ei=5088&en=452926dcb11511a3&ex=1248667200&pagewanted=all&position=</ref>

Conservative organizations have offered various pieces of evidence pointing towards the ''New York Times'' promoting the [[homosexual agenda]].<ref>http://www.aim.org/media_monitor/A3014_0_2_0_C/</ref><ref>http://www.cnsnews.com/facts/2007/facts2007914.asp</ref><ref>http://www.aim.org/media_monitor/A1442_0_2_0_C/</ref> Accuracy in Media quotes a report by [[Peter LaBarbera]] stating that Richard Berke, the national political correspondent for the New York Times, made an appearance on behalf of the [[National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association]] and revealed that three-quarters of the people who now decide what goes on the front page of the New York Times are "not so closeted homosexuals."<ref>http://www.aim.org/media_monitor/A3014_0_2_0_C/</ref> In addition, the [[Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation]] (GLAAD) gave the New York Times an award for "Outstanding Newspaper Overall Coverage".<ref>http://www.aim.org/media_monitor/A1442_0_2_0_C/</ref> [[Accuracy in Media]] gives an account of an official of the group the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation "advising the press not to cover former homosexuals because it would be comparable to quoting the [[Ku Klux Klan]] about [[Civil Rights|civil rights]]."<ref>http://www.aim.org/special_report/A5366_0_8_0_C/</ref>

[[Cybercast News Service]] states the following regarding regarding the influence of ''The New York Times'' and ''[[Washington Post|The Washington Post]]'':
{{cquote|While the newspapers reach only a fraction of people compared to the television networks, he said radio and television producers rely heavily on their contents.

"The reason the Times, and to a lesser extent the Post, are so important, and they are, is because the TV and radio - all of the media - copy it sycophantically," he [John Stossel] said. "That's how bias at the Times becomes bias in other media."<ref>http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCulture.asp?Page=/Culture/archive/200401/CUL20040128a.html</ref>}}

The NYT publishes 18 other newspapers, including the ''International Herald Tribune'' (based in Paris) and ''The Boston Globe.'' In 2009, ''The Boston Globe'' will file for bankruptcy if the organization can't reduce labor union paychecks. The parent company has struggled and is near the point of bankruptcy.
Examples of types of [[liberal bias]] utilized by the ''New York Times'' include:
*[[placement bias]]
*[[photo bias]]
*[[genius bias]]

As further reflection of the newspaper's liberal bias, it has been awarded the most [[Pulitzer Prize]]s of any newspaper.<ref>Totaling at least 106.</ref>

==Controversies==
*''The Times'' correspondent [[Walter Duranty]] intentionally covered up the [[Soviet]] [[Holodomor|genocide]] of the [[Ukraine|Ukrainians]].<ref>[http://www.nytco.com/company/awards/statement.html New York Times Statement About 1932 Pulitzer Prize Awarded to Walter Duranty]</ref>
*In 2003, ''New York Times'' reporter [[Jayson Blair]] resigned after it was found that he had engaged in repeated [[plagiarism]] and [[deceit]], copying articles from other newspapers and fabricating information. Blair was promoted and problems with his reporting were ignored due to the newspaper's adherence to [[affirmative action]]<ref>[http://www.pbs.org/newshour/media/media_ethics/casestudy_blair.php Jayson Blair: A Case Study of What Went Wrong at The New York Times]</ref> Online NewsHour

*[[Michelle Malkin]] says the NYT has violated an agreement regarding [[Journalism|journalist]]s covering [[war|war casualties]]. <ref> [http://michellemalkin.com/2007/02/01/the-nytimes-unspeakable-violation/ The NYTimes’ unspeakable violation]</ref>

*The ''New York Times'' subsidized<ref>[http://www.investors.com/editorial/editorialcontent.asp? Subsidizing Sedition], Investor's Business Daily Editorial, 9/13/2007.</ref> what Peter D. Feaver of the ''[[Boston Globe]]'' referred to as a "vicious" attack on the person and charter of a respected professional soldier, Gen. [[David Petraeus]].<ref>[http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2007/09/11/moveons_mccarthy_moment/ MoveOn's McCarthy moment], By Peter D. Feaver, ''Boston Globe'', September 11, 2007.</ref> The [[radical]] [[liberal]] group [[MoveOn.org]], an organization which advocated maintaining the [[corrupt]] [[United Nations]] [[Iraq#Oil_for_food_scandal|Oil For Food]] program's support for the [[fascist]] [[Ba'athist]] regime in [[Iraq]], ran a full page ad in the ''Times'' at roughly half the cost of regular price impugning Gen. Petraeus credibility as a traitor.<ref>[http://www.nypost.com/seven/09132007/news/nationalnews/times_gives_lefties_a_hefty_di.htm Time Gives Lefties a Hefty Discount for "Betray us" Ad], Charles Hurt, ''New York Post'', September 13, 2007.</ref>

*The New York Times is known to defend America's enemies, discount terrorist acts or present stories as not to offend Muslim feelings. As with the case of American students who carried out suicide bombings in [[Somalia]]. In the NYT article ''"A Call to Jihad, Answered in America,"'' the issue was a “crisis of belonging,” “They want to belong, but who do they belong to?” Then the author states that these jihadist were “born-agains” or “fundis,” not how the rest of America describes [[Islamic]] fascism. <ref>[http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/12/us/12somalis.html?_r=1&em A Call to Jihad, Answered in America New York Times July 11, 2009]</ref>

==Coverage of the Military==
Like everything else liberal, supporting [[America]]'s fighting men and women is a burden for the paper. If it is a sensitive matter that would endanger the lives of our troops, they shrug the concerns off and post photos of American troops abusing prisoners in Iraq. In a liberal 'cause for concern', a New York Times repoter was kidnapped in [[Afghanistan]] by the [[Taliban]], December 2008. The Times colluded with all the news organizations to keep it secret, not to endanger the reporter. <ref>[http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,527886,00.html New York Times Reporter Held Hostage by Taliban in Afghanistan Escapes] Fox News, June 20 2009</ref> {{cquote|The Associated Press and most other Western news outlets respected a request from the Times to not report on the abductions because the publicity could negatively affect hostage rescue efforts and imperil Rohde's life.}}

==See Also==
*[[Previous Breaking News/New York Times|Articles about '''''New York Times''''' from previous "Breaking News"]]
*[[Homosexuality in the Media]]

==References==
{{reflist|2}}

==External Links==
*[http://www.nytimes.com/ Official Website]
*[http://www.timeswatch.org/ TimesWatch - Documenting and Exposing the Liberal Political Agenda of the New York Times]
*[http://www.blockthenytimes.org/ Block the NYT - Exposing the New York Times crimes against the state]

[[Category:United States Newspapers|New York Times]]

2012 Summer Olympics

2012-08-06T12:13:42Z

Esseph:

The '''2012 Summer Olympic Games''', officially known as the '''Games of the XXX Olympiad''' and informally as '''London 2012''', is occurring in [[London]] from July 27 through August 12.<ref>This makes London the first city to host the Games three times - the previous occasions being in 1908 and 1948.</ref> '''''During the Modern Olympic Games, the pagan origins of the Olympics have been replaced by [[faith]]-based achievement by the participating athletes'''''.

Athletes from 204 National Olympic Committees are participating.<ref>Independent Olympic Athletes from [[South Sudan]], who does not yet have a National Olympic Committee, and the former Netherlands Antilles, who no longer has a National Olympic Committee due to their dissolution, will also compete under the Olympic Flag.</ref> Sports contests having the greatest political interest are (note especially the growing list of lack of [[public schools]] for the gold medalists below):

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
!Sport
!Political issue
!Answer
|-
|Multiple
|How many athletes will do the equivalent of [[Tebowing]] after a victory? American Meb Keflezighi, who won the silver medal in the marathon in 2004, typically gives glory to [[God]] with the sign of the [[Cross]] after finishing a race.<ref>http://www.letsrun.com/2009/nycmen1101.php</ref>
|After winning the all-around women's gymnastic title, Gabby Douglas tweeted, "Let all that I am praise the [[Lord|LORD]]; may I never forget the good things he does for me."

Missy Franklin, who ranks second behind Michael Phelps (he's won 4 gold in 2012, 18 in career) with three gold medals at the 2012 games, thanked [[God]] as one of her first comments after winning.

Soccer players in the United Arab Emirates team kneeled towards Mecca when they scored a goal. They did not advance to the quarterfinals. Mohamed Farah (GB) gave thanks to Allah by kneeling towards Mecca after he won the 10000 metres track race.

Double-amputee runner Oscar Pistorius noted that he thanks God "Because He is the reason for my success and the one that takes me from strength to strength."[http://assistnews.net/Stories/2012/s12060047.htm]
|-
|Multiple
|Will almost no athletes from [[public school]] sports programs win any gold medals, despite how public schools spend more than $500 billion annually to teach and train [[American]]s?
|The [[lamestream media]] state that Missy Franklin, the star swimmer, is a high school student, but fail to mention that she attends ''[[Catholic]]'' school rather than [[public school]].

'''American 2012 Olympic gold medal winners (as of 8/1/2012)'''
*Private: Missy Franklin ([[Roman Catholic Church|Catholic]] high school)<ref> Franklin's swimming has been with a swim club</ref>, Katie Ledecky (Catholic high school)
*[[Homeschooled]]: Gabby Douglas, McKayla Maroney
*College or adult: Michael Phelps,<ref>Phelps' swimming has been with a private swim club.</ref> Dana Vollmer, Vincent Hancock, Conor Dwyer, Kristin Armstrong, Nathan Adrian, Allison Schmitt, Shannon Vreeland, Kim Rhode, Ryan Lochte, Matt Grevers, Aly Raisman, Ricky Berens, Jamie Lynn Gray, Bob Bryan, Mike Bryan, Serena Williams.
*[[Public school]]: Kyla Ross and Jordyn Wieber won a group gold medal as part of the team led by [[homeschooled]] Gabby Douglas
*Still to categorize:
|-
|Multiple
|How many athletes will be unfairly expelled based on [[liberal]] [[censorship]] of their [[free speech]]?
|One athlete -- Greek triple-jumper Voula Papachristou -- was expelled from the Greek National team by her own country's Olympic committee '''''before it officially opened''''' based on a one-sentence joke about immigration, even though she apologized. The joke in question was this from her Twitter: "With so many Africans in Greece, the West Nile mosquitoes will be getting home food!!!" It should be noted that Papachristou apologized for the tweet.

In addition to the Greek Olympic Committee's decision on Papachristou, the IOC's own twitter-use policy has been criticized for hindering free speech. The policy, which is claimed to protect the IOC's commercial rights, goes as far as to prevent athletes from "reporting on events". According to The Globe and Mail, even a tweet such as "Won our games against China, USA. Next up, the Brazilians," could get an athlete expelled from the Games without notice. As of yet, no athletes have been expelled by the IOC for this [[social media]] [[censorship]] policy.

Lolo Jones, a pro-[[abstinence]] [[American]] hurdler, is being criticized by the [[lamestream media]] for sending out a pro-[[Second Amendment]] tweet.

The [[liberal]] thought police expelled a Swiss soccer player for tweeting that South Koreans are "retards."<ref>[[http://www.theatlanticwire.com/global/2012/07/another-racist-twitter-scandal-gets-another-olympic-athlete-boot/55197/] </ref>
|-
|Opening Ceremonies
|Will [[Overrated Sports Stars|Overrated Sports Star]] David Beckham be selected to light the Olympic cauldron?
|Beckham was not selected as the final torchbearer. He was, however, a passenger on the speedboat that carried the torch up the River Thames. He assisted in the hand-off of the torch to Sir Steve Redgrave, one of Britain's greatest Olympians. Sebastian Coe, chairman of London 2012, stated, "He [Beckham] will be more than an ambassador given what he has done, the commitment he has given and the amount of time he has spent with us in London on this project. He was not only alongside us when we won [the right to host the Olympics], he was alongside us when we threw our hats in the ring."<ref>[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/olympics/football/9388462/London-2012-Olympics-David-Beckham-will-be-more-than-an-ambassador-at-the-Games.html London 2012 Olympics: David Beckham will be 'more than an ambassador' at the Games] telegraph.co.uk, July 10, 2012, retrieved July 28, 2012</ref>
|-
|Multiple
|will [[atheist]] nations underachieve in team sports?
|In women's soccer, France defeated Sweden in the quarterfinals and will face Japan in the semifinals. Great Britain lost to Canada in the quarterfinals.

On the men's side, Great Britain won their group with 2 wins and a draw. They will face South Korea in the quarterfinals.

Australia failed to qualify for either soccer event. This was their first time attempting to qualify out of the Asian Zone instead of the significantly weaker Oceanic Zone, so this may have been a factor. They will, however, send teams in most other team sports, since they qualify from the Oceanic Zone in those.

In women's basketball, France won Group B with a 5-0 record, while Australia finished 4-1 in the same group. Great Britain is 0-4 and cannot advance to the quarterfinals, but still has a Group Stage game against also winless Brazil.

France will play the Czech Republic in their quarterfinal, while Australia will play China.

In women's handball, Great Britain is 0-4-0 and France is 3-0-1 (W-L-D). France is guaranteed a spot in the quarterfinals while Britain is eliminated, but each will play one more group stage game. Handball is almost unknown in GB, with only a dozen or so clubs, in stark contrast to most other countries in Western Europe.

In men's basketball, Great Britain is 0-4 while Australia is 2-2. They are both in Group B. France, in Group A, is 3-1. The French will advance to the quarterfinals, as will the Australians. Great Britain is eliminated but has one more group stage game. Basketball is a minor sport in GB, much less played than in continental Europe, and GB would have considered themselves lucky if they had won a match.

In men's volleyball, Great Britain is 0-4 while Australia is 1-3. The British are eliminated from quarterfinal contention, but will play one more group stage game. Volleyball is very much a minor sport in GB. They only had a volleyball team in the Olympics because they were host nation and they did not expect to win any of their matches.
|-
|Multiple
|Similarly, will atheist nations underachieve in general?
|China, an officially atheist and communist country, leads the standings with 30 gold medals. Despite having more than three times the population of the United States and despite having a national program designed to produce champion athletes, China has only one more medal than the United States (61-60), and only two more gold medals (30-28). Despite having a population only one-fifth of that of the US, increasingly atheistic Great Britain has more than half as many gold medals, and more than half as many medals overall as the US, and ranks third overall. Great Britain did not win its first gold medal until Day 5 (August 1), because few of the medal competitions in which GB is strong (rowing, cycling, canoeing especially) were competed for until that day. In the 2008 Olympics, Great Britain won 47 total medals, which they will probably surpass. The last few Olympic Games have seen hosts surpass their totals from the previous games by 20-30%. Care should therefore be taken when looking at the British total.

The host factor would not affect Australia's and France's totals. Australia has 20 medals, but only a single gold medal. France has 25 medals, of which 8 are gold. In 2008, Australia won 46 medals and France won 41. Australia won 14 golds that year, a total that they are unlikely to surpass at this point.
|-
|wrestling
|have [[feminist]] [[Title IX quotas]] destroyed the [[U.S.]] team?
|TBA
|-
|men's basketball
|will selfless play by outspoken [[Christian]] [[Kevin Durant]] overcome ball-hogging by [[Overrated Sports Stars|Overrated Sports Star]]s [[Kobe Bryant]] and [[LeBron James]] on [[USA Basketball]]?
|After a slow start, the United States beat France 98-71 in their first game. LeBron James had 9 points in 25 minutes, while Kobe Bryant was limited to 12 minutes but scored 10 points. Kevin Durant led all players from both teams with 22 points. In their third game, the United States blew out Nigeria, 156-83, setting records for points scored and margin of victory. Durant, Bryant, and LeBron all received limited minutes due to the blowout. Durant scored 14 points in 17 minutes, James scored 6 points in 11 minutes, and Bryant scored 16 points in 11 minutes.
|-
|men's tennis
|will one of the [[Essay:Greatest Conservative Sports Stars|Greatest Conservative Sports Stars]] -- such as Novak Djokovic -- win the gold medal? Will [[Andy Murray]] of atheistic Britain underperform?
|Both players advanced to the semifinals, where Murray defeated Djokovic in straight sets. Murray defeated Roger Federer of Switzerland for the gold in straight sets, while Djokovic underperformed and lost to Juan Martin del Potro of Argentina in the bronze medal match. Murray then went on to play in the following mixed doubles match and medalled silver with Laura Robson, losing to the heavily favoured Mirnyi and Azarenka.
|-
|8-month pregnant athlete
|Will the [[lamestream media]] report on Nur Suryani Mohamed Taibi of Malaysia, who is competing while being 8 months pregnant, or does that send too [[pro-life]] of a message?
|Taibi was eliminated from the Olympics on the first day of official competition after finishing in 34th place. Few articles mentioned her prior to her elimination; there was more publicity about her after her defeat.<ref>[http://blog.sfgate.com/olympics/2012/07/28/pregnant-shooter%E2%80%99s-olympics-end-after-34th-place-finish-in-qualifying/ Pregnant shooter’s Olympics end after 34th-place finish in qualifying] sfgate.com, July 28, 2012, retrieved July 28, 2012</ref><ref>[http://msn.foxsports.com/olympics/shooting/story/Pregnant-Malaysian-shooter-does-baby-proud-at-London-Olympics-072812 Pregnant shooter does baby proud] foxsports.com, July 28, 2012, retrieved July 28, 2012</ref><ref>[http://www.usatoday.com/sports/olympics/london/shooting/story/2012-07-28/pregnant-shooter-nur-suryani-mohd-taibi-malaysia-misses-final/56551354/1 Pregnant shooter misses final, treasures experience] usatoday.com, July 28, 2012, retrieved July 28, 2012</ref><ref>[http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2012/jul/28/london-2012-pregnant-shooting London 2012: 'Be quiet, mummy's shooting,' says pregnant competitor] guardian.co.uk, July 28, 2012, retrieved July 28, 2012</ref> The New York Times ran an article on the athlete on 16 July 2012,<ref>[http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/17/sports/olympics/17iht-oly17.html?_r=1] </ref> The Guardian <ref>[http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2012/jul/28/london-2012-pregnant-shooting]</ref> and ESPN <ref>[http://www.espnstar.com/olympics/shooting/news/detail/item832224/Nur-Suryani-off-target-in-London/]</ref> both reported on her results in the competition.
|-
|women's soccer
|ranked #1 and won the gold in the last two Olympics, most recently with a foreign coach. Now that this [[U.S.]] team is [[politically correct]], will it underachieve?<ref>A foreigner, reportedly a lesbian, was selected as the head coach of the already champion American Olympic women's soccer team in 2007, and in the following year that team repeated its gold medal-winning performance of 2004. Aren't there American, although perhaps not politically correct, soccer coaches good enough to run the Olympic team?</ref> Major rivals will be Japan, Brazil and France.
|Went 3-0 in their group to advance to the quarterfinals, where they beat New Zealand 2-0. They will face Canada in the semifinals.
|-
|Gun events
|Will the [[lamestream media]] downplay the gun events because they want to continue to push [[gun control]]?
|Great Britain shooter Peter Wilson's gold medal success in the double-trap clay pigeon event was widely reported and celebrated in the British media, despite Britain being strong in favor of gun control. The victory of South Korean air pistol shooter Jin in winning the first gold medal of the games was reported in most GB media. Coverage is similar to other sports with modest national following. See the entry above on the Malaysian shooter for an exception to this lack of coverage.
|-
|Openly [[homosexual]] athletes
|Will the [[liberal media]] overpromote [[homosexual]] athletes, far beyond their achievements?
|Several months before the games, ''Sports Illustrated'' ran a feature article entitled "The Transgender Athlete", which included significant overage of a transgender female-to-male shotputter attempting to qualify for the United States women's Olympic team. However, she failed to qualify at the US Olympic Trials, and as such has not received coverage during the actual Olympics.
|-
|Multiple
|Will countries that have implemented same-sex marriage underperform? (See below for a more lengthy explanation)
|Too early to tell. All countries are below their expected total (see chart below) so far, but this would be expected since so few events have been completed. Here is how much each nation should be expected to win, based on the chart below, and their actual totals so far. All expected totals are rounded to the nearest whole number. The overall total may not be equal to the sum of the individual expected totals due to this rounding. Also, the actual totals will not be meaningful one way or the other until more events have been completed.
: Argentina - 5 expected, 1 actual
: Belgium - 7 expected, 2 actual
: Canada - 23 expected, 10 actual
: Denmark - 4 expected, 8 actual
: Iceland - 0 expected, 0 actual
: Netherlands - 11 expected, 8 actual
: Norway - 6 expected, 2 actual
: Portugal - 3 expected, 0 actual
: South Africa - 5 expected, 4 actual
: Spain - 20 expected, 3 actual
: Sweden - 7 expected, 4 actual
: Total - 92 expected, 40 actual

|-
|Men's Handball
|Will heavy underdogs [[Tunisia]] overperform in Group A? Group A should perhaps be dubbed the "Group of Left", since the other five teams are Sweden, Iceland, and Argentina, where same-sex marriage is legal, and increasingly atheistic Great Britain and France.
|Tunisia is currently 1-3, their one win coming against Great Britain. They will face Argentina in their final game. With a win, they would become only the second African team ever to advance to the quarterfinals in the sport. At the very least, they will avoid a last-place finish in the group, something few African teams have done historically.
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== Nations that have implemented [[same-sex marriage]] ==

===[[Argentina]]===

{| class="wikitable collapsible collapsed" border="1"
|+Argentina's Olympic medals in the Summer Games
|-
! scope="col" | Year and location
! scope="col" | Gold
! scope="col" | Silver
! scope="col" | Bronze
! scope="col" | Total
|- ||- |-
|align=left| 1900 Paris || 0 || 0 || 0 || 0
|-
|align=left| 1904 St. Louis || colspan=4| ''Did not participate''
|-
|align=left| 1908 London || 0 || 0 || 0 || 0
|-
|align=left| 1912 Stockholm || colspan=4| ''Did not participate''
|-
|align=left| 1920 Antwerp || 0 || 0 || 0 || 0
|-
|align=left| 1924 Paris || 1 || 3 || 2 || 6
|-
|align=left| 1928 Amsterdam || 3 || 3 || 1 || 7
|-
|align=left| 1932 Los Angeles || 3 || 1 || 0 || 4
|-
|align=left| 1936 Berlin || 2 || 2 || 3 || 7
|-
|align=left| 1948 London || 3 || 3 || 1 || 7
|-
|align=left| 1952 Helsinki || 1 || 2 || 2 || 5
|-
|align=left| 1956 Melbourne/Stockholm || 0 || 1 || 1 || 2
|-
|align=left| 1960 Rome || 0 || 1 || 1 || 2
|-
|align=left| 1964 Tokyo || 0 || 1 || 0 || 1
|-
|align=left| 1968 Mexico City || 0 || 0 || 2 || 2
|-
|align=left| 1972 Munich || 0 || 1 || 0 || 1
|-
|align=left| 1976 Montreal || 0 || 0 || 0 || 0
|-
|align=left| 1980 Moscow || colspan=4| ''Did not participate''
|-
|align=left| 1984 Los Angeles || 0 || 0 || 0 || 0
|-
|align=left| 1988 Seoul || 0 || 1 || 1 || 2
|-
|align=left| 1992 Barcelona || 0 || 0 || 1 || 1
|-
|align=left| 1996 Atlanta || 0 || 2 || 1 || 3
|-
|align=left| 2000 Sydney || 0 || 2 || 2 || 4
|-
|align=left| 2004 Athens || 2 || 0 || 4 || 6
|-
|align=left| 2008 Beijing || 2 || 0 || 4 || 6
|-
|align=left| July 22, 2010 || colspan=4| ''Same-sex marriage legalized''
|-
|align=left| 2012 London || ? || ? || ? || ?
|-
! Total || 17 || 23 || 26 || 66
|}

===[[Belgium]]===

{| class="wikitable collapsible collapsed" border="1"
|+Belgium's Olympic medals in the Summer Games
|-
! scope="col" | Year and location
! scope="col" | Gold
! scope="col" | Silver
! scope="col" | Bronze
! scope="col" | Total
|- ||- |-
|align=left| 1896 Athens || colspan=4| ''Did not participate''
|-
|align=left| 1900 Paris || 5 || 5 || 5 || 15
|-
|align=left| 1904 St. Louis || colspan=4| ''Did not participate''
|-
|align=left| 1908 London || 1 || 5 || 2 || 8
|-
|align=left| 1912 Stockholm || 2 || 1 || 3 || 6
|-
|align=left| 1920 Antwerp (host) || 14 || 11 || 11 || 36
|-
|align=left| 1924 Paris || 3 || 7 || 3 || 13
|-
|align=left| 1928 Amsterdam || 0 || 1 || 2 || 3
|-
|align=left| 1932 Los Angeles || 0 || 0 || 0 || 0
|-
|align=left| 1936 Berlin || 0 || 0 || 2 || 2
|-
|align=left| 1948 London || 2 || 2 || 3 || 7
|-
|align=left| 1952 Helsinki || 2 || 2 || 0 || 4
|-
|align=left| 1956 Stockholm/Melbourne || 0 || 2 || 0 || 2
|-
|align=left| 1960 Rome || 0 || 2 || 2 || 4
|-
|align=left| 1964 Tokyo || 2 || 0 || 1 || 3
|-
|align=left| 1968 Mexico City || 0 || 1 || 1 || 2
|-
|align=left| 1972 Munich || 0 || 2 || 0 || 2
|-
|align=left| 1976 Montreal || 0 || 3 || 3 || 6
|-
|align=left| 1980 Moscow || 1 || 0 || 0 || 1
|-
|align=left| 1984 Los Angeles || 1 || 1 || 2 || 4
|-
|align=left| 1988 Seoul || 0 || 0 || 2 || 2
|-
|align=left| 1992 Barcelona || 0 || 1 || 2 || 3
|-
|align=left| 1996 Atlanta || 2 || 2 || 2 || 6
|-
|align=left| 2000 Sydney || 0 || 2 || 3 || 5
|-
|align=left| January 30, 2003 || colspan=4| ''Same-sex marriage legalized''
|-
|align=left| 2004 Athens || 1 || 0 || 2 || 3
|-
|align=left| 2008 Beijing || 1 || 1 || 0 || 2
|-
|align=left| 2012 London || ? || ? || ? || ?
|-
! Total !! 37 !! 51 !! 51 !! 139
|}

===[[Canada]]===

{| class="wikitable collapsible collapsed" border="1"
|+Canada's Olympic medals in the Summer Games
|-
! scope="col" | Year and location
! scope="col" | Gold
! scope="col" | Silver
! scope="col" | Bronze
! scope="col" | Total
|- ||- |-
|align=left| ''1896 Athens'' || colspan=4|''did not compete''
|-
|align=left| 1900 Paris || 1 || 0 || 1 || 2
|-
|align=left| 1904 St. Louis || 4 || 1 || 1 || 6
|-
|align=left| 1908 London || 3 || 3 || 10 || 16
|-
|align=left| 1912 Stockholm || 3 || 2 || 3 || 8
|-
|align=left| 1920 Antwerp || 3 || 3 || 3 || 9
|-
|align=left| 1924 Paris || 0 || 3 || 1 || 4
|-
|align=left| 1928 Amsterdam || 4 || 4 || 7 || 15
|-
|align=left| 1932 Los Angeles || 2 || 5 || 8 || 15
|-
|align=left| 1936 Berlin || 1 || 3 || 5 || 9
|-
|align=left| 1948 London || 0 || 1 || 2 || 3
|-
|align=left| 1952 Helsinki || 1 || 2 || 0 || 3
|-
|align=left| 1956 Stockholm/Melbourne || 2 || 1 || 3 || 6
|-
|align=left| 1960 Rome || 0 || 1 || 0 || 1
|-
|align=left| 1964 Tokyo || 1 || 2 || 1 || 4
|-
|align=left| 1968 Mexico City || 1 || 3 || 1 || 5
|-
|align=left| 1972 Munich || 0 || 2 || 3 || 5
|-
|align=left| 1976 Montreal (host) || 0 || 5 || 6 || 11
|-
|align=left| 1980 Moscow || colspan=4|''did not compete''
|-
|align=left| 1984 Los Angeles || 10 || 18 || 16 || 44
|-
|align=left| 1988 Seoul || 3 || 2 || 5 || 10
|-
|align=left| 1992 Barcelona || 7 || 4 || 7 || 18
|-
|align=left| 1996 Atlanta || 3 || 11 || 8 || 22
|-
|align=left| 2000 Sydney || 3 || 3 || 8 || 14
|-
|align=left| 2004 Athens || 3 || 6 || 3 || 12
|-
|align=left| July 20, 2005 || colspan=4|''Same-sex marriage legalized''
|-
|align=left| 2008 Beijing || 3 || 9 || 6 || 18
|-
|align=left| 2012 London || ? || ? || ? || ?
|-
!| Total || 58 || 94 || 108 || 260
|}

===[[Denmark]]===

{| class="wikitable collapsible collapsed" border="1"
|+Denmark's Olympic medals in the Summer Games
|-
! scope="col" | Year and location
! scope="col" | Gold
! scope="col" | Silver
! scope="col" | Bronze
! scope="col" | Total
|- ||- |-
|align=left| 1896 Athens || 1 || 2 || 3 || 6
|-
|align=left| 1900 Paris || 1 || 3 || 2 || 6
|-
|align=left| 1904 St. Louis || colspan=4| ''did not participate''
|-
|align=left| 1908 London || 0 || 2 || 3 || 5
|-
|align=left| 1912 Stockholm || 1 || 6 || 5 || 12
|-
|align=left| 1920 Antwerp || 3 || 9 || 1 || 13
|-
|align=left| 1924 Paris || 2 || 5 || 2 || 9
|-
|align=left| 1928 Amsterdam || 3 || 1 || 2 || 6
|-
|align=left| 1932 Los Angeles || 0 || 3 || 3 || 6
|-
|align=left| 1936 Berlin || 0 || 2 || 3 || 5
|-
|align=left| 1948 London || 5 || 7 || 8 || 20
|-
|align=left| 1952 Helsinki || 2 || 1 || 3 || 6
|-
|align=left| 1956 Melbourne/Stockholm || 1 || 2 || 1 || 4
|-
|align=left| 1960 Rome || 2 || 3 || 1 || 6
|-
|align=left| 1964 Tokyo || 2 || 1 || 3 || 6
|-
|align=left| 1968 Mexico City || 1 || 4 || 3 || 8
|-
|align=left| 1972 Munich || 1 || 0 || 0 || 1
|-
|align=left| 1976 Montreal || 1 || 0 || 2 || 3
|-
|align=left| 1980 Moscow || 2 || 1 || 2 || 5
|-
|align=left| 1984 Los Angeles || 0 || 3 || 3 || 6
|-
|align=left| 1988 Seoul || 2 || 1 || 1 || 4
|-
|align=left| 1992 Barcelona || 1 || 1 || 4 || 6
|-
|align=left| 1996 Atlanta || 4 || 1 || 1 || 6
|-
|align=left| 2000 Sydney || 2 || 3 || 1 || 6
|-
|align=left| 2004 Athens || 2 || 0 || 6 || 8
|-
|align=left| 2008 Beijing || 2 || 2 || 3 || 7
|-
|align=left| June 15, 2012 || colspan=4| ''Same-sex marriage legalized''
|-
|align=left| 2012 London || ? || ? || ? || ?
|-
! Total !! 41 !! 63 !! 66 !! 170
|}

===[[Iceland]]===

{| class="wikitable collapsible collapsed" border="1"
|+Iceland's Olympic medals in the Summer Games
|-
! scope="col" | Year and location
! scope="col" | Gold
! scope="col" | Silver
! scope="col" | Bronze
! scope="col" | Total
|- ||- |-
|align=left| 1896 Athens || colspan=4| ''Did not participate''
|-
|align=left| 1900 Paris || colspan=4| ''Did not participate''
|-
|align=left| 1904 St. Louis || colspan=4| ''did not participate''
|-
|align=left| 1908 London || colspan=4| ''Did not participate''
|-
|align=left| 1912 Stockholm || 0 || 0 || 0 || 0
|-
|align=left| 1920 Antwerp || colspan=4| ''Did not participate''
|-
|align=left| 1924 Paris || colspan=4| ''Did not participate''
|-
|align=left| 1928 Amsterdam || colspan=4| ''Did not participate''
|-
|align=left| 1932 Los Angeles || colspan=4| ''Did not participate''
|-
|align=left| 1936 Berlin || 0 || 0 || 0 || 0
|-
|align=left| 1948 London || 0 || 0 || 0 || 0
|-
|align=left| 1952 Helsinki || 0 || 0 || 0 || 0
|-
|align=left| 1956 Melbourne/Stockholm || 0 ||1 || 0 || 1
|-
|align=left| 1960 Rome || 0 || 0 || 0 || 0
|-
|align=left| 1964 Tokyo || 0 || 0 || 0 || 0
|-
|align=left| 1968 Mexico City || 0 || 0 || 0 || 0
|-
|align=left| 1972 Munich || 0 || 0 || 0 || 0
|-
|align=left| 1976 Montreal || 0 || 0 || 0 || 0
|-
|align=left| 1980 Moscow || 0 || 0 || 0 || 0
|-
|align=left| 1984 Los Angeles || 0 || 0 || 1 || 1
|-
|align=left| 1988 Seoul || 0 || 0 || 0 || 0
|-
|align=left| 1992 Barcelona || 0 || 0 || 0 || 0
|-
|align=left| 1996 Atlanta || 0 || 0 || 0 || 0
|-
|align=left| 2000 Sydney || 0 || 0 || 1 || 1
|-
|align=left| 2004 Athens || 0 || 0 || 0 || 0
|-
|align=left| 2008 Beijing || 0 || 1 || 0 || 1
|-
|align=left| June 27, 2010 || colspan=4| ''Same-sex marriage legalized''
|-
|align=left| 2012 London || ? || ? || ? || ?
|-
! Total !! 0 !! 2 !! 2 !! 4
|}

===[[Netherlands]]<ref>Although part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, [[Aruba]] competes separately at the Olympic Games. Same-sex marriage is not legal in Aruba, although marriages performed in the European mainland Netherlands are recognized per the Kingdom's requirements. Additionally, the territories of Curacao and Sint Maarten, who will compete as "Independent Olympic Athletes" under the Olympic Flag following the dissolution of the Netherlands Antilles and the loss of recognition of their Olympic Committee, have the same regulations as Aruba with regards to same-sex marriage. Since citizens of these territories are also Dutch citizens, they are also eligible to compete for Team Netherlands. Therefore, they may have won some of the Dutch medals. In all three territories, the population is heavily Catholic and there is large opposition to same-sex marriage in spite of the Kingdom's requirements. When Bonaire, Sint Eustatius, and Saba opted to integrate fully with the Netherlands as part of the dissolution, the Dutch House of Representatives passed a law that will make same sex-marriage legal in those territories effective in October 2012. However, this law was strongly opposed by locals. Athletes from those three territories were permitted to compete as Independent Olympic Athletes as well. However, of the four IOAs at the Olympics, three are from Curacao and one is a marathoner from South Sudan, which does not yet have a national Olympic Committee.</ref>===

{| class="wikitable collapsible collapsed" border="1"
|+The Netherland's Olympic medals in the Summer Games
|-
! scope="col" | Year and location
! scope="col" | Gold
! scope="col" | Silver
! scope="col" | Bronze
! scope="col" | Total
|- ||- |-
|align=left| 1896 Athens || colspan=4| ''did not participate''
|-
|align=left| 1900 Paris || 0 || 1 || 3 || 4
|-
|align=left| 1904 St. Louis || colspan=4| ''did not participate''
|-
|align=left| 1908 London || 0 || 0 || 2 || 2
|-
|align=left| 1912 Stockholm || 0 || 0 || 3 || 3
|-
|align=left| 1920 Antwerp || 4 || 2 || 5 || 11
|-
|align=left| 1924 Paris || 4 || 1 || 5 || 10
|-
|align=left| 1928 Amsterdam (host) || 6 || 9 || 4 || 19
|-
|align=left| 1932 Los Angeles || 2 || 5 || 0 || 7
|-
|align=left| 1936 Berlin || 6 || 4 || 7 || 17
|-
|align=left| 1948 London || 5 || 2 || 9 || 16
|-
|align=left| 1952 Helsinki || 0 || 5 || 0 || 5
|-
|align=left| 1956 Stockholm/Melbourne || colspan=4| ''did not participate''
|-
|align=left| 1960 Rome || 0 || 1 || 2 || 3
|-
|align=left| 1964 Tokyo || 2 || 4 || 4 || 10
|-
|align=left| 1968 Mexico City || 3 || 3 || 1 || 7
|-
|align=left| 1972 Munich || 3 || 1 || 1 || 5
|-
|align=left| 1976 Montreal || 0 || 2 || 3 || 5
|-
|align=left| 1980 Moscow || 0 || 1 || 2 || 3
|-
|align=left| 1984 Los Angeles || 5 || 2 || 6 || 13
|-
|align=left| 1988 Seoul || 2 || 2 || 5 || 9
|-
|align=left| 1992 Barcelona || 2 || 6 || 7 || 15
|-
|align=left| 1996 Atlanta || 4 || 5 || 10 || 19
|-
|align=left| 2000 Sydney || 12 || 9 || 4 || 25
|-
|align=left| April 1, 2001 || colspan=4| ''Same-sex marriage legalized''
|-
|align=left| 2004 Athens || 4 || 9 || 9 || 22
|-
|align=left| 2008 Beijing || 7 || 5 || 4 || 16
|-
|align=left| 2012 Summer Olympics|2012 London || ? || ? || ? || ?
|-
! Total !! 71 !! 79 !! 96 !! 246
|}

===[[Norway]]===
===[[Portugal]]===
===[[South Africa]]===
===[[Spain]]===
===[[Sweden]]===

Underachievement by nations allowing same sex marriage will be particularly evident.<ref>In the [[United States]], 6 out of 50 states permit same-sex marriage (Washington, D.C. also permits same-sex marriage), and 8 additional states permit civil unions. Two states (including Washington, which had previously recognized civil unions) have declared same-sex marriage legal, but implementation is postponed until after voter referendums on the laws in November 2012. Additionally, in [[Mexico]], same-sex marriage is legal in Mexico City, a federal district roughly equivalent to Washington, DC, as well as in the state of Quintana Roo. </ref>

== Nations that are increasingly [[atheist]]ic ==

*[[Britain]]
*[[France]]
*[[Australia]]<ref> Since the 2001 Australians have increasingly answered "no religion" in the official census. The growing numbers of those answering "no religion" has coincided with fewer people self-identifying as Christian: [http://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@.nsf/7d12b0f6763c78caca257061001cc588/636F496B2B943F12CA2573D200109DA9?opendocument Year Book Australia, 2008]</ref>

Underachievement by atheistic nations will be particularly evident in the '''''team''''' sports, where spiritual motivation is usually non-existent. Expect the atheistic nations to underachieve most notably in soccer, where teamwork is paramount.

Also, since Great Britain is the host nation, it may receive a boost in performance in spite of its increasingly atheistic nature. One should be careful to account for this when comparing Britain's performance this year to that in previous Olympic Games.

== Winners ==

=== Individual Events ===

{| class="wikitable sortable collapsible collapsed"
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!Athlete
!Achievement
!Religion, or Atheist?
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=== Team Events ===

{| class="wikitable sortable collapsible collapsed"
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!Event
!Country
!Religious Category
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|Women's 4x100m Freestyle (Swimming)
|Australia
|Increasingly Atheistic
|-
|Men's Team Archery
|Italy
|Christian
|-
|Women's Team Archery
|South Korea
|Atheistic
|-
|Men's 4x100m Freestyle (Swimming)
|France
|Increasingly Atheistic
|-
|Women's Synchronized 3m Springboard (Diving)
|China
|Buddhist
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|Men's Synchronized 10m Platform (Diving)
|China
|Buddhist
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|Men's Artistic Team All-round (Gymnastics)
|China
|Buddhist
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==Expected Medals==

There are many factors that contribute to a countries success in the Olympics (population, proximity host country, culture) and [[Gross Domestic Product]] cannot be used as a fair proxy, due to low-GDP China comfortably coming first in the 2008 Olympics and Russia ranking third. Below is how the Olympic medals would be awarded if each country earned medals in proportion to their GDP, which vastly overestimates the United States' performance.

{| class="wikitable sortable collapsible collapsed"
|-
!Country
!Expected Medals
|-
|Afghanistan
|0.2
|-
|Albania
|0.2
|-
|Andorra
|0.1
|-
|Antigua and Barbuda
|0
|-
|Angola
|1.2
|-
|Algeria
|2.3
|-
|Argentina
|5.3
|-
|Armenia
|0.1
|-
|Aruba
|0
|-
|Australia
|16.2
|-
|Austria
|5.4
|-
|Azerbaijan
|0.7
|-
|Bahamas
|0.1
|-
|Bangladesh
|1.4
|-
|Barbados
|0
|-
|Burundi
|0
|-
|Belgium
|6.7
|-
|Belize
|0
|-
|Benin
|0.1
|-
|Bermuda
|0.1
|-
|Bhutan
|0
|-
|Bolivia
|0.3
|-
|Bosnia-Herzegovina
|0.2
|-
|Bahrain
|0.3
|-
|Botswana
|0.2
|-
|Belarus
|0.8
|-
|Brazil
|29.9
|-
|Virgin Islands
|0
|-
|Bulgaria
|0.7
|-
|Burkina Faso
|0.1
|-
|Cameroon
|0.3
|-
|Cambodia
|0.2
|-
|Canada
|22.6
|-
|Cayman Islands
|0
|-
|Central African Republic
|0
|-
|Chad
|0.1
|-
|Chile
|3
|-
|China
|98.8
|-
|Taiwan
|7.2
|-
|Colombia
|4.1
|-
|Comoros
|0
|-
|Cape Verde
|0
|-
|Congo
|0.2
|-
|Cook Islands
|0
|-
|Costa Rica
|0.5
|-
|Cote-d´lvoire
|0.3
|-
|Croatia
|0.9
|-
|Cuba
|0.9
|-
|Cyprus
|0.4
|-
|Czech Republic
|2.8
|-
|Denmark
|4.4
|-
|Djibouti
|0
|-
|Dominica
|0
|-
|Dominican Republic
|0.7
|-
|Ecuador
|0.8
|-
|Egypt
|3.1
|-
|El Salvador
|0.3
|-
|Equatorial Guinea
|0.2
|-
|Eritrea
|0
|-
|Estonia
|0.3
|-
|Ethiopia
|0.4
|-
|Fiji
|0
|-
|Finland
|3.4
|-
|France
|39.8
|-
|Gabon
|0.2
|-
|Gambia
|0
|-
|Germany
|47
|-
|Ghana
|0.4
|-
|United Kingdom
|32.4
|-
|Guinea-Bissau
|0
|-
|Georgia
|0.2
|-
|Greece
|4.3
|-
|Grenada
|0
|-
|Guam
|0
|-
|Guatemala
|0.6
|-
|Guinea
|0.1
|-
|Guyana
|0
|-
|Haiti
|0.1
|-
|Honduras
|0.2
|-
|Hong Kong
|3.2
|-
|Hungary
|1.8
|-
|Iceland
|0.2
|-
|India
|24.7
|-
|Indonesia
|10.1
|-
|Iran
|4.7
|-
|Iraq
|1.2
|-
|Ireland
|3
|-
|Italy
|29.5
|-
|Israel
|3.1
|-
|Jamaica
|0.2
|-
|Japan
|78.2
|-
|Jordan
|0.4
|-
|Kazakhstan
|2.3
|-
|Kyrgyzstan
|0.1
|-
|Kenya
|0.4
|-
|South Korea
|14.8
|-
|North Korea
|0.4
|-
|Kuwait
|2
|-
|Laos
|0.1
|-
|Latvia
|0.4
|-
|Saint Lucia
|0
|-
|Lebanon
|0.5
|-
|Lesotho
|0
|-
|Libya
|0.9
|-
|Lichtenstein
|0.1
|-
|Luxembourg
|0.8
|-
|Macedonia
|0.1
|-
|Madagascar
|0.1
|-
|Malawi
|0.1
|-
|Malaysia
|3.3
|-
|Moldova
|0.1
|-
|Marshall Islands
|0
|-
|Maldives
|0
|-
|Malta
|0.1
|-
|Mali
|0.1
|-
|Mauritania
|0.2
|-
|Mauritius
|0.1
|-
|Mexico
|16.2
|-
|Micronesia
|0
|-
|Monaco
|0.1
|-
|Montenegro
|0.1
|-
|Mongolia
|0.1
|-
|Morocco
|1.3
|-
|Mozambique
|0.1
|-
|Myanmar
|0.7
|-
|Namibia
|0.2
|-
|Nepal
|0.2
|-
|Netherlands
|11.2
|-
|New Zealand
|1.8
|-
|Nicaragua
|0.1
|-
|Niger
|0.1
|-
|Niger
|0.1
|-
|Norway
|5.9
|-
|Oman
|0.7
|-
|Pakistan
|2.4
|-
|Palau
|0
|-
|Panama
|0.4
|-
|Papua New Guinea
|0.1
|-
|Paraguay
|0.3
|-
|Peru
|2.3
|-
|Philippines
|2.9
|-
|Poland
|6.7
|-
|Portugal
|3.3
|-
|Puerto Rico
|1.4
|-
|Qatar
|1.4
|-
|Romania
|2.3
|-
|Rwanda
|0.1
|-
|Saint Lucia
|0
|-
|Saint Kitts and Nevis
|0
|-
|Samoa
|0
|-
|San Marino
|0
|-
|Saudi Arabia
|6.2
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|Seychelles
|0
|-
|Sierra Leone
|0
|-
|Senegal
|0.2
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|Slovenia
|0.7
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|Solomon Islands
|0
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|South Africa
|5.2
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|Sri Lanka
|0.7
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|Slovakia
|1.3
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|Swaziland
|0.1
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|Serbia
|0.6
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|Singapore
|3
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|Spain
|20.2
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|Sudan
|0.9
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|Suriname
|0
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|Syria
|0.8
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|Sweden
|6.6
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|Switzerland
|7.6
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|Tanzania
|0.3
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|Tonga
|0
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|Thailand
|4.6
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|Togo
|0
|-
|Trinidad and Tobago
|0.3
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|Tajikistan
|0.1
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|Timor-Leste
|0
|-
|Turkmenistan
|0.3
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|Tunisia
|0.6
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|Turkey
|10.5
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|Tuvalu
|0
|-
|Uganda
|0.2
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|Ukraine
|2
|-
|United Arab Emirates
|4.3
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|United States
|209
|-
|Uruguay
|0.6
|-
|Uzbekistan
|0.6
|-
|Vanuatu
|0
|-
|Venezuela
|5.6
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|Vietnam
|1.5
|-
|Yemen
|0.4
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|Zambia
|0.2
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|Zimbabwe
|0.1
|-
|}

== Commemoration ==

The 2012 games mark the 40th anniversary of 11 [[Israeli]] Olympic team members taken hostage and killed by [[Palestinian]] [[terrorist]] group Black September. The Internal Olympic Committee has been urged to offer a commemorative moment of silence for the athletes at the opening ceremony. The IOC has rejected the moment of silence or any mention of the tragic event so as not to upset [[Muslim]] countries. <ref>[http://www.eju.org/news/world/ioc-refuses-request-memorial-munich-victims IOC refuses request for a memorial to Munich victims, EJU News, may 22, 2012]</ref> Sportscaster Bob Costas says NBC will honor the Munich 11 despite IOC’s refusal to allow it. <ref>[http://weaselzippers.us/2012/07/21/bob-costas-says-he-will-observe-moment-of-silence-for-victims-of-1972-munich-massacre-during-live-broadcast-of-london-olympics-opening-ceremony-despite-iocs-refusal-to-allow-it/ Bob Costas Says He Will Observe Moment of Silence For Victims of 1972 Munich Massacre, WeaselZippers, July 21, 2012]</ref>

== NBC Coverage ==

Scorn for Comcast's [[NBC]] coverage of the Olympic games hit America coast to coast. Viewers have taken to the internet with the trend #NBCfail for days now. The groans began at the opening ceremony when [[American]] viewers were denied the tribute to British victims of [[Islamic]] terrorism. As the games moved forward, live events were interrupted or had already finished, replaced with commercials and NBC commentators talking about the athletes. It has been reported the Comcast spent $1 billion for the rights to televise the 2012 Olympics.

== See also ==

*[http://www.london2012.com/schedule-and-results/ Schedule and Results]
==References==
{{reflist|2}}
[[Category:Olympics]]

Andy Murray

2012-08-05T19:49:58Z

Esseph:

'''Andy Murray''' is a tennis player from [[Scotland]] who is considered the finest [[British]] men's player in 2012.

He won the gold medal in men's tennis at the London Olympics in 2012 to the delight of the local [[British]] crowd.
[[Category:sports]]

User talk:JZambrano

2012-07-29T23:55:47Z

Esseph: /* Our main page conversation */ new section

I'm back after a multi-year recess. I saw the pages here had been deleted in May - I have no idea why - and made the Jzy account because I thought this account was banned, to ask what was going on with that and the numerous account deletions in recent months. Ironically I came back expecting to start posting only to find Conservapedia had deleted my page, re-igniting my previous suspicion of the site and its administrators. I've been editing variously at CreationWiki, Citizendium, and SourceWatch over the last several years. A lot of my recent editing has been at CreationWiki.

I'd like to have a more favorable view of Conservapedia since I'm a pro-life, Creationist, very socially-conservative Christian, but thus far have seen a disturbing level of administrative heavy-handedness from 3 separate admins. I also dislike the unwillingness to mention valid criticisms of Obama like the Born Alive controversy, and suspect a number of the admins here are secretly liberals who support Obama. At any rate, I'm just here to use the debate pages and provide some opinions defending Christianity and Creationism since CreationWiki is unfortunately down right now (hopefully the site's back up soon). --[[User:Jzyehoshua|Jzyehoshua]] 19:38, 20 July 2012 (EDT)

== When did CreationWiki go down? ==

When did CreationWiki go down? And why? [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] 20:09, 20 July 2012 (EDT)
:Just today. I'm not sure why it's down. I'd been talking to Ashcraft lately about a possible fix to the code so footnotes don't change the line height (I asked about it on MediaWiki [http://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Project:Support_desk&limit=20#Footnote_Line_Height_17453 here]). I'm hoping it's nothing more serious than a coding fix or maybe some temporary site outage. --[[User:Jzyehoshua|Jzyehoshua]] 20:20, 20 July 2012 (EDT)
::CreationWiki liveesss!!! :) --[[User:Jzyehoshua|Jzyehoshua]] 21:46, 20 July 2012 (EDT)

== Line height ==

I notice Conservapedia has the same issue Creationwiki does, line-height alteration for lines with footnotes. I found a fix for this using a line height template, but to make it work here it needs to have other templates installed also, and apparently putting a lot of the }} brackets after each other isn't allowed on Conservapedia. So I can't install templates like Xpd, Xpd2, Purge, and lf, some or all of which are required to keep the template from messing up. I'll just remove the line-height template I was using at Creationwiki for right now I guess. --[[User:Jzyehoshua|Jzyehoshua]] 01:33, 21 July 2012 (EDT)

The template only worked on a case-by-case basis anyway, so it was a pain to have to put it in for pages to make one page at a time look nice. To fix it site-wide I think would require adding a line to the MediaWiki:common.css file per the following discussion:
http://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Project:Support_desk&limit=20#Footnote_Line_Height_17453
--[[User:Jzyehoshua|Jzyehoshua]] 01:51, 21 July 2012 (EDT)

==Re: Conservacelt==

He looks suspicious to me, and much of his edits rely on liberal sources. With that being said, I suppose that we could give him another chance. I myself tried to change his block setting to two days after seeing that you changed his block setting to ten minutes, but I accidently blocked you instead... Sorry about that. - [[User:Markman|Markman]] 20:12, 23 July 2012 (EDT)
:I agree with a 2-3 day block, just not permanent. And you forgot to unblock my IP address, lol. I figured it out eventually. He made a serious mistake, reverting Mr. Schlafly's revert of his material, but this is something to be explained to him. It was a big mistake, but a mistake nonetheless. I hope he'd just be given a warning this time. I'll personally explain it to him on his page. --[[User:Jzyehoshua|Jzyehoshua]] 20:25, 23 July 2012 (EDT)
::In retrospect I'm guessing that you're right, although I still retain my suspicion... Let's hope that after the next three days are over our he'll learn to behave himself. - [[User:Markman|Markman]] 20:39, 23 July 2012 (EDT)
:::Yeah, I think he will. I've seen a lot of vandals and what they would have done is blanked a whole page and added pure opinionated material. That he even bothered to use ref tags was a strong indication he wasn't a vandal, but someone making what he thought were good edits, and who just re-added it, not realizing who'd reverted it. I think it was just a new user not aware of site policy. On Wikipedia, you actually need to revert material 3 times, so policy here is quite a bit different from what he'd encounter there on other wikis. I think he'll learn from it. --[[User:Jzyehoshua|Jzyehoshua]] 20:42, 23 July 2012 (EDT)

==Unblocking==
If you make a motion to unblock anyone, do a check of the block first. If the original block was unwarranted and/or minor, unblocking is fine. If the block was done by a senior admin, do not unblock unless you check with that person first. [[User:Karajou|Karajou]] 04:56, 27 July 2012 (EDT)
:The individual you just unblocked was reblocked by me; the individual was involved in heavy spam attacks on the site. [[User:Karajou|Karajou]] 04:59, 27 July 2012 (EDT)
::Alright, I didn't realize that. Were they a sockpuppet you mean? Or did they engage in spam some other way? Sorry about the mistake. I guess there's some info I'm not able to see from the logs, which is what I was going by. --[[User:Jzyehoshua|Joshua Zambrano]] 05:21, 27 July 2012 (EDT)
::I'd even checked deleted page logs for the user just to make sure they hadn't created a bad page that got deleted, and didn't see anything there. Just off the information I knew existed, I couldn't see any reason for the block, and apologize for the unblock. I will make sure to check with senior admins from now on too, I hadn't realized Ed Poor was one. I'll check with any users on this list[http://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Special:ListUsers&group=sysop] first from now on, sorry about that. --[[User:Jzyehoshua|Joshua Zambrano]] 05:28, 27 July 2012 (EDT)

== Our main page conversation ==

Thought it might be more productive and discreet to continue our chat off the main page talk page. Here's my response:

:::::To deal with your first and second points: yes, the BBC is a special case; I cited it (a) because I'm British and (b) because the unique status of the BBC (publicly funded through a levy on TV owners, but kept as scrupulously away from political control as possible by means of its charter) means that it's the only media organization in my home country that is actually meant to be unbiased (I suppose the US equivalents would be PBS and NPR, though as I understand it their audiences are so vanishingly small as not to matter very much).

:::::All other media, in a free market, are free to present the news as they wish. So you have liberal media (NY Times, MSNBC) and conservative media (Fox, WSJ). I've spent some time professionally in media analysis (though not to do with political bias), and it's a very tricky, nuanced thing to do. But ultimately it doesn't matter: news media are free to present the news with whatever slant they want. Audiences decide which they like best. The free market works: the only problem, in a democracy, is when uneducated people believe uncritically whatever they are told, because their lack of education means they don't know better. Democracy founders on the ignorance and indifference of the electorate; that is its Achilles' heel, which is why I value education so highly. And this wiki purports to be an educational tool, which is why I devote so much time to it, (It's marketed as a home-schooling resource, which is laughable and terrifying in equal measure -- see the entry on E=mc2, for instance).

:::::I'm not convinced by your fourth point; let me tell you why. Yes, journalists tend to be better educated than the general public. But then you shift the blame to the colleges, which you claim exhibit liberal bias. Now, why should educational institutions be liberally biased? Perhaps because they tend to be located in urban centers, where people are more aware of the diversity of the society around them? (Cities are almost always more liberal than rural areas.) Perhaps because the very process of becoming educated exposes students to diversity, and causes them to be more aware of different people, and of how society as a whole works? One of the things any educational institution worthy of the name must do is encourage critical thinking, so that students question what they are told rather than swallowing it without tasting. It's possible to go through all of this and yet emerge with a conservative viewpoint; I have many highly educated friends who have.

:::::In sum, I don't believe the assertion that colleges have a liberal bias. The bias they have is against ignorance and prejudice. Much of this wiki, in contrast, is biased in favor of ignorance and prejudice. --[[User:Esseph|Esseph]] 16:34, 29 July 2012 (EDT)

:::::As far as the OpenSecrets.org data is concerned, no surprises there. Business owners expect the GOP to give them breaks; all the other groups you mention will tend to fare better under the Democrats. Note how the Texas GOP recently came out against educating children to think critically. -- [[User:Esseph|Esseph]] 16:48, 29 July 2012 (EDT)

User talk:Esseph

2012-07-29T16:54:08Z

Esseph: /* Good Edit */

==Good Edit==
Just wanted to commend you on the Daniel Dennett page edit, that was good work cleaning up some typos - fixing "apologetists" was a good catch. --[[User:Jzyehoshua|Joshua Zambrano]] 12:40, 29 July 2012 (EDT)

:Thanks, Joshua. I edit sparingly to avoid wars, but do try to weed out the most egregiously biased comments. I would like to strip out all the nonsense about atheism and obesity, but I think I know where that would land me. -- [[User:Esseph|Esseph]] 12:54, 29 July 2012 (EDT)

Daniel Dennett

2012-07-29T15:46:11Z

Esseph: Spelling, grammar and unencyclopedic editorializing cleaned up.

'''Daniel Dennett''' is a philosophy professor at [[Tufts University]] who actively promotes the [[naturalistic]] world view through such books as ''[[Darwin’s Dangerous Idea]]''. Dennett is a [[militant atheism|militant atheist]] who came to prominence in the atheist community following the publication of his [[antichristian]] polemic ''Breaking the Spell,'' which was widely rejected by people of faith and theologians as arrogant, ignorant, and often factually incorrect.

==Conscious Philosophy==

Dennett is widely regarded by [[atheism|atheists]], who dispute the evidence for an [[intelligent design|intelligent designer]], as one of the premier philosophers in the world in the area of consciousness. Dennet's book ''Consciousness Explained'' is beloved by those who deny God in favor of a naturalist [[philosophy]] of the mind. However, Christian apologists claim he cannot solve real-world questions concerning consciousness.<ref>http://www.truefreethinker.com/articles/old-material-dennett-and-mind</ref><ref>http://creation.com/brain-chemistry-and-the-fate-of-the-personality-after-death</ref> Dennet proposes his initial multiple drafts model of consciousness, where he proposes that there is no single source of consciousness (no conscious qualia), as proposed by many of his contemporaries.

He has been criticized by some of his peers for denying the existence of qualia and sticking with naturalist models of consciousness (he later expanded the multiple drafts model to the fame in the brain model in his 2005 book ''Sweet Dreams'') as he insists that there is no evidence, and that neurological [[science]] will, in time, progress to make the idea of qualia, or the source of seemingly inexplicable functions in the mind, obsolete.

Dennett has also been a proponent of Evolutionary Psychology as well as [[Richard Dawkins]]' idea of the meme. This led to some notable clashes with paleontologist [[Stephen Jay Gould]].

== New Atheism leaders and problems with being overweight ==
[[Image:Cerebellum.png|right|thumb|240px|Medical research indicates that excess weight impairs brain function.<ref>
*[http://pn.psychiatryonline.org/content/41/18/25.1.full]
*[http://health.usnews.com/health-news/family-health/brain-and-behavior/articles/2009/08/25/as-waistlines-widen-brains-shrink.html]
*[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21167850]
*[http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/07/100714112832.htm]
*[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/instance/2568718/]</ref>]]
''see also:'' [[New Atheism leadership's problems with excess weight]]

As noted earlier, the main authors of the New Atheism movement include [[Sam Harris]], Daniel Dennett, [[Richard Dawkins]], Victor J. Stenger and [[Christopher Hitchens]].<ref>http://www.colorado.edu/philosophy/vstenger/battle.html</ref> The New Atheism movement claims to be pro-science, yet three out of five of these men have have had issues with being overweight as can be seen [http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3UXl0oMYPLs/SXgxH_-MgFI/AAAAAAAAAF4/EU-wzxEjOmc/s1600-h/atheist-reason.jpg HERE] and [http://www.flickr.com/photos/7230309@N05/3708479160/ HERE] and [http://news.softpedia.com/newsImage/Quantum-Mechanics-Could-Link-Humans-with-the-Universe-2.jpg/ HERE] [[PZ Myers]] is also a leader within the New Atheism movement and PZ Myers [[PZ Myers|has had issues with being overweight]]. According to [[medical science]], there are a significant number of [[Physical and mental health related problems associated with obesity|physical and mental health related problems associated with being overweight]]. In the late 1990s, Dennet had [[coronary artery bypass surgery]] (coronary artery bypass surgery reroutes blood around clogged [[artery|arteries]] to enhance [[blood]] flow and [[oxygen]] to the [[heart]]).<ref>http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/dennett06/dennett06_index.html</ref><ref>http://www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=4484</ref>

[[Hippocrates]], who was also against [[abortion]], was an early advocate of the health benefits of [[exercise]] and [[nutrition]].<ref>http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/pe/exs190web/exs190history.htm</ref> On the other hand, [[PZ Myers]] and a significant amount of other New Atheism leaders, seem to lack a full appreciation of the worthiness of [[nutritional science]], [[exercise science]] and the latest findings of [[medical science]] (see also: [[Atheism and obesity]]). As of May 2011, Richard Dawkins and Sam Harris have not publicly commented on the significant problems the New Atheism leadership has experienced in terms of overweight members.
=== Dennet's problems with being overweight and medical science's finding on brain impairment ===

Given that [[Physical and mental health related problems associated with obesity|being overweight causes brain impairment]] and that [[New Atheism leadership's problems with excess weight|Daniel Dennet has had issues with being overweight]], it is ironic that Dennet's book ''Consciousness Explained'' is beloved by those who deny [[God]] in favor of a [[pseudoscience]].<ref>
*[http://pn.psychiatryonline.org/content/41/18/25.1.full]
*[http://health.usnews.com/health-news/family-health/brain-and-behavior/articles/2009/08/25/as-waistlines-widen-brains-shrink.html]
*[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21167850]
*[http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/07/100714112832.htm]
*[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/instance/2568718/]</ref> <ref>http://www.truefreethinker.com/articles/old-material-dennett-and-mind</ref><ref>http://creation.com/brain-chemistry-and-the-fate-of-the-personality-after-death</ref>

[[Western World]] [[evolution|evolutionists]] and atheists often hold to irrational notions such as [[extraterrestrial life]], [[exobiology]], [[evolution]] and [[Origin of Life|abiogenesis]] which are anti-[[Bible|biblical]] ideas that are that are not supported by sound [[science]]. <ref>http://creation.com/did-god-create-life-on-other-planets</ref><ref>http://creation.com/origin-of-life-questions-and-answers</ref> No doubt pseudoscientific and superstitious thinking in many cases is partly due to a lack of [[Self-control|self-discipline]] as rigorous scientific and logical thinking requires disciplined thought.<ref>http://archinte.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/summary/102/6/855 On Scientific Thought</ref> Please see: [[Irreligion and superstition]] and [[[[Evolution, Liberalism, Atheism, and Irrationality]]

== External links ==
*[http://www.truefreethinker.com/daniel-dennett Daniel Dennet] by [[True Free Thinker]]

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==References==
{{reflist|3}}
[[category:Atheists]]
[[Category: New Atheism]]
[[Category: Atheism]]

Talk:Christopher Hitchens

2012-06-08T14:02:48Z

Esseph:

Is there any reason why Hitchens is described as "conservative"? previous unsigned comment added by [[User:The Four Deuces |The Four Deuces]]
:Variously the article has described him as "conservative", "neo-conservative" and not at all. Hitchens is very much a paradox, and I for one wouldn't like to try to pin down exactly which part of the political spectrum he fits into. Several areas at once, probably. I'm not convinced that conservative or neo-conservative are accurate. Perhaps we should discuss here exactly who thinks he's what and why [[Image:User Fox.png]] [[User:Fox|Fox]] ([[User talk:Fox|talk]]|[[Special:Contributions/Fox|contribs]]) 09:09, 20 June 2007 (EDT)

Egads! Perhaps it's even possible that one cannot be neatly placed into a category of conservative or liberal? Whatever shall we do!? [[User:QNA|QNA]] 15:32, 20 June 2007 (EDT)

:Thankyou for your constructive and intelligent contribution to the discussion.[[Image:User Fox.png]] [[User:Fox|Fox]] ([[User talk:Fox|talk]]|[[Special:Contributions/Fox|contribs]]) 15:38, 20 June 2007 (EDT)

You want constructive and intelligent, you're in the wrong place. If you don't see the futility in trying to categorize someone into a neat little box, then I'm not sure what more I can say... Hitchens is a lovely example of a real person who can not be categorized so easily, and who will drive most of the people on this site insane. You'll gladly use his quotes that are critical of Michael Moore, yet you'll marginalize and condemn him because he is an outspoken atheist... he openly contradicts the fiction that this site is trying to perpetuate which is that conservative and young earth creationist (or at the very least fundamentalist Christian) are synonymous. That a little more constructive for you, skippy? [[User:QNA|QNA]] 15:46, 20 June 2007 (EDT)

:LoL, you should get out more :) [[Image:User Fox.png]] [[User:Fox|Fox]] ([[User talk:Fox|talk]]|[[Special:Contributions/Fox|contribs]]) 15:56, 20 June 2007 (EDT)

Hitchens is certainly not a conservative--or if he is, not one of very old vintage. He is a supporter of the Iraq war, but that does not a conservative make. He's also a staunch critic of Reagan, Kissinger, etc., etc. I would put him as an iconoclast, an image he's worked very hard to maintain. As for the article, I would simply delete "conservative" and leave it at that.[[User:Reaganetics|Reaganetics]] 16:43, 22 June 2007 (EDT)

::My 2 cents - I agree with the above. He doesn't fit comfortably into liberal, conservative, or neocon, particularly as those labels have been defined here on CP. Labels ought to be deleted from the article; describe the stances he has taken and let readers decide what they think of him, free of preconceptions. [[User:Aziraphale|Aziraphale]] 00:39, 25 June 2007 (EDT) ''<- needs change for a nickel...''

*Hitchens' self-describes as "Social-Conservative". --[[User:TK|Sysop-TK]] [[User_talk:TK|/MyTalk]] 00:45, 25 June 2007 (EDT)

Maybe we could say "Hitchens is a self-described conservative". [[User:DanH|DanH]] 00:49, 25 June 2007 (EDT)

:*ROFL! He's a bit of an ass. Self-described human might be more accurate. --[[User:TK|Sysop-TK]] [[User_talk:TK|/MyTalk]] 00:52, 25 June 2007 (EDT)

:Hitchens is an interesting character; like many so-called "leftists" who one day grow up, Hitchens has become something of a neo-con, if "neocon" is defined a liberal mugged by reality. Hitchens mugging by reality apparantly even bagan prior to 9/11, but was even more solidified by that historic event. Hitchens does have one problem though, he went way to far out on a limb with ''Trial of Henry Kissinger'', the matter was even pursued litigously, so while he'd like to say publicly, "I was an idiot, as is typical of youngsters and loud mouth liberals. I didn't really beleive any of that garbage, in fact, I didn't really even understand the issues. I just thought my job as a young loud mouth liberal was to slander people with outrageous accusations, and didn't think anybody would really be hurt by it. But now I'm grown up and see the world differently."

:Unfortunately Hitchens can't say this, cause that would be an admission what he wrote and what he said decades ago was false and malicious, hence he'd get his butt sued bigtime, and loose in court bigtime. So, he's married to the sins of his youth and has to carry all that contradictary baggage, and try to make half-hearted attempts to say now that he still really meant it and beleives it.

:This could be a lesson for students wishing to make a career in journalism. [[User:RobS|RobS]] 00:50, 25 June 2007 (EDT)

::*This is a lesson for all young people in general. We are all married to our pasts. One cannot wipe your past statements from reality like a hard drive. ;-) --[[User:TK|Sysop-TK]] [[User_talk:TK|/MyTalk]] 00:54, 25 June 2007 (EDT)

It's patent nonsense to describe Hitchens as a conservative. In [http://www.slate.com/id/2161171/ this] article he implies that he is a member of the ACLU ("In ACLU circles, we often refer to ourselves as "First Amendment Absolutists"). In [http://www.slate.com/id/2093620/ another], he debates the Iraq War with other Slate contributors, referring to themselves as "Liberal hawks". And, of course, Slate is a liberal publication--[[User:Afi|Afi]] 16:43, 17 July 2007 (EDT)

*Ah, so his saracasm is lost on you too... --[[User:TK|Sysop-TK]] [[User_talk:TK|/MyTalk]] 18:27, 17 July 2007 (EDT)

: Maybe there was in the Ayaan Hirsi Ali article, but I didn't detect any. There definitely wasn't in the "Liberal hawks" article because, well, how can you insert sarcasm in the title of the article you co-wrote? With seven other people? That's totally absurd and you know it. --[[User:Afi|Afi]] 10:12, 18 July 2007 (EDT)

:: By the way, I've got the full quote here to demonstrate the total lack of sarcasm in the Ayaan Hirsi Ali article.
"Let me give another example of linguistic slippage. In ACLU circles, we often refer to ourselves as "First Amendment absolutists." By this we mean, ironically enough, that we prefer to interpret the words of the Founders, if you insist, literally. The literal meaning in this case seems (to us) to be that Congress cannot inhibit any speech or establish any state religion. This means that we defend all expressions of opinion including those that revolt us, and that we say that nobody can be forced to practice, or forced to foreswear, any faith. I suppose I would say that this is an inflexible principle, or even a dogma, with me. But who dares to say that's the same as the belief that criticism of religion should be censored or the belief that faith should be imposed?"

He was using his membership as an example. If he was being super-subtle and injecting sarcasm into his article, he'd be purposefully sabotaging his point. Why? --[[User:Afi|Afi]] 10:22, 18 July 2007 (EDT)

:If you think he's a conservative because he supports the War on Terror, you're being absolutely ridiculous. I know you enjoy the credibility of having the fifth most famous public intellectual in your camp, so to speak, but does that mean the other left-wing supporters of the War on Terror are conservative? What about Nick Cohen?--[[User:Afi|Afi]] 14:12, 18 July 2007 (EDT)

::He is more accurately, a [[neoconservative]]. [[User:Jaques|Jaques]] 16:02, 18 July 2007 (EDT)

*Good point. Done. --[[User:TK|Sysop-TK]] [[User_talk:TK|/MyTalk]] 16:11, 18 July 2007 (EDT)

As per [[Nick Cohen]], merely being a critic of various elements of the Left does not make you of the Right. Hitchens is no 'neo-conservative', not at all. I would edit the article to remove it, but for some reason this article is locked. Actually, the more I look around here, I see a lot of locked articles? Why is that? [[User:BritLibDem|BritLibDem]] 21:22, 18 July 2007 (EDT)
::[http://www.socialistparty.org.uk/2007/477/index.html?id=mp46.htm It's generally left-wingers who call Nick Cohen "right wing"]. [[User:Jaques|Jaques]] 09:38, 19 July 2007 (EDT)

:::[http://www.melaniephillips.com/articles-new/?p=181 Here's another article on how some former liberals are being labeled right-wing].[[User:Jaques|Jaques]] 10:12, 19 July 2007 (EDT)

::Articles get locked due to vandalism. [[User:Bohdan|Bohdan]] 21:23, 18 July 2007 (EDT)

*And here at CP, POV pushing and constant argument is another. Being contentious is another reason people are blocked. --[[User:TK|Sysop-TK]] [[User_talk:TK|/MyTalk]] 21:56, 18 July 2007 (EDT)

But isn't the point of a Wiki encyclopedia to reach some kind of CONSENSUS of opinion? Even if here on CP you'd prefer that to come from a small section of the population? Anyway, an illustration of this point is that I doubt you'll find anyone British - no matter how conservative (with a small 'c', of course) - who would call Hitchens a 'neocon'. And although it does indeed seem many have posted in agreement on this matter here, the article remains locked and thus the information cannot be added. I certainly support your ability to have the content as it agrees with you, but I doubt a public wiki is the right way for you to go about this if you're not prepared to allow public edits. My best to you all. [[User:BritLibDem|BritLibDem]] 22:04, 18 July 2007 (EDT)

:::It's generally lefties who call Hitchen a neoconservative. [[User:Jaques|Jaques]] 09:26, 19 July 2007 (EDT)

::I'll stay out of this, as I don't know my British politics. I just wanted to answer your question about protecting articles. [[User:Bohdan|Bohdan]] 22:06, 18 July 2007 (EDT)

*Enjoy Houston, and your new firm! --[[User:TK|Sysop-TK]] [[User_talk:TK|/MyTalk]] 22:21, 18 July 2007 (EDT)

==Links==
:[http://www.antiwar.com/justin/j082602.html CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS, NEOCON]
:[http://www.amconmag.com/2005/2005_10_10/article3.html The Purest Neocon]
:[http://www.slate.com/id/2124500/ Cindy Sheehan's Sinister Piffle]

==Hitchen Quote==
"George Bush may subjectively be a Christian, but he -- and the US armed forces -- have objectively done more for secularism than the whole of the American agnostic community combined and doubled." [http://slate.com/id/2109377/]

== Not a conservative ==

I don't know how one should describe Hitchens' political stance, or even if there is a single category into which he fits, but he has expressly denied being "any kind of conservative". See [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=at8kdzJdrjs the first 25 seconds of this video]. [[User:Eoinc|Eoinc]] 17:23, 4 May 2008 (EDT)

:More information in a Prospect magazine [http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/article_details.php?id=10157 article] about him.
<blockquote>
:Many of Hitchens's critics conclude that this is his way of saying he's a neoconservative. His reply is that he doesn't consider himself to be "any kind of conservative." He would rather just be called a human rights hawk. "There should be a word for people who believe US power can and should be used to oppose totalitarianism," he says. With no faith left in the French and Russian revolutions, or the proletariat, all that now remains is his idea of America as "the last revolution in town"—its spirit of liberty revived by the struggle to transform the middle east.

:As a night with Hitchens threatens to break into morning, theories of how the neoconservative strain emerged from schisms within New York's anti-Stalinist left, become increasingly labyrinthine. "Does this mean anything to you?" he asks at one point. "It must sound like the dribblings of someone reminiscing about being governor-general of the Punjab."
</blockquote>
:[[User:RFayiz|RFayiz]] 07:05, 7 May 2008 (EDT)

== The article is to have to be reworded unless someone can show they are omniscient and KNOW the cause of his death ==

The article is to have to be reworded unless someone can show they are omniscient and KNOW the cause of his death. The article is going to have to some scholarly caution and not be so dogmatic about the cause of his death. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] 15:11, 18 December 2011 (EST)

:I have reworded the part about his death to put it in less definitive terms. Feel free to improve further if you like. I don't believe someone should have to prove their omniscience before reporting someone's cause of death, as long as there is a reliable source to back it up (if that's what you meant). --[[User:Toadaron|AaronT]] 20:56, 18 December 2011 (EST)
::I listened to the CNN interview and Hitchens thought his heavy drinking and chain-smoking was the cause of his esophageal cancer. I clarified the article and said it was likely the cause of his death which is a reasonable approach. I also put down a third risk factor which involved another aspect of Hitchen's unhealthy lifestyle. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] 14:17, 7 June 2012 (EDT)

== Atheism and Hitchens' cancer ==

The section Atheism and Hitchens' cancer reads like an essay and has no source for one of its key claims. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] 21:21, 26 December 2011 (EST)
:Agreed, the section is badly written, confusing and reads too much like dancing on his grave. In any case, Hitch wouldn't have been Hitch without all his faults, and the world would have been a poorer place. --[[User:DamianJohn|DamianJohn]] 00:09, 31 December 2011 (EST)
I did remove this section but it was reinstated with no explanation. I don't really see it as appropriate to fill articles about individuals with speculation about whether the cause of there death was due to a particular belief. It would seem to make more sense to keep what are really general points about [[Atheism and health]] in, well, erm [[Atheism and health]]. [[User:Adambro|Adambro]] 11:10, 10 January 2012 (EST)
:I agree. These paragraphs are stupid, hate-filled and just plain embarrassing. I recommend their deletion. [[User:Esseph|Esseph]] 12:04, 7 June 2012 (EDT)
::I listened to the CNN interview and Hitchens thought his heavy drinking and chain-smoking was the cause of his esophageal cancer. I clarified the article and said it was likely the cause of his death which is a reasonable approach. I also put down a third risk factor which involved another aspect of Hitchen's unhealthy lifestyle. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] 14:18, 7 June 2012 (EDT)
:::It's these three paragraphs to which I object. They have no place in a biographical article. As it is, this article devotes more space to speculating as to the cause of his death than documenting his life. I'd delete them myself, but they seem to have been deleted and reinstated several times before, and I don't want to start an edit war. --[[User:Esseph|Esseph]] 16:10, 7 June 2012 (EDT)
::: Talk to those who have reinstalled the material. --[[User:Joaquín Martínez|Joaquín Martínez]] 21:20, 7 June 2012 (EDT)
:::: Now that I look, I see that one of those who reinstated this nonsense is [[Aschlafly]], so I guess there's no point. --[[User:Esseph|Esseph]] 09:15, 8 June 2012 (EDT)