tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-348512822024-03-18T20:34:09.651-07:00Incorrect Pleasureswhere biography meets neuroscience, where biography meets nonsenseLili Marlenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09303890038396510279noreply@blogger.comBlogger1647125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34851282.post-63284448012511981452018-09-20T02:56:00.000-07:002018-09-20T02:56:04.123-07:00Lili's tip for the day<br />
<span style="color: #783f04; font-size: large;">Looks like there's some bullshit in the October edition of Reader's Digest Australia...</span><br />
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<br />Lili Marlenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09303890038396510279noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34851282.post-29596489667139060662018-06-07T23:07:00.000-07:002018-06-08T12:02:19.372-07:00Delete My Account Day June 11 - PageUp stuff-up a reminder of why this day is important<br />
<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">In May 2018 the HR company PageUp noticed a <a href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-06-06/australian-data-may-be-compromised-in-pageup-security-breach/9840048">breach of the security</a> of their massive database of recruitment information. Highly sensitive financial and identifying data from an unknown number of job applicants, such as tax file numbers, bank account details and driver's licence details have possibly been stolen by unauthorized persons. Applicants for jobs with the <a href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-06-07/tas-union-worried-over-delays-from-job-site-being-down/9846326">Tasmanian Government</a>, some Australian Government departments, the ABC, Australian Red Cross, University of Tasmania, UNSW, Macquarie University, University of Melbourne, ANU, RMIT, AGL,Target, Telstra, Reserve Bank of Australia, Medibank, Officeworks, Kmart, Commonwealth Bank, Jetstar, NAB, Aldi, Linfox, Coles, Australia Post, Lindt are potentially affected, as these companies and organisations are known to be clients of PageUp. <i>This breach of confidentiality of individual people, many of them financially or otherwise vulnerable, is egregious and inexcusable. </i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">This data breach should be no surprise to anyone, as data breaches have become regular news, often months after the actual occurrence of the breach, but this kind of criminal activity highlights a widespread and largely unacknowledged problem that I've been complaining about for a long time - HR departments failing to delete or purge online details of unsuccessful job applicants, ever, and often failing to delete such details or recrutiment database accounts even after the individuals explicitly request deletion from these systems. In effect, many Australian HR department are keeping a lot of highly sensitive and potentially dated and incorrect information about people who have <i>no connection</i> with their organisations <i>indefinitely</i>, either by neglect or by design. This is bullshit and it must stop!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I believe that for some, maybe all, government departments or bodies there is legislation that requires them to retain job application details for a year, but there are also various Australian laws and regulations that stipulate that Australians have a right to privacy. Sadly, these laws and regulations appear to be rarely invoked or acted upon. This is why we need to have one day a year when people like you and me, all over the world, not only in Australia, need to act to take back our privacy, and demand that HR departments delete any details or accounts of ours that are no longer legitimately theirs to retain. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">So on Monday make the time to go online and see how many inactive online job-seeker accounts of yours or unwanted online accounts you are still able to log in to. You might get an unpleasant surprise. Flag them for deletion online if possible, or contact someone to ask for deletion. And a few months later recheck again to see how many of your requests were ignored.....</span><br />
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Lili Marlenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09303890038396510279noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34851282.post-83401166072662032602018-04-14T12:33:00.000-07:002018-04-14T12:49:01.744-07:00Another one bites the dust....<br />
<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 50.31px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: magenta; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.buzzfeed.com/peteraldhous/david-silverman-atheist-fired-sexual-misconduct?utm_term=.tmVXNPbOM#.pjVlNJwWY">This Firebrand Atheist Was Just Fired After Allegations Of Financial Conflicts And Sexual Assault</a></span></span><br />
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Lili Marlenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09303890038396510279noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34851282.post-51179169143350734872018-04-05T21:12:00.000-07:002018-04-05T21:12:32.355-07:00Lili's reading for the day<br />
<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Not a new article, but interesting in light of this year's Krauss upheaval: </span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.salon.com/2017/07/29/from-the-enlightenment-to-the-dark-ages-how-new-atheism-slid-into-the-alt-right/">https://www.salon.com/2017/07/29/from-the-enlightenment-to-the-dark-ages-how-new-atheism-slid-into-the-alt-right/</a></span><br />
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<br />Lili Marlenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09303890038396510279noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34851282.post-45935712242455898742018-03-26T16:54:00.000-07:002018-04-05T21:22:40.412-07:00Some questions for the Australian public broadcaster the ABC about the ABC’s coverage of Lawrence Krauss<span style="font-family: "arial";"><br /></span>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Has the ABC to date, in any of its media programs, TV
channels, radio stations or websites reported the various <a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/doomsday-clock-professor-lawrence-krauss-faces-sexual-misconduct-claims-w5r3800x9">elsewhere-published</a> accusations
of sexual harassment from <a href="https://www.buzzfeed.com/peteraldhous/lawrence-krauss-sexual-harassment-allegations?utm_term=.efz23bVDO#.wiO1Ldgw0">various sources and various accusers</a>, at least one
accusation in the assault category, against the American atheist, skeptic and science
populariser Lawrence Krauss, either the largely suppressed wave of accusations
that came out in 2013 or the recent wave of accusations of February and March
of 2018? </span></div>
I<span style="color: #660000; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">f not, why not?</span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Has the ABC to date, in any of its media programs, TV
channels, radio stations or websites reported the various <a href="https://www.buzzfeed.com/markoppenheimer/will-misogyny-bring-down-the-atheist-movement?utm_term=.fkOAZJrdK#.ha8LWKNO7">elsewhere-published</a> and <a href="https://www.thechannels.org/news/2018/03/19/michael-shermer-to-speak-despite-harassment-allegations/">currently-discussed</a> accusations of serious sexual harassment about the
prominent American atheist and skeptic public speaker Michael Shermer?</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #660000; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">If not, why not?</span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Does the ABC plan to invite Krauss or Shermer as guests on
any of its media outlets or programs in the future? </span></div>
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If not, why not? </span><br />
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L<span style="color: #660000; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">a</span><span style="color: #660000; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">w</span></span><span style="color: #660000; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">rence Krauss has been a frequent guest on many ABC
programs. He has been a guest on ABC radio stations at least four times in
2017, at last once in 2016, twice in 2014 and twice in 2013, on radio shows
such as <a href="http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/scienceshow/the-story-of-the-universe-and-our-place-in-it/8710132">The Science Show</a>, <a href="http://www.abc.net.au/local/stories/2013/05/23/3765778.htm?site=conversations">Conversations with Richard Fidler</a>, <a href="http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/latenightlive/a-universe-of-nothingness/4697114">Late Night Live</a>, T<a href="http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/drawingroom/drawing-room-31.10.2017/9104796">he Drawing Room</a> with Patricia Karvelas, <a href="http://www.abc.net.au/radio/programs/nightlife/lawrence-krauss/8562006">Nightlife</a> and
<a href="http://doublej.net.au/programs/lunch-with-myf/lawrence-krauss">Lunch with Myf.</a> Krauss has also been a prolific guest on ABC television shows: at least once
in 2017, twice in 2016, twice in 2015 and once in 2013, on high-profile shows
such as <a href="http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/making-science-interesting-lawrence-krauss/6582182">7.30 Report </a> <a href="http://www.abc.net.au/catalyst/stories/4415534.htm">Catalyst,</a> <a href="https://youtu.be/iaHxBFwod9Q">Q and A</a> and <a href="https://youtu.be/UnuS583BFto">The Weekly with Charlie Pickering</a>. If Krauss has been dropped from any list of
acceptable guests of the ABC or has been added to any guest blacklist, does the
ABC plan to publicly explain the absence of this very frequent guest of the ABC? </span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Just last Sunday the ABC saw fit to broadcast <a href="http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/backgroundbriefing/harassment-in-science/9566122">a painfully detailedand hard-hitting radio report</a> about sexual harassment allegations against the
otherwise highly respected Australian statistician Professor Terry Speed, even
though these accusations have not apparently prevented Speed from keeping <a href="https://www.wehi.edu.au/people/terry-speed">hisjob as Laboratory Head of Bioinformatics at the Walter and Eliza Hall Instituteof Medical Research.</a> In contrast, it appears that the ABC has still to date not
reported in any depth the series of accusations of sexual harassment against Lawrence
Krauss, even though the various institutional reactions to accusations against Krauss
have essentially <a href="https://www.buzzfeed.com/peteraldhous/bulletin-atomic-scientists-lawrence-krauss?utm_term=.vi8awOEKo#.sdgGBbWRz">destroyed his career </a>and have apparently caused the
<a href="http://premier.ticketek.com.au/Shows/Show.aspx?sh=DAWKINSA18">cancellation of Krauss appearing alongside Richard Dawkins</a> in an upcoming
speaking tour of Australia and New Zealand. How does the ABC defend this
apparent inconsistency in its reporting of accusations against Speed and Krauss?
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Does the ABC believe that its viewers, listeners and readers deserve to be warned about individual famous people who are known or reasonably believed to have a record of sexual harassment or sexual assault, including celebrities who are connected to or associated with the ABC? </span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #660000;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">During the many times that Lawrence Krauss has visited the ABC have there been any episodes of sexual harassment or other forms of misconduct towards ABC admin staff, ABC talent, ABC crew, ABC guests, ABC audience members or others? </span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Is the ABC trying to "keep the lid on" any Krauss scandal associated with the ABC?</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><span style="font-family: "calibri";"></span>Lili Marlenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09303890038396510279noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34851282.post-18984846021818807832018-03-22T11:45:00.000-07:002018-03-22T11:47:51.440-07:00Chalk and cheese<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><br /></span>
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Lawrence Krauss on science:</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>“Science is a method for distinguishing fact from fiction.
It’s a method for asking questions systematically and for answering those
questions in a way that it’s possible to test. Science is a method based on
empirical evidence.”</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>“Science does change; it’s called progress. However, science
changes in a very well defined way. This is another big misunderstanding of
science: we don’t throw out what has been done before; what satisfies test and
experiment will always survive.”</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.csicop.org/sb/show/to_better_understand_science_and_the_universe_an_interview_with_lawrence_kr">https://www.csicop.org/sb/show/to_better_understand_science_and_the_universe_an_interview_with_lawrence_kr</a></span></div>
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>“…science isn’t a set of facts, it’s a process for deriving
facts….it’s a process that’s worked over the last 400 years to make the world a
much better place in lots of ways…”</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #134f5c;"><b>Ben Goldacre on science:</b> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>“There are really deeply embedded structural problems in
science, which people in my own profession have failed to fix.”</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.afr.com/brand/boss/why-dr-ben-goldacre-wont-be-bullied-by-mad-scientists-20160614-gpiqbu#ixzz5AVAsXgrG">http://www.afr.com/brand/boss/why-dr-ben-goldacre-wont-be-bullied-by-mad-scientists-20160614-gpiqbu#ixzz5AVAsXgrG </a></span></div>
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm pondering whether one sounds more like the grown-up than the other, or is it more as though one views his audience as grown-ups more than the other, or could it be a bit of both? </span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><span style="color: #134f5c;"></span><br />Lili Marlenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09303890038396510279noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34851282.post-82969484646557160292018-03-21T22:49:00.000-07:002018-03-21T22:49:47.595-07:00Lili's listening for the day<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I've been listening to this podcast: </span><br />
<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="https://soundcloud.com/politeconversations/krausspanel">https://soundcloud.com/politeconversations/krausspanel</a></span><br />
<br />Lili Marlenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09303890038396510279noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34851282.post-72177412391896255662018-03-20T15:32:00.000-07:002018-03-22T12:11:36.733-07:00Who looks like shit now? <br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">I’ve been explaining my disappointment and anger in regard to the sceptical movement
for quite some time now, but even I am surprised at the depth of my current
level of shock and disappointment in this often-arrogant section of society who
endlessly advise us about what to believe and how to think, and exhort us to
face facts, but who mostly lack the courage to face the very ugly facts of consistently
unconscionable patterns of behaviour of at least two leaders of their movement.
To hell with these pathetic hypocrites. Rational thinking deserves much better
PR than this pack of tools.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">I think I was dimly aware of the rape accusation in regard
to Michael Shermer (prolific science writer, historian of science, founder of
The Skeptics Society, and editor-in-chief of its magazine) back when the matter
blew up a foul stench among the blogs in 2013-2014, but even now I’m shocked at
the stuff published back then that I’ve been reading recently. I had assumed there was only one incident/accusation. I had no idea, and I had no time nor inclination to delve deeper, as I'd already written off the skeptic movement as a bunch of jerks. I never thought
I’d stumble across one of these rape accusations embedded within <a href="http://creativepooping.tumblr.com/post/58606684580/copy-of-suicide-note-from-attempt-on-8132013">a suicide notepublished in a blog</a>. Words fail me. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">I’ve never had much time for Shermer’s mate Lawrence Krauss,
so I was not so much disappointed as shocked by the sudden recent <a href="https://medium.com/@philosophytorres/here-are-what-some-folks-are-saying-about-the-recent-allegations-against-lawrence-krauss-e4c444b2d715">deluge of accusations </a>of sexual misconduct that has swept Krauss’s career away like a
tsunami of filthy brown seawater. <span style="margin: 0px;"> New accounts of episodes of his past misconduct <a href="https://youtu.be/wr9OIty2XGg">continue to surface</a>, and there's no telling when this wave of disclosures will end. Krauss has never been a hero of mine. I'm probably from a different generation than his fan-base. </span>Nothing
that I’ve heard him say has struck me as something that no one else
could have come up with, and I don't like the way he seems to enjoy throwing in unnecessarily abrasive
remarks. To most people I think the distinction would be lost, but I enjoy
people who sometimes or even often can’t help but offend in their zeal for
telling the truth as they see it, but I find it lame and offensive when some
talking head tosses in an outrageous stab just for the sake of…asserting their dominance?...attention-seeking? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">There is one thing that I feel compelled to write about
Krauss after reading his response to the <i>BuzzFeed</i> article that blew the whistle
on his misconduct – what an absolute gutless turd Krauss is for baselessly
claiming in the very first sentence of <a href="http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2018/03/07/lawrence-krauss-has-finally-responded-to-the-allegations-of-sexual-misconduct/">his response</a> (and repeating it later)
that the accusations levelled at him defame not only himself but also defame
the wider atheist and skeptic community. In my mind Krauss seems so much like
the creep who doesn’t look so tough when his gang aren’t around, and he’s calling
out for help while the blood drains from his face and his knees go weak. It
wasn’t the whole atheist community who groped and propositioned and worse. Grow
a spine and face up to your accusers, on your own two feet!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">There’s not much that I can add to the accusations swirling
around Krauss and Shermer as I’ve never met either, but I can state that I have
been very disappointed by lack of media coverage of 2013-2014 <a href="https://the-orbit.net/lousycanuck/2014/09/12/timeline-of-harassment-and-sexual-assault-allegations-against-michael-shermer/">accusations about Shermer </a>and the associated reactions within the atheist/skeptic community at
the time, and the recent accusations and <a href="https://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2018/03/10/the-lawrence-krauss-affair/">fall from grace of Krauss</a>. If I hadn’t
taken an interest in these matters and done my own poking around on the internet,
not seeking information beyond my usual reading of science magazines and
newspapers, listening to Australian public radio and viewing of Australian news
and journalistic television, I could well have missed the news that two
American popularizers of science and major figures in the international
skeptic/atheist community have had many very dark accusations thrown their way.
Where’s the story on the Krauss scandal on <i>The Science Show?</i> Nowhere that I can
find, but Krauss has been a guest many times over on ABC’s Radio National shows
and has also appeared many times on ABC television shows such as <i>QandA </i>and
<i>Catalyst</i>. Thanks for nothing, Robyn Williams and your cosy colleagues at the
national broadcaster. It appears that the ABC only wants to be the bearer of
nice news, and I can’t see any evidence of any other Australian TV or radio
coverage of the Krauss affair or the Shermer controversy either. <i>The Australian</i>
newspaper deserves the credit for covering Krauss’s fall, confirming my opinion
that this much-maligned part of Rupert Murdoch’s media empire cover negative
stories about medicine, science and academia in Australia that no one else will
touch (such as successful CFS patient activism exposing crooked researchers, and cases of academic misconduct in Australian universities). <i>Another </i>gold star to <i>The Australian</i> for
journalism from Lili.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Did <i>New Scientist</i> give any coverage to the Shermer and
Krauss train-smashes? I can’t find any. Two of the three journalists who broke
the Krauss story have worked for <i>New Scientist</i> during their careers, but their
story was published by <i>Buzzfeed</i>. I guess <i>New Scientist</i> is a science news
magazine that collectively views its role as only a cheerleader and reporter of
science. I guess I’ve been naïve to expect more of it. I should have noticed long
ago that there’s virtually no overlap between the unsavoury matters covered by
the website <i>Retraction Watch </i>and the stories reported by <i>New Scientist</i>. The science news weekly mag apparently has no time for the grotty underbellies of science,
science popularisers or academia. I guess if the magazine focused on the fallible
people behind science rather than just looking at their work, the faith of the readers
might be challenged or their ire provoked. Do we really believe that the status
of science in society is such a fragile enterprise that science journalism can’t
risk reporting a few serious cases of misconduct of a small minority of rogue
researchers and the misbehaviour of a couple of rogue science popularizers? Is
it possible that this one-eyed coverage of science by science media actually feeds
into the growing problem of public distrust of science? I imagine that after a while I’d come to
distrust any news source that only reports the sunny side. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">So, much of the media are ignoring the ugly matters of
Krauss and Shermer, even though some important questions about these men and their
deeds need to be discussed or answered. I’m not an insider within the atheist/skeptic
communities, so I am wondering <i>how many</i> major figures in these communities have
a history of misconduct. <i>Is the problem limited to Shermer and Krauss? </i>As early
as 2012 at <a href="https://youtu.be/xhYKlEggiNY">a conference on Non-theism and Feminism </a>Jennifer McCreight spoke of a
group of male public speakers in the community who were notorious in the
whisper network as unsafe company for women. It is high time that the wider
public was told exactly how large this list is and who is on it. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><br />Someone needs to ask w</span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">hat was the
role of alcohol in their misconduct? Accounts involving Shermer and sexual
misconduct include plying victims with alcohol so that they became easy prey.
One could ask whether Shermer himself has or had a drinking problem. How
about Krauss? Is there a hazardous drinking culture associated with skeptics
events? I have no wish to suggest excuses for misconduct, but one cannot deny
that the addition of alcohol generally erodes character. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Another question
needing an answer is whether these men are safe around children. I’m not sure
what the youngest age among victims of Shermer might be, but many of the
allegations about Krauss involve undergraduates at his university so I figure
at least some are likely to have been aged 19 or younger, and of course, there
is an imbalance in power between both men and their victims. One alarming fact about
Krauss is that he has invited and received criticism by speaking in support of his very wealthy associate
Jeremy Epstein, <a href="https://nypost.com/2016/10/09/the-sex-slave-scandal-that-exposed-pedophile-billionaire-jeffrey-epstein/">a convicted paedophile,</a> in relation to allegations of
paedophilia that resulted in Epstein’s spell in the clink. A disturbing fact
about Epstein is that many of his famous associates, such as Woody Allen, Bill
Clinton, Kevin Spacey, Prince Andrew, Donald Trump and Dustin Hoffman have
themselves been the subject of accusations of sexual misconduct with underage people.
So how does that make Krauss look? Shermer and Krauss are public figures and
science popularisers. Without doubt they would have fans who are children.
Would they take advantage of the esteem in which they are held by young fans,
given a chance? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Another question worth pondering if whether the nature of their
misconduct is limited to sexual behaviour. Accusations about Krauss misbehaving
sexually while working as an academic are numerous, so one might wonder whether
this lack of character extended to other varieties of academic misconduct such
as falsifying data or plagiarism. Both men are authors of books. Is their work
all their own? </span></div>
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">In my opinion, the clear-out in the skeptic community won’t
be done until Michael Shermer is cast into the wilderness to the same degree as
Krauss’s recent ride to the margins, and their mate the legendary atheist and science
writer Richard Dawkins apologises for his long-time support of these arseholes
in words and in deeds. Perhaps <a href="https://www.thechannels.org/news/2018/03/19/michael-shermer-to-speak-despite-harassment-allegations/">Monday’s article </a>about disquiet at Santa Barbara
City College about a scheduled appearance at the campus by Shermer is a sign
that after all this time he is being reviled for his misconduct by the wider
community beyond the skeptic crowd. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Not so long ago secularist Australians such as Tim Minchin were
demanding that Cardinal George Pell explain exactly what he knew and when he
knew about child sexual abuse in the Catholic church to a royal commission
(before this matter was overshadowed by the bombshell of allegations about Pell
himself). One quite entertaining piece of Australian TV was an episode of
<i>QandA </i>in which Pell and Dawkins were “head-to-head” in debate. Now the shoe
is on the other foot, and today Dawkins is the leader who must explain exactly what
he knew and when about sexual abuse within his “church”. Perhaps I’m expecting
too much from a man who was struck down by a stroke a couple of years ago.
Maybe I’m unfair to expect any more from Dawkins beyond his books that changed
the way so many people thought and lived in the 1970s and 1980s, myself included,
but on the other hand, stroke or not, Dawkins always had more than enough
smarts to understand the gravity of the misconduct of his associates. Is an
atheist allowed to hope for a miracle? </span></div>
<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><span style="font-family: "calibri";"></span>Lili Marlenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09303890038396510279noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34851282.post-91993475524182796122018-03-04T12:14:00.000-08:002018-03-28T10:23:14.906-07:00A habitual liar, a rapist, a would-be rapist, a censorious hypocritical snowflake and misogyny all over the place....<span style="color: #990000; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #990000; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">....there’s no glossing over the fact that there are rotten
things at the apex of leadership in the skeptic and atheist community</span><br />
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<a href="https://www.buzzfeed.com/markoppenheimer/will-misogyny-bring-down-the-atheist-movement?utm_term=.kwyr9BQ20#.xcaV5NbDx"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">https://www.buzzfeed.com/markoppenheimer/will-misogyny-bring-down-the-atheist-movement?utm_term=.kwyr9BQ20#.xcaV5NbDx</span></a></div>
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<a href="https://www.buzzfeed.com/peteraldhous/lawrence-krauss-sexual-harassment-allegations?utm_term=.ry8rwN1z4#.shyYB84KM"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">https://www.buzzfeed.com/peteraldhous/lawrence-krauss-sexual-harassment-allegations?utm_term=.ry8rwN1z4#.shyYB84KM</span></a></div>
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<a href="http://skepchick.org/2013/09/my-time-with-richard-dawkins-or-why-you-should-never-meet-your-idols/?utm_source=feedly"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">http://skepchick.org/2013/09/my-time-with-richard-dawkins-or-why-you-should-never-meet-your-idols/?utm_source=feedly</span></a></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/film-news/11270453/James-Randi-debunking-the-king-of-the-debunkers.html"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/film-news/11270453/James-Randi-debunking-the-king-of-the-debunkers.html</span></a></div>
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<u><span style="color: #005300; font-family: Arial;"><br /></span></u>
<u><span style="color: #005300; font-family: Arial;">http://www.morethanmen.org/2013/08/07/dj-and-me/</span></u></div>
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<a href="https://www.salon.com/2018/03/02/for-atheists-metoo-might-be-too-little-too-late/"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">https://www.salon.com/2018/03/02/for-atheists-metoo-might-be-too-little-too-late/</span></a></div>
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<a href="https://the-orbit.net/lousycanuck/2013/08/12/sexual-harassment-accusations-in-the-skeptical-and-secular-communities-a-timeline-of-major-events/"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">https://the-orbit.net/lousycanuck/2013/08/12/sexual-harassment-accusations-in-the-skeptical-and-secular-communities-a-timeline-of-major-events/</span></a><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<a href="https://newrepublic.com/article/147218/sciences-sex-problem-getting-harder-ignore"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">https://newrepublic.com/article/147218/sciences-sex-problem-getting-harder-ignore</span></a></div>
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<a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/doublex/2012/10/sexism_in_the_skeptic_community_i_spoke_out_then_came_the_rape_threats.html"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/doublex/2012/10/sexism_in_the_skeptic_community_i_spoke_out_then_came_the_rape_threats.html</span></a></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.patheos.com/blogs/daylightatheism/2018/03/wall-silence-around-lawrence-krauss/">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/daylightatheism/2018/03/wall-silence-around-lawrence-krauss/</a></span><br />
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<span style="color: #b08300; font-family: "arial";"><a href="https://freethoughtblogs.com/blaghag/2013/08/two-prominent-skeptic-women-share-stories-of-sexual-harassment-and-assault/">https://freethoughtblogs.com/blaghag/2013/08/two-prominent-skeptic-women-share-stories-of-sexual-harassment-and-assault/</a></span><br />
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<span style="color: #b09600; font-family: "arial";"><a href="https://freethoughtblogs.com/blaghag/2013/08/covering-my-ass/">https://freethoughtblogs.com/blaghag/2013/08/covering-my-ass/</a></span><br />
<span style="color: #006000; font-family: "arial";">[see comments]</span><br />
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<span style="color: #b09600; font-family: "arial";"><a href="https://youtu.be/wr9OIty2XGg">https://youtu.be/wr9OIty2XGg</a></span><br />
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<span style="color: #b09600; font-family: "arial";"><a href="https://youtu.be/BK3g86Hp93I">https://youtu.be/BK3g86Hp93I</a></span><br />
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<span style="color: #b09600; font-family: "arial";"><a href="https://the-orbit.net/greta/2012/06/19/holy-fucking-shit-an-attempt-to-discuss-the-actual-issue/">https://the-orbit.net/greta/2012/06/19/holy-fucking-shit-an-attempt-to-discuss-the-actual-issue/</a></span><br />
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<span style="color: #006000; font-family: "arial";"><a href="https://the-orbit.net/lousycanuck/2013/08/07/more-names-are-named/">https://the-orbit.net/lousycanuck/2013/08/07/more-names-are-named/</a></span><br />
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<span style="color: #006000; font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://www.scrible.com/contentview/page/24IG1900IK14P2M300C3G0BQ4KA426A3:40191410/index.html">http://www.scrible.com/contentview/page/24IG1900IK14P2M300C3G0BQ4KA426A3:40191410/index.html</a></span><br />
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<span style="color: #b09600; font-family: "arial";"><a href="https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2013/08/07/carrie-poppy-tells-all/">https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2013/08/07/carrie-poppy-tells-all/</a></span>
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<span style="color: #006000; font-family: "arial";"></span><span style="color: #006000; font-family: "arial";"><br /></span>
<a href="https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2018/02/22/brace-yourself-for-more-allegations-against-a-prominent-atheist-lawrence-krauss/">https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2018/02/22/brace-yourself-for-more-allegations-against-a-prominent-atheist-lawrence-krauss/</a>
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<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><span style="font-family: "calibri";"></span>Lili Marlenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09303890038396510279noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34851282.post-14574820343484931902018-02-22T21:48:00.000-08:002018-02-22T21:48:34.188-08:00Tell me, why should I spend my time writing this blog? <br />
<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">If you'd like to support this blog and my writing and thinking and ranting etc, please buy my ebooks. You might even like to read them and recommend them to others....</span><br />
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/LiliMarlene">https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/LiliMarlene</a></span><br />
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<br />Lili Marlenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09303890038396510279noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34851282.post-63308248691609568402018-02-22T17:47:00.001-08:002018-02-22T21:58:46.631-08:00Lili's invitation for the day<br />
<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">The "skeptic" movement has sustained serious wounds dealt by individual women, journalists and the Me Too movement, thanks to the appalling behaviour of that tedious entertainer, author and academic L</span><span style="font-size: x-large;">awrence Krauss. I</span><span style="font-size: x-large;">t shouldn't surprise anyone that a misogynist sleaze has fallen out of that tree a long time after the fact, as accusations of misogyny directed toward that movement are nothing new, but criticism is promptly suppressed by that movement. If you have ever tried to express criticism of this movement or individuals who lead it or have tried to question their approach or even just tried to discuss such matters on any of the media forums operated by this movement you will probably be aware that the skeptic movement don't pause a minute in censoring or shouting down people who question what these supposed champions of freedom in thought and open inquiry do or say or think. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: x-large;">So today I smirk and cordially invite the skeptic movement to just go @#$% themselves, because the vast majority of them aren't effective champions of science and don't do a thing to push back the boundaries of scientific knowledge. It is people like anonymous me who do the heavy lifting of pushing science forward and arguing the case for science, because we are not blind to the many serious problems happening within science and academia and we acknowledge them and seek to address them, and we do not believe every single thing that has been written in a journal paper or spoken in a science lecture. We think for ourselves, read according to our own wide and varied interests and obsessions, and create our own completly novel studies and hypotheses. We are the true scientists, and you guys can go to hell. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.buzzfeed.com/peteraldhous/lawrence-krauss-sexual-harassment-allegations?utm_term=.jtdk28YAd#.ae3PMn3gY">https://www.buzzfeed.com/peteraldhous/lawrence-krauss-sexual-harassment-allegations?utm_term=.jtdk28YAd#.ae3PMn3gY</a></span></span><br />
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Lili Marlenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09303890038396510279noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34851282.post-61044541436369897502018-01-13T06:20:00.001-08:002018-01-13T06:23:10.981-08:00Creative ideas for 2018<br />
<span style="color: #e06666; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">- start a GoFundMe page to raise funds for elocution lessons for Jamie Oliver</span><br />
<span style="color: #e06666; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #e06666; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">- take a production of the rock musical Hair touring from Egypt to Pakistan </span><br />
<span style="color: #e06666; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #e06666; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">- reinvent an unusual form of graffiti while insulting a skyscraper full of snakes in suits and corporate corpses</span><br />
<span style="color: #e06666; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #e06666; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">- actually wear in public that skirt I made out of $1.35 worth of off-cuts, with those shoes I found at the tip</span><br />
<span style="color: #e06666; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #e06666; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">- sew a reusable shopping bag to go with it</span><br />
<span style="color: #e06666; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #e06666; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">- sew another one for hubby</span><br />
<span style="color: #e06666; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #e06666; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">- start a seed library</span><br />
<span style="color: #e06666; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #e06666; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">- do that decoupage idea and enter it in an art contest</span><br />
<span style="color: #e06666; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #e06666; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">- send Eric Abetz a monocle in the mail</span><br />
<b><span style="color: #e06666; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><br /></span></b>
<span style="color: #e06666; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">- see if that idea for an auditory sculpture really is capable of sending people mad</span><br />
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<span style="color: #e06666; font-family: courier new;">- try to keep my new list up to date</span><br />
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<br />Lili Marlenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09303890038396510279noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34851282.post-52387348434573457602017-12-14T07:26:00.000-08:002017-12-14T07:26:15.297-08:00Lili's question for the day<br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">Will one of the men <a href="http://neverheardofthebloke.blogspot.com.au/2017/12/vile-deeds-grave-accusations-non.html">in my latest list</a> be involved in the next sexual harassment accusation scandal to hit the headlines? </span><br />
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<br />Lili Marlenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09303890038396510279noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34851282.post-55228799606943506532017-12-08T16:55:00.001-08:002017-12-08T16:55:30.776-08:00Lili's tip for the day<br />
<span style="color: #990000; font-size: x-large;">My <a href="https://neverheardofthebloke.blogspot.com.au/2017/12/vile-deeds-grave-accusations-non.html">new list</a> is up.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span>Lili Marlenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09303890038396510279noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34851282.post-20794376507646570672017-12-04T08:37:00.000-08:002017-12-04T08:37:20.169-08:00Lili's redirection for the day<br />
<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have a new list in the works, and when I publish it I plan to post it at my political blog <a href="https://neverheardofthebloke.blogspot.com.au/">Blond Ambition</a>, for a number of reasons. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Firstly, my next list is negative in tone, and I don't want to confuse readers by mixing up a negative list with my long-standing and popular lists that focus of matters that are generally positive.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Secondly, the topic of my next list does not sit well with the title of my main blog "Incorrect Pleasures". When I publish it you will see what I mean. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thirdly, I figure my new list of famous people should fit well enough into a political blog, because it is full of politicians (distasteful, I know) and as they used to say in the 1970s, the personal is political. </span><br />
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<br />Lili Marlenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09303890038396510279noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34851282.post-45468432669933096032017-11-30T05:26:00.001-08:002017-11-30T05:26:46.771-08:00Lili's amusement of the day<br />
<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">The "Wisdom of the Crowd" indeed! How ironic!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sad to see that the respected Australian actor Geoffrey Rush, who is one of the interesting people in my famous synaesthetes list and was also recently an Australian of the Year is the subject of allegations of “inappropriate behaviour", a part of an international wave of disclosures of allegations of sexual misconduct among high-profile media identities. At present it appears that the person making the allegations and full details of the alleged behaviour are not publicly known, but two male actors who have thrown their support behind the allegations have been named. Rush has issued a denial. I hope there is nothing behind this accusation, but, like a waxwork figure in a bushfire, the situation is looking uglier by the minute. </span><br />
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<span style="color: green; font-family: Arial;"></span><br />Lili Marlenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09303890038396510279noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34851282.post-36628575685004648552017-11-28T00:32:00.000-08:002017-11-28T00:32:37.381-08:00Lili's dismissal of the day<br />
<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">So Mr Burke, past host and founder of the defunct but once highly popular Australian gardening TV show Burke's Backyard, it seems clear that you have been a workplace bully and sex pest for ages, and you claim this is because you're "an Asperger's person"? While I no longer think there's much validity or science behind the labels "autism" and "Asperger syndrome", I do know that workplace bullying and sexual misconduct have never been regarded as features of the conditions, in fact, regardless of level of intelligence, people with these labels are lucky to get anywhere near having a job, let alone being the boss who has the power to get away with such unethical or criminal behaviour. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Your unconvincing</span> <span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">excuse gets you nowhere, especially in light of the fact that you've been busy denying as well as excusing yourself. You can't offer an excuse for behaviour that you haven't even owned up to!</span><br />
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<br />Lili Marlenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09303890038396510279noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34851282.post-73803571235977230352017-11-26T21:57:00.001-08:002017-11-26T21:58:54.146-08:00Lili's bewilderment of the day<br />
<span style="color: #e06666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">So amusing when these celebrity sex pests vehemently deny all of the allegations, even when there's a clear pattern of offending among many accounts from numerous victims who share characteristics such as gender, body area groped and their age when the events happened. Who do they think they are kidding? </span><span style="color: #e06666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span><br />
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<br />Lili Marlenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09303890038396510279noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34851282.post-81786725472436302712017-11-16T20:35:00.002-08:002017-11-16T20:38:20.117-08:00Questions, questions....<br />
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">We can't even trust Pub Peer?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.perthnow.com.au/news/wa/parliament-house-doors-too-small-for-new-greens-mp-wheelchair-ng-71d4555402aea188b7625f36a338de7b">https://www.perthnow.com.au/news/wa/parliament-house-doors-too-small-for-new-greens-mp-wheelchair-ng-71d4555402aea188b7625f36a338de7b</a><br /><br />Why does anyone still believe that we have the right to free speech in Australia? <br /><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com.au/australian-publisher-scraps-book-on-chinas-influence-out-of-fear-of-beijing-2017-11?r=US&IR=T">https://www.businessinsider.com.au/australian-publisher-scraps-book-on-chinas-influence-out-of-fear-of-beijing-2017-11?r=US&IR=T</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/south-australia/professor-clive-hamilton-will-not-appear-at-adelaide-writers-week-after-fears-of-chinese-legal-threats/news-story/1fb5181141f69f7b0f68aff6e14289b6">http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/south-australia/professor-clive-hamilton-will-not-appear-at-adelaide-writers-week-after-fears-of-chinese-legal-threats/news-story/1fb5181141f69f7b0f68aff6e14289b6</a></span></span></span></div>
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Lili Marlenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09303890038396510279noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34851282.post-11507566457637946002017-11-11T19:22:00.000-08:002017-11-11T19:22:00.822-08:00Russell Howard asks "Why are girls' toys patronising and shit?"<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/joC9_8_EzDE" width="560"></iframe><br />
<br />Lili Marlenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09303890038396510279noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34851282.post-87721820479557592202017-10-29T17:30:00.000-07:002017-10-29T17:30:16.629-07:00Lili's political disatisfaction of the day<br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #351c75; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">They say ALP stands for Another Liberal Party.....</span><br />
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<br />Lili Marlenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09303890038396510279noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34851282.post-55515587872640328492017-10-09T06:04:00.000-07:002017-10-09T06:09:35.072-07:00Lili's disappointment for the day<br />
<span style="color: #073763; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I'm disappointed but not surprised to see that Derek Amato has been featured in a TV doco series that has just started on SBS, The world's most extraordinary people, which is apparently hosted by a real doctor, English surgeon Gabriel Weston, who is also a writer and BBC Two host. A doctor and two reputable TV channels look like fools. </span><br />
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<a href="http://www.sbs.com.au/guide/article/2017/09/27/meet-people-who-are-unlike-anyone-else-world"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">http://www.sbs.com.au/guide/article/2017/09/27/meet-people-who-are-unlike-anyone-else-world</span></a><br /><span style="color: #073763; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span><a href="http://www.sbs.com.au/guide/channel/SBS#/program/16212839"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">http://www.sbs.com.au/guide/channel/SBS#/program/16212839</span></a><br /><span style="color: #073763; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />Amato is one of an unending collection of supposed "acquired savants" in the fashion of the questionable Daniel Tammet (formerly Daniel Corney). In my ebook about Tammet you can find chapters about many interesting people who have, or who claim to have, extraordinary abilities or talents. Some of those people are genuinely astounding in their achievements, while there's ample evidence that many others have made up stories and taken scientists, publishers and journalists for a ride. Derek Amato one of the world's most extraordinary people? I think not.</span></div>
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<a href="https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/288635"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Daniel Tammet: the Boy with the Incredible Story</span></a></div>
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<br />Lili Marlenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09303890038396510279noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34851282.post-31827002551378483192017-09-20T19:02:00.002-07:002017-09-20T19:02:58.690-07:00Some threats to "the truth" are cause for celebration....<br />
<a href="https://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/blog/six-things-challenge-truth"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: x-large;">https://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/blog/six-things-challenge-truth</span></a><br />
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