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Holocaust denial

Orac gets fan mail

Here’s a comment that popped up in my moderation queue for an article I wrote on the old blog several months ago: The Holocaust is a huge money maker for Jews; one they do not wish to lose. Irving’s and Zundel’s struggle in our time is analogous to Galileo’s struggle with discovery that threatened the […]

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Anti-Semitism Holocaust denial Humor Movies Politics Television

Tom and Jerry: A nefarious Jewish plot

You can’t make stuff like this up. You really can’t. Did you know that Tom and Jerry are in reality a clever secret nefarious plot by the Jews? That’s what Professor Hassan Bolkhari, who teaches philosophy of art at Tabatabaei and Al-Zahra Universities in Iran and is a member of the Film Council of the […]

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Holocaust denial Humor

David Irving in denial?

Today, while I’m making fun of anti-Semitic idiocy coming out of Iran, perhaps I should stop being so upset over the free speech infringement that I’ve railed about regarding David Irving’s three year sentence for Holocaust denial in Austria. It turns out that he isn’t really in prison, and his name isn’t even David Irving. […]

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Evolution Holocaust denial Skepticism/critical thinking

A crank’s favorite gambit: Falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus

Science and history deniers love to misapply legal principles to arguments over scientific and historical evidence, for example, falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus (false in one thing, false in all things). It’s a useful principle to apply to witness testimony in a court, but it’s not how evidence is evaluated in science and history.

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Anti-Semitism Holocaust denial

The more things change, the more they stay the same: David Irving reverts to form.

Well, that didn’t take long. Only a few days after his conviction for Holocaust denial, David Irving has reverted to form: Far-right author David Irving’s repudiation of his views on the Holocaust and Hitler’s role in it has not lasted very long. In a prison interview just days after he told an Austrian court he […]