Naomi Cried Wolf Once Too Often

[Brainster]

Naomi Wolf, famed feminist author, spent the weekend posting some rather odd conspiracy theories:

Author and former Democratic political consultant Naomi Wolf published a series of Facebook posts on Saturday in which she questioned the veracity of the ISIS videos showing the murders and beheadings of two Americans and two Britons, strongly implying that the videos had been staged by the US government and that the victims and their parents were actors.

Wolf published a separate Facebook post, also on Saturday, suggesting that the US was sending troops to West Africa not to assist with Ebola treatment but to bring Ebola back to the US to justify a military takeover of American society. She also suggested that the Scottish independence referendum, in which Scots voted to remain in the United Kingdom, had been faked.

Vox appears to feel this is a sudden aberration:

Wolf's record of respectability gives her a platform and helps advance her conspiracy theories further than they would travel otherwise. This is not to argue that all of Wolf's earlier work must be discarded on the basis of these Facebook posts, but rather to urge others to see the broader context of Wolf and her thinking. In other words, it is important for readers who may encounter Wolf's ideas to understand the distinction between her earlier work, which rose on its merits, and her newer conspiracy theories, which are unhinged, damaging, and dangerous.

But in fact she's been a nutbar for years, as pointed out by the National Review:

Back in 2008, before Obama had been inaugurated, Wolf was touring the country warning anybody who would listen that the republic had fallen and that the citizenry should be preparing a resistance movement. “Americans are facing a coup, as of this morning, October 1st,” Wolf told Seattle’s KEXP, before promising listeners that she would soon be posting to her website a comprehensive set of instructions outlining “how to arrest the president.” “I’ve been saying for months,” Wolf insisted, “that leading up to the election you’re going to start seeing instability, hyped threats, hyped emergencies, hyped crises in order to create an atmosphere of urgency in order to justify a crackdown.” “I feel,” she explained, “like this is my one chance to alert America.” She wasn’t joking. Adopting a hysterical tone that would have prompted even Alex Jones into a period of self-reflection, Wolf warned that “we have almost no time” to push back against the “emergency.” And then she hawked her book to the audience.

Here she is dabbling her toes in 9-11 Truth:

 

[The Don]

Whether she's pushing this nonsense just to sell books or whether she genuinely believes it, she certainly sounds like she's gone off the deep end. I'm so glad that she's a former political consultant.

 

[dudalb]

Naomi Wolf has been going down the Path Of Woo for some time;not surprised she has reached her destination.
The Scottish referendum was faked routine is really drop dead funny.

 

[LSSBB]

Naomi Wolf has been going down the Path Of Woo for some time;not surprised she has reached her destination.
The Scottish referendum was faked routine is really drop dead funny.

There is no destination in woo. Not even death apparently stops the journey.

 

[Hans]

There is no destination in woo. Not even death apparently stops the journey.

You are correct I recently got an email from Velikovsky saying he was right about Saturn.

 

[Gord_in_Toronto]

You are correct I recently got an email from Velikovsky saying he was right about Saturn.

Full of carbohydrates is it?

 

[Hans]

Full of carbohydrates is it?

Velikovsky on Saturn

Immanuel Velikovsky wrote:

"My conclusion that, as a result of its interplay with Jupiter, Saturn became a nova, I found confirmed in many ancient sources, in which Saturn is regularly associated with brilliant light; but I was led to this idea first of all by a certain clue contained in the Biblical account of the Deluge."

 

[carlitos]

If the Biblical account of the Deluge is accurate, who wrote it? It had to be someone on the Ark, right?

 

[BenBurch]

Naomi Wolf has lost her everlovin' mind as far as I am concerned.

 

[BStrong]

I watched her documentary The End of America and thought she was well on her way to the ha-ha hotel.

 

[Gord_in_Toronto]

Velikovsky on Saturn

Immanuel Velikovsky wrote:

"My conclusion that, as a result of its interplay with Jupiter, Saturn became a nova, I found confirmed in many ancient sources, in which Saturn is regularly associated with brilliant light; but I was led to this idea first of all by a certain clue contained in the Biblical account of the Deluge."

My apologies. I'm mixing up Venus with Saturn (after all they have almost the exactly same number of letters). When Venus passed Earth on its way to its almost perfectly circular stable orbit around the Sun, it dumped a huge volume of hydrocarbons on the Sinai Desert which the crossing Israelites converted into manna (aka in Velikovsky speak as carbohydrates).

 

[ddt]

My apologies. I'm mixing up Venus with Saturn (after all they have almost the exactly same number of letters). When Venus passed Earth on its way to its almost perfectly circular stable orbit around the Sun, it dumped a huge volume of hydrocarbons on the Sinai Desert which the crossing Israelites converted into manna (aka in Velikovsky speak as carbohydrates).

There's a difference between "hydrocarbon" - which is any molecule which has both hydrogen and carbon, i.e., about any organic molecule - and "carbohydrate", which is a synonym for saccharide - a specific class of organic molecules with only C, H and O, and with H and O in a 2:1 ratio like in water.

So if Velikovsky said "carbohydrates", he actually claimed it was raining sugars.

 

[Gord_in_Toronto]

There's a difference between "hydrocarbon" - which is any molecule which has both hydrogen and carbon, i.e., about any organic molecule - and "carbohydrate", which is a synonym for saccharide - a specific class of organic molecules with only C, H and O, and with H and O in a 2:1 ratio like in water.

So if Velikovsky said "carbohydrates", he actually claimed it was raining sugars.

Just Google | Velikovsky carbohydrates | for discussions of Velikovsky's brilliant understanding of chemistry. It is on par with his understanding of physics, and astronomy, and history.