Arthur and the World
306 Linus wept at the mention: Thomas Hager, Linus Pauling and the Chemistry of Life, Oxford University Press, 1998. Chapter Seven, "Vitamin C," 130.
Lidia Wasowicz, âLinus Pauling at 84: Maverick in the Lab,â The Los Angeles Times, February 10, 1985.
306 vitamin C into his morning juice: Thomas Hager, Force of Nature: The Life of Linus Pauling, Simon & Schuster, 1995. Chapter 24, âResurrection,â 612.
He still talked to her, holding phantom conversations as he spooned his vitamin C powder into his juice in the morning. He still looked for her, expecting to see her in the doorway . . . Sitting in an airplane on his way to a meeting, he was surprised to note that he was moaning aloud. The same thing happened at home, he noticed, unexpected, unbidden periods of moaning. When someone asked about Ava Helen, he would begin to cry.
306 âFrom being a public figureâ: R.J.P. Williams, âThe Political Scientist,â Nature 342 135-6, November 9, 1989.
307 âvocal, perennial adversaryâ: Barbara Marinacci, Ed., Linus Pauling In His Own Words, Touchstone, 1995. 249.
307 âI do not know of anyâ: Arthur Robinson, âArthur B. Robinsonâs Introduction to Observations upon the Prophecies of Daniel, and the Apocalypse of St. John, by Isaac Newton,â Newton Vindicated, Foundation.org Website.
http://www.foundationwebsite.org/NewtonVindicated.htm#_Toc56010344
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Leo Hickman, âClimate sceptics and fringe political groups are an unhealthy cocktail,â The Guardian, June 4, 2000.
307 Arthur drafted the civil defense plank: Ted Goertzel and Ben Goertzel, Linus PaulingâA Life in Science and Politics, 229.
Republican Party Platform of 1988
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/republican-party-platform-1988
Accessed 7-10-22.
âPreparedness TodayâPeace Tomorrow,â Arizona Newsletter, Doctors for Disaster Preparedness, Vol 4 No 6, September 1988, 2. âDr. Arthur Robinson, author of the Republican platform plank on civil defense, will prognosticate on âUSA 2000: Remnant or Republic?ââ
307 a nation of fallout shelters: Linus Pauling, of course, occupied the diametric position: his blueprint would be shelter-free. âMy own estimate is that all of the people in the United States would be killed in a nuclear war, if we do not build fallout shelters,â he wrote in 1961. âAnd that if we do build them and train the American people, all of the American people would be killed in a nuclear war.â Linus Pauling, âWhy I am opposed to fallout shelters,â Liberation, November 6, 1961.
307 âThat modern Christians never considerâ: Gary North, The Sinai Strategy, Chapter Six, âGodâs Monopoly of Execution,â Institute for Christian Economics 1994.
http://vftonline.org/VFTfiles/thesis/commentators/North/GNSS-chap6.htm
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Thereâs also this reprint; for the subtitle. Gary North, âIn Defense of Stoning; A Rock-Solid Argument,â Christian Reconstructionist, October 4, 2020.
https://christianreconstructionist.wordpress.com/tag/stoning/
Accessed 7-11-22.
307 Half a million copies: Tom Bethell, âA Scientist Finds Independence,â The American Spectator, February 2001.
307 âHeaven,â the Robinson and North study argues: Arthur Robinson, Gary North, Fighting ChanceâTen Feet To Survival, Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine 1986, 140.
307 âOur problem is not lack of hardwareâ: Arthur Robinson, Gary North, Fighting ChanceâTen Feet To Survival, Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine 1986, 194.
308 âA single-day fatal illnessâ: Bethel, American Spectator.
308 He became a columnist: A list of some columns, if thatâs at all appealing.
https://www.home-school.com/Articles/columnists/dr-arthur-robinson.php
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308 âMoral sewersâ: Arthur Robinson, âThe Decline of American Education,â Practical Homeschooling, #19 1997.
308 âsocialist institutionsâ: Arthur Robinson, âThe Decline of American Education,â Practical Homeschooling, #19 1997.
308 âinstitutionalized child abuseâ: Arthur Robinson, âEducation,â Access to Energy, February 2003.
308 âSugar diminishes brain functionâ: Arthur Robinson, âCommon Questions & Concerns,â Robinson Curriculum, Robinsoncurriculum.com.
https://www.robinsoncurriculum.com/rc/common-questions-concerns/
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308 âI know one manâ: Arthur Robinson, âState interference in family life. Languages,â Robinson Curriculum, Robinsoncurriculum.com.
https://www.robinsoncurriculum.com/rc/current-status-and-more/
Accessed 7-10-22.
308 âHome schooling is no more than a toolâ: Arthur Robinson, âHome Schooling and Science,â Robinson Curriculum, Robinsoncurriculum.com.
https://www.robinsoncurriculum.com/rc/the-study-of-science/
Accessed 7-10-22.
308 âTraditions have become somewhat unusualâ: Arthur Robinson, âThe School Is Entirely Self Taught,â How the Robinson Children Are Faring, Robinson Curriculum, Robinsoncurriculum.com.
https://www.robinsoncurriculum.com/rc/how-the-robinson-children-fare/
Accessed 7-12-22.
Traditions had become a bit non-standard. From Tom Bethellâs 2001 American Spectator profileâa sympathetic piece, in a conservative publication.
Matthew Robinson, 13, has a Colt .45 strapped to his waist as he practices the piano in the living room. He lives on a 350-acre farm in southern Oregon, with his brothers and sisters, and his father, the scientist Art Robinson . . . Two years ago, agreeing with the title of his close friend Jeff Cooperâs book, To Ride, Shoot Straight and Speak the Truth, firearms training was added to their home school . . . The family has reverted to earlier times in America when children were taught self-reliance, good judgment and practical skillsâincluding the use of firearmsâat an early age.
That is, an unusual spot with armed and piano-playing children. And not even grammatical: What the title of Jeff Cooperâs book means is: if you want to ride, you must first speak the truth and aim a firearm.
308 âimmeasurably enrichedâ: Arthur Robinson, âDetails and Procedures,â Current Status and More, Robinson Curriculum, Robinsoncurriculum.com.
https://www.robinsoncurriculum.com/rc/how-the-robinson-children-fare/
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309 âI even moved him into bedâ: Arthur Robinson, âDetails and Procedures,â Current Status and More, Robinson Curriculum, Robinsoncurriculum.com.
https://www.robinsoncurriculum.com/rc/how-the-robinson-children-fare/
Accessed 7-12-22.
309 âEventually, this threatâ: Arthur Robinson, âCollege Preparation In the Homeschool,â Practical Homeschooling #15, 1997.
https://www.robinsoncurriculum.com/rc/college-preparation/
Accessed 7-12-22.
309 âIâm tired of wadingâ: Gary North, âFirestorm ChatâHomeschooling Alternative: An Interview With Art Robinson,â 1999.
309 âIt is the foundational bookâ: âCurriculum Contents List,â Robinson Curriculum, Robinsoncurriculum.com.
https://www.robinsoncurriculum.com/rc/curriculum-contents-list/
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Robinson Curriculum Book List, Whole Intentions, March 22, 2001.
https://www.wholeintentions.com/blog/robinson-curriculum-booklist%2F
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âRobinson Curriculum Book List â Online Books, Printable RC Lists (including chronological order),â Rosegate Harbor
https://rosegate.dreamhosters.com/rc-books.html
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309 Twenty thousand kits: Tom Bethell, âA Scientist Finds Independence,â The American Spectator, February 2001.
309 âthe nationâs third most popular homeschoolâ: Richard L. Hill, âIconoclastic researcher warms up the debateâOregonâs Arthur B. Robinson attacks assumptions that are popular with other scientists,â The Oregonian, May 10, 1998.
Dr. Art Robinson Explains the Robinson Curriculum
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTa5SgusO40
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309 âthe famous Robinson curriculumâ: âDr. Arthur Robinson & Kids in 2008 | Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine.â Practical Housekeeping, #81, 2008.
https://www.home-school.com/Articles/dr-arthur-robinson-kids-in-2008.php
Accessed 7-12-22.
309 âThe Robinson Curriculum is a productâ: Great marketing. There was another ingenious hook. This warning, at the end of the sales pitch:
âOne caution do not use this curriculum unless you are willing for your children to be academically more learned than you.â
The no-punctuation after âone cautionâ sort of belies the academic promise.
https://www.robinsonbooks.com/products/robinson-self-teaching-curriculum
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https://www.robinsoncurriculum.com/rc/superb-educational-results/
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For a long time, the purchase price specified â22 CD-Roms, deluxe softcover folding CD case.â The case is a nice touch.
You can still find it in odd corners of the Robinson online manor. http://www.oism.org/nwss/s73p28.htm
Accessed 7-12-22.
309 âTaken togetherâ: For whatever reason, Arthurâs kind endorsement has been expunged.
https://web.archive.org/web/20100326050345/http://www.robinsoncurriculum.com/view/rc/s31p1439.htm
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310 âThe freed slaves soon discoveredâ: G. A. Henty, With Lee In Virginia, Blackie & Son 1890. 384.
310 âI did not think that the earth containedâ: G. A. Henty, Beric the Briton, Blackie & Son 1892. 214.
310 the Republican Party would nominate: His campaign bio contains the 1988 GOP Platform plank stuff; I didnât want to include it a few pages back so as not to spoil this gruesome electoral surprise: that Arthur became a GOP congressional nominee.
Art Robinson For Congress, Biography, 2010.
https://web.archive.org/web/20120310235045/http://artrobinson.voterspace.com/
Accessed 7-4-22.
Arthur Robinson, Common Sense (!) In 2012âArt Robinson For U.S. Congress, 2012.
https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/view/7791702/common-sense-art-robinson-for-us-congress
Accessed 7-8-22.
Iâm including the snippet for its sub-Top Gun headline.
Freedomâs Hope in the 1980s
Ronald Reagan is elected . . . Art writes a platform plank on civil defense at the 1988 Republican Convention.
310 The curriculum assisted his sinking: For example, DailyKos, âViciously Racist Book Sold By GOP Candidate for OR 4 Congressional District,â June 29, 2010.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2010/6/29/880205/-
Accessed 7-8-22.
Camilla Mortensen, âWingnut Is As Wingnut Does,â Eugene Weekly, August 12, 2010.
http://www.eugeneweekly.com/2010/08/12/coverstory.html/
Accessed 7-8-22.
DailyKos, âRepublican Suggested âSprinklingâ Radioactive Waste on America,â September 19, 2012.
From the story:
Slavery is also a beneficial thing in some of the 19th Century George Alfred Henty boys novels that Art Robinson has exhumed, from their moldy grave of British colonialist racism, to print and sell to his Christian homeschooling curriculum customers.
Back in 2010, when Arthur Robinson was first running for Congress, I put out a little story which highlighted a racist passage from one of Robinsonâs Henty novels, By Sheer Pluck: A Tale of the Ashanti War . . . The issue came up during the 2010 election, in a debate between Art Robinson and Democratic Representative Peter DeFazio â whom Robinson was running against for Oregonâs Fourth District. DeFazio also found a more recent statement from Robinson, that suggested racism.
The suggestion of racism, it seems, troubled Arthur Robinson enough that he included a rebuttal in his 2012 book Common Sense, that, in advance of the 2012 election, Robinson has mailed to â158,0000 voting householdsâ in the Fourth District according to Art Robinsonâs website.
I was flattered, of course, that Robinson took it so seriously.
In turn, to repay the favor, Iâve just put out a 22-page report that documents an extensive pattern of racism in the G.A. Henty books that Arthur Robinson prints, sells, and promotes to his clients (the Henty books glorify slavery, and they present Africans as savage and childlike), as well as an apparent pattern of racism inherent to the Robinson Curriculum itself.
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310 âThe SAT tests themselvesâ: Arthur Robinson, âMore Than A Fighting Chance,â Robinson Curriculum, Robinsoncurriculum.com.
https://www.robinsoncurriculum.com/rc/more-than-a-fighting-chance/
Accessed 7-13-22.
Robinson doesnât mean issues of zip code, school funding, private tutoring, and the resultant educational disparity. He means something opposite:
âPolitically Correctâ questions are being asked about âsocially responsibleâ reading passages. In some cases the student must give an answer that he knows to be false or misguided in order to please the social engineers who designed the tests.
310 âThis word has been brought to usâ: Arthur Robinson, âMust Differences Be Compulsory?â, Practical Homeschooling #17, 1997.
310 âShallow sources of propagandaâ: Arthur Robinson, âChildren Learn By Example,â Practical Homeschooling #22, 1998.
310 âThe state of New Jerseyâ: Arthur Robinson, âState Interference In Family Life. Languages,â Robinson Curriculum, Robinsoncurriculum.com.
https://www.robinsoncurriculum.com/rc/current-status-and-more/
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311 âWhen a child is seizedâ: Arthur Robinson, âThe New Jersey Incident. What Motivates Bureaucrats,â Robinson Curriculum, Robinsoncurriculum.com.
https://www.robinsoncurriculum.com/rc/current-status-and-more/
Accessed 7-10-22.
311 âAIDS may be little moreâ: Arthur Robinson, âAIDS,â Access to Energy, November 1994.
311 the leading cause of death: Lawrence K. Altman, âAIDS Is Now the Leading Killer of Americans From 25 to 44,â The New York Times, January 31, 1995.
311 âOnly government reclassification of moreâ: Arthur Robinson, âAIDS,â Access to Energy, February 1995.
311 âInternational bureaucrats haveâ: Arthur Robinson, âOzone and Ultraviolet Light,â Access to Energy, January 1994.
311 âThere was a guy like Art Robinsonâ: One positive. Arthur Robinson, explained Rachel Maddow in 2014, âcurrently leads The Rachel Maddow Show hall of fame balloting for weirdest interview on this show ever.â
Daniel Engber, âThe Grandfather of Alt-Science,â 538, October 12, 2017.
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-grandfather-of-alt-science/
Accessed 7-4-22.
311 âevil and dishonest plansâ: Arthur Robinson, âWinning,â Access to Energy, March 2007.
311 âFor those of us who understandâ: Goodell, Big Coal, 196-7.
A few paragraphs later, Dr. Robinson reveals to the Rolling Stone journalist the cold truth about climate change. âOne of these days, people will see global warming for what it isâa thinly disguised scam by corporations, the U.N., and big environmental groups to reduce the worldâs population.â That is, weâve gone ankle deep, hip deep, collarbone deep into conspiracy.
312 âthe most-read scientific articleâ: Arthur Robinson, âSend a Scientist to Congress!â, Access to Energy, March 2010.
Arthur tells us it is additionally the âmost-referenced informationâ against climate science in the world. Arthur Robinson, âWinning,â Access to Energy, March 2007.
312 the most-shared climate data: Jane Mayer, âThe Reclusive Hedge-Fund Tycoon Behind the Trump Presidency,â The New Yorker, March 27, 2017.