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Saw this on PostMo and had a chuckle. Looks like Joseph Smith has been included in a brief list of "Famous charlatans" on the Wikipedia.com entry for Charlatan.

I doubt it'll last long, so for the sake of posterity:

So was Joseph Smith's name really ever on this list or was it a spoof?

Brinkley the goat gland guy! Read about him in History of Radio class once upon a time. Classic. Someone once asked "What happened to the goat gland if it didn't heal impotence?"

Here is the text of the entry, without the links:

[quote] Joseph Smith, whose translations of Egyptian funerary texts as the Book of Abraham were later proven to be fraudulent by Egyptologistsafter the discovery of the Rosetta Stone. [quote]

I thought this was great, and would like to see it go back up. As charlatans go, Smith surpassed Madoff long ago in terms of total dollar cost to society.

Among the relatively few things that religion does well, producing and sustaining charlatans is near the top of the list.

Joseph Smith, whose translations of Egyptian funerary texts as the Book of Abraham were
later proven to be fraudulent by Egyptologists after the discovery of the Rosetta Stone.

Placing the discovery of the Rosetta Stone AFTER the translation of the Book of Abraham throws an interesting light on the typical intelligence of those in the anti Mormon movement. Kinda like (If I recall correctly) lead plates under twenty years of bat guano and ON TOP of a 50 year old concrete pad.

Who's the charlatan now?

Wait. So, does this mean goat glands don't work.

It's monkey glands that work, justme. These in particular.

bcspace wrote:

Joseph Smith, whose translations of Egyptian funerary texts as the Book of Abraham were
later proven to be fraudulent by Egyptologists after the discovery of the Rosetta Stone.

Placing the discovery of the Rosetta Stone AFTER the translation of the Book of Abraham throws an interesting light on the typical intelligence of those in the anti Mormon movement. Kinda like (If I recall correctly) lead plates under twenty years of bat guano and ON TOP of a 50 year old concrete pad.

Who's the charlatan now?

Why do you think it's an important distinction?