Statistics for The Skeptic Tank for December of 2001.

http://www.SkepticTank.ORG/ What the hell happened on the 12'th of December? Three times as many people visited The Skeptic Tank on that day than any other day that month.

On December 12'th, there were 20,714 unique visitors to the web site with a total of 177,568 visitors making the 12'th 11.66% of the total visits. I can't think of anything that happened on the 12'th which would account for it. The search engine requests might offer a clue.

The top 20 search engine terms were:

Request count Request term (variants) 194 sybil 117 jimmy swaggart 110 bill handle 108 mother angelica 84 tank 78 monty python skits 65 diskkeeper 56 jimmy swaggert 51 paul barresi 46 ansii art 45 lord of the rings etext 44 bootit crack 39 john travolta gay 38 extremist religions 36 anarchy files 36 butt plug 36 kent hovind 36 mormon cult 31 hacking files 31 joe firmage Jimmy Swaggart and his prostitutes seem to still interest people. The inquiry about allowing a prostitute's little girl to watch a fucking seems to be of particular interest. I get a _LOT_ of hate mail from people trying to defend Jimmy yet curiously not much hate mail from people trying to defend Billy Graham, Oral Roberts, Jim Bakker, Peter Popoff, and all the other frauds out there. On occasion I'll get hate mail trying to defend John McDowell's idiot Creationist nonsense yet nothing seems to motivate godmen followers more than Jimmy Swaggart.

And Mother Angelica still seems to be of some interest. This last month there were two e-mail messages received from the general public expressing the belief that Mother Angelica is a real actual living person rather than a television creation.

Scientology related search requests has dropped considerably with only "disk keeper," "john travolta gay," and I suspect "extremist religions"

playing a part.

What's interesting is two things: Sybil continues to be the top search request for some reason. A lot of those requests might come in from books being read as well as from people performing research on multiple personality disorders and False Memory Syndrome incidents.

The other thing that's of interest is that there's no pedophile search terms encountered this month in the top 20. Usually we see a lot of "boy fuck," "suck boy," and related search terms making it into the top 20 because of the extensive Clergy Abuse files on The Skeptic Tank yet this month Jimmy Swaggart and Bill Handle seems to interest people more.

In the top 30 web pages people look at on The Skeptic Tank, number 7 is a good one: Time Magazine's coverage of the "world wide global scam" known as Scientology. There were 5159 unique visitors looking at that web page in the month of December. On a related note, http://www.skeptictank.org/joyjoy.htm was visited 470 times making it number 28 in the list. I would hope that both of those web pages annoying the living shit out of a certain world wide global scam.

Somewhat related to criminal abuses inflicted upon people by religions (and criminal enterprises pretending to be religions) is http://www.skeptictank.org/hs/cabuse2.htm which was viewed 1359 times.

That beat out http://www.skeptictank.org/sybil.htm which was viewed 710 times even though sybil was used as a search term 194 times. I've always known that my statistics don't contain every registry of search requests from all search engines out there, alas. That Clergy Abuse part 2 file was the #1 file in terms of file size in the most requested column. Addicted To Hate at http://www.skeptictank.org/atohate.htm was in there at number 9 and The Face of Hatred at http://www.skeptictank.org/vicious.doc came in at number 10.

For referrals from web sites other than search engines, FACTNet http://www.factnet.org/ topped the list. FACTNet visitors were directed to The Skeptic Tank a whopping 5171 times this December. FACTNet, you may know, was raided by the Scientology criminal enterprise in what a judge described as a massively criminal abuse of the justice system. Mr.

Wollersheim eventually was awarded an undisclosed amount of money in retribution to Scientology's crimes against him, as I understand it, and FACTNet seems to still be going strong despite organized crime trying to shut them down.

For some reason http://www.ask.com/ came in at number 7 in referrals while bookmarked entries continues to be number 1. For reasons I won't get into, http://www.iaea.org/worldatom/ came in at number 49 for referrals to The Skeptic Tank with 352 referrals. People searching for information on Narcotics Anonymous found http://www.narcanon.org/ which then referred to The Skeptic Tank -- 244 times.

-- You love drugs! You love drugs, don't you?! You better not say anything about my mother! Don't you DARE say anything about my mother! -- Scientology's International President (Audio files of this nutter at http://www.linkline.com/personal/frice "What is the name of scientology's secret books?" -- a.r.s. query "Mein Kampf." -- David Rice

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