{{short description|American skeptic and activist freethinker}} {{use mdy dates|date=April 2023}} '''James Joseph Lippard''' (born 1965) is an American skeptic and activist freethinker.<ref name="publications">Lippard, Jim. [https://web.archive.org/web/20210508013750/https://www.discord.org/~lippard/publications.html "Publications and Appearances"] (bibliography). [http://www.discord.org/ ''discord.org''.] Accessed July 13, 2009. Archived from [http://www.discord.org/~lippard/publications.html the original.]</ref>
Lippard works for Global Crossing as its head of information security.<ref name="bio">{{cite web |url=http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/jim_lippard/lippard-bio.html |title=James Joseph Lippard |accessdate=2009-07-13}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news | title=DDoS attack highlights 'Net problems | author=Marsan, Carolyn Duffy | newspaper=Network World | publisher=IDG | volume=19 | issue=43 | page=12 | date=October 28, 2002 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PRgEAAAAMBAJ&dq=%22Jim+Lippard%22&pg=PT11 | accessdate=August 9, 2009 }}</ref>
He founded the ''Phoenix Skeptics'' in 1985 and was its executive director until 1988, and edited ''The Arizona Skeptic'' from 1991–1993. He is the former president (2003–2005) of the ''Internet Infidels'' and former webmaster for the Skeptics Society (1994 to 1997).
Lippard is the author of ''The Fabulous Prophecies of the Messiah'' on the Secular Web,<ref name="messiah">{{cite web |url=http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/jim_lippard/fabulous-prophecies.html |title=The Fabulous Prophecies of the Messiah |accessdate=2009-07-13 |publisher=Infidels.org}}</ref> and a contributor to Ed Babinski's ''Leaving the Fold: Testimonies of Former Fundamentalists'',<ref name="babinski">{{cite web |url=http://www.edwardtbabinski.us/creationism/leaving_yec.html |title=Leaving the Fold and Young Earth Creationism | author=Ed Babinski |accessdate=2009-07-13}}</ref> to Joe Nickell's ''Psychic Sleuths: ESP and Sensational Cases'',<ref name="nickell">{{cite web|url=http://www.hutch.demon.co.uk/prom/sleuths.htm |title=Psychic Sleuths: ESP and Sensational Cases |accessdate=2009-07-13 |publisher=Prometheus Books |author=Joe Nickell |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090526091148/http://www.hutch.demon.co.uk/prom/sleuths.htm |archivedate=2009-05-26 }}</ref> Gordon Stein's ''Encyclopedia of the Paranormal'',<ref name="stein">{{cite book |title=The Encyclopedia of the Paranormal |author=Gordon Stein |isbn=1-57392-021-5 |year=1996 |publisher=Prometheus Books |location=New York}}</ref> and to Skeptic magazine<ref>{{cite journal | url = http://www.discord.org/~lippard/skeptic/03.3.jl-jj-scientology.html | title = Scientology v. the Internet: Free Speech and Copyright on the Information Superhighway | accessdate = 2010-01-21 | volume = 3 | issue = 3 | year = 1995 | journal = Skeptic | publisher = Skeptics Society | pages = 35–41 }}</ref> and ''Reports of the National Center for Science Education''.<ref name="lipp">{{cite web |url=http://www.discord.org/~lippard/.infidels.org/library/modern/jim_lippard/lippard-bio.html |title=Jim Lippard homepage |accessdate=2009-07-13}}</ref>
==Popular culture== Lippard was portrayed by actor James Lloyd Reynolds in a 2018 episode of the American TV series ''Homeland'' titled "Useful Idiot."<ref>[https://archive.today/20210508025659/https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7386422/characters/nm1661249?ref_=ttfc_fc_cl_t16 "Homeland (TV Series) | Useful Idiot (2018) | James Lloyd Reynolds: Jim Lippard."](Season 7, Episode 9). ''IMDb''. Accessed May 7, 2021. Archived from [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7386422/characters/nm1661249?ref_=ttfc_fc_cl_t16 the original.]</ref>
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==External links== * [https://www.discord.org/ Official website] ** [https://www.discord.org/lippard/publications.html List of published works of Jim Lippard] ** [https://www.discord.org/~lippard/ Personal homepage] ** [https://lippard.blogspot.com/ The Lippard Blog]
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