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Free Zone

The Freezone, also known as Independent Scientology, is a term used by several individuals, organizations, and small groups which practice Dianetics and Scientology but are not part of the official Church of Scientology. Most (but not all) of them are former Church of Scientology members who either left or were kicked out in Scientology's frequent internal purges, especially since the early 1980s. The Church of Scientology's practice of declaring members "SP" on a whim ("suppressive persons," referring to somebody declared persona non grata in the organization and effectively making them non-members) led to the inevitable as many of these people continued to believe in and practice Scientology. Think of it as diet koolaid.
Freezone adherents vary. Many believe that L. Ron Hubbard's writings are infallible, and they believe the current Church of Scientology has strayed from Hubbard's teachings. Thus, Freezone can be a form of fundamentalist Scientology. Others' beliefs are not so fundamentalist, in that they believe Scientology is valid but mix it with other practices, or try to glean what they see is good from Scientology while discarding other parts. Some Freezone sects even still revere their founder over L. Ron Hubbard, or in recent years, as L. Ron Hubbard. For many, especially being the case for those Freezoners never in the Church, the attraction of Freezone Scientology is simply that they recognize the Church of Scientology organization is a money-sucking cult which they wish to steer clear of, but are attracted to Scientology's teachings as opposed to the organization.
Several Freezone websites exist, and they have created their own homebrew alternatives to Scientology's "E-Meter" and a body of writings based on Scientology. These writings are free of the copyright on the original works held by the Church of Scientology, which is notoriously litigious toward those who attempt to promote Scientology outside the "Org." The Church of Scientology has its own term for the Freezoners: "squirrels". Freezone websites generally have a web page design suggestive of 1997 and split their effort between archived self-published "clearing technology" and heavy, albeit well-deserved, criticism of the current CoS leadership.
Don't be too hard on the Freezoners. Yeah, they believe in some weapons-grade woo, but unlike those in the CoS, they're doing it of their own free will...presumably. 
==External links==
*International Church of Universal Advanced Enlightenment: Typical Freezone website.
*Free Zone Earth: Another Freezone website.
*Advanced Organization of the Great Plains: The exception that proves the rule.
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FreedomWorks

FreedomWorks, along with Americans for Prosperity (AFP), was an offshoot of Lobbyists Citizens for a Sound Economy (CSE). FreedomWorks was founded by Dick Armey and Matt Kibbe, who authored the Wingnut Tea Party Manifesto together. It supported the same sort of Koch-sucking trickle down policies as AFP (though FreedomWorks itself has no known connections to the Kochs outside of its origins in CSE, as it doesn't disclose all its donors), but one-upped them by dredging up the even dumber Austrian school of economics from the dustbin of history as well. It was probably the most visible and egregiously blatant astroturf group behind Teabaggery, with lobbyists organizing bus trips, funding, and talking points for its members.Lobbyists Planning Tea Parties
==Changing of the guard==
In September 2012, Armey was oustedWell, forced to resign with an USD $8 million severance check. from FreedomWorks after attempting to force Kibbe and senior vice president Adam Brandon out over "ethical misconduct". Armey and Kibbe had been in disagreement over who to back in the 2012 elections — Kibbe wanted to back Tea Party candidates, whereas Armey wanted to back traditional Republicans — which led to the rift between them. It was later revealed that Armey's assistant (who escorted Kibbe and Brandon from the building) was armed — though this may have been a precaution, in the aftermath of the shooting at the Family Research Council.http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/freedomworks-tea-party-group-nearly-falls-apart-in-fight-between-old-and-new-guard/2012/12/25/dd095b68-4545-11e2-8061-253bccfc7532_print.html
Armey was replaced by Randroid millionaire Richard Stephenson, who founded the Cancer Treatment Centers of America.
==Demise==
After struggling for relevance in the era of Trumpism (whose protectionism, big spending, and aggressive anti-immigration stances clashed with FreedomWorks' libertarian love of small government and free trade), FreedomWorks was dissolved on May 7, 2024."FreedomWorks Is Closing — And Blaming Trump" by Luke Mullins, Politico, 2024 May 8
==See also==
*The denialist Cooler Heads Coalition
==External links==
*FreedomWorks Homepage
*Sourcewatch Page on FreedomWorks
==Notes==
==References==
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Freedom Phone

The Freedom Phone is a scam phone that claims to be “anti-big tech censorship”. It was created for a conservative American audience in response to Donald Trump being banned from Twitter and other social media platforms.Freedom Phone Unsurprisingly, most of what it claims to be are lies.
==Background==
On January 8, 2021, Donald Trump was banned from Twitter as a response to the 2021 U.S. Capitol riot. Most mainstream social media platforms had been banning content promoting misinformation about COVID-19 and the 2020 U.S. presidential election, and most app stores had banned alt-right apps such as Gab. This spawned a huge persecution complex among conservatives of “liberal” big tech censorship. The Freedom Phone was created by Bitcoin nut Erik Finman, who claims to have been a teenage Bitcoin millionaire. Who is Erik Finman? 
==What it claims to be==
Freedom Phone’s “PatriApp” app store claims to be completely uncensored and to contain apps “censored” by Apple and Google’s app stores such as Parler and Gab. It is claimed to be a completely original design. Its ClearOS operating system is claimed to be developed by the phone’s creators specifically for “freedom, security, and privacy”. It claims to be pre-installed with “banned” and “unbanned” apps such as Newsmax, Parler, DuckDuckGo,Likely included due to it claiming not to track its users. and OANN. Its claim about its tracking blocker, ClearGM, is likely true; ClearGM is privacy software, and Freedom Phone doesn’t falsely claim to have made it.ClearGM
As of March 2023, the company's official website states that "[t]he Freedom Phones will come pre-installed with both Twitter and Tesla apps out of respect for what Mr. Musk has done for freespeach [sic] for the world!"
==What it actually is==
Ironically, the phone is manufactured by a Chinese company.The MAGA-targeted “Freedom Phone” has a breathtaking amount of red flags The phone is a slightly modified The A9 pro sells for under $200,Umidigi A9 Pro compared to the Freedom Phone’s $500. Both those phones use chips designed by a Taiwanese company whose products are known for containing security issuesSevere MediaTek exploit affects millions of Android devices, some may never be patched and violations.Have You Paid Your Linux Kernel Source License Fee? The PatriApp app store is an illegal fork of the Aurora Store,Aurora Store. f-droid.org. which in turn is a Google Play client. This means the phone does not support “censored” apps, and the “banned” apps said to be included are only website links. The ClearOS operating system was created by a company in New Zealand in 2001 and does not claim to be developed for “freedom, security, and privacy”.ClearOS The Freedom Phone doesn't even run ClearOS; instead, it runs a fork of Android. Essentially, the Freedom Phone is a total clusterfuck that doesn’t even meet its stupid standards.
==See also==
*Alt-tech
*Patriot Mobile, a similarly themed wireless provider
==External links==
* Freedom Phone
==Notes==
 
==References==
Category:Scams
Category:Technology
Category:Alt-right
Category:United States politics
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Freeman Dyson

Freeman John Dyson (1923─2020) was a renowned British physicist and mathematician. He worked on quantum field theory, astronomy, solid-state physics, and nuclear engineering. He received numerous awards, but never a Nobel. Physicist Steven Weinberg said that Dyson was "fleeced" by the Nobel commission. He led the design team for the TRIGA nuclear reactor, which is in widespread use today, and was also known for his nuclear disarmament advocacy. He was the president of the Space Studies Institute before his death.
Unfortunately, he was also an occasional crank, and in another life would have succumbed to the Nobel disease.
==Concepts in science and futurology==
Dyson developed many concepts in scientific and futurist circles:
*Dyson series: A byproduct in his work on quantum electrodynamics, unifying the approaches of Julian Schwinger and Sin-Itiro Tomogana (operators) and Richard Feynman (path integrals).Gleick J. Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman. New York: Pantheon Books; 1992. 
* A theoretical structure to catch sunlight for energy that would eventually enclose an entire star.
* A theoretical genetically engineered plant capable of growing on a comet.
*Theorized space colonies.
* A theoretical combination nanotech-biological spacecraft.
*Dyson's transform: A technique later used to prove that every even integer is the sum of at most 6 primes.
*, as if you didn't have enough to worry about already.
==Wackiness==
Dyson considered himself a non-denominational Christian and believed in non-overlapping magisteria. Some of the material he had written on metaphysics, though, is much less Christian than it is reminiscent of various theories of quantum consciousness, panentheism, panpsychism, and other sorts of New Agey science woo.
Dyson succumbed to old age crank syndrome as well, becoming a global warming denier.http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/letters-to-a-heretic-an-email-conversation-with-climate-change-sceptic-professor-freeman-dyson-2224912.html However, he never did any actual criticizing of climate science besides dismissing the models as flawed and saying that if it is a real problem, we can easily cook up some super-tree to suck the carbon dioxide out of the air. Dyson's support for deniers seems to have been the result of wanting to stick it to the scientific man:
So… yeah, thanks for that.
==External links==
*Some Freeman Dyson essays on Edge
*Astrochicken
==References==
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Category:Pseudoscience promoters
Category:Denialists
Category:Global warming denialists
French paradox

The French paradox refers to the discrepancy that exists between French and U.S.-American life spans—and especially between rates of cardiovascular disease—despite allegedly similar diets high in saturated fat.http://heart.bmj.com/content/90/1/107.extract The French Paradox: Lessons for other countries. The term was invented by researcher Serge Renaud, whose research let him to finger red wine and resveratrol, which are both now under investigation by many pharmaceutical companies and universities;Harvard Medical School:Small Molecule Increases Lifespan and "Healthspan" of Obese Mice this has led a number of wineries to make an attempt to get their product defined as health food.Baltimore Sun:Wine ads draw Surgeon General's ire Claim that mild drinking benefits heart is criticized
A real study of a typical French diet would show they eat smaller portions, more fresh foods, more fruits and vegetables, very little to no sugary drinks like sodas, and far less snacking between meals.Goldberg, David M.; Yan, Joseph; Soleas, George J. (2003). "Absorption of three wine-related polyphenols in three different matrices by healthy subjects". Clinical Biochemistry 36 (1): 79–87. doi:10.1016/S0009-9120(02)00397-1 Added to that, the French (along with most Europeans, if only due to the cost of petrol and automobile insurance) do not drive short distances, like to a store or a mall - they walk. Walking less is strongly correlated with obesity.Stanford researchers find intriguing clues about obesity by counting steps via smartphones, Stanford University, via Eurekalert, 10 July 2017
Another explanation was proposed in a 1999 article in the British Medical Journal that the French Paradox may exist due to a time lag between the relatively recent increase in animal fat consumption in France and their heart disease mortality rates, similar to the time lag observed for smoking and lung cancer rates. Undercertification of ischemic heart disease during autopsies was also cited as a partial explanation.http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1115846/ Why heart disease mortality is low in France: the time lag explanation.
Renaud ignored these things that dieticians have been saying for years to a largely deaf audience: less snacking, less sugary drinks, smaller portions, more fish, no partially hydrogenated vegetable oils, more exercise and almost no fried foods. Since this could not be packaged into pill form and sold, letting Americans cram whatever roamed by into their gullet, it was completely ignored by journalists.
As the French are becoming more and more like Americans, owning cars that they take short distances instead of walking, eating more junk food and fast-food, and living more sedentary lives, the disparity is lessening.http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmc2665194/ The French are getting fat, too.
==See also==
* Mediterranean diet
==References==
Category: Diet woo
Category:France
Category:Paradoxes
Frequency illusion

The frequency illusion (also known as the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon) is the phenomenon in which people who just learn or notice something start seeing it everywhere. For instance, a person who just saw a movie about sharks might start seeing the word "shark" everywhere. This is not necessarily because the person really has come across more instances of the word "shark"; rather, before seeing the movie, they usually simply passed the word over and quickly forgot it, while later, after having seen the movie, the word started sticking in their memory.
Research into the perception of low probability events suggests that frequency illusions come from a combination of imaginability and the manner in which data is presented. If a rare event is presented as having a 1 in 1,000 chance of happening, that event will seem more likely than if presented as 0.1% chance of happening. Using integers to show the chances makes it easier for a person to imagine themselves facing the unusual event. Add in a little danger (would seeing the word "ant" have the same effect as "shark"?) and, voilà, frequency illusion. Imagining Low Probability Events: Contrasting Exemplar Cuing and Frequency Format Accounts 
==See also==
*Confirmation bias
==References==
Category:Cognitive biases
Freudian slip

A Freudian slip, also known as parapraxis, is when you say one thing but mean another. It is a mistake allegedly committed by thoughts resting in the unconscious mind; it was suggested by Sigmund Freud in his 1901 book The Psychopathology of Everyday Life. A slip might occur in speech, in actions, in perception, in memory, etc. 
Common examples include calling a co-worker "honey" when someone is unconsciously thinking they are talking to their spouse, or a child calling their teacher "Mom" or "Dad". 
Freudian slips are semi-conscious, i.e. they're consciously repressed but unconsciously released.
The term is used popularly in order to humorously attribute hidden desires to the individual making the slip: saying something sexually suggestive when you meant to say something completely non-sexual is a great example. Several conservative US politicians have slipped up in recent years using the words "colored" or "nigger" when they meant to say "Black" or "African American", suggesting a private, underlying racist worldview, long after those words have fallen out of acceptable use.
==See also==
*Crucifiction
*Euphemism
==References==
Category:Psychology
Category:Psychoanalysis
Friedrich Engels

Friedrich Engels (1820-1895), a prominent Prussian-born communist philosopher and British industrialist, co-wrote (with Karl Marx) the Communist Manifesto, and used the profits from his Manchester textile mill to provide Marx with financial support during the writing of Das Kapital. Engels died in 1895 from throat cancer in London at the age of 74. https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=YbU5AQAAQBAJ&pg=PT365&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false 
Despite his importance in the development of Marxism, Engels is significantly less cited than his writing partner. Some people would account for this by claiming that he did the impossible and managed to be more boring than Marx; his The Condition of the Working Class in England (1845), which Engels wrote based on his experience in the course of running his mill, is sometimes cited as being even more boring than Das Kapital.
His Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State (1884) had a large influence on the development of Marxist class theory and of historical determinism. Ironically, it drew mostly from Ancient Society (1877) by an American capitalist railroad tycoon and Republican politician.And feminist. And anti-Native. (No, really, politics were weird in the Gilded Age.)
His Principles of Communism give a brief but concise explanation of communism, its essential ideas/theories, its basic policies, and an analysis of capitalism compared to previous economic systems. 
==See also== 
*Marxist theory of social evolution
*Karl Marx
*Charles Fourier
==External links==
*Works of Friedrich Engels in German and English on Wikisource
*"Engels vs. Marx?: Two Hundred Years of Frederick Engels", 
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Friends of Hamas

Friends of Hamas is an obviously terrorist-friendly association which, according to conservative news sources, may have paid speakers fees to Chuck Hagel (an Obama nominee for US Secretary of Defense). The story was initially broken on 7 February 2013 on Breitbart by then-editor-at-large Ben Shapiro, and was subsequently broadcast on 11 February 2013 by Lou Dobbs on his Fox News Business program. Over the next few days, other right-wing outlets began spreading the story, such as National Review,Levin Defends Hagel, Calls GOP Disclosure Request ‘Unprecedented’ National Review. February 8, 2013. The Washington TimesGAFFNEY: Obama's 'friends of Hamas'? The Washington Times. February 12, 2013. and RedState.Breitbart.Com Told That Chuck Hagel Took Money From “Friends Of Hamas.” RedState. February 7, 2013. The news item even made its way into some international media such as the Israeli National News.
This is a serious and potentially damning allegation, and which may have merited serious investigation... if the Friends of Hamas had been something other than a throwaway joke made up by a snarky journalist.
==See also==
*Ben Shapiro, who originally wrote the story.
*Breitbart, which originally published the story.
*Fake news
==References==
Category:Conservative deceit
Category:Fake news
Category:Hoaxes
Category:Islamism
Category:Moral panics
Friends of Science

"Friends" of Science (FoS) is a global warming denialist pressure group based in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
==Website==
The website, friendsofscience.org, contains a listing of discredited denialist talking points. Their primary position is that the sun is the main driver of climate change,Friends of Science About Us page despite the fact that solar activity has been inversely correlated with the recent warming trend.Sun and Climate: Moving in Opposite Directions, Skeptical Science In 2014, the organization launched a billboard campaign based on this talking point.Phil Plait. With Friends Like These... Slate, Jun. 12, 2014 The site also contains a list of alleged climate "myths." For example, they claim that the "hockey stick graph" has been "debunked" by Steve McIntyre and Ross McKitrick.Myths/Facts at friendsofscience.org
==Denialist associations==
Friends of Science maintains associations with some prominent climate deniers. Their scientific advisory board currently includes Chris de Freitas,Scientific Advisory Board who played a key role in the Soon and Baliunas controversy. De Freitas was an editor of the Climate Review, where he helped to get a flawed review paper published that denied 20th century warming. A number of editors resigned over this controversy. The advisory board at one time included Sallie Baliunas herself, as well as McKitrick. The board also included Tim Ball, who is notable for his complete lack of climatology credentials.Scientific Advisory Board Page, 2008 archive version from the Wayback MachineMcKitrick is listed under "Professional Contacts" in the initial 2002 version of the site. FoS helped to organize Christopher Monckton's 2009 "Apocalypse Cancelled" Canadian lecture tour.Friends of Science Behind Monckton's Magical Mystery Tour, Deep Climate, Sep. 22, 2009
==Science Education Fund controversy==
In 2005, Barry Cooper, a political scientist at the University of Calgary (U of C), set up the Science Education Fund to donate money to Friends of Science. The money was funneled through the Calgary Foundation, which accepts anonymous donations. However, Cooper himself has admitted that "There were some oil companies" involved in the funding, but that the donations were "not exclusively from the oil and gas industry." While Cooper has attempted to associate Friends of Science with the university, U of C distanced itself from the organization.Charles Montgomery. Mr. Cool and Friends. Globe and Mail, Aug. 12, 2006 A 2007 investigation by U of C led the university to return donations from the Science Education Fund when university officials discovered its status as a denialist organization promoting "partisan views on climate change."Granting Support from the Science Education Fund at The Calgary Foundation, The Calgary Foundation
They are still active as of 28 November 2019, posting a kindly grandmother to dispute Greta Thunberg's activity.
==External links==
*Friends of Science
*Sourcewatch Entry
*DeSmog Blog category for FoS
*Deep Climate category for FoS
==References==
Category:Global warming denialists
Category:Misnomers