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American University of Complementary Medicine

American University of Complementary Medicine is an unaccredited school in Beverly Hills, California that teaches homeopathy, Ayurvedic medicine, Asian body work and traditional Chinese medicine.
==Legal status== 
AUCM is a legal degree giving-body, and students may be able to practice alternative medicine under strict guidelines within the state of California.American University of Complementary Medicine school detail. Bureau for Private Post-secondary Education. Archived from the original. However, because of the lack of accreditation, an employer may not accept their credentials. Most health insurance plans do not cover alternative medicine. In almost every state, in order to even practice the programs mentioned, someone must hold an M.D/D.O. or D.C. degree, as well as being licensed and bonded by the state.
==Degree programs==
===Associates===
*Associates of Arts in Asian Body Work
===Bachelors===
*Bachelors of Arts in Holistic Health
===Masters===
*Masters of Science in Nutritional Medicine
===Doctoral=== 
*Doctor of Ayurvedic Medicine
*Doctor of Homeopathic Medicine
*Ph.D. in Ayurvedic Medicine
*Ph.D. in Classical Chinese Medicine
*Ph.D. in Homeopathy
==Campus==
There is an actual campus and an actual teaching staff, however most of the staff got their medical degrees outside of the United States and are not allowed to practice medicine in the United States.
==External links==
*Official website
==References==
Category:Alternative medicine promoters
Category:California
Category:Crank schools
Category:Pseudoscience promoting organizations
Americans United for Life

Americans United for Life is an anti-abortion think tank that vomits out bills designed to limit a woman's ability to access abortion services.
Like the Discovery Institute on evolution, with each failure with the voters or failure in courts, the legal hacks at Americans United for Life tweak the proposed bills, making each successive bill slightly more likely to pass.
==Examples==
*The Woman's Ultrasound Right to Know Act: Virginia and Texas's pre-abortion screening with trans-vaginal ultrasounds is one of the most successful gems of AUL.
* Abortion Inducing Drug Safety Act: Bans "off label use of drugs which induce abortions." Both OhioJodi Jacobson. "Ohio Supreme Court Prohibits Off-Label Use of RU486 and Denies Release of Clinic Records." RH Reality Check. 2009 July 1. and OklahomaIn May 2012, a state judge struck the law down as being unconstitutional according to the Oklahoma constitution. have passed this law, prohibiting "off label use" of any drug with the intent to cause an abortion. This includes the commonly used, scientifically, and medically accepted anti-abortion drug Mifeprestone. Roughly the same bill was also passed in Ohio.
Many, if not most of their anti-abortion proposed legislation is named with "women centric" and "health centric" names, as they attempt to tell everyone that these laws are really simply ways to protect women's health.
*Women's Health Protection Act (Abortion Clinic Regulation): TRAP law(s) which determine how many physicians must be in a clinic at all times, how wide halls and doors must be, and the specific qualifications for a clinic to provide abortions come directly from Americans United for Life.
* Abortion Patients' Enhanced Safety Act: Claims that since doctors providing abortions (apparently) do little else, and that the patient and the doctor do not have a long term relationship as such (sure, in 2012, when doctors spend on average 7 minutes with patients), abortion clinics must be defined as ambulatory surgical centers, and must have the staff and equipment necessary for any surgical center.No, it is not clear how the fact that you spend little time with your doctor means it's a surgical center. It does truly baffle the mind.
*Coercive Abuse Against Mothers Prevention Act: Since women are so often coerced into abortion, this law would make it mandatory for anyone who even suspects a woman seeking abortion was coerced, must report it to "the authorities." Ooh, ah... The catch, though, is that it makes it a crime for a doctor to have performed the abortion, or be liable for civil damages, even if he did not suspect much less know of the abuse.
==External links==
*Order your very own bill, today!
==Notes==
==References==
Category:Anti-abortion activists
Category:Think tanks
Americans for Prosperity

Americans for Prosperity (AFP) is a Koch-funded (un)think tank and Tea Party-associated astroturf group that broke off from the group Lobbyists Citizens for a Sound Economy (CSE) along with FreedomWorks. They support the typical trickle-down, no regulations bullshit and dress it up in the language of "limited government," "the Constitution," "liberty," and "prosperity", as every other right-wing (un)think tank does. However, besides their anti-stimulus package campaign, they probably push global warming denial, "smoker's rights," neutering the EPA, and other anti-environmental policies the hardest. On top of this, they oppose network neutrality. They threw large sums of cash at Lord 3rd Viscount Arch-Crank Monckton to headline their "Hot Air Tour" and led Teabaggers in chants of "Global warming is... bullshit!" Their favorite activities include blaming Obama for high gas prices and rising cost of food despite being completely silent about those issues in 2007-08 when a Republican was president. Recently, they have dedicated themselves to kvetching about anything done to slow the spread of COVID-19. https://theintercept.com/2020/03/26/americans-for-prosperity-cdc-coronavirus/ https://www.cbsnews.com/video/why-the-koch-backed-americans-for-prosperity-opposes-more-coronavirus-aid/ (Anything for the economy, you see.)
Politifact has never found a statement made by these guys to be more accurate than "Half-True." 
==External links==
*AFP Homepage
*Sourcewatch's Page on AFP
*Koch Group Has Ambitions in Small Races -- New York Times story on AFP's efforts to effect the outcomes of small-town political races (November 3, 2013)
==References==
Category:Denialist organizations
Category:Kochsphere
Category:Misnomers
Category:Right-wing activists
Category:Tea Party
Category:Think tanks
Amero

The Amero is the hypotheticalRead: imaginary. currency of the hypotheticalRead: imaginary. North American Union. Its name, though extremely dumb in every other way, is ingenious in that it both references the Euro and plays into anti-Mexican paranoia with its vague Spanish-soundingness. Nobody can ever reasonably explain why a common North American currency wouldn't just be called the "dollar," at least in English, (since the US and Canada both use dollars, and there's nothing keeping a currency from being called different things in different languages) so long as the sign/symbol remains the same (which, since both the dollar and Mexican peso use the "$" symbol, shouldn't be too hard).
==Origin==
The name "Amero" appears to have been coined in a serious but speculative 1999 paper written by Herbert Grubel, an economist for the Fraser Institute, a Canadian libertarian think tank, discussing why he thought such a monetary union would be a good idea.Herbert G. Grubel. The Case for the Amero
==Conspiracy!!==
Nationalist Conspiracy theorists contended that the governments of the United States, Canada, and Mexico are already taking steps to implement such a currency, as part of a "North American Union (NAU)."Drake Bennett. "The amero conspiracy." The New York Times. 2007 November 25. This has even reached the point where rumors and conspiracies were being made up that stated that the coins were already being made. No current members of any country's government have officially stated a desire to create such a body,Which proves just how big a conspiracy it is! nor has anyone introduced a common currency as part of this concept. On the other hand, someone has begun making the coins… and they have about as much worth as the coins you see sold on TV.
Conspiracy-monger and racist web-radio host Hal Turner has promoted the concept that there were actual Amero coins and bills ready for circulation when the North American Union started. He even posted images of what he claimed were the actual currency.'The Amero' Is Real; I Have One to Prove It! The "coins" were nothing more than fantasy medallions designed and minted by artist Daniel Carr,Daniel Carr has made a few dozen model Ameros, which you can buy for the bargain price of $70. and the "bills" were political commentary artworks created by someone on Flickr named "aleatorysort."
Proof - proof that Amero bills are fakes! Above Top Secret. (True to the conspiracy-minded spirit, this article concludes with "I just hate hoaxers who make this up. The fake images will cause the public to deny the existence of Amero.")
==See also==
*U.S. dollar
*Sean David Morton
===Want to read this in another language?===
==External links==
*Snopes page on Amero coins
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==Notes==
==References==
Category:Conspiracy theories
Category:Currency
Category:Mexico
Category:Racism
Amicus curiae

Amicus curiae is Latin for "friend of the court." The term is used for a brief submitted by someone who is not a party to a legal case, but who believes its outcome may affect their interests. There may be a positive correlation between the number of amicus curiae briefs filed in support of the United States Supreme Court agreeing to hear an appeal and it actually agreeing to hear such appeals.
The United States Supreme Court and the various Circuit Courts of Appeals permit the filing of amicus curiae briefs upon the consent of all parties to the case or by leave of court.
The ACLU often submits amicus curiae briefs in civil liberties cases.
==Qui tam==
A more aggressive version of amicus curiae, a writ of qui tam (English: "so that") is a suit brought by a private person on behalf of the government. The person bringing suit, known as the relator, may be awarded a substantial fraction of any damages that are adjudged in the case.
A famous example is the suit filed by materials scientist and engineer Judy Wood in the aftermath of the 9/11 tragedy. Wood sued 23 respondents for failing to inform the government that the World Trade Center towers were actually destroyed by a monster directed energy weapon, not by the impact of fully loaded and fueled jetliners. The case was dismissed, and Dr. Wood was awarded precisely nothing.
==References==
Category:Law
Category:Latin phrases
Amphetamines

Amphetamines are a drug class that include amphetamine and its derivatives. Many amphetamines are central stimulant drugs which increase alertness and focus, improve mood, decrease fatigue, and reduce appetite. Some amphetamines produce psychedelic effects and are considered hallucinogens or entactogens. Common amphetamines can produce euphoria, and have potential for abuse and psychological addiction. Amphetamines are used to treat attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), narcolepsy, and off-label for depression.; some are used for weight-loss. Besides being used medically and as euphoriants, amphetamines are misused to enhance academic and physical activities.
==Amphetamine v. amphetamines==
The term amphetamines should not be confused with the term amphetamine; the latter referring to the chemical alpha-methyl-phenethylamine or phenylisopropylamine (C9H13N), and the former referring to an entire class of drugs that contain the amphetamine backbone (technically known as substituted amphetamines).Editorial. Abuse of the term "amphetamines". - Alexander Shulgin; Clinical Toxicology 1976 Amphetamines can refer to amphetamine itself, but also the decongestant ephedrine, the antidepressant bupropion, or the psychedelics MDMA and Bromo-DragonFLY, among many others.Goldfrank, pp. 1125–1127Glennon, pp. 184–187Schatzberg, p.843
File:D-amphetamine.svg|Amphetamine
File:Amphetamine numbered.svg|Positions for substitution for amphetamines
File:MDMA (simple).svg|MDMA is a substituted amphetamineIt has a methylenedioxy on the 3,4 positions of the ring and a methyl on the N
File:R-Bromo-DragonFLY.svg|Bromo-DragonFLY is a substituted amphetamineIt has two dihydrofuran groups substituted on the benzene ring along with a bromo at the 4 position.
==Effects of amphetamine==
Persons under the influence of amphetamine may show notable interest and intent concentration towards a specific task they are undertaking. Other common behaviors associated with amphetamine use may include (but are not limited to): increased sociability and talkativeness, increased alertness, changes in sex drive, euphoria, dysphoria, compulsive behavior, obsessive thoughts, increased confidence, persistent thirst, irritability, emotional lability, paranoia, tachycardia, hypertension, dry skin, insomnia, increased heart rate and in severe cases psychosis.Erowid Amphetamine Vault: Effects
==Types of amphetamines==
===Medical===
* Amphetamine (Evekeo)
* Dextroamphetamine (Dexedrine, Dextrostat, Zenzedi)
* Levoamphetamine
* Mixed Amphetamine salts (Adderall - a mixture of dextroamphetamine and levoamphetamine) 
* Lisdexamfetamine (Vyvanse - a prodrug of dextroamphetamine)
* Methamphetamine (Desoxyn)
* MDMA (methylenedioxymethamphetamine, ecstasy, molly)
* Ephedrine (Primatene, BronkAid)
* Pseudoephedrine (Sudafed)
* Bupropion (Wellbutrin)
==References==
Category:Drugs
Amphibian

Amphibians (class Amphibia) are cold-blooded vertebrate animals, including frogs, toads, newts, salamanders, and caecilians. They typically have a semi-aquatic life cycle, laying their eggs in water, which grow from water-breathing young (e.g., tadpoles) to air-breathing adults, though the does not undergo this metamorphosis in the wild, with that species resembling the larval stage of a salamander even into adulthood. There is also an entire dimension full of anthropromorphic Amphibians that can be accessed by a magic musicboxThat's an reference mind you.
==Evolution==
Amphibians evolved from lobe-finned fish during the Devonian period. See Tiktaalik for a probable transitional form in this evolutionary process.
As the first tetrapods (four-limbed creatures), amphibians are the evolutionary ancestors of reptiles, which developed from the Carboniferous period onwards, and hence of mammals and birds, which evolved from reptiles. Creationists sometimes claim that there are no transitional forms between reptiles and amphibians, ignoring 
==See also==
*Insect
*Crustacean
*Mollusc
==Notes==
category:zoologycategory:evolutioncategory:animals
Amphistium and Heteronectes

Amphistium and Heteronectes were two genera of fish representing the transition toward modern flatfishes, which in their adult form have two eyes on the same side of the head. Flatfish when hatched are symmetrical, but during their growth to maturity one of the eyes migrates to the other side of the head.
Typical modern flatfish wait for prey by lying down on top of the substrate, on one side, and have their two eyes on the same side of their head (rather than having them symmetrically located as is typical for vertebrates, which would have one eye uselessly facing downward in a similar position). The fossils of Amphistium and Heteronectes show a transitional state, with one eye in an intermediate position, moved near the top of the head. This is intermediate between the typical location for eyes in vertebrates symmetrically placed in the head, and the typical location for eyes in flatfishes on the same side of the head. Alternative explanations for this are excluded. For example, there are several fossil specimens of Amphistium known from the Monte Bolca lagerstatten, so it is not just an isolated malformed fish.Matt Friedman, "The evolutionary origin of flatfish asymmetry", Nature volume 454 number 7201 (10 July 2008) pages 209-212 doi: 10.1038/nature07108
==The challenge to evolution==
thumb|left|Amphistium
The evolution of this asymmetry in the positioning of the eyes is a long-outstanding problem for gradual evolution. St. George Jackson Mivart wrote in 1871 (that is, twelve years after the publication of On the Origin of Species):
"Such sudden changes, however, are not those favoured by the Darwinian theory, and indeed the accidental occurrence of such a spontaneous transformation is hardly conceivable. ... It seems, even, that such an incipient transformation must rather have been injurious."Chapter ii, pages 37, 38 in St. George Jackson Mivart, On the Genesis of Species, London: Macmillan and Co., 1871. http://www.gutenberg.org/files/20818/20818-h/20818-h.htm
The discoveryNew Scientist - flatfish caught evolving (July 2008) of these fossils demonstrates that, no matter how inconceivable the transformation was, it did happen; and that the incipient transformation was not so injurious as to preclude the existence of fish in such a state. One of the fossils is of a fish that was successful enough as a predator to have eaten another fish. This discovery shows that the argument from implausibility, as applied by Mivart, is unreliable.
==External links==
* Dawn of the Picasso Fish, Carl Zimmer's blog "The Loom" entry for 2008 July 9
* Ashley Yeager, "A Wandering Eye", Science News. Includes a video that "shows the skeletal changes that a flatfish goes through as it develops into an adult fish."
* Anne Minard,"Odd Fish Find Contradicts Intelligent-Design Argument", National Geographic News.
==References==
Category:Anthropology
Category:Evolution
Category:Transitional fossils
Category:Fish
Amulet

Amulets and talismans are objects believed to hold magical properties, such as bringing good luck, repelling evil, curing illnesses, or attracting the opposite sex. These amulets were used by keeping near the person or object they were supposed to influence.https://www.britannica.com/topic/amulet
==Non-exhaustive list of amulets==
*Rabbit's feet
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*Crystals
* such as Fun fact: the word "amethyst" literally means "not drunk". Yes, people seriously believed that carrying an amethyst around would let you drink infinite amounts of booze without getting shitfaced or succumbing to alcohol poisoning.
*Relics
*Garlic
*
* and holey stones
*Various fossils, especially and 
==Non-exhaustive list of talismans==
*Crucifix
*Holy water
* 
*Rosary
*Saint Christopher medal
*Consecrated hosts
*
*Turkish evil eye ward, called "" in Turkish
*
==Further reading==
*Gonzalez-Wippler, Migene. Complete Book Of Amulets & Talismans. (Llewellyn, 2001; ISBN 0-87542-287-X).
==References==
==Notes==
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Category:Magic
Category:Folklore
category:Paranormal
Anarchopedia

Anarchopedia is an online wiki-style encyclopedia written from an anarchist point of view. The wiki was founded in September 2004 by Serbian anarchist Miloš (or Milos) Rancic,Anarchopedia, archive snapshot, 3 January 2011.Milos Rancic, Blogger profile.User:Millosh on meta.wikimedia.org. who was a steward and administrator on Meta-Wiki. Anarchopedia is a multilingual encyclopedia with editions in different languages. The website is critical of statism and capitalism.
It has an anti-censorship policy and controversial articles that get deleted from Wikipedia were found there. While the wiki has very few editors and most of its articles are copied from Wikipedia, it has some interesting original coverages that are quite difficult to find elsewhere in the Internet:
* Collections of articles criticizing the establishment "left" and liberals, including Barack Obama, from a leftist point of view.List of left criticism of left-wing parties in the United KingdomList of left-wing articles critical of Barack Obama
* A list of US military interventions and war crimes committed by the US military.List of Military Interventions of the United States
* Lists of independent left-wing publications and online (English-language) periodicals published by left-wing parties throughout the world.List of independent left-wing publicationsOnline editions of printed English-language periodicals of left-wing parties
* Lists of leftist organizations and political parties in the United States and throughout the world.List of Left-Wing Parties in the United States of AmericaLists of political parties
* Documentation of CIA activities throughout the world, including articles deleted from Wikipedia and links to existing Wikipedia articles.Central Intelligence Agency activities
* Sadly, a number of left-wing conspiracy theories. For example, it has an elaborate articleMoon Hoax supporting the pseudohistorical view that the moon landing was a hoax.
* A number of articles that originated from BoyWiki, a pro-pedophilia activist group.Articles that originated from BoyWiki
* An interesting collection of various lists.Lists
An article about Anarchopedia was created in the very early days of the English Wikipedia, but it was deleted in 2005Anarchopedia deletion discussion on Wikipedia. and nobody apparently tried to recreate it after 2006. At one point they had a stub in the "Simple English" Wikipedia, and had articles in other language branches, including Esperanto. Surprisingly, the most elaborate article is in the Italian branch.Italian Wikipedia: Anarchopedia
==References==
Category:Anarchism
Category:Conspiracy theorists
Ancient Aliens Debunked

Ancient Aliens Debunked is a 2012 three-hour documentary by fundamentalist Christianhttp://bibleprophecytalk.com/ Chris White, which aims to debunk the Ancient Aliens series – and mostly does it.Don't throw out the debunking baby with the Christian fundamentalism bathwater!
Unlike the goons who appear on Ancient Aliens, White actually provides references for the individual things he claims, much to his credit.Is such a thing even possible? The documentary is lined with numbers that correspond to links on his website.References and Transcripts
==The elephant in the UFO==
Unfortunately, Ancient Aliens Debunked goes overboard, suddenly suggesting that the muppetry described in the Bible actually happened – including the Nephilim.A view White shares with David Icke – thus completing the circle of "Jesus-or-Aliens". For someone so clearly capable of seeing through the flawed reasoning behind the stipulation that "Aliensdidit", White is sadly still much enthralled by the exact same claim in a wig.
He also goes into a somewhat off-topic discussion about which of the flood myths in the Book of Genesis and the Epic of Gilgamesh is older, concluding that since medieval Hebrew scribes were meticulous in their copying of the first-millennium BCE text, this must mean that ancient Hebrew scribes were just as careful, and that this means the first-millennium Genesis account is more reliable than the third-millennium Gilgamesh account. The relationship of this dispute to Ancient Aliens is not clarified in the film.
==External links==
* Official website, including the full video
* A brief review by Jason Colavito
==Notes==
==References==
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Category:Films
Category:Ancient aliens
Ancient Code

Ancient Code is a website containing a host of articles which are mostly pseudoarchaeological and pseudohistorical hoaxes. The site seems to be registered in Croatia.Whois for ancient-code.com
One Ivan Petricevic is presented as editor-in-chief[[/ivanpetricevic/ Ivan Petricevic bio on ancient-code.com, where he says he also writes for EWAO, Share Knowledge, Svemir Online and Ancient Origins. It is unclear whether he actually believes in the stuff he writes, or if the site is purely an advertising revenue generator.
Some favourite subjects and claims are: 
* Ancient astronaut theory, where aliens tampered with DNA to create humans
* Ancient electrical equipmentThe Enigmalith, Däniken-style, including proof of a 250 million year old microchipResearchers find a 250 million year old microchip
* The Nazca lines of JordanNazca Lines of Jordan, 6500 years older than the Peruvian Nazca lines.
==External links==
*Ancient Code website
==References==
Category:Pseudoarchaeology
Category:Pseudohistory
Category:Websites