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Ed Grimsley

Ed Grimsley was a UFOlogist who cornered the woo-market in night vision binoculars, enabling him and any of his suckers clients to observe the space war that has been going on over our heads for decades.
Lest anyone should doubt Grimsley's sincerity or expertise, it should be sufficient of a pedigree to note that he once collaborated with no less a con-man world-renowned authority on planetary astronomy than Jose Escamilla.
==Claims==
Ed Grimsley has been seeing battles between unknown aircraft in the night skies since he was a teenager. Since then he has continued seeing what appear to be Delta shaped and Saucer shaped aircraft in space shooting it out using what appear to be laser weapons. He has seen hundreds of these objects recently and using his five Military grade night vision binoculars he has invited many people to come to his areas and view the objects in earth space shooting it out.
==Doubts==
We wonder why the massed forces of advanced galactic intelligence only conduct their space-wars at night. Where do they go during the day?
We wonder what happens to the resulting debris when one saucer scores a direct hit on another. This must be quite a large amount of scrap, and potentially interesting for reverse engineering. Since Ed didn't claim that these things are actually in orbit, why does nothing ever fall back to Earth?
==Price list==
* Military grade night-vision binocs: up to $3,200
* DVD $24.95 inc. shipping
*Skywatch UFO vigil: $40 per person
==External links==
*Typical Grimsley space-war viewing session, on YouTube
*A -- gasp!! -- skeptical view of Grimsley's claims
Category:Ufology
Ed Whitfield

Wayne Edward "Ed" Whitfield is an American politician, a Republican, a former Representative from Kentucky's first district and a leading member of the Congressional global warming denial brigade. In 2006, along with Joe Barton, he commissioned the Wegman Report in an attempt to discredit the "hockey stick" graph. The report is now infamous for both its use in the Climategate hearings and for the fact that it was mostly plagiarized and utterly fraudulent.
Because of his notorious denialism, he has been given the nickname "Exxon Eddie" in moonbat circles. Whitfield has, in fact, not taken any money from Exxon. The health industry is by far his biggest campaign contributor, so a more accurate nickname would be "Pharma Eddie," but that doesn't roll off the tongue as well.Whitfield's profile at Open Secrets Whitfield, however, has taken a good load of dough from the coal and mining industries and, surprise surprise, is a "staunch advocate" of "clean coal."Whitfield's energy policy page Whitfield co-sponsored the 2011 "Energy Tax Prevention Act," which would repeal the decision by the EPA labeling greenhouse gases as pollutants. Environmentalist blogger Dave Hawkins has dubbed it the "Reality Prevention Act."Republican Congressmen Vote Away Scientific Facts
==Irony alert==
Whitfield accuses those who accept science as misrepresenting science:
 This is hypocrisy, he is guilty of "misrepresenting scientific research" himself.
==References==
Category:Former United States Representatives
Category:Denialists
Category:Living people
Edgar Mitchell

Edgar Mitchell (c. 1931-2016) was an Apollo astronaut,Pilot of the Apollo 14 Lunar Module, which means that he got to walk on the Moon in 1971. founder of the Institute of Noetic Sciences and UFO conspiracy nut. He is the only astronaut to have publicly divulged LSD experimentationhttps://www.google.com/books/edition/The_New_Science_of_Psychedelics/Ml8oDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=edgar%20mitchell, although his post-lunar beardhttp://www.spacefacts.de/bios/portraits_hi/astronauts/mitchell_edgar.jpg was not nearly as fetching as Transcendental Meditation practitioner Rusty Schweickart's Skylab-era shag 'n' chops.https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ec/RustySchweickart.jpg
Mitchell never claimed, or even hinted, that he saw anything alien on the Moon, on the way to the Moon, or on the way back from the Moon. He never even said he'd seen an alien on Earth, despite having been raised not far from Roswell. However he said many times that he'd been briefed by senior military officers and that alien visitation is an established fact. Other UFO believers love him, because they think that his claims are "insider info".
== On aliens ==
From an NBC interview on April 19, 1996:
==See also==
*Gordon Cooper
*Unacknowledged - name dropped as an expert UFO believer.
==External links==
*Edgar Mitchell's biography at NASA's Johnson Space Center website
*Official website? (the "Articles and Essays" section is... interesting)
*The Unexplained with Howard Huges, Edition 53 - Edgar Mitchell Exclusive interview (podcast), 12 February 2010
*Skeptics Dictionary assesses Mitchell's ESP "experiment."
*Mitchell vs. Richard Hoagland on Coast to Coast AM 15 May 1996
==Notes==
==References==
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Category:Astronauts
Category:Ufology
Edgelord

An edgelord is a participant in an internet forum whose contributions are deliberately designed to be offensive, usually in a dark and demeaning fashion. The term is mostly used in a pejorative sense to describe someone who makes outrageous statements in order to appear "edgy" or "cool", when in reality they come off as an idiot or troll, making baseless statements, in their mom’s basement, in order to disrupt conversations. 
Edgelords may express nihilistic opinions, appear pretentious, and appear to be expressing their outrageous opinions solely for the purpose of getting others to notice and respond to them.What exactly is an edgelord? reddit.com, 3 January 2017. They will often express disdain towards established authority figures, hype themselves up as special badasses with special destinies (the specific term for that sort of silliness being "chuunibyou""Chuunibyou", TV Tropes. Accessed 09-SEP-2024.), and/or treat "shoot first and ask questions later" ( immediately using threats and/or actual violence to get one's way) as a decent approach to problem-solving (as opposed to psychopathic behavior that tends to flush the reputation of anyone who tries it down the toilet)."Edgy" on 1d6chan. Accessed 09-SEP-2024. The end result of this aloof antisociality and unpalatable opinions tends to be alienation and being treated as a joke.
The general concept of edgelords originated in the dark corners of the internet and chan culture. The term appears to have thrust itself into the internet mainstream with the publication of transgender social justice activist Sarah Nyberg's article "I’m Sarah Nyberg, and I Was A Teenage Edgelord" in the fall of 2015, during the peak of the Gamergate shitstorm, and has been in steady use ever since.Google Trends data for the term "edgelord".
==Examples of edgelords==
*Joshua Conner Moon, far-right administrator of the Kiwi Farms cyberstalking/hate speech site.Joshua Conner Moon’s Kiwi Farms website shut down. news.crocels.com, 23 August 2016.
*Roosh V, sleazy manosphere figure and pick-up artist known for his overt misogyny.
*Milo Yiannopoulos, alt-right figure, Gamergate figurehead, and professional troll.
==See also==
*Don't feed the troll
*Proll, the "old media" version
*Shitlord in the Alt-right glossary
==References==
Category:Alt-right
Category:Internet
Category:Internet culture
Educate-yourself.org

Educate-yourself ("The Freedom of Knowledge, The Power of Thought ©", all Orwellian names of course) is a green ink website of alternative medicinehttp://educate-yourself.org/lte/colloidalversusionicsilvercontroversy19may09.shtml, pseudosciencehttp://educate-yourself.org/fe/, conspiracy theories,(9/11) truthers UFOs,http://educate-yourself.org/cn/zetainfo16sep05.shtml Sylphs, and every other form of crankery under the sun. Think of it as the Californian equivalent of whale.to. The editor and owner of the site writes under the possible pseudonym of Ken Adachi.http://americanloons.blogspot.com/2013/02/432-ken-adachi.html
The site may not be parody (as far as we can tell), but he could be a shyster.http://www.ripoffreport.com/r/EDUCATE-YOURSELFORG/internet/EDUCATE-YOURSELFORG-KEN-ADACHI-DEFECTIVE-PRODUCTS-NO-RESPONSE-TO-INQUIRIES-LONG-WAIT-FO-754170 http://soulsearcher80.tripod.com/
The site includes such gems as the book, "The Illuminati Formula to Create an Undetectable Total Mind Control Slave".http://educate-yourself.org/mc/IlluminatiFormulaindex.shtml Sample quote:
== See also ==
*Whale.to – Similar website that gave rise to Scopie's Law.
*Biblioteca Pleyades – Similar but more New Age-centered.
*David Dees
*Do your own research
== External links ==
* http://educate-yourself.org/
==References==
Category:9/11 truthers
Category:Alternative medicine promoters
Category:Antisemites
Category:Anti-vaccination movement
Category:California
Category:Chemophobes
Category:Christians
Category:Conspiracy theorists
Category:Crank magnetism
Category:Creationists
Category:Denialist websites
Category:Energy woo
Category:Global warming denialists
Category:Green ink
Category:Homophobes
Category:Internet hate sites
Category:Misnomers
Category:Pseudoscience promoters
Category:Racists
Category:Sound woo
Category:Ufology
Category:Webshites
Edward Bernays

Edward Bernays (1891—1995) was the nephew of Sigmund Freud and legendary bullshit artist, propagandist, and grandaddy of public relations who fundamentally changed the nature of media in the 20th century. Of course, Bernays was a piker compared to the algorithm-fired masters of the dark arts walking the streets today. 
One of his most successful techniques was the use of a front group to spread bullshit for one organization through a third party group posing as objective analysts. Bernays also popularized the use of tie-in products. He called his method the "engineering of consent."The original essay. 
==You spin me round==
Bernays mostly used his powers of persuasion to hawk products for companies or for political purposes, such as:
*Hawking cigarettes to women.
*Hawking bacon and eggs as the "all-American breakfast."
*Hawking Ivory Soap.
*Hawking Dixie Cups.
*Working on Calvin Coolidge's campaign.
*Spreading propaganda about Jacobo Arbenz of Guatemala being a commie, on behalf of his masters at United Fruit Company ("el pulpo", literally the Octopus). Eisenhower's foreign policy was predicated on anti-communism. John Foster Dulles, who orchestrated the coup, sat on the board of United Fruit.
However, some of his campaigns actually served good purposes:
*Helping to get water fluoridation passed.
*Peddling propaganda for Woodrow Wilson to gain support for World War I.
*Working on an NAACP campaign.
==Propaganda==
In his book aptly entitled Propaganda, Bernays wrote:
==External links==
*Bernays in the Museum of Public Relations
*Read Propaganda online
*The Father of Spin
*The Century of the Self (BBC Documentary) (Full video)
*Public Relations, Edward Bernays, and the American Scene, Internet Archive
*Bernays' "Engineering of Consent"
*Freud's Nephew and the Origins of Public Relations, NPR
==References==
Category:United States history
Category:Shysters
Category:Political strategery
Category:Propaganda
Category:Psychoanalysis
Edward Current

Edward Current (his music name, Eddie Current and his real name/pen name, )“I create comedy and music videos under the pseudonym Edward Current ("Eddie Current")” is a YouTube contributor and famous musician. He is a progressive atheist who plays a bigoted and ignorant Christian in his parody videos. Said videos parody common arguments from creationists. (That said, they are astonishingly close to the real arguments. Poe's Law doesn't mean that the satire isn't biting.)
As of 2020, Current currently (get it?) has over 80.1K subscribers, 24 million views, and 177k "prayers said for Edward Current". No, really.https://www.youtube.com/user/EdwardCurrent/about
==Antitheism videos==
One of his most popular videos features his boneheaded persona smugly rattling off a series of absurd fallaciesCheckmate, Atheists! and spawned the satirical "Checkmate, Atheists!" Internet phenomenon. Current satirizes the "atheists hate god", saying: "As always, waging war on the atheists who hate our Heavenly Father. And by atheists I also mean agnostics, who are people who aren't sure if they hate our Heavenly Father."
Some of Current's videos are also pseudo-educational, e.g. in his "Christian meets Invisible Pink Unicorn" cartoon video he demonstrates the meaning of "emergence.""A Christian Meets the Invisible Pink Unicorn"
==9/11 videos==
Current was originally a 9/11 truther; then, he noticed that his beliefs on the WTC7 collapse fell into the category of an argument from incredulity.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UULUQfEQFuU To test the gullibility of 9/11 truthers, he created a hoax video of WTC7 collapsing, and truthers overwhelmingly took the bait.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8VAsoVuShM He came out as a paid government shill, inclusive of a $1,000,000 paycheck from Langley, Virginia,https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLyaN8Sl8_8 and later, as a long-time crisis actor.https://youtu.be/M5XwvoEULOg And, he made an ad for "TruthR" — the dating app for 9/11 truthers.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LRf1PalFbA
==See also==
*RationalWiki:Vlogroll
==Mentions==
===Skeptic Content===
*HuffpostGravity Explained, In One Simple Video, Huffpost
*Digital JournalCan you believe what you see on YouTube?, Digital Journal
*PatheosBrilliant satire of racial justice denialism by Youtuber Edward Current, Patheos
===Jeopardy! Game Show===
*Jeopardy!J! Archive — Season 12 (you may have to search for his name using “Find in page”)Coryat Score, J! Archive
*WiredJames Holzhauer's Jeopardy! Greatness, in Charts, WIRED
*The AtlanticJames Holzhauer Explains the Strategy Behind His Jeopardy Winning Streak, The Atlantic
===Music Career===
* https://www.soundonsound.com/people/doves-producing-kingdom-rust
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==External links==
*Channel at YouTube
*User at Metabunk (yep, we are totally stalking him)
*User at Twitter
*Page at Patreon
*Page at Wikitubia
==References==
Category:Apologists and counter-apologists
Category:Living people
Category:YouTube
Category:Atheists
Edward Feser

Edward Feser is a Catholic / Christian apologist writer of books such as Aristotle’s Revenge: The Metaphysical Foundations of Physical and Biological Sciences, The Last Superstition: A Refutation of the New Atheism, Aquinas, Scholastic Metaphysics: A Contemporary Introduction, Five Proofs of the Existence of God, and the co-author of By Man Shall His Blood Be Shed: A Catholic Defense of Capital Punishment.
A critic of New Atheists, Feser accuses his opponents of misreading philosophers like Thomas Aquinas, Aristotle, and Leibniz and promotes a reversion to Aristotelian-Thomistic metaphysics.Edward Fesser, Aristotle's Revenge: The Metaphysical Foundations of the Physical and Biological Sciences edwardfeser.blogspot.com. 4 March 2019.Edward Fesser, Taking Aquinas Seriously. firstthings.com, 30 June 2017.Edward Feser godsplains why atheists don’t understand religion, and why there is absolutely, positively a God (the Catholic one), Jerry Coyne, Why Evolution is True
His book The Last Superstition claims to be a refutation of the New Atheism, which he accuses of "intellectual dishonesty, philosophical shallowness, and historical, theological, and scientific ignorance"; he tries to prove the existence of God starting with Aristotle's teleological metaphysics, in contrast to mechanical Newtonian metaphysics which he rejects.The Last Superstition, Edward Feser, Montreal Review 
In contrast to some modern theologians, he also claims that dogs don't go to Heaven.Edward Feser: No dogs go to Heaven, Jerry Coyne, Why Evolution is True His opinion about unicorns is unrecorded.
==Works==
* The Last Superstition: A Refutation of the New Atheism (St. Augustine's Press, 2008) ISBN 978-1587314520
* Aquinas (A Beginner's Guide) (Oneworld Publications, 2009) ISBN 978-1851686902
==References==
Category:Apologists and counter-apologists
Category:Christian apologists
Category:Living people
Edward Howell

Edward Howell was an American alternative medicine quack who wrote a pseudoscientific book on enzymes and nutrition.
==Background==
Howell was not a qualified physician or nutritionist. It is alleged he obtained a "limited medical license from the state of Illinois", although no details about this license exist. He worked for six years at the Lindlahr Sanitarium, a naturopathic hospital.Food Enzymes for Health & Longevity In 1932, he established the National Enzyme Company. He is alleged to have treated many patients with his "enzyme therapy". He was a Research Director for the Food Enzyme Research Foundation in Florida.Introduction to Enzymes. Example of an alternative medicine crackpot website that promotes Howell's research.
Howell invented the "Food Enzyme Concept":
==False claims==
Howell promoted four false claims about enzymes:Do "food enzymes" significantly enhance digestive efficiency and longevity?
#Enzymes in raw foods help in digesting the foods themselves once they are put into the human digestive system.
#Cooking destroys these food enzymes forcing the body to produce more of its own digestive enzymes. 
#The human body has a finite lifetime of "enzyme potential" for manufacturing digestive enzymes.
#Enzymes in raw food carry a mysterious "life force".
His claims about enzyme's are bogus and have been discredited.Reality Check: 5 Risks of a Raw Vegan DietHow Anecdotal Evidence Can Undermine Scientific Results.The 13 Biggest Nutrition and Food Myths Busted
According to nutritionist Andrea Giancoli a Los Angeles-based spokesperson for the American Dietetic Association, whilst it is true that enzymes are broken down by heat, "those enzymes are denatured—and thus inactivated—when they reach our stomachs. Our stomach acids are designed to break down proteins very efficiently." Even if plant enzymes might reach the small intestine intact their "overall contribution to human digestion appears minimal."
The idea that there is a finite number of enzymes in a lifetime is false. The human body is efficient at producing them as long as one lives. Howell promoted the myth that midichlorians enzymes carry a mystical "life force". This idea is mystical, not scientific. His claims have been described as crackpot, unsupported by evidence and pseudoscientific.The "living enzyme" myth
==Publications==
*The Status of Food Enzymes in Digestion and Metabolism (1946)
*Enzyme Nutrition: Unlocking the Secrets of Eating Right for Health, Vitality and Longevity: The Food Enzyme Concept ISBN 978-1-101-66252-6 (1987)
*Food Enzymes for Health & Longevity: Revised and Enlarged ISBN 0940676273 (2014)
==References==
Category:Diet woo
Category:Food woo
Edward M. Miller

Edward McCarthy Miller, Jr. is an American economist, eugenicist,Eugenics: Economics for the Long Run. Edward M. Miller. hereditarian pseudoscientist, and white supremacist.How Centuries of Radically Biased 'Science' Laid the Groundwork for the Controversial Theories of a Tenured UNO Professor.
==Racism==
Miller is an outright racist and has described black people as "small-headed, over-equipped in genitalia, oversexed, hyper-violent and, most of all unintelligent".Linda A. Mooney, David Knox, Caroline Schacht. Understanding Social Problems. Wadsworth/Thomson Learning, 2002. p. 218Antisemitism Explained. p. 53 He is also a proud eugenicist stating his belief that it is "very likely that decisions will be based at least partially on preventing the births that are most likely to result in what that society regards as low quality citizens."In Their Own Words: Racism, Anti-Semitism, Eugenics, Social Darwinism
As a "race realist", Miller subscribes to an obsolete view of race that is more than 100 years out of date. He thinks there are three main races, the Caucasoid, Negroid and Mongoloid. According to Miller, Asians have the largest brains and thus the highest intelligence, followed by whites and then blacks, and that average intelligence decreases in that order.
Miller is on the Advisory Board for the racist Mankind Quarterly journal.Mankind Quarterly He attended the London Conference on Intelligence.
Miller is cited many times as a reference in J. Philippe Rushton's book Race, Evolution and Behavior.https://lesacreduprintemps19.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/jp-rushton-race-evolution-behavior-unabridged-1997-edition.pdf
==Big black dick hypothesis==
Miller's research on the sexual characteristics of the races has included genital, breast and buttock size. He promotes a racist pseudoscientific hypothesis that black men have small brains but a bigger penis size than white and Asian men. He draws on the discredited research of J. Philippe Rushton. In reality, this hypothesis was based on fraudulent data and has been completely discredited.The Pseudoscience of Race Differences in Penis Size
Miller's hypothesis that penis size varies according to race is not supported by scientific evidence. A 2005 study reported that "there is no scientific background to support the alleged 'oversized' penis in black people". A 2015 systematic review of 15,521 men found "no indications of differences in racial variability", and it is not possible to draw any conclusions about penis size and race from the available literature.
==See also==
*Emil Kirkegaard
*Richard Lynn
==References==
Category:Living people
Category:Economists
Category:Eugenics supporters
Category:Pseudoscience promoters
Category:Racists
Category:Racialism pseudoscientists
Category:White supremacists
Edwards v. Aguillard

Edwards v. Aguillard was a case heard by the Supreme Court of the United States in 1987. The Court ruled that a Louisiana law requiring that creation science be taught in public schools alongside evolution was unconstitutional, because the law was specifically intended to advance a particular religion. At the same time, however, it held that "teaching a variety of scientific theories about the origins of humankind to school children might be validly done with the clear secular intent of enhancing the effectiveness of science instruction."
==Stevens and "Academic Freedom"==
During the Supreme Court oral argument, (former) Justice John Paul Stevens challenged the assertion by creation science defender Wendell Bird that the purpose of the statute was to promote academic freedom: "May I ask about academic freedom for a moment? Would you say it would advance academic freedom if the school was told you cannot teach a student German unless he's also willing to study French?" Bird eventually replied — after trying to avoid the question several times — "Yes, it would", claiming the purpose was "a basic concept of fairness, teaching all the evidence."David G. Savage, Turning Right: The Making of the Rehnquist Supreme CourtOral Argument Transcript
==Reactions by the creationists==
In the creationist textbook Of Pandas and People, the occurrence of the phrases "creationism" and "intelligent design" drastically changed around 1987, some time right after the trial.See from 57:20-1:00:45 in this video on youtube: Ken Miller on Intelligent Design
The creationists didn't keep records properly, and thus the missing link was discovered between intelligent design and creation science. This sealed the fate of creation science intelligent design in Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District.
==See also==
*Creationism in public education
*Intelligent design
*Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District
*McLean v. Arkansas
*Scopes trial
== External links== 
* Edwards v. Aguillard decision
* December 10, 1986 Supreme Court oral argument in Edwards v. Aguillard
* Appeals court decision for Edwards v. Aguillard complete with text of the offending legislation in the appendix
==References==
Category:Creationism
Category:Assessing pseudoscience
Category:United States Supreme Court cases
Category:First Amendment cases
Category:Constitutional law
Category:Teach the controversy