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Emma Goldman

Emma Goldman was an influential Lithuanian-born American atheist, feminist, and anarcho-communist, who was known for her multiple arrests for birth control advocacy and education. 
=="Red Emma"==
Goldman founded the journal Mother Earth, where she supported Margaret Sanger's arguments supporting birth control, a decision that led to her repeated arrests for violating the Comstock laws. She was imprisoned for opposing the draft during World War One and then deported back to Russia under the Anarchist Exclusion Act. There, she rapidly became unhappy with the Bolshevik regime and left Russia, denouncing their actions in a two-part book. After this, she lived in various European countries, supporting the anarchists in the Spanish Civil War. She was then among the most well-known anarchists in the US during this era,"Emma Goldman and A. Berkman Behind the Bars" New York Times, 16 June 1917. and dubbed "Red Emma" by the mainstream media. In an era when the anarchist movement was "serious business", Goldman became well known for her spirited defense of fun. Perhaps her best known comment is "If I can't dance I don't want to be in your revolution."This was not an actual quotation, but a paraphrase invented by a journalist. She was long-term partners with her fellow anarchist Alexander Berkman until his death. Goldman herself died in Toronto, Canada. 
==Beliefs==
Goldman was very active during the heyday of first-wave feminism. She was notable among American feminists of her day for being openly hostile towards the suffragettes, advocating a far more radical anarcha-feminism. She was an admirer of both Nietzsche and Max Stirner, incorporating their ideas both into her criticisms of ChristianityEmma Goldman, The Failure of Christianity. Mother Earth, May 1913. and marriage and gender relations.
Goldman is widely credited with originating the expression "if voting changed anything they'd make it illegal", though there is no evidence that she ever said or wrote this.Dan Evon, 'If Voting Made a Difference, They Wouldn't Let Us Do It'. Snopes, 24 May 2016.
===Regarding marriage===
Goldman was an early advocate of extending marriage privileges to same-sex couples (and unmarried, mixed-gender couples, and just about any other combination of humans) and was strongly critical of laws restricting divorce. She stated, "I believe in the marriage of affection. That is the only true marriage. If two people care for each other they have a right to live together so long as that love exists. When it is dead what base immorality for them still to keep together!"Interview with the New York World, 17 September 1893.
===Christianity===
Goldman claimed that the primary purpose of religion in general and Christianity specifically was to perpetuate class distinctions and prevent proletariat revolution:
==Notes==
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EmoTrance

EmoTrance is the worst music ever made "the newest energy modality in the world, created by REAL people for REAL people".Silvia Hartmann, "What Is EmoTrance?", EmoTrance.com.
When an alternative therapy is introduced in these terms, you pretty much know what to expect, and the EmoTrance website, from which the above quotes are taken, provides few surprises. Like most CAM sites, it is heavily geared towards a target market of uncritical cranks and flakes, and makes free use of jargon like "energy modalities" and "energy body" with no real attempt to ground its assertions in any scientific framework. This is unsurprising since one of the theory's core tenets is the belief that "People make decisions based not on logic, but on emotions".Silvia Hartman, "The EmoTrance Primer", EmoTrance.com.
The theory and technique of EmoTrance were created by "Doctor" Silvia Hartmann, who also works in NLP and EFT. Despite being referred to as Dr. Silvia Hartmann throughout her websites, Hartmann does not appear to hold any genuine academic credentials, aside from the "Doctorate In Energy" she awarded herself at the Universal Life Church.Silvia Hartmann, "A Doctorate In Energy", SilviaHartmann.com.
The Wikipedia page for Silvia Hartmann was deleted first in August 2008 for 'blatant advertising' and then again in June 2013 due to low notability,https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silvia_Hartmann and problems relating to it being a fringe theory, where reference was also made to EmoTrance as not being technically created by Hartmann as she simply expanded on someone else's work.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Silvia_Hartmann
An "EmoTrance" project at a Middlesex, UK school was denounced in Times Higher Education by two "senior academics" as "psychobabble" that impairs students' ability to understand science. Say no to counseling, kids, but yes to healing by Adi Bloom (13 November 2009) TES Newspaper (Archive.org copy June 20, 2012).
==External links==
*Official EmoTrance website
*Silvia Hartmann's website
==References==
Category:Alternative medicine
Category:Psychology
Category:Alternative medicine promoters
Emotional Freedom Technique

The Emotional Freedom Technique is a pseudopsychiatric therapy that purports to heal the mind and claims to cure a wide variety of psychological and physical problems using the hypothesis theory behind acupuncture. The therapist attempts to manipulate the body's energy field by tapping on acupuncture points to manipulate meridians while a specific traumatic memory is focused on.
It was invented by Gary Craig, a Stanford-educated engineer, who kept a tight control of his invention until he suddenly retired some time ago. It is derived from Thought field therapy, which is derived from acupuncture and a chiropractic practice called applied kinesiology, a practice that lacks scientific support, and is based on muscle testing.Thought Field Therapy TFT Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) (Rick Ross forums) — Monica Pignotti is an ex-Scientologist and active critic who knows her shit. Although Pignotti is both an ex-Scientologist (involved in the 1970s) and ex-TFT practitioner (involved in the 1990s-early 2000s), the two are not related. TFT is not in any way related to or derived from Scientology. TFT was invented by psychologist Roger Callahan after he studied applied kinesiology with a chiropractor.
EFT claims to solve help with any manner of emotional challenge. It even claims to solve physical diseases, including of course cancer. Furthermore, you can actually use it on animals! It claims that it will eliminate negative emotions, eliminate overeating, reduce pain, and program the person for positive goals.
 
Surprisingly enough, it doesn't work, or when it appears to, it is probably due to the placebo effect. It achieves the same effects as tapping on people at random in a manner that completely ignores the theory.Waite WL & Holder MD (2003). "Assessment of the Emotional Freedom Technique: An Alternative Treatment for Fear." The Scientific Review of Mental Health Practice 2 (1). Despite the startling lack of evidence, it's available on the NHS.Help yourself (Oliver Burkeman rips EFT a new one in the Guardian)
==See also==
*Acupressure
*EmoTrance
==External links==
*http://emofree.com (will not rid you of teenagers with floppy fringes playing My Chemical Romance records on loop)
==References==
Category:Alternative medicine
Category:Psychology
Category:Engineer woo
Category:Pseudopsychology
Encyclopedia of American Loons

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The Encyclopedia of American Loons (EAL) is a blog written by Fredrik Haraldsen,Welcome to the Encyclopedia of American Loons! (May 5, 2010)Fredrik Haraldsen Facebook. Ryan Lake,Encyclopedia of American Loons (December 2010)chaospet About and someone with the initials "G.D."Encyclopedia of American Loons (December 2018) that gives short biographies for living (at the time of blogging) American pseudoscientists, conspiracy theory promoters (such as 9/11 truthers and birthers), climate change deniers, anti-vaxxers, vehement anti-abortionists, and religious fundamentalists. Loons who have migrated from other countries to the US, particularly from Canada, are also included. Between 2010 and 2019, more than 2200 biographies have been written. The length and quality of each biography varies, and some biographies do reference RationalWiki. Other frequent references include links to Patheos, Respectful Insolence, and Right Wing Watch. All biographies end with a "diagnosis", the author's evaluation of the crank, a metric of how ultimately dangerous the crank is. EAL includes both well-known loons and more obscure ones, and does not use notability as a criterion though the better-known seem to be favored. Older biographies are prone to using dead links, but one can probably trace back most of them using archive.org or archive.is. Blogging of loons appear alphabetically, then cycle all over with a new alphabetical batch. Belittling so many lunatics will garner some fan mail occasionally:Fan-mail Time (February 23, 2011) EAL
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*Encyclopedia of American Loons
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*:Essay:Why notability is stupid and I hate it
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Category:Alternative medicine lists
Category:Alternative medicine promoters
Category:Blogs
Category:Christian apologists
Category:Creationists
Category:Conspiracy theorists
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*Thomas Ice, "pretribulationism"#189: Thomas Ice (April 9, 2011) EAL
*Max Igan, New World Order conspiracies, pseudoscience#790: Max Igan (November 13, 2013) EAL
*Jack Van Impe, televangelist, multiple end of the world predictions#791: Jack Van Impe (November 13, 2013) EAL
*Deirdre Imus, antivaxxer, cancer woo#792: Deirdre Imus (November 14, 2013) EAL
*James Inhofe, Congresscritter, "God, guns, and gays"#190: James Inhofe (April 11, 2011) EAL
*Tony Isaacs, alt-med, NaturalNews#793: Tony Isaacs (November 15, 2013) EAL
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*Dana Ullman, homeopathy#393: Dana Ullman (January 26, 2013) EAL
*Leslee Unruh, anti-abortion extremist#394: Leslee Unruh (January 27, 2013) EAL
*Fred Upton, Congress critter, climate change denialist#1226: Fred Upton(?) (December 2, 2014) EAL
*Glen Urquhart, theocrat#1227: Glen Urquhart (December 3, 2014) EAL
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Energy Polarizer

The Energy Polarizer is a box containing a crystal that is claimed to increase fuel efficiency. It is an example of automotive woo.
==Origins==
In 1986, Australian motor racing driver Peter Brock unveiled a device called an Energy Polarizer, which consisted of a black box containing a sliver of crystal surrounded by magnets, with promises it could improve the fuel performance and handling of any car which uses it. Despite no scientific testing of it, Brock claimed it worked through "aligning the molecules" of the car, and began fitting the device to all (General Motors) Holden Dealer Team specials. Other benefits claimed by the device included absorbing road shocks more completely and quietly, to reduce overall vehicle noises — both inside and outside — to achieve greater efficiency of the power train and steering systems, improving the engine and suspension performance and to create a more pleasant environment for the driver and passenger.
==Failure and downfall==
On the eve of the 1987 Australian Touring Car Championship, Brock was ready to release a new car called the Brock Director — a GM-based Brock car with the device as standard. With the Energy Polarizer failing to deliver any improvements in efficiency as promised, Holden refused to have anything to do with it, and after many threats from GMH to withdraw all support from Brock and the Mobile Holden Dealer team if he went ahead with the release of the car, Brock released the Brock Director in February 1987. On 23rd February 1987, Holden withdrew all support to Brock and the Brock Special Vehicles empire was gone along with his reputation.Brock Energy Polarizer Returns by Paul Gover (17 October 2011) CarsGuide.com.au
An Energy Polarizer is also included in the modern throwbacks; however, this is just for posterity.VL VE Group A Plus Pack
==See also==
*Crystal woo
==References==
Category:Automotive woo
English Democratic Party

The English Democratic Party is a fringe right-wing political party based in the United Kingdom. It is notable largely for the hideous design of its website, which manages to outdo Timecube in terms of incoherence.
The party was founded in 1994http://www.englishdemocraticparty.org.uk/public_html/aboutus.html and is chaired by Michael Gibbs.http://www.englishdemocraticparty.org.uk/public_html/speach.html Gibbs represented the EDP in the 1997 general election;http://www.englishdemocraticparty.org.uk/public_html/general97.html the party also stood in the 1999 European parliamentary election.http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/euros_99/regional_html/full_sop.stm
Officially, the EDP is a mainstream Eurosceptic party, but the further one digs into its website the more crankery can be found. It believes that 9/11 and the 7 July 2005 London bombings were inside jobs carried out at the behest of the Illuminati and Bilderberg Group;http://www.englishdemocraticparty.org.uk/public_html/attachments/attachments_1500.html-911-BOMBINGShttp://www.englishdemocraticparty.org.uk/public_html/attachments/attachments_1501.html-7-7%20LONDON claims that UKIP and the BNP are both Masonic puppets of the European Union;http://www.englishdemocraticparty.org.uk/public_html/christianpolitics06.html holds that the Illuminati are hiding the existence of extraterrestrials and planning to kill 80% of the world's populationhttp://www.englishdemocraticparty.org.uk/public_html/attachments/attachments_1855-GOVERNMENT%20WITHHELD%20INFORMATION%20ON%20UFO%27S%20AND%20EXTRA-TERRESTIALS.html so that the survivors can be placed under the rule of a "Satanic world corporation";http://www.englishdemocraticparty.org.uk/public_html/INDEX021210%20old%20format.html and provides links to such resources as Jew Watch and David Icke's website.
==External links==
*Official website
==References==
Category:Antisemitism
Category:British political parties
Category:Conspiracy theorists
Category:Far-right political parties
Category:Nationalism in the UK
Category:Racism
English Democrats

The English Democrats (ED) is a minor, far-right, Eurosceptic, English nationalist political partyEnglish Democrats The Electoral ComissionEnglish Democrats UK Parliament founded in 1997 by wealthy solicitor from the Campaign for an English Parliament pressure group as a continuation of the defunct English National Party and reformed under its current name in 2002 following the formation of the Scottish Parliament, Welsh Parliament and Northern Ireland Assembly to push for a similarly devolved parliament for England (thereby solving the West Lothian Question). Other policies include a points-based immigration system;http://www.voteenglish.org/policies-immigration.html and "an end to political correctness".http://www.voteenglish.org/policies-political-correctness.html
The English Democrats party has been associated by some critics with the BNP. Although the party's policies do not contain the same racist angle, there is an overlap in terms of membership. There have been reports that almost 43% of English Democrats candidates in the 2012 local elections have been involved with the BNP, but this claim has not been confirmed.http://www.hopenothate.org.uk/blog/article/1735/english-democrats-in-our-sights They received some negative public attention in 2009 when they shared a platform with the far-right England First Party,http://richardaitkins.wordpress.com/2011/04/12/three-reasons-not-to-vote-english-democrats/ and have been widely criticised in the blogosphere for failing to keep Steve Uncles on a lead.
The party's main political success was in getting one of its members, Peter Davies, elected as mayor of Doncaster in 2009. He left the party in early 2013, citing the amount of ex-BNP members in the English Democrats as the reason.http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-21335384
The party has subsequently sort to opportunistically expand it's influence, absorbing vanity UKIP splinter in 2015, forming a formal election pact under the name Patriots Alliance with the far-right remnants of the once mighty UK Independence Party itself in 2023, and co-running candidates with far-right, fascist, neo-Nazi and white nationalist hate group Patriotic Alternative in the 2024 UK general election.
==See also==
* Steve Uncles
* Julia Gasper
==External links==
* Official website
==References==
Category:British political parties
English First

"English First" is an organization within the English-only movement whose mission is to make English the official language of the United States of America. It is headed by racist gun nut Larry Pratt. 
==Agenda==
English First holds that learning English is a "moral obligation" and that any attempt "to give foreign languages the same status as English" - that is, to provide bilingual materials or education to help immigrant families learn - is unpatriotic. 
Working with Rep. Toby Roth (R-WI) and Rep. Peter King (R-NY), English First attempted to draft federal legislation - H.R. 739 and H.R. 1005 - that would repeal both the Bilingual Education Act and the bilingual provisions of the Voting Rights Act.English First Founder Linked to White Supremacists, Language Policy (This probably has something to do with Pratt's fear that Hispanic immigrants are part of a Democratic plot to gain votes.Reform Will Grant Citizenship to a 'Gazillion' Immigrants Who'll Be 'Sitting Around Drawing Welfare and Voting Democrat', Right Wing Watch)
English First tries to cover up their thinly-veiled racism with the line that their motivation is "costs," but it's not hard to notice their curious fixation on Hispanic immigrants...The Mission of English First, English First
==External Links==
*English First
==References==
Category:Racism
Enlightenment fundamentalism

Enlightenment fundamentalism refers to the idea that people who follow enlightened beliefs can be fundamentalist about them and a literal oxymoron if one assumes that fundamentalism is by definition not something that enlightened people like. The term has been defined in many exhaustive ways including:
#People that interpret texts literally dating from the Enlightenment period, in a similar way to those who literally interpret texts from the Bible.http://qlipoth.blogspot.be/2006/09/enlightenment-fundamentalism.html
#The wave of "New Atheism" as popularized by Richard Dawkins, which has apparently its origins in writers that wrote in the 18th century during a period which is understood as the Enlightenment.https://seerstone.wordpress.com/2011/07/10/enlightenment-fundamentalism/
#People who believe that a nation would be better off if it was based on secular humanism. Therefore, anything that is not humanist has to be removed from the nation.http://www.academia.edu/5689374/Enlightenment_Fundamentalism_Zafer_%C5%9Eenocak_Navid_Kermani_and_Multiculturalism_in_Germany_Today
All of these categories have been used to refer those who oppose the immigration of Muslims to the West using arguments that have their origins within perceptions that were popular during the Enlightenment. Anything not enlightened is therefore, according to them, a threat that must be defended against.
==Criticism==
The term is misleading as it seems to imply all philosophies that existed during the time period. If one analyses debates revolving around these principles more closely, one would find out that they largely base themselves on the philosophy of Immanuel Kant and more or less ignore the other stuff. There would have been enlightened philosophers that would have been in favor of that kind of immigration, as is the case with Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, who argued that patriotism must be set aside and that people must be open to people from all over the world.
There is also the fact that Muslim societies based on Enlightenment values have existed (e.g. Turkey), as well as individual Muslims with enlightened ideas. Enlightenment can therefore not be a sufficiently significant cause to be the solely defining factor in the debate of immigration.
==Conclusion==
Enlightenment promotes tolerance, humanism and freedom for all people. Questioning the Enlightenment is definitely valuable as it tells us a lot about the issue of immigration and what it is like to be a foreigner in Europe today, but as can be seen from the reasoning, the Enlightenment can be but a small subset of the larger picture in the debate and can not conclusively enough define the opposition to Muslim immigration that the country faces and provides in many ways arguments against that same opposition. We should remember it fondly, but also move on with our lives now.
==See also==
* Secular religions: A similar oxymoron.
==References==
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Enneagram

The enneagram (sometimes Fourth Way Enneagram or enneagon) is most known as a pseudopsychological personality profile system – but is supposedly also a means to represent all knowledge. It was created by an Armenian mystic who lived during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, as part of his larger spiritual teaching called the "Fourth Way."
==Fourth Way==
The Fourth Way is said to be a form of Christian mysticism. It is also influenced by theosophy, eastern religious philosophy, existentialism, and more. While formally recognizing the Christian god, it claimed that only extremely difficult "work on the self" under the direction of a great teacher like Gurdjieff himself could lead to salvation. It had a very elaborate woo cosmology, with similarities to other Western esoteric teachings.
Gurdjieff considered the shape of the enneagram to be sacred because it could supposedly explain all things in the Universe. Thus, the original use of the enneagram extended far beyond just being a way to categorize personality.
==Personality profiling==
During the 20th century, the enneagram became popular in personality profiling and marketed by people who dropped the rest of Gurdjieff's Fourth Way woo. The enneagram as it has been popularized today was developed based on Gurdjieff's original idea by a couple of figures from the Human Potential Movement, Oscar Ichazo and Claudio Naranjo. Sometimes it is presented as a straight, "serious, scientific" personality test and at others it comes attached with whatever brand of mysticism the woo-meister is peddling. It often appears on New Age sites or those vaguely spiritual self-help texts. Occasionally, it will be used as an actual personality test by ignorant employers.
According to the enneagram of personality, every personality type has a different basic desire, basic fear, temptation, vice, and virtue. Because of the pseudoscientific nature of the test, different words or attributes will sometimes be used for the more minor categories, but the basic desires and fears are constant in most instances of the test. These nine types are (listed as type name: basic desire, basic fear):
*Reformer: integrity, evil
*Helper: unconditional love, unworthiness of love
*Achiever: value to others, worthlessness
*Individualist: uniqueness, commonality
*Investigator: competence, uselessness
*Loyalist: safety, isolation
*Enthusiast: experience, boredom
*Challenger: autonomy, loss of control
*Peacemaker: stability, annihilation
It's easy to see that the divisions are rather arbitrary, with a large dash of vagueness and overlap between the categories. Like any personality test, the more vague it is, the more susceptible to the Forer effect it is. The enneagram is not generally considered to be of any value by mainstream psychologists.
==External links==
*Enneagram Institute
*Enneagram entry at the Skeptic's Dictionary
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Category:Esotericism
Category:Personality trait woo
Category:Pseudopsychology
Category:Psychoanalysis