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August Kreis III

August Kreis III is a longtime neo-Nazi who was a former leader in the Posse Comitatus and the Aryan Nations. In the 1990s, he was infamous for appearing on The Jerry Springer Show, and after making an ass out of himself, was kicked off for insulting Springer's mother, referring to her as a lampshade,"Racist Kids," The Jerry Springer Show, 4 Feb. 1993 and "A Racist Family", The Jerry Springer Show, 20 Feb. 1991 a reference to rumored hobby of making lampshades from the skin of concentration camp inmates.
During the 2000s, he attempted to form an alliance between the Aryan Nations and Al-Qaeda, but Al-Qaeda did not accept his offer.https://www.fbi.gov/columbia/press-releases/2011/white-supremacist-pleads-guilty-in-veterans-affairs-pension-casehttp://edition.cnn.com/2005/US/03/29/schuster.column/
In 2011 he was convicted for pension fraud by the federal government.
In 2015 he was convicted on three counts of child molestation and sentenced to 50 years in prison. At his sentencing, he urged everyone present to vote for Donald Trump for president.KKK member sentenced to 50 years for sexually assaulting 3 minors
==References==
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Augustine of Hippo

Augustine of Hippo , otherwise known as St. Augustine, was the first great Christian philosopher or theologian. He was heavily influenced by Platonism, and wrote the extremely influential City of God Against the Pagans and the autobiographical Confessions, along with about a thousand other things.
It is often forgotten that Augustine was actually North African, specifically of Amazigh descent.
==Christians, don't be stupid==
Augustine is ripe for quote mining on all sides, due at least in part to the vast amount he wrote. But some statements key to Rationalwiki's mission include:
So even a major Christian theologian saw that biblical literalism is ridiculous—which is understandable, since literalism, in the dogmatic form we know it today, was not really a feature of Christian theology until the Protestant Reformation.
Contrary to popular opinion, however, Augustine believed in the young earth even if to be fair he was not alone in such belief in those times long before geology as we know it began to take shape. As he writes in Book 12, Chapter 10 of the City of God:
==Metaphysics==
In particular, he rejects the idea that the seven days were literal days, preferring instead to see them as a single instant, though he specifically rejects the contemporary non-Christian idea of deep time (in those days infinite time, over which the Earth and humanity had existed roughly unchanged). This underlies the acceptance of an old Earth by Catholics,Some Catholics, particularly those living in certain Protestant-dominated countries, might disagree. Eastern Orthodox, and some Protestants.
==See also==
*Augustinian hypothesis
==External links==
*Works of Augustine of Hippo in Latin and English on Wikisource
==Notes==
==References==
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Category:Philosophers
Category:Romans
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Aura

An aura is a "magical field" supposedly emitted by a human body. It is claimed that some people can not only see an aura, but use it to diagnose anything from illness to mental problems. 
==Testing==
When James Randi's $1 million challenge tested the ability of someone to identify people based on aura alone (by obscuring them behind a screen), the individual failed to correctly identify who was behind the screens. His work, therefore, was no better than a guess.James Randi Tests An Aura Reader It was also shown that the auras on the photos were simply moisture emitted by the skin, highlighted by a high-voltage electric current run through the subjects' bodies.http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2004/04/29/1095552.htm
Another experiment involved an aura reader and a number of slots containing either actual people or mannequins. She was supposed to determine which slots contain real people, but she failed, stating that all slots contained people."Auras". The Skeptic's Dictionary. 5 December 2006. Archive
==Other explanations==
Explanations for why people may claim to see auras vary wildly. The simplest case is that "aura readers" are outright liars or deluded. This is unsurprising, as people will pay good money for alternative quackery to diagnose and/or cure them. Naturalistic explanations for the apparent appearance of "auras" include:
*visual side effects of common conditions such as — a condition where people's senses are confused or combined, such as "seeing" sounds or perceiving letters/numbers as having color, etc. 
* which can also plausibly cause "auras".
==You can see them too!==
Yes, you! Just stare at your hand for a few seconds, preferably in dim light, and you'll see a light outline around it. Of course, you can easily check that it works equally well with inanimate objects. It's actually an resulting from eye tiredness. Nothing magical about it, sorry.
==In reality?==
Humans do give off radiation. Well, yes — but this is, in simple terms, just heat and is detected in the infra-red range. However, this is far, far beyond the detection abilities of the human eye. Some recent research in Japan has indicated that human bodies do give off light in the visible region of the electromagnetic spectrum, but at a level 1000 times lower than what the naked and unassisted human eye can detect. It is thought that this may be due to free-radical reactions in the skin, which are known to be able to emit photons at a visible frequency, but do not occur frequently enough to be detected without very specialized equipment. Internet-based idiots, of course, are quick to pounce on this sort of research, ignoring pretty much everything about the research but the eye-catching media headlines.
==See also==
*Kirlian photography
*Noetic science
*Other ways of knowing
==References==
Aurelio J. Figueredo

Aurelio José Figueredo is an evolutionary psychologist. His research has been funded in part by the far-right Pioneer Fund. As Professor of Psychology at the University of Arizona, Figueredo controversially accepted at least $458,000 from the Pioneer Fund, and partly used the money to attend the pseudoscientific London Conference on Intelligence alongside white supremacists; for this he has been widely criticized: 
Responding to criticism, Figueredo stated that he doesn't believe in racial inferiority and denounces eugenics. He added that he didn't feel his research was doing harm, even in light of taking cash from the Pioneer Fund. Regarding the London Conference on Intelligence, he stated it was "not about eugenics", although some presentations there were. (See: London Conference on Intelligence § Woodley et al. 2018.)
==Personality trait research==
Figueredo co-authored a 1997 paper with James E. King which applied to chimpanzees residing in zoos. Chimps were judged based on dozens of adjectives, including: "clumsy", "autistic", "stingy", and "manipulative". King and Figueredo anticipate skepticism towards the paper, but aim to dispel it. Even among humans, "Big Five" personality measures may not hold the same validity between cultures.
==London Conference on Intelligence papers==
===2015===
===2016===
 
==Allegations of racism==
Although Figueredo denies allegations of racism, he sits on the Advisory Board of the Mankind Quarterly (a racist pseudoscholarly journal in which he has also co-authored multiple articles) although he commented in 2018 that he was not involved with reviewing racially charged papers, per AZCentral.Michael Kunzelman (August 24, 2018). "University of Arizona accepted $458,000 from infamous eugenics fund". The Arizona Republic. The Associated Press. In 2009 he co-authored a paper with the Pioneer Fund’s president at the time, J. Philippe Rushton (died 2012) who was infamous for race and IQ pseudoscience. In 2018, Figueredo co-signed a letter alongside many others (again, see: London Conference on Intelligence § Woodley et al. 2018) critical of criticism towards hereditarian papers; the letter especially characterizes Stephen Jay Gould's book, The Mismeasure of Man, as a case of apparent "controversialization" of intelligence research, creating what the letter says is a chilling effect.
==See also==
* Adam Perkins
* Jan te Nijenhuis
==External links==
* Aurelio Figueredo, University of Arizona
* Google Scholar citations
==References==
Category:Living people
Category:Pseudoscience promoters
Category:Psychologists
Australian Defence League

The Australian Defence League (ADL) is an Australian organisation that claims to be "Standing up Against Islam now, not when its too late" (yes, this is the spelling that they use). They seem to be inspired by the English Defence League.
== Members ==
The organisation is led by Ralph Cerminara. He claims that he served in the Australian Defence Force where he claims he was "dishonorably discharged". However, numerous sources call this claim false.http://www.news.com.au/national/ralph-cerminara-soldier-who-warned-of-another-cronulla-riot-is-a-fraud-according-to-military-impostors-website/story-fncynjr2-1227054102752 The group has also had the support of other nationalist organisations and prominent figures, including Reclaim Australia, the United Patriots Front; many of their members also consider themselves members of the ADL, and these groups regularly protest together.
== Lulz == 
The ADL is almost never able to get off the ground. An anti-ADL organisation established itself, known as "Aussies Against the Australian Defence League". Given the inflammatory nature of postings of the ADL on its Facebook pages, ridding Facebook of the ADL has been relatively easy.
On December 23, 2014, Ralph Cerminara was charged for being a public nuisance when he attended a protest following the 2014 Sydney Siege. He was refused bail https://au.news.yahoo.com/nsw/a/25842354/australian-defence-league-head-ralph-cerminara-charged-over-brawl-in-lakemba-sydney/. This is despite the fact that the organisation posted a call to action on its Facebook page. Of course, nobody turned up, and the page was pulled down. 
"The last thing this community needs, bearing in mind what's happened in recent days, is boofheads like this stirring up a certain section of the community,"http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-12-23/australian-defence-league-members-denied-bail-over-lakemba-brawl/5986264
==References==
Category:Australia
Category:Islamophobia
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Australopithecus sediba

Australopithecus sediba was possibly another transitional species between humans and earlier apes.
==Bugs and features==
Sediba could likely climb better than later hominids, despite also walking upright.Australopithecus Sediba
Its brain was relatively small, possibly smaller than average for Australopithecus afarensis.African fossils put new spin on human origins story
A. sediba had a relatively human-like hand, with a grip which may indicate tool use.Australopithecus sediba hand demonstrates mosaic evolution of locomotor and manipulative abilitiesPart ape, part human.
==Human, after all?==
Given the existence of primitive human species such as Homo floresiensis and Homo habilis, both of which display features more primitive than what even Homo erectus displays, some have argued that Au. sediba should be included within the genus Homo,Australopithecus sediba may be an ancestor of modern humansCaveman from 2m years ago may be missing link even though Au. sediba displays traits more reminiscent of the australopithecines than of humans, such as a brain size to body ratio roughly similar to modern chimpanzees.Australopithecus sediba: can we stop calling it a 'missing link? However, as mentioned above, the hand grip of Au. sediba displays features suggesting it was a tool maker, and oddly enough stone tools have been found to predate the appearance of Homo by almost a million years,"Oldest Stone Tools Predate Earliest Humans" - BBC so the jury's still out on this one. To be frank this entire dispute can go back to the fact that Homo lacks a precise definition, because when Linnaeus first came up with the genus Homo he didn't think there would be any new species of human to ever be discovered, since this was before Darwin's day.
==External links==
*EA-CCC-09, Australopithecus sediba — Data from a 3D scan of A. sediba fossil hand bones
==References==
Category:Hominids
Category:Biology
Category:Transitional fossils
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Author

An author is the person credited with:
*Writing a book or piece of journalism.
*Creating an electronic document or section thereof (e.g. a website, blog, or wiki article).
*Originating a theory (Charles Darwin is the author of the theory of evolution.)
Note that the person recognised as the author is not invariably solely responsible for the work: 
*Most published books and articles are edited, sometimes this editing is very heavy-handed.
*Celebrity "autobiographies" are often ghostwritten by more proficient writers.
*Electronic documents, by their very nature, are likely to be modified (sometimes beyond all recognition) by third parties.
*Theories rarely emerge wholly from one source. Darwin was merely the first to clearly state an idea which was being discussed by several scientists at the time.
In the legalistic sense of the word, an author need not be a writer — or even a human being. For instance, Ansel Adams was the "author" of many fine photographs, and a movie studio is often credited as the legal "author" of a film it produces.
:The United States Copyright Office defines copyright as "a form of protection provided by the laws of the United States (title 17, U.S. Code) to authors of "original works of authorship".
Some people credit God as the ultimate author — of the universe, and of religion's holy books. 
Unauthorised publication of an author's work is plagiarism.
 
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Autism Research Institute

The Autism Research Institute is an organization that promotes the idea that autism can be "cured" through extensive behavior modification. They were formerly known as Defeat Autism Now!ARI conference homepage They appear on Quackwatch's list of "questionable research entities".List of Questionable Organizations Even Jenny McCarthy's Generation Rescue agree that they are quacks, refusing to give grants to anyone who consults them.Generation Rescue Biomedical Grant Application You know what they say about stopped clocks…
Nevertheless, Charity Navigator gives them 4/4 stars,Charity Navigator: Autism Research Institute proving that you should take Charity Navigator ratings with a grain of salt.
==History==
Dr. Bernard Rimland founded the Autism Research Institute, believing that autism was caused not by poor parenting but by vaccines,Why the Defeat Autism Now (DAN!) Protocol Was Discontinued and autistic children needed detoxing.A Critical Look at Defeat Autism Now! and the "DAN! Protocol"
The "Defeat Autism Now!" protocol involved bizarre biomedical "treatments" such as hyperbaric oxygen therapy, chelation therapy, and restrictive diets. The Autism Research Institute is also looking into behavioral curing and genetic causes of autism.
==See also==
*Anti-vaccination movement
*Applied behavior analysis
*Chelation therapy
*Hyperbaric oxygen therapy
==References==
Category:Autism woo
Category:Anti-vaccination movement
Category:Mental health woo
Category:Ableism
Autodynamics

Autodynamics was a theory designed to replace the Theory of Relativity in the 1940s. It didn't work. Its main tenet states that the Lorentz transformation equations used in mainstream science are formulated incorrectly, causing special relativity and general relativity equations to be invalid.Their site It also holds that the neutrino does not exist, despite the fact that both neutrinos and antineutrinos have been detected,Archive.org (2015): Their claim that there are other particles which have not been observed by mainstream physics such as the "picograviton" and the "electromuon", and that there are other models of decay for muons. It is completely rejected by the mainstream scientific community, mainly because not only does it not have good evidence, there is very, very good evidence against it (such as the existence of something it says doesn't exist).Philipkoski, Kristen (1999-07-13). "Shedding Light in the Dark". Wired. Retrieved on 2008-02-07.
==Grains of truth==
Autodynamics is almost certainly correct in saying that there are particles we do not know about. This is due to the stopped clock phenomenon. However, they are probably incorrect about the properties of these undiscovered particles.
==Light speed==
Autodynamics also contends that faster than light travel is possible.Their site While many theoretical ideas exist for sneaking around the light barrier, autodynamics makes accelerating past light speed as easy as accelerating past Mach 1.
==Gravity==
Autodynamics contends that gravity is caused by particles they call 'pico-gravitons.' This appears to be roughly analogous to the graviton. Their website says, "Even though Einstein described his 'General Theory of Relativity' which describes gravity as a warping of space and time, it like Newton's gravity equation, does not give a mechanism to it. That is, their [sic] is no explanation for what causes gravity, just a description." This is actually true, but subsequent theories such as graviton theory have explained it.Their site
==See also==
* David de Hilster
==References==
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Avastin

Avastin (Bevacizumab) is a drug used to treat cancers by attacking their blood supply. It costs a fortune and doesn't work terribly well.
It was originally approved for the treatment of colorectal cancer in 2005. Genentech (owned by Roche) has been steadily applying for approval for other cancers. This includes breast (approved), eye (approved), renal (approved), lung (approved), and are working on many others.
Strangely it has become a lightning rod in the death panel discussions because it is not covered by public insurance. What isn't mentioned is that it has never been covered by any insurance company. This is largely because it is one of the most expensive medications ever approved by the FDA, running over $100,000 a year (or ~$4,000 for the shot every 14 days). Also original studies have placed the improvement in lifespan in colorectal cancer at around 3 months, while use for other cancers have shown so little improvement the FDA and advisory panels (originally advisory panels voted against ithttp://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/22/business/apee-drug.html?_r=1) are looking for additional data not to revoke their approval. It also comes with some tremendous side effects, such as not being able to heal well from normal injuries and worsening of coronary/peripheral artery diseases.
Somehow it's a death panel only if public insurance companies do not cover it, but good business practices if private insurers don't.http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/7948878/US-breast-cancer-drug-decision-marks-start-of-death-panels.html
==References==
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Avicenna

Abū ‘Alī al-Ḥusayn ibn ‘Abd Allāh ibn Sīnā , commonly known in the Middle East as Ibn Sīnā and in the West by his Latinized name Avicenna, was a Persian (not Arab) polymath and scholar of damn near everything and had a brain the size of a planet. He is renowned in the Middle East the way the greatest of the ancient Greeks are in the West.
He was mostly a physician. Amongst his 150 surviving treatises on various topics, at least 40 are on medicine. He compiled The Canon of Medicine, his 14-volume medical encyclopedia, which remained a medical authority for several hundred years and was used as a set text in European medical schools until the 18th century. This was at the cutting edge of medical knowledge, such as it was, in his time, but is now used mostly as excuses and an appeal to long history by alternative medicine practitioners, which is far less reputation than he deserves.
He was considered one of the "virtuous pagans" by Florentine writer Dante Alighieri, appearing in Limbo in The Divine Comedy, alongside figures including Aristotle, Julius Caesar, Ovid, and Saladin.Inferno, Canto IV, Line 143
== Avicenna's religious life in a nutshell ==
Avicenna, like every single person in this world, was born an atheist. Unsurprisingly, he spent his childhood and his early adulthood adhering to and practicing the religion of his parents, i.e., Islam. It is during these years that he came up with the However, he soon turned against his early belief system and started criticizing Islam, and in a wider context, religion. He then became an atheist, which made him a target for religious nuts. He did not cave in, and fought back until the time came when the ruling caliph of his time was tipped off that Avicenna no longer believed in Islam, which was and remains a sin punishable by death in Islam, and that he had to kill Avicenna. To escape imminent death, Avicenna had to write a poem stating his religiosity and that "if I am a Kafir (i.e., a person not believing in a god or gods), then there are no Muslims walking the earth". However, what he actually believed was this: "The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit."Historical Humanists- Avicenna. The Elegant Athiest, 12 July 2012. However, because of his great influence, many Islamic texts and websites claim that he indeed was a Muslim and died one. No, he did not.Claims about Ibn Sina being an atheist or Kafir. islamweb.net He had the misfortune of living in a time and place with virtually no freedom of religion, meaning that he had to conceal his true opinions just to survive, let alone be taken seriously.
==Notes==
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Axel Stoll

Axel Stoll (30 October 1948 - 28 July 2014)Dr. Axel Stoll hat den Strafplaneten verlassen was an extreme right-wing (or more like neo-Nazi) esoteric German geophysicist and conspiracy theorist. He wrote many books, including "Hochtechnologie im Dritten Reich" ("High technology in the Third Reich") and "Das Wissen um die unterdrückte Physik — Ein Buch von Axel Stoll" ("The knowledge about suppressed physics — A book by Axel Stoll"), combining pseudo-science and various conspiracy theories, especially concerning the Third Reich and of course dealing in anti-Semitism| Axel Stoll quotes on lokaltermin.eu.
He received notoriety through the publication of Internet videos.
==Conspiracy theories==
===Second World War===
Several of Stoll's conspiracy theories centered on World War II. He thought that Germany colonized the Moon after the defeat of the Wehrmacht. He also claimed that the Nazis secretly settled New Swabia using their massively superior technology, including scalar waves and Nazi UFOs.
===Aldebaran and the races===
Stoll thought that the white race actually are aliens from the star that settled the Earth in the distant past and that the Earth is a jail planet for criminals. In his opinion, all other races are descendants of aliens sent to serve jail time on earth.
==References==
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