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Kirlian photography

Kirlian photography is a method of creating images by placing an object on a photographic plate and passing high-voltage, high-frequency electrical current through it, thus producing images of coronal discharge around the object's image on the plate. It's named after Semyon Kirlian (1898-1978), a Russian electrician with a scientific bent, who (re-)discovered the effect in 1939.Kirlian Photography and Auric Fields
==In pseudoscience==
Kirlian photography has little merit besides being a nice way to illustrate coronal discharge and making pretty cool pictures. Of course, that doesn't stop people trying to find un-scientific merit. Kirlian himself suggested that the images can be compared to an aura, and many New Agers seem to have run with this suggestion very literally.
Kirlian photography has been used as evidence of the existence of a "biofield". Kirlian himself had noted several changes in what he was photographing depending on conditions around him, and came up with various ideas such as bio-plasma that would link the results of his photographic technique with mood, s, and physical state.Fullspectrum.org (professional Kirlian photographers, apparently of the mostly non-bullshit kind) — About Kirlian David Bowie also noted changes, specifically before and after taking cocaine.David Bowie's Kirlian Photo, Before and After Using Cocaine Since then, it has been associated with energy flows, meridians, and alternative medicine treatments,Kirlian.org usually as a way of measuring , or evaluating people who claim various paranormal properties (Therapeutic touch, etc.).Mystica Changes in skin moisture and contact pressure are in fact the variables responsible for changes in the coronas, and Kirlian photography is therefore not a reliable measurement of health.Questionable Methods of Cancer Management: Electronic Devices by The American Cancer Society, CA Cancer J. Clin. 1994: 44, 115-127.
==External links==
*Kirlian photography at The Skeptic's Dictionary
*Kirlia at BulbapediaThe Pokémon Kirlia is named after Kirlian photography. There's a fun piece of trivia for you.
==See also==
*Radionics
==References==
==Notes==
Kirsan Ilyumzhinov

Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, a.k.a. Kirsan Nikolayevich Ilyumzhinov (Кирса́н Никола́евич Илюмжи́нов) or Ülümjin Kirsan (Үлүмҗин Кирсан) was the despotic President of the Republic of Kalmykia in the Russian Federation from 1993 to 2010 and has been the (rather controversial) President of Fédération Internationale des Échecs (FIDE, the World Chess Federation) from 1995 to 2015. He withdrew from FIDE in 2015 after the US Department of the Treasury named him as "materially assisting and acting for or on behalf of the Government of Syria, Central Bank of Syria, Adib Mayaleh, and Batoul Rida."Treasury Sanctions Networks Providing Support to the Government of Syria, Including For Facilitating Syrian Government Oil Purchases from ISIL 11/25/2015.
He is a member of the Kalmyk/Oirat nation (Kalmyk Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic), a people descended from Genghis Khan's Mongol hordes who wandered west to the Caspian to establish the only Buddhist nation in Europe.Kalmykia
During an April 26, 2010 television interview with Vladimir Pozner he claimed that he had been visited by extraterrestrials in his Moscow apartment in September 18, 1997.
==External links==
* State Duma Deputy asks President Medvedev to Investigate Loss of State Secrets to Aliens Moscow Times May 6, 2010
==References==
Category:Ufology
Category:Living people
Category:Russian politicians
Kissing Hank's Ass

Kissing Hank's Ass is an analogy highlighting the absurdities of blind faith in general and some of the basic tenets of Christianity specifically. The story was written by James Huber and is viewable at his website;Kissing Hank's Ass by James Huber a downloadable pamphlet was also available. The story has become quite popular in atheist circles, and of course there are the obligatory adaptations posted to YouTube and similar video services.
==Plot summary==
The story is about a conversation between two adherents of Hank and a stranger whose door they knocked on. The "Hankites" explain that Hank is a philanthropist who wants to give everyone one million dollars, but as the story unfolds it becomes clear that there are many rather strange conditions attached. Though nobody is allowed to see Hank, anyone who wants the million dollars must figuratively kiss Hank's ass, and must live according to Hank's rules — all without question. The rules are a mixture of common sense, nonsense, contradiction, hate, and pointless, esoteric dietary requirements. Furthermore, people only get the million dollars after they have left town, and Hank's rules forbid people who have left town from communicating with those in town, so people still in town must take everything on trust. People who decline Hank's generous offer will get the shit kicked out of them by Hank, while his loyal followers laugh and enjoy the spectacle.
==See also==
*Flying Spaghetti Monster
*Invisible Pink Unicorn
*Russell's Teapot
*Parody religion
==External links==
*James Huber's website
*Story transcript 
**Copy at rationalskepticism.org
*Story pamphlet (archived from the original on March 8, 2016)
*In Hebrew
*YouTube videos
**A direct enactment of the script -- posted in 2006
**The same video with Spanish subtitles
**Another interpretation from 2013
**A timestamp in Episode 505 of The Atheist Experience where Matt Dillahunty and Don Baker read the script on the air
**Russian re-enactment, 2015
Category:Parody religions
==References==
Category:Skepticism
Category:Arguments
Category:Existence of gods
Kitty Werthmann

Kitty Werthmann was the president of the South Dakota Eagle Forum, an anti-just-about-everything-sensible group founded by Phyllis Schlafly. 
Werthmann was born in Austria in 1926 and lived in German-occupied territory during the Holocaust.
She invariably blames liberals for implementing policies that would send the United States of America down the slippery slope into the Fourth Reich.http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/01/07/kitty-werthmann-history-distorted/ That doesn't stop her message from circulating across the internet via email and social media.The full message on Snopes.com 
Among the boogeymen that she blames for Adolf Hitler's successes include implementing gun control, equal rights for women, removing religious instruction from Germany's public education system, and anything even remotely close to socialism, communism or anarchism.
That Werthmann, Schlafly and the Eagle Forum preach little more than an American form of Kinder, Kuche, Kirche is an irony completely lost upon them.
==References==
Category:Pseudohistory
Category:Living people
Klaus Armstroff

Klaus Armstroff is a German neo-Nazi and leader of the far-right German political party Klaus was formerly part of the National Socialist wing of the (NPD), before starting The III. Path party. Outside politics, Klaus has children with his wife Dörthe Armstroff who was also a member of the NPD, and works as an electrician in Weidenthal.
==In politics== 
===National Democratic Party of Germany===
Ideologically Klaus considers himself a "national revolutionary". He represented the NPD in the district council of from 2009 to 2013. Klaus was also part of the NPD state executive board, leaving the post in 2013. When he stood as a candidate in South Palatinate in the 2013 general election he received 1.3 percent of the vote.Klaus Armstroff (NPD) Kandidat Bundestag 2013-2017 
Klaus was part of the more extreme faction of the NPD, however he left the party after disagreements with the party including with Markus Walter and Ricarda Riefling.
===Third Path===
The III. Path (German: Der III. Weg, or Der Dritte Weg) is a minor far-right and neo-Nazi political party in Germany, it was founded on September 28, 2013 in The founding members were mainly former NPD officials. Klaus was elected national chairman and has led the group since."THE III. WAY " — A far-right mini-party from the neo-Nazi Spectrum
The group was then expanded when activists from the banned Free Network South and parts of the free camaraderie then joined. They have ties with other far-right groups, including Hezbollah, and the Nordic Resistance Movement. The party mostly operates in Thuringia, Bavaria and Brandenburg.
==External links==
* Klaus Armstroff on German Wikipedia
* Klaus Armstroff on foiaresearch.net
==References==
Category:Antisemites
Category:Cult leaders
Category:Fascists
Category:Living people
Category:Neo-Nazis
Category:Racists
Knights Templar International

Knights Templar International is a far-right 'news' organization prevalent as shares on Facebook gutter pages. As hinted by their name, they claim to be defenders of Christianity against the Muslim invaders and haven't quite realised that the Third Crusade ended a while ago. This hate group is not to be confused with the benign Knights Templar, a Masonic organization which completely disavows Knights Templar International. 
==News==
KTI are known for their blatant manipulation of news stories and taking advantage of their followers' prejudices and (un)likelihood of reading past suggestive headlines. One article had them complain of the British Legion being banned from selling poppies at Birmingham city centre (yes that Birmingham), leading to a backlash of people blaming Muslims.Exposing Britain First. In reality it was a recycling of a five-year-old story on the Daily Telegraph about the city centre only allowing one charity group dominance of the centre per day (and lost out to a homeless charity).British Legion banned from selling poppies in city centre. Most recently, KTI were outed in the NY Times for attempting to manipulate the election in the USA toward Trump 
==Refugee crisis==
As a response to the Syrian refugee crisis, they have turned much darker by establishing a militia near the Turkish border. Intent on preventing safe passage or asylum for refugees. They have donned camouflage and rifles, donated to them by fellow Hungarian Neo-Nazis and European far-right parties such as Britain First. Ex-Calvinist minister Jim Dowson has come forward as an ardent supporter and has appeared in propaganda publicity shots for the group.DailyRecord — 'A fight of Christ': Scottish extremist backs armed thugs who hunt down asylum seekers.
The actual identities of KTI were confirmed by the anti-hate group IRBF as Nick 'BNP' Griffin, Jim 'Britain First' Dowson and pro life campaigner Imrey Teglasy.
==See also==
*Anders Behring Breivik, who claimed to represent the "Knights Templar"
==References==
*http://irbf.org.uk/knights-templar-international-analysis/
Category:Islamophobia
Category:Terrorist organisations
Koch's postulates

Koch's postulates are a set of "rules" formulated by Robert Koch and Friedrich Loeffler in 1884 that establish the relationship between a pathogen and a disease. These were developed early in the history of the germ theory of disease.
To fulfill the original postulates:Medical Definition of Koch's postulates MedicineNet
# The microorganism must be found in all organisms suffering from the disease (the original postulates also said "but not in healthy organisms." Since latency is present in many diseases, this phrase is largely abandoned).
# The microorganism must be isolated from a diseased organism.
# The cultured microorganism should cause disease when introduced into a healthy organism.
# The microorganism must be re-isolated from the inoculated, diseased experimental host and identified as being identical to the original specific causative agent.
==Koch’s postulates today==
Today, Koch’s postulates are not considered as essential to virology as it once was. Koch himself discovered cases of cholera in healthy individuals, making the claim that viruses are only in sick individuals irrelevant.What does it take to satisfy Koch’s postulates two centuries later? Microbial genomics and Propionibacteria acnes National Institute of Health
Modern molecular biology has changed this schema somewhat, and has also allowed for the development of the so-called "molecular Koch's postulates".
These postulates, in their original form, are often used by HIV denialists to try to show that HIV does not cause AIDS, and were used to some extent by the tobacco industry to deny that smoking causes lung cancer (obviously inappropriate, since there's no microorganism involved). In the case of HIV denialism, HIV does in fact meet the postulates as long as they are not applied in a ridiculously stringent manner. It's further notable that Koch is credited as the father of bacteriology; viruses were unknown in his time.
==References==
Category:Biology
Korea

* South Korea
* Real Life 1984 (the DPRK - commonly called "North Korea"; AKA literally one of the worst countries ever)
* The Korean War of 1950-1953
The Korean Peninsula is a big thumb that juts out of China's butt, also bordering Russia. Korea is known for its ginseng and kimchi, for having a vast majority of top-online Starcraft players, and for a listful of K-Pop girl- and boy-bands (the least being a group of 4). 
Divided into varying kingdoms and jurisdictions throughout history, the peninsula since World War II has supported two separate republics: South Korea and Kim Jong-un's nuclear addicted country North Korea. South and North Korea have long been one country, but suffered from Japanese imperialism from 1910 to 1945, and were divided by another imperialism, the United States and the Soviet Union, in 1945.
Several horrendous events occurred during the brief military occupation of the and the , in which the Soviet Union suppressed or slaughtered North Korea's landlords and non-communists, and the United States also suppressed and even participated in the slaughter by falsely accusing South Korea's democratic socialists and moderate communists of making counterfeit bills (). The two imperialist countries eventually divided the two Koreas. During this period, the U.S. recycled the ultra-conservative elites who cooperated with the Japanese Empire and suppressed the Korean people, which became an element of great conflict after the founding of South and North Korea in 1948 and would trigger North Korea to invade South Korea in 1950 (See Korean War).
Since the ceasefire in 1953, there has been virtually no war between South and North Korea, but the war has not been completely concluded. North Korea has threatened peace on the Korean Peninsula by developing nuclear weapons since 2005, and the U.S. also did not try to end the war with North Korea even before it developed nuclear weapons in 2005.
 
Category:Imperialism
Koro

Koro, also known as shook yang, is a medical condition that causes the external genitalia — usually the penis, but in some cases the nipples and vulva — to shrink or become reabsorbed into the body, with usually fatal results. It is a "folk illness," transmitted by meme. This means that you risk contracting it by learning of its existence. If you are reading this sentence, you have been exposed, and it is already too late.Esther Inglis-Arkel, Koro Syndrome: The Irrational Fear of Lethal Genital Shrinkage, io9.com
==Symptoms==
Victims report acute anxiety attacks due to their perception that their genitalia are being reabsorbed or shrinking, despite any objectively visible biological changes in the genitalia that are longstanding. They may injure themselves by attaching strings, weights, or hooks, in an attempt to prevent further retraction. Alleged triggering factors include witchcraft, sexual relations with prostitutes, masturbation, and food poisoning. Victims believe that their yang has been tampered with, or spent unwisely. 
It is listed in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders IV-TR in its glossary of culture-bound syndromes. As a culture-bound phenomenon, it is associated with Southeast Asia, and is particularly associated with southern China, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, and Singapore, and particularly with people from the Chinese diaspora who inhabit those regions.Pow-Meng Yap, "Koro — A Culture-Bound Depersonalization Syndrome" (1965) British Journal of Psychiatry 3: 45–50 A major outbreak in Singapore in 1967 was ascribed to the consumption of tainted pork.Koro study team (December 1969), "The Koro "Epidemic" in Singapore", Singapore Medical Journal 10 (4): 234–42.Ng, B. Y. (August 1969), "History of Koro in Singapore", Singapore Medical Journal 38 (8): 356–7.
The name koro is thought to be of Malay origin, and to refer to turtles (Malay kura or kura-kura), and their ability to withdraw their necks and limbs within their shells. This somatoform disorderKatherine Phillips, et. al., Body Dysmorphic Disorder: Some Key Issues for DSM-V, Depression and Anxiety 27: 573-591 is considered to be a form of mass hysteria. 
It should not be confused with kuru, which is a prion encephalopathy caused by human cannibalism, and thus more easily avoided.
==External links==
*Koro: A Natural History of Penis Panics
*Koro from The Skeptic's Dictionary
*Koro - the Genital Retraction Syndrome, h2g2.com
==See also==
*Malleus Maleficarum
==References==
Category:Mental healthCategory:Folklore
Category:Mental health woo
Category:Purity culture
Krishna

Lord Krishna is claimed to be an avatar of the Hindu Trimurti, and the "supreme personality" of the god-head, an incarnation of Vishnu, thus unambiguously "god-in-the-flesh". Hindus believe that Vishnu is one of the Gods that make up the Hindu Trinity and is believed to be the lord of the universe who takes human form and is the lord of all creation, all things, all time. Through him people will know what is real, meaning comes only from god.
As previously said, Krishna is believed to be the creator of everything, even outside this world. For instance, whereas in the book of Genesis the Judaic/Christian God focuses on creating this world, Krishna is declared to have created not only this world but also every world in this universe, as well as numerous other universes — hinting about the multiverse.
As an incarnation of Vishnu, Krishna is not to be confused with the former Kings of Nepal,
who also ranked as incarnations of 
(From 2006 the Parliament of Nepal effectively deprived King Gyanendra
of this status; he left office in 2008 and his erstwhile kingdom became a republic.
)
==Hare Krishna==
Hare Krishna is a Hindu mantra, Krishna being a Hindu deity and/or incarnation of another Hindu deity:
:हरे कृष्ण हरे कृष्ण
:कृष्ण कृष्ण हरे हरे
:हरे राम हरे राम
:राम राम हरे हरे
Commonly the term refers to the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), founded in 1966 in New York, which is sometimes characterized (like most cults) as a cult.
Noted comedian and twitcher sang a parody version of the Hare Krishna on the B-Side of his "On Ilkla Moor Baht'at" single, released in 1970 on Dandelion imprint. It was considered most droll by all.
== References ==
Category:Deities
Category:Hinduism
Category:One true gods
Kronstadt

thumb|right|165px|Suppression of the Kronstadt mutiny in 1921
Kronstadt is three things to anyone who has ever attempted to grapple with Communism as a political program.
==The First Kronstadt==
Kronstadt is a naval port town about 20 miles away from Saint Petersburg, Russia. In October 1917, communist and socialist sailors revolted against their commanders and helped Vladimir Lenin complete the takeover by the Bolshevik Party. The lesson of this for the world was that communism only can succeed when the organized military is on your side. Generations of students in military colleges have studied this event and its implications on how well you treat your soldiers. At the time, the Provisional Government, following the Tsar, was running the Russian military into the ground, fighting a war that no one understood or wanted to join in. The military subsisted on rations of moldy bread and little else, and soldiers were openly deserting en masse from the trenches. As such, Lenin found himself quickly elevated not by the working class but by the very military machine he spent so much time trying to destroy.
==The Second Kronstadt==
In 1921, the Revolution was not delivering on the promises of 'Peace, Land, Bread, and All Power To The Soviets'. Between a treaty which ceded major Russian territories to the Germans in exchange for dis-engagement from the war, an ongoing civil war that was ripping the nation apart, and ongoing shortages of essential goods, it was quickly becoming evident that 'The Revolution' was not really going far enough. As such, Stepan Petrichenko, an anarchist sailor, helped organize the sailors into a commune and issued a list of demands to Lenin. They called for:
Lenin, not really in the condition to do anything but continue having strokes, insisted on sending Red Army leader Leon Trotsky in to take care of things, which he did without any mercy. Years later, while running from Joseph Stalin, Emma Goldman would write that Trotsky really had no room to complain about purging dissidents, as he was the one who really had helped make this mess in the first place.http://ucblibrary3.berkeley.edu/goldman/Writings/Essays/trotsky.html
==The Third Kronstadt==
By 1949, the Cold War was getting nice and hot. Stalin and Harry S. Truman were at each other throats while the issue of Soviet spying was becoming a major harping point for conservatives who saw the Democrats as being soft on Stalin. Richard Crossman that year published an anthology, featuring contributions by Louis Fischer, André Gide, Arthur Koestler, Ignazio Silone, Stephen Spender, and Richard Wright, about how they had gone the full circle, from loyal members of the Communist Party or sympathetic fellow travelers to outright anti-Stalinist capitalists. Fischer's contribution to this volume, 'The God That Failed', is remembered most for his formulation of the 'Kronstadt Moment', a sort of epiphany when a communist recognized that Stalinist Russia was nothing but a dictatorship in the worst sort of way, and thus became an anti-communist.
==References==
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Category:Russian history
Category:History of communism