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Pulse diagnosis

Pulse diagnosis is an unproven method of diagnosis used in some systems of alternative medicine, such as Ayurveda, traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), and Unani. It involves detecting minute changes in the pulse; some types of pulse include slippery, choppy, full, empty, slow, rapid, superficial, and deep.Pulse Diagnosis, Wandering Primate. The practitioner should develop an instinct or "feel" for detecting these. However, practitioners using pulse diagnosis have low inter-rater reliability.Interobserver reliability of pulse diagnosis using Traditional Korean Medicine for stroke patients, J. Altern. Complement. Med. 2013 Jan;19(1):29-34. doi: 10.1089/acm.2011.0612. Epub 2012 Sep 6. In TCM, pulse diagnosis should happen before sunrise because the yin and yang are apparently in balance then.The Skeptics SA guide to Acupuncture, Skeptics SA. Pulse diagnosis should be for when the patient is at rest and not immediately following exercise. 
This method is in no way related to empirically-verified diagnosis methods based on analysis of heart rate, on heart sounds such as heart murmurs or gallop rhythms or electrocardiography.
==External links==
*A Defence of Blood-letting, as a Remedy for Certain Diseases, by Benjamin Rush, which goes into some detail about pulse diagnosis.
==References==
Category:Chinese medicine
Category:Pseudoscience
Pundit

Pundits are people who, while not having official roles in government, offer their opinions on public policy. The word 'pundit' derives from the Sanskrit word paṇḍita, meaning 'learned man'; unfortunately, being learned is no longer a prerequisite. Some pundits are well-read, educated, and sane. Others are screaming banshees and/or clueless idiots. Some are just ideologues.
Their employment is varied dependant on their field of expertise, ranging from think tanks to mainstream media outlets to academia. Pundits serve as an outside source of ideas for officials, and also tend to try to influence public opinion.
At their best, they present well-reasoned arguments for given courses of public policy. At their worst, they just rile up the uninformed to shout slogans.
==See also==
*
*Think tank
==External links==
*"The Corporatist Manifesto Tells Pundits of America: Unite!"
Category:Media
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Category:Lists
Pure Land Buddhism

Pure Land Buddhism is the Mahayana Buddhist equivalent of born-again Christianity. One of the most popular Buddhist philosophies in east Asia, Pure Land Buddhism boils down to "I believe in the right thing, therefore I get to go to paradise when I die". First appearing in China either around 402 CE and founded by after building at Mount Lu or later introduced by Pure Land Buddhism is also found in Korea, Vietnam, and Tibet, but is especially popular in Japan. 
==Philosophy==
Pure Land Buddhism was an important part of Mahayana philosophy. In Japan, Pure Land schools have largely become distinct from Mahayana Buddhism and bear little resemblance to traditional Buddhist thought. The central tenet of Pure Land thought is that obtaining enlightenment the traditional way has become too difficult, and therefore Buddhists need to cheat supernatural assistance to achieve Nirvana.
Pure Land Buddhism in general is focused on the adoration of the Buddha Amitabha.Also known as Amitofo in Mandarin Chinese or Amida Butsu in Japanese Pure Land Buddhism mythology states that Amitabha was a Bodhisattva who vowed to put off enlightenment until they could create a realm outside of time that would guarantee eventual Buddhahood to any entity born there. The existence of the Pure Land sect is seen as proof that Amitabha was successful at creating such a realm.
The basic belief that unites the different Pure Land schools is that by practicing the "Mindfulness of Amitabha Buddha" one can be reborn into the Pure Land. This mindfulness most commonly takes the form of chanting the name of Amitabha Buddha a set number of times per day.This practice is sometimes called nianfo, after the Chinese term for the practice which literally means "Thinking of the Buddha" 
Critics of Pure Land BuddhismMostly Theravada Buddhists and other Mahayana Buddhists generally claim that it is not Buddhism at all, as many of its practices and beliefs are unrelated, or even contradictory to the core teachings of the religion. Among Pure Land circles, there isn't much talk about the historical Buddha himself, or even Buddhist concepts such as enlightenment, nirvana, and rebirth. Pure Land Buddhism promotes its own forms of monotheistic worship,Amitabha is viewed as a deity and is worshiped by followers. an afterlife, and salvation. It's the closest to Christianity out of all schools of Buddhism.
==In Japan and the West==
In Japan, Pure Land Buddhism has changed to the extent that Japanese Pure Land sects are commonly considered outside of Mahayana orthodoxy. Most particularly, the philosophically similar but historically unrelated Soka Gakkai, a spin-off of Nichiren Buddhism, has become somewhat notorious for its aggressive proselytization and overall creepy cult vibe. Religious syncreticism is quite common in Japan, and one common syncretic belief among some Japanese Buddhists is the combination of Pure Land teachings and Zen.
Pure Land Buddhism in the West primarily exists amongst immigrant communities. 
==Notes==
==References==
category:Eastern religions
Category:Buddhism
Category:Philosophy
Purim

thumb|right|165px|Some people practice for Purim all year long.
 
Purim is a Jewish holiday that celebrates an ancient plot to kill the Persian Jews perpetrated by a court vizier called Haman (an Agagite, not a Persian) and thwarted by Esther, wife of the Persian King, Xerxes. It is celebrated by the Jews today because the Jews won and Haman was impaled on a giant pole! It also involved a lot of BS involving court etiquette and the King's inability to perceive the ethnic bickering in his sprawling, multicultural kingdom. The Book of Esther is read in synagogue to recount the story. 
There is no proof any of this ever actually happened, by the way. 
But the most important thing is that it's a mitzvah to get drunk! Yes, this is when we all drink till we don't know the difference between blessed-be-Conservapedia and cursed-be-Rationalwiki blessed-be-Rationalwiki and cursed-be-Conservapedia (learned Jews will understand that line).
Other mitzvahs of the day include giving gifts of food to your friends and giving charity to the destitute. The most important mitzvah of the day is having a big party!
It is also common to dress up for Purim. This is more like an old-fashioned masquerade ball rather than Halloween. Many people choose to dress up as characters from the Purim story, but others do not.
This holiday goes along the theme of many Jewish holidays: "They tried to kill us, but we killed them instead! So let's eat!!"; the difference on Purim is that it's custom to get blitzed, too.
==See also==
*Alcohol
Category:Holidays
Category:Judaism
Purity Products

Purity Products is a manufacturer/peddler of homeopathetic remedies, specifically dietary supplements and more specifically, vitamin supplements.
==Their products==
A quick searchThe mainpage of their website shows that the bulk of their products are pseudovitamins that give in to the latest fad diet and nutrition crazes, such as selling products loaded with vitamin D and resveratrol. Like the makers of HeadOn, their products are promoted heavily on radio and television, although (unlike HeadOn) usually through infomercials.About their informercials Purity Products also likes to brand their products as "evidence-based," even though they have released no studies or data to back such claims. Their Advisory Panel seems about as full of crankery as you can get.Their panel of advisors.
==Customer satisfaction==
Apparently, they do not have a good track record with their customers either,A dissatisfied customerAnother angry consumer and not just because their products are loaded with more woo than help. They even have to have a web page dedicated to responding to accusations that they're scam artists.Right here
==See also==
*Herbalife
==References==
Category:Food woo promoters
Pushpa Kamal Dahal

Pushpa Kamal Dahal, known by his super edgy nom de guerre "Prachanda" (which translates to Fierce or "The Intense One," because apparently regular names weren’t dramatic enough), is a Nepalese politician, former guerrilla chief, and three-time Prime Minister of Nepal. He’s best known for leading the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) during the country’s decade-long Nepalese Civil War, which lasted from 1996 to 2006. The war, which aimed to overthrow the monarchy and establish a "people’s republic," left over 17,000 people dead, thousands missing and countless others displaced. 
==Insurgency==
Prachanda’s Maoist insurgency was characterized by guerrilla tactics, including ambushes, bombings, and the occasional extortion of local businesses—because nothing says "people’s revolution" like shaking down small shop owners. The conflict ended in 2006 with the Comprehensive Peace Agreement, which paved the way for Prachanda to transition from warlord to politician because nothing screams legitimacy like swapping a rifle for a suit and tie. 
==Prachandapath==
"Prachandapath," or "The Path of Prachanda," is the official ideology of "Prachanda" and his faction of the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist). It’s essentially a made-to-order political philosophy that combines Marxist-Leninist-Maoist thought with a dash of Nepalese nationalism and a whole lot of his personal branding. This ideology emerged in the early 2000s as Prachanda sought to distinguish his brand of Maoism from the more orthodox strains followed by other communist groups. It is often described as a "creative application" of Maoism to the specific conditions of Nepal, which is a fancy way of saying, "We took Mao’s ideas, tweaked them a bit, and added some local flavor." It emphasizes the importance of armed struggle (because nothing says "progress" like a decade-long Nepalese Civil War), mass mobilization, and the establishment of a "people’s republic." It also includes a heavy dose of anti-feudalism and anti-imperialism.
Critics of Prachandapath argue that it’s less of a coherent ideology and more of a PR move to consolidate his power within the Maoist movement. After all, when you’re leading a guerrilla insurgency, it helps to have your own "path" to rally the troops around. Additionally, it’s a great way to sideline rival factions and position yourself as the one true leader of the revolution.
In practice, Prachandapath has been about as effective as you’d expect from an ideology named after a guy who once thought "Prachanda" was a cool nickname. While it played a significant role in mobilizing support during the civil war, its relevance in post-war Nepal has been questionable. Once the Maoists joined mainstream politics, the lofty ideals of Prachandapath quickly collided with the messy realities of governance, coalition-building and actually running a country. The result? A lot of compromises, a lot of broken promises, and a lot of disillusioned former supporters.
==References==
Category:Living people
Category:Asian politicians
Category:Military
Category:Communist political parties
Category:Communism
Put a Sock in It

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"Put a Sock In It" is a rambling screed on William Dembski's blog Uncommon Descent.[www.uncommondescent.com "Put a Sock In It"], Uncommon Descent In it, he presents the following "comment" policy — a list of arguments that evolutionists are not allowed to make because they are "settled." Given here in an abridged form, it is a series of straw man arguments, avoiding the real fallacies of intelligent design.
Put a sock in it yourself, Dembski!
==See also==
*Uncommon Descent
*Conservation of Information in Search - Measuring the Cost of Success
*The Search for a Search - Measuring the Information Cost of Higher Level Search
*Efficient Per Query Information Extraction from a Hamming Oracle
*Barry Arrington
==References==
Category:Blogs
Category:Creationism
Category:Propaganda
Category:Refutations
Category:Side-by-side articles
Pyotr Kropotkin

Pyoter Alexeyevich Kropotkin (Russian: Пётр Алексе́евич Кропо́ткин, occasionally romanized as Pioter, Peter, Bread Santa, or even "stinky P" Kropotkin) was a Russian zoologist known primarily as one of the primary thinkers of anarcho-communism. Kropotkin was an outspoken opponent of Social Darwinism, drawing on research performed in Siberia to argue that altruism was an evolutionary advantage. His notable books include The Conquest of BreadKnown as The Bread Book by followers and fans. and Mutual Aid: A Factor Of Evolution, which both proposed an equal role for cooperation as opposed to competition alone in driving evolution, and Fields, Factories, and Workshops, which includes a repudiation of the ideas of Thomas Malthushttps://www.marxists.org/subject/science/essays/kropotkin.htm and comes across as rather optimistic about the prospects for technology improving industrial and agricultural output, leading to economic decentralism and local self-sufficiency. Kropotkin advocated communal living and a gift economy and argued for the abolition of money and written law.
Kropotkin had an uneasy relationship with the "mainstream" Russian communist movement and ultimately rejected the Bolsheviks, claiming after the Bolshevik seizure of power that "This buries the revolution",See the Encyclopedia Britannica (a publication to which Kropotkin once contributed) article here and said this demonstrated "how the revolution was not to be made — that is, by authoritarian rather than libertarian methods." Due to his popularity, the Bolshevik regime permitted Russian anarchists to march -and even carry anti-Bolshevik banners-in a funeral procession for him. It was the last free assembly in Russia until 1987. 
==Trivia==
*In late 1921 there was an advert in the British newspaper The Times requesting information on the whereabouts of Kropotkin's will.
==See also==
*Anarcho-communism
*Gift economy
==Notes==
==References==
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Category:Authors
Category:Biologists
Category:Communists
Category:Explorers
Category:Historians
Category:Left-wing activists
Category:Philosophers
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Category:Scientists
Q

*Q or QAnon is the pseudonym for someone propagating the conspiracy theory known as "The Storm", likely derived from the U.S. Department of Energy's top-secret 
*The Q gospel is a hypothesized collection of sayings of Jesus (from the German Quelle, meaning source).
*The Q are a race of nigh-omnipotent beings from Star Trek. Thanks to the wonders of narrativium, stuff like the omnipotence paradox or the ability of the Q to just slag everything in sight were never much of a problem, although their gadgets in the James Bond films were pretty cool.
*Q is an incredibly large unit of energy that is used to measure the amount of energy output on a planetary scale using convenient numbers. 1 Q is equivalent to 1.05×1021 joules.Convert Center — Q Unit Around the time the anthropogenic activity starts consuming 1 Q of energy, it will produce enough direct heat (i.e., not due to the greenhouse effect) to raise the global temperature by 1° C.
*In thermodynamics, Q represents the net heat transferred into a system.
*Q is the seventeenth letter in the English alphabet. It is fairly unique in that most other languages do not have a letter for the English "qu" (though the letter "q" is often used in transliterations, especially of Arabic languages (e.g. Qatar, Qur'an), in Persian (e.g. Qâb, Qom, Saqez), in Hindi and Urdu alike (e.g. Inqilāb, Mustaqbil, Qalam), in Hebrew (e.g. Ashqelon), in Kazakh language (e.g. Qazaq tili, Qazaqstan), and in Pinyin Chinese (e.g. qi)).
*Quetzalcoatl — known as "Q" in the low-budget David Carridine film
==References==
Category:Language
Q-Ray

A Q-Ray ionized braceletQ-Ray® bracelet Skeptic's Dictionary is an expensive piece of jewelry worn by people who wish to show off their gullibility. Woo-hoo, let's hear some applause for people who don't think. The bracelet allegedly acts to relieve pain through some sort of process explainable by the best pseudo-scientific gobbledygook or by the placebo effect. The promotion material for the Q-Ray claims that it balances one's yin-yang and boosts one's chi.
One "explanation" for the apparent relief of pain is that prolonged contact with the skin produces copper oxide, which is known to damage the central nervous system. Wearing the bracelet around the wrist would damage the median nerve and thereby reduce the sensation of pain in the hand, so if you feel like damaging your nerves you know what to do.
The Q-Ray should not be confused with which contains an equal number of Q-uackerons, but is older and visually much more impressive,See? or with N-rays, or even Z-rays.As explained by Raymond Massey in this 1950s vintage PSA from the Food and Drug Administration
==See also==
*Copper bracelet
==External links==
*Quackwatch page
*Consumer Complaints about Q-Ray
==References==
Category:Pseudoscience
QAnon map dissection

QAnon is a grand unified conspiracy theory which posits that President Trump is a secret agent working against an evil conspiracy run by the Democratic Party. It has hit the point where just about anything can and has been shoehorned into the narrative. QAnon believers have helpfully created a map of all the bullshit they think feeds into the conspiracy theory.Q WEB: Made by Dylan Louis Monroe (January 10, 2018) Mediocre Monday (archived from May 11, 2021). Since the map is an absolute cartoonish clusterfuck that reminds us of the work of crazy people in movies drawing a bunch of lines from paper to paper, and also the epitome of crank magnetism, we've provided a mostly readable version below. The dissection roughly follows the original map left-to-right and top-to-bottom:
==Notes==
==References==
Category:Conspiracy theories
Category:Crank magnetism
Category:Unified conspiracy theory
Category:QAnon
Qigong

Qigong (pronounced "CHEE-gong") is a traditional Chinese practice, located at the intersection of religion, martial arts and Traditional Chinese medicine. The purpose of qigong is to create Qi ("energy") and move it throughout the body by coordinating breath with highly ritualized, focused movements and stances. Qigong is more than four thousand years old, its roots lying in ancient Chinese history. Today it is practiced as a central component of some forms of Buddhist and Daoist worship, and as a recreational activity. 
Claimed benefits of qigong include elimination of hypertension, coronary artery disease, peptic ulcers, chronic liver diseases, diabetes mellitus, obesity, menopause syndrome, chronic fatigue syndrome, insomnia, cancer, lower back and leg pain, cervical spondylosis, and myopia.Liu, Tian Jun; Qiang, Xiao Mei, eds. (2013). Chinese Medical Qigong, Third Edition. Singing Dragon. ISBN 978-1848190962. None of these purported cures are effective.
==References==
Category:Alternative medicine
Category:Buddhism
Category:China
Category:Chinese medicine
Category:Orientalist woo
Category:Sport
Quackery

Quackery is a term for a medical treatment that, to put it politely, doesn't work.
==Lies and false hope==
Quackery involves giving false hope to those with incurable conditions such as arthritis, multiple sclerosis, certain forms of cancer, or to otherwise gullible patients, often charging exorbitant amounts of money for it. Rather a lot of what is politely dubbed "alternative medicine" is quackery, as is much of the vitamin and herbal supplement business. Implicit in the word is that the quack's nostrum, whatever it may be, is pure snake oil and the quack him/herself is a liar/con artist/charlatan, or a true believer in something that simply doesn't work.
Quacks, as the persecuted innocent victims of mainstream establishment conspiracies, may set up their practices offshore to duck (har!) the more stringent laws governing medical practice in the developed world. Hence, some Americans head to Mexico for Laetrile in clinics just over the border, or travel to the Philippines for a Bio-Energizing Anti-Cancer Zapper Machine.
==Etymology==
"Quack" derives from the 17th century word "quacksalver", in turn from the Dutch word kwakzalver (hawker of salve). Both "quack" and "kwak" originate from the Middle Dutch quacken (to brag or boast). Quacksalvers would appear in town markets offering cure-alls in bottles to anyone gullible enough to part with their money. So it's nothing to do with ducks, much as we wanted it to be.
==See also==
*Alternative medicine
**Chiroquacktic
**Quackupuncture
*Dental woo
*Donald Trump
*Fad diet
*Quack Miranda Warning
*Fun:Quacktionary
*Reparative therapy
*Vereniging tegen de Kwakzalverij — the Dutch Association against Quackery
*Water woo
== External links ==
*QuackWatch
*The Millenium Project
*The Red Flags of Quackery v2
Category:Medicine
Category:Pseudoscience
Category:Scams
Quantum Jumping

Quantum Jumping is a Quantum woo scam designed to sell a "meditation and visualization technique" method for tons of money. It was created by swindler and self-proclaimed "expert in yoga and meditation" Burt Goldman. It is marketed through a well produced video, inspirational with an almost motivational message and full of deep stinking bullcrap. He's probably made a killing so far.
==Introduction==
 Do you want to meet a you who has qualities you lack or who made the right decision? Hand over your money for Goldman's method and let your imagination lead you into a well constructed delusion. Want to explore the mirror universe? Pay up and you'll see your opposite with a goatee up to no good shenanigans (though don't blame us if you get stuck with all the evil versions of your friends). Want to do this for free? Explore your imagination, that's all there is to it. Want to usefully meditate? Find one of many methods that is clinically proven to reduce stress and other benefits some of which can be learnt for free. Absolutely must do some Quantum Jumping? Get out your credit card and fill out the online form!
==Woo! Woo!==
==See also==
* Reality shifting
==External links==
*http://www.quantumjumping.com/
==References==
Category:Pseudoscience
category:New Age
Category:Quantum woo
Category:Articles needing RWification