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Tachyon energy

Tachyon energy is a pseudoscientific concept used by proponents of holistic medicine.
==Definition==
The idea of "Tachyon energy" was proposed in a pseudoscientific book titled Tachyon Energy: A New Paradigm in Holistic Healing (1999) written by Gabriel Cousens and David Wagner, two proponents of spiritual medicine who pretended that they were doing science. In the book they claimed that "tachyon energy" can explain everything from acupuncture, chi, homeopathy, reflexology, yoga to chakras.
Since the book was written many New Agers have embraced the concept claiming that it has bridged the gap between science and spirituality.Tachyon Energy Some have even set up websites to feed off the gullible to sell their "Tachyon energy" products.Tachyon Energy ProductsGene Latimer on Tachyon Energy 
There is no scientific evidence that "Tachyon energy" exists and the energy has never been tested in any experiment. It is just another name for the belief in vitalism. It is no different than any other supposed metaphysical force such as chi, prana or vril.
==No relation to science==
Tachyon Energy has no real relationship to the hypothetical particle called a "tachyon" put forward by the physicist Gerald Feinberg, and which most physicists think cannot exist. Yet New Agers in hope of sounding more "scientific" in some of their books claim that there is a relationship.Tachyon Field Theory
==Explanations as a substitute for reality==
There is a common idea that "explanations" are useful. That is, if we don't know how something works or appears to work, someone will "explain" it by referring to something else not understood. And some people seem to be impressed by this mental sleight of hand. The usage of "scientific terms" outside the context for which they were created is behind, and defines, much public pseudoscience. is an example. If products like tachyon beadsTachyon healing and the physics of love. awakening-healing.com. Retrieved on 6 March 2018. actually worked, more than as an effect of expectation, they could then be used to study tachyons. Unfortunately, this could be more like , which many people "saw" when they were first reported.
From Tachyon Energy Research, Inc.: 
:"These State-of-the-Art products are creating a major impact in the world of professionals and amateur sports, academia, businesses, and even in the residentials."
Residentials? Residential Mental Health units (also called "loony bins"?:
:"This phenomenal breakthrough was a result of 18 years of innovative research in science and technology and thorough testing by scientists in Japan."
Ah, yes. "Scientists in Japan" is more impressive than "Scientists," but what kind of scientists? Marketing professionals? It's not just research (published? -- no, you can't expect them to reveal their Secret Production Process) but "innovative" research. Nobody ever tried a scam quite like this before. Actually, it's been common. Used to be "magnetized" Or "succussed" Nothing new under the sun.Tachyon Energy Research products. Retrieved on 6 March 2018.
==References==
Category:Alternative medicine
Category:Pseudoscience
Talk radio

Talk radio is a form of entertainment that consists of people talking on a radio station. Most are broadcast live to add to the excitement. Sometimes the hosts take telephone calls from listeners. Often, most of the entertainment consists of hosts and callers yelling past at each other.
There are many subjects addressed on talk radio — from sports to alternative medicine to real estate, and, of course, politics. There is even a science talk radio show hosted by Professor Michio Kaku ("Science Fantastic").
There are many categories of presenter - from the respectable and respected to the in-a-flap and shock jocks.
==See also==
*Conservative talk radio
*Liberal talk radio
*Coast to Coast AM
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Tamar

thumb|left|165px|"Judah and Tamar" by School of Rembrandt (c. 1650-1660)
In Genesis, Tamar was the widow of both Er and Onan, the latter of whom gave his name to Onanism.
As both of her previous husbands had been killed by god and she wanted a male heir, she was in a bit of a quandary. In order to resolve things she disguised herself as a prostitute and seduced her father-in-law Judah and — at last — became pregnant. He, still not knowing who she was, promised to pay her a young goat. As he didn't have any young goats on him at the time, he left her his staff and seal as security. When he tried to redeem his security, the prostitute was not to be found. 
Exactly how much of this was "pretend" prostitution is not clear.
Anyway, when it became clear that she was pregnant, kind and righteous people told Judah that she was pregnant and a prostitute. Being a kind, righteous man himself, his response was immediate: "What! My daughter-in-law a prostitute?! Bring her out and have her burned to death!"
However, as she was being brought out to be burned she sent his staff and seal to him saying that he was the father. So that made it all right, and "he did not sleep with her again."
It's not quite clear what moral we should draw from this story. Perhaps it's "If you do something bad, it's always a good idea to have something to blackmail people in power with."
It's also a little bit odd that her father-in-law wasn't struck down by God. Having sex with your daughter-in-law was worthy of the death penalty in the Bible, and God had had no qualms about doing in both Er and Onan.
==See also==
*Examples of God personally killing people
*Actions which demand the death penalty in the Old Testament 
==References==
Category:Biblical figures
Category:Old Testament
Category:Mythology
Tammy Bruce

Tammy Bruce (1962–) is an American nationally-syndicated conservative talk radio show host. 
Bruce occupies a complicated position: she is pro-Second Amendment,http://rosettasister.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/tammy320.jpg pro-death penalty, and contributes to Fox News. Her official biography proudly proclaims her association with the Tea Party movement, and Slate called her "Sarah Palin's biggest fan."Malone, Noreen. Sarah Palin's Biggest Fan. Slate: January 20, 2011. On the other hand, she is also a pro-choice lesbian who has claimed to be a progressive Democrat.http://www.dailyhowler.com/dh121603.shtml 
She calls President Obama "Steve Urkel" because black people, amirite?
During the late 1980s, Bruce was a feminist activist who embraced "a brand of feminism that places her somewhere between Donna Reed and Thelma and Louise." She also served as president of the Los Angeles chapter of the National Organization for Women (NOW).
Bruce used to be a Democrat but embraced conservatism after Bill Clinton's relationship with Monica Lewinsky went public. She worked on the campaigns for Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein, the Democratic US Senators from California, but supported several Republican presidential candidates including Ronald Reagan in 1980 and 1984, George H.W. Bush in 1988, George W. Bush in 2000 and 2004, and John McCain in 2008.:Official biography
Bruce has written in defense of conservatism and "politically incorrect" thought. She once gave a speech titled "Contrary to Popular Belief: How Conservative Ideas Empower Women, Gays and Blacks." While promoting her 2003 book The Death of Right and Wrong: Exposing the Left's Assault on Our Culture and Values, Bruce continued to claim liberal credentials...albeit as a "classical liberal."A GIRL NAMED BRUCE (PART 4)! Colmes asked Bruce, What makes you a lib? She gave him a classic reply
She fills in for Laura Ingraham on occasion. 
==External links==
*Tammy Bruce official website
*Feminism 2.0 video (PragerU)
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Category:Tea Party
Tar water

Tar water was a quack remedy popular in the medieval period, consisting of pine tar and water. By all accounts it was foul-tasting and of course entirely ineffective, so it died out, but enjoyed a brief resurgence in the 18th and 19th centuries.
==History==
It was heavily promoted by the Irish philosopher and clergyman Bishop George Berkeley,Homeopathy and Its Kindred Delusions, Oliver Wendell Holmes. notably in his book Siris (1744). At a time when Ireland was in dire straits, its inhabitants in typically desperate poverty that were exacerbated by the harsh winter of 1739-40 and almost no physicians to be found outside Dublin, Berkeley seemed to offer a cure for all Ireland's ailments. He claimed he had tried it out on various friends and neighbors and cured many cases of fevers and other diseases (although this would not pass the modern standards of clinical trials), mixing this with mystical ideas about how flowing tar water mimicked the forces of natural harmony which could flow through and unite all people, in Ireland and elsewhere. His contemporary prominent doctor Thomas Reeve (later president of the Royal College of Physicians) claimed Berkeley had merely alighted on the cheapest substance he could find and would be as well promoting water without the tar, which was even cheaper and more widely available. But tar water was probably less harmful than contemporary alternatives such as Thomas Dover’s Mercury Powders and easier to obtain than Dr. Arbuthnot's ass's milk diet.A Panacea for the Nation: Berkeley’s Tar-water and Irish Domestic Development, Scott Breuninger, Etudes Irlandaises, 34.2 (2009), p. 29-41 Berkeley's book went through six editions from 1744 to 1748 (the first edition called A Chain of Philosophical Reflexions and Inquiries concerning the Virtues of Tar-Water and divers other Subjects connected together and arising one from another, the second with the better-known title Siris, from seira meaning chain); it was translated into several European languages and seemed to kick off a craze for tar water across Europe.Bishop Berkeley on the tar-water, Bell, J. Ir J Med Sci (1933) 8: 629. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02950376
It is mentioned in Charles Dickens' Great Expectations: young Pip and his brother-in-law Joe were often force-fed it by Mrs. Joe.
==Today==
The tar aroma is popular in Finland and is available as an aqueous solution. It is used in candies, liqueurs, soaps, and shampoos. This kind of tar water isn't usually associated with health claims. However, tar shampoo is advertised as being effective for dandruff.
==References==
Tarō Asō

Tarō Asō (麻生 太郎) is Japan's former prime minister (92nd) and former deputy prime minister under Yoshihide Suga and Shinzo Abe. He is currently the vice president of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP). He is notorious for openly praising the Japanese Empire and defending Nazi Germany.
He defended the Nazis in Germany for revising the constitution of the Weimar Republic and insisted that Japan should also learn that trick.Japan Deputy PM Taro Aso retracts Nazi comments. BBC.
He praised Hitler for having the "right motives". He said, "The massacres were wrong," but he also made many neo-fascist remarks.Japanese minister Taro Aso praises Hitler, saying he had 'right motives'. The Guardian. In addition, he made absurd remarks that a " cannot be prime minister." and he said, "How long will you stay alive?" to the elderly people who were over 90 years old.
Shinzō Abe is a very far-right politician, but he tempers his words and actions. Asō is as outspoken as Donald Trump, hailing from a more overtly extreme party faction.
According to Condoleezza Rice's memoir, Asō said regarding World War II, "If the war had been a little longer, Germany, Italy and Japan would have won."
Asō claimed in 2006 that if global warming occurs, 's rice would be better.https://web.archive.org/web/20081104113247/https://www.jcp.or.jp/akahata/aik07/2008-09-23/2008092302_03_0.html In 2021, he said rice on Hokkaido became "tastier" and exported due to global warming. He then put the cherry on top by saying that "something good" can come from warmer climates.https://www.newsweek.com/former-japanese-prime-minister-says-global-warming-has-made-rice-tastier-1642516
==See also==
* Alt-right
* Jair Bolsonaro
* Nationalism
* Nippon Kaigi
==References==
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Tautology

A tautology is a tautological statement that is tautologous in nature. Why? Because we (tautologists) told you that because we told you so.
==But seriously==
A tautology is a statement that, by virtue of logic and nothing more, is true, but in such a way that it contains no useful information: "The red bicycle is red." Sometimes this can extend beyond simple logic to obvious definitional facts: "The red bicycle has two wheels."
Sometimes tautologies are hard to extricate and identify when they are buried in masses of argumentative prose. In other situations, it may be obscured by experimental design.E.g., see How Tautological Are Interspecies Correlations of Carcinogenic Potencies? by David A. Freedman, Lois Swirsky Gold and Thomas H. Slone (1993) Risk Analysis vol. 13, no. 3, pp. 265-272 (archived from August 30, 2017).
One particular kind of tautology is "assuming the antecedent", also known as "circular logic". This is often engaged in by Bible thumpers, who will justify their argument with Biblical citations and take the Bible's own assertions as proof of its being true. A classic example of this, which one will ultimately run into in any lengthy discussion of the Bible with a fundamentalist Christian, is "I know what the Bible says is true, because the Bible says it is."
==Formal definition==
"given A (and whatever puffery is there to hide the fallacy), then (eventually) A". 
Reduced to the statement "A implies A", this is actually the simplest form of tautology.
==Legitimate uses==
Tautologies can be useful for emphasizing important facts, or putting them in more useful forms. Tautologies can also be used as a starting point for some logical methods (in particular, most formal definitions of mathematics depend in part on the tautology "A=A" to help define the concept of mathematical equality). And naturally, any assumption that disagrees with a tautology is false.
== A paradigm example: “Que será será” ==
Doris Day’s innoxious “tautological fatalism”:The music is from the film “The man who knew too much”; the phrase “tautological fatalism” is cribbed from W.V. Quine vide Science and Sensibilia, p. 73.
==See also==
*Begging the question
== Notes ==
==References==
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Technology

Technology ("science of craft", from Greek τέχνη, techne, "art, skill, cunning of hand"; and -λογία, -logia) is when you add up the techniques, skills, methods, and processes used in the production of goods or services or in the accomplishment of objectives, such as scientific investigation. Technology can be the knowledge of techniques, processes, and the like, or it can be embedded in machines to allow for operation without detailed knowledge of their workings. Systems (e.g., machines) applying technology by taking an input, changing it according to the system's use, and then producing an outcome are referred to as technology systems or technological systems.
The simplest form of technology is the development and use of basic tools, such as rocks. The prehistoric discovery of how to control fire and the later Neolithic Revolution increased the available sources of food, and the invention of the wheel helped humans to travel in and control their environment. Developments in historic times, including the printing press, the telephone, and the Internet, have lessened physical barriers to communication and allowed humans to interact freely on a global scale. Now we can finally be lazy.
Technology has many effects. It has helped develop more advanced economies (including today's global economy) and has allowed the rise of a lazy leisure class. Many technological processes produce unwanted by-products known as pollution and deplete natural resources to the detriment of Earth's environment. It can also rule the world and terrorize all humans. Innovations have always influenced the values of a society and raised new questions in the ethics of technology. Examples include the rise of the notion of efficiency in terms of human productivity and the challenges of bioethics.
Fortunately, we are finding new ways to use technology to our advantage. Medical equipment is needed for hospitals around the world, and without them, we die younger. Higher technology is what makes us human beings different from other animals because we have self-determination and find ways to develop objects that would help us adapt to our environment.
==See also==
*Technocracy
==Notes==
==References==
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Ted Serios

Theodore "Ted" Serios was a Chicago bellhop who, during the 1970s, achieved fleeting fame for his alleged ability to produce images on Polaroid film by using psychic powers alone.About Ted Serios Leonardo Sirios
=="Thoughtography"==
The idea of 'thoughtography' was first proposed by Japanese psychologist Tomokichi Fukurai in 1913,透視と念写 (Tōshi to nensha) by Tomokichi Fukurai 1913) Taishō.The Perfect Medium: Photography and the Occult by Clément Chéroux et al. (2004) Yale University Press. which was later translated in to English in 1931.Clairvoyance & Thoughtography by Tomokichi Fukurai (1931). Rider & Co. Fukurai resigned from his university professorship in 1913 after being accused of using unscientific methods.The Oxford Handbook of the History of Psychology: Global Perspectives, edited by David B. Baker (2012) Oxford University Press. ISBN 0195366557.
An unemployed alcoholic bellhop, Serios not only convinced Denver-based psychiatrist that he could imprint images on Polaroid film with his mind but that it worked best when he was totally drunk. Serios used what he called a “gizmo”, a paper tube placed against the camera lens that he claimed helped him focus his mental energy. Eisenbud expended three years from 1964-1967 (and who knows how many bottles of whiskey) testing Serios and concluded that Serios was undoubtedly capable of "thoughtography" because he couldn't find any evidence of trickery or fraud,The World of Ted Serios: "Thoughtographic" Studies of an Extraordinary Mind by Jule Eisenbud (1967) Morrow which since there is scant detail of the nature of the tests one may ascribe to credulity on the part of Eisenbud.
==Trickery and fraudulence==
Serios agreed to a public challenge, but when magicians asked to examine the paper tube immediately after a photo exposure was made, "Serios backed away, putting his hand in his pocket." Investigators guessed that Serios' "gizmo" concealed a second, much smaller tube, most likely a common jeweler's loupe or transparency magnifier. With a tiny magnifying lens at one end and a section of a 35mm transparency affixed with tape at the other, the device could effectively project the transparency image into the lens of the Polaroid camera. Photos produced by investigators using this method were nearly identical to Serios' "thoughtographs."Joe Nickell Camera Clues: A Handbook for Photographic Investigation University Press of Kentucky. After being summarily debunked and exposed by various photo experts and James Randi (when Randi replicated Serios' tricks on a live TV show, Eisenbud was reportedly "flabbergasted"), Serios faded into obscurity.James Randi Yellow Bamboo Surprise, Fear of Technology, and Answering Montague Keen James Randi Educational Foundation.
==External links==
*Thoughtography The Skeptic's Dictionary.
==References==
TeleSUR

La Nueva Televisora del Sur (teleSUR, The New Television of the South) is a pan-Latin American television network established by several Latin American countries in 2005. The establishment of the channel was initiated by Hugo Chávez. It is sponsored by the governments of Argentina, Bolivia, Cuba, Ecuador, Nicaragua, Uruguay and Venezuela.
Richard Stallman was on the advisory board that oversaw the launch of the channel, but he resigned in 2011 over the channel's coverage of the protests/revolution in Libya, calling it a "boring propaganda engine".Telesur propaganda, Stallman.org Political Notes, 26 February 2011 According to him, he had suggested that the channel should follow "the model of Al Jazeera", but his suggestion "was not heeded".
The Spanish version of TeleSUR is basically a propaganda machine in the mold of Russia Today, praising the greatness of the former "dear leader" Chávez and Nicolas Maduro with any "news" stories from either a pro-Venezuela or anti-US standpoint if the facts can at all be manipulated or shoehorned into it. 
The English version is more of an attempt to give Americans the point of view that the Venezuelans, Cubans and Nicaraguans have on their situation (everything is a byproduct of the US economic war). Horrifyingly, they aren't completely wrong - a lot of their articles are devoted to the criticism of wingnuts (although they do sometimes go against other leftists) and the aggressive policies of the US and their allies. In order to distract from the full-blown guerrilla wars in Venezuela and Nicaragua, they will frequently write about protests around the world except for their own. In other words, it's the ultimate moonbat news source.
There have been multiple incidents throughout the world where TeleSUR reporters have been harassed and beaten by oppressive regimes.Telesur Reporters Beaten in Honduras, venezuelanalysis.comAs Egpyt Attacks Press, teleSUR Staff in Cairo Detained, Threatened and Released, venezuelanalysis.com
==External links==
*Página web oficial, en español
*Official website, in English
==References==
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