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Luigi Corvaglia

Luigi Corvaglia is an Italian psychologist and expert on cults and mind manipulation. He is chairman of the Italian association CeSAP (Centro Studi Abusi Psicologici)http://www.ceasp.net and member of the Administrative Board of the Scientific Committee of (European Federation of Centres of Research and Information on Sectarianism).
Luigi Corvaglia is a free thinkerhttp://luigicorvaglia.altervista.org/in-praise-of-pilate/?doing_wp_cron=1451060899.9474079608917236328125 who uses the same arguments the cult apologists use (freedom of belief, free choice, etc.) to demonstrate the contradictions and the inconsistency of their reasoning. Luigi Corvaglia has dedicated himself to unmasking the psychological tricks used by cult apologists to defend high-control groups, underlining the contradictions posed by academics who claim to defend the civil rights and freedoms of the individual, while in reality defending totalitarian groups that deny those rights and freedoms to their members.
==External links==
*The Rational Choice Theory and my friend Vito (in English)
*Luigi Corvaglia (FECRIS) at the Warsaw Human Dimension Conference 2022 
*Free To Be Slaves (in English)
*Interview with Luigi Corvaglia on Russian TV (in Russian)
==References==
Category:Living people
Category:Cults
Category:Psychologists
Luis Alfonso Gámez

Luis Alfonso GámezLuis Alfonso Gámez - self description is a Spanish journalist and hyperactive skeptic. He covers the whole gamut of skeptical ideas including conspiracy theories, homoeopathy and the existence of God. 
==Activity==
He founded the Spanish skeptical organisation circuloesceptico (Skeptics circle)Circuloesceptico homepage and the Basque version of Skeptics in the Pub called enigmas y birras (puzzles and beers).enigmas y birras
==Current activity==
He has a regularly updated blog, magonia, "magonia" associated with a somewhat intermittent podcast which can more properly be regarded as record of his radio frequent radio interviews. magonia podcast
In 2011 he produced a series of documentaries on common objects of modern scepticism with the Basque broadcaster EITB. The pilot programme asked, "Did we go to the moon?",Link to "Did we go to the Moon? Spanish documentary and the follow-up programme was about alternative medicine and asked, "Does it work for you?"
==Books==
He has written La Cara Oculta del Misterio (the hidden face of the mystery) a skeptical book about the paranormal. La Cara Oculta del Misterio He also collaborated on the book "Skeptical Odysseys: Personal Accounts by the World's Leading Paranormal Investigations" "Skeptical Odysseys: Personal Accounts by the World's Leading Paranormal Investigations which included essays by many well-known British and American skeptics and scientists.
==Controversy and popular culture==
Public attention was drawn to Luis Alfonso Gámez in 2007 when he was the subject of a legal process after being sued for defamation by the writer and Ufologist Juan José Benítez. Gamez lost the lawsuit and had to pay compensations amounting to 6000 EURhttps://elpais.com/diario/2007/08/02/radiotv/1186005602_850215.html.
==References==
Category:Authors
Category:Atheists
Category:Bloggers
Category:Living people
Luke Muehlhauser

Luke Muehlhauser is a blogger. He is a researcher at charity directory GiveWell. He was, until May 2015, the executive director of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute (formerly the Singularity Institute), the organisation behind LessWrong.https://intelligence.org/2015/05/06/a-fond-farewell-and-a-new-executive-director/
Meuehlhauser was raised in a Christian fundamentalist family, but he now identifies as an atheist.http://commonsenseatheism.com/?p=12 He is also a singularitarian.
Muehlhauser used to run the now-defunct atheist blog "Common Sense Atheism." He joined the Singularity Institute in 2011 as a researcher, and soon after was appointed Executive Director. His leadership is said to have helped the institute get its shit togetherhttp://lesswrong.com/lw/cbs/thoughts_on_the_singularity_institute_si/6klg?context=1#6l4h after ten years' floundering.
==Desire utilitarianism==
Before moving into singularitarianism, Muehlhauser was an ardent proponent of Alonzo Fyfe's moral theory of desire utilitarianism. Eventually he came across Eliezer Yudkowsky, who became his new Jesus, while Fyfe was relegated to the role of John the Baptist.http://commonsenseatheism.com/?p=13085#comment-122851 He posted an extensive reading series of Yudkowsky on his blog, which pretty much bored his audience to death.
==Friendly AI==
Muehlhauser is concerned that when artificial intelligence becomes more intelligent than human beings, it could be harmful to us. Because of these fears, one of his ongoing projects is the development of what he calls "friendly AI."
==See also==
*Eliezer Yudkowsky
*LessWrong
==External links==
*Common Sense Atheism, Muehlhauser's defunct atheist blog
*Luke Muehlhauser Facts
==References==
Category:Atheists
Category:Bloggers
Category:Internet kooks
Category:LessWrong
Category:Science woo
Category:Living people
Lumosity

Lumosity, created in 2007 by Lumos Labs, is a brain training program that sells online games that, as of 2017, are designed to "train core cognitive abilities".Lumosity: About Formerly (in 2014), Lumosity claimed:About Lumosity (archived from January 4, 2014).
In 2014, the Stanford Center on Longevity issued a consensus statement, signed by 70 scientists,Neuroscientists speak out against brain game hype by Emily Underwood (Oct. 22, 2014, 4:30PM) Science.Lumosity's Brain Games Are Bullshit by Kate Knibbs (10/23/14 3:12pm) Gizmodo. on the lack of efficacy of brain training software to reduce cognitive decline:A Consensus on the Brain Training Industry from the Scientific Community (October 20, 2014) Stanford Center on Longevity.
In 2016, Lumos Labs agreed to settle a lawsuit with the Federal Trade Commission for $2 million regarding deceptive advertising.Lumosity to Pay $2 Million to Settle FTC Deceptive Advertising Charges for Its “Brain Training” Program. Company Claimed Program Would Sharpen Performance in Everyday Life and Protect Against Cognitive Decline (January 5, 2016) Federal Trade Commission. Jessica Rich, Director of the FTC’s Bureau of Consumer Protection stated regarding the settlement:
The FTC had alleged:
==See also==
*Brain Gym
*Neurocore
*Neurolink
==External links==
*Lumosity
==References==
Lutfur Rahman

Muhammad Lutfur Rahman is the current mayor of Tower Hamlets in London; a former member of the Labour party, he is now a member of Aspire, a local political party he founded together with a number of Tower Hamlets councillors. He is controversial due to his reported links to Islamic extremist elements and issues related to election integrity.
A 2010 episode of Channel 4's Dispatches series focused on Rahman's ties to the extremist which helped him come to power.http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/andrewgilligan/100039244/islamists-are-crushed-in-tower-hamlets/ While council leader, Rahman hired Lutfur Ali as assistant chief executive; Ali went on to fund various IFE front groups with council grants before resigning, after it turned out that he had been working in another job on council time.http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/9874695/The-state-versus-the-whistleblower.html The following July it emerged that Rahman's solicitor, Makbool Javaid, was connected to al-Muhajiroun, a group which supports al-Qaeda. Javaid also signed a fatwa which demanded "full-scale war of jihad" against the US and UK.http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/andrewgilligan/100047498/the-fundamentalist-linked-labour-politician-and-the-extremist-solicitor/
In September 2010, Rahman was suspended by the Labour party as its mayoral candidate for Tower Hamlets following concerns about his conduct.http://www.theguardian.com/uk/davehillblog/2010/sep/21/lutfur-rahman-removed-as-labour-tower-hamlets-mayoral-candidate He instead ran as an independent candidate, and succeeded in being elected mayor in October 2010http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-11604108, and was re-elected in 2014. In April 2015, Rahman was removed from office after a court found him guilty of "corrupt and illegal practices", and that he'd gained votes via religious intimidation.Tower Hamlets mayor guilty of corruption and election result is declared void The Standard, April 24, 2015
In May 2022, following the expiry of his public office ban, Rahman ran again for the mayoralty of Tower Hamlets. He was elected with 54% of the vote. 
His Aspire party faced criticism for fielding only candidates of Bangladeshi heritage during the election. Only three of their candidates were female.Lutfur’s Aspire Party Rejects Diversity With 100% Bangladeshi Candidate List East End Enquirer, January 27, 2022 Following the election, independent observers raised allegations over voter intimidation, family voting and impersonating voters.New questions over voting and ‘intimidating’ crowds in Tower Hamlets election The Standard, May 20, 2022
==External links==
* Rahman's blog
* "Lutfur Rahman: All his controversies in one place" by Andrew Gilligan
==References==
Category:British people
category:British politicians
Category:Islamic extremism
Category:Muslims
Category:Living people
Lyle Rossiter

Lyle H. Rossiter, Jr., like Michael Savage, thinks that liberalism is a mental disorder.
Unlike Savage, however, Rossiter is a psychiatrist and is actually serious when he says that. He has written a book, The Liberal Mind: The Psychological Causes of Political Madness, which claims to trace the psychological factors causing people to become liberals.
Promoting his book on WorldNetDaily, Rossiter quote mined a 2001 statement by Barack Obama about "redistributive change" and the civil rights movement.Krepel, Terry. "WorldNetDaily's Sour (And Immature) Grapes." ConWebWatch: December 1, 2008. Accessed October 1, 2017.
In a nutshell, the book's thesis is, 'My political views are so obviously correct that anyone who doesn't accept them just has to be nuts.' It presupposes the truth of a right-wing political outlook and then tries to plumb the reasons why other people do not accept this truth, the conclusion being that they have to be in massive denial. He chastises liberals for being "uncivil, overly sure of their correctness, and willfully ignorant of facts that contradict their worldview."
Joan Swirsky, a fan of the book, notes that it "avoids all the usual psychobabble."Here's what readers are saying about The Liberal Mind: The Psychological Causes of Political Madness. libertymind.com. We hazard a guess that this is because the book does not contain any actual psychological science.
==See also==
* Bob Altemeyer
* False consciousness
* Psychological projection
* Dunning-Kruger effect
==External links==
* Rossiter's web site
==References==
Category:Pseudoscience promoters
Category:Living people
MMR vaccine

The MMR vaccine (measles, mumps, and rubella) is an early vaccine given to infants to prevent several horrible and life threatening diseases. After careful study, the CDC has found that it is safe and effective.Measles, Mumps, and Rubella Diseases and How to Protect Against Them
In a 1998 paper Andrew Wakefield fingered it as a cause of autism, and between 2000 and 2004 managed to create a media buzz over it. His work was later completely discredited (though the medical community at large never accepted it to begin with) and found to be unethical, eventually losing his license to practice medicine over the debacle. Despite the media attention on Wakefield's claim, several large cohort studies have been available showing no chance of MMR leading to autism. This included one submitted to the New England Journal of Medicine which studied all children born in Denmark from 1991 to 1998, totaling 537,303 children, and found no evidence of a link. The main reason to cite so large a value for N is that Wakefield's paper only looked at 13 children to "prove" the link.A Population-Based Study of Measles, Mumps, and Rubella Vaccination and Autism The Denmark study was published in 2002, the height of the media scare.
Damage from the research and subsequent PR rampage from anti-vaccination groups cause a period of low vaccine compliance in England as parents avoided or delayed (for instance, refusing to give three vaccines at once due to fears of "overloading the immune system") giving their children life saving medical care. This has been linked as the reason behind several major outbreaks of mumps.Canada Mumps Outbreak Vaccine was Ignored, MSNBC
Rest assured that (1) the vaccine is very safe, (2) it does not cause autism, and (3) even if it somehow did, being autistic is much better than suffering and dying of a horrible disease.
==References==
category:medicine
Category:Parenting
Macrobiotics

Macrobiotics (from the Greek for "long life") is a diet and lifestyle created originally by Japanese writer and guru Nyoichi Sakurazawa (櫻澤如一), better known under the pen name George Ohsawa, and popularized in Western countries by his student Michio Kushi and others. Essentially, the macrobiotic way proposes to break the foods consumed by human beings down into yin and yang according to some arbitrary scheme, then balance out the diet into yin and yang foods and thereby achieve significant life extension.
While meat is not banned from macrobiotic meals, it falls into the category of foods that are "extremely yin", i.e. "stagnating", while alcohol, fermented foods, and some spices are considered "extremely yang" or "overstimulating". Many macrobiotic practitioners are therefore either partially or wholly vegetarian. Much macrobiotic food tends to be essentially vegetarian Japanese food, though that need not be the case.
Oddly enough, despite its claims to promote longer lives, neither the founder, Ohsawa, nor Michio Kuchi's wife Aveline (a noted author in the macrobiotic movement in her own right) had a longer than average lifespan; Ohsawa died of heart disease at age 72, and Aveline Kushi of cervical cancer, even as Ohsawa promoted macrobiotics in part as a cancer prevention diet. 
While Ohsawa focused on diet as a means by which to promote health, he was a heavy smoker.http://autoimmunethyroid.wordpress.com/2006/07/06/macrobiotic-blues/ He even stretched macrobiotic precepts to suggest that the blue or gray smoke coming out the front of a cigarette is yin (cancer-causing), while the yellow or orange smoke coming out the back that the smoker breathes in is yang, which obviously flies in the face of all we know about the dangers of smoking.http://www.cybermacro.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=122&Itemid=30
==See also==
*Food woo
*Quackery
==External links==
*Skeptic's Dictionary entry
*Description at Quackwatch.com, specifically related to cancer treatment
*Account of a Michio Kushi-led seminar at Quackwatch
==References==
Category:Alternative medicine
Category:Diet woo
Magnet

A magnet is an object which produces a magnetic field.
*Animal magnetism (or mesmerism) — an unscientific hypothesis for the alternative medicine "therapeutic touch"
*Crank magnetism — the noted tendency of people with crank ideas to accumulate more over time
*Electromagnetism
*Gas-saving magnets — magnets you put in your car that don't actually do anything
*Geomagnetism
*Human magnet — parlor trick that is based on adhesiveness rather than magnetism
*Insane Clown Posse — "fucking magnets"
*Magnetic field therapy — An alternative medicine application of magnets.
*Magnetic monopole — a hypothetical elementary particle
*Magnetic resonance imaging — a medical imaging application of really powerful magnets
*Magnetic water treatment — A horseshit-based magnetic treatment for cleaning or softening water.
*Nuclear magnetic resonance — The application of magnets to produce chemical spectra.
Magnetic field therapy

Magnetic field therapy is the use of magnetic fields to treat medical ailments. Unlike other alternative therapies, there are some proposed mechanisms for how it works, such as the magnets interfering with the iron in blood. However, these do not successfully explain why the effect is good or even if it is a noticeable effect. Like other alternative therapies (such as homeopathy), it gets away with this by claiming that "every case is unique," thereby getting around any concept of scientific reproducibility, and makes it unfalsifiable.An outline of MFT by William Pawluk… This tends to make it nearly impossible to establish the therapies' efficacy.…and the result of some real research into the effect.
==Examples==
===Auricular therapy===
"Auricular therapy" consists of magnetic earrings meant to alleviate addiction to smoking. They are also gold-plated, for extra magical effectiveness and possibly to increase the placebo effect.
==Real medical applications of magnets==
MFT is distinct from chemical and medical analytical tools based on the phenomenon of magnetic resonance which is used as a successful diagnosis tool in the form of MRI scanning. is a legitimate therapy that may use electromagnetic microwaves for deep heating of live tissue. 
Transcranial magnetic stimulation is another legitimate therapy that uses powerful electromagnets to induce small electrical currents in the brain and is being investigated as a possible treatment for severe depression, schizophrenia, and stroke rehabilitation. It is also used in the diagnosis and monitoring of neurological diseases such as ALS. At the very least, it can cause hilarious lapses in motor control when a TMS pulse is delivered to someone attempting to do simple tasks. Importantly, this requires actively pulsing the fields rather than remaining static, which is the primary difference between such treatments and woo regarding magnetic fields.
==See also==
*Shoo!Tag
*Magnetic water treatment
==References==
Category:Alternative medicine
Magnetic therapy

Magnetic therapy is a worthless quack treatment for arthritis. Magnetic bracelets and shoe insoles are sold for this purpose. If you absolutely must have one you can find it — where else? — at your local health food store or New Age bookstore, or advertised in the Weekly World News.
==Bullshit==
The general idea is that magnetic fields work miracles such as "increase circulation" or "reduce swelling". While pulsed, high powered fields have been shown to have some benefit on some wounds, the effect of exposure to very small magnetic fields is negligible to zero.Quackwatch.org — Magnet Therapy: A Skeptical View Hæmoglobin, for example is slightly diamagnetic, but it would take extremely powerful electromagnets or superconducting magnets to show any influence on blood flow, let alone significant or positive effect — and as MRI scanners are considered to be pretty safe, and are far stronger magnets than are available to magnetic therapists, there isn't really that much of an effect. 
Most studies done on magnetic fields have yielded the result that wearing magnets has no effect above a basic placebo. For example, the pain due to arthritis — a joint condition sometimes targeted by magnetic therapy — varies from day to day or even from hour to hour; as a result, patients can find it hard to tell whether the treatment is actually working. Selective reporting and confirmation bias takes care of the rest to ensure that any scam treatments get a positive reception.
==See also==
*MRI
*Shoo!Tag
==References==
Category:Alternative medicine
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (12 January 1918 – 5 February 2008) was born Mahesh Prasad Varma and was a proponent of Transcendental Meditation, a brand of woo that gained popularity among recovering American hippies in the 1970s.
==Involvement with The Beatles==
The Maharishi is probably best known for his association with the Beatles, and their subsequent disclaiming of him once they discovered he was just a dirty, naughty old man. John Lennon actually wrote an angry song against him, but George Harrison convinced John to make the target less obvious by Mad Libbing the name "" into the song in place of "Maharishi."
Harrison commented years later, "Now, historically, there's the story that something went on that shouldn't have done – but nothing did." In 1992, Harrison gave a benefit concert for the Maharishi-associated Natural Law Party, and later apologised for the way the Maharishi had been treated by saying, "We were very young" and "It's probably in the history books that Maharishi 'tried to attack Mia Farrow' – but it's bullshit, total bullshit." Cynthia Lennon wrote in 2006 that she "hated leaving on a note of discord and mistrust, when we had enjoyed so much kindness from the Maharishi". Asked if he forgave the Beatles, the Maharishi replied, "I could never be upset with angels." McCartney took his daughter, Stella, to visit the Maharishi in the Netherlands in 2007, which renewed their friendship. The New York Times and The Independent reported that the influence of the Maharishi, and the journey to Rishikesh to meditate, weaned the Beatles from LSD and inspired them to write many new songs. In 2009, McCartney commented that Transcendental Meditation was a gift the Beatles had received from the Maharishi at a time when they were looking for something to stabilise them. The Beatles' visit to the Maharishi's ashram coincided with a thirty-participant Transcendental Meditation teacher training course that was ongoing when they arrived.
==External links==
*"Who is that man behind the curtain?" at "Falling Down the TM Rabbit Hole - How Transcendental Meditation Really Works"
*Official website
==References==
Category:Cult leaders
Maharishi University of Management

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Maharishi University of Management is a school in Fairfield, Iowa that teaches with a, "Consciousness-Based Education" philosophy MUM at a Glance Maharishi University of Management. They require courses on Meditation and all food in their cafeteria is "organic" and vegetarian (this is where, "Bring a lunch from home" comes into play), the school was founded by none other than Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (yes, that woo peddler). 
==History and accreditation==
Founded as, "Maharishi International University" in the 1950s, the "school" started out in a rented office building in Santa Barbara, California. Over time the school grew and moved to Iowa with the help of financial donations from investors in the New Age community. The school held a campus in Iowa but choose to move for a bigger campus. In 1973 the school became accredited by the Higher Learning Commission and began to offer doctoral degrees in 1979; in 1995 M.I.U became the Maharishi University of Management.
==Academics==
MUM offers a variety of academic programs from the undergraduate level to graduate level. Pseudoscience is integrated into legitimate academic study.
===Bachelors degrees===
*Art
*Physiology
*Business
*Computer Science
*Mathematics (with a Physics minor)
*Creative Writing
*Literature 
*Media and Communications
*Sustainable Living
*Maharishi Vedic Science
===Masters degrees===
*Computer Science
*Physiology 
*Maharishi Vedic Science
*Maharishi Ayurveda Science and Integrative Medicine
*Business
*Screen Writing
*Art
===Doctoral degrees===
*Doctor of Medicine (through a Caribbean medical school)
*Ph.D. in Physiology
*Ph.D. in Maharishi Vedic Science
*Ph.D. in Management
==Reviews==
According to the website, "College Times", reviews range from "Great" to "Scam". As for the bad reviews, the users mentioned how they were screwed over by the financial aide.
==Stance on the COVID-19 vaccine==
Note: Due to the ongoing COVID pandemic and vaccine misinformation, this part is relevant
In a Stopped Clock moment, MUM endorses people getting the COVID vaccine, mask wearing and testing for infection. That said, their scientists "worry about possible side effects of the vaccine". Outside that, they recognize the threat the virus poses and acknowledge that the benefits of the vaccine outweigh the risks. This has not stopped them from promoting woo for COVID treatment Responding to COVID,..
==External links==
*https://www.mum.edu/#academics 
*https://collegetimes.co/maharishi-university-of-management/ (Here is where the bad reviews are)
==References==
Category:Alternative medicine promoters
Category:Crank schools
Category:Education
Category:Pseudoscience
Category:Pseudoscience promoting organizations