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William Godwin

{{Sources needed}}{{hatnote|Not to be confused with [[Godwin's Law]].}}
[[File:William Godwin by Henry William Pickersgill.jpg|upright|thumb|165px|Godwin looking rather sweet and avuncular.]]{{philosophy}}
'''William Godwin''' {{lived|1756|1836}} was an [[England|English]] journalist, [[Political philosophy|political philosopher]] and novelist whose involvement in securing universal education for women is not historically important enough to inform students of; particularly in the [[Public schooling|public schools]] he fought for them to have access to. Godwin is best forgotten for having formulated [[Anarchism|anarchist]] theory, believing in human [[immortality]], and for his final book:  ''Lives of the Necromancers''. Godwin was the husband of feminist Mary Wollstonecraft and father of Mary Godwin, author of ''[[Frankenstein]]'' and wife of Percy Bysshe Shelley.

Despite chronicling legends of ancient [[Monarchy|royalty]], philosophers and [[religion]]s utilizing [[Magic|necromancy]], electricity weapons, robots, flying machines, head transplants, cybernetics, weather control, talking animals, size changing [[Fairy|fairies]], elementals, invisibility potions, sympathetic magic, super strength, [[Alchemy|alchemists]] that cured [[cancer]], completely realistic illusions that feel like a life time but really lasted seconds, people showing up hundreds of years after they disappeared, and a [[dragon]] with teeth that grow into adult humans within seconds; ''Lives of the Necromancers'' is effectively invisible to modern [[Conspiracy theory|conspiracy theorists]] because it doesn't have the word "[[Extraterrestrial|aliens]]" in the title. It also mentions an instance of a priest in Rome using a magic lantern projector combined with [[Drugs|drugged]] smoke to give the appearance of [[demon]]s.

==External links==
*[http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/7082 Full text of ''Lives of the Necromancers''] at Project Gutenberg (being a 19th century text, its copyright has expired)

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William H. Philpott

[[Image:William H. Philpott.jpeg|thumb|right|165px|Getting high on those magnets]]{{altmed}}
{{cquote|[[Escape hatch|At this stage we can't, officially, scientifically, claim we can cure anything]].|||William H. Philpott, right after claiming magnets can cure a wide range of ailments<ref group=note>Specifically: stress, infections, multiple sclerosis, carpel tunnel, cataracts, glaucoma, retinal disorders, macular degeneration</ref><ref name="bullshit">''[[Penn & Teller: Bullshit!]]'', episode 1.02, ''Alternative medicine''</ref>}}
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'''William H. Philpott''' {{lived|1919|2009}} was a proponent of [[magnetic field therapy]], [[orthomolecular medicine]], [[mental illness denialist]]. He won the 2000 [[American Academy of Environmental Medicine]] Jonathan Forman award<ref>http://www.aaemonline.org/forman.php</ref>, and the 1997 [[Linus Pauling]] award from the Orthomolecular Health Society<ref group=note>''Not'' to be confused with several other similarly named awards which are given to ''real'' scientists who did ''real'' scientific work</ref>, which he was a founding member of.<ref>http://polarpowermagnets.com/?page_id=7</ref>

He wrote four books, all of them co-authored with [[Dwight K. Kalita]] except ''The Biomagnetic Handbook'', which was co-authored with [[Sharon Taplin]].

*''Brain Allergies: The Psychonutrient and Magnetic Connections'' (1990), claims that "exposure to certain foods and other substances triggers mental disorders in people so predisposed, and that such disorders can be cured by eliminating exposure to these substances". Foreword is by [[Linus Pauling]].
*''The Biomagnetic Handbook'' (1990), [[Argumentum ad populum|only 5 star reviews on Amazon, so it's got to be true, right]]?
*''Victory Over Diabetes'' (1991), purports to "not yet realized errors of chemistry and lifestyle that are responsible for perversions of glucose metabolism, ranging from hypoglycemia to hyperglycemia"
*''Magnet Therapy'' (2000), MAGNETS!
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William Li

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'''William Li''' is a [[Woo|woomeister]] who claims that we can [[Food woo|eat our way]] out of [[cancer]] and other diseases using a practice he calls "angiogenesis therapy."

==Angiogenesis==
Angiogenesis is how your body grows new blood vessels — it's a thing; look it up in your freshman physiology text.  The woo comes in when Li argues that "angiogenesis therapy" promotes the growth of new blood vessels to "replenish the blood supply to chronic wounds to speed healing, and [prevent] unnecessary amputations."<ref>"[http://www.angio.org/ua.php Understanding Angiogenesis]."</ref>

In reality, angiogenesis can make you ''worse'' if you have metastatic (malignant) [[cancer]]. When a tumor metastasizes in a new area of the body, it starts tiny but sends out signals telling the surrounding tissue to grow new blood vessels so that it can feed. Without angiogenesis, the new tumor can't grow more than a pinhead.  One cancer management therapy under serious study uses ''angiogenesis inhibitors'' such as thalidomide to prevent new blood vessels from forming.<ref>[http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/factsheet/Therapy/angiogenesis-inhibitors The National Cancer Institute, fact sheet on angiogenesis inhibitors]</ref>

==External links==
*[http://www.angio.org/ The Angiogenesis Foundation]
*[http://www.ted.com/talks/william_li.html Li gives a Ted Talk]

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Wilson Greatbatch

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'''Wilson Greatbatch''' {{lived|1919|2011}} was a prolific [[American]] [[engineer]] who invented the pacemaker amongst many other unique pieces of technology. He held over 300 [[patent|patents]].<ref>[https://lemelson.mit.edu/winners/wilson-greatbatch Wilson Greatbatch]. Retrieved March 31, 2020.</ref> Greatbatch published an autobiography, ''The Making of the Pacemaker: Celebrating a Lifesaving Invention'', in 2000.

==Implantable pacemaker==
Wilson Greatbatch was an electrical engineer, earning a bachelor’s degree in 1950 from Cornell University, and a master’s degree (1957) from the University of Buffalo. In 1956 Greatbatch inadvertently fitted a wrong-size resistor into an oscillator he was building to record heartbeats, causing the device to emit intermittent electrical pulses. This incident sparked his idea for the pacemaker, which he patented in 1962 after a few years of tinkering on the device in his barn. Prior to his work [[Swedish]] scientists had created an implantable pacemaker, but it failed after only a few hours. Their second attempt lasted only a few days.<ref>Altman, Lawrence (18 Jan 2002). "[https://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/18/world/arne-h-w-larsson-86-had-first-internal-pacemaker.html Arne H. W. Larsson, 86; Had First Internal Pacemaker"]. ''New York Times.'' Retrieved 31 March 2020.</ref> His pacemaker was a  major [[medical]] breakthrough credited with saving millions of lives. Greatbatch's original pacemaker had a battery life of only two years was first implanted in a human in 1960. By 1972 Greatbatch had succeeded in extending the life of the battery to about 10 years. Greatbatch was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 1986 and in 1990 he was the recipient of the National Medal of Technology. In his later years he experimented with creating a genetically-engineered cure for [[AIDS|AIDS]] and building a nuclear-powered spaceship.<ref>"[https://www.britannica.com/biography/Wilson-Greatbatch Wilson Greatbatch | American electrical engineer]". ''Encyclopedia Britannica''. Retrieved March 31, 2020.</ref><ref>Feder, Barnaby (2011-09-28). "[https://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/28/business/wilson-greatbatch-pacemaker-inventor-dies-at-92.html Wilson Greatbatch, Inventor of Implantable Pacemaker, Dies at 92]". ''The New York Times.'' Retrieved 2020-03-31.</ref> 

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Windmill

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* A turbine used for extracting [[renewable energy]] from the wind. {{wpl|Don Quixote}} believed these were ferocious giants.
** The [[Netherlands]], which is [[stereotype|stereotypically]] known for its windmills
* [[Wind turbine syndrome]], a fictitious illness supposedly caused by windmills
* [[Poe's Law#Poe's Windmill|Poe's Windmill]], a [[post hoc]] justification for people who mistake parodies of their beliefs as being legitimate
* A [[euphemism]] for [[swastika]] [[Alt-right glossary#Windmill|used by]] the [[alt-right]]
Wog

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*A [[racial slur]] for non-[[white people]], a diminutive form of the racist children's character '[[golliwog]]', primarily used in [[Britain]] (''Oxford English Dictionary'', definition 1.a.)
*A term used by [[Scientologist]]s to refer to non-Scientologists. Some "wogs" may also be deemed "[[suppressive person]]s". The term is very likely derived from the previous usage due to Scientology founder [[L. Ron Hubbard]]'s time in [[England]].<ref>[http://dialectblog.com/2013/03/14/l-ron-hubbard-and-wog/ A Strange Chapter in “Wog”s Hateful History] by Ben T. Smith (March 14, 2013) ''Dialect Blog''.</ref> However, he claimed in the ''Dianetics and Scientology Technical Dictionary'' that it stood for "worthy [[Asian|Oriental]] gentleman".<ref>{{cite book |title=Dianetics and Scientology Technical Dictionary |url=https://archive.org/details/dianeticssciento0000hubb/page/470/mode/2up?q=%22Wog%22 |first=L. Ron |last=Hubbard |author-link=L. Ron Hubbard |publisher=[[Church of Scientology]] |isbn=0884040372 |year=1975}}</ref>

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Woke

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*A term in [[African American Vernacular English]] to refer to awareness of danger, injustice, and [[racism]]<ref>https://www.npr.org/2023/07/21/1189016049/woke-desantis-trump-black-culture</ref>
*[[Feminist glossary#Woke|A political term]] originating in [[feminist]] circles indicating awareness of [[social justice]] issues
*[[Alt-right glossary#Woke|A term appropriated]] by the [[Alt-right]] used as a [[Poisoning the well|smear]] against one promoting a socially [[progressive]] message; later re-appropriated by [[Republicans]], [[Christofascism|Christofascists]], and other [[conservatives]] as a generic [[snarl word]] against pretty much anything they don't like<ref>[https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/joegarofoli/article/conservatives-woke-definition-17841408.php Conservatives have no clue what ‘woke’ means — and they don’t care] by Joe Garofoli (March 15, 2023; Updated: March 16, 2023 9:38 a.m.) ''San Francisco Chronicle''.</ref> or in some cases, outright stated to be what it is, in brazen contempt of [[civil rights]].<ref>[https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/12/05/desantis-florida-woke-critical-race-theory/ What does woke mean to Ron DeSantis? Whatever he wants it to mean.] December 5, 2022 at 4:17 p.m. EST, ''Washington Post''.</ref>
*A term used by [[conspiracy theory|conspiracy theorists]] to refer to themselves; see [[Wake up]]
*The past tense of wake
*Having a functional conscience and sense of empathy{{fact|joke}}

These types of usage of the word originally derive from [[African American Vernacular English]].<ref>"woke, ''adj''<sup>.2</sup>" in : ''Oxford English Dictionary''.</ref> This word is nearly a century old.<ref>https://www.npr.org/2023/07/19/1188543449/what-does-the-word-woke-really-mean-and-where-does-it-come-from</ref>

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Wolf

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*The pre-domesticated version of a [[dog]]
*[[Lycanthropy|Werewolves]], monstrous wolf creatures in [[folklore]] and [[cryptozoology]]
*[[Wolf hysteria]], widespread panic caused by fear and hatred of normal wolves
*[[Focus on the Family#Women's Liberation Front (WoLF)|Women's Liberation Front]] (WoLF), an [[astroturf]] "[[radfem]]" organisation with connections to conservative lobbying groups
* [[Danny Wolf]], an American alt-right activist
*"[[Leaderless resistance|Lone wolf]]", an informal term for a terrorist who acts alone
Women's Violence Prevention Act (South Korea)

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The '''Women's Violence Prevention Act''' (여성폭력방지기본법) is a [[South Korea|South Korean]] law to punish violence against women and to prevent all violence related to women. The law was passed by the National Assembly of Korea in December 2018 and will go into effect on December 25, 2019.

The bill was proposed by the [[Minjoo Party]]{{efn|To be exact, women's organizations in South Korea first asked the Minjoo Party to make this law.}} and passed with overwhelming support from [[Liberty Korea Party|LKP]] lawmakers.

==Criticism== 
Article 3 of the Bill defines 'women's violence' as "성별에 기반한 여성에 대한 폭력으로-" (violence based on a gender named woman). The law therefore excludes violence against people assigned male at birth and [[trans]] people.{{efn|It would be inconceivable if it were the [[United States]]. In [[South Korea]], sexual minorities are not respected much. Of course, gender violence can be met by anyone, especially since sexual minorities are more vulnerable.}}

So... cisgender men and transgender people are not protected by this law. It's not because of gender violence, but because it only punishes violence against cisgender women.

The passing of this law has prompted some young men in their 20s to support the Western [[MRA]] and [[alt-right]] movements.{{efn|Normal young men also withdrew their support for the Minjoo Party and turned to support for the [[Bareunmirae Party]]. Of course, there are still young men who support the Minjoo Party. Originally, the main supporters of the Minjoo Party were young people (including men.)}} Also, [[LGBT]] folks who supported the Minjoo Party withdrew their support and came to support the [[Justice Party (South Korea)|Justice Party]].{{efn|Sexual minority groups and young men have called on women's groups to protect all genders, but mainstream women's groups in South Korea have ignored it.}}

==See also==
* [[Moonbat]]
* [[Regressive left]]
* [[Trans-exclusionary radical feminism]]
* [[Transphobia]]
* [[LGBT rights]]
* [[Misandry]] — It's not a delusion like the MRA, but it's really institutional male discrimination.
* [[Gender binary]]

==External link==
*[http://www.law.go.kr/%EB%B2%95%EB%A0%B9/%EC%97%AC%EC%84%B1%ED%8F%AD%EB%A0%A5%EB%B0%A9%EC%A7%80%EA%B8%B0%EB%B3%B8%EB%B2%95/(16086,20181224) 국가법령정보센터 (National Statutory Information Center) — 여성폭력방지기본법 (Women's Violence Prevention Act) Full text] (in Korean)

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Word of Faith Fellowship

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'''Word of Faith Fellowship''' is a [[Pentecostal]] congregation in Spindale, [[North Carolina]], run by Jane Whaley. According to the Associated Press, it is run like a [[gulag]], with Whaley dictating every aspect of congregants' lives.<ref name=weiss>Mitch Weiss, [http://m.sfgate.com/news/crime/article/AP-Exclusive-Ex-congregants-reveal-years-of-10961483.php AP Exclusive: Ex-congregants reveal years of ungodly abuse]. sfgate.com via the Associated Press, 26 February 2017.</ref> Group members were afraid to leave because Whaley, whom they considered a [[prophet]], warned they would be struck dead by [[God]] if they did.<ref name=weiss/>

Whaley's distinctive teaching is that people routinely become [[Demonic possession|infested by demons]], who can only be banished by physically beating them out of the person.<ref name=weiss/> Thus, severe beatings, including of children and babies, are commonplace, yet members are forbidden to seek outside medical help.<ref name=weiss/> The group also ran a school, one wing of which was used as a ''de facto'' [[prison]], where "rebellious" men and boys would be held for up to a year.

Former members have accused the Whaley of coercing members to commit fraud by filing false unemployment claims in order to keep funds flowing into the church starting with the [[Great Recession]].<ref>[https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/religion/church-stoked-tithing-with-unemployment-scam-ex-members-say/2017/09/25/efdd5dee-a1a6-11e7-b573-8ec86cdfe1ed_story.html Church stoked tithing with unemployment scam, ex-members say] by Mitch Weiss & Holbrook Mohr (September 25, 2017 at 8:33 AM) ''The Washington Post''.</ref>

==External links==
*[http://wordoffaithfellowship.org/ Official website]
*[https://culteducation.com/group/1232-word-of-faith-fellowship.html Profile at the Cult Education Institute]
*[http://www.familiesagainstcultteachings.org/resources/WOFF---RULES-FOR-NEW-MEMBERS.pdf Guide for new members… DON'T]
*[http://sensanostra.com/moving-on-from-a-christian-cult A World Without Devils – Moving on from a Christian Cult] by Jill Evans
*[http://www.cbsnews.com/news/north-carolina-church-members-facing-charges-in-2013-beating-of-gay-man/ Church members charged with beating gay man] (December 15, 2014, 12:40 PM)

==See also==
*[[Kenneth Hagin]] &mdash; founder of the Word of Faith Movement, from which Whaley's church is derived

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Workers World Party

[[File:Patriot Prayer SF counterprotest 20170826-8168.jpg|right|thumb|165px|Workers World Party protesting in San Francisco in 2017]]
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'''The Workers World Party''' is an incredibly weird [[Marxist]] splinter group that split from the [[Socialist Workers Party (US)|Socialist Workers Party]] in 1959.  The points of contention were the SWP's opposition to the [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] invasion of [[Hungary]] in 1956 and to the excesses of the [[Mao Zedong|Mao]] regime.  While it still considered itself [[Trotskyism|Trotskyist]] for a brief period after the split, it soon referred to itself as Marxist-Leninist.  They have since gone down the loony path of embracing corruption and brutality the world over as long as it is not done under the authority of [[Western World|western]] [[capitalism|capitalist]] power.  If you're a corrupt, brutal [[despot]] with the right credentials, the WWP is gonna love ya!  

==International Honor Roll==
* Supported the Soviet invasion of Hungary (of course).
* Supported Mao's {{wpl|Great Leap Forward}}, which led to millions of Chinese starving.
* Supported the [[China|Chinese]] invasion of [[Tibet]].
* Supported the Chinese Cultural Revolution.  By the late 1960s, they were just acting like good little [[Maoist]]s.
* Supported the Soviet invasion of [[Czechoslovakia]] in 1968.
* Supported the crackdown in Tiananmen Square, even though by that time, they regarded the Chinese government as "[[reactionary]]."  Just fun seeing those tanks rolling and showing those pesky students who's boss, huh?
* Sang the praises of [[Kim Il-sung]] and [[Kim Jong-il]] as great revolutionary leaders while the starvation and repression of their subjects were well known.  Unknown attitude towards [[Kim Jong-un]].
* Sang the praises of [[Slobodan Milošević]] of [[Serbia]] as an anti-imperialist leader (WTF?).
* Sang the praises of [[Saddam Hussein]] of [[Iraq]] as an anti-imperialist leader (WTF?).
* Sang the praises of [[Muammar al-Gaddafi]] of [[Libya]] as an anti-imperialist leader (WTF?).
* Sang the praises of [[Bashar al-Assad]] of [[Syria]] as an anti-imperialist leader (WTF?).
* Sang the praises of [[Alexander Lukashenko]] of [[Belarus]] as an anti-imperialist leader (WTF?)

==But even a [[stopped clock]] is right twice a day…==
WWP organized the first demonstration against [[Vietnam War|US involvement in Vietnam]], in 1962.

The WWP front group, Act Now to Stop War and End Racism (ANSWER), was at the forefront of organizing the first demonstrations against the US [[Iraq War|invasion of Iraq]] in 2003.  They expressed a groundswell of opposition to that war that left the heads of the spineless [[Democrats]] who supported the war spinning. Fortunately, the relationship between ANSWER and the group that praised Saddam Hussein as an anti-imperialist leader was never disseminated by the mainstream media.{{Citation needed}}

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WorldTruth.TV

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'''WorldTruth.TV''' is a [[webshite]] run by a man called Eddie Levin,<ref name="Identity">http://www.emailsherlock.com/emailsearch/eddie2769@hotmail.com/</ref> who claims to have "spent the last 32 years researching [[Theosophy]], [[Freemasonry]], [[Kabbalah]], [[Rosicrucianism]], the Bavarian [[Illuminati]] and Western [[Occultism]],"<ref name="About">http://worldtruth.tv/aboutus/</ref> which should immediately tip you off that everything on this site is utter [[bullshit]] (just in case [[Badger's Law|the title didn't]]). [[Newsguard]] says that the webshite "severely violates basic standards of credibility and transparency".<ref>[https://www.newsguardtech.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/WorldTruth-1.pdf worldtruth.tv], newsguardtech.com, May 2020.</ref> The site promotes such harebrained ideas as:

* "[[Cleansing]]" diets<ref name="Detox">http://worldtruth.tv/32-detox-drinks-for-cleansing-and-weight-loss/</ref>
* [[Global warming denialism]]<ref name="Climate change">http://worldtruth.tv/global-warming-debunked/</ref>
* [[Antivax]] bullshit<ref name="Antivax">http://worldtruth.tv/courts-quietly-confirm-mmr-vaccine-causes-autism%E2%80%8F/</ref>
* And most importantly, [[antisemitism]], claiming that ''[[The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion]]'' is an authentic manual on how Jews are going to take over the world (rather than the crock that it really is).<ref "Antisemitism">https://web-beta.archive.org/web/20120314015257/http://worldtruth.tv:80/the-protocols-of-the-learned-elders-of-zion</ref>

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