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Patriot Guard Riders

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The '''Patriot Guard Riders''' are a non-profit organization founded in August 2005 as a reaction to [[Fred Phelps]]'s [[Westboro Baptist Church|hate group]]. The founder, Chuck Barshney, was dissatisfied with Phelps's picketing of the funerals of soldiers, and wanted to shield families from the actions of Phelps's "church". <ref>http://www.patriotguard.org/AboutUs/OurHistory/tabid/145/Default.aspx</ref> The first funeral the Guard attended was held on October 27th, and over 100 riders attended. When the Patriot Guard website was put up, it received over 566,000 hits in its first two weeks, and gained a multitude of members in the same time span. While they were initially established as a motorcycle club, they do accept memberships from anyone regardless of regardless of political affiliation, veteran status, or whether they do own a motorcycle or not.

==Mission Statement==
''The Patriot Guard Riders is a diverse amalgamation of riders from across the nation. We have one thing in common besides motorcycles. We have an unwavering respect for those who risk their very lives for America’s freedom and security. If you share this respect, please join us.''

''We don’t care what you ride or if you ride, what your political views are, or whether you’re a hawk or a dove. It is not a requirement that you be a veteran. It doesn't matter where you’re from or what your income is; you don’t even have to ride. The only prerequisite is Respect.''

''Our main mission is to attend the funeral services of fallen American heroes as invited guests of the family. Each mission we undertake has two basic objectives:''

:1. ''Show our sincere respect for our fallen heroes, their families, and their communities. Shield the mourning family and their friends from interruptions created by any protestor or group of protestors.''

:2. ''We accomplish the latter through strictly legal and non-violent means.''

''To those of you who are currently serving and fighting for the freedoms of others, at home and abroad, please know that we are backing you.  We honor and support you with every mission we carry out, and we are praying for a safe return home for all.''

==External links==
*[http://www.patriotguard.org/ The Patriot Guard website]

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Categories: Political activists, United States
Paul

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*[[Paul of Tarsus]] (known to Christians as [[Saint]] Paul)
*[[Pamela Paul]]
*[[Ron Paul]]
*[[Rand Paul]], son of Ron
*[[Paul Gosar]], far-right representative from [[Arizona]]
*[[Paul Krugman]] — [[Nobel Prize]]-winning [[economist]]
*[[Fun:Sir Paul McCartney|Paul McCartney]], one of [[the Beatles]] who supposedly [[Paul is dead|died in 1966]]
*[[Paul Ryan]] — Former [[US]] Speaker of the [[House of Representatives]]
*Paul Franklin Watson, founder of the [[Sea Shepherd Conservation Society]]
*[[Paul Joseph Watson]] — [[Alex Jones]]' "[[reptoid]] [[space alien]] lover"
*[[Paul Wolfowitz]] — architect of the second [[Iraq War]]
*[[Paul the Octopus]]

==Lesser known==
*[[Paul Broun]] — US Representative and [[YEC]]
*[[Paul Elam]] — a [[men's rights]] activist
*[[Paul A. Nelson]] — YEC
Paul Connett

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'''Paul Connett''' {{lived|1940}} is the executive director of the [http://fluoridealert.org/ Fluoride Action Network] (FAN), an anti-[[fluoridation]] activist group.

==The Fluoride Action Network==
Connett helped found the anti-fluoride group in May of 2000<ref>http://www.americanhealthstudies.org/projects.html</ref> and has since rallied many other doctors and dentists together in his unified mission of destroying any attempt to add trace amounts of fluoride to [[water]] for the betterment of children. Because, you know, if you get a bunch of people with [[credential]]s together, you have to take them somewhat seriously.

===50 Reasons to Oppose Fluoridation===
In his pièce de résistance, Connett lays out all of his best reasons for why he thinks the [[scientific consensus]] is wrong about [[water fluoridation]]. They range from comically misguided reasons to the outright twisting of [[Statistics|statistical data]].<ref>[http://fluoridealert.org/articles/50-reasons/ 50 Reasons to Oppose Fluoridation] by Paul Connett, Fluoride Action Network</ref>

==See also==
*[[Pseudostatistics]]

==External links==
*[http://www.quackwatch.org/11Ind/connett.html Quackwatch: A Critical Look at Paul Connett]

==References==
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Categories: Chemophobes, Living people, Pseudoscience promoters, Water fluoridation
Paul Kurtz

[[File:Paul Kurtz 1979.jpg|thumb|165px|Paul Kurtz 1979]]
'''Paul Kurtz''' (1925-2012) was one of the founding figures (if not ''the'' founding figure) of [[secular humanism]] and the [[United States|American]] [[skepticism|skeptical movement]]. He founded the [[Prometheus Books]] publishing company in 1969, the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP, now the [[Committee for Skeptical Inquiry]]) in 1976, the [[Council for Secular Humanism]] in 1980 and the [[Center for Inquiry]] in 1991.<ref>[http://nytimes.com/2012/10/24/nyregion/paul-kurtz-humanist-and-philosopher-dead-at-86.html ''New York Times'' obituary]</ref>

==References==
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[[Category:Atheists]]
[[Category:Skeptics]]

Categories: Atheists, Skeptics
Paul Nelson

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'''Paul A. Nelson''' {{lived|1958}} is an American philosopher and [[young earth creationist]] who gained a Ph.D. in [[philosophy]] from the University of Chicago in 1998. He is the grandson of the creationist author and Lutheran minister Byron Christopher Nelson. Nelson is a fellow of the Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture as well as the International Society for Complexity, Information and Design.

This apparently allows him to write authoritatively about science, as long as he calls himself a "philosopher of biology".<ref>http://www.discovery.org/p/45</ref> He is supposed to be publishing a work criticizing the principle of [[common descent]] derived from his thesis, but this has been forthcoming for some time.<ref>{{wpa|Paul Nelson (creationist)}}</ref> 

His unpublished book was described in the [[wedge document]] as offering a "powerful alternative" to [[evolution]], which presumably means it will consist of the same old creationist [[PRATT]]s dressed up with scientific [[jargon]] and new scientific research being taken entirely out of context. Nelson is a fellow at the [[Discovery Institute]]'s Center for Science and Culture and an adjunct professor at [[Biola University]]'s  Master of Arts Program in Science & Religion.<ref>[http://www.discovery.org/p/45 Paul Nelson, Senior Fellow &mdash; Center for Science and Culture] Discovery Institute</ref>

==References==
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Categories: Creationists, Living people, Philosophers, Pseudoscience promoters
Paul Prodromou

[[File:Paulpitt.jpg|upright|thumb|350px|right|Paul Prodromou (alias Pitt) and Eddie Stampton (alias Mark Pringle) discuss race relations at the Essex English Community Group's Facebook page.]]
'''Paul Prodromou''' (active under the pseudonym '''Paul Pitt''') is a right-wing British activist.

He was once in charge of the Essex, Kent and Sussex divisions of the [[English Defence League]],<ref>http://edlnews.co.uk/index.php/latest-news/latest-news/12-news/the-leadership/131-paul-pitt</ref> but was removed from the group in 2012.<ref>http://www.hopenothate.org.uk/blog/article/2401/is-kevin-carroll-the-real-mushroom</ref>

Prodromou is now reportedly the chairman of the South East Alliance,<ref>http://www.searchlightmagazine.com/blogs/searchlight-blog/jim-dowson-arrested-in-belfast</ref> a small outfit which appears to consist mainly of former Essex EDL members.<ref>http://edlnews.co.uk/index.php/featured-stories/derek-fender-corner/957-kevin-carroll-s-christmas-speech-fiasco?COLLCC=1823194183&</ref> "WE ARE NOT A SPLINTER GROUP", says the SEA's Facebook page. "We are a non-political community based street movement that will seek to act as a platform for all existi".<ref>https://www.facebook.com/pages/South-East-Alliance/429609677092867?id=429609677092867&sk=info</ref> Good to hear that all those lonely little existi now have a place of their own.

According to [[Hope not Hate]], Prodromou is a close friend of Eddie Stampton (alias Mark Pringle<ref>http://www.hopenothate.org.uk/blog/article/2388/edl-lurch-further-to-the-right</ref>), a known [[neo-Nazi]].<ref>http://www.hopenothate.org.uk/blog/article/2365/redwatch-the-edl</ref><ref>http://www.hopenothate.org.uk/blog/article/2288/edl-gives-thanks-to-nazi-eddie</ref> Both men are supporters of the [[Steadfast_Trust#Essex|Essex English Community Group]].<ref>http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/File:EssexECG.jpg</ref>

In March 2013 Prodromou led a group of fifteen right-wingers which accosted Nick Lowles and other members of Hope not Hate during a leafleting session in Havering. One member of the group posted video footage online, allowing Hope not Hate to alert the authorities.<ref>http://www.hopenothate.org.uk/blog/article/2525/we-shall-not-be-moved</ref><ref>http://www.hopenothate.org.uk/blog/article/2527/my-blood-is-boiling-and-i-want-action</ref><ref>http://www.thecommentator.com/article/2846/member_of_anti_fascist_group_bullied_into_abandoning_anti_bnp_leaflet_campaign</ref>

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[[Category:Right-wing activists]]

Categories: Right-wing activists
Paul Washer

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'''Paul Washer''' (1961–) is an [[United States|American]] [[right-wing]] hellfire-and-brimstone [[Fundamentalist Christianity|Christian fundamentalist]]  preacher, [[missionary]] and [[author]]. He adheres to the notion of [[salvation]] coming as a result of faith in Christ's work of atonement and of abstinence from sin; not just the former.  He claims to hold to justification by faith alone (sola fide), but as a Calvinist also asserts a long litany of required behaviors without which one is not a "true" believer.   He gained attention in 2003 when he gave a sermon to approximately 5,000 youth entitled "Shocking Message!" where he warned against the evils of worldly entertainment<ref>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuabITeO4l8</ref>.   Unlike many fundamentalists, he claimed that the United States was the most wicked country on Earth due to the large number of professing Evangelicals who live a "worldly" lifestyle.  He argues that most preachers today are too wishy-washy and not fundie enough, and that this is one of the many reasons why the world is in such a state of decadence. Washer even once stated that if his children were to die unsaved, he would applaud [[God]] as he cast them into [[Hell]]. Nice guy.

==References==
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Categories: Authors, Fundamentalists, Ministers, Living people
People Will Talk

{{title-italics}}[[File:People Will Talk (1951) trailer 1.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Cary Grant and Jeanne Crain in the film.]]{{film}}
'''''People Will Talk''''' is a 1951 [[United States|American]] movie starring Cary Grant. In the movie, Grant plays an idealistic gynecologist named Noah Praetorius, who, unlike other doctors, empathises with his patients and tries to help them with their problems, stating that "pills and serums are a last resort" and that he "doesn't cure illness, he makes sick people well." One day, a woman came in because she felt ill. It turned out it was due to an unwanted pregnancy; this stressed her so much, she tried to kill herself. Praetorius, who is concerned about her well-being, lies to her that the test was a mistake in order to prevent her from harming herself and later marries her to make the pregnancy socially acceptable. Despite this suggestive plot, the movie has nothing to do with [[abortion]].

==Context==
===Alternative medicine===
When the movie was first shown, viewers of the film saw Praetorius as an ideal, but rare or possibly non-existent, doctor (this is how he is described in the introduction). Now, however, people will likely think of their kindly local [[naturopath]]s and [[CAM]] practitioners, especially since a few familiar words such as "[[quack]]" are used to refer to Praetorius, along with him supporting "faith" and "miracles" (not in a clearly supernatural sense, though). However, there is one crucial difference between Praetorius and naturopaths: Praetorius is a [[evidence-based medicine|science-based physician]], while CAM practitioners are generally believers in various forms of [[Woo|magic]]. In one scene, Praetorius is said to have had a terminal patient who got better after he "gave her the will to live". He most certainly did not give her herbs and [[Homeopathy|magic water]]. The thrust of the movie is that doctors should be kinder to patients, ''not'' that they should be more [[superstitious]]. Believing in useless treatments is ''not'' a requirement for having empathy. CAM practitioners prescribe ineffective therapies for serious diseases, while Praetorius, in the event of a dangerous malady, prescribes the science-based treatment he knows to be the best. Indeed, he also notes that "mother nature" (with its diseases) is highly dangerous to humans, something a physician would be well aware of, thus showing he certainly doesn't buy into the [[appeal to nature]] like so many [[CAM]] practitioners do.

===McCarthyism===
The film has also been seen as a criticism of [[McCarthyism]], both in its general tone and with the chief antagonist Elwell (Hume Cronyn) in the [[Joe McCarthy]] role.<ref>[http://www.jacknilan.com/senatorjoe/people.html McCarthyism and the Movies], [http://www.thespinningimage.co.uk/cultfilms/displaycultfilm.asp?reviewid=4585 The Spinning Image]</ref>
==External links==
*[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043915/ ''People Will Talk'' on IMDb]
==References==
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[[Category:Alternative medicine]]
[[Category:Films]]

Categories: Alternative medicine, Films
Pepper Lewis

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'''Pepper Lewis''' claims to be a [[channeler]] and runs a typical internet based [[woo]] shtick. Lewis says she channels [[Gaia]] and has been the "primary voice for Mother Earth (Gaia) for over 15 years."<ref>[http://www.thepeacefulplanet.com/aboutpepper.php About Pepper Lewis from her homepage]</ref> Lewis offers little background in how she suddenly became the only person to hear a giant floating space rock speak. However, this floating rock can apparently help align you to your "higher purpose" through a 45 minute phone call, and all for only $350!<ref>[http://www.thepeacefulplanet.com/services.php Pepper Lewis' services]</ref><ref>[http://www.thepeacefulplanet.com/faq_ps.php#signup22 Pepper Lewis' FAQ]</ref> 

However Pepper Lewis doesn't stop merely with channeling our planet, she also offers to teach you to how to hear voices in your head and become your own channeler. Franchising [[dollar|fees]] to be announced.<ref>[http://www.thepeacefulplanet.com/learnto.php Any day now...]</ref>

==2011 Japan earthquakes==

Pepper Lewis came out a few days after the 2011 Japan earthquakes to make sure we didn't think Gaia was mad at us. In fact, apparently the earthquakes were somehow attached to the protest in [[Egypt]] and the earth is somehow "evolving" and that's making human society change, and that somehow makes earthquakes.<ref name=youtube>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHdQWpC5gRI Pepper Lewis on youtube]</ref> Huh.  And here we thought tectonic plates had something to do with it.

Unlike most [[hoax | hoaxsters]] Lewis actually gives us some amazing predictions that Gaia gave her about earthquakes; these include such wonders as:<ref name=youtube />

*There will be more earthquakes to come
*Some may be stronger, some may be weaker
*They will happen in both hemispheres 

You don't say!

Of course, ''just'' in case there aren't any more earthquakes Lewis is clear to say that these might not be predictions, unless they come true.

==References==
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Categories: Living people, Pseudoscience promoters
Perennial Traditionalism

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{{cquote|What westeners call civilization, the others would call barbarity, because it is precisely lacking in the essential, that is to say a principle of a higher order|4=René Guénon, found on an Islamic website<ref>[http://www.livingislam.org/gue_e.html Some Quotes from René Guénon in "East and West"]. ''Living Islam''.</ref>}}
'''Perennial Traditionalism''' (or the Traditionalist School) is a school of religious thought,  based primarily on the writings of René Guénon, a [[France|French]] philosopher who claimed that all religions and cultures had a tradition of esoteric initiation that went back to "time immemorial."  Guénon believed that the West had become largely void of these esoteric components due to the new tradition of "intellectualism."

There are three postulates of Traditionalists:  the existence of a "Primordial Tradition," the idea that modernity is incompatible with that Tradition, and that with spiritual effort (usually grounded in so-called "Eastern" techniques) one can reconnect with that Tradition.

Though originally attracting people from a wide field of religions like [[Hinduism]] and [[Buddhism|Mahayana-Buddhism]], Guénon started a trend by immigrating to [[Egypt|Cairo]] and becoming a [[Sufism|Sufi]] [[imam]].  He was followed by people like [[Frithjof Schuon]] — turning Traditionalism into a form of Sufism.

Traditionalism took another direction under [[Julius Evola]] and was slowly turned into a tool of the European far right, being popular amongst the French [[New Right (Europe)|Nouvelle Droite]].

Traditionalism is an important aspect to the writings of Mircea Eliade, scholar of religion and mythology, who believed all religions and myths were in some important way, not only a retelling of the same universal sets of stories, but that they harken back to a  ''philosophia perennis'' — a shared religion or religious understanding of the world in our earliest ancestors.

==See also==
* [[Perennial philosophy]]
* [[Radical traditionalism]]

==References==
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Categories: Fascism, Religion
Perennial philosophy

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The '''perennial philosophy''' is a universal [[philosophy]] and [[holism | holistic]] perspective within the [[philosophy of religion]] which views each of the world's [[religions]] and [[spirituality | spiritual]] traditions as sharing a single, universal [[truth]] and a single divine foundation of [[knowledge]].

==Overview==
According to perennial philosophy each world religion or spiritual tradition, independent of its cultural or historical context, is simply a different interpretation of a single universal truth. It affirms that a direct insight into the nature of [[reality]] is a universal possibility  whether gained after practice of spiritual disciplines and study of scriptures or through a wholly unanticipated illuminating experience of union with God or the "Ultimate".<ref>[http://www.religiousworlds.com/text/prenphil.html Religious Worlds: Perennial Philosophy]</ref> Aldous Huxley, who wrote a book on the subject titled ''The Perennial Philosophy'' defined it as:
 
{{cquote|The [[Metaphysics|metaphysic]] that recognizes a divine Reality substantial to the world of things and lives and minds; the [[psychology]] that finds in the soul something similar to, or even identical to, divine Reality; the ethic that places man's final end in the knowledge of the immanent and transcendent Ground of all being; the thing is immemorial and universal. Rudiments of the perennial philosophy may be found among the traditional lore of primitive peoples in every region of the world, and in its fully developed forms it has a place in every one of the higher religions." (The Perennial Philosophy, p. vii).}}

==Criticism==
Critics of this idea point to the fact that many of the world's religious traditions are in blatant conflict with one another.  Even setting aside the rather obvious conflicts in matters like the [[age of the Earth]] ([[Christians]] thought it was younger, and [[Hindu]]s that it was older, than it actually is), there are major contradictions between religions on matters of [[ethics]] and philosophy, which would seem to be the areas in which religions ought to be most consistently accurate, if their ideas have any merit.  For instance, many branches of Christianity teach that human nature is, by definition, [[sin]]ful and that we must avoid allowing that nature to dominate our actions, lest we commit sinful acts.  [[Taoism]], by contrast, embraces nature and encourages people to allow their own natures to influence their behavior.  Needless to say, they can't ''both'' be completely right.

==See also==
*[[Perennial Traditionalism]]
*[[Unitarian Universalism]], which rejects the absolute truth of any religion

==References==
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Categories: Philosophy, Religion
Perrott-Warrick Project

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The '''Perrott-Warrick Project''' is a fund established in the early twentieth century to fund research into [[parapsychology]]. The original funding came at the bequest of Frank Duerdin Perrott in 1937. In 1956, Frederic Walmsley Warrick bequeathed more funds to the project.

When Warrick died, ''The Times'' death notice described him as a "retired manufacturing chemist".<ref>The Times, Monday, Dec 17, 1956; pg. 1; Issue 53716; col A Deaths Category: Deaths</ref>  His estate, which was reportedly valued at £29,036, was, minus legacies,

{{quotebox|To be used to supplement the work which is now being done with the aid and at the expense of the Perrott Studentship and Lectureship Fund towards the existence of mental and physical phenomena which seem ''prima facie'' to exist: (a) the existence of [[supernatural]] powers or cognition or action of human beings in their present life or (b) the persistence of the human mind after bodily death, and also in the direction of what is known in that sphere of investigation as [[Confabulation#Photographic_memory|'pictorial memory'.]]<ref>The Times, Friday, May 17, 1957; pg. 15; Issue 53843; col D Deaths Category: Deaths</ref>}}

The fund itself has funded experiments by both advocates of [[psi]] and skeptics such as [[Susan Blackmore]] (who really does have cool hair) and {{wpl|Richard Wiseman}} (who, unfortunately, doesn't have much hair at all).

The fund is administered by Trinity College, Cambridge, but that's where the association with Trinity ends.  The Fellows of Trinity have no say over how the money is spent, and anyone funded doesn't automatically get a place on the Trinity Faculty.  This doesn't stop woomeister [[Rupert Sheldrake]] from suggesting that he's still associated with Cambridge however.

== Somewhat incomplete list of researchers ==

* G.S. Brown, 1951<ref>The Times, Tuesday, Jun 19, 1951; pg. 6; Issue 52031; col C University News Oxford Category: Official Appointments and Notices</ref>
* Stephen I. Abrams, 1964<ref>Psychical research student at Cambridge The Guardian (1959-2003) [London (UK)] 06 July 1964: 1.</ref>
* Anita Gregory, 1966<ref>The Times, Monday, Jul 12, 1965; pg. 6; Issue 56371; col E Cambridge Awards Category: Official Appointments and Notices</ref>
* [[Susan Blackmore]]
* [[Rupert Sheldrake]], until 2010
* Caroline Watt, 2010-2014<ref>[https://www.ed.ac.uk/profile/caroline-watt Caroline Watt] at the University of Edinburgh.</ref>

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