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Energy Polarizer

[[File:Polarizerinside010.jpg|thumb|165px|The innards of a Brock Energy Polarizer]]{{pseudoscience}}
The '''Energy Polarizer''' is a box containing a [[crystal]] that is claimed to increase fuel efficiency. It is an example of [[automotive woo]].

==Origins==
In 1986, [[Australian]] motor racing driver Peter Brock unveiled a device called an Energy Polarizer, which consisted of a [[black box]] containing a sliver of crystal surrounded by [[magnet]]s, with promises it could improve the fuel performance and handling of any car which uses it. Despite no scientific testing of it, Brock claimed it worked through "aligning the molecules" of the [[car]], and began fitting the device to all (General Motors) Holden Dealer Team specials. Other benefits claimed by the device included absorbing road shocks more completely and quietly, to reduce overall vehicle noises — both inside and outside — to achieve greater efficiency of the power train and steering systems, improving the engine and suspension performance and to create a more pleasant environment for the driver and passenger.

==Failure and downfall==
On the eve of the 1987 Australian Touring Car Championship, Brock was ready to release a new car called the Brock Director &mdash; a GM-based Brock car with the device as standard. With the Energy Polarizer failing to deliver any improvements in efficiency as promised, Holden refused to have anything to do with it, and after many threats from GMH to withdraw all support from Brock and the Mobile Holden Dealer team if he went ahead with the release of the car, Brock released the Brock Director in February 1987. On 23<sup>rd</sup> February 1987, Holden withdrew all support to Brock and the Brock Special Vehicles empire was gone along with his reputation.<ref>[http://www.carsguide.com.au/news-and-reviews/car-news/brock_energy_polarizer_returns Brock Energy Polarizer Returns] by Paul Gover (17 October 2011) ''CarsGuide.com.au''</ref>

An Energy Polarizer is also included in the modern throwbacks; however, this is just for posterity.<ref>[https://hdt.com.au/showroom/ve/vl-ve-group-plus-pack/ VL VE Group A Plus Pack]</ref>

==See also==
*[[Crystal woo]]

==References==
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[[Category:Automotive woo]]

Categories: Automotive woo
English

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[[File:Full English breakfast.jpg|thumb|right|250px|The "full English", including that foreign food known as "tomato"]]
*[[African American Vernacular English]]
*[[American English]]
*[[British English]]
*[[Fun:English]] 
*[[England]]

===Or just maybe===
*[[English-only movement]]
*[[English Defence League]]
*[[English Democrats]]
*[[English spelling reform]]
English Democratic Party

[[File:Englishdemocratic.png|250px|left|thumb|...Ouch.]]
{{UKpolitics}}
{{hatnote|Not to be confused with the larger and similarly-named [[English Democrats]] party.}}

The '''English Democratic Party''' is a fringe [[right-wing]] political party based in the [[United Kingdom]]. It is notable largely for [[Haig's Law|the hideous design of its website]], which manages to outdo [[Timecube]] in terms of incoherence.

The party was founded in 1994<ref>http://www.englishdemocraticparty.org.uk/public_html/aboutus.html</ref> and is chaired by Michael Gibbs.<ref>http://www.englishdemocraticparty.org.uk/public_html/speach.html</ref> Gibbs represented the EDP in the 1997 general election;<ref>http://www.englishdemocraticparty.org.uk/public_html/general97.html</ref> the party also stood in the 1999 European parliamentary election.<ref>http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/euros_99/regional_html/full_sop.stm</ref>

Officially, the EDP is a mainstream [[Eurosceptic]] party, but the further one digs into its website the more [[crankery]] can be found. It believes that [[9/11]] and the [[7 July 2005 London bombings]] were inside jobs carried out at the behest of the [[Illuminati]] and [[Bilderberg Group]];<ref>http://www.englishdemocraticparty.org.uk/public_html/attachments/attachments_1500.html-911-BOMBINGS</ref><ref name=sevenseven>http://www.englishdemocraticparty.org.uk/public_html/attachments/attachments_1501.html-7-7%20LONDON</ref> claims that [[UKIP]] and the [[BNP]] are both [[Masonic]] puppets of the [[European Union]];<ref>http://www.englishdemocraticparty.org.uk/public_html/christianpolitics06.html</ref> holds that the Illuminati are hiding the existence of [[extraterrestrial]]s and planning to kill 80% of the world's population<ref>http://www.englishdemocraticparty.org.uk/public_html/attachments/attachments_1855-GOVERNMENT%20WITHHELD%20INFORMATION%20ON%20UFO%27S%20AND%20EXTRA-TERRESTIALS.html</ref> so that the survivors can be placed under the rule of a "[[Satanic]] world corporation";<ref>http://www.englishdemocraticparty.org.uk/public_html/INDEX021210%20old%20format.html</ref> and provides links to such resources as [[Jew Watch]] and [[David Icke]]'s website.<ref name=sevenseven/>

==External links==
*[http://www.englishdemocraticparty.org.uk/ Official website]

==References==
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Categories: Antisemitism, British political parties, Conspiracy theorists, Far-right political parties, Nationalism in the UK, Racism
English Democrats

[[File:English Democrats logo.png|thumb|right|165px|Cry 'God for Harry, England, and Saint George!]]
{{hatnote|Not to be confused with the smaller and similarly-named [[English Democratic Party]].}}
{{UKpolitics}}
The '''[[English Democrats]]''' (ED) is a minor, far-right, Eurosceptic, English nationalist political party<ref>[https://search.electoralcommission.org.uk/English/Registrations/PP17 English Democrats] ''The Electoral Comission''</ref><ref>[https://electionresults.parliament.uk/political-parties/15 English Democrats] ''UK Parliament''</ref> founded in 1997 by wealthy solicitor {{wpl|Robin Tilbrook}} from the '''Campaign for an English Parliament''' pressure group as a continuation of the defunct '''English National Party''' and reformed under its current name in 2002 following the formation of the Scottish Parliament, Welsh Parliament and Northern Ireland Assembly to push for a similarly devolved parliament for England (thereby solving the [[West Lothian Question]]). Other policies include a points-based immigration system;<ref>http://www.voteenglish.org/policies-immigration.html</ref> and "an end to [[political correctness]]".<ref>http://www.voteenglish.org/policies-political-correctness.html</ref>

The English Democrats party has been associated by some critics with the [[BNP]]. Although the party's policies do not contain the same racist angle, there is an overlap in terms of membership. There have been reports that almost 43% of English Democrats candidates in the 2012 local elections have been involved with the BNP, but this claim has not been confirmed.<ref>http://www.hopenothate.org.uk/blog/article/1735/english-democrats-in-our-sights</ref> They received some negative public attention in 2009 when they shared a platform with the far-right England First Party,<ref>http://richardaitkins.wordpress.com/2011/04/12/three-reasons-not-to-vote-english-democrats/</ref> and have been widely criticised in the blogosphere for failing to keep [[Steve Uncles]] on a lead.

The party's main political success was in getting one of its members, Peter Davies, elected as mayor of Doncaster in 2009. He left the party in early 2013, citing the amount of ex-BNP members in the English Democrats as the reason.<ref>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-21335384</ref>

The party has subsequently sort to opportunistically expand it's influence, absorbing {{wpl|Robert Kilroy-Silk||'s}} vanity UKIP splinter {{wpl|Veritas (political party)|Veritas}} in 2015, forming a formal election pact under the name [[Patriots Alliance]] with the far-right remnants of the once mighty [[UK Independence Party]] itself in 2023, and co-running candidates with far-right, fascist, neo-Nazi and white nationalist hate group [[Patriotic Alternative]] in the [[2024 UK general election]].

==See also==
* [[Steve Uncles]]
* [[Julia Gasper]]

==External links==
* [https://www.englishdemocrats.party/ Official website]

==References==
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[[Category:British political parties]]

Categories: British political parties
English First

{{uspolitics}}"'''English First'''" is an organization within the [[English-only movement]] whose mission is to make English the official language of the [[United States of America]]. It is headed by [[racist]] [[gun nut]] [[Larry Pratt]]. 

==Agenda==
English First holds that learning English is a "moral obligation" and that any attempt "to give foreign languages the same status as English" - that is, to provide bilingual materials or education to help [[Undocumented immigration|immigrant]] families learn - is [[Nationalism|unpatriotic]]. 

Working with Rep. Toby Roth ([[Republican|R]]-[[WI]]) and Rep. [[Peter King]] ([[Republican|R]]-[[NY]]), English First attempted to draft federal legislation - H.R. 739 and H.R. 1005 - that would repeal both the Bilingual Education Act and the bilingual provisions of the [[Voting Rights Act]].<ref>[http://www.languagepolicy.net/archives/update3.htm English First Founder Linked to White Supremacists], Language Policy</ref> (This probably has something to do with Pratt's fear that [[Hispanic]] immigrants are part of a [[Democratic Party|Democratic]] plot to gain votes.<ref>[http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/pratt-reform-will-grant-citizenship-gazillion-immigrants-wholl-be-sitting-around-drawing-welPratt: Reform Will Grant Citizenship to a 'Gazillion' Immigrants Who'll Be 'Sitting Around Drawing Welfare and Voting Democrat'], Right Wing Watch</ref>)

English First tries to cover up their thinly-veiled racism with the line that their motivation is "costs," but it's not hard to notice their curious fixation on Hispanic immigrants...<ref>[http://englishfirst.org/d/mission The Mission of English First], English First</ref>

==External Links==
*[http://englishfirst.org English First]

==References==
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[[Category:Racism]]

Categories: Racism
Enlightenment fundamentalism

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'''Enlightenment fundamentalism''' refers to the idea that people who follow enlightened beliefs can be fundamentalist about them and a literal oxymoron if one assumes that fundamentalism is by definition not something that enlightened people like. The term has been defined in many exhaustive ways including:
#People that interpret texts literally dating from the [[Enlightenment]] period, in a similar way to those who [[Biblical literalism|literally interpret texts from the Bible]].<ref>http://qlipoth.blogspot.be/2006/09/enlightenment-fundamentalism.html</ref>
#The wave of "[[New Atheism]]" as popularized by [[Richard Dawkins]], which has apparently its origins in writers that wrote in the 18<sup>th</sup> century during a period which is understood as the Enlightenment.<ref>https://seerstone.wordpress.com/2011/07/10/enlightenment-fundamentalism/</ref>
#People who believe that a nation would be better off if it was based on [[secular humanism]]. Therefore, anything that is not [[humanist]] has to be removed from the nation.<ref>http://www.academia.edu/5689374/Enlightenment_Fundamentalism_Zafer_%C5%9Eenocak_Navid_Kermani_and_Multiculturalism_in_Germany_Today</ref>

All of these categories have been used to refer those who oppose the immigration of [[Muslims]] to the [[West]] using arguments that have their origins within perceptions that were popular during the Enlightenment. Anything not enlightened is therefore, according to them, a threat that must be defended against.

==Criticism==
The term is misleading as it seems to imply all philosophies that existed during the time period. If one analyses debates revolving around these principles more closely, one would find out that they largely base themselves on the philosophy of [[Immanuel Kant]] and more or less ignore the other stuff. There would have been enlightened philosophers that would have been in favor of that kind of immigration, as is the case with Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, who argued that [[patriotism]] must be set aside and that people must be open to people from all over the world.

There is also the fact that Muslim societies based on Enlightenment values have existed (e.g. [[Turkey]]), as well as individual Muslims with enlightened ideas. Enlightenment can therefore not be a sufficiently significant cause to be the solely defining factor in the debate of immigration.

==Conclusion==
Enlightenment promotes tolerance, humanism and [[freedom]] for all people. Questioning the Enlightenment is definitely valuable as it tells us a lot about the issue of immigration and what it is like to be a foreigner in [[Europe]] today, but as can be seen from the reasoning, the Enlightenment can be but a small subset of the larger picture in the debate and can not conclusively enough define the opposition to Muslim immigration that the country faces and provides in many ways arguments against that same opposition. We should remember it fondly, but also move on with our lives now.

==See also==
* [[Secular religions]]: A similar oxymoron.

==References==
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Envenenar o poço

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{{Hatnote|This is a Portuguese translation of [[Poisoning the well]].}}
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'''Envenenar o poço''' é uma técnica retórica e uma falácia lógica que usa a associação de emoções para distrair alguém da evidência do argumento em questão.

Envenenar o poço é um apelo ao ódio.

O método usual é apontar para a natureza da pessoa fazendo o argumento oposto, nesta situação é um caso especial de ataque pessoal ou ''[[ad hominem]]''. Em geral, "envenenar o poço significa prover qualquer informação que poderia produzir uma opinião enviesada  do raciocínio, positivo ''ou'' negativo".

Pode ser feito sutilmente ou explicitamente. Uma maneira sutil de envenanr o poço seria usar adjetivos particulares ao introduzir algo que influenciaria as pessoas que escutarão o argumento. Um bom exemplo seria introduzir um argumento que você discorda usando a frase "Você acredita nessas bobagens?". A palavra bobagem envenena o poço.

Em uma maneira mais explícita, alguém pode fazer um ataque pessoal direto na introdução. Por exemplo, relembrar que a pessoa esteve na prisão antes de escutar o que ela tem a falar; o poço agora está "envenenado", porque as pessoas tendem a desconfiar da pessoa fazendo o argumento, sabendo que ele foi um prisioneiro, independente do raciocínio que eles apresentem.

==Veja também==
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==Links externos==
*{{wpa|Poisoning_the_well}}
*[http://www.fallacyfiles.org/poiswell.html Poisoning the Well], [[Fallacy Files]]
*[http://atheism.about.com/library/FAQs/skepticism/blfaq_fall_poisoningwell.htm Poisoning the Well], About.com
*[http://www.iep.utm.edu/fallacy/#PoisoningtheWell Poisoning the Well], Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
*[http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/poisoning-the-well.html Fallacy: Poisoning the Well], [[Nizkor Project]]

==Referências==
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Environmental determinism

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[[File:Europe topography map en.png|thumb|Topographical map of Europe ]]
'''Environmental determinism''', also known as '''climatic determinism''' or '''geographical determinism''', is the theory that the physical environment sets hard limits on human society and development. Proponents of this theory claim that we can look to simplistic patterns of environmental change or geographical difference (e.g. latitude) and from there we can see why some societies have flourished and will continue to flourish while others haven't and won't. This is [[bullshit]].<ref>[http://h-net.msu.edu/cgi-bin/logbrowse.pl?trx=vx&list=h-world&month=0005&week=c&msg=b7GOSA9ZyRPVACTgVE9B9g&user=&pw= Jim Blaut, 2000]</ref><ref>[http://www.antipode-online.net/abstract.asp?vid=35&iid=4&aid=12&s=0 "Neo-Environmental Determinism, Intellectual Damage Control, and Nature/Society Science"]</ref>

Environmental determinism, like [[Social Darwinism]], poisoned academic disciplines such as [[anthropology]], [[economics]], and geography in the 19th century, where it had a huge appeal among advocates of [[colonialism]] and [[slavery]]. According to these ([[Tribalism|invariably]] European) advocates, cold northern climates produced "hardy and thrifty" people who were destined to rule the world; meanwhile, the unrelenting heat along the equator produced lazy people condemned to forever languish in poverty, unless a strong northerner arrived to "[[slavery|enlighten]]" them.<ref>Painter & Jeffrey, "Political Geography", Sage Publications, 2009, pg.177</ref><ref>Shirlow, Peter, Gallaher, Carolyn, Gilmartin, Mary, "Key Concepts in Political Geography", SAGE Publications Ldt, 2009, pg.127.</ref> It continued its popularity into the early 20th century, as people like Ellsworth Huntington worked on expanding the theory and created "climatic determinism", which stated that the economic development in a country can be predicted based on its distance from the equator. The farther away from it, the more successful it is.

The theory was buried in the 1950s as decolonization scholars ripped it apart. {{wpl|Possibilism (geography)|Environmental possibilism}} replaced it in geography.<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/nov/10/are-we-really-prisoners-of-geography-maps-geopolitics Are we really prisoners of geography? The Guardian, Daniel Immerwahr, November 10, 2022]</ref>

==Further reading==

*Guns, Germs and Steel (1997), Jared Diamond [[Special:Booksources/9781784873639|ISBN 9781784873639]]
*Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (2005), Jared Diamond [[Special:Booksources/0-14-303655-6|ISBN 0-14-303655-6]]
*Why the West Rules—For Now (2010), Ian Morris [[Special:BookSources/978-0-374-29002-3|ISBN 978-0-374-29002-3]]
*Prisoners of Geography (2016), Tim Marshall [[Special:Booksources/9781501121470|ISBN 9781501121470]]
*The Power of Geography (2021), Tim Marshall [[Special:Booksources/9781783965373|ISBN 9781783965373]]
*Geography is Destiny (2023), Ian Morris [[Special:Booksources/9780374157272|ISBN 9780374157272]]

==References==
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Eon8

{{Sources needed}}{{internet}}
'''Eon8''' was an infamous [[Internet]] event lasting from December of 2005 to July of 2006. The website itself was designed to appear as mysterious and ominous as possible. The site included random strings of MD5 hash codes, a deployment map highlighting heavily populated areas, titles for what would eventually be revealed as non-existent operations, password-protected sections, and a mysterious timer counting down to July 1, 2006 at midnight. Word of the site spread quickly as denizens of the Internet immediately began theorizing as to what it was, ranging from the sensible to crazed paranoia. Viral marketing schemes, an alternate reality game, widespread release of a major computer virus, references to the [[Nazi Germany|Third Reich]], [[Terrorism|terrorist]] attacks, and the [[List of predictions of the end of the world|end of the world as we know it]] were common explanations. As time grew nearer to the "zero hour" as it was known, the hysterics spread to the point that it generated a hostile reaction from some groups who tried to take down the site but all attempts ultimately failed. All of the commotion ended up catching the attention of not only the [[media]] but both [[the Pentagon]] and [[CIA]] respectively. Their presences were logged in the unapproved referrer archives which was also a significant part of the site. 

When the timer ran out, it was revealed to be that of [[Sociology|sociological]] experimentation. Its purpose was to study how Internet users would react to a lack of information. The experiment was claimed to be conducted by a single male who only identified himself as Mike from [[Fun:Florida| Florida]]. There were also rumors that a second male identified as Chris from [[Australia]] had some level of involvement as well. The original site was eventually replaced with pages of answers to frequently asked questions. The site's creator also conveyed disappointment that so many people automatically assumed the site had evil intentions, and reaffirmed the pattern recognition behavior the more savvy among us already knew existed. Since the end of the countdown in 2006, the website has lived on mainly as a general discussion forum covering a wide variety of topics in the same maleficent theme.

==External links==
*[http://www.eon8.com/ Current incarnation of Eon8]
*[http://www.eon8theinvestigation.ytmnd.com/ YTMND investigation]
*[http://web.archive.org/web/20070714181842/http://gods4suckers.net/archives/2006/07/01/eon8/ Eon8 is for suckers], repost of the post-countdown text.
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Ephesians

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Paul's epistle to the '''Ephesians''' is a letter that [[Paul of Tarsus]] supposedly wrote to those in the Christian church at Ephesus.{{efn|Scholars now doubt the authorship of Ephesians, and ascribe it a much later date, anywhere from 70 [[CE]] to 100 CE.}}

==Themes==
* Paul takes ten verses to say that [[Jesus]] died so that you could live in [[Heaven]] and do [[sex|good works]] ({{bible|Ephesians|2|1|10}}).
* There exists no distinction between [[Judaism|Jewish]] [[Christians]] and Gentile [[Christianity|Christians]] ({{bible|Ephesians|2|11|22}}).
* There is to be a clearly defined hierarchy in the household involving neither utter dominance nor [[egalitarianism]], but rather an echo of that between Christ and the [[Church]]. Husbands are to lovingly preside over wives, parents over children, and masters over [[slaves]] ({{bible|Ephesians|5|22|6|9}}).

==Commonly cited passages==
*{{bible|Ephesians|6|10|18}} is 
some tripe
 about "the Armor of God"; the passage uses a suit of armor as a metaphor for virtues and [[spiritual warfare]].{{efn|It uses such language as "the belt of truth"; it does not, however, mention "the mustard of your doom" as a weapon of "the enemy".}}
**One verse in this passage can be interpreted to discourage warfare or activism in the name of Christ:<br> ''<bible book=Ephesians chapter=6 verse1=12/>''
<!-- "For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world-rulers of this darkness, against the spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places."<ref>Eph. 6:12; all of my quotes are from the American Standard Version</ref> -->
*The passage that tells wives to submit to husbands ({{bible|Ephesians|5|22|24}}) is used to justify things ranging from gender roles to wife beating.{{efn|The next paragraph, however, tells husbands to love their wives just like Christ loves the Church, weakening some of the more [[wingnut]] positions.}}

==See also==
*[[RationalWiki:Annotated Bible/Ephesians]]

==Notes==
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