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| − | *[http://www.churchofjesusfuckingchrist.com/ | + | *[http://www.churchofjesusfuckingchrist.com/ Church of Jesus Fucking Christ] - Satirical Web site and blog commenting on politics, morality, and news in the perspective of a raunchy, racist Jesus Christ. |
*[http://blog.3bulls.net/ 3 Bulls] - mostly just annoying, but played their part in the war on CP. | *[http://blog.3bulls.net/ 3 Bulls] - mostly just annoying, but played their part in the war on CP. | ||
*[http://www.sadlyno.com/ Sadly, No] - another funny [[moonbat]] website. | *[http://www.sadlyno.com/ Sadly, No] - another funny [[moonbat]] website. | ||
Revision as of 19:06, 13 September 2007
The following blogs and other parasites of the internets were either interesting to RationalWiki editors, or posted for vanity reasons.
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Politics
- Thanks to Andy for this: Michelle Malkin and her Ann Coulter-lite ramblings. She's not as hot as Ann Coulter either.
- A mole reports on the goings on aboard the National Review cruise.
Science
- Bad Science by Ben Goldacre, a column from The Guardian newspaper.
- Bad Astronomy by Phil Plait, a classic skeptical site dealing in astronomy woo (including takedowns of Zecharia Sitchin, Richard Hoagland, and the Moon landing deniers)
- DC's IMPROBABLE SCIENCE page by David Colquhoun at University College London
- The James Randi Educational Foundation, featuring a weekly column by the Master, Randi himself; focuses primarily on the paranormal
- Memoirs of a Skepchick by Rebecca Watson (and a couple of other authors), covering general science, skepticism, and occasionally feminism in science
- The Millenium Project by Peter Bowditch, an Australian site focusing heavily on medical woo (particularly anti-vaccination activism) and multilevel marketing fraud
- The Panda's Thumb, focus on the evolution, creation and intelligent design debate
- Pharyngula by PZ Myers, biology, politics and religion from one of the blogosphere's more outspoken atheists and rationalists
- Respectful Insolence written by a surgeon/scientist with a focus on applying rational thought to medicine and alternative therapies.
- What's New with Bob Park, covering anti-science developments in science and politics
Specific Posts
- All the textbook stickers you'll ever need are here!
- The only debate on Intelligent Design that is worthy of its subject!
Humour
- Church of Jesus Fucking Christ - Satirical Web site and blog commenting on politics, morality, and news in the perspective of a raunchy, racist Jesus Christ.
- 3 Bulls - mostly just annoying, but played their part in the war on CP.
- Sadly, No - another funny moonbat website.
- this page is as good a portal as any to this wonderful collection of humours. Found when posted by a troll on Conservapedia ("here's a Darwin caricature you might like to download").
- How to build your own woo (link courtesy of PalMD)
Religion
- About: Atheism/Agnosticism A good all-round source for religious skepticism.
- De-Conversion is a site written by "converts" to atheism.
- Slacktivist is a blog covering religion and politics from an Evangelical Christian but nevertheless liberal perspective
- Richard Dawkins forum. Ok, it's really a message board, but lots of good atheist material and more.
- Iron Chariots is a wiki devoted to apologetics and counter-apologetics.
- Thoughtsic.com An militant atheist with a radical liberal agenda to match. Occasional science-related post.
- Evangelical Realism--A newish blog exploring reality
Specific Posts
- http://de-conversion.com/2007/07/03/dont-ask-me-to-read-your-holy-book/ An interesting thread
Miscellaneous
- CP Column, by AKjeldsen
- White Coat Underground by PalMD
- Mt. Molelog by Jtl. No longer updated frequently, but when it is it's frequently Not Safe For Work.
- Freakonomics. Just darn interesting.
- Red State Rabble Politics, Religion, Science and culture.
- Open Science Open source software and science...what more could you want?
Links
Links covers non-blog links of interest to the rationalist and skeptical community. Please feel free to add relevant links.
Science and skepticism
- The Enemies of Reason pt. 1 episode one of Richard Dawkin's new mini-series. Covering psychics, astrology and other New Age magical thinking.
- The Enemies of reason pt. 2 episode two of Richard Dawkin's new mini-series. This one covers alternative medicine, homeopathy, and vaccine hysteria.
- The Australian Skeptics, home of the Bent Spoon Award
- The Committee for Skeptical Inquiry (the former CSICOP)
- The Skeptics Society/Skeptic Magazine
- Snopes.com, one of the most-referenced urban legend sites on the Web
- TalkOrigins FAQ Archive, a huge repository of FAQs and ebooks on subjects relating to origins of life and the universe
- The Skeptics Dictionary, online version "a Collection of Strange Beliefs, Amusing Deceptions, and Dangerous Delusions."
- Ratbags, a site dedicated to labeling organizations, people and websites that promote quack medicine and other pseudoscience.
Crackpottery examined
- Crank.Net, a categorized link farm listing numerous forms of crankery from around the Internet
- Insolitology.org by François and Alleee Tremblay, mocking prominent Internet cranks (including Gene Ray and his Time Cube)
- Odd Books, a listing of reviews of books written primarily by people whose views are far outside the mainstream