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- These articles have recently been added by the RW community. There may be plenty left to do.
| 4 | The Zeal of the convert -- it explains both why many New Atheists are so vocal and why the fundamentalist claim that young people are flocking to join them is so worrying. |
| 14 | The Voting Rights Act, so people can have an idea of the situation surrounding the national/voter ID clusterfuck in the US for those...well, not living in the US. |
[edit] Recent suggestions
- These are the most recent ideas for new articles. Remove if downvoted to death.
   | 1 | NESARA (National Economic Security and Recovery Act), a economic reform proposal that later was appropriated as a conspiracy theory/scam by victims of the Omega Trust scam as the "National Economic Security and Reformation Act". (NESARA on Wikipedia.) We can also comment on the "feasibility" of the actual idea. |
   | 1 | Francisco de Sá Carneiro, Portuguese prime minister who was the victim of a deadly air plane attempt. There are several conspiracy theories around him, most notably related to the Iran-Contra affair and the October Surprise conspiracy theory. |
   | -1 | Hygiene, a popular component of anti-vax arguments.. |
   | 6 | 3D Printing which, despite being an inefficient-but-mostly-harmless nerd hobby, has recently become popular with the gun nut crowd, supposedly offering the future promise of "making gun control literally impossible even in the countries that already have it." |
   | 7 | Western esotericism; the broad category encompassing alchemy, Freemasonry, Gnosticism, Hermeticism, Kabbalah, Rosicrucianism, Satanism, Thelema, Theosophy, Theurgy, Wicca and everything in between. The similarities, differences and interconnections between all the above ought to be laid out for dummies. |
   | -1 | Stigler's Law of Eponymy, the law proposed by Stephen Stigler that no discovery is ever named after its real discoverer (a law first proposed by Robert Merton, 25 years earlier). |
   | 6 | Corneliu Zelea Codreanu, a Romanian politician who founded the Iron Guard, an extremist far-right political movement. |
   | -9 | Syamsu, a long-time Internet crank fixated on free will and its relation to religion and science. ("Internet" includes RationalWiki, if someone has missed it.) Has a history of posting on talk.origins and other newsgroups and Internet fora. |
   | 10 | The Liberal Arts; a stock pet peeve of right-wingers—but are they truly as useless as said right-wingers claim they are? |
   | 2 | Kefir, a fermented dairy drink. The bacterial cultures used to make it are said to have originated with Mohammed. Also promoted by Mercola. |
   | 8 | Thor Heyerdahl, known for his Kon Tiki[wp] expedition and his theories of Polynesian migration. |
   | 1 | Leonard Horowitz, DMD -- self-help author and AIDS conspiracist, coined the term "Solfeggio frequencies[wp]" for healing tones attuned to the music of the spheres, and capable of repairing DNA. TOW article has a "reference" to a self-published (by AuthorHouse[wp]) book by one D.D. Hulse, whose blurb includes: "...how I went from being a fundamentalist preacher to being a developer of healing techniques using tuning forks." |
   | 16 | Daylight Savings Time -- yet another thing that Americans stubbornly persist in keeping despite evidence that it's inefficient and not such a good idea after all. |
   | 9 | Light woo -- things like the sun preventing melanoma and curing everything. |
   | 3 | We need an article on the emergency managers being used in Michigan. There's hardly a more authoritarian position in American government. They have no real oversight, and they can do whatever they want to the city, regardless of the will of the people or their elected officials. They're essentially mini-dictators installed to control townships. |
   | 10 | Boiling frog — particularly the idea that introducing beliefs or political measures gradually is likely to meet less resistance than doing so abruptly. See Wikipedia article. |
   | 9 | I can't believe we don't have an article on that horrible 90s-style page Holocaust deniers hate, the Nizkor Project. |
   | 0 | Bruce Ames claims synthetic pesticides aren't so bad because most pesticides we ingest are a natural part of the foods we eat. He says no synthetic pesticides means higher vegetable prices, making people eat less nutritious food. These studies may be useful. He also says people should get certain vitamins for aging. |
   | 13 | Fair trade. Would be interesting if we critically analyzed it. |
   | 14 | Blood types. We have blood type diet, and they're believed related to personality traits in Japan. Sugar-coating red corpuscles has never been so interesting! |
   | 6 | Fathers' rights, a movement related with the MRAs but much much more mainstream. |
   | -5 | Glenn Sacks, a damn librul, a Jew and an MRA (actually, more into fathers' rights). When I say he's a damn librul, it's because he's left wing (I'm being ironic BTW); when I say he's a Jew, it's because he professes the Jewish religion or is of Jewish ethnicity; when I say he's into fathers' rights, I mean he's a leader in that movement. |
   | 6 | The Robin Williams movie Patch Adams. While it doesn't directly push pseudoscience, it pushes an attitude and pseudoskepticism towards medical science indistinguishable from most alternative medicine promoters. |
   | 9 | Antigravity. It ties in with a variety of crankery, like John Hutchison, "lifters", UFOs, Podkletnov, super secret aircraft, etc. |
   | 11 | We don't have an article on general Misanthropy yet? For shame... |
   | 1 | ManBoobz.com, a website (run by proud card-carrying Mangina David Futrelle) dedicated to documenting and commenting on the many instances of idiocy, misinformation and misogyny within the MRA and PUA movements. A terrific piece of work. Receives payloads of hate mail. |
   | 2 | Contrarians, associated with cranks but there are some slight differences. |
   | 6 | Arab — currently a fork page, but we should have an article. Arab ethnic & cultural identity is pretty important in Middle Eastern politics (e.g. the Arab League, Arab Spring, Pan-Arabism), plus there are a few misconceptions to be debunked (e.g. it's not synonymous with Islam). Plus it would complement our articles on other ethnic groupings (caucasians, black people, Jews, Native Americans). |
   | 2 | Tim Ferriss, perennial slinger of high expectations of success for low effort in works such as The Four Hour Workweek and The Four Hour Body. |
   | 15 | We Seriously don't have an article on Causality?? |
   | 8 | Hurricane Sandy denialism. Yes, this is a real thing, I kid you not. Hell, we have an article dedicated JUST to the hurricane. You know, the cocktail of conspiracy theories, global warming denialism, and just general Congressional vileness. |
   | 15 | Operation Fast and Furious, the ATF's unusual method to track Mexican crime lords by handing guns to them. Has led to one American death. Hilariously opposed by the NRA, who in their masturbatory fantasies would have armed the entirety of Mexico anyway. Or maybe not. |
   | 16 | The taxonomic clusterfuck that is the Ediacaran biota. (Aliens and creationists, anyone?) |
   | 3 | The disgrace to civilized society that is Mark Steyn. |
   | 3 | John Bolton deserves to be mocked for a long, long time. |
   | 7 | Dr Brad Harrub of Focus Press and YouTube. A Ph.D. 'scientist' who only seems to do Christian apologetics |
   | 7 | The utterly terrifying duumvirate of reactionary state representatives, Charles Davidson and Charles Fuqua. Both of them support slavery and theocracy. In the 21st century, I might point out. |
   | 1 | Oryx and Crake - together with its sequel, The Year of the Flood, in which Margaret Atwood shows a near-future dystopian view of bio-technology and religious eco-activists. Move over, Handmaid's Tale, you need bringing up to date with a whiff of cyberpunk. |
   | 5 | Sheldon Adelson - single largest private donor in history... all 8 of the candidates he backed lost, costing him some $50 million. |
   | 7 | The shit-stirring on Elevatorgate is enough to be expanded into its own comprehensive article. |
   | 8 | Michael Moore Hates America. The title implies that the film consists of an angry wingnut ranting about Moore being a commie and verbally-fellating George W. Bush, but interestingly, the film isn't really anything like that. It's tone is actually very collected and sensible, and most of its criticisms of Moore are valid. Not all people who criticise liberalism are like Limbaugh and Coulter. |
   | 18 | "Neti pots" and the crapload of woo surrounding them. |
   | 8 | The Ahnenerbe, a Nazi pseudo-archaeological group |
   | 6 | beliefnet (lower case), a blogging site composed of erudite fuzzy-mindedness, much-referenced in RW articles. |
   | 18 | America's War on Sex: The Attack on Law, Lust and Liberty, by Marty Klein. It's about the desperate efforts of the American Right to stop any form of sexual activity except vaginal intercourse between married couples in the missionary position with clothes on, the lights off and no birth control from taking place. |
   | 13 | Genetics of race: Mostly because it never seems to fail to shock people that Arabs and North Africans are white people and that there are more genetic divisions of Africans than almost every other 'race' combined. |
   | 3 | Aurangzeb: Thanks a lot for taking the most then-advanced civilization on earth and setting back Middle Eastern and Indian civilization for several centuries, you fundamentalist jerk. |
   | 18 | Andrew Jackson: For racism, permanently fucking up the U.S. banking system, firmly setting U.S. politics towards political nastiness and bellicosity, and finally for having an unwarranted reputation of being a badass despite being an enormous twat. |
   | 3 | PowerLung, Elevation Training Mask and similar knockoff products. Could all be in one article. Woo products claiming to exercise your lungs and diaphragm and simulate higher altitudes. Actually they are just expensive ways to breathe through a straw. |
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- Archive 2 - Several hundred never-made pages since 2009 because we forgot to wipe the goat down after finishing. You may find something worth doing here.
- Archive 1 - All closed; most have their own articles by now.
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