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*Bioliteracy (http://bioliteracy.colorado.edu)
 
*Bioliteracy (http://bioliteracy.colorado.edu)
 
*Darwin Day (http://darwinday.org/)
 
*Darwin Day (http://darwinday.org/)
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*AtBC (http://www.antievolution.org/cgi-bin/ikonboard/ikonboard.cgi?s=52ce42846447537d;act=SF;f=14) The forum for Antievolution.org, while in theory it's a dicussion board for cre-evo discussions, except for the rare loons found there (i.e. Ray Martinez, and G. Gaulin. Two of the '''only''' cranks found there, once in a while JoeG and Thrinaxodon, two far-out sons of bitches found in cyberspace, can be found there), is a dumping place for anything anti-ID. Particularly Evo News and Views, and for more commonly UD, through the ongoing Uncommonly Dense threads. Ravings from how Atlantis exists, to how cells constructed humans can be found there, but the trolls are usually stuck to their own threads to stop from spoiling other threads.
  
 
==Sexism ==
 
==Sexism ==

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This is a list of websites that help further our mission.

Contents

General research

  • http://tafkac.org, better known as the Alt.Folklore.Urban and Urban Legends Archive, is one of the oldest references on the Internet for urban legend debunking[1]. At one time they were a competitor to Snopes (David Mikkelson also came from the Usenet world), but they're not nearly as well-known now.
  • Hoax-Slayer (http://www.hoax-slayer.com): Like Snopes but not as good focuses more on chain emails.
  • Insolitology.com is an archive of kooks run by François Tremblay and Alleee Randall. François just barely made our List of Internet kooks, but he and Alleee are still excellent writers on crackpottery.
  • Donna Kossy's Freeze Dried Kooks Museum, a popular 90s collection of, well, kooks.
  • Odd Books, run by UK amateur psychoceramicist and collector of strange tomes Alfred Armstrong.
  • PolitiFact is a generally pretty good site that fact checks the statements of US politicians. (It sometimes skews a bit towards the militant middle though.)
  • Snopes (http://www.snopes.com): Excellent debunkers of the endless flow of urban, rural, and cyber myths (make sure you have JavaScript disabled and a good ad blocker).
  • Straight Dope (http://www.straightdope.com): Like Snopes in a question-and-answer column format.
  • TruthOrFiction.com performs a similar function to Snopes, even vouching for them when American wingnuts called Snopes' voracity[2] into question.
  • Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org): "the encyclopedia any teenager can vandalize."
  • Google Scholar (http://scholar.google.com/) A search engine for many scholarly papers.

General rationality

Skepticism

Science

Fundamentalism and Authoritarianism

Creationism

Sexism

Global warming denialism

Medical quackery

Holocaust denialism

Refuting New Age nonsense

Atheism

Religion

Pseudo-history

  • This week in Christian Nationalism (http://freethoughtblogs.com/rodda/), Senior Research Director for the Military Religious Freedom Foundation Chris Rodda's refutations of (mostly David Barton's) pernicious Christian Nationalist pseudo-history.

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Footnotes

  1. The site name is short for The Archive Formerly Known As Cathouse, referring to its pre-web domain name of cathouse.org.
  2. If you're an oldline a.f.u.er like the Mikkelsons, you'll get it.
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