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*[[Weekly World News]] - although in this case it's not so much that WWN is full of misinformation, it's more that you're stupid enough to believe it's real (cf. [[ChristWire]]). | *[[Weekly World News]] - although in this case it's not so much that WWN is full of misinformation, it's more that you're stupid enough to believe it's real (cf. [[ChristWire]]). | ||
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Revision as of 06:11, 19 December 2012
Scopie's Law states:
“”In any discussion involving science or medicine, citing Whale.to as a credible source loses you the argument immediately ...and gets you laughed out of the room.
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It was first formulated by Rich Scopie on the Bad Science forum.[1]
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Whale.to
Whale.to is a website run by Herefordshire pig farmer John Scudamore. It is a notorious dumping ground for all things pseudoscientific... as well as a few other things. Like the complete text of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, documentations of Illuminati mind control plots, and articles about the Catholic world conspiracy.[2] It contains every (and we do mean every) half-baked pseudoscientific theory ever concocted.
Shockingly, it was used as a source by the plaintiffs in the Autism omnibus trial, and it has seen increasing use as a "source" by anti-vaccinationists and propagators of the vaccine-autism connection.
Others not to cite
- Educate-yourself.org
- A similar thing can be said of citing Answers in Genesis to back up a creationist point.
- Or anything owned by Alex Jones as evidence of... anything, really.
- Anything on naturalnews.com
- Citing the Family Research Council when trying to argue about homosexuality. Seriously.
- Info Wars
- Weekly World News - although in this case it's not so much that WWN is full of misinformation, it's more that you're stupid enough to believe it's real (cf. ChristWire).
- Anything by Joseph Mercola.
External links
- Whale.to Warning: Storehouse of extreme pseudoscientific and conspiracy-mongering crap. Enter at your own risk. But good for a laugh, if you have that sense of humour.
Footnotes
- ↑ See the original post here. This post was cited by Orac of Respectful Insolence as the first mention of the law.
- ↑ Seidel, Kathleen. "A Whale of an Expert." Neurodiversity Weblog 13 June 2008. Neurodiversity.com. 23 Jun 2008.