Essay:Mission vs Content 2015
Using RationalWiki's "random page" function, I went to a random 100 mainspace articles (out of 6,405) and categorized them by (my take on) their subject and their (strictly literal) missionality.
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[edit] Subject
Largest to smallest:
1: #Politics & History: 35 articles. Articles that discuss how humans or societies do or should act. Includes political or historical pseudoscience and pseudohistory.
2: #Religion: 31 articles. Articles that discuss a nonmaterialistic explanation for something. Includes religious pseudoscience.
3: #Conspiracies: 9 articles. Articles that discuss a "secret" explanation for something.
3: #Science: 9 articles. Articles that discuss a materialistic and scientific explanation for something.
4: #Logic, Rhetoric, and Philosophy: 8 articles. Articles that discuss ideas and how they are expressed.
4: #Pseudoscience: 8 articles. Articles that discuss a materialistic but ascientific explanation for something. Includes only not-overtly-religious or -political pseudoscience.
[edit] Notes
- Hit Distributism twice; counted it once.
- Hit Meritocracy twice; counted it once.
- Hit Mary, a disambiguation page; did not count it.
[edit] Politics & History
- Cato Institute
- Cloth coat Republican
- Howard Zinn
- Mike Lee
- America: Freedom to Fascism
- Club for Growth
- Lyle Rossiter
- Founding Fathers
- Ways same-sex marriage will affect heterosexual marriage
- Human Rights Watch
- Earth Liberation Front
- Sea Shepherd Conservation Society
- Lactivism
- Futarchy
- Family Research Council
- Holocaust
- Drugs
- AARP
- Trans Media Watch
- South Africa
- Nuclear waste
- Land tenure
- President of the United States
- Ross Perot
- Harold Wilson
- Roman Empire
- Africa
- Daily Telegraph
- Discrimination
- Model Minority
- Sexuality
- Men's rights movement
- Greed
- Distributism
- Minimum wage
[edit] Religion
- National Labor Federation
- Insect
- Arguments evolution supporters shouldn't use
- Steven Stanley
- Origins debate
- Evolution of new protein folds
- Science and Human Origins
- Grimoire
- Random Designer: Created from Chaos to Connect with the Creator
- The atheist's nightmare
- Christian Exodus
- Banana fallacy
- Tantra
- The Equation of Creation
- Eugenie Scott
- Fakelore
- Becky Fischer
- Franz-Peter Tebartz-van Elst
- CMI list of scientists alive today who accept the biblical account of creation
- Isha Institute of Inner Sciences
- Is the Bible an Immoral Book?
- New religious movement
- Anunnaki
- Rebecca Brown
- Brights Movement
- Waldensians
- Adam and Eve
- Goliath
- Ecumenism
- Root of All Evil?
- The Atheist Afterlife
[edit] Conspiracies
- Conspiracy theory
- Vince Foster
- Edgar Mitchell
- Stanley Kubrick
- Kirsan Ilyumzhinov
- Bilderberg Group
- Project Blue Beam
- Michael Jackson
- Hollow Earth
[edit] Science
- Social science
- Photosynthesis
- Mass (physics)
- Criminology
- Saturn
- Oncologist
- Speed of light
- Brain drain
- Reciprocal altruism
[edit] Logic, Rhetoric, and Philosophy
- Meritocracy
- Rationalism
- Allegory of the cave
- Enthymeme
- Mark
- Inflammatory language
- Flying carpet fallacy
- Bullshit
[edit] Pseudoscience
- Water memory
- Schumann Resonance
- Tachyon energy
- Gladys Osborne Leonard
- Cold reading
- Hulda Clark
- Vampire
- Food woo
[edit] Missionality
RW:ABOUT sez:
Our purpose here at RationalWiki includes:
We welcome contributors, and encourage those who disagree with us to register and engage in constructive dialogue. |
Strictly literally, something is missional only if it:
- Analyzes or refutes pseudoscience
- Analyzes or refutes anti-science
- Documents a "crank" (extremely unorthodox) idea
- Explores political authoritarianism
- Explores religious fundamentalism
- Analyzes or criticizes the media's coverage of any of the previous
[edit] Politics & History
- Cato Institute
- Nope, only libertarian stupidity.
- Nope, no hate of science.
- Nope, libertarianism isn't fringe.
- Nope, libertarian.
- Nope
- Cloth coat Republican
- Howard Zinn
- Mike Lee
- America: Freedom to Fascism
- Club for Growth
- Lyle Rossiter
- Founding Fathers
- Ways same-sex marriage will affect heterosexual marriage
- Human Rights Watch
- Earth Liberation Front
- Sea Shepherd Conservation Society
- Lactivism
- Futarchy
- Family Research Council
- Holocaust
- Drugs
- AARP
- Trans Media Watch
- South Africa
- Nuclear waste
- Land tenure
- President of the United States
- Ross Perot
- Harold Wilson
- Roman Empire
- Africa
- Daily Telegraph
- Discrimination
- Model Minority
- Sexuality
- Men's rights movement
- Greed
- Distributism
- Minimum wage
[edit] Religion
- National Labor Federation
- Insect
- Arguments evolution supporters shouldn't use
- Steven Stanley
- Origins debate
- Evolution of new protein folds
- Science and Human Origins
- Grimoire
- Random Designer: Created from Chaos to Connect with the Creator
- The atheist's nightmare
- Christian Exodus
- Banana fallacy
- Tantra
- The Equation of Creation
- Eugenie Scott
- Fakelore
- Becky Fischer
- Franz-Peter Tebartz-van Elst
- CMI list of scientists alive today who accept the biblical account of creation
- Isha Institute of Inner Sciences
- Is the Bible an Immoral Book?
- New religious movement
- Anunnaki
- Rebecca Brown
- Brights Movement
- Waldensians
- Adam and Eve
- Goliath
- Ecumenism
- Root of All Evil?
- The Atheist Afterlife
[edit] Conspiracies
- Conspiracy theory
- Vince Foster
- Edgar Mitchell
- Stanley Kubrick
- Kirsan Ilyumzhinov
- Bilderberg Group
- Project Blue Beam
- Michael Jackson
- Hollow Earth
[edit] Science
- Social science
- Photosynthesis
- Mass (physics)
- Criminology
- Saturn
- Oncologist
- Speed of light
- Brain drain
- Reciprocal altruism
[edit] Logic, Rhetoric, and Philosophy
- Meritocracy
- Rationalism
- Allegory of the cave
- Enthymeme
- Mark
- Inflammatory language
- Flying carpet fallacy
- Bullshit