Essay:Mission vs Content 2015

From RationalWiki
Jump to: navigation, search
Essay.svg This essay is an original work by FuzzyCatPotato.
It does not necessarily reflect the views expressed in RationalWiki's Mission Statement, but we welcome discussion of a broad range of ideas.
Unless otherwise stated, this is original content, released under CC-BY-SA 3.0 or any later version. See RationalWiki:Copyrights.
Feel free to make comments on the talk page, which will probably be far more interesting, and might reflect a broader range of RationalWiki editors' thoughts.

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.

Contents

[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

[edit] Politics & History

  1. Cato Institute
  2. Cloth coat Republican
  3. Howard Zinn
  4. Mike Lee
  5. America: Freedom to Fascism
  6. Club for Growth
  7. Lyle Rossiter
  8. Founding Fathers
  9. Ways same-sex marriage will affect heterosexual marriage
  10. Human Rights Watch
  11. Earth Liberation Front
  12. Sea Shepherd Conservation Society
  13. Lactivism
  14. Futarchy
  15. Family Research Council
  16. Holocaust
  17. Drugs
  18. AARP
  19. Trans Media Watch
  20. South Africa
  21. Nuclear waste
  22. Land tenure
  23. President of the United States
  24. Ross Perot
  25. Harold Wilson
  26. Roman Empire
  27. Africa
  28. Daily Telegraph
  29. Discrimination
  30. Model Minority
  31. Sexuality
  32. Men's rights movement
  33. Greed
  34. Distributism
  35. Minimum wage

[edit] Religion

  1. National Labor Federation
  2. Insect
  3. Arguments evolution supporters shouldn't use
  4. Steven Stanley
  5. Origins debate
  6. Evolution of new protein folds
  7. Science and Human Origins
  8. Grimoire
  9. Random Designer: Created from Chaos to Connect with the Creator
  10. The atheist's nightmare
  11. Christian Exodus
  12. Banana fallacy
  13. Tantra
  14. The Equation of Creation
  15. Eugenie Scott
  16. Fakelore
  17. Becky Fischer
  18. Franz-Peter Tebartz-van Elst
  19. CMI list of scientists alive today who accept the biblical account of creation
  20. Isha Institute of Inner Sciences
  21. Is the Bible an Immoral Book?
  22. New religious movement
  23. Anunnaki
  24. Rebecca Brown
  25. Brights Movement
  26. Waldensians
  27. Adam and Eve
  28. Goliath
  29. Ecumenism
  30. Root of All Evil?
  31. The Atheist Afterlife

[edit] Conspiracies

  1. Conspiracy theory
  2. Vince Foster
  3. Edgar Mitchell
  4. Stanley Kubrick
  5. Kirsan Ilyumzhinov
  6. Bilderberg Group
  7. Project Blue Beam
  8. Michael Jackson
  9. Hollow Earth

[edit] Science

  1. Social science
  2. Photosynthesis
  3. Mass (physics)
  4. Criminology
  5. Saturn
  6. Oncologist
  7. Speed of light
  8. Brain drain
  9. Reciprocal altruism

[edit] Logic, Rhetoric, and Philosophy

  1. Meritocracy
  2. Rationalism
  3. Allegory of the cave
  4. Enthymeme
  5. Mark
  6. Inflammatory language
  7. Flying carpet fallacy
  8. Bullshit

[edit] Pseudoscience

  1. Water memory
  2. Schumann Resonance
  3. Tachyon energy
  4. Gladys Osborne Leonard
  5. Cold reading
  6. Hulda Clark
  7. Vampire
  8. Food woo

[edit] Missionality

RW:ABOUT sez:

Our purpose here at RationalWiki includes:
  1. Analyzing and refuting pseudoscience and the anti-science movement.
  2. Documenting the full range of crank ideas.
  3. Explorations of authoritarianism and fundamentalism.
  4. Analysis and criticism of how these subjects are handled in the media.

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:

  1. Analyzes or refutes pseudoscience
  2. Analyzes or refutes anti-science
  3. Documents a "crank" (extremely unorthodox) idea
  4. Explores political authoritarianism
  5. Explores religious fundamentalism
  6. Analyzes or criticizes the media's coverage of any of the previous

[edit] Politics & History

  1. Cato Institute
    1. Nope, only libertarian stupidity.
    2. Nope, no hate of science.
    3. Nope, libertarianism isn't fringe.
    4. Nope, libertarian.
    5. Nope
  2. Cloth coat Republican
  3. Howard Zinn
  4. Mike Lee
  5. America: Freedom to Fascism
  6. Club for Growth
  7. Lyle Rossiter
  8. Founding Fathers
  9. Ways same-sex marriage will affect heterosexual marriage
  10. Human Rights Watch
  11. Earth Liberation Front
  12. Sea Shepherd Conservation Society
  13. Lactivism
  14. Futarchy
  15. Family Research Council
  16. Holocaust
  17. Drugs
  18. AARP
  19. Trans Media Watch
  20. South Africa
  21. Nuclear waste
  22. Land tenure
  23. President of the United States
  24. Ross Perot
  25. Harold Wilson
  26. Roman Empire
  27. Africa
  28. Daily Telegraph
  29. Discrimination
  30. Model Minority
  31. Sexuality
  32. Men's rights movement
  33. Greed
  34. Distributism
  35. Minimum wage

[edit] Religion

  1. National Labor Federation
  2. Insect
  3. Arguments evolution supporters shouldn't use
  4. Steven Stanley
  5. Origins debate
  6. Evolution of new protein folds
  7. Science and Human Origins
  8. Grimoire
  9. Random Designer: Created from Chaos to Connect with the Creator
  10. The atheist's nightmare
  11. Christian Exodus
  12. Banana fallacy
  13. Tantra
  14. The Equation of Creation
  15. Eugenie Scott
  16. Fakelore
  17. Becky Fischer
  18. Franz-Peter Tebartz-van Elst
  19. CMI list of scientists alive today who accept the biblical account of creation
  20. Isha Institute of Inner Sciences
  21. Is the Bible an Immoral Book?
  22. New religious movement
  23. Anunnaki
  24. Rebecca Brown
  25. Brights Movement
  26. Waldensians
  27. Adam and Eve
  28. Goliath
  29. Ecumenism
  30. Root of All Evil?
  31. The Atheist Afterlife

[edit] Conspiracies

  1. Conspiracy theory
  2. Vince Foster
  3. Edgar Mitchell
  4. Stanley Kubrick
  5. Kirsan Ilyumzhinov
  6. Bilderberg Group
  7. Project Blue Beam
  8. Michael Jackson
  9. Hollow Earth

[edit] Science

  1. Social science
  2. Photosynthesis
  3. Mass (physics)
  4. Criminology
  5. Saturn
  6. Oncologist
  7. Speed of light
  8. Brain drain
  9. Reciprocal altruism

[edit] Logic, Rhetoric, and Philosophy

  1. Meritocracy
  2. Rationalism
  3. Allegory of the cave
  4. Enthymeme
  5. Mark
  6. Inflammatory language
  7. Flying carpet fallacy
  8. Bullshit

[edit] Pseudoscience

  1. Water memory
  2. Schumann Resonance
  3. Tachyon energy
  4. Gladys Osborne Leonard
  5. Cold reading
  6. Hulda Clark
  7. Vampire
  8. Food woo
Personal tools
Namespaces

Variants
Actions
Navigation
Community
Tools
support