RationalWiki:Monthly RW/Mentions
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[edit] Scholarly sources
[edit] 2014
- Chapman, Simon, Ketan Joshi, and Luke Fry. "Fomenting sickness: nocebo priming of residents about expected wind turbine health farms." Frontiers in Public Health 2.279 (2014): 1-19. (Citing Wind Turbine Syndrome)
- Bernstein, Anita. "2013–2014 National Health Law Moot Court Competition Problem." Journal of Legal Medicine 35.3 (2014): 355-384. (Citing Huffington Post)
- Leitch, Thomas. "Paradoxes of Authority." Wikipedia U: Knowledge, Authority, and Liberal Education in the Digital Age. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014. 31-56. (Citing Citizendium)
- Nieminen, Petteri, Esko Ryökäs, and Anne-Mari Mustonen. "Systemic analysis of creationist claims: Source crticism, context, argumentation and experimental thinking." European Journal of Science and Theology 10.4 (2014): 4-26. (Citing 101 evidences for a young age of the Earth and the universe and creationist claims)
- Nieminen, Petteri, and Anne-Mari Mustonen. "Argumentation and fallacies in creationist writings against evolutionary theory." Evolution: Education and Outreach 7.11 (2014): 1-14. (Citing evolution is racist)
- Wilkins, John S. The Salem Region: Two Mindsets about Science The Philosophy of Pseudoscience (2014, forthcoming) Citing the Salem Hypothesis
[edit] 2013
- Deventer, Jannie S.J. van. "The precious metals we prefer to ignore." Minerals Engineering 53 (2013): 266-275. (Citing ORMUS)
- Wilkins, John S. "The Salem Region: Two Mindsets about Science." Philosophy of Pseudoscience: Reconsidering the Demarcation Problem. Ed. Massimo Pigliucci and Maarten Boudry. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013. 397-416. (Citing Salem Hypothesis)
- David, Marcella. "Trademark Unraveled: The U.S. Olympic Committee Versus Knitters of the World." Minnesota Journal of Law, Science & Technology 14.2 (2013): 705-764. (Citing friend argument)
- Mackin, Glenn D. "The Aporia of Practical Reason: From Ethics to Politics." The Politics of Social Welfare in America. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013. 22-62. (Citing euphemism treadmill — critical)
- Navin, Mark. "Competing Epistemic Spaces: How Social Epistemology Helps Explain and Evaluate Vaccine Denialism." Social Theory and Practice 39.2 (2013): 241-264. (Citing vaccine hysteria)
- Greuel, Gert-Martin W. "Changes and Enhancements of the Publication Structure in Mathematics." Special Session on Topics and Issues in Electronic Publishing. Proc. of Joint Mathematics Meeting of the American Mathematical Society and Mathematical Association of America, San Diego. Ed. Klaus Kaiser, Steven G. Krantz, and Bernd Wegner. 2013. 41-56. (Citing Mohamed El Naschie)
[edit] 2012
- Dunlop, Rachael A. "The hijacking of scientific technology and terminology for profit." Science Under Siege: Zoology Under Threat. Ed. Peter Banks, Daniel Lunney, and Chris Dickman. Mosman: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales, 2012. 90-95. (Citing Gish Gallop)
- Hendrickson, Heather, and Paul B. Rainey. "Evolution: How the unicorn got its horn." Nature 489.7417 (2012): 504-505. (Citing Lenski affair)
- Pennington, Jo, ed. "Freemen on the land: Nonsense or loophole?" Judiciary of England and Wales: Benchmark 57 (2012): 18-19. (Citing Freeman on the land)
[edit] 2011
- Brunn, Stanley D., Gerald R. Webster, and J. Clark Archer. "The Bible Belt in a Changing South: Shrinking, Relocating, and Multiple Buckles." Southeastern Geographer 51.4 (2011): 513-549. (Citing Bible Belt)
- Keeler, Mary, Josh Johnson, and Arun Majumdar. "Crowdsourced Knowledge: Peril and Promise for Complex Knowledge Systems." Proc. of Eighth International Conference on Complex Systems, Quincy. New England Complex Systems Institute, 2011. 753-767. (Citing The Fine Art of Baloney Detection)
- Opper, Melissa H. "WikiLeaks: Balancing First Amendment Rights with National Security." Loyola of Los Angeles Entertainment Law Review 31.3 (2011): 236-267. (Citing WikiLeaks)
- Lefrere, Paul. "Using Information (and Exformation) to Inform Action." Perspectives on Information. Ed. Magnus Ramage and D. A. Chapman. New York: Routledge, 2011. 77-90. (Citing Lenski affair)
[edit] Popular sources
[edit] March 2015
- Blogger Valerie Tarico links to evidence for the historical existence of Jesus Christ in a post about what Jesus looked like.
- Phil Plait: [1] — Last Thursdayism
- Snopes: where Snopes debunks Obama nuking Charleston, SC using both the Sorcha Faal and European Union Times articles.
[edit] February 2015
- DeSmogBlog: Anti-Science Associations: Rand Paul, Jane Orient, Art Robinson, Willie Soon And Friends — A Scientific Dissent From Darwinism, Andrew Schlafly, Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, Discovery Institute, Arthur Robinson
[edit] January 2015
- Tom Boggioni, Raw Story: Gamergate’s savage defender is a tortured soul who turns Tori Amos songs into terrible poetry - No True Scotsman
- Amanda Marcotte, RH Reality Check: No, Asking for Corporate Accountability or Subway Courtesy Is Not ‘Slut-Shaming’ - balance fallacy
- Hoyden About Town: Today in Wikiwalks: Rational Wiki’s Pseudolaws section.
[edit] December 2014
- Amanda Marcotte, RawStory, "MIT professor explains: The real oppression is having to learn to talk to women", JAQing off
- Refutations to Anti-Vaccine Memes Facebook page links to our article on Whale.to to explain Scopie's Law
- Ex-Communications uses our article on Fundamentalism to define it.
- The Columbian cites our article on The War on Christmas
[edit] November 2014
- Slate reports on Michigan State Origin Summit and uses our Gish Gallop article to describe creationist debate strategies.
- Skeptical Science cites our articles on the banana fallacy and Poe's Law.
- American Thinker notes that RW considers it a wingnut publication.
- xkcd mentioned Roko's basilisk and the AI-box experiment; didn't link us, but our articles melted and Eliezer Yudkowsky hits the roof.
[edit] October 2014
- Anita Sarkeesian mentions our article on Gish Gallop here.
[edit] August 2014
- Michael J. I. Brown of The Conversation: What I learned from debating science with trolls.
- Econoblogger Noah Smith and friends upvote the Galileo gambit. ("[It's] like Wikipedia except you get to use words like 'freakishly.'")
- RationalWiki and JAQing off get a mention on NewsWithViews.com. Needless to say, the author misunderstands both RW and the article.
- David Gorski on cryonics at Science Based Medicine links our article.
[edit] July 2014
- Slate covers Roko's Basilisk, citing our article.
- Gawker cites us as one entity threatened with a spurious lawsuit by Kevin Martin.
[edit] May 2014
- Discover Magazine blogger Keith Kloor likes our selection of "ghoulishly absurd" conspiracy theories touted by Mike Adams of NaturalNews.
- Sheffield Hallam University's David Clarke gives credit to RW's study of the Solway Firth Spaceman.
- Jan Willem Nienhuys,[wp] in a guest post for Edzard Ernst's blog, cites our article on Homeopathy in Healthcare: Effectiveness, Appropriateness, Safety, Costs.
[edit] March 2014
- Wonkette uses us to debunk Kevin Annett's International Tribunal into Crimes of Church and State.
- The Raw Story: "Conservatives Have Figured Out a Disturbingly Effective Strategy: Tell Lots and Lots of Lies", with link at the top to Gish Gallop.
- Sixth mention on Snopes. Our ass is hot.
[edit] January 2014
- Snopes uses us for the fourth and fifth time in a row to take down WhatDoesItMean.
- Ken Perrot talks about the analysis at A Scientific Dissent From Darwinism, and learns all about wingnut welfare.
- Wonkette links to Hitler and evolution as a reference to debunk the idea that Nazism was related to evolution.
- Judith Curry cites RationalWiki's definition of anti-science to (counter-)attack Michael Mann; the mention was later reproduced on Watts Up With That. Wonder how would Curry and Watts react if they bothered to find out what the wiki says about them...
- Belgian news website Express.be quotes us on Pommer's Law.
[edit] October 2013
- Anti-Bitcoin site "Buttcoin" cites our definition of Freeman on the land in the article "Bitcoiners rally around a Freeman’s right to not be enslaved by the state to pay his speeding ticket."
- Snopes refers to us again and again. Rule of three?
- NBC News links to The Fine Art of Baloney Detection: "Before you get swept up in an artfully crafted argument, apply some scientific principles to the claims. As the late astronomer Carl Sagan said, 'Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.' Sagan's own baloney detection kit is a good place to start. (RationalWiki has boiled down his essay to hit the bullet points.)"
[edit] September 2013
- Ottawa Skeptics links to our chemtrails article.
[edit] August 2013
- Hoyle's fallacy is linked by a post on Uncommon Descent. Ewwwww!
- Our Solway Firth Spaceman article gets mentioned in the Fortean Times.
[edit] July 2013
[edit] June 2013
- RationalWiki's definition of a false dilemma is cited in a BioLogos blog...
- Made-up atheist "deity" Fidem Turbare links to our article on her. Her omniscience doesn't extend as far as realising the article is now in funspace.
[edit] May 2013
- The Snopesters quote RationalWiki in their debunking of Monsanto claims by Sorcha Faal.
[edit] April 2013
- Richard Carrier links to a section of the Thunderf00t page.
- The Romanian CAM-skeptic blog Pseudomedicina links to our article on the Nobel disease.
[edit] March 2013
- Someone submitted a complaint against RationalWiki to Ripoff Report. The complaint accuses us of being "left winded" (sic! and sick!) and cites such reliable sources as Sean Manchester's blog and a thread at a random Internet forum. They also claim to have "filed with the state." Would that be with the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services?
[edit] February 2013
- Dr. Christian Jessen[wp] tweets a link to RW's article on cranioproctosis.
- Dan Gillmor[wp] tweets RW.
- John Scalzi[wp] links to our article on Theodore Beale in his post explaining how he'll solve his "Racist Sexist Homophobic Dipshit Problem."
- Edzard Ernst mentions us (admittedly when talking about his own "law").
[edit] January 2013
[edit] December 2012
- Artist Julie Freeman[wp] directs tweeters to Freeman on the land.
- We're becoming a bit of a dirty pleasure for scholars: anthropologists Lee Berger (the discoverer of Australopithecus sediba), and Darren Curnoe (best known for his work on the Red Deer Cave People), link to our debunking of Baraminology.
- Anyone from Haledon, New Jersey? Your Mayor says hello.
- Peter Gleick (of Gleickleak) links to fractal wrongness, then retweeted by Slate's Will Oremus.
- UCLA geneticist Leonid Kruglyak links to the Galileo gambit.
- Michael Prescott very originally refers to irrationalwiki in his blog.
[edit] November 2012
- Ed Brayton notices his article here.
- RW gets a shout-out from the Betentacled One for noticing the image of a plushie in Answers Research Journal Volume 5.
- Minnesota cartoonist Mike Toft uses RationalWiki's acupuncture article as a source of information for a comic tract entitled Alternative Medicine On Trial ...which is currently inaccessible online.
[edit] October 2012
- Dave Gamble's review of the alledgedly peer-reviewed ID literature cites a large number of RationalWiki articles.
- After the first Obama/Romney debate, people all over the Internet linked to our article on the Gish Gallop, including a post at Angry Black Lady Chronicles that got linked/reproduced by Balloon Juice (though she seems to be confusing RW with Wikipedia).
- Georgia congressman Paul Broun's tirade against the "hellish lies" of evolution, Big Bang and embryology draws a response from Why Evolution Is True that links to our Scientific storkism article.
[edit] September 2012
- Professor Brian Cox (and former Lib Dem MP Evan Harris) likes to do the RationalWiki.
- Good morning, Carl.
- Oxford neuropsychologist Dorothy Bishop links to the Gish Gallop to describe Noam Chomsky.
- Lojban fans discuss the Lojban article on Reddit.
[edit] August 2012
- The Sensuous Curmudgeon links to to Salem Hypothesis while talking about a creationist rocket scientist.
- Jason Thibeault of Freethought Blogs links to our article on the Brights Movement
- Sal Cordova of Uncommon Descent quotes, but does not link to, our article on VenomFangX.
- Since Paul Ryan's elevation to vice-presidential nominee there's been increasing interest in our Randroid-bashing. From Paweł Morski and Katie Martin of WSJ: "That link has kept me giggling for a good while."
- Mano Singham of FtB links to our article on Poe's Law in a blog post
- The evil feminists have found the banana.
[edit] July 2012
- Someone tries to creates an article about Godlike Productions in Wikipedia, putting RationalWiki's article in the External links section. An old "friend" swoops in to remove the link.
[edit] June 2012
- Richard Carrier refers readers to our articles on Cristina Rad and Thunderf00t.
- ThinkProgress links to our Gish Gallop article.
- The YouTube vlogger TheAmazingAtheist complains that RationalWiki's article on him has been "trashed" by "trolls."
[edit] May 2012
- RationalWiki's page on the Rothschild family is cited under "References and Further Reading" of Brian Dunning's Skeptoid podcast on the Rothschilds. Has RW reached the point, where, as with Wikipedia, we should be careful not to be fed back our own bullshit by various "reliable" sources?
- RationalWiki is highlighted in a Royal Psychological Society-approved student guide for critical thinking, encouraging readers to look up some cranks.
[edit] April 2012
- Scott Gavura of Science-Based Medicine quotes our article on science was wrong before, and also links to Galileo gambit and Argumentum ad populum, in a post about the anti-vaccine movement.
- RationalWiki is cited to back up the claim that no Freeman on the land "has ever succeeded in a court." Which may go some way as to explaining all the BoNs that have tried to 'correct' us on this.
- "RationalWiki is a Front for Socialist Indoctrination", according to a blog going by the name of "Economic Sanity" attacking our article on the Austrian School.
[edit] March 2012
- Jerry Coyne links to 101 evidences for a young age of the Earth and the universe (at David's request; PZ does the same a few days later).
- RationalWiki is mentioned in print again, this time on the Lenski affair in Cambridge paleontologist Robert Asher's book on accommodationism.
- Greta Christina's book, Why Are You Atheists So Angry? 99 Things That Piss Off The Godless lists RationalWiki in one of its resource sections, giving us actual mention in print.
- A Colorado militia movement blog christens us "RidicuWiki." "But I thought this was supposed to be RATIONALWiki!" Drink!
- The folks at Planned Parenthood retweet RationalWiki's birth control entry.
[edit] February 2012
- Abuz Zubair at Islamic Awakening on his article: "My son should sue the pigs for libel." We're quaking.
[edit] January 2012
- Casey Luskin at Evolution News and Views credits us with inventing the phrase "promote the teaching of intelligent design while questioning the academic standing of evolution" to describe the function of the Santorum Amendment.
- Critical blogpost on our memetics article.
- Schematic of the RationalWiki-patented ironometer (as seen here) on UofT biochemist Larry Moran's Sandwalk (though without attribution to this site).
- Mentioned in an Irish Metal forum Really, combining the delights of Ireland and heavy metal, what's not to love? Also, amusing "artist's impression."
[edit] December 2011
- VDARE: "Announcing VDARE.com’s War On Christmas Competition 2011—Defy The Deniers!"
- Random blogpost by a reader: "Website: RationalWiki"
- Exposing PseudoAstronomy references Question Evolution among others.
- A former user points out misogyny on RationalWiki.
[edit] October 2011
- Page on SPAG referenced by the Lousy Canuck.
- Bitcoin page is discussed on Reddit.
- Quoted in Know Your Meme's entry on Poe's Law.
[edit] September 2011
- Coverage of Conservapedia described as "humorous and insightful" by Assassin Actual blog on FtB.
[edit] August 2011
- “TK can see your house from here” alluded to on Assassin Actual.
[edit] April 2011
- Scientific evidence of evolution being a hoax goes viral on Reddit, Facebook and Twitter.
[edit] March 2011
- Skeptical Science links to the Gish Gallop article.
[edit] November 2010
- Ben Radford, writing for CSI's Sceptical Inquirer magazine, reprinted a copy of our article on Ghosthunters in Issue 6 (Volume 34). A scan of the page is available here. Possibly the first RationalWiki article to make it in to old media.
[edit] May 2010
- Lenski affair on Pharyngula.
- PZ Myers notes that he now has an article on Uncyclopedia, adding that he also has one on Wikipedia, Conservapedia, and "I should not forget Rational Wiki."
- Carl Zimmer[wp] mentions the Lenski affair in his talk "Newspapers, Blogs and Other Vectors: Infecting Minds in the Age of New Media."
[edit] November 2009
- The Search for a Search - Measuring the Information Cost of Higher Level Search refutation and related controversy is subject of a post on Good Math, Bad Math on ScienceBlogs. See also the Uncommon Descent post.
[edit] October 2009
- The Telegraph: An article on the top 10 Internet laws draws heavily on RationalWiki's articles.
[edit] August 2009
- Ancient SCEPCOP Forum thread: "RationalWiki ridicules SCEPCOP in its entry on us"
[edit] Febuary 2009
[edit] January 2009
[edit] December 2008
[edit] June 2007
- Los Angeles Times: Article about Conservapedia briefly mentions RationalWiki in its very early days.