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5PhoneShield, yet another device supposed to protect you from the evils of your mobile phone/WiFi modem.
3NARTH - Seems like a good pseudoscience topic, but (surprisingly) the article didn't even exist before I created it. Currently it's only a stub.
5Water-powered car, the meeting point of water woo and automotive woo over a glass of free energy suppression conspiracy theories.
7Jeff Rense, seriously if his website is anything to go by, this guy's a nut.
10Louis Theroux, makes awesome documentaries about extremists and other weird people.
5Lemuria, Atlantis in the Indian Ocean.
4Manish Bhatia, homeopathy pusher, and owner of Wiki4CAM, Hpathy.com, and other various homeopathy webshites.
7Philosophy, currently redirects to Fun:Philosophy|fun page
7The Alpha Course - a "Christianity for dummies" course run in churches.
4European Union member states currently without articles: Cyprus, Latvia, Malta, Lithuania, Slovenia.
4Charles Hapgood and crust displacement - you know, the thing that's going to kill us all in 2012
4Enron - a must have.
5Black Swan - User:Armondikov|I may live blog the book as I go through it.
6Coal - another funspace article that needs a serious counterpart.
7Christian Legal Center (http://www.christianlegalcentre.com/) This walking persecution complex has to be looked at.
2Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Uruguay, almost all of Africa, The Stans, San Marino, Andorra, Paraguay, and any other real country you can think of.
5Superbook - if anyone thinks it's a good idea...
3Piers Corbyn - global warming denialist (Note: duplicate poll number.)
6Hercolubus An inexistent planet" that is involved with some apocalyptic predictions.
6SourceWatch a wiki that contains a lot of pro-mission articles, outing the cranks behind the dodgy research being pushed by corporations and interest groups, however they take money from lobby groups (which they at least admit to upfront).
5International Society for Krishna Consciousness, a.k.a the Hare Krishna movement.
3Godlike Productions
5Chemophobia - See wp:Chemophobia
1Paul Ryan - rising star of the GOP - could one of our America|transpondular editors do a number on him?
5ePetitions - petitions.number10.gov.uk Has to be worth something, if only just to list the best of the rejected pile.
1The Westlothian Question - a peculiarity of UK politics that says that Scottish MPs can vote for things that affect England, but not Scotland, while English MPs can't similarly vote on things that affect Scotland but not England. Allegedly used so that the government can push through laws that would otherwise be opposed.
6Oil pulling - pull toxins out of your body by swilling with vegetable oil. cures asthma, headache, colds and clicking feet! It's all here and here!
3Bystander effect, Pluralistic ignorance and Diffusion of responsibility - three related areas, highly important. ([http://www.singinst.org/upload/cognitive-biases.pdf see no.10) (PDF)
4LessWrong - What's good? What's irritating despite what's good? What's good despite what's irritating?
6Richard Littlejohn - why don't we have this sorry excuse for a twat of a man already?
5PrisonPlanet - need an article on the site itself. I have friends who think it's actually not entirely a manifestation of insane bollocks.
2Ezekiel's wheels - [1] [2] [3] and so on.
1Paul the Octopus Paul according his owners is able to predict the results of International championships of soccer's matches
2Survival Seed Bank- Scam mixing fear of economic collapse with fear of GE crops. "Non-hybrid seeds," sold for absurd cost on the assumption that they'll be more valuable than gold after the collapse.
4Grand Canyon - right now there is but a Fun: article. This subject could use a serious article debunking creationist views of its origins.
3Machismo - been a lot of fuss around that lately.
4Yoga - at present just a redirect to a "fun" page. Woo or not woo? Comment: I don't think they claim it's magic, and it certainly seems like a good personal fitness regimen? - Human
2Uncertainty tactic - related to FUD. Used by pseudoscience promoters to make it appear that there is uncertainty about scientific consensus, such as global warming, passive smoking and evolution.
3fetal pain - Conservapedia has their article on it, so we should cover it.
3America Speaking Out - where Republicans discovered that asking everyone on the internet to tell them what to do tends to lead to very...odd...suggestions.
2THC Ministry. Their Cannabis Sanctuary Kit provides you with proof of your legitimacy as a religous (sic) practitioner of Cannabis Sacrament. But can they cure the munchies?
6Double predestination [4]
6Anno Domini - the whole AD/BC and BCE/CE thing needs cleared up and completed (possibly into one article?) and appropriate redirects made.
3The Face on Mars (in Cydonia Mensae) is a rock formation on Mars asserted to be evidence of intelligent, native life on the planet. High resolution images taken recently show it to appear less face-like.
4Powerbalance bracelet, The Power bracelet has a hologram with a frecuency that can fit you according their sellers. It is in fashion among the sportspeople. the page (spanish).
2Magnetic water treatment [5]
3The Fall of America and the Western World
5Resurrection - Needs expansion in religion section
3Carl Wieland, liar
5James Ray - "Self Help Guru" who used sweat lodges to help people. Recently arrested on manslaughter charges stemming from deaths in sweat lodge ceremony last year. PalMD - somebody you may have heard of blogged about him recently.
9International Transformation Network A godbotherers anti-gay mob. (All gays are possessed by demons) influential in Uganda [6]
2Frederick Seitz - Did good science unless he was paid not to. Inventor of the uncertainty tactic. Very good article as SourceWatch.
7Kadir-Buxton Method - Kadir-Buxton method for "curing the mentally ill". Also received the most hilarious 48 signatures in No.10 E-Petition history.
4Facilitated communication - apparently bogus way of communicating with people who are 'locked in' [7]
6Jew Watch
5K Street project - a scheme to infiltrate Republican Party sympathisers into DC lobbying firms.
4A Prescribed Evolutionary Hypothesis some alternative to Darwinism.
7Castillo v. Texas - a man was tried and convicted of selling mature comic books...to an adult...
4Wind Turbine Syndrome - [8] [9] [10]
2Geo-engineering - artificial radiative forcing of the climate. interesting article, Wikipedia entry.
-2John Taylor Gatto - anti-public/compulsory schooling activist, favored by homeschooling movement and the free state movement among others. Him kan haz webshite.
12Codex Alimentarius
4Orgonomy http://www.orgonomy.org/index.html, see also wp:orgone and wp:orgonomy
2Virginia Foxx - She called Matthew Shepard's murder "a hoax"
7English Defence League - not sure if this is a genuine political group, a front organisation or just a bunch of thugs looking for a fight. They keeping cropping up in the news anyway.
5Complex specified information (or specified complexity) This is a major "concept" in ID that we have no real article on.
3David Farrant (for more information on him, see the Saloon bar)
-4Cricket - pops up on the redlinks, (notably fom British Empire), anyone have anything to say about it? (Okay, maybe the drink had a role to play in this suggestion...)
4Boom and Bust Conservapedia has no article on this...I wonder why...
4Alligators in the sewers
8Multiple sclerosis - disease of the central nervous system that has a large amount of quackery surrounding alleged cures. Good information here.
2Empiricism
8Philadelphia Experiment
5JAQing off
4Neo-Nazi
5Maoism - still active in India and Nepal
4Carly Fiorina - Republican friend of mine mentioned her, and thinks she may be the next GOP leader. Could use some info on her.
2James Bopp
2Monosodium glutamate
4Déjà vu
3Kent Hovind/Doctoral Dissertation - his dissertation on the topic of creation/evolution controversy. Source of the document here.
1Voynich Manuscript
3Perennial candidate
-8Wedding - to compliment our pretty good article on marriage (or possibly even a section in that article). Until you've been on the receiving end of a crazy-assed Bridezilla, you won't understand why this is relevant to RW.
4Deal or No Deal - One cannot turn this program on (at least the UK version, not sure about elsewhere) without seeing someone claiming that there's a "pattern" or that their "magic crystal" is attracted to red. It started as a fairly straighforward game of chance, but has since almost turned into a walking advertisement for New Age crap. Although as they almost invariably fail, this isn't all bad.
0 Warren Steed Jeffs, (Former) FLDS Leader, polygynist
-3Late-term abortion - we have partial-birth abortion, but we could use a more general article.
0Christian Civil Liberties Union - can't find much about the on teh tubez, can anyone closer to their sphere of operations (ie the same continent) help?
-3Li Hongzhi, here is why
-2...and this (ari-rahikkala.livejournal.com)
-2T. Lobsang Rampa
11Corporal punishment - is it wrong, right, rational, endorsed by crackpot wingnuts or opposed by knee-jerking moonbats?
4Risk - not just a board game.
3Weigh Down Diet
1Hawthorne effect
3Catch-22
2Kinoki Foot Pads - another "As Seen On TV" woo where one places pads on your feet overnight, and it is supposed to remove the toxins from your body. Isn't that what livers are for?
6Emergence and Emergent phenomena - Wikipedia on emergence. Basically, where simple rules lead to complex results, giving the "appearance" of ID|design when really it's just simple rules.
7Sunday school environmentalism or possibly woo environmentalism - basically all the crap that people think is environmentally friendly. but is really just crap. "degradable" plastic bags that don't degrade in landfill; recycled novelties that actually use more energy to "recycle" than would happen if you made one from scratch; hybrid cars which can have crap mpg etc - see wp:Greenwashing. This is covered as a section in environmentalism but can haz own artikl?
5Nutritionists - I might bang out an article describing these experts of pseudoscience. (Incidentally Ben Goldacre's dead cat is a certified member of the American Association of Nutritional Consultants, so they must be a very stringent bunch)
4Mistaking the map for the territory - A logical fallacy. "It refers to the mistaken belief that a symbol is the same as the reality it represents, and that one's measurements are the thing that they measure." [11]
3CO2 is Green - discussed at Saloon Bar recently. Needs proper refutation by people with some scientific knowledge.
6Scientific mythology - stories that convey scientific discoveries in a daramatised sense. Wikipedia has a list that could well be copied and pasted. Very relevant to Flat Earth etc.
4Operation Red Dog The KKK tried to invade Dominica in 1981 to set up their own government.
-3Graham Hancock
-4As intercommed by Trent, Signature in the Cell is a new book by some IDiot from the Discovery Institute
-4Acids and bases woo - basically about alties promoting ideas like acidosis as the/a cause for all that ails you. "Blood serum pH woo" title? One "source"
-4Bowen Technique - The article at WP had me reaching for the pseudoscience template and the woo category, then I realized where I was.
-3Detoxify with micro plant powder from HempUSA - fix your heavy metals, parasites, chemtrails, and toxins here! "...it's tasteless..." [12]
-6Aculife Magnetic Wave Therapist, as seen here, probably best listed in another article, but should be a redirect at least, for "seekers".
-3Vaccine court - please leave more than just a red link, tell us what it is, where you heard of it, something to work with, please?
-3Hutchison energy (or John Hutchison) - Free energy woo "discovered" by some guy in his garage, which nobody else can replicate.
-3Co Q10 / Coenzyme Q10 - this may be a legitimate nutrient, has WP article. But is sold as a magic panacea, along with many magic ingredients.
-2Cancer Centers of America Magic woo that heals your tumor, complete with some whiny anecdote...
-2Juice Plus - has a pretty comprehensive Wikipedia page.
-4Mark Sanford - Not so much for the politics but the family values (or lack thereof). Just add to the "really embarrassing" list?
-3David Wilkerson
-3Gulf Breeze UFOs
-3Irangate
-2Order of the Solar Temple
4Michele Bachmann
-1Enoch Powell
-2Brain Gym
-2The I-Doser
-8Conservapedia:Protected title (the list on CP)
-7George Adamski
-5Red mercury
-8Morphic field
0Jerry Springer The Opera
1Divine revelation - or redurect/add to Other ways of knowing?
-2Proactive solution
-2Some guy ranting about "fluoride silica acid" and putting poison in our water and toothpaste - HITLER!
2Find somewhere for this (nwcreation.net on marsupial_migration) -became Article of the Weak
-3high definition sunglasses - probably should just be mentioned in some advertising woo article or something
5Silvio Berlusconi
2Boris Johnson
4Cottingley fairies - done
1The Fox sisters - were mentioned at Cottingley fairies, fake mediums involved in spiritualism - now a redirect to spiritualism#origin
1Genetic modification
2Bates eye method
1The One Minute Cure and Hydrogen Peroxide therapy now both redirects to Oxygen therapy
0McLibel trial
0Magnetic earrings meant to alleviate smoking addiction. "Auricular therapy" I think. Subject may already be covered by Magnetic field therapy. (Made redirect, mentioned in MFT article)
-8Psychological projection - Isn't this important in debunking religious fundies/creationists/bigots? (Yes, that's why it exists? Although it's a bit stubby)
-7We the People Act a Ron Paul "states' rights" hate joynt, "We the People Act. H.R. 539, 2009 January 14, originally H.R. 3893, 2004 March 4."
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