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This is a list of websites that help further our mission.

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[edit] Our sites!

[edit] General research

  • http://tafkac.org, better known as the Alt.Folklore.Urban and Urban Legends Archive, is one of the oldest references on the Internet for urban legend debunking[1]. At one time they were a competitor to Snopes (David Mikkelson also came from the Usenet world), but they're not nearly as well-known now.
  • FactCheck, competitor to PolitiFact.
  • Hoax-Slayer (http://www.hoax-slayer.com): Like Snopes but not as good focuses more on chain emails.
  • Insolitology.com is an archive of kooks run by François Tremblay and Alleee Randall. François just barely made our List of Internet kooks, but he and Alleee are still excellent writers on crackpottery.
  • Donna Kossy's Freeze Dried Kooks Museum, a popular 90s collection of, well, kooks.
  • Odd Books, run by UK amateur psychoceramicist and collector of strange tomes Alfred Armstrong.
  • PolitiFact (http://politifact.com) is a generally pretty good site owned by the Tampa Bay Times that fact checks the statements of US politicians. (It sometimes skews a bit towards the militant middle though.)
  • Snopes (http://www.snopes.com): Excellent debunkers of the endless flow of urban, rural, and cyber myths (make sure you have JavaScript disabled and a good ad blocker).
  • Straight Dope (http://www.straightdope.com): Like Snopes in a question-and-answer column format.
  • TruthOrFiction.com performs a similar function to Snopes, even vouching for them when American wingnuts called Snopes' voracity[2] into question.
  • Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org): "the encyclopedia any teenager can vandalize," which usually has better information than what one may find on a basic Google search. Note the some of the non-English articles are much better.

[edit] General rationality

[edit] Skepticism

[edit] Science

[edit] Fundamentalism and Authoritarianism

[edit] New Age

[edit] Creationism

[edit] Sexism

[edit] Global warming denialism

[edit] Medical quackery

[edit] Crackpottery examined

  • Crank.Net, a categorized link farm listing numerous forms of crankery from around the Internet
  • Insolitology.org by François and Alleee Tremblay, mocking prominent Internet cranks (including Gene Ray and his Time Cube)
  • Odd Books, a listing of reviews of books written primarily by people whose views are far outside the mainstream

[edit] Holocaust denialism

[edit] Atheism

[edit] Religion

[edit] Pseudo-history

[edit] Humor

[edit] Prophecy and prediction

  • Alma Geddon: focuses on the theme of failed doomsday prophecies. Despite a rustic web design the lists are quite thorough, covering doomsayers from 633 BCE to modern times, as well as a side article on pop cultural interpretations of doomsday.

[edit] Buttons, t-shirts, stickers...

[edit] Miscellaneous sites

  • FreeRice.com. Feed your vocabulary while you feed hungry people. Can't get much better than that.

[edit] Footnotes

  1. The site name is short for The Archive Formerly Known As Cathouse, referring to its pre-web domain name of cathouse.org.
  2. If you're an oldline a.f.u.er like the Mikkelsons, you'll get it.
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