User:Nebuchadnezzar/To do
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Stuff I might get around to at some point...maybe:
Environmentalism[edit]
AGW denialism[edit]
Other[edit]
- Expand fracking
- NumbersUSA - http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/6/7/739587/-The-charming-racism-of-NumbersUSA http://www.splcenter.org/publications/the-nativist-lobby-three-faces-of-intolerance/numbersusa-the-grassroots-organizer
Psych/neuroscience[edit]
- More scientific criticisms of Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung
- Fred Baughman - mental illness denier
- Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) - Scientology front, produces enough lunacy for its own page
- Mozart effect - Bullshit products based on shaky research
- Baby Einstein - See above
- Albert Bandura - One of the top psychologists of the 20th century
- Expand evolutionary psychology
- Expand meditation, help separate woo from science
- Positive psychology - Field with a good deal of legitimate research, but plagued by woo in pop science and overstatement of results
- Sapir-Whorf hypothesis - Differentiate weak from strong
- Expand remote viewing
- Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) - preliminary evidence for effectiveness, much woo attached to it
- Herb Simon - 20th century polymath
- Daniel Kahneman - Godfather of research on cognitive biases
Religion[edit]
- Expand Rosicrucianism
- Judaism - needs moar holidays, template, etc.
- Expand Kabbalah
- Sharia compliant finance
- Black Hebrew Israelites
Politics[edit]
Pundits[edit]
- George Will - Esp. AGW denial
- Laura Ingraham
Wingnuttery & Libertarianism[edit]
- Tom Woods - Mises Institute hack and Thomas DiLorenzo's neo-Confederate pal
- Hans-Hermann Hoppe - Mises Institute hack, endorsements of monarchism
Dicktators[edit]
- Suharto - Former
presidentdictator of Indonesia
Moonbattery[edit]
- Shock doctrine - Naomi Klein's pet theory turned into Marxist conspiracy theories
Racism[edit]
- George Lincoln Rockwell
- Bobo Shanti - Black supremacist cult
- Marcus Garvey - Pan-African black nationalist, not actually a black supremacist but many supremacists hijacked his name/philosophy
- J. Philippe Rushton
- Pioneer Fund
- Expand racialism
- Expand lynch mob
- Self-hating minority - Mostly a bullshit stereotype
- Race music
History/pseudohistory/pseudoarchaeology[edit]
- Expand Atlantis
- Neopagan pseudohistory and goddess mythology
- Mound builders - Mythical Native American race
- Gympie Pyramid - Australian earthworks, theories similar to Bosnian pyramid claims surrounded it
Economics[edit]
- Rational expectations theory - Repeatedly falsified Chicago school theory
- Public choice theory - Controversial field developed by James M. Buchanan
- Irving Fisher - Epic failure of "New Era" philosophy, resurgence in debt-deflation theory, inventor of the Rolodex
- Nicholas Nassim Taleb - The black swan
- Expand Behavioral economics
Fraud[edit]
- Charles Ponzi - The original Ponzarelli
- New Era Philanthropy - Huge Christian Ponzi scheme
- Reed Slatkin - Amazingly, built a Ponzi scheme on top of the Ponzi scheme that is the Co$
- Bucket shop - Fronts for high-level gambling, frauds, schemes, and scams
- Matrix scheme - Referral scheme similar to pyramid schemes
- Land banking - Land speculation, hotbed of financial scams
- Forex scam - Newly fashionable scam hawking bullshit forex investments to amateur investors
- Dotcom bubble - Before there was the housing bubble
- Stock dilution schemes - Chop stocks and dump and dilute scams
Alt-woo[edit]
Internet kooks[edit]
- Diana Napolis aka Karen "Curio" Jones - Satanic conspiracy theories, harassing psychology profs and stalking Hollywood celebs.
Reviews[edit]
- The Great Derangement by Matt Taibbi
- Merchants of Doubt by Oreskes and Conway