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{{bronze}}'''Scopie's Law''' states: | {{bronze}}'''Scopie's Law''' states: | ||
− | {{cquote|'''''In any discussion involving science or medicine, citing Whale.to as a credible source loses you the argument immediately ...and gets you laughed out of the room.'''''}} | + | {{cquote|'''''In any discussion involving science or medicine, citing Whale.to,Age of Autism,or NaturalNews as a credible source loses you the argument immediately ...and gets you laughed out of the room.'''''}} |
It was first formulated by Rich Scopie on the Bad Science forum.<ref>See the original post [http://www.badscience.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=5240&p=90463#p90279 here]. This post was [http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2008/06/the_nuttiness_that_is_whaleto.php cited by Orac of Respectful Insolence] as the first mention of the law.</ref> | It was first formulated by Rich Scopie on the Bad Science forum.<ref>See the original post [http://www.badscience.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=5240&p=90463#p90279 here]. This post was [http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2008/06/the_nuttiness_that_is_whaleto.php cited by Orac of Respectful Insolence] as the first mention of the law.</ref> | ||
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== External links == | == External links == | ||
− | *[http://www.whale.to/ Whale.to] '''Warning:''' Storehouse of extreme pseudoscientific and conspiracy-mongering crap. Enter at your own risk. But good for a laugh, if you have that sense of humour. | + | *[http://www.whale.to/ Whale.to] [http://www.ageofauttism.com/ Age of Autism] '''Warning:''' Storehouse of extreme pseudoscientific and conspiracy-mongering crap. Enter at your own risk. But good for a laugh, if you have that sense of humour. |
Revision as of 16:34, 5 October 2010
Scopie's Law states:
“”In any discussion involving science or medicine, citing Whale.to,Age of Autism,or NaturalNews as a credible source loses you the argument immediately ...and gets you laughed out of the room.
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It was first formulated by Rich Scopie on the Bad Science forum.[1]
Whale.to
Whale.to is a website run by Herefordshire pig farmer John Scudamore. It is a notorious dumping ground for all things pseudoscientific... as well as a few other things. Like the complete text of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, documentations of Illuminati mind control plots, and articles about the Catholic world conspiracy.[2] It contains every (and we do mean every) half-baked pseudoscientific theory ever concocted.
Shockingly, it was used as a source by the plaintiffs in the Autism omnibus trial, and it has seen increasing use as a "source" by anti-vaccinationists and propagators of the vaccine-autism connection.
Others not to cite
- A similar thing can be said of citing Answers in Genesis to back up a creationist point.
External links
- Whale.to Age of Autism Warning: Storehouse of extreme pseudoscientific and conspiracy-mongering crap. Enter at your own risk. But good for a laugh, if you have that sense of humour.
Footnotes
- ↑ See the original post here. This post was cited by Orac of Respectful Insolence as the first mention of the law.
- ↑ Seidel, Kathleen. "A Whale of an Expert." Neurodiversity Weblog 13 June 2008. Neurodiversity.com. 23 Jun 2008.