RationalWiki:Pissed at us

My own opinion is enough for me, and I claim the right to have it defended against any consensus, any majority, anywhere, any place, any time. And anyone who disagrees with this can pick a number, get in line, and kiss my arse. RationalWiki tends to catch the ears of people whom it criticises, who strangely don't enjoy said criticism. Below is a list of people who are pissed at us for one reason or another, which serves as irrefutable proof that we are shills for everyone and their opposite.

Notably absent from this list is Encyclopædia Dramatica, which does have a scathingly hateful article about RW, including a guide for how to troll the site. But as ED has that for pretty much everything (and hates a lot of things), this is seen as standard and so doesn't really count. Also missing is which is also pissed at us and just about everyone under the sun who doesn't

Organizations
I'm still waiting on my goddamn Obama propaganda money.

American Thinker
The right wing extremist website American Thinker posted an article that objected to being labelled wingnut while not actually refuting any of the accusations of wingnuttery (Obama conspiracy theories, global warming denialism, creationism, Birtherism, etc.) — if anything, they ended up supporting the charges against them. At times, they just seemed to make things up, such as saying that RationalWiki doesn't go after Leftists or saying there were no arguments on the page when there were but they were apparently ignored. Their comments section wasn't fond of us either, for instance:

Discovery Institute
In an article entitled "Media Promoting Misinformation about the Santorum Amendment", the DI claimed that RationalWiki were misrepresenting the Santorum Amendment by claiming it would "promote the teaching of intelligent design while questioning the academic standing of evolution".

They claim the Amendment reads "It is the sense of the Senate that -- (1) good science education should prepare students to distinguish the data or testable theories of science from philosophical or religious claims that are made in the name of science; and (2) where biological evolution is taught, the curriculum should help students to understand why this subject generates so much continuing controversy, and should prepare the students to be informed participants in public discussions regarding the subject." (Ironic bits in bold.)

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"Teaching the controversy" being the thinking behind intelligent design in the first place.

First Things
Our article on Human exceptionalism had not even been up a day before drawing a response from Wesley J. Smith on the First Things website. Setting aside the fact that it was the work of one user and was yet to receive collaborative efforts from the RationalWiki community to improve it (in particular, the addition of information on secular and other non-creationist arguments), it is still bizarre to claim that that version of our article labels human exceptionalism as creationism.

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LGB Alliance
The LGB Alliance, a "gay rights" group known for its exclusion of trans people (as evidenced by even just their name alone) and its apologetics for people who oppose gay marriage, was not pleased about how we called them out for their blatant transphobia and hypocrisy. They even went so far as to submit a document to the OHCHR seminar on academic freedom whining about our "libelous" information about them:

Manhattan Institute
City Journal, a publication of the Manhattan Institute, attacked a (banned) RationalWiki contributor:

The article appeared in City Journal a few weeks after Smith received a Twitter direct message from the account of the Cancel Watch Substack, instructing him to "refrain from continuing you malicious activities" with a threat if he did not:

Party for Freedom
The far-right Australian Party for Freedom made a little fuss on a talk page:

When their edits were reverted, they sulked about and vandalised two pages. Soon after they had to be forced into a timeout by a Sysop.

VDARE
Out of all the denialism they could have written about and exposed, VDARE picked denialism of...(drumroll please)...the War on Christmas! RationalWiki, described as "a group of more-than-usually-obnoxious atheists", features prominently among their list of deniers. VDARE takes issue with the statement in our article, "The so-called ‘War on Xmas’ is a right wing demagogic neologism referring to secular progressives' attempts to keep the December solstice holiday shopping season culturally inclusive".

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Anglo-Saxon Foundation
Members of the Anglo-Saxon Foundation forum responded to our article about them by accusing us of being "anti-English" (inevitable, really, as they seem to consider almost every site on the Internet to be "anti-English") and repeatedly complaining that we don't criticise Islam, which will doubtless come as a surprise to the members of Islamic Awakening (see below). Our article was later discovered by a seventeen-year-old idiot named Sobotnik, and RationalWiki was blamed for his subsequent trolling spree.


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DavidIcke.com Official Forum
Numerous people posting on David Icke's online forums have shown antipathy toward our fine institution, with one speculating that our pages are edited by the CIA.


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Free Republic
It seems the far-right forum Free Republic doesn't care for us either. After the American Thinker wrote a piece about RationalWiki that proved... something, they paid more attention to our wiki (apparently they don't hear about something until a wingnut website mentions it). Matthew Bracken also noticed his article, but oddly enough didn't seem all that bothered by it, though he did have this to say:

Islamic Awakening
Islamic Awakening is one of those sites where Muslim extremists, pretending to be moderate Muslims, get together to fantasize about killing people they disagree with. In 2011, they had their own awakening to RW's article on them. One user blew a few irony meters by saying "I ask Allah to grant a miserable life to everyone intentionally involved in mocking the Prophet" in reference to the article, before in the very next sentence stating that "It's very easy to go on a message board and collect random statements to blow them out of proportion or purposely misconstrue them for sensationalism..." So, quote mining and strawmanning is wrong, unless it's you doing it. Glad to have that one cleared up.


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Kiwi Farms
The notorious internet forum and wretched hive of whiny losers Kiwi Farms had a thread about us, describing us as a:

Later, Cynical responded to our entry:

LessWrong
LessWrong has an up and down relationship with RW. With a small but notable overlap in userbase and Yudkowsky's one-time insistence that hardcore rationalists can be recruited from sites like RW, it still attracts ire from LW users because they claim the word "rational" as theirs, dammit. And that we are the go-to site to learn about Roko's basilisk. Apparently we're the "Sith" to their "Jedi", which would be a great analogy if the Sith mostly paid the Jedi no attention at all.


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Ludwig von Mises Institute forum
Members of the forum for the Ludwig von Mises Institute noticed our article about libertarians in January 2011. Considering the von Mises institute promotes the Austrian school of economics, developed by libertarian Ludwig von Mises, they weren't happy.


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Metapedia
Those lovely folk at Metapedia seem to have a problem with us because... well, because we don't seem to hate everybody else. The article on RW may be a mixture of and satire, however; it previously described RW as a "genetic-egalitarian race-denialist propaganda website", which is fair enough, but stating that Richard Dawkins is RW's messiah is a bit of a leap. It is also notable for attempting to create a "power structure" of RW, based on user rights logs, although this has since been removed in a 2015 rewrite by Swedish Holocaust denier Upplysning ("Enlightenment"), who is one of only two active users on the site. Oh, and they've also singled out our articles on Holocaust denial and race for criticism (surprise, surprise!), lumping us alongside the supposedly "leftist" Wikipedia.


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Moonbattery.com
While the blog itself did not mention us, the comments are not fond of us since they discovered our article on Moonbattery.com:


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Mumsnet
In May 2018, our TERFs article was posted to the TERF-dominated forum Mumsnet. They weren't happy at all, accusing us of being huge men's rights activists disguised as feminists.

NaturalNews
Their article crying about censorship describes us as a "vaccine propagandist" website.

Nordic Resistance Movement
I undid your vandalism on Rationalwikis page on the NRM. I am currently in a meeting with members of the Danish branch of the NRM. If you can convince yourself that lying can be virtuous, take action against me. If we're bad, tell people the truth about us.

Objectivism Online
In July 2009, RW came to the attention of Objectivism Online, a forum dedicated to Randroids. A thread on this topic was closed shortly after an RW user invited them to discuss criticism on the talk page of the objectivism article.


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Ovarit
Ovarit, an off-shoot of Reddit run by and for TERFs, came to our attention in July 2021. It took them a month to find it.


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Rightpedia
Rightpedia, a fork of Metapedia, had an article about us as well (before it was taken down). Oddly for a website that is so devoted to hating things, they did have a few nice things to say about us, mixed in with their vitriolic spite for our refusal to acknowledge alt-right ideology as an opinion that can be held by someone who isn't a morally bankrupt and/or horribly mis-educated imbecile.


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R. K. Hilbert Space
Whoever runs the above Twitter account (who describes himself as a "Metrosexual Tech Oligarch") took exception to our article on the Salem Hypothesis.

Reddit
Not content with how they are covered, multiple communities on Reddit have variably become pissed at us.

Aznidentity
/r/aznidentity is a subreddit that accused RationalWiki of being racist because... uh... we don't like pseudoscience? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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BreadTube
Our article about the Uyghur genocide drew attention from the tankies on this subreddit dedicated to left-wing youtubers.


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It's almost as if the CIA Propaganda... criticizes itself? Plus, when you try to debunk us, please actually read our articles, dumbass. Quote mining and cherry picking won't get you anywhere.

DebateAltRight
Our racialism article drew ire from this demonstratively-named subcommunity, who take exception to our deconstruction of racism "race realism".


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Detrans
A board for "detransitioners" run by TERFs for TERFs infamous for pushing conversion therapy has come to hate us because of exposing the truth about their community.


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Well, /r/detrans is way more cult-like than RationalWiki ever was.


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Talking about detransition is fine, but not attacking transgender people like Richard Dawkins do.

KotakuInAction
Naturally, the angry gamers who continue to pretend that a campaign of harassing women and anyone who finds their methods disgusting is "actually about ethics in video game journalism" found the light cast on them by our Gamergate article to be unbearable. RW continues to receive a steady stream of BoNs and new single-purpose accounts to cry about this site not being "Rational" and for allowing "muh esjayduhbulyooz" to "take over" the place.


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LawOfAttraction
The RationalWiki article on the law of attraction got reposted on r/lawofattraction, where, predictably, the response was a recitation of the usual escape hatches.

MensRights
After RW was put on the Skeptic sub-reddit forum in 2013, it quickly gained a couple of good up-votes and some positive comments (indeed, most RW users will agree that it's biased, and should be used as a resource rather than a reference). Then a few creeps from the MRA contingent, MensRights, decided that the place was "overrun by radical feminists" (which should have come as a surprise to Cathy Brennan). The sub-reddit then decided to "invade" (or "brigade" or whatever they call it) and mass down-vote every single comment that asked them for actual evidence that RW was overrun by radical feminists. 317 comments and one piss-take response later, the clusterfuck of derp finally died down.


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MGTOW
On their subreddit, some MGTOWers were not very pleased about our removal of their whitewashy bullshit from our article on them. Here is their rant, in which they proceed to strawman the shit out of us DESTROY us with FACTZ and LOGIC:


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Shitstatistssay
Being an anarcho-capitalist subreddit, Shitstatistssay saw our articles on universal health care and Austrian school, and they didn’t like them, not one little bit.


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ShitLiberalsSay
The tankies are pissed. They even pinned the post! Others believe that the site is... actually alt-right and promoting fascism? Somehow?


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"I thought it was common knowledge that rationalwiki is an alt-[right] wiki.

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Their founding message expresses a devotion to exploring authoritarianism and fundamentalism. Their article on fundamentalism includes a huge quote by Sam Harris, a 'rationalist' known for propping up racist pseudoscience akin to phrenology.

They use the guise of rational discourse to express views in accord with fascist social ideologies. Any websites that not only reports but encourages these views cannot be trusted to present information in good faith."

The Right Stuff
Which is completely wrong. We're a Conservapedia ripoff.

Props to them for at least admitting that Nazis are right-wingers though!

Ron Paul Forums
In a thread from April 2009 titled "And you thought liberalpedia was bad," several Ron Paul fans expressed dismay and resentment at RW's admitted left-of-Ron-Paul political stance and info on Ron Paul.


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SCEPCOP
RationalWiki was criticised in a thread at the SCEPCOP forum started by Winston Wu himself.


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Stormfront
Stormfront users have, on several of their forum posts, expressed their anger at our distinct lack of concern about the threat of white genocide.


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Urban Dictionary
In the Urban Dictionary, a crowdsourced online dictionary for definitions of the baby names of writers' enemies/significant others and sexually violent NSFW definitions slang words and phrases, the top definition of the word "RationalWiki" in 2021 is, as of April:


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But then again, UD has definitions like that for pretty much everything (including itself), as 90% of people who write "definitions" on there these days are either a) prudish far-right religious fanatics, b) misanthropic teenagers who hate 90% of the human population and think there's an NWO plot to brainwash them because fuck schools, c) horny cishets, or d) butthurt antifems whining about how oppressed they are.

Vanguard News Network
As it is a forum which is basically Stormfront Junior, it goes without saying that Vanguard News Network does not like us.


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Whale.to
One of John Scudamore's many incoherent outpourings on Whale.to expresses displeasure with our article covering his website.


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Whitaker Online
Whitaker Online is the website of Bob Whitaker, author of the infamous mantra "Anti-racist is a codeword for anti-white". Several commenters on the site were not too fond of our article.


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Wikispooks
Wikispooks is a wiki full of assorted conspiracy theories. They aren't particularly fond of the fact that we question the "9-11 was an inside job" conspiracy theory.


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WND
WND founder Joseph Farah put us in good company and had this to say about us:

Woden's Folk
Woden's Folk is a neopagan organisation based around an "ancient prophecy" which is so vague as to be meaningless (something about a bloke with a hood, Herne the Hunter, days of the lion, light and darkness, and trembling guilty people). When we revealed the fact that this "ancient prophecy" actually originated in the 1980s television series Robin of Sherwood, certain members of the cult were less than pleased. One supporter, calling himself "Eassex cempa" (The translation, as far as we can manage, from horribly mangled Old English is "Essex Warrior"), tried to cover the group's backside with some nonsense about "Wyrd" and an argument by analogy involving compost. Curiously, he also implied that RationalWiki is a pro-Catholic site, and that we were making a specifically left-wing criticism — as though the mainstream right sees nothing wrong with worshipping Robin of Sherwood.

The group dislikes having its views discussed in public. Wonder why that could be...


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The World Freeman Society
The World Freeman Society has a forum supporting the "freeman on the land" concept. They were not pleased with our article on the subject, but seemed confused as to what site it appeared on, as some people referred to it as a Wikipedia article. One member referred to RationalWiki as "the communists" and pointed out that the authors' names were not listed on the article, which shows a slightly wobbly understanding of how wikis generally work.


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Rhoda Zione Alale
Pseudoscientist, radiation woo crank Rhoda Zione Alale was upset about her article here and us making fun of the junk products such as the FLAT BATTERIES™ she offers for sale. In 2014, she initiated a fundraiser to support a "Slander and Character Defamation" lawsuit against what she calls "Rationalewiki.Org."


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Cathy Brennan
Man-hatin', trans-hatin' radical feminist Cathy Brennan discovered our article on her (only five minutes after it was created by a new user, go figure), and responded by taking the "yay, we struck a blow to the oppressors" tack. The most disturbing part came with a full cyber-stalking of our very own Blue, with some choice comments and credible doxxing that don't need reprinting. A swiftly-reverted edit to the article on transphobia, calling it an emotive reaction to silence "criticism" of transgender people, also caused some pain on her blog's comments. Later, Brennan returned to call the goat-loving Rationalwiki "...a known manarchist bro space!" Though where, exactly, it's well "known" as such is still a mystery. Particularly to the MRAs.


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Michael Coombs
Michael Coombs is a neo-Nazi lunatic who really dislikes RationalWiki for documenting his anti-Semitism and racism. When's he's not wasting his time creating sock accounts that often impersonate either RW editors or a certain Oliver Smith, doing easily-reverted page/section blanking to remove lEyEbUlL and going on tangents in various talk pages, he regularly spams his Twitter claiming RationalWiki is "anti-white".


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Ken DeMyer
Since his ban in 2020 as GiuocoPiano, Ken has been repeatedly creating socks and writing multiple attack essays of this website and its editors on Conservapedia. Some examples include, but are not limited to:
 * RationalWiki admits it has a weirdo, pansie infestation
 * A RationalWiki editor is going to write an essay defending psychopathic behavior
 * Atheists and agnostics, I am going shopping today wearing two masks and a face shield. Put that in your conservative, fundamentalist, Christianity is a death cult pipe and smoke it!
 * Everytime a webmaster delinks to the atheist website RationalWiki an angel gets his wings
 * A humble and chivalrous Christian's glorious victory over the RationalWiki editoress [sic] Anna Livia (Since been removed due to conservative deceit)

Bryan Denlinger
Bryan Denlinger is the main figure of an online Fundamentalist Christian ministry called King James Video Ministries. He wasn't very pleased with the article on him, and wonders why there isn't more criticism towards other preachers such as Steven Anderson or Robert Breaker. This response was before the revisions done to the article.

Carl Gallups
Pastor Carl Gallups, aka PPSIMMONS, took offense at his portrayal in the RW article and posted a point-by-point "refutation" on his blog that makes for an hilarious read.


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Clearly it would be nice if he understood what begging the question really means.

Linda Harvey
Since around February 2011, Linda Harvey has been trying to remove content of our article on her website Mission: America, claiming it is defamatory.


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Leonard Horowitz
Dentist turned conspiracy peddler Leonard Horowitz is not very impressed with our page on him, as evidenced by a rant posted on waronwethepeople.com. (At least, he is named as the author of the article, but he apparently refers to himself in third person throughout.)


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Zachary K. Hubbard
Zachary K. Hubbard is an internet blogger/YouTuber conspiracy theorist, inventor of New gematria. Needless to say, he was NOT pleased with our article on him. Back in November 2019, he uploaded some sort of "refutation" to our article to YouTube, but ended up taking it down in a matter of hours. Evidence of its previous existence can be found on Pinterest.


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Shaun Johnston
Shaun Johnston is a creationist and intelligent design proponent. In 2021, he was not pleased that his article on RationalWiki shows up in Google searches and complained to them about being "blacklisted".


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Eric Jon Phelps
Eric Jon Phelps is a not too well known pastor who is most known for promoting conspiracy theories involving the Society of Jesus. It is safe to assume he wasn’t very pleased about our article, as a vandal, who may or may not have been him, blanked the page, and gave us this little message in 2019, accusing us of lying about him, though most of the references have been lost.


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Laura Knight-Jadczyk
Conspirituality cult leader LKJ had some things to say about us on her Cassiopaea Forum in 2015.


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Karajou
Sometimes referred to as Conservapedia's "resident swabbie", Kowardjou Karajou holds the distinction of being the Conservapedian most obsessed with RW. Forget User:Conservative's "red telephone" messages, or Andrew Schlafly personally coining the term "Hot. Science. RationalWiki", Karajou has taken it off-wiki and to his own blog and various leaked email comments where he has been shown to fantasise about suing the site and holds delusions that the entire site is responsible for against Conservapedia (as if anyone who edits RW has the technical knowledge to pull that one off...). His paranoia knows no bounds. Such is Karajou's terror of RationalWiki that he can no longer even bring himself to speak its name, referring to it as "Otisburg", a reference to a scene from the 1978 film Superman, featuring the character of Otis, the dimwitted henchman of a deranged megalomaniac.


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Anatoly Karlin
Anatoly Karlin is a Russian white nationalist, MAGA troll, conspiracy theorist, and climate change denial crank who is also a fan of neo-Nazi Richard Spencer, and is a proud supporter of the far-right Liberal Democratic Party of Russia. Like much of the neo-Nazi hivemind who get pissed at us, Karlin believes that his RationalWiki article is somehow a "hit piece", despite the fact that all it does is state facts about the many racist and pseudoscientific views he holds.


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Emil Kirkegaard
Emil Kirkegaard is a far-right, Islamophobic, self-described eugenicist who, like most (if not all) racialists, has a morbid obsession with race and intelligence. He is most infamous for writing a blog post in 2012 proposing that a "compromise" for pedophiles would be to drug and rape sleeping children. Some of his other controversial views include the legalization of child pornography and reducing the age of consent. In 2017, he first showed up on RationalWiki as EmilOWK, and then quite appallingly proceeded to defend said 2012 blogpost. He wrote: My remark was simply that if you have sex with someone while they are asleep and somehow don't wake up from it and they never discover it later somehow, it is not likely for there to be any causal effects on mental health. How would there be?"

Not long after, Kirkegaard was banned for harassment, doxing, and making legal threats.

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Dewey Larson
Ever since we started covering Dewey Larson's particular flavour of truly military-grade pseudoscience back in March of 2012, Larson — the (as of 2016, still active ) inventor and master architect of reciprocal theory (the soon-to-be-recognized grand theory of everything) — took serious offense. He also — with no sense of irony — took issue with the amount of science on RationalWiki (which isn't primarily about science in the first place).


 * May 18, 2012 — Larson posts Response to Rationalwiki.org Article on Dewey B. Larson, in which he goes through our article on him and his theory word for word and issues us grumpy miniscule corrections, technobabble, galileo gambits, and various escape hatches.
 * October 21, 2012 — Larson posts another, quote: "Step-by-Step Refutation of the “RationalWiki.org” Nonsense Article About Dewey B. Larson", this time titled Update: Critical Rejoinder to RationalWiki Article on Dewey B. Larson.
 * October 23, 2012 — Having gloriously battled accosted us on the reciprocal theory talk page, Larson decides to post yet another step-by-step guide in anal retentiveness, this time titled Refutation of RationalWiki.org Talk Page Nonsense about Dewey B. Larson
 * July 30, 2013 — Larson "decided to take deeper look" at RationalWiki. It would appear — based on his astounding levels of grump — that he must've leaned in so close as to poke himself right in the ol' spotter.


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Abd ul-Rahman Lomax


As User:Abd, after being permanently banned for doxxing, trolling, and harassing other users in October 2017, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax used his blog to spread lies and conspiracy theories about us, specifically thinking that his article was created solely by two brothers.


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Seán Manchester
Seán Manchester is a vampire-hunting Bishop (seriously). But rather than being one of the cool kind from the movies that don a pair of sunglasses and go on a kick-ass killing spree against the legions of the Undead, Manchester confines himself to blog ravings. After one RW user began writing an article on him, he decided to take action by decrying it all as falsehoods, taking up most of his blogging time around January 2010. The quote below comes from one of his posts in January, summing up his opinion of the site.


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Dennis Markuze
Dennis Markuze is a strange individual who posts barely coherent screeds on forums with large atheist populations. The term "pissed at us" does not seem entirely accurate, largely because it is hard to gauge his emotional state (he instead comes across as being a rather different kind of "pissed"), but he certainly did not appreciate our article on him. In one edit, he twice proclaimed it to be "JUDGMENT DAY" while insulting James Randi; "for little dick pz... ATHEIST GENOCIDE" he said in another edit, linking to a forum thread which has now been deleted, but was presumably another one of his rants.


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Kevin Martin
Kevin Martin turned up to object about our article on him and his site TheWeatherSpace.com, edit warring and complaining that "75% of the stuff on there [is] libel." Also went nuts on the RW Facebook group.


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Miles Mathis
Pseudoscientist, conspiracy theorist, and racist crank Miles Mathis penned a screed about RationalWiki after observing his page here.


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Bill Muehlenberg
Bill Muehlenberg feels extra-special persecuted about us.


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Paul Austin Murphy
Right wing British blogger Paul Austin Murphy is upset because his RationalWiki page ranks very high in search engine rankings, and he believes that the unflattering portrait given in our article has caused some editors to avoid him. In a post on a blogging site, he goes on a while chucking insults at one of the article's primary authors, and then spends more time insulting RationalWiki in general.


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Mohamed El Naschie
El Naschie is an Egyptian mathematician and crank. He has a particular dislike of us, though we are not sure why.


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Notedscholar, of Science and Math Defeated

 * Warning: Poe's Law is in full effect for this entry.

Notedscholar wasn't too happy about our article on Science and Math Defeated, as indicated by his blog post during January 2009. At one point, Notedscholar seemed to get confused by the way the Internet worked, saying "losers at RationalWiki want a piece of my pageviews" after RW linked to Science and Maths Defeated. Just think about this one for a minute and the way round that interaction works regarding who gets a piece of whose pageviews.

Notedscholar also took the trouble of making an account here and trying to "correct" our article on his website, though he was at least respectful about it and deferred to the community's judgment after an exchange on the talk page, thus managing to avoid the banhammer. He still has been inactive for years (showing that unlike some of the people on this list, he at least knows when to quit).


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Denyse O'Leary
Denyse O'Leary is a journalist and proponent of non-materialist neuroscience. She discovered our article on such, which was highly critical of her, Mario Beauregard, and Michael Egnor. Obviously, she responded by making specific points about the science behind non-materialist neuroscience and didn't just attack RW for mixing up the order of authors of her book and not mentioning that others have written about the topic too. Wait, no.


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Mensur Omerbashich
Omerbashich is a small-time conspiracy-loving crank with an interest in Comet Elenin. It seems that in July 2011 his annoyance with the stuff that the Internet was saying about him reached its peak and he went on a spree of email writing and complaints to any websites that mentioned him, successfully getting Blogger to remove (albeit temporarily) the main blog post refuting his work. Before you could say Streisand Effect, he had his own RW article of fair length and detail. He has a giant CAPSLOCK rant on his website declaring all of his critics a part of a grand conspiracy, including Google, NASA, Cornell University, and RW.


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David Roberts
David Roberts is a woo peddler and new age crackpot that has devoted much of his adult life to a silly yet "impressive repertoire of pseudoscience and nonsense" and an even sillier website called "The Game of Time."


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Luke Rudkowski and friends
While conservative conspiracy theorist Luke Rudkowski has not directly condemned RationalWiki for our critique on his persona, our page on him has been subjected to a series of anonymous attacks. One simply needs to check the Fossil Record on his page to see that it has been subjected to many pseudo-criticisms by anonymous users, who simply either blank out detail on Rudkowski they do not appreciate, or insert immensely hurtful insults such as "this is a load of presumptuous crap!" Placing into consideration the anonymity of these attacks, it is unknown as to whether Rudkowski has launched any of them himself.

The page of conspiracy theorist Mark Dice, a friend of Rudkowski, was also blanked on a couple of occasions by anonymous users. Dice is yet to attack us for our page on him, but we're sure he'll get to it soon.

Larry Sanger

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Rome Viharo
Crank enabler, egomaniac, and internet troll extraordinaire Rome Viharo tried to prove he's not a troll... by trolling the RW Talk page.

On the 8th of June 2016, Rome claimed via Twitter that "This year I'm going to be initiating legal recourses" against RationalWiki. (And the crowd goes mild!)


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Styxhexenhammer666
Styxhexenhammer666 does not like us, and has actively attempted to whitewash this article to better suit his view of himself.

Emily Willoughby
Emily Willoughby is a right-wing paleoartist, psychologist, and proponent of race and intelligence pseudoscience who lives a double life both promoting and denying being a racist eugenics supporter.


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Bo Winegard
Bo Winegard is an American hereditarian psychologist, nationalist, and pseudoscientist associated with the online "race realist" community. He writes racist bullshit for the right-wing online magazine Quillette and surrounds himself with white nationalists, but complains if he is labelled one.


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Abuz Zubair
Abuz Zubair (proprietor of the aforementioned Islamic Awakening) took exception to our article on him, moaning "My son should sue the pigs for libel."


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Dynamiclear
Dynamiclear are unusual in that they actually came to RW to discuss things on the talk page of their article and were actually reasonable in their requests. Initially, an email was sent accusing the site of slander and in the pocket of Dynamiclear's competitors (could all members of RW involved in the cold sore business please raise your hand?), but it wasn't long until a user appeared to discuss more specific criticisms with the article's principal authors. Undoubtedly, the extra attention lavished on the article because of this improved it considerably.


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H2Om
In September 2010, RationalWiki was graced by the visit of Lex Lang, founder of "H2Om:Water with Intention". Lex wasn't exactly thrilled that RW described his product as an overpriced example of water woo, and tried to whitewash the article several times. Owing to the Streisand effect, this only attracted the attention of other editors and led to increased scrutiny and the expansion of the article.


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William Dembski
In November 2009, cdesign proponentsist William Dembski posted in his blog Uncommon Descent that RW's article The Search for a Search - Measuring the Information Cost of Higher Level Search constituted copyright infringement. Though RW server owner Trent willingly provided contact information, Dembski never followed through.


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Ramanand Jhingade
Somebody using the name "Wth" posted to RationalWiki claiming to be Ramanand Jhingade and objecting to our article about him. There was some speculation as to whether or not he was the real deal. Naturally, over a year later, he left a childish rant against Tmtoulouse over on Wiki4CAM.


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Kent Hovind
In February 2014, noted young Earth creationist Kent Hovind sued the RationalWiki Foundation in federal court for defamation, requesting damages of $2.5 million. His complaint is available here.

Kevin Martin, part deux
On an otherwise uneventful April of 2014, Kevin Martin came to his article's talk page in which he demanded that we remove references to his site TheWeatherSpace, as it was trademarked. Once he realized that's not how trademarks work, he settled on suing for libel. Eventually, he produced a list of things to add and to remove in his article; members of this site were not slow to notice that many of his claims were... bizarre, to say the least. After a polite refusal, he doubled down and decided to add a cyberstalking suit on top of that.


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Northants English Welfare Society
A rather curious example. The minor nationalist organisation NEWS is covered briefly and in almost entirely neutral terms on our article about the Steadfast Trust, but a representative of the group nonetheless objected strongly enough to repeatedly remove chunks of information. In the process, of course, the society gave us a very good reason to make fun of it. The anonymous NEWS member made a brief legal threat in the process, although exactly what the group expects us to be charged with is unclear.


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John Fuerst
In 2017, white nationalist kook John Fuerst threatened to sue on his RationalWiki article's talkpage:

Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
In February 2018, cold fusion crank and internet troll Abd ul-Rahman Lomax threatened to sue the RationalMedia Foundation:

The People's Republic of China
The Great Firewall of China, which the Chinese Communist Party uses to block a large number of websites that could be a threat to their rule, currently blocks access to RationalWiki.