User:Tmtoulouse/niche distilled

RationalWiki is about empowering rational thinkers, developing tools to provide a strong community for like minded individuals and a platform to allow everyone to play a role in encouraging critical thinking and combating irrationality in all of its forms.

While a wide range of resources and tools are available both on and off the internet, RationalWiki offers some tremendous advantages that can't be found anywhere else: With near instantaneous turnaround from inception to publication RationalWiki is not a static resource. It can stay current on any topic and rapidly address new tactics and ideas in the full range of anti-science and irrational thought movements.
 * RationalWiki is current

RationalWiki is written from the perspective that the scientific method is the best source for assessing claims about reality. It is not limited to presenting topics in a neutral point of view. It can call "pseudoscience", pseudoscience or "quack medicine", quack medicine.
 * RationalWiki has an opinion

RationalWiki is easy to expand, and has no practical size limitations. We encourage all topics big and small and support original research and synthesis. This means that we can cover and respond to specific scams, people and ideas that would normally be ignored either for practical limits or because others haven't all ready discussed them.
 * RationalWiki is limitless

Collaborative editing can seem strange at first, but is a lot of fun once you get used to it. Starting an article and watching others expand and improve on it is a great feeling, and produces some great content.
 * RationalWiki is collaborative

With hundreds of active editors and more arriving daily, it is a great community of rational thinkers. The site is not just about content creation but offers many tools that create a great social atmosphere and hosts a wide range of discussions.
 * RationalWiki is a great community