RationalWiki:To do list/archive2012

The disgrace to civilized society that is  We tend to mention  a lot around here. (http://missinguniversemuseum.com). Found this retarded YEC website by way of Something Awful. Dr of Focus Press and YouTube. A Ph.D. 'scientist' who only seems to do Christian apologetics The utterly terrifying duumvirate of reactionary state representatives, and  Both of them support slavery and theocracy. In the 21st century, I might point out. The an interesting little bugger. top MRA and pedo defender. This extensive series of reviews may be good for cribs. - together with its sequel, in which  shows a near-future dystopian view of bio-technology and religious eco-activists. Move over, Handmaid's Tale, you need bringing up to date with a whiff of cyberpunk. another art staple that Christianity totally ripped off. - single largest private donor in history... all 8 of the candidates he backed lost, costing him some $50 million. - The magazine that on occasion exposes woo. - Insufferable Popular psychic du jour with the housewife crowd The title implies that the film consists of an angry wingnut ranting about Moore being a commie and verbally-fellating George W. Bush, but interestingly, the film isn't really anything like that. It's tone is actually very collected and sensible, and most of its criticisms of Moore are valid. Not all people who criticise liberalism are like Limbaugh and Coulter. /freethinking/agnosticism etc., rather than just a lowly stub. Also Scaremongering "documentary". Transformed by Aleister Crowley into an anti-Christian Horus-worshipping cult, this secret society is basically Freemasonrymeets Wicca. It's this, by the way, and not Freemasonry and Wicca, that paranoid fundies should actually be concerned about. (lower case), a blogging site composed of erudite fuzzy-mindedness, much-referenced in RW articles. and/or the The parallels with the Iraq War are uncanny and disgraceful. Never forget. : Thanks a lot for taking the most then-advanced civilization on earth and setting back Middle Eastern and Indian civilization for several centuries, you fundamentalist jerk. An article specifically on Prevalent and potent poison to human thinking. Admiral Made the United States Navy, especially the nuclear submarine/aircraft carrier components, what they are today. While he has a ginormous skeptic and extremely critical of the 'blindly follow procedure' mentality that infects the technical departments of militaries, his interest to RationalWiki is that his program was SO successful that much like TJ he inadvertently locked both U.S. commercial and military fission nuclear power firmly into suboptimal pseudoengineering. Why does the United States use light water, partial or completely pressured, highly enriched 2nd-gen nuclear reactors with as much operator-input as possible even though there are better models and methods of maintaining them? Because Rickover's legacy, that's why. British triumphalist historian who pushes American exceptionalism as far as it can go without getting into pseudohistory. I've had more than one history teacher/professor push him as the conservative counterpart to Zinn. , a shaman healer and mystic who peddles all sorts of falsehoods. Her webshite He's this theologist who attacked new wave atheists such as Dawkins and then defined God as: "an absolute plenitude of actuality". An article on state legislative bills intended to push creationism, especially the shitload that have been proposed since the beginning of legislative sessions in 2011 aka 'The Hugging Saint' with a bizarre cult of personality. George Orwell's arguably the best anti-bullshit guide there is. The aka. sales tax, consumption tax, Pigovian tax, yadda yadda... The   Proof that global warming is fake! for any number of reasons but especially because of his recent role in the Huma Abedin debacle I've been meaning to do this for a while: write an article on There's at least one red link to "invertebrate" (in the mollusc article), and we need to have something good on the "unbridgable gap" between something without a backbone and something with. Helpful link. The (MPAA), anyone? It's unambiguously homophobic, exhibits rampant double-standards in regards to male and female sexuality as well as sex and violence, and refuses to conclusively reveal who it is composed of, among other things. We might as well have a page on the documentary that points all this out, This Film is Not Yet Rated, too. an actual alt-med therapy. Wrote about misogyny in the Roman Catholic Church and organized religion in general, but also subscribed to lesbian separatist utopia fantasies. If anyone here can speak Portuguese, please enlighten us on the antics of. It's the new ACORN and part of the eco-fascist conspiracy! Run! who's quite butthurt over James Hansen. excommunicated for allowing an abortion on a woman who would have died should she have remained pregnant RW, I am disappoint. Why no ? is a civil rights issue that currently redirects to same-sex marriage. Might need a better title, like same-sex parenthood. arguably an oxymoron as it contains Caribou Barbie multiple ideologues against women's rights. one of Breivik's enablers ?  - anti-gay loony and "expert" used by American Family Association There are flood myths from around the world, not just the Noachid one. Creationists unsurprisingly jump on this as "proof" the Deluge was global. For our economics fans, : this lot, another bunch of white supremacists. Allied with World Union of National Socialists (maybe they need an article too). The awesome developments at probably merit an article. It even has its own Hitler conspiracy. All this talk of the Higgs boson reminds me of a dodgy UK paediatrician who promoted some dubious diagnostic technique to do with poking kid's bums and seeing how much their sphincter dilated, as an indicator of whether child abuse had occurred. This led to a great many children been taken away from their parents and a general scandal. It was also tied to general ballyho about alleged ritual child abuse in the islands and something sinister to do with  Thoroughly Bad Medicine. The which lead to several environmental regulations An analysis and description of   It's a vast collection of conspiracy theories, alt medicine, stories from readers about "what is really going on", and of course, ads selling just about every crank product you can imagine. A good example of Crank magnetism, I thought it should have an article. Income inequality was already requested below - why not the ? a perfect example of how the Roman Catholic Church can still psychologically destroy the life of someone who tried to speak the truth to the ignorant majority. one of the most heartless figures (and that's saying something) in the history of the GOP. the Dietary supplement health and education act of 1994, which regulates what claims supplement/alternative medicine medicine products can make. Also codified the unregulated nature of supplements. especially the purported connection it has with atheism and liberalism and everything else. a Hawaiian cultural practice appropriated by woosters. In its wooish incarnation, it was allegedly able to "heal a ward of mentally ill criminals". Endorsed by Law of Attraction proponent I think someone should make an article on the considering how utterly devastating that war was and how few people in the First World know about it. A look at the pro-lifers' main snarl word. - not the sane version, but the cracktastic one, with capitals. The David Cameron and co.'s attempt to reform the NHS. It has the wonderful status of having zero support by the medical establishment, who are sure it's a mass privatization scheme. the 2005 landmark case on banning inappropriate video games to children without parental supervision. Assfly and the PTC went on a tirade when it didn't go their way. The movement, basically Earth Hour on steroids (and more effective) in the wake of Fukushima. as in that new common cold medication. Not sure what to think of this: it says it's homoeopathic but also approved by physicians. Is this just the placebo effect or what? I'm not sure. . Now that it's over and done with, I'm shocked nobody's done anything on it. Good thing the voters realized that zygotes don't give a shit about much. the evangelical owner of award-winning climate denial-debunker Skeptical Science. Yes, you heard that right. '' Provides a kind of an "at a glance" view of various pseudosciences and conspiracies (sans anti-allopathy), although it sometimes reads like an Ancient Aliens episode. Might be relevant to FCC/censorship discussions: shock jock radio host and his organisation - global warming denialist and conspiracy theorist wrapped up in one (http://za.news.yahoo.com/global-warming-global-domination-163100611.html) i.e. the time "before" the Big Bang. Not the Doctor Who thing. That is, use this article to discuss naturalistic hypotheses on the cause of the Big Bang. The in 5400 BC. I've heard it may have had some relation to the origin of the myth of the Ark, despite being some 3000 years apart. ("Donnie" Adams), a Planet X-spinning YouTuber with a fixation on Neumayer Station. Recent hijinks include popularizing a fake picture of a "Heavy Mass Object" and accusing amateur astronomer Ian Musgrave of being a liar after Musgrave pointedoutthat the fake is actually 'shopped from one of his pictures. We need an article specifically on That or I need to stop playing Civ4. The - Science (and Alan Sokal) vs. postmodern drivel. (Note: This is not the same thing as the War on Science.) The ousting of secular, pro-Western, one of the dumbest foreign policy decisions ever made. Groups like the moral opposite of Chickenhawks. founder-turned-critic of Greenpeace and staunchly anti-science. an "unbelieving" scholar of theology who has attracted recent attention for blog posts flinging dung at the New Atheists, but whose history of suck goes back much further.