User:Nebuchadnezzar/To do

Stuff I might get around to at some point...maybe:

AGW denialism

 * Expand Bjorn Lomborg
 * Michael Crichton
 * Climate refugee

Other

 * 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

 * 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

 * Expand Rosicrucianism
 * Judaism - needs moar holidays, template, etc.
 * Expand Kabbalah
 * Sharia compliant finance
 * Black Hebrew Israelites

Pundits

 * George Will - Esp. AGW denial
 * Laura Ingraham

Wingnuttery & Libertarianism

 * Tom Woods - Mises Institute hack and Thomas DiLorenzo's neo-Confederate pal
 * Hans-Hermann Hoppe - Mises Institute hack, endorsements of monarchism

Dicktators

 * Suharto - Former president dictator of Indonesia

Moonbattery

 * Shock doctrine - Naomi Klein's pet theory turned into Marxist conspiracy theories

Racism

 * 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

 * 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

 * 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

 * 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

 * Capryl alcohol/Octanol
 * Spirulina
 * Expand Gerson Therapy

Internet kooks

 * Diana Napolis aka Karen "Curio" Jones - Satanic conspiracy theories, harassing psychology profs and stalking Hollywood celebs.

Reviews

 * The Great Derangement by Matt Taibbi
 * Merchants of Doubt by Oreskes and Conway