User:Chillpilled

Hello!

I have been reading RationalWiki for years. Since about 2011 or so, if I had to guess. However, I made this account relatively recently, in June 2020, and as far as I recall I had no account prior to that. I don't think I even made any IP edits, ever (due to obvious privacy concerns).

RationalWiki has long helped me to find sources on such things as pseudoscience, religion and politics. Hopefully, my edits can help to provide this for other people!

Slowly learning German. Hopefully I can expand the pitifully low amount of Category:Deutsch article translations.

Religious background
I am atheist and Discordian. I also have experience and knowledge in both Christianity and Judaism, but don't believe in them.

Recommendations

 * The Conversation — News and stuff. Written by academics.
 * Science-Based Medicine — Controversies in science and medicine.
 * Virology Blog — Contains more than virology, in fact. One sub-blog, Trial By Error, advocates for CFS/ME patients.
 * The Skeptic — Analysis of pseudoscience, conspiracy theories and claims of the paranormal. Not to be confused with the other Skeptic magazine, which is American rather than British, a more recent establishment, and of lower quality. There's also which I know nothing about.
 * PinkNews — Consistent LGBT journalism.
 * 38 North and affiliates — Insightful coverage of North Korea.
 * Privacy Tools and Privacy Guides — self explanatory.

RationalWiki stuff
You're welcome to help with any of these.

Created articles

 * The British Medical Journal
 * Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising
 * Transvestigation — This one was fun.
 * Quote Investigator
 * Christian Institute

Articles I mostly wrote anyway

 * The LGB Alliance
 * Maimonides

Articles to revamp

 * Transgender — Needs e.g. a history section, and a better "religious views" section. Compare with the page for homosexuality which this could be modeled from somewhat.
 * Trans-exclusionary radical feminist — Last time I read it, it felt like it needed a real overhaul.

Articles to create

 * (brief discussion link) (Possible sources: 1 2 3 4 5)
 * (or hypothesis, not sure which to name it but theory is the more common term used)
 * (subject of some funny broscience)
 * (subject of some funny broscience)
 * (subject of some funny broscience)

Drafts to salvage
I certainly didn't create these, but might salvage them if I get the impulse.

Guide

 * User:Chillpilled
 * User:Chillpilled/sandbox (currently host to an attempt to restructure the transgender article)
 * User:Chillpilled/Evaluating transgender-related citations
 * User:Chillpilled/LGB Alliance (deutsch) — deleted for being a machine-assisted translation