Talk:Fringe

No talk page?
No talk page? Strange. For a site that is about debunking this is really odd. I feel like Indiana Jones.Roo (talk) 01:15, 22 February 2017 (UTC) Roo (talk) 01:15, 22 February 2017 (UTC)

Scientific fringe
Sometimes 'which type of fringe' is only evident with hindsight/when sufficient information has been gathered/research has been done - the Tunguska event, until the second event, could have been either 'an iced rock' or 'a dirty snowball' - with the 'alien spacecraft blowing up, lump of antimatter and similar possible SF stories' being the other sort of fringe. Anna Livia (talk) 11:17, 6 October 2020 (UTC)

Demarcation problem?
How do you differentiate between fringe and mainstream in non-scientific context? It's easy to label as fringe/loonie/extremist someone inconvenient when there's no visible distinction between them and the group disowning them.Arisano (talk) 12:47, 9 April 2021 (UTC)

Why do we need a listicle here?
It's very arbitrary and no reasoning is given (I had to remove David Icke, an antisemite, and Cathy Brennan, a TERF, from the category of "fringe left", neither of them are leftists by any means). I don't know enough about some of the figures on the "fringe right" section, but I know enough that Icke and Brennan belong there more than on the "fringe left" section, that's assuming we need such a listicle in the first place. Vee (talk) 03:33, 21 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Neither antisemitism nor feminist transphobia preclude people from being on the left. On the broader point though, I hate lists like these. 04:15, 21 October 2022 (UTC)
 * It's just, is there anything explicitly leftist about Icke's views, or Brennan's? Our own article on Icke has him categorized as a libertarian (although libertarianism isn't an explicitly right wing position, just see my user page, in terms of American political parlance libertarianism is viewed as being synonymous with right-libertarianism, which is what I presume is the POV whoever classed Icke as a libertarian was taking). Vee (talk) 04:21, 21 October 2022 (UTC)
 * No, you’re right, I don’t think Icke is on the left. Brennan, I don’t know. 19:56, 22 October 2022 (UTC)