RationalWiki:Mentions

2023

 * Krebs, Marie-Christin et al. (2023) "The Wisdom of the Crowd is not a Forgone Conclusion. Effects of Self-Selection on (Collaborative) Knowledge Construction"


 * Krupar, Shiloh (2023) "The administrative grotesquerie of pandemic revanchism: propag(and)ating COVID-19 and the operational banalities of alt-health", Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography


 * Travis, Candice K. (2023) "The Violence of Nostalgia: Conspiracy Theorism, White Nationalism, and Restoring American ExceptionalismNationalism, and Restoring American Exceptionalism", University of Massachusetts Amherst Doctoral Dissertation

2022

 * Madoui, Khalida (2022) "Presidential Gaslighting and the Assault of the Mind: Rhetoric and Manipulation in the Speech of Trump" Afaq fikriya" Journal, Topics in Cognitive Science


 * Letrud, Kåre (2022) "Do we Know it When we See it? A Review of ‘Pseudoscience’ Patterns of Usage", Episteme


 * Zajda, Joseph (2022) "Academic Achievement Discrimination and Self-Fulfilling Prophecy in Schools", In: Discourses of Globalisation and Education Reforms, pp 59–74


 * Makhortykh, Mikola et al. (2022) "Memory, counter-memory and denialism: How search engines circulate information about the Holodomor-related memory wars", Memory Studies 15(6):1330–1345


 * The Rise of Illiberalism by Thomas J. Main (2022) The Brookings Institution. ISBN 0815738498.


 * Chan, Esli (2022) "Technology-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence, Hate Speech, and Terrorism: A Risk Assessment on the Rise of the Incel Rebellion in Canada", Violence Against Women


 * Heni, Clemens (2022) "Ukraine, Holocaust trivialization, transphobia and tolerating the “American Nazi Party” in the pro-Israel scene?" The Berlin International Center for the Study of Antisemitism (BICSA) 5


 * Li Lucy et al. (2022) "Discovering Differences in the Representation of People using Contextualized Semantic Axes", arXiv


 * Klikauer, Thomas (2022) "Human Behaviour in Media Capitalism", In: Media Capitalism, pp. 303-349

2021

 * Abdulla, Sara M. (2021) "Underground Anti-woman and Incel Movements and Their Connections to Sexual Assault", In: Handbook of Interpersonal Violence and Abuse Across the Lifespan, pp 3601–3626


 * Thilina C. Rajapakse & Ruwan D. Nawarathna (2021) "Pseudoscience Detection Using a Pre-trained Transformer Model with Intelligent ReLabeling", Proceedings of International Conference on Sustainable Expert Systems, pp 319–334


 * Horta Ribeiro, Manoel et al. (2021) "The Evolution of the Manosphere Across the Web", Proceedingsofthe Fifteenth International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, pp 196-207


 * Friedman, Hershey H. (2021) "Is Higher Education Making Students Dumb and Dumber?", The American Journal of Economics and Sociology 80(1):53-77


 * Erik C. W. Krabbe & Jan labert van Laar (2021) "In the quagmire of quibbles: a dialectical exploration", Synthese 198:459–3476


 * McBrayer, Justin P. (2021) "Everybody else is thinking it, so why can’t we?", Synthese 198:12071–12087


 * Gefühle Affekte und Strategien des digitalen Faschismus by Simon Strick (2021) Bielefeld. ISBN 3839454956.


 * O’Donnell, Kelly M. (2021) "Incel Mass Murderers: Masculinity, Narrative, and Identity", Ohio Communication Journal 59:64-76


 * Johnson, David Kyle (2021) "Inference to the Best Explanation and Rejecting the Resurrection", Socio-Historical Examination of Religion and Ministry 3(1):26-52

2020

 * Walton, Douglas (2020) "Profiles of Dialogue for Amphiboly". Informal Logic: Reasoning and Argumentation in Theory and Practice discusses the examples from our fallacy of amphiboly page.


 * Ribeiro, Manoel Horta et al. (21 Jan 2020) "From Pick-Up Artists to Incels:A Data-Driven Sketch of the Manosphere". arXiv:2001.07600v1 [cs.CY ] used our incel and Men Going Their Own Way pages in their analysis.


 * Papadamou, Kostantinos et al. (25 Jan 2020) "Understanding the Incel Community on YouTube". arXiv:2001.08293v2 [cs.CY ] cited our incel page.


 * Lenzi, Alan (2020) Comparative Religion Reader RELI 30, University of the Pacific: the textbook referred students to read our Asatru page.


 * Tinnes, Judith (2020) Bibliography: Internet-Driven Right-Wing Terrorism, Perspectives on Terrorism 14(3):168-169. Cites our alt-right glossary.

2019

 * Knoche, M., Popović, R., Lemmerich, F., & Strohmaier, M. (2019, September). Identifying Biases in Politically Biased Wikis through Word Embeddings. In Proceedings of the 30th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media (pp. 253-257). ACM. Analyzes content for bias on Wikipedia, Conservapedia, and RationalWiki.


 * Robert Gehl, "On the cultural Power of the 'Marianas Web' Meme", in The Dialectic of Digital Culture. Cites quantum woo while talking about a Deep Web meme:


 * Krabbe, E. C., & van Laar, J. A. (2019). In the quagmire of quibbles: a dialectical exploration. Synthese, 1-18. Cites Gish Gallop:


 * Singler, B. (2019). EXISTENTIAL HOPE AND EXISTENTIAL DESPAIR IN AI APOCALYPTICISM AND TRANSHUMANISM: Zygon®, 54(1), 156-176. Cites LessWrong and Roko's Basilisk:


 * Guan, B., & Cristaudo, W. (2019). Baudelaire Contra Benjamin: A Critique of Politicized Aesthetics and Cultural Marxism. Lexington Books. Critiques Cultural Marxism:


 * Rapti, Matina (2019) Fake News: In the era of online intentional misinformation;a review of existing approaches, M.Sc. Thesis, Unviersity of Macedonia quoted from our useful idiot page.

2018

 * Galliah, S. A. (2018). Perceptions of Problematic Credibility in John Oliver’s “Statistically Representative Climate Change Debate”. Cites Godwin's Law.


 * Sarangi, S., & Sharma, P. (2018). Artificial Intelligence: Evolution, Ethics and Public Policy. Routledge India. Cites Eliezer Yudkowsky.


 * Bergmann, E. (2018). Conspiracy & populism: The politics of misinformation. Springer. Implicitly cites Anglo-Saxon_Foundation.


 * Huneman, P., & Vorms, M. (2018). Is a unified account of conspiracy theories possible?. Argumenta Oeconomica Cracoviensia, 3, 247-270. Cites RationalWiki, particularly on GMOs:


 * Response to "Predicting Failure of the University" by the CACM Staff. Communications of the ACM, April 2018, Vol. 61 No. 4, Pages 8-9. Cites Zero Hedge:


 * Rosenfeld, A., & Kraus, S. (2018). Predicting Human Decision-Making: From Prediction to Action. Synthesis Lectures on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, 12(1), 1–150. Cites List of cognitive biases.


 * KADEN, TOM, Creationism and Anti-Creationism in the United States: A Sociology of Conflict Springer. ISBN 3319993798. Cites Lenski Affair and BIO-Complexity:


 * YAN, H., DAS, S., LAVOIE, A., LI, S., & SINCLAIR, B. The Congressional Classification Challenge: Domain Specificity and Partisan Intensity. Describes RationalWiki as the "Democratic" and "liberal" response to Conservapedia.


 * Jhaver, Shagun, et al. "Online harassment and content moderation: The case of blocklists." ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, Vol. 25, No. 2, Article 1. Publication date: March 2018. Cites Atheism+


 * Anderson SK. Explorations in Diversity: Examining the Complexities of Privilege, Discrimination, and Oppression. Oxford University Press, 2018. 0190617047. Cites privilege.

2017

 * Mašková, Adéla. Death Penalty in the USA and Europe. Bachelor's thesis, University of West Bohemia in Pilsen. Cites Native Americans and Christianity.


 * Cirkovic MM, Perovic S. Alternative Explanations of the Cosmic Microwave Background: A Historical and an Epistemological Perspective. Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, 2017. DOI: 10.1016/j.shpsb.2017.04.005. Critiques alternative cosmology.


 * Orrock PJ. Developing an evidence base for osteopathic healthcare: an exploration of osteopathic healthcare to inform the design of an appropriate methodology to investigate its effectiveness. PhD thesis, Southern Cross University, Lismore, NSW, 2017. Cites Osteopathy:


 * Rabie M. The US Political and Economic Scene. The Global Debt Crisis and Its Socioeconomic Implications, pp 61-89. 01 November 2017. Cites American exceptionalism.


 * White ED. Northern Gods for Northern Folk: Racial Identity and Right-wing Ideology among Britain’s Folkish Heathens. Journal of Religion in Europe, 2017;10.3:241-273. Cites Woden's Folk.


 * Correll M, Heer J. Black Hat Visualization. University of Washington Interactive Data Lab, 2017. Cites Gish Gallop.


 * Christian Wik. Becoming Trapped: An Inquiry into Life, History, and Human Nature. 15 May 2017. Master thesis, Nord University. Cites List of cognitive biases.


 * Hodapp, Christa. Men's Rights, Gender, and Social Media. Rowman & Littlefield, Sep 15, 2017. Cites RationalWiki at various points through the book. Eg: Paul Elam:


 * Friedman, Hershey H. "Is Higher Education Making Students Dumb and Dumber?" & "The Dangers of Overconfidence and Absolute Certainty in the Age of Post-Truth, Junk Science, and Arrogance":


 * Brojakowski, Benjamin. DIGITAL WHITENESS IMPERIALISM: REDEFINING CAUCASIAN IDENTITY POST-BOSTON BOMBING. Dissertation. Graduate College of Bowling Green State University. August 2017.


 * Smith, Jonathan. Critical Thinking: Pseudoscience and the Paranormal, 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, 2017. 9781119029489. Lists RationalWiki as a logical fallacy library.


 * Dudley, Michael Q. A Library Matter of Genocide: The Library of Congress and the Historiography of the Native American Holocaust. The International Indigenous Policy Journal, 2017. Cites International Tribunal into Crimes of Church and State.


 * Marshall, Simon, PhD, and Lesley Paterson. The Brave Athlete: Calm the F*ck Down and Rise to the Occasion. VeloPress 2017. 9781937716912. Cites List of cognitive biases.


 * Game Theory: Breakthroughs in Research and Practice: Breakthroughs in Research and Practice. Editor Management Association, Information Resources. IGI Global. 19 June 2017. 9781522525950. Cites homo economicus.


 * Washington, Donovan Antonio. Identifying the obstacles to racial inclusivity at the Bethany Seventh-day Adventist Church, a historically African American Congregation. Mercer University, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2017, 10598562. Cites Prejudice plus power.


 * Marwick Alice, and Rebecca Lewis. "Media Manipulation and Disinformation Online.: Data & Society Research Institute. Cites manosphere and neoreactionary movement.


 * Imhoff, Roland and Pia Lamberty. "Too special to be duped: Need for uniqueness motivates conspiracy beliefs." European Journal of Social Psychology, October 2016. (To appear at doi:10.1002/ejsp.2265).


 * Savić, Dobrica. "Managing Diversity in the International Nuclear Information System." Grey Journal (TGJ) 13.1 (2017).


 * Henry, P. J., and Geoffrey Wetherell. Countries with Greater Gender Equality Have More Positive Attitudes and Laws Concerning Lesbians and Gay Men. Sex Roles: 1-10.


 * Menking, Amanda, David W. McDonald, and Mark Zachry. "Who wants to read this?: A method for measuring topical representativeness in user generated content systems." Briefly discusses the history of RationalWiki and Conservapedia:


 * Prothero, Donald R. & Callahan, Timothy D. UFOs, Chemtrails, and Aliens: What Science Says, Indiana University Press. ISBN 9780253034168. The book includes a quote from our chemtrails page on its page 343:

2016

 * Thomson-Jones, Katherine. Current Controversies in Philosophy of Film. Routlege. 2016. Cites List of cognitive biases:


 * Louw, Gabriel, and Andrè Duvenhage. "Do many South Africans still believe today in the supernatural, bad magic, witchcraft, witches and evil demons?" Ensovoort, 2016. Cites RationalWiki on the Satanic Panic:


 * Rodriguez, Nathan. "Credible to Whom?" Establishing and Evaluating Digital Ethos and Online Credibility, 2016, pp. 142. Uses RW as a "debunking" example for FEMA death camps:


 * Coppersmith, Glen, et al. "The Clinical Panel: Leveraging Psychological Expertise During NLP Research." NLP+ CSS 2016 from the EMNLP 2016 Workshop on Natural Language Processing and Computational Social Science (2016): 132. Cites code word.


 * Ramiz, Refet. "New Perspective for the Philosophy of Science: Re-Construction and Definition of New Branches & Hierarchy of Sciences." Philosophy 6.7 (2016): 377-416. Cites Branches of science you have to ignore to believe in young Earth creationism.


 * Furia, Carlo A. "Bayesian Statistics in Software Engineering: Practical Guide and Case Studies." arXiv preprint arXiv:1608.06865 (2016).


 * Lilly, Mary. 'The World is Not a Safe Place for Men': The Representational Politics of the Manosphere. Diss. Université d'Ottawa/University of Ottawa, 2016.


 * Makrides, Vasilios. "Orthodox Christian rigorism: attempting to delineate a multifaceted phenomenon." Interdisciplinary Journal for Religion and Transformation in Contemporary Society 3.2 (2016).


 * Gräbner, Claudius, Torsten Heinrich, and Henning Schwardt, eds. Policy Implications of Recent Advances in Evolutionary and Institutional Economics. Routledge, 2016. ISBN 1317500458, 9781317500452.


 * Hassani, Sadri. Commentary: The dangerous growth of pseudophysics. Physics Today 69(5), 10 (2016); doi: 10.1063/PT.3.3151.


 * Halstead, John. Godless Paganism: Voices of Non-theistic Pagans, n.p. Lulu Press, Inc, 2016. ISBN 1329988493 / ISBN 9781329988491 (Citing Eric S. Raymond)
 * Merritt, Bob. "The Digital Revolution." Synthesis Lectures on Emerging Engineering Technologies 2.4 (2016): 1-109.
 * Kurylo, Anastacia and Tatyana Dumova. Social Networking: Redefining Communication in the Digital Age. Quotes and cites Ivory Tower.
 * Veracini, Lorenzo. "Housing and Home Unbound: Intersections in Economics, Environment and Politics in Australia, Chapter 8: Displacement as method." (no text is freely available, but Google's cache indicates it's a link to freeman on the land)
 * Meyers, William R. "Methods for Studying Irrationality in Organizations, Institutions, and Social Movements: Overview and Two Case Studies: Climate Change Denial and Corporate Acquisitiveness." Social Science Methods for Psychodynamic Inquiry. Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2015. 203-222.

2015

 * Zollo, Fabiana, et al. "Debunking in a World of Tribes." arXiv preprint arXiv:1510.04267 (2015).


 * Heilman J (2015) Open Access to a High-Quality, Impartial, Point-of-Care Medical Summary Would Save Lives: Why Does It Not Exist? PLoS Med 12(8): e1001868. doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1001868. (Citing Citizendium.)


 * Reiss, Dorit Rubinstein, and Lois A. Weithorn. "Responding to the Childhood Vaccination Crisis: Legal Frameworks and Tools in the Context of Parental Vaccine Refusal." Buffalo Law Review 63 (2015). Citing Whale.to:


 * Katz, Jennifer, and Vanessa Tirone. "From the Agency Line to the Picket Line: Neoliberal Ideals, Sexual Realities, and Arguments about Abortion in the US." Sex Roles (2015): 1-8.


 * WRIGHT, LAUREN. "Magic Beans and Dragons: The war against pseudoscience and misinformation." AQ: Australian Quarterly 86.2 (2015). Quoting Homeopaths Without Borders:


 * Cozzani, Franco. "Knowledge management 2.0: the proposal for Commipedia." Transforming Government: People, Process and Policy 9.1 (2015): 17-34. Citing Citizendium:

2014

 * Huang, Yan. Pragmatics Second Edition. Oxford University Press, 2014. 55-56 (Citing Freedom fries).


 * Nieminen, Petteri, and Anne-Mari Mustonen. "Argumentation and fallacies in creationist writings against evolutionary theory." Evolution: Education and Outreach 7.1 (2014): 11. (Cites EvoWiki's "Evolution is Racist".)


 * Davies, Cathie, and Bill Klingston. "Appraisal of the ISAAC ad hoc Committee Draft Report on Facilitated Communication". International Society for Augmentative and Alternative Communication. 30 June 2014. (Citing Bumblebee argument).


 * Sarkin-fada, Mohammed Abdul. "GAY MARRIAGE: NIGERIAN TRADITIONAL MARRIAGES IN THE 21ST CENTURY BETWEEN COLLAPSE AND REDEMPTION." INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ADVANCE RESEARCH. Volume 2, Issue 2, February 2014. (Citing Same-sex marriage).


 * Chapman, Simon, Ketan Joshi, and Luke Fry. "Fomenting sickness: nocebo priming of residents about expected wind turbine health farms." Frontiers in Public Health 2.279 (2014): 1-19. (Citing Wind Turbine Syndrome)


 * Bernstein, Anita. "2013–2014 National Health Law Moot Court Competition Problem." Journal of Legal Medicine 35.3 (2014): 355-384. (Citing Huffington Post)


 * Leitch, Thomas. "Paradoxes of Authority." Wikipedia U: Knowledge, Authority, and Liberal Education in the Digital Age. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014. 31-56. (Citing Citizendium)


 * Nieminen, Petteri, Esko Ryökäs, and Anne-Mari Mustonen. "Systemic analysis of creationist claims: Source crticism, context, argumentation and experimental thinking." European Journal of Science and Theology 10.4 (2014): 4-26. (Citing 101 evidences for a young age of the Earth and the universe and creationist claims)


 * Nieminen, Petteri, and Anne-Mari Mustonen. "Argumentation and fallacies in creationist writings against evolutionary theory." Evolution: Education and Outreach 7.11 (2014): 1-14. (Citing evolution is racist)


 * Wilkins, John S. The Salem Region: Two Mindsets about Science The Philosophy of Pseudoscience 2014, forthcoming. (Citing Salem Hypothesis)

2013

 * Susila, Muhammad Endriyo. "ISLAMIC PERSPECTIVE ON MARITAL RAPE." Jurnal Media Hukum 20.2 (2013) cites Marital rape:


 * Deventer, Jannie S.J. van. "The precious metals we prefer to ignore." Minerals Engineering 53 (2013): 266-275. (Citing ORMUS)


 * Wilkins, John S. "The Salem Region: Two Mindsets about Science." Philosophy of Pseudoscience: Reconsidering the Demarcation Problem. Ed. Massimo Pigliucci and Maarten Boudry. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013. 397-416. (Citing Salem Hypothesis)


 * David, Marcella. "Trademark Unraveled: The U.S. Olympic Committee Versus Knitters of the World." Minnesota Journal of Law, Science & Technology 14.2 (2013): 705-764. (Citing friend argument)


 * Mackin, Glenn D. "The Aporia of Practical Reason: From Ethics to Politics." The Politics of Social Welfare in America. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013. 22-62. (Citing euphemism treadmill — critical)


 * Navin, Mark. "Competing Epistemic Spaces: How Social Epistemology Helps Explain and Evaluate Vaccine Denialism." Social Theory and Practice 39.2 (2013): 241-264. (Citing vaccine hysteria)


 * Greuel, Gert-Martin W. "Changes and Enhancements of the Publication Structure in Mathematics." Special Session on Topics and Issues in Electronic Publishing. Proc. of Joint Mathematics Meeting of the American Mathematical Society and Mathematical Association of America, San Diego. Ed. Klaus Kaiser, Steven G. Krantz, and Bernd Wegner. 2013. 41-56. (Citing Mohamed El Naschie)

2012

 * Dunlop, Rachael A. "The hijacking of scientific technology and terminology for profit." Science Under Siege: Zoology Under Threat. Ed. Peter Banks, Daniel Lunney, and Chris Dickman. Mosman: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales, 2012. 90-95. (Citing Gish Gallop)
 * Hendrickson, Heather, and Paul B. Rainey. "Evolution: How the unicorn got its horn." Nature 489.7417 (2012): 504-505. (Citing Lenski affair)
 * Pennington, Jo, ed. "Freemen on the land: Nonsense or loophole?" Judiciary of England and Wales: Benchmark 57 (2012): 18-19. (Citing Freeman on the land)
 * Wilkins, Alan L. & Whetten, David A. "BYU and Religious Universities in a Secular Academic World" BYU Studies Quarterly 51(3):4-52. Cites our Bumblebee argument page.

2011
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 * Brunn, Stanley D., Gerald R. Webster, and J. Clark Archer. "The Bible Belt in a Changing South: Shrinking, Relocating, and Multiple Buckles." Southeastern Geographer 51.4 (2011): 513-549. (Citing Bible Belt)
 * Keeler, Mary, Josh Johnson, and Arun Majumdar. "Crowdsourced Knowledge: Peril and Promise for Complex Knowledge Systems." Proc. of Eighth International Conference on Complex Systems, Quincy. New England Complex Systems Institute, 2011. 753-767. (Citing The Fine Art of Baloney Detection)
 * Opper, Melissa H. "WikiLeaks: Balancing First Amendment Rights with National Security." Loyola of Los Angeles Entertainment Law Review 31.3 (2011): 236-267. (Citing WikiLeaks)
 * Lefrere, Paul. "Using Information (and Exformation) to Inform Action." Perspectives on Information. Ed. Magnus Ramage and D. A. Chapman. New York: Routledge, 2011. 77-90. (Citing Lenski affair)

2023

 * The Manhattan Institute's City Journal published a highly questionable article about banned user Oliver D. Smith's (User:Aeschylus) old work on RationalWiki, then removed it after Smith sued them.


 * Marc Abrams of the Annals of Improbable Research (Ig Nobel Prize) mentioned RationalWiki regarding our collection of cranks on a piece he wrote in New Scientist.

2022

 * Daily Kos quoted our definition of Clown world
 * Washingtonian copied out Washington, D.C. street design conspiracy theory map (with credit).
 * Current Affairs in an interview with author Elizabeth Sandifer mentions User:David Gerard in connection with our articles on the neoreactionary movement, Roko's basilisk and Elon Musk.
 * Snopes mentions our Timeline of Gamergate page.
 * Bo Winegard continues to blame RationalWiki for his downfall in Quillette.
 * Our definition of whataboutism is given in a Salon commentary.

2021

 * Media Bias/Fact Check cites our article on Zero Hedge for their rating of it as a "Questionable Source".
 * The Belief It Or Not Podcast mentions us in their parody religions podcast.
 * YouTube content creator Innuendo Studios mentions our Timeline of Gamergate at the end of his video discussing Gamergate.

2020

 * Inquisitr mentioned that RationalWiki still has a page on Kyle Kulinski after his Wikipedia page was deleted.
 * The Daily Dot quotes RationalWiki on predictive programming regarding conspiracy theories surrounding the death of Kobe Bryant.
 * Inside Higher Ed mentioned us with regard to the Bo Winegard page.

2019

 * In discussing Kary Mullis, McGill University's Office of Science and Society links to our Nobel disease page.


 * Tom Kennedy (Thomas L. Kennedy, Senior Lecturer in Biology at The University of New Mexico) discusses his class assignment regarding Wikipedia accuracy and of comparing the RationalWiki homeopathy page with a pro-homeopathy page.


 * Oh No Ross and Carrie quotes numerous times from our article on Leonard Horowitz during a podcast exploring the insane ideas he promotes, including the solfeggio frequencies.


 * quotes from our article on Happy Science when covering their claims that Margaret Thatcher spoke through their leader from beyond the grave; in response, Taku Igata, Adevanced [sic] General Manager of Happy Science, threatened to file a complaint against Patheos for their coverage.


 * Snopes cites our article on Sorcha Faal while debunking a Jeffrey Epstein conspiracy theory.


 * cites us for the name of Brandon Clint Russell as the founder of Atomwaffen Division


 * quotes paragraphs from our articles on Dennis Prager and Ted Cruz to illustrate their lunacy

"RationalWiki has got an excellent run-down of the sordid details of his career including his comments defending pedophilia and his ties to Neo-Nazis."
 * Forbes Magazine, reporting on Facebook's takedown of Milo Yiannopoulos' 'official' page cites and links to our article on the right wing provocateur:


 * The Freedom From Religion Foundation quotes RationalWiki on Betty Bowers announcing an upcoming performance review.


 * Common Dreams cites our article on crank magnetism in their profile of QAnon.


 * Suzanne Titkemeyer, writing about wingnuts filing frivolous lawsuits field against Patheos authors, links to our article on Jilly Juice.


 * Rabble.ca quoted our definition of hyperloop.


 * An article by Jasmine Kazlauskas in The Daily Mirror mentioned our opinion of Hope4Cancer.


 * Rob Brotherton mentioned us in The Washington Post with regard to the backfire effect.


 * Snopes used our Park51 page as a source for answering the question, "Was a Sculpture ‘Celebrating’ Saudi Arabia Erected at Ground Zero?"

2018

 * Snopes quoted our United Nations page for answering the question, "Did Justin Trudeau Transfer Canadian Border Control to the United Nations?"


 * Snopes quoted our Sorcha Faal page in answering the question, "Is Christine Blasey Ford ‘Deeply Tied’ to the Central Intelligence Agency?"


 * Snopes quoted our QAnon page for their article, "The Roots of ‘Pedophile Ring’ Conspiracy Theories".


 * Snopes cited our VDARE page for their question, "Why Have So Many Daily Caller Writers Expressed White Supremacist Views?"


 * WND founder Joseph Farah put us in good company and had this to say about us:


 * In an article about pedophile Nathan Larson, Haaretz cited us regarding permabanning User:Tisane. Haaretz (falsely?) claimed that Larson was the first person to be permabanned on RationalWiki, and erroneously stated that we are a libertarian site.


 * Live Science links to our archive of the original Roko's basilisk post:


 * Snopes quoted our QAnon page for their "Conspiracy Theories Immediately Appear After Santa Fe School Shooting" page.


 * Snopes cited our Whataboutism page as a source for answering the question, "Did Karl Rove Write ‘Tactics for Effective Conservative Blogging’?"


 * The Daily Beast accuses Angela Nagle of plagiarizing both Wikipedia and RationalWiki in her book, Kill All Normies: Online Culture Wars From 4Chan And Tumblr To Trump And The Alt-Right.

2017

 * Snopes cites our article on Sorcha Faal while debunking conspiracy theories related to the Las Vegas massacre:


 * Wonkette cites International Tribunal into Crimes of Church and State in their article on anti-papism.


 * Townhall cites our article on Christophobia, even if we are "secularists" who "downplay the extent of trendy christophobic commentary and action".


 * India's Times Now cites our article on rape apology.


 * Snopes' fact check on Katie Hopkins references RationalWiki.


 * The Week's profile of the strangest conspiracy theories references our article on the Unified Conspiracy Theory.


 * Paste Magazine quotes our definition of the Dunning-Kruger effect.


 * The Boston Globe quotes Encyclopedia Dramatica's humorous definition of us.


 * Felix Online's article on an anti-immigration KCL lecturer mentions our article on Emil O. W. Kirkegaard.


 * Daily Kos' article on refuting online trolls quotes our page on the Gish Gallop.


 * The Science-Based Medicine website referenced our Fenestra Research in their article on pink Himalayan sea salt.

2016

 * Degeneration nation: It takes a village of idiots to raise a kakistocracy like Donald Trump’s


 * A news article citing rationalwiki that that cryonics is pseudoscience, but it's certainly unexpected to be cited in an Anglican Church newsletter.


 * Recognizing rape culture and its many deniers


 * Huffington Post: Cher Calls Out Trans-Exclusionary Group Of So-Called ‘Feminists’ — Cites our name and links directly to our article on trans-exclusionary radical feminism.


 * Tweets her 3.12 million followers a direct link to our article on trans-exclusionary radical feminism and cites our name:


 * Hermione vs. Voldemort: What deniers can teach us about how to debate Trump


 * : Vaccinations are key to good health worldwide — Quotes directly from our article on the anti-vaccination movement:


 * Pharyngula: Any story of Kent Hovind needs more Nazi imagery — Professor P.Z. Myers of the reviews and discusses our article on Kent Hovind reaching cover status:


 * The Guardian: These are the best arguments from the 3% of climate scientist "skeptics". Really. — Links to and quotes directly from our article on Gish galloping:


 * Friendly Atheist: Christian Teacher, Keen on Spreading Bible Stories, Found Hundreds of Impoverished Kids to Rape — Hemant Mehta links directly to our article on the No True Scotsman fallacy.


 * : Why Peter Thiel Wants to Topple Gawker and Elect Donald Trump — Links to and directly quotes our article on the neoreactionary movement:


 * Snopes: The John Ashe Murder Conspiracy — Links to and directly quotes our article on Sorcha Faal:


 * What is a hoop snake, and why did these Alabamians think they saw one?


 * : Following in his father’s footsteps, Donald Trump Jr. retweeted a white supremacist. — Cites our name and links directly to our article on Theodore Beale:


 * "" homepage — Cites many of our pages on fake news sites as review articles.

2015

 * Dr. Richard Carrier: Science Then: The Bible vs. The Greeks Edition — Cites our name in his writings and links directly to two of our articles; Science Confirms the Bible and Biblical scientific errors:


 * : Science Denial — Links directly to our article on Natural News.


 * The Skeptic's Dictionary: The Skeptic's Dictionary Newsletter Volume 14 No. 8 — Cites our name and links directly to our article on Big Placebo:


 * : Time Cube is gone — Cites our name and links directly to our article on the Time Cube:


 * Harriet Hall of Science-Based Medicine cites our article on ORMUS pseudoscience and its creator, cotton farmer David Hudson, in their piece ASEA, ORMUS, and Alchemy.


 * : Why Conspiracy Theories Aren't Harmless Fun — Links directly to our article on the International Jewish Conspiracy.


 * TheRightStuff.biz has been getting their jimmies rustled by RationalWiki.
 * "Calling All Writers! Operation: Irrational Wiki", TheRightStuff.biz. 30 May 2015.
 * "RationalWiki on Holocaust Denial", TheRightStuff.biz. 29 May 2015.
 * "The Rational View on Immigration?", TheRightStuff.biz. 27 May 2015.
 * "The Rational View on Race?", TheRightStuff.biz. 18 May 2015.
 * b3ta newsletter #664 links List of scientists who became creationists after studying the evidence.


 * "What happened to rationalwiki?", from "I am an Atheist and this is why".
 * Blogger Valerie Tarico links to evidence for the historical existence of Jesus Christ in a post about what Jesus looked like.
 * Phil Plait: &mdash; Last Thursdayism
 * Snopes: where Snopes debunks Obama nuking Charleston, SC using both the Sorcha Faal and European Union Times articles.


 * DeSmogBlog: Anti-Science Associations: Rand Paul, Jane Orient, Art Robinson, Willie Soon And Friends &mdash; A Scientific Dissent From Darwinism, Andrew Schlafly, Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, Discovery Institute, Arthur Robinson


 * Tom Boggioni, Raw Story: Gamergate’s savage defender is a tortured soul who turns Tori Amos songs into terrible poetry - No True Scotsman
 * Amanda Marcotte, RH Reality Check: No, Asking for Corporate Accountability or Subway Courtesy Is Not ‘Slut-Shaming’ - balance fallacy
 * Hoyden About Town: Today in Wikiwalks: Rational Wiki’s Pseudolaws section.

2014

 * Amanda Marcotte, RawStory, "MIT professor explains: The real oppression is having to learn to talk to women", JAQing off
 * Refutations to Anti-Vaccine Memes Facebook page links to our article on Whale.to to explain Scopie's Law
 * Ex-Communications uses our article on Fundamentalism to define it.
 * The Columbian cites our article on The War on Christmas


 * Slate reports on Michigan State Origin Summit and uses our Gish Gallop article to describe creationist debate strategies.
 * Skeptical Science cites our articles on the banana fallacy and Poe's Law.
 * xkcd mentioned Roko's basilisk and the AI-box experiment; didn't link us, but our articles melted and Eliezer Yudkowsky hits the roof.


 * Anita Sarkeesian mentions our article on Gish Gallop here.


 * Lifeline.de cites our article on Tetrasil: US-Patent 5676977: Gibt es ein Aids-Heilmittel?


 * Michael J. I. Brown of The Conversation: What I learned from debating science with trolls.
 * Econoblogger Noah Smith and friends upvote the Galileo gambit. ("[It's] like Wikipedia except you get to use words like 'freakishly.'")
 * RationalWiki and JAQing off get a mention on NewsWithViews.com. Needless to say, the author misunderstands both RW and the article.
 * David Gorski on cryonics at Science Based Medicine links our article.


 * Slate covers Roko's Basilisk, citing our article.
 * Gawker cites us as one entity threatened with a spurious lawsuit by Kevin Martin.


 * Discover Magazine blogger Keith Kloor likes our selection of "ghoulishly absurd" conspiracy theories touted by Mike Adams of NaturalNews.
 * Sheffield Hallam University's David Clarke gives credit to RW's study of the Solway Firth Spaceman.
 * in a guest post for Edzard Ernst's blog, cites our article on Homeopathy in Healthcare: Effectiveness, Appropriateness, Safety, Costs.
 * : Så sätter nätet spinn på vandringssägnerna (Translated from Swedish: How urban legends are spun on the web) — Links to and quotes directly from our article on the Atheist professor myth.


 * Wonkette uses us to debunk Kevin Annett's International Tribunal into Crimes of Church and State.
 * The Raw Story: "Conservatives Have Figured Out a Disturbingly Effective Strategy: Tell Lots and Lots of Lies", with link at the top to Gish Gallop.
 * Sixth mention on Snopes. Our ass is hot.


 * Snopes uses us for the fourth and fifth time in a row to take down WhatDoesItMean.
 * Ken Perrot talks about the analysis at A Scientific Dissent From Darwinism, and learns all about wingnut welfare.
 * Wonkette links to Hitler and evolution as a reference to debunk the idea that Nazism was related to evolution.
 * Judith Curry cites RationalWiki's definition of anti-science to (counter-)attack Michael Mann; the mention was later reproduced on Watts Up With That. Wonder how would Curry and Watts react if they bothered to find out what the wiki says about them...
 * Belgian news website Express.be quotes us on Pommer's Law.

2013

 * Anti-Bitcoin site "Buttcoin" cites our definition of Freeman on the land in the article "Bitcoiners rally around a Freeman’s right to not be enslaved by the state to pay his speeding ticket."
 * Snopes refers to us again and again. Rule of three?
 * NBC News links to The Fine Art of Baloney Detection: "Before you get swept up in an artfully crafted argument, apply some scientific principles to the claims. As the late astronomer Carl Sagan said, 'Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.' Sagan's own baloney detection kit is a good place to start. (RationalWiki has boiled down his essay to hit the bullet points.)"


 * Ottawa Skeptics links to our chemtrails article.


 * Hoyle's fallacy is linked by a post on Uncommon Descent. Ewwwww!
 * Our Solway Firth Spaceman article gets mentioned in the Fortean Times.
 * TheBlaze - yes, Glenn Beck's news site - uses our Sorcha Faal article as part of debunking a Faal "report" in the European Union Times.


 * RationalWiki's definition of a false dilemma is cited in a BioLogos blog...
 * Made-up atheist "deity" Fidem Turbare links to our article on her. Her omniscience doesn't extend as far as realising the article is now in funspace.


 * The Snopesters quote RationalWiki in their debunking of Monsanto claims by Sorcha Faal.


 * Richard Carrier links to a section of the Thunderf00t page.


 * Someone submitted a complaint against RationalWiki to Ripoff Report. The complaint accuses us of being "left winded" (sic! and sick!) and cites such reliable sources as Sean Manchester's blog and a thread at a random Internet forum. They also claim to have "filed with the state." Would that be with the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services?


 * Omega Virgin Revolt, an extremist crackpot, cites our Joseph Mercola article while trying to explain that Mercola's pseudoscience makes him a secret feminist. No, that doesn't make any sense to us, either, but the author is technically using us as an anti-pseudoscience resource!
 * Dr. tweets a link to RW's article on cranioproctosis.
 * tweets RW.
 * links to our article on Theodore Beale in his post explaining how he'll solve his "Racist Sexist Homophobic Dipshit Problem."
 * Edzard Ernst mentions us (admittedly when talking about his own "law").


 * Ben Goldacre tweets a link to Gish Gallop.
 * Dave Mustaine Adds Another Nutty Conspiracy Theory To His War Chest (KFMX.com, 7 January 2013) &mdash; links and recommends chemtrails

2012

 * In the conservative Judeo-Christian journal First Things, creationist Wesley J. Smith took issue with our human exceptionalism page, in which we quoted him.
 * Artist directs tweeters to Freeman on the land.
 * We're becoming a bit of a dirty pleasure for scholars: anthropologists Lee Berger (the discoverer of Australopithecus sediba), and Darren Curnoe (best known for his work on the Red Deer Cave People), link to our debunking of Baraminology.
 * Anyone from Haledon, New Jersey? Your Mayor says hello.
 * Peter Gleick (of Gleickleak) links to fractal wrongness, then retweeted by Slate's Will Oremus.
 * UCLA geneticist Leonid Kruglyak links to the Galileo gambit.
 * Michael Prescott very originally refers to irrationalwiki in his blog.


 * Ed Brayton notices his article here.
 * RW gets a shout-out from the Betentacled One for noticing the image of a plushie in Answers Research Journal Volume 5.
 * Minnesota cartoonist Mike Toft uses RationalWiki's acupuncture article as a source of information for a comic tract entitled Alternative Medicine On Trial ...which is currently inaccessible online.


 * Dave Gamble's review of the allegedly peer-reviewed ID literature cites a large number of RationalWiki articles.
 * After the first Obama/Romney debate, people all over the Internet linked to our article on the Gish Gallop, including a post at Angry Black Lady Chronicles that got linked/reproduced by Balloon Juice (though she seems to be confusing RW with Wikipedia).
 * Georgia congressman Paul Broun's tirade against the "hellish lies" of evolution, Big Bang and embryology draws a response from Why Evolution Is True that links to our Scientific storkism article.


 * Professor Brian Cox (and former Lib Dem MP Evan Harris) likes to do the RationalWiki.
 * Good morning, Carl.
 * Oxford neuropsychologist Dorothy Bishop links to the Gish Gallop to describe Noam Chomsky.
 * Lojban fans discuss the Lojban article on Reddit.


 * The Sensuous Curmudgeon links to to Salem Hypothesis while talking about a creationist rocket scientist.
 * Jason Thibeault of Freethought Blogs links to our article on the Brights Movement
 * Sal Cordova of Uncommon Descent quotes, but does not link to, our article on VenomFangX.
 * Since Paul Ryan's elevation to vice-presidential nominee there's been increasing interest in our Randroid-bashing. From Paweł Morski and Katie Martin of WSJ: "That link has kept me giggling for a good while."
 * Mano Singham of FtB links to our article on Poe's Law in a blog post
 * The evil feminists have found the banana.


 * Someone tries to creates an article about Godlike Productions in Wikipedia, putting RationalWiki's article in the External links section. An old "friend" swoops in to remove the link.


 * Richard Carrier refers readers to our articles on Cristina Rad and Thunderf00t.
 * ThinkProgress links to our Gish Gallop article.
 * The YouTube vlogger TheAmazingAtheist complains that RationalWiki's article on him has been "trashed" by "trolls."


 * RationalWiki's page on the Rothschild family is cited under "References and Further Reading" of Brian Dunning's Skeptoid podcast on the Rothschilds. Has RW reached the point, where, as with Wikipedia, we should be careful not to be fed back our own bullshit by various "reliable" sources?
 * RationalWiki is highlighted in a Royal Psychological Society-approved student guide for critical thinking, encouraging readers to look up some cranks.


 * Scott Gavura of Science-Based Medicine quotes our article on science was wrong before, and also links to Galileo gambit and Argumentum ad populum, in a post about the anti-vaccine movement.
 * RationalWiki is cited to back up the claim that no Freeman on the land "has ever succeeded in a court." Which may go some way as to explaining all the BoNs that have tried to 'correct' us on this.
 * "RationalWiki is a Front for Socialist Indoctrination", according to a blog going by the name of "Economic Sanity" attacking our article on the Austrian School.


 * Jerry Coyne links to 101 evidences for a young age of the Earth and the universe (at David's request; PZ does the same a few days later).
 * RationalWiki is mentioned in print again, this time on the Lenski affair in Cambridge paleontologist Robert Asher's book on accommodationism.
 * Greta Christina's book, Why Are You Atheists So Angry? 99 Things That Piss Off The Godless lists RationalWiki in one of its resource sections, giving us actual mention in print.
 * A Colorado militia movement blog christens us "RidicuWiki."
 * The folks at Planned Parenthood retweet RationalWiki's birth control entry.


 * Abuz Zubair at Islamic Awakening on his article: "My son should sue the pigs for libel." We're quaking.


 * Casey Luskin at Evolution News and Views credits us with inventing the phrase "promote the teaching of intelligent design while questioning the academic standing of evolution" to describe the function of the Santorum Amendment.
 * Critical blogpost on our memetics article.
 * Schematic of the RationalWiki-patented ironometer (as seen here) on UofT biochemist Larry Moran's Sandwalk (though without attribution to this site).
 * Mentioned in an Irish Metal forum Really, combining the delights of Ireland and heavy metal, what's not to love? Also, amusing "artist's impression."

2011

 * VDARE: "Announcing VDARE.com’s War On Christmas Competition 2011—Defy The Deniers!"
 * Random blogpost by a reader: "Website: RationalWiki"
 * Exposing PseudoAstronomy references Question Evolution among others.
 * A former user points out misogyny on RationalWiki.


 * Page on SPAG referenced by the Lousy Canuck.
 * Bitcoin page is discussed on Reddit.
 * Quoted in Know Your Meme's entry on Poe's Law.


 * Coverage of Conservapedia described as "humorous and insightful" by Assassin Actual blog on FtB.


 * “TK can see your house from here” alluded to on Assassin Actual.


 * Scientific evidence of evolution being a hoax goes viral on Reddit, Facebook and Twitter.


 * Skeptical Science links to the Gish Gallop article.


 * Ben Radford, writing for CSI's Sceptical Inquirer magazine, reprinted a copy of our article on Ghost Hunters in Issue 6 (Volume 34). A scan of the page is available here. Possibly the first RationalWiki article to make it in to old media.


 * Lenski affair on Pharyngula.
 * PZ Myers notes that he now has an article on Uncyclopedia, adding that he also has one on Wikipedia, Conservapedia, and "I should not forget Rational Wiki."
 * mentions the Lenski affair in his talk "Newspapers, Blogs and Other Vectors: Infecting Minds in the Age of New Media."

2009

 * The Search for a Search - Measuring the Information Cost of Higher Level Search refutation and related controversy is subject of a post on Good Math, Bad Math on ScienceBlogs. See also the Uncommon Descent post.


 * The Telegraph: An article on the top 10 Internet laws draws heavily on RationalWiki's articles.


 * Ancient SCEPCOP Forum thread: "RationalWiki ridicules SCEPCOP in its entry on us"


 * RationalWiki Atheism FAQ for the Newly Deconverted article mentioned in Debunking Christianity.


 * Science and Math Defeated: "Losers at RationalWiki want a piece of my pageviews"

2008

 * The Sensuous Curmudgeon posts a brief profile of RW.

2007

 * Los Angeles Times: Article about Conservapedia briefly mentions RationalWiki in its very early days.