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Whale.to
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Whale.to is a webshite which contains every (and we do mean every) half-baked pseudoscientific woo and conspiracy theory ever concocted. It is run by English pig farmer John Scudamore.[1] Scudamore has a long history of trying to insert links to his website on Wikipedia under the username Whaleto, but a few years ago this was put to an end when someone added whale.to to a spam block list. This means no one can link to it in any Wikipedia article, which led to Scudamore whining about being suppressed (obviously) by the "Church of Satan."[2] It is a notorious dumping ground for all things pseudoscientific... as well as a few other things. Like the complete text of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, documentations of Illuminati mind control plots, Islamophobic rants[3] and articles about the Catholic world conspiracy.[4] Unsurprisingly, we managed to piss off Scudamore, and we even got our own little page! How sweet.[5] This is the type of website that results after months of doing LSD or smoking crack.
Scopie's Law
Scopie's Law states:
“”In any discussion involving science or medicine, citing Whale.to as a credible source loses you the argument immediately... and gets you laughed out of the room.
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It was first formulated by Rich Scopie on the Bad Science forum.[6]
Audience
Shockingly, it was used as a source by the plaintiffs in the Autism omnibus trial, and it has seen increasing use as a "source" by anti-vaccinationists and propagators of the vaccine-autism "connection" (which should be a clue right there to the validity of their claims).[7]
NaturalNews is itself known to violate Scopie's Law and cite Whale.to on numerous occasions.[8]
WikiLeaks cited Whale.to in a now-deleted tweet claiming Gloria Steinem
to be a CIA agent.[9]
On RationalWiki
It goes without saying that Scudamore is not very pleased with this page.[10]
See also
External links
References
- ↑ Stacy Mintzer Herlihy and E. Allison Hagood. Your Baby's Best Shot: Why Vaccines Are Safe and Save Lives. Lanham, MD: Roman and Littlefield, 2012.
- ↑ Caution.
- ↑ http://www.whale.to/c/islam.html
- ↑ A Whale of an Expert, Neurodiversity. 13 June 2008.
- ↑ Our little slice of hell.
- ↑ See the original post here. This post was cited by Orac of Respectful Insolence as the first mention of the law.
- ↑ Archived post on Kathleen Seidel's blog Neurodiversity
- ↑ Five times in this article alone.
- ↑ Archive link
- ↑ RationalWiki - whale.to