RationalWiki's 2019 Fundraiser

There is no RationalWiki without you. We are a small non-profit with no staff – we are hundreds of volunteers who document pseudoscience and crankery around the world every day. We will never allow ads because we must remain independent. We cannot rely on big donors with corresponding big agendas. We are not the largest website around, but we believe we play an important role in defending truth and objectivity.

If everyone seeing this today donates $5, we will meet our goal for 2019.

Fighting pseudoscience isn't free.
We are 100% user-supported! Help and donate $5, $20 or whatever you can today with PayPal Logo.png!

Donations so far: $2900Goal: $6000

Fun talk:The Hasbro-IBM chess conspiracy

From RationalWiki
Jump to: navigation, search

Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter. MDB (the MD is for Maryland, the B is for Bear) 19:53, 3 August 2012 (UTC)

Whilst appreciating the sense of fun in your original submission, I respectfully disagree with your conclusions. I think the linkspam is justified here... rpeh •TCE 19:59, 3 August 2012 (UTC)
Have you ever noticed how many conspiracies are based on false premises and bad data? I stand by what I have written. EVDebs (talk) 20:17, 3 August 2012 (UTC)
As a rationalist, I say this is a load of hogwash. However, as a board game geek, I am very paranoid about Monopoly's continued and baffling popularity and will therefore make it my personal goal to destroy Hasbro and IBM. I'll get my coat. Cow...Hammertime! 20:22, 3 August 2012 (UTC)

Disproving the conspiracy[edit]

How can you say there are no good chess sets available when you can buy this? It's-a me! Mario! MDB (the MD is for Maryland, the B is for Bear) 20:36, 3 August 2012 (UTC)

Ah, but how many stores will you find it in? You have to special order it. That's how they getcha. EVDebs (talk) 18:40, 22 August 2012 (UTC)