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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 Exceptionalism", University of Massachusetts Amherst Doctoral Dissertation

• Scientific Reports: Walkowiak et al. (2023) "Cultural determinants of the gap between self-estimated navigation ability and wayfinding performance: evidence from 46 countries". Cites the RationalWiki page on importance of religion by country.

• Chie Fukuda (2023). "Interactional and categorial analyses of identity construction in the talk of female-to-male (FtM) transgender individuals in Japan", Pragmatics (DOI 10.1075/prag.20066.fuk). Cites RW's transgender glossary.

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. Cites the page IQ several times.

• 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", Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing

• 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.

• Franco Manni (2020) "Atheistic Scientists and Christian Theologians as Travel Companions", Theology and Science 18(1):46-58. Cites our page on sophisticated theology.

• 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.

• Orthia, L. A. (2020). "Strategies for including communication of non-Western and indigenous knowledges in science communication histories" JCOM 19(02), A02. Critiques our indigenous science page, seemingly praises our racialism page.

2019

• Cortada and Aspray (2019). "The Magic of Debunking: Interrogating Fake Facts in the United States since the Eighteenth Century", Library & Information History (Volume 35, Issue 3). Cites the RW page about Carl Sagan.

• Angelo Fasce's "Are Pseudosciences Like Seagulls? A Discriminant Metacriterion Facilitates the Solution of the Demarcation Problem", International Studies in the Philosophy of Science (Volume 32, 2019 - Issue 3-4). Mentions the RW page list of pseudosciences.

• 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.

This paper describes ongoing work on analyzing ideologically biased communities. We specifically investigated gender, race and religious biases in two agenda-driven wiki systems (RationalWiki and Conservapedia) and compared them to the more mainstream Wikipedia with approaches for bias detection in word embeddings. With our approach, we could find that similar biases are present in all three wikis, but with varying degree. For example, women are more associated with words related to art, appearance and family whereas men are closer to words related to science, intellect and career. Furthermore we found biases in Conservapedia viewing Christianity in a more positive light compared to Islam or Atheism. Our results show that it is in general possible to find and measure biases using embeddings, even if these are only based on comparably small amounts of data.

• 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:

Second, this infographic invokes quantum computing. While quantum computing is an actual computer science field of study, the broader adjective "quantum" has been appropriated by New Age thinkers who rely upon the term to legitimate their metaphysical claims, a process the RationalWiki dubs "quantum woo".53

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

Clustering minor objections and responding to whatever unites them is one of the strategies discussed against the Gish Gallop: “the fallacious debate tactic of drowning your opponent in a flood of individually-weak arguments in order to prevent rebuttal of the whole argument collection without great effort” (RationalWiki 2019). The individually weak arguments may be dispensed with as remonstrative quibbles, unless they are shown to add up to one or more weighty clusters of arguments.

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

According to their home page, the main aim of the LessWrong forum is “refining the art of human rationality.” Critics have also described the LessWrong community as

Occasionally articulate, innovative, and thoughtful. However, the community's focused demographic and narrow interests have also produced an insular culture that is heavy with its own peculiar jargon and established ideas—sometimes these ideas might benefit from a better grounding in reality. (RationalWiki 2018a)

The demographics that RationalWiki refer to have been made transparent through a few yearly surveys of the membership.

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Others, such as the ghost, or that first artificial creature “born” of modern “science,” Frankenstein's monster, traverse categories such as alive/dead. AI can also be a liminal beast in this sense, with the added category collapse between past/now/future with Roko's Basilisk thought to be working through acausal threats (RationalWiki 2018b).

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

The decision was made that anyone searching for "cultural Marxism" on Google was to be directed to the section "Cultural Marxism Conspiracy Theory" in the entry on the Frankfurt School (which still stands), though there is an entry on "cultural Marxism" in RationalWiki. The "RationalWiki" entry also focuses on upon the idea that the term is used by conspiracy theorists, while it concedes that "extremely rarely ... [it] refers to an obscure critique of popular culture by the Frankfurt School."

• 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

• French, A. (2018). "The Mandela Effect and New Memory". Cites Mandela effect.

• Lowenstein and Sidlow (2018). "Cognitive and visual diagnostic errors in dermatology: part 1". Cites Occam's razor.

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

As communities grow larger and are unpatrolled, they also have a propensity to attract flamers, trolls, and random hyperbolic comparisons to Hitler, a phenomenon also known as “Godwin’s Law” (Rational Wiki, 2018).

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

Yudkowsky also founded the blog community LessWrong as a sister site and offshoot of Overcoming Bias, where he began his blogging career with economist Robin Hanson. https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Eliezer_Yudkowsky (Accessed on November 21, 2017)

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

Perhaps one of the most interesting anti-Semitist tale in modern times was told on the RationalWiki website, of a Yiddish secret society called Goy Cabal using Wikipedia as a misinformation tool in advancing their plot of dominating the world.

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

Controversial issue, namely the one concerning GMOs and their various risks. GMOs. Here, things are interestingly differing across countries. In the US, for instance, distrust regarding GMOs is considered as an instance of irrational, anti-science, stance, and Rational Wiki lists it along with anti-vaccination creeds and creationism (http://rationalwiki.org/wiki). In France, GMOs are not uncontroversially a scientific achievement, and many scientists doubt the virtues of GMOs.9

• 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:

HENRY C. LUCAS, JR.’S Viewpoint “Technology and the Failure of the University” (Jan. 2018) was a tour de force of unfounded assertions, beginning with a prediction that 50% of U.S. universities will fail in the next 15 years, justified by two articles posted on the blogs http://www.futuristspeaker.com/ and https://www.zerohedge.com/. (The latter is described by RationalWiki as “apocalypse porn” that has “accurately predicted 200 of the last 2 recessions.”)

• 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.

From what scientists have already established, we know that human decision-making is influenced by a large set of factors that vary across different individuals and groups of individuals [51], including past experience [167], decision complexity [99], emotions [29], and many cognitive biases.2

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2A comprehensive list is available at http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/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:

6 The attorney and conservative activist Andrew Schlafly was in a prolonged conflict with the evolutionary biologist Richard Lenski, who had observed a rare useful mutation in bacteria. Schlafly, motivated by anti-evolutionary skepticism, demanded Lenski’s laboratory files and notes, which he denied to him on the grounds that he was not a member of the scientific community. The “Lenski Affair” is documented at Rational Wiki (n.d.-a)

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96 Creationist peer-review exists for Answers in Genesis‘ Answers Research Journal (Answers in Genesis 2018b) and the Intelligent Design journal BIO-Complexity (Bio-Complexity n.d.). Anticreationist comments on BIO-Complexity can be found at Rational Wiki (n.d.-b), and at the website of the National Center for Science Education (Branch 2010b).

• 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.

In this paper we extensively test the validity of these two types of extrapolations. For crossdomain generalization, our results are mixed. We compile datasets corresponding to text from legislators (the Congressional Record and press releases), media (opinion and political articles from Salon.com and Townhall.com), and crowdsourced collective intelligence (Conservapedia and RationalWiki). [....] The third is a dataset of political articles taken from Conservapedia (a Republican response to Wikipedia) and RationalWiki (a Democratic response to Conservapedia). [....] Conservapedia and RationalWiki. Conservapedia (http://www.conservapedia.com/) is a wiki encyclopedia project website. Conservapedia strives for a conservative point of view, created as a reaction to what was seen as a liberal point of view from Wikipedia. RationalWiki (http://rationalwiki.org/) is also a wiki encyclopedia project website, which was, in turn, created as a liberal response to Conservapedia. RationalWiki and Conservapedia are based on the MediaWiki system. Once a page is set up, other users can revise it. For RationalWiki, we download pages (including redirect pages, which we later remove) ranking in the top 10000 in number of revisions. We further select pages whose categories contain the following word stems: liber, conserv, govern, tea party, politic, left-wing, right-wing, president, u.s. cabinet, united states senate, united states house. Because the Conservapedia community has more articles than RationalWiki, we download the top 40000 pages (again, including redirect pages which are later removed). We apply the same political keywords list we use for RationalWiki. We always use the last revision of any page for a given time period.

• 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+

Atheism+ is a movement that originated in August 2012 by blogger Jen McCreight. It encouraged progressive atheists to cater to issues other than religion, such as social justice, feminism, racism and homophobia [39].

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[39] RationalWiki. 2016. Atheism Plus. (2016). http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Atheism ^[sic]

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

There are advantages to having privileged identites, which are difficult to notice. Privilege blindness (http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Privilege) refers to a lack of awareness of such advantages, but this term can be considered cultrually insensitive. Feeling like we were blind before we became aware of our privilege is obviously not the same experience had by people who are blind or people with visual impairments. A better term might be privilege ignorance.

2017

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

The colonist killer would be rewarded for each of the Indian cadaver or scalp, proving the murder.15

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15 Native Americans and Christianity [online]. [Accessed 2017-03-28]. Available on: http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/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.

There are many dangerous preconceptions in popular controversies of science and pseudoscience (such as those related to global climate change or universal vaccination), which could and should be easily dispersed by investigations of “science at work”. Interestingly, the defenders of science often use misplaced and misguided arguments which are easily demolished by detailed analysis of the history of philosophy of specific case studies, such as we do here. For example, at least one influential web encyclopaedia explicitly devoted to “[a]nalyzing and refuting pseudoscience and the anti-science movement” regards “alternative cosmology” as belonging to the same pseudoscientific category as “alternative medicine” (http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Alternative_cosmology, last accessed June 11, 2016). Apart from the similar sound, there is no parallel between the two in either an epistemological or an ethical sense.

• 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:

It is not surprising given these variable and vague statements, that aren’t necessarily research based and often historical, that the sceptics dictionary could describe osteopathy as (osteopathy, 2017b):

Osteopathy is a medical practice based on the theory that diseases are due chiefly to loss of structural integrity which can be restored to harmony or equilibrium by manipulation. The manipulation allegedly allows the body to heal itself.

The focus on unclear terms like structural integrity causing disease and restoring harmony and equilibrium understandably provoke scorn from scientific minds, as seen in this excerpt from the Rational Wiki site (Osteopathy, 2017a):

Osteopathy is the discipline of (theoretically) treating disease by stimulating the body to heal itself, with a focus on manipulating muscles and bones. The idea that the body can be cured by manipulation has never been proven in any scientific journal and is essentially woo.

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The biopsychosocial model is an evidence based approach for chronic disease that promotes a multidisciplinary approach, and based on the findings in this thesis osteopathic healthcare reflects this evidence based management. This runs counter to the critics of osteopathy, who express that it is ‘woo’ (Rational Wiki, 2017) or ‘based on little more than wishful thinking’ (Ernst, 2017).

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Osteopathy. (2017a). Osteopathy. Retrieved 12th January, 2017 from http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Osteopathy

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Rational Wiki. (2017). "Osteopathy". Retrieved 31st March 2017 from http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/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.

Rationalwiki.com defines American exceptionalism as “a belief that the United States is unique or exceptional when compared with the historical development of other countries.”

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2. American Exceptionalism; (http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/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.

Much to the amusement of online critics, it is also apparent that parts of Woden’s Folk’s belief system—such as its references to the “Prophecies of Gildas” and a “Seventh Sword of Wayland”—stem from a 1980s itv television series, Robin of Sherwood, and have no basis in history or folklore.52

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[52] RationalWiki, “Woden’s Folk: The Prophecies of Gildas.” http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/ Woden’s_Folk#The_prophecies_of_Gildas (accessed 30 November 2015); Maggie Benn, “Wulf Ingessunu and Woden’s Folk: How a 1980s tv Series Inspired a Racist Cult,” Britain is Radical, 13 June 2014. http://radicalbritain.blogspot.co.uk/2014/06/wulf-ingesunnu -and-wodens-folk-how.html (accessed 12 July 2017).

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

Alternatively, black hat designers could attempt to counter solitary charts with damning information by including a large number of charts with supportive information. Even if the data in these supporting charts provides only weak or spurious evidence in support of the attacker’s goal, their sheer number may mentally outweigh or exhaust the viewer (in argumentation, this technique is sometimes called a “Gish Gallop” [1]).

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[1] Gish gallop — rational wiki. http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/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.

Like it or not, there are in fact a myriad of psychologically rooted “mind traps” which can befall us all, even the best of us. Known as cognitive biases, these are “thinking” errors preventing you from “accurately understanding reality, even when confronted with all the needed data and evidence to form an accurate view [2].”

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[2] RationalWiki, "List of cognitive biases," [Online]. Available: http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/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:

While the information on the site usually just contains names and affiliations, Elam has pointed out that the site could potentially list the addresses, phone numbers, and so forth, of the targeted individuals, creating anxiety on the part of those listen concerning harassment, stalking, and so on. In the past, Elam has put out "bounties" or cash rewards to get the name of an anonymous feminist blogger.²⁶

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26 https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/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":

There are at least 175 cognitive biases that interfere with rational decision making. A detailed list of biases may be found in RationalWiki (List of Cognitive Biases, 2016).

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List of Cognitive Biases (2016). In RationalWiki. Retrieved February 23, 2017 from http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases

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

Crisis Actors. Another common characteristic of conspiracy theory messages is the belief that crisis actors were used to embellish the impact of the attack or outright deny that the attack occurred. According to Rational Wiki (2017), a Wikipedia-style website aimed at educating individuals with unorthodox views, crisis actors are defined as “supposedly professional actors used by government agencies and/or mainstream media to deceive the public with portrayals of trauma and suffering. Specifically, they act as victims or witnesses in staged school shootings or hoax terrorist attacks” (Rational Wiki 2017, para. 1). One frequently retweeted message read “RT @elzhi_fan: CRISIS ACTORS ARE USED IN ALL FALSE FLAG EVENTS#SandyHook#BostonBombing#TsarnaevVerdict And so on and so on!! http://t.c…” The message included a link to a still image of a woman that was supposedly killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting, but was also later injured in the 2013 Boston Marathon Bombing. The image provides no proof that the woman was an actress or involved in either event, but was shared often among individuals promoting a conspiracy theory.

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

5.4 Group Exercise: Identify the Fallacy

In this exercise, divide into two teams. Each team selects an example of a logical fallacy (from this chapter) from one of these websites:

• Logicallyfallacious.com
• Yourlogicalfallacyis.com
• Logfal.wordpress.com
• Nizkor.org
• Rationalwiki.org
• Philosophypages.com

Team 1 presents its example to Team 2. Team 2 has five minutes to identify it and explain it. If the explanation is acceptable to the moderator, Team 2 gets a point. Repeat for Team 2. Complete until each team has a chance to identify five logical fallacies. The team correctly identifying the most fallacies wins.

• 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.

It should be noted that the researcher has not read or even physically accessed every book in the sample, and therefore makes no claim as to the quality, scholarship, or accuracy of the books in question. This means that works of certain authors who may be the subject of some controversy are included in the sample without comment or qualification, including four by Ward Churchill (an historian of contested Indian ancestry who infamously referred to the World Trade Center workers killed in the 9/11 attacks as “little Eichmanns”) and one by independent Canadian genocide researcher Kevin Annett (whom some have called a fraud [International Tribunal into Crimes of Church and State, n.d.]). All that is of interest here is the ability to discover relevant monographs in the WorldCat catalogue.

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International Tribunal into Crimes of Church and State. (n.d.). RationalWiki. Retrieved from http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/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.

Scientific studies tell us that you deceive your own brain far more often than you deceive others, you rarely know you're doing it, it's mostly harmless and probably even "natural," but you should porbably do the occasional self-check to stop it from getting out of hand (e.g., buying crap you can't afford).

The human brain is so prone to self-deception that many scientists now think it must serve a very useful purpose for survival? Why else would we constantly lie to ourselves in 70 different ways?*

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*"List of Cognitive biases," Rational Wiki, http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/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.

"This descriptive interpretation of game theory has come under recent criticism. Game theorists assume players are Homo economicus and always act rationally to maximize their payoffs ("Homo economicus", n.d.)

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Homo Economicus. (n.d.) Retreived from http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/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.

Racism is defined for this project as prejudice against a racial minority group plus the power to oppress said minority group. The definition of "prejudice plus power" was first used in 1970 by Pat Bidol, a current adjunct professor at American University and popularized by Judith H. Katz in her 1978 book, White Awareness: Handbook for Anti-Racism Training. Judith Katz says, "It is important to push for the understanding that racism is 'prejudice plus power' and therefore people cannot be racist against whites in the Untied States. People of color can be prejudiced against whties but clearly do not have the power to enforce that prejudice."²

² Racism definition online: http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Prejudice_plus_power (accessed January 1, 2017).

• 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).

Endorsement of conspiracy theories. Based on a comprehensive list of circulating conspiracy theories (http://rationalwiki.org) we constructed a list of 99 different conspiracy theories (e.g., “Barack Obama is a Muslim from Hawaii.” or “The CIA shot down Malaysia Airlines Flight 17.”). These theories were presented in random order and participants were asked to rate their agreement with each conspiracy theory on a scale from 1 (strongly agree) to 7 (strongly disagree). In addition, we asked about their knowledge of these theories on a scale from 1 (do not know) to 7 (know in detail).

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

Bias and stereotype are somewhat related. While stereotype is a preconceived idea that attributes certain characteristics to all the members of a class or set, bias is an individual or personal preference³. For example, a statement such as - I think that grey literature has no academic or scientific merit - is a stereotype. However, if we have in front of us two equally valid documents, one published in a journal and the other in a personal blog, and we decide to use only the one from the journal – that is bias.

³ A list of cognitive biases can be found at http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases

• 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.

We assessed the average importance of religion to individuals across countries using a measure from the 2006–2008 Gallup Global Reports (also summarized under the RationalWiki web page “Importance of religion by country”). This report provides the percentage of people sampled in a particular country reporting that religion is important to them in their day-to-day life, with a theoretical range of 0 to 100. The actual range in our dataset was from 16.50 (Sweden) to 95.50 (Nigeria).

• 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:

In the case of Wikipedia, five years after it was established in 2001, Andrew Schlafly created Conservapedia in response to what he perceived to be the liberal biases perpetuated by the growing UGC system [1]. RationalWiki, a wiki that does not claim to be an encyclopedia or value neutral point of view, was created in 2007 as a counter to Conservapedia after some editors were banned from the latter. Though Conservapedia and RationalWiki have failed to grow at the same rate and in the same ways as Wikipedia, the contributors to these UGC systems remain active and continue to maintain that Wikipedia does not represent their interests.

• 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:

On days when cirrus cloud formation is occurring, there is more moisture in the upper atmosphere, and consequently, contrails may linger longer before evaporating. Since cirrus clouds often precede a general overcast or haze, the casual observer could easily assume that the contrails have caused the overcast, or become the overcast. The persistence of contrails varies with weather conditions: sometimes they dissipate almost immediately, but often they will persist for hours, with crossing trails sometimes forming gridlike patterns that stretch from horizon to horizon. The “chemtrails” label is usually applied to these longer contrails, with their very persistence put forward as “evidence” that they cannot be normal contrails.

2016

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

Our inference making is subject to all kinds of biases, affecting our social judgments, memory, and a wide range of beliefs, as I will further describe in the section on sympathy and empathy (Rational Wiki 2014; J. Smith 2014).

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Rational Wiki (n.d.) “List of Cognitive Biases,” accessed November 19, 2014, http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/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:

In the Western world mass beliefs in the supernatural and its attributes dissipated mostly with time, but today it is still strong in India where the role of bad magic, built into the customs, beliefs and rituals of certain religious groups, still play a role. Even today the UK and the USA are sometimes still plagued by forms of witchcraft practices. The “Satanic Panic” of the 1980s in America, when it was believed that thousand of cults were conducting satanic rituals that involved the sacrificial mutilation of animals and the sexual abuse of children, is a good example. Also the so-called “recovered memory movement” in America from 1980 onwards, was nothing else than a Western parallel to medieval witchcraft.^21,22,23

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23. Satanic Panic. Available from http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Satanic_Panic (accessed 27/01/2016).

• 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:

When one executes a web search for "FEMA death camps," "reptilian agenda," or any one of the more far-fetched conspiracy theories, advocates often outnumber skeptics by virtue of occupying terrain that others have not bothered to explore. Those who articulate conspiracy theories in the digital era therefore often produce the dominant texts on search engine result pages by virtue of the more marginalized issues existing beyond traditional journalism beats and popular public discourse.

The first link is a YouTube video, "FEMA DEATH CAMPS EXPOSED (CIA IS AWARE)," the second is "Images for FEMA death camps" with four thumbnails of Google Image results. The two sources on the first page to debunk the theory, RationalWiki.org and PopularMechanics.com, compete "below the fold" with results including "List of All FEMA Concentration Camps in America," "CBS News Admits FEMA Camps Are Real," and a Yahoo! Answers link with a "Best Answer, Chosen by Voters" that affirms the theory.

• 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.

In any Q-H collaboration, the tendency to lapse into using specific semantically-laden terminology may lead to confusion without recognizing that the other side needs more explanation. For examples of this¹, “self-medicate” is a clinical H euphemism for destructive behavior involving alcohol or drugs.

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1 Sometimes referred to as code words (http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Code_word) or groupspeak (Nguyen et al., 2015).

• 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.

Branches of Science. Rationalwiki. <http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Branches_of_science_you_have_to_ignore_to_believe_in_young_Earth_creationism>. March, 2016.

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

Assuming that they are equal is the “confusion of the inverse” [15].

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[15] Confusion of the inverse. http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Confusion_of_the_inverse, February 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.

The RationalWiki entry on Gamergate defines it as a “reactionary and virulently misogynistic subculture in the video gaming community. The movement has its roots in anti-feminist attacks directed at media critic Anita Sarkeesian beginning in 2012, and came to fruition in 2014 as a hate campaign against independent game developer Zoë Quinn” about her sex life, (“Gamergate,” n.d.). Gamergate is an MRA-adjacent movement that MRAs involved themselves in and supported. Notable MRA Paul Elam claims that Gamergate was initiated “by MRAs within the gaming community,” (Paul Elam, 2015).

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Gamergate. (n.d.). In RationalWiki.

Manosphere support for Trump is related to—if not a subset of— another online political phenomenon—the alt-right subgroup of the neoreactionary (NRx) movement, which similarly folds xenophobia and misogyny into its ideology. The NRx movement (also known as the ‘Dark Enlightenment’) is “a loosely-defined cluster of internetbased political thinkers who wish to return society to forms of government older than liberal democracy,” (“Neoreactionary movement,” n.d.). Neoreactionaries are anti-democracy because they believe that democracy is inherently progressive and enabling of the march leftward (one of the founders of the movement is famous for putting it thus: ‘Cthulhu might swim slowly, but he swims left’ (“Dictionary,” 2014)). While little is known about how the manosphere and the NRx movement are related (if at all), there seems undoubtedly to be some overlap between the two. Broad themes of the NRx movement can include hostility to feminism, multiculturalism, and progressivism, as well as pickup artist jargon and men’s rights activism (ibid.). Neoreactionaries are also heavily involved in Gamergate, which—as was discussed in chapter 2—manosphere participants are also involved in (and may have incited) (Matthews, 2016).

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Neoreactionary movement. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Neoreactionary_movement

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

In this way, the phenomenon of converts, appearing sometimes as “born-again” Christians and expressing rigorist views, even against mainstream Orthodox believers, is not an exception. The usual features of rigorism mentioned above appear in many such cases in extreme and even idiosyncratic forms. Good examples thereof are the controversial street evangelist and cleric in the USA Nathanael Kapner, who is a convert to Orthodoxy from Judaism,56 and the writer, film director and public speaker Frank Schaeffer57. All this is indicative of the rich variety of the forms and ways in which Orthodox rigorism makes itself active, known and publicly visible.

56 See Nathanael Kapner on rationalwiki, available at: http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Nathanael_Kapner [24. 01. 2016].

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

A "law" written on the back of an envelope by a young economist professor Artur Laffer at a diner with students in Los Angeles in 1974, postulating that, beyond a certain rate, the fiscal pressure had a strong disincentive effect on individual activities, an assessment that no study ever grounded. See http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Laffer_curve

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

In high school or in introductory college physics or chemistry courses, a five-minute weekly (extra-credit) quiz based on a 30- to 45-minute reading assignment can go a long way in making students aware of pseudoscientific nonsense and its danger to society. I suggest the encyclopedic resource http://rationalwiki.org as a starting point.

• 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).

Debunking pages

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27 Rationalwiki www.facebook.com/226614404019306

• 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.)

Nupedia faded, but Sanger gave the model a second try in 2007 with the launch of Citizendium. As of September 2014, it had less than 160 high-quality articles and struggled to raise enough money to stay online [17].

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17. RationalWiki. Citizendium: Fiscal insolvency: the $65,000 question. http://rationalwiki.org/w/index.php?titl​e=Citizendium&oldid=1376857#Fiscal_insol​vency:_the_.2465.2C000_question. Accessed: 2014-11-20. (Archived by WebCite at http://www.webcitation.org/6UEkCD1Lw)

• 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:

As a quick glance at its contents shows, Whale.to promotes conspiracy theories of all varieties, including Holocaust denial and alien abduction, and is sufficiently familiar to science advocates to be identified as a particularly noncredible source for citation and reliance: http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/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.

Information about MRAs, incels, and related topics can be found on websites such as http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/.

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

Homeopaths Without Borders (HWB) is a not-for-profit organisation founded in 1996 based on the humanitarian-aid organisation Doctors Without Borders or Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). HWB offers aid and knowledge in regions “where it does not yet exist or is minimally available”, and aims to “provide homeopathic care and healing in emergency situations”. At best, HWB provides a bit of water, sugar, and company to people while they heal naturally. At worst, they get in the way of the administration of actual medicine. “Essentially, [HWB] go to nations with sub-standard healthcare, and dilute it even more to make it 10^-430 times as good as the healthcare in wealthier nations.” – RationalWiki on HWB.

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

However, after an initial period of enthusiasm, content creation bottomed out: from 17,100 words added per day in the second quarter of 2008 to as low as about 600 in January 2014 (sources: on-line article about Citizendium from rationalwiki.org).

2014

• Alexander Shvets, "A Method of Automatic Detection of Pseudoscientific Publications", Intelligent Systems'2014, pp 533–539. A conference paper that recommends RW as an anti-pseudoscience resource.

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

‘Freedom fries’ was a term coined by the USA Congressman Walter Jones in 2003 in retaliation to France's refusal to join the USA in the Second Iraq War, though french fries was originally a Belgian rather than a french food. In a similar way, after Turkey refused to allow an American infantry division to transit its territory to open up a second front in the north of Iraq, President Bush issued a second Executive Order decreeing that the term Thanksgiving Turkey should be relabelled as Independence Bird. There seems to be a tradition of renaming things that are from an unfriendly country in America. Witness, for instance, due largely to the anti-German sentiment in World War I, the substitution of ‘hot dog’ for ‘frankfurter’ (successful), ‘liberty cabbage’ for ’sauerkraut’ (unsuccessful), and even ‘liberty measles’ for ‘German measles’. In response to the restyling of ‘french’ to ‘freedom’, the American film director Woody Allen famously said that he would rather give his wife a french than a freedom, kiss (see <http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/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).

According to the website RationalWiki, some "anti-science" groups argue that science can be shown to be in error because bumblebees should not be able to fly and kangaroos should not be able to jump. RationalWiki's response is to observe that "... it is possible to "prove" that [a bumble bee can't fly and] a kangaroo can't jump if you leave out a few key variables ... but a full aerodynamic calculation (to say nothing of getting all empirical and watching a bumblebee fly) will show that the bumblebee's flight works perfectly fine."

• 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).

"Same-sex marriage (also called gay marriage and marriage equality) is the union of two individuals of same sex in a marital relationship with the full legal rights and responsibilities allotted to this contract in a given jurisdiction" (rational wiki, 2013).

• 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)

Not just the content but also the medium of Dr. Rutherford’s text evidences private rather than public content. ConnectSpace is essentially an electronic version of a personal journal. See Tienda v. State, 358 S.W. 3d 633, 634 n.3 (Tex. Crim. App. 2012) (describing MySpace and Facebook). If he had intended to join a public dialogue about vaccines as a cause of autism, Dr. Rutherford could have taken his speculation to the notoriously pseudo-scientific HuffingtonPost. See RationalWiki, http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/The_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)

Ironically, Citizendium's insistence on recognizing the special role of experts and identifying its experts by name revealed further problems of authority. As the RationalWiki article on Citizendium contends:

There's expertise and then there's certification as an expert, which is a social construct made of pieces of paper and (hopefully) accredited standards. Sometimes the two don't quite overlap. In the quest for expertise - "This article is good and I can explain why" - Citizendium went for credentialism - "This article is good because I have the authority to say so." ... But the most damaging part of the Citizendium approach was that the required credentials are inconsistent. Someone wishing to be a general editor in an academic field must prove they have a PhD, or are a tenure-track professor. ... But if they wanted the authority to take over articles in alternative medicine, they only had to prove that they were licensed to practice their branch of alternative medicine.

Once advocates of homeopathic medicine were credentialed and protected as experts in their field, the result was a flood of articles endorsing homeopathic medicine duly approved by these experts, who successfully repelled all attempts by mainsteam scientists and physicians to question their authority.

• 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)

While there are comprehensive online collections of creationist claims [11] and Internet sites where some argumentative fallacies are also recognized [RationalWiki, 101 evidences for a young age of the Earth and the universe (rebuttal), http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/101_evidences_for_a_young_age_of_the_Earth_and_the_universe, 2013, accessed 1 June 2013.], there is an absence of analyses that combine all the above-mentioned aspects, which are basically irrelevant for the science content.
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These aspects of creationist texts have not usually been discussed in the scientific rebuttals regarding the context of creating false beliefs in the audience [Creationist claims, http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Creationist_claims, 2013, accessed 1 June 2013].

• 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)

Evolution is Racist. EvoWiki. A RationalWiki Foundation Project.

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

On the internet forums devoted to discussing creation science and intelligent design, a “hypothesis” has been presented, known as the “Salem hypothesis” [SH] after the commenter, Bruce Salem, who first mentioned it. It runs roughly like this⁵:

Salem Hypothesis: … an education in the engineering disciplines forms a predisposition to [Scientific Creationist] viewpoints.

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⁵Taken from the Rationalwiki site http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Salem_Hypothesis 11 July, 2015

2013

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

Anonym, "Marital Rape", retrieved from http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Maritel-rape ^[sic] on March 2nd, 2012 at 15:51.

• 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

• 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)

Popular sources

2024

• Rebecca Watson gave RatWiki a shout out for our coverage of Bryan Pesta.

2023

• 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.

• QAnon Anonymous, a podcast that was initially about QAnon but which now focuses on many different conspiracy theories, mentioned RationalWiki in its episode about Conservapedia.

• 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.

• The Mary Sue mentioned our article on the "transvestigation" conspiracy theory in their report on a self-admitted tranvestigator's threats against a Congresswoman.

• The German-speaking wing of Vice mentioned our article on "Darryl Anka". They describe RW as an "esoteric, sect and conspiracy-critical site".

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.

• Patheos 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.

• Detroit Free Press cites us for the name of Brandon Clint Russell as the founder of Atomwaffen Division

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

• Forbes Magazine, reporting on Facebook's takedown of Milo Yiannopoulos' 'official' page cites and links to our article on the right wing provocateur:

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.

• We Hunted The Mammoth references the page about Jean-François Gariépy to illustrate his white nationalist views were easily discoverable.

• 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:

Likewise, if you should Google the independent, right-of-center news sites like WND, Breitbart or Daily Caller, you will quickly be confronted with attacks on their credibility from a pack of lying, partisan hack sites from Rational Wiki to the SPLC to Media Matters to Snopes.

• 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:

Musk and the musician Grimes, whose real name is Claire Boucher, went to the Met Gala as a couple Monday (May 7). According to the gossip publication Page Six, the two met via Twitter, when Musk thought to make a pun about "Rococo's Basilisk," a mashup of the thought experiment "Roko's Basilisk" and the elaborately ornamental style seen in 18th-century France.

Musk soon learned that Grimes had made the same pun in a music video in 2015, and the rest is romantic history. Roko's Basilisk, on the other hand, is a terrifying vision of the future and the center of a yearslong online subculture maelstrom.

The whole thing got started in 2010, when a person going by Roko posted a thought experiment to the site LessWrong, a forum where people discuss everything from philosophy to artificial intelligence (AI) to cognitive science. The post was deleted, but RationalWiki preserved a copy. Roko's idea was that if, in the future, a super-intelligent AI designed to maximize the common good were to come into being, it might punish everyone who didn't contribute to its existence.

• 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.

Well, not the only one: A review of the book by The Daily Beast—spurred by allegations first published on Libcom, a left-wing website highly critical of Nagle’s arguments—finds that several passages in her 120-page work are similar to entries in Wikipedia and another online encyclopedia, RationalWiki. Attribution is haphazard throughout, sometimes creating the impression that others’ research is the author’s own. This also leads the author to repeat others’ mistakes.

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But Nagle never mentions RationalWiki, another online encyclopedia that bills itself as dedicated to “refuting pseudoscience” and documenting “the full range of crank ideas.” She does, however, liberally borrow from it, as first pointed out on social media.

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In her chapter on the anti-feminist “manosphere” of “men’s rights” and “pick-up artists,” she describes self-styled men’s rights activist Paul Elam thusly: [....] The entry on RationalWiki is nearly identical:

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Later in the chapter, Nagle echoes RationalWiki’s entry on “Chateau Heartiste,” a virulently misogynistic and racist “pick-up artist” blog. The site’s proprietor, James C. Weidmann, “believes white civilization is being destroyed by miscegenation, immigration and low white female birth rates owing to feminism,” Nagle writes. “This decline can only be undone, he thinks, by deporting minorities and restoring patriarchy.” The RationalWiki entry states that Weidmann “thinks ‘white civilization’ is getting destroyed as it is ‘overrun by Uruk-hai,’” a reference to the dark, anonymous “orcs” of J.R.R. Tolkien. “The only solution to the terrible prospect of Whites becoming a minority is, according to Weidmann, to forcefully deport all minorities.”

2017

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

John Beilman: On 4 October 2017, Beilman, 60, shot and killed his severely-disabled 27-year-old daughter in the backyard of their Fairport, New York home before turning the gun on himself. There is no connection between that tragedy and the Las Vegas massacre — a link between the two deadly incidents was established exclusively by disreputable conspiracy sites like WhatDoesItMean. According to RationalWiki, the work on that web site is of such quality that “even other conspiracy nutters don’t think much of it.”

• BBC Mundo (Spanish-language edition of BBC World) extensively quotes RationalWiki's coverage of Pommer's Law.

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

• Canada Free Press quotes RW in a seemingly now-deleted article.

• 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.

• Slate's French branch cites RationalWiki's page on the deep web.

• 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.

• Skeptical Inquirer cites our page on Leonard Coldwell in an article about statin denialism.

• An opinion piece in the Carroll County Times (apparently run by the Baltimore Sun) cites our page on moral equivalence arguments.

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.

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

Trans-exclusionary radical feminism - RationalWiki ISNT LIFE ROUGH ENOUGH⁉️ WTF ARE THESE WOMEN⁉️ IM ASHAMED OF THEM 😤 http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Trans-exclusionary_radical_feminism

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

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

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There are, however, those who oppose the idea of immunization, arguing that a person’s own immune system can deal with most infections naturally and that ingredients in vaccines may cause seizures, paralysis or even death in some individuals. Some claim that vaccinations have been responsible for triggering autism, ADHD and diabetes.

In fact, members of the anti-vaccination movement, defined by RationalWiki as a "loosely organized conspiracy theorist subculture," blame the medical practice of immunization for a wide range of health problems. Most scientists who have researched the issue debunk their claims.

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

RationalWiki has an expanded front-page feature on Kent Hovind, and it’s pretty thorough — I learned a few new things. I hadn’t known that he claims to have four doctorates, and it has a good breakdown of several examples of his bad math. However…

Does it feature any apocalyptic imagery? No.

How many times does it mention Hitler? Only once.

Does it have a doom-laden industrial soundtrack? Nope.

Sorry, RationalWiki, but you are hampered by that “rational” thing. When you’re talking about Kent Hovind, you need to bring the gold-plated stupid to the fore.

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I do feel a lot of sympathy for the RationalWiki crew, though. Imagine if this Hovind “documentary” ever actually happens — the fact-checking will be exhausting. It’s going to be measured in errors/second, or lies/second.

• 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:

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Without strong evidence supporting their arguments, climate contrarians often resort to Gish Gallops to win arguments. In fact, the RationalWiki page on Gish Gallops lists another climate contrarian, Christoper Monckton among the well-known "abusers of this technique", alongside Donald Trump.

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• 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.

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

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Trump has awoken the mainstream media to the "alt-right" and its cousin neoreaction (a.k.a. NRx or the Dark Enlightenment) — loosely related, web-based "movements" that combine internet culture with far-right politics.

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

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That claim stemmed from a single source: a blogger working under the nom de plume "Sorcha Faal" who publishes fabricated "news" accounts on the political conspiracy site whatdoesitmean.com. RationalWiki says of that blog and author:

“”Sorcha Faal is the alleged author of an ongoing series of "reports" published at WhatDoesItMean.com, whose work is of such quality that even other conspiracy nutters don't think much of it. Each report resembles a news story in its style but usually includes a sensational headline barely related to reality and quotes authoritative high-level Russian sources (such as the Russian Federal Security Service) to support its most outrageous claims. Except for the stuff attributed to unverifiable sources, the reports don't contain much original material. They are usually based on various news items from the mainstream media and/or whatever the clogosphere is currently hyperventilating about, with each item shoehorned into the conspiracy narrative the report is trying to establish.

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

• The New Republic: 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:

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Vox Day is a pseudonym for science fiction writer Theodore Beale, who has a history of racist, sexist, and homophobic hate speech. Rationalwiki.org has compiled a mini-anthology of Beale’s greatest hits, which is worth examining.

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

2015

• Mic quotes the RationalWiki page about the manosphere.

• 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:

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The closest to a version of this chart I could find is in Anthony Walker’s Transformation: Living a Christian Life, in which he says "the Bible is the only book that is accurate in all scientific details" and "it has never been proven incorrect in one scientific aspect" (pp. 23-24).

The data would seem to suggest that this is the most astonishing line of bullshit ever uttered in the history of the human race: just survey RationalWiki, Iron Chariots, Skeptics Annotated Bible, Science and the Bible Archive.

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• Caustic Soda: 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:

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Big Placebo refers to the companies that manufacture and sell homeopathic, naturopathic, and other placeborific "health" products. According to RationalWiki, the term was coined by Lindsay Beyerstein in 2009. Just how big Big Placebo is is difficult to measure.

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

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For anyone unfamiliar with Time Cube, it's arguably one of the most notorious single web pages online: an endless wall of text about the conspiracy to suppress an absurdist mathematical model of time. It's been impressively long-lived, having survived nearly two decades since its 1997 launch. While RationalWiki does a good job of explaining the context and themes, the site itself is so valuable in part because it's nearly impossible to translate the full impression of Time Cube into mere plaintext[.]

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• 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.

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

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Most of what has been done has concentrated on issues of rationality and epistemology: is it rational to believe in conspiracy theories?

Interestingly, the answer is: more rational than we might think. After all, conspiracy theories manage to explain all the loose ends (“errant data”) that the ‘official’ story doesn’t. Viewed purely as a form of inference to best explanation, conspiracy reasoning doesn’t seem to be inherently illogical on its face.

However, as Byford points out, conspiracy theory is a “tradition of explanation” (conspiracy theories don’t arise from nowhere but draw upon earlier narratives, often with deeply problematic origins) that has a shockingly bad strike rate. Real conspiracies have certainly happened – Watergate, Iran-Contra etc. – but how many have ever been uncovered by conspiracy theorists?

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• Another article, by The Conversation's French branch (which is editorially independent), complimented RationalWiki the same year, particularly on a summary about which forms of science tend to be targeted the most by ideologues.

• 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: [1] — 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 — 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.
• Boing Boing cites our page about red mercury.

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.
• Jan Willem Nienhuys, in a guest post for Edzard Ernst's blog, cites our article on Homeopathy in Healthcare: Effectiveness, Appropriateness, Safety, Costs.
• Metro: 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. Christian Jessen tweets a link to RW's article on cranioproctosis.
• Dan Gillmor tweets RW.
• John Scalzi 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) — 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. Also republished in National Review.
• Artist Julie Freeman 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." "But I thought this was supposed to be RATIONALWiki!" Drink!
• 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."
• Carl Zimmer 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.
• Slate cites the RationalWiki page about the Lenski affair.

2007

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