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| 451 | Dr. Salvatore Cezar Pais is listed as the inventor of four 2019 U.S. Navy patents that have been described as "Star Trek technology".[1] The patent names include "High frequency gravitational wave generator", "Piezoelectricity-induced Room Temperature Superconductor", "Electromagnetic ‘force field’ generator", and the one that initially caught my eye: US10144532B2 "Craft using an inertial mass reduction device". A patent prosecuted by a navy attorney, defended by a Navy CTO, and pushed through in an unusual way. There is a comment by a patent lawyer discussing the unusual nature of this here. There is some good analysis in it, and the comments after could explain all those UFO sightings as military craft tests."It is a well-known facet of quantum field theory that everything can be described in quantum mechanical terms. The complex interactions between a physical system and its surroundings (environment), disrupt the quantum mechanical nature of a system and render it classical under ordinary observation. This process is known as decoherence . However, it is argued that we can retard (delay) decoherence (and possibly even suppress it – namely decouple a physical system from the environment) by accelerated spin and/or accelerated vibration of electrically charged matter under rapid acceleration transients. This may be the very condition to achieve a state of macroscopic quantum coherence, the idea being that we never let the system achieve thermodynamic equilibrium, by constantly delaying the onset of relaxation to equilibrium (hence the production of maximal entropy is delayed). The system may ‘violently’ react by generating ‘anomalous’ emergent phenomena, such as, but not limited to, inertial mass reduction." Implementations of these patents are possibly what was pictured in the AATIP UFO videos released by Tom DeLonge and recently confirmed by the US Navy found here. He recently released yet another controversial patent, this one titled "Plasma Compression Fusion Device" would be small enough to fit inside of a vehicle and produce energy on the gigawatt to terawatt scale.[2] |
| 428 | Doe v. Trump (2016) 1:16-cv-07673-RA ([3] [4] [5]) was the case of child rape filed against Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein for their underage sex parties at Epstein's residence in Manhattan in 1994, four of which were attended by Donald Trump. Katie Johnson v. Donald J. Trump and Jeffrey E. Epstein (2016) 5:16-cv-00797-DMG-KS ([6] [7]) was another case where the pair forcibly raped three 12 and 13 year old girls at underage sex parties at Epstein's Manhattan residence in 1994. The plaintiff's filings were "voluntarily" withdrawn after she had received death threats, and the charges were then dismissed.[8] [9] [10] [11] A draft has been created at Draft:Donald Trump child rape cases. |
| 401 | Something along the lines of race and police brutality in the United States – title flexible, obviously – is desperately needed. There are tons of major incidents that have received widespread coverage (Michael Brown and Eric Garner being probably the most prominent) that all follow the same pattern: cop shoots and kills black person in circumstances that didn't warrant violent action, then gets away with it. Cover the incidents, cover the statistics, cover right-wing media distortions of the incidents, cover protests, cover riots and maybe even online responses (#BlackLivesMatter). |
| 390 | Metabunk.org: a site dedicated to refuting conspiracy theories, which, unsurprisingly leads to accusations of being a shill. Countless Youtube videos have whistleblowers "exposing" Metabunk. |
| 385 | This so-called COVID-19 lab leak hypothesis — with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying being some of its main proponents [12] [13] [14] — either as its own article or as a section in an existing COVID-19 article. Yes, RW talks about it a bit, but the hypothesis has been circulating outside of right-wing circles for some time. Indeed, while even the other wiki acknowledges that it basically edges towards conspiracy thinking, it hasn’t stopped others from reporting it as a supported lead to explain the origins of SARS-CoV-2. In fact, many have been speaking about it in the press as a working theory rather than what it is: a hypothesis, if not less than that. And while it may ultimately be true, the fact that it’s being advocated without any tangible credible evidence is concerning. This needs to be dealt with head-on at some point. |
| 372 | Jeffrey Epstein |
| 362 | CoreCivic, formerly the Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), is a company that owns and manages private prisons and detention centers and operates others on a concession basis. CCA has been the subject of much controversy over the years, mostly related to apparent attempts to save money, such as hiring inadequate staff, extensive lobbying, and lack of proper cooperation with legal entities to avoid repercussions. CCA rebranded as CoreCivic amid the ongoing scrutiny of the private prison industry. |
| 357 | Matt Gaetz the Representative of Florida's 1st district, and a guy that can't tell whether or not he should be a RINO, or a Steve King wannabe. |
| 355 | Dr. Mary's Monkey is a book with a surprisingly large following considering how absolutely nuts it is. It details an insane conspiracy theory where (if I'm remembering correctly) a cancer researcher was using a linear accelerator at the CIA's request to try and create a virus to inflict cancer (in order to kill Fidel Castro) and accidentally created AIDS as a result and that's why she was murdered. |
| 341 | Sutherland Springs church shooting, and the Atomwaffen [1] A draft has been created at Sutherland Springs church shooting. |
| 334 | I don't know how RationalWiki typically deals with ongoing current events, but I think an article about the Russo-Ukrainian War, maybe in a liveblog-style article, would be pretty useful. |
| 331 | Eric P. DollardCreate draft, an electrical engineer and inventor who claims to be continuing the works of Tesla and focusing on earthquake prediction[2][3] and what appears to be free energy.[4][5] His lab is mentioned on Wikipedia[6] as well as Powerpedia[7] and John Chappell's Natural Philosophy Society wiki.[8] He has had several successful Indiegogo campaigns.[9][10][11][12][13][14] He also has his own website,[15] and there even is an entire forum dedicated to his work.[16] |
| 331 | Jim Watkins is a former military helicopter repairman and since 2016 the owner of 8chan. There are also indicators that he (or his son who admins 8chan, Ron Watkins a.k.a. C!Odemonkey on 8chan or CodeMonkeyZ on Twitter) might be the "Q" from QAnon on 8chan. He is also the owner of the far right Japanese messageboard 2channel. (monetized QAnon, Reddit evidence compilation, Fred Brennan proves that Watkins owns QMAP) |
| 330 | The Cult Awareness Network (CAN), aka Old Cult Awareness Network (Old CAN), an anti-cult group, and its doppelganger, the New Cult Awareness Network (New CAN), a Scientology-controlled fake anti-cult front group. (See: wp:Cult Awareness Network and wp:New Cult Awareness Network.) |
| 328 | Ghislaine Maxwell: Her trial starts today.[24] I definitely expected there to be an article here already. |
| 321 | From the darker bits of the Dark Enlightenment: James A. DonaldCreate draft (JAD, http://blog.jim.com/ ), the guy so racist even Eric S. Raymond calls him a racist and such an asshole even Slate Star Codex regularly bans him from commenting. He comes out with such gems as "National socialism kills people not because it is nationalist, but because it is socialist" and calls white nationalism "moderate leftism". And he has important information on the Jews. And he's an anarcho-capitalist. And he is also self admitted pedophile, rapist, rape and pedophilia apologist, admirer of ISIS and Boko Haram (for their solution of the "women question") Even hard core Nazis are calling him a monster. I don't think I've ever seen a non-asshole word from him, though I will credit him with enough sense to realise Bitcoin was unscalable from day one. |
| 317 | Sherry ShrinerCreate draft is the cult leader of a group called Faction Four who believe in alien reptile demons. She was in the news recently because one of her followers shot and killed her boyfriend after a dispute within the cult led to their excommunication.[17][18] Another follower killed herself in 2013 after not receiving treatment for schizophrenia which they do not think exists.[19] Sherry Shriner blames a NATO hit squad for the death. There also is an ED article written up that may have some useful info, but probably needs to be taken with a bit more than a grain of salt.[20] |
| 314 | Carbon tax: A tax levied on the carbon content of fuels, used to discourage CO2 emissions. Despite its simplicity & efficacy, the proposal has been politically unpopular in many places, with attack campaigns pushed by Conservative groups & the fossil fuel industry. Tends to be much popular once in place. We currently have an article about the Australian carbon tax. |
| 309 | AATIP - a Pentagon program that basically searched for UFOs in early 2010s, cost 20 million, found nothing and was strongly backed by Harry Reid at the time. It hit the news very recently, so it might be nice to get an article on this while the usual suspects are still scrambling to shoehorn it into their theories. For eight years the project was headed by Luis Elizondo until his resignation. On September 18, 2019 the US Navy confirmed that the footage Tom DeLonge has collected from AATIP was in fact legitimate.[25] |
| 304 | Cryptocurrency: Currently [see what I did there?] just a redirect to Bitcoin. This should definitely be an article all of its own, between the conspiracy theories about it, the scams, and the miscellaneous other items. |
| 304 | Vitamin C (and Zinc) — people take them when they're sick, but how much does it really help? Currently has a section in Vitamin and mineral supplements, but if Vitamin D has its own article then Vitamin C definitely deserves one. |
| 301 | Secret Mysteries of America's BeginningsCreate draft, a four-part, twelve-hour schlockumentary by Dr. Stan Monteith linking the founding fathers to every conspiracy theory imaginable. Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 |
| 301 | Jeff Bezos is the founder of |
| 299 | We should have an article on Christian supremacy, the societal mindset in the US promotes the superiority of Christianity and by extension Christians, be they social or institutionalized norms. (Think of the phrase "It's the Christian thing to do.") Note: we already have articles on the United States as a Christian nation, Christian Identity, and Dominionism. |
| 299 | Project 1794, a declassified 1950's Air Force project centered around the construction of a flying saucer whose details were disclosed in 2012. The extended delay between the end of the project and the release of these documents has led some to doubt their authenticity with claims that they were likely fabricated recently and "declassified" to explain UFO encounters retroactively. The documents' claim that Project 1794 was able to reach its goal of Mach 4 when it was the predecessor to the Avrocar project (which topped out around ~35mph) has also brought skepticism to their validity. The project was also named "1794", presumably after the 1794 silver dollar which became famous in 2010 when it broke the world record after being sold for nearly $8 million (the disc-shaped craft was silver and may have resembled the coin). |
| 292 | Gun control in Nazi Germany - Whether as a separate article or as a sub-section in the article about gun control. It's commonly asserted that the Nazis took away everybody's guns and thus were able to begin committing genocide because they were disarmed. This flies in the face of that fact that the Nazis actually relaxed Germany's gun laws (albeit not for the Jews) after the populace were disarmed by allies after World War 1. A draft has been created at Draft:Gun control in Nazi Germany. |
| 291 | Amazon RainforestEdit draft As there has been a lot of misinformation about this in the media in recent years, it seems fitting. |
| 289 | Big OrganicEdit draft, or how the organic food lobby gets its way. A draft has been created at Draft:Big Organic. |
| 288 | After the 2019 release of the Afghanistan Papers detailing that the feds had, as of then, been lying us for the past 18 years, maybe an article on them is appropriate? |
| 283 | Rick SimpsonCreate draft, who believes that hemp oil cures cancer and every other ill.[26] "I haven't seen anything that the oil doesn't work on." A two-line stub was created and zapped as "so what" in 2013, but this is pretty missional if we can get some substance in. |
| 278 | The Great Reset a proposal to utilize capitalism to rebuild the economy sustainably following COVID-19, and a subject of conspiracy theories about socialism and NWO bullshit. |
| 273 | FunVaxCreate draft, short for "Fundamentalist Vaccine", is the vaccine for religious fundamentalism described in a video allegedly leaked from the Pentagon[21] and later gene[23] which has also been referred to as the "God gene".[24] A copy of the final report can be found here. |
| 267 | Hunting Hitler, a History Channel show that claims Adolf Hitler and his wife, Eva Braun, managed to escape from Berlin to Argentina. And the rest...is pseudohistory. |
| 266 | GCHQ, we have NSA, but we need to do the other side of the pond's equally spy-y institution. Or they could be merged into one article. |
| 266 | Keto diet, if not adequately covered by Low-carb diet. Here's /r/keto's "in a nutshell" explanation. Apparently the low-carb diet article has already got some criticism from the related communities, so the article should better appeal to the kind of people who'd pursue this stuff. |
| 265 | America's War on Sex: The Attack on Law, Lust and Liberty, by Marty Klein. It's about the desperate efforts of the American Right to stop any form of sexual activity except vaginal intercourse between married couples in the missionary position with clothes on, the lights off and no birth control from taking place. |
| 263 | ADIFOCreate draft (All DIrections Flying Object) is a Romanian company which has developed a VTOL (Vertical Take-Off and Landing) aircraft resembling a flying saucer that is able to fly in all directions having the same aerodynamic characteristics in each direction. The aircraft has a unique configuration as a circular shape, and the fuselage is also the wing.[27] The aerodynamic body is axially-symmetric and is obtained by rotating a bidirectional Dolphin airfoil around the axis perpendicular on the middle of the chord line. An ADIFO platform was tested at low speeds in a wind tunnel providing high lift/drag ratio as well as a wide range of useful incidence angles, even over 60 degrees. The aerodynamic center is located near the middle of the chord line near the body gravity center. The aerodynamic load is distributed relatively evenly along the body surface and has no stagnation point. During transonic flight the body does not generate any shockwave on the surface, and no sonic boom is generated. There are low vibrations, low aerodynamic noise, and low heating at high speeds. In transonic flight the drag is drastically reduced compared to existing airfoils which ensures very high fuel-efficiency at transonic and supersonic speeds. Moreover, the center of pressure remains close to the center of symmetry, meaning no jump of pitching moment, and insignificant roll and yaw moments. Also, there are no lift fluctuations, so in conclusion this will mean a smooth transition from subsonic to supersonic flight! Video here |
| 261 | Street light interference of the human variety, aka SLIders (not the TV show). A way some woomongers make themselves feel special. The Wikipedia article is pretty good, if understated. |
| 261 | Operation GladioCreate draft We don't have a page about Gladio yet. Plus, it's one of the circlejerks from CTers claiming that the War on Terror, is actually "Gladio B". |
| 261 | CantelmoismCreate draft, what appears to be a (dead) "Reddit cult"[25][26] apparently obsessed with DMT.[27] |
| 260 | Anti-gravity or anti-gravity machine: It ties in with a variety of crankery, like John Hutchison, "lifters", UFOs, Podkletnov, super secret aircraft, etc. There's a short section in science woo and gravity is relevant. But a lot more to say, including Podkletnov's spinning disk[28], various things involving gyroscopes, manipulating a hypothetical fifth force, historical devices, etc. See the Wikipedia article on Anti-gravity.. |
| 258 | Fake conferenceCreate draft or scam conferenceCreate draft — the sort where there's no real scientific conference, just a lot of people's money being taken. Will accept SCIgenned papers. |
| 258 | NESARA (National Economic Security and Recovery Act), a economic reform proposal that later was appropriated as a conspiracy theory/scam by victims of the Omega Trust scam as the "National Economic Security and Reformation Act". (NESARA on Wikipedia.) We can also comment on the "feasibility" of the actual idea. |
| 256 | HmolpediaCreate draft — Supposedly there is a common trait among people of IQ over 200 (e.g. Goethe: 225), like the writer of this huge site and related tomes, which makes them understand some very complex phenomenon which is called human thermodynamics explaining everything, most importantly love and it relieves them of the pains of using excel spreadsheets to find the best mate out of 19 girlfriends; however Goethe’s testimonial is missing. |
| 255 | Meether ConceptCreate draft - cosmological pseudoscience that is currently being spread through Quora by its |
| 255 | Rodney King. We've got pages on Matthew Shepard, Trayvon Martin, and Vincent Chin; why not King? |
| 253 | The Crystal GridCreate draft: a woo-tastic website.[29]. Besides trying to build worldwide network of crystals, they've got a bogus cell phone radiation blocker.[30] |
| 249 | TDP lampCreate draft aka biolamp (a reader request), with wooish claims of the magickal powers of far-infrared — the Wikipedia article is noticeably lacking in critique. Perhaps the wooish side of infrared in general. |
| 245 | AIPAC. It's a lobbying group and pro-Israel, so it's basically a giant magnet for conspiracy theories. |
| 244 | Super PAC. How is there not an article on these yet? |
| 244 | Isaac Kappy was an American actor known for his roles in Thor, Terminator: Salvation, and Breaking Bad. He was also best friends with Seth Green until allegedly being approached by Seth about pedophilia in Hollywood and being asked to participate apparently referring to it as "chicken".[31][32] He claimed to fear for his life when he spoke out about this, but was later found suicided. He had also claimed that Marina Abramović, John Podesta, Dan Schneider, Jimmy Savile, and Tom Hanks are pedophiles, and further, Hanks has been accused of alluding to his murder in a tweet about "roadkill on Route 66" where Kappy's body was found. Removed Youtube video here. Archived here. |
| 244 | First Amendment audits — another creepy right-wing/libertarian anti-government thing, involves going into libraries and other public buildings and hassling librarians to test if they'll protect your right to free speech if you stick a camera in their face and shout at them.[33] Initially in the US but a similar group, Auditing Britain, has been invading COVID testing centres.[34] |
| 242 | Gravitational waves have just recently been directly proven to exist, confirming an old postulate of Einstein's. May not be worthy of a separate article rather a subsection of the main Gravity article. What is really interesting to me here is the (hopefully impending) response by biblically motivated science deniers like Conservapedia to spin this into a narrative of "...and now let me tell y'all how this negates general relativity, physicists ideas for the origin of the universe and probably the whole scientific method altogether." |
| 241 | Comicsgate is a campaign, similar to Gamergate, in opposition to perceived "forced diversity" and progressivism in the content of North American superhero comic books and the kinds of creators who work in the industry. The movement has been described as part of the alt-right movement, and as a harassment campaign, which targets women, people of color, and LGBT individuals in the comic book industry whose goal is to ‘combat SJW control of popular media’. Given their reminiscence of GamerGate in terms of tactics, their excessive focus on Marvel's new Iron Man Riri Williams, and how the group acted as a catalyst in the firing of Chuck Wendig, then this article should become a priority. |
| 239 | International Monetary Fund. I think most people will know about this transnational organization, hated by both libertarians for pushing down the throat Keynesian ideas (Keynes had much to see with it in the post-war years) and leftists for the economic policies pushed by them in those countries that received their bailouts (ask Greece even if the European Central Bank and the European Comission pushed the same ideas, as well as some LatAm countries during the '70s) and some of whose presidents have been involved in scandals, even if unrelated to this organization (ask Rodrigo Rato, Strauss-Kahn, or Christine Lagarde) |
| 237 | Sweatshop, a workplace where people are employed for long hours with poor working conditions. This wiki currently only has a brief mention of sweatshops in the Globalization article, but there really needs to be an article about sweatshops, not just a paragraph. |
| 237 | Plandemic: A 26 minute now-debunked short film starring Judy Mikovits, deleted from YouTube for promoting conspiracy theories related to COVID-19. Currently a redirect, a draft exists here. |
| 237 | False rape accusations. While this is partially covered in the article on rape apology, it could use its own article, since it's the favourite canard of the "men's rights" movement and it seems to creep into any serious discussion about rape. A draft has been created here. The's a relevant Wikipedia article: False accusation of rape, with a lot of information and references. |
| 236 | Vril — holy shit, we don't have a page on this? |
| 235 | Voat Voat.co is the libertarian's answer to the recent censorship and bannings over at Reddit during the last few months. Instead of being all gestapo about free speech, it just lets people incite racial violence and other lovely things like that. It's home to such lovely rascals like "race realists", proud racists, Islamophobes (especially as of late), Nazis, Holocaust deniers, antisemites, and transphobics, among many, many other brands of moron. They did remove the actual child porn. The site itself is fairly alright, but the vocal community is anger-inducing. Have fun frothing from the mouth with rage studying these idiots in their natural habitat. |
| 235 | DARPA should have a whole host of conspiracy theories since it was responsible for the development of the internet, BRAIN Initiative, autonomous robots like PETMAN, etc. A draft has been created at Draft:DARPA. |
| 234 | Operation Fishbowl was a series of nuclear weapons tests. Cranks somehow think this proves Flat Earth. |
| 233 | Critical race theory is a critical examination of society and culture, to the intersection of race, law, and power. It is the newest boogeyman of the far right and is decried as a reverse racist theory, being used in the same way that they used Cultural Marxism. The actual topic itself is fairly missional as well. An article would be a great addition to RationalWiki (especially given the current political climate and fear-mongering about schools brainwashing children), either as its own article or a section of an existing related article. |
| 233 | Mark Rossini, former FBI agent who played a major role in trying to track al-Qaeda before the CIA blocked him from sharing the information that two known terrorists (Khalid al-Mihdhar and Nawaf al-Hazmi), who later went on to carry out the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center, had entered the US.[28] |
| 232 | The Socialist Rifle Association is an American socialist firearm organization that is dedicated to "providing working class people the information they need to be effectively armed for self and community defense" and advocating for Second Amendment gun rights. It was founded in 2013 to give leftist gun owners who are turned off by the NRA's rhetoric and politics a sense of community. |
| 231 | Thorium-based nuclear power: A lot of crap surrounding the thorium powered reactor in pop sci magazines, a lot of it debunked by thunderf00t. |
| 231 | Get A DripCreate draft/Drip barsCreate draft Get A Drip is a company that offers vitamin-filled IV drips in a clinic in the middle of a shopping centre. They have been in trouble for promising to treat infertility with a drip (it won't work), and doctors have pointed out that a one-time IV won't cure a chronic vitamin deficiency.[35][36] But the woo health press is all over them.[37][38] (I posted something in clogs before they got mainstream press in the UK.) The generic term for this kind of business is a drip bar, and has also received criticism in the US, with the general recommendation that you should just drink fluids.[39] |
| 230 | Exopaedia, an encyclopaedia for |
| 229 | Hellstorm - Neo-Nazi "documentary" currently getting hundreds of thousands of views on youtube. While it's obvious propaganda, I don't personally have the full historical knowledge to give it a proper RWing. |
| 229 | With protests against police brutality currently going on, I feel like an article discussing the movement towards defunding the police would be a good idea. It could include discussing its benefits and ramifications, debunking bogus arguments against it, and examining more extreme forms of it such as police abolishment. |
| 229 | Tom Hanks was accused of being a pedophile with no evidence by QAnon nutters[40] then became an honorary citizen of Greece. |
| 227 | Timothy Leary, dearie. Associated with psychedelic drugs and counterculture. Like Alexander Shulgin, missional to the degree that he made claims about the effects and usefulness of chemicals outside the pharmaceutical industry and accepted medical practice. Also notable because in 1969 his arguments against the constitutionality of the Marihuana Tax Act of 1937 ended with the law being overturned by the Supreme Court, and for a short time cannabis was legal. This cued Nixon's War on Drugs and the overarching Controlled Substances Act of 1970 we have to this day. |
| 227 | Warranted conspiracy theoriesCreate draft both as a category (for things like the Reichstag fire, COINTEL Pro, Henry Knox's Sons of Liberty, etc.) and explaining how they differ from garden-variety conspiracy theories. Currently a not-very-useful redirect to conspiracy theory. Write a proper article if you want to mark this one "closed". |
| 227 | Ketamine: A moderately popular Dissociative drug becoming popular in recent years as a treatment for Major Depressive Disorder. It's been responsible for cranks such as John C. Lilly and more casual users who become addicted to its purported "mystical" effects and have been known to commit suicide as a result of their newfound delusions. It's also really hard on your bladder for some reason. |
| 226 | An actual article on Mass Surveillance; we currently just have Security theater, which isn't a very expansive discussion on the topic. Missional for explorations of authoritarianism. |
| 226 | Mary Elizabeth Croft author of How I Clobbered Every Bureaucratic Cash-Confiscatory Agency Known To Man and her "spiritual economics" (again, please don't touch this unless you have a good understanding of economics and/or (pseudo)law) |
| 225 | The O. J. Simpson murder case (officially the People of the State of California v. Orenthal James Simpson) was a criminal trial held at the Los Angeles County Superior Court in California. The former professional football star and actor O. J. Simpson was tried on two counts of murder after the deaths of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and waiter Ronald Lyle Goldman, in June 1994. We can write an article discussing the case not just as a cultural phenomenon but also discuss the overwhelming amount of logical fallacies (emotional appeal, Chewbacca defense, prosecutor's fallacy), dishonesty tactics and evidence gathering mistakes that took place during the trial and/or behind the scenes, which all had great impact on law in America. We can also discuss the impact on race relations that took place at the time. Simpson, being an African American, had a strong appeal toward the black community because of his seemingly squeaky clean image, charismatic personality and his rags to riches story with the majority of them believing he was innocent and being persecuted for his race. Because of this, there was a height of fear in Los Angeles of another race riot worse than the 1992 Los Angeles riots if he was prosecuted. Best books to use as research for the article would be Jeffrey Toobin's The Run of His Life: The People v. O.J. Simpson, and Vincent Bugliosi's Outrage: The Five Reasons O.J. Simpson Got Away With Murder. |
| 225 | Andrew Yang, is a 2020 Democratic presidential candidate currently mentioned merely in small sections on the 2020 Democratic Party presidential nomination and basic income pages. We definitely need a separate article on Yang, considering his rising popularity, how much of his campaign and policies he claims are based on math and science, and the unfortunate alt-right support he's gotten despite being a progressive. |
| 224 | Deepfake, technology that supposedly allows you to create video of anybody saying or doing anything. There's a lot of panic about it, and applications for the technology in fake news, porn, fraud, blackmail, etc, but some stories suggest it's still far from offering an easy way of creating convincing fake videos.[41] So it's relevant both for its potential at spreading misinformation and for the exaggerated moral panic aspects. |
| 221 | Charleston church shooting, and the white supremacist Dylann Roof who massacred nine African American people at a church in 2015. He has been pictured wearing the flags of Rhodesia and apartheid-era South Africa, as well as the Confederate flag. In 2017, he became the first person in the US to be sentenced to death for federal hate crimes. |
| 221 | The Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone is a self-declared "autonomous zone" and de facto intentional community and commune in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Seattle, Washington that was established on June 8, 2020, after Capitol Hill's East Precinct building was abandoned by the Seattle Police Department (SPD). |
| 218 | We should create an article on the subject of a surveillance state since it has become an ever growing reality with the passage of the PATRIOT ACT, various NSA programs, FBI biometrics database, the FBI spying on Occupy and BLM, Five Eyes program, Canada's spying bills, etc. |
| 218 | Since Trump has been in the news for signing a federal ban on animal abuse, let's look back on Animal rights in Nazi Germany and/or/combined with Hitler and environmentalism. When these have entered mainstream conservative thought in America, you know something's up. |
| 216 | Electronic pickpocketing: I keep hearing ads for wallets designed to protect against this. Any legitimacy? (There is a possibility to skim contactless/NFC cards, but you sure as hell don't need to buy a $80 wallet when a fetching tinfoil hat does the same job. Feel free to repurpose that blog post. We need a good title for this article.) |
| 216 | Dr. Phil: Another O-spawn — some have even called him the male version of Oprah herself — he promotes yet more alternative bullshit. Also, may or may not have molested a patient. Has recently been on Fox News. |
| 216 | Occupy Democrats: An extreme left-wing series of websites with an abysmal fact-checking record and Breitbart style spin according to MBFC, Politifact, and Snopes. |
| 214 | Microbes on the ArkCreate draft Nothing on Noah and the amoeba? |
| 214 | Q: Into the Storm is a documentary miniseries that recently premiered on HBO exploring the QAnon conspiracy theory and the people involved with it, including 8chan owners and administrators Jim Watkins and Ron Watkins. QAnon followers have already tied it into their "conspiracy".[42] |
| 213 | David Rockefeller, a pundit whose speeches are constantly quote mined for conspiracies. |
| 213 | Palladium hydride is an odd one that can absorb 800~900x its volume in hydrogen.[29] There's a lot of woo behind it including claims that it can be used to make a room-temperature superconductor or even be useful for cold fusion allowing all those densely packed hydrogen atoms to be smashed together into helium. There are, of course, the usual claims that the price of palladium is being controlled and that the Illuminati are investing in it. I think it needs an article or even one on Palladium would be fine. |
| 212 | I see we don't have any pages for Georgy Malenkov, Nikita Khrushchev, Leonid Brezhnev, Yuri Andropov, & Konstantin Chernenko yet. We can't leave those comrades out, now can we? |
| 211 | Alexander Technique, it is mentioned on RW under Alternative Medicine Education and listed as a "Medical Cult" in Martin Gardner's Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science alongside iridodiagnosis and zone therapy, but we have no page explaining what the technique entails. |
| 208 | Processed food. Also something that will kill you. (Or save you. [43]) |
| 208 | Making a Murderer is a popular Netflix documentary series outlining the case of Steven Avery and his nephew Brendan Dassey. The pair were charged with the rape and murder of Teresa Halbach, but there have been several inconsistencies in the investigation that hint at serious corruption within the Manitowoc County Sheriff's Department. Avery had previously served 18 years for a wrongful conviction of sexual assault and attempted murder in 1985 and was to be compensated $36 million before these new charges arose. |
| 208 | Patriot FrontEdit draft is an offshoot of the Nazi group Vanguard America, they formed because of a split after the events of the 2017 Unite the Right rally. 31 of these idiots were just caught in the back of a U-Haul truck outside a LQBTQ Pride month rally in Idaho, all dressed the same, some of them armed. They were arrested for attempting to start a riot, but someone has bailed all of them out.[44] Their names have been released by the sheriff's office here: [45] |
| 207 | Isaac Hayes, famed Southern soul musician who also played "Chef" on South Park until parting ways with the show after an episode making fun of Scientology of which Hayes was a member. It later turned that out Hayes didn't write his resignation letter and the signature was forged, but this didn't really come out until after his death. After leaving the show and leading up to his death, Hayes made very few public or private appearances and was described as acting strangely, so there are many who suspect foul play. Here is a rather thorough Reddit analysis of the events: [46] |
| 207 | Florence Nightingale, a nurse who was an early pioneer of evidence-based medicine. |
| 206 | 2020–2021 Indian farmers' protest Indian Farmers Protest |
| 205 | Pete Buttigieg. Who is this guy, and how is he even a contender for the DNC nomination? |
| 205 | Process Church of the Final Judgment: An offshoot of the Church of $cientology with influences from Satanism featuring infamous members such as Charles Manson and David Berkowitz; the church itself or a splinter group known as "The Children" may have been tied to the Son of Sam killings. Manson said of the church: "Well, a lot of the guys were interested in studying how to clear your mind. That's where Scientology started. Then it got to be The Process." |
| 205 | Leaky gut syndrome, a diagnosis purported by many woo-peddlers to be the cause of autoimmune disorders, multiple sclerosis, chronic fatigue syndrome, and autism. Mentioned in a paragraph in our article on Josh Axe, but since it's a widespread hypothesis in the alt-med world, is related to (if not exactly the same as) Andrew Wakefield's "autistic enterocolitis" bullshit, and is the rationale for the use of a number of supplements and fad diets to treat the aforementioned conditions — in a way that makes no sense whatsoever if you aren't aware of the leaky gut hypothesis — it deserves enough attention for its own article. While the ailment may or may not be real, the snake oil and "superfood" cures for it are all too commonplace. c.f. this article. |
| 204 | Stochastic terrorism and/or Lone wolf — terms used to describe terrorist attacks carried out by an individual but inspired by extremist groups and public figures. It started with Daesh but has horseshoed over to the far right. |
| 204 | Vanguard America, an American white supremacist, neo-Nazi, neo-fascist hate group that has been attached to several acts of violence and domestic terrorism, including the car attack in Charlottesville on people protesting the Unite the Right rally. The perpetrator of the attack, James Alex Fields Jr., had been seen at the rally wielding a shield distributed by Vanguard America. The organization is also a member of the Nationalist Front. |
| 204 | Russell Brand: One of the biggest cranks and conspiracy theorists on YT at the moment, peddles New Age bullshit like candy, surprised we don't have an article on him already. |
| 203 | The Kyshtym dwarf or Aleshenka / Alyoshenka was a small humanoid body found near Kyshtym, Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia.[30] According to genetic experts at the Moscow Vavilov Institute of General Genetics, DNA analysis of the clothes Alyoshenka was wrapped in revealed evidence that his DNA was of unknown origin. It was also tested for radiation, but did not show high radiation levels.[31][32] |
| 202 | AculifeCreate draft Help strengthen your health with the latest ancient technology! Aculife strengthens the immune system against Hypertension, Insomnia, Fatigue, Asthma, Ulcers, Hemorrhoids, High Blood Pressure, Rheumatism, Muscle Pain and many more common ailments. The Aculife is compact and lightweight enough to be taken virtually anywhere. You can even treat simple ailments like stiff aching backs, muscles and neck from travel or strenuous workouts. |
| 201 | Huawei and ZTE, two popular smartphone manufacturers from China which made the headlines after being subject to accusations of spying and being a national security threat by the US government. Such claims have in turn been accused of being protectionism masked as security concerns. |
| 201 | QAnon Anonymous is an investigative journalism podcast that analyzes and debunks conspiracy theories. It is hosted by Travis View who has written extensively for the Washington Post on the subject of QAnon. Travis View was later revealed to be a pseudonym whose real name was Logan Strain. |
| 201 | Whitehouse.gov petitions: An ePetition site started by the Obama administration to make the people's voices feel heard. It was mostly ignored during the Trump administration, then taken down the day Biden was sworn into office. But why? |
| 200 | The Goop Lab: A Netflix documentary series hosted by actress Gwyneth Paltrow, which has received quite some attention & negative responses due to the amounts of Pseudoscience & health woo on the show. BS like: "Mushrooms being good for relaxation & health", "Icebaths being good for "making your body Alkaline" which, in return, gets all the poison out of your body" & "Needles are good for your skin". Others include: Energy Healing, "how to get rid of evil demons!!1!!" & female sexuality. |
| 200 | Montessori education is an education style focused on children's innate desire to learn. Its practices range from sensible to considerably less so. There are schools openly branding themselves with the concept all over the world, but the Wikipedia page is pretty slim. An editorialized well-sourced article here would be a great help to many parents, new and old, as well as their children. |
| 200 | Donald Trump sexual misconduct allegations Especially after the E. Jean Carroll trials these should have an article. There are many, and not all of them were children. |
| 199 | The Innocence Project is a non-profit legal organization that is committed to exonerating wrongly convicted people through the use of DNA testing and to reforming the criminal justice system to prevent future injustice. The Innocence Project was founded in 1992 by Barry Scheck and Peter Neufeld. To date, the work of the Innocence Project has led to the freeing of 337 wrongfully convicted people, including 20 who spent time on death row. |
| 199 | Tila Tequila, not to be confused with actual tequila, is a model who came under extreme fire for saying some Nazi esque things. Because of this, she was banned from "Celebrity Big Brother" (although, if I'm honest, no one really wants to be in Big Brother). Fun fact: she's both LGBT and Asian, so her sympathy with white nationalists is kinda ironic. Oh, and she's a Flat Earther. (Note: a page on her was previously deleted: RationalWiki:Articles for deletion/Tila Tequila.) |
| 197 | Military worship hysteriaCreate draft. Distinct though related to the military woo suggestion below. The tendency for society to be reluctant to criticize soldiers and military personnel because military. |
| 197 | The importance of Yuri Bezmenov as a modern day quote mine can hardly be overstated. Originally a KGB officer, he defected to the West and subsequently became an anticommunist and a writer about subversion and propaganda. Everyone who has the displeasure of interacting with cranks of any stripe has probably been linked that one interview at least once. An analysis of what claims exactly he made and whether they have any actual relevance to the world today probably wouldn't hurt. (He is also prominently featured in the trailer for the next Call of Duty game.) |
| 196 | Guide to the Book of MormonCreate draft |
| 196 | BP. Why? |
| 195 | Apparently we don't have an article on Rosa Parks? There should be one if only to account for all the idiots whining that they're being just like her by breaking the law to promote their bigotry and stupidity. Would that be called the "Parks Gambit", similar to the Galileo Gambit? |
| 194 | Green New Deal A proposed package of US legislation to address climate change & economic inequality. Legislation involving climate change have been proposed in other parts of the world with a similar name, such as the European Green Deal. |
| 193 | Josef Papp or his Papp Engine which apparently used noble gases to generate electricity. It was demonstrated in front of Richard Feynman in 1966 but exploded, killing a spectator. Supporters claim it works like an internal combustion engine, except it uses sparks to produce explosions in noble gases. Since Papp's demo, there have been several attempts to exploit the alleged phenomenon, such as by PlasmERG.[47][48] There still seems some mystery around the 1968 demonstration, including claims that the explosion was deliberate, either to cover up Papp's deception or to protect the truth of limitless free energy. |
| 193 | Hotep or Hotep movement; a sexist and conspiratorial version of black nationalism, mixed with standard Afrocentric woo about ancient Egypt. |
| 192 | change.org We have ePetitions, why not this? |
| 192 | We have an article for Audio woo, why not Video wooCreate draft? |
| 191 | Trumpism: If the other wiki has a page about it, why can't we? This is something you'd immediately expect over here and not on Centristpedia. |
| 190 | David SewellCreate draft - mastermind behind PRATTs like this and this; author of books such as The Political Gene: How Darwin's Ideas Changed Politics |
| 189 | The Woozle effect, aka evidence by citation, where frequent citation elevates a lie or error into the the truth. Something similar is mentioned with respect to Wikipedia at Wikipedia#Circular_reporting, but the Woozle effect is also common in academia where lazy citation of papers can lead to the repetition of untruths. |
| 189 | Filibuster in the United States Senate, Democratic Presidential candidates have talked about getting rid of it. There also seems to be a lot of confusion on what the filibuster actually is, and when there is confusion, deceitful malcontents will be there. |
| 189 | El Al: Israel's flag carrier, and a heavy target for some Anti-Zionist, sometimes Anti-semitic, and even Islamophobic conspiracy theories. |
| 189 | Big TechEdit draft Suprised we don't already have an article on this, Big Tech is one of the right wing's favorite boogymen they always complain about it when their Bigotry and Misinformation is censored, this is due to a Persecution complex. |
| 188 | The Rife machine uses electricity in an attempt to treat cancer, Lyme disease, and other diseases. It went out of favor for awhile and has now been revived. Even Andrew Weil says they don't work.[49] |
| 188 | Dakota Access Pipeline: Members of the Standing Rock Indian Reservation began protesting the construction of the pipeline in April, and were soon joined by indigenous communities all over North America. The peaceful protests are being suppressed by force, and given scant coverage by mainstream media. |
| 188 | Bill Weld Currently a redirect to the 2020 Republican Party presidential nomination article. He's an interesting candidate not only for his (comparatively) progressive views and the mere fact that he's the only candidate running against Trump in the RNC, but he was also previously a member of the Libertarian party and carries some of their support, so I think he deserves his own article. |
| 188 | Oil pipeline — there are over 200,000 miles of these criss-crossing North America, some of which have attracted protests. On the one hand, people hate Big Oil™ and a big leak could be disastrous; on the other hand, petroleum pipelines are generally safer than transport by oil tanker. |
| 188 | Gain of function research or how COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) S2 spike proteins gained the functional spike protein from HIV-1 gp41. [50] [51] [52] |
| 188 | VTuber: Originally started in Japan around the end of 2016, but saw a massive outburst in the west at the beginning of 2020 due to the pandemic. Its influence is as big as that of big Youtubers and also attract a certain crowd. This is a double-edged sword. On one hand, there's the fact that many of them have bad sleep and eating habits, because they are required to stream alot for several hours (some of them stream for almost half a day) for their agencies (big players here being Hololive, Nijisanji & VShojo) (if they aren't indies). The fact that a bunch of Parasocial fuckers (this is a very serious problem in this sector) harass & dig into these people's private lives (Most notably /vt/ on 4chan & r/VirtualYoutubers) or act like a bunch of creepy incels. Then, There's the Taiwan controversy, which led to the people in question getting suspended for 3 weeks and harrassed by Chinese viewers, which resulted in one of the 2 eventually leaving on her own accord. On the other hand, some vtubers tend to lure certain crowds to their channels due to their own attitudes being similar to that of their audiences (those that claim to be introverted, are actually socially awkward and/or Edgelords). Most of the popular ones have had their own share of controversies. Such as stereotype opinions about how black people talk, denying the holocaust, one pulling a Pewdiepie & thanking someone for their "shekels" after receiving a superchat (she is a bit of a bother herself, but I don't think it's enough to give this one it's own page yet. She seems to have become friends with a vtuber that already has a parcer call, so she might start copying that behaviour.), trying to own the haters on 4chan's board /vt/ by doing exactly the same thing that they're doing hoping it wouldn't have a backlash (which it did) & leaking confidential information. Are there LGBTQ+ vtubers? Yes, there are. Are they being targeted by people, despite its community being all about "wholesomeness"? Well, what do you think yourself? |
| 187 | John LearCreate draft - thinks that the Moon has atmosphere and aliens live there; wears a tin foil shako |
| 186 | Uplifting, the process of a sentient species enhancing the intelligence of another species with transhumanist sci-fi technologies. Eliezer Yudkowsky of Less Wrong writes on the topic. Many believers in UFOs are hoping that space aliens will eventually grant us such a boon. It would compliment the page for Cybernetic revolt and could discuss the Cyberman's burden to assimilate and upgrade others against their will. |
| 186 | 5G is the next generation of mobile phone technology, and the subject of a lot of rumor and urban legends, much of it recycling old worries about Mobile phone radiation frying our brains, but some new stuff too. There's a lot of paranoia about "5G is killing birds!"[53] Also more legitimate complaints about it messing with weather forecasting radar[54] and the whole Huawei controversy[55]. With 5G actually coming into service in various countries, this is going to get more and more important. |
| 186 | Grooming, in the sexual abuse sense. In particular, how anti-LGBT figures have co-opted and abused the term in the latest incarnation of "Think of the Children!" There is a draft here. |
| 186 | Twitter Files. Might deserve its own article independent of Elon Musk or Twitter, as an example of propaganda/disinformation. |
| 185 | Alexander Shulgin. Author of Phenethylamines I Have Known And Loved and godfather of psychedelics. Missional to the degree that he made claims about the effects and usefulness of chemicals outside the pharmaceutical industry and currently accepted medical practice. |
| 185 | John Lenard WalsonCreate draft, a guy who claims that he has made pictures of (alien) spaceships in Earth orbit with his telescope[56] (possibly known as GRIDKEEPER (channel) on YouTube) |
| 185 | Project Avalon — http://projectavalon.net/, also have a look at their forum |
| 185 | ACTA, or put an area for it in the SOPA article. |
| 185 | The Matrix (film) both for it's themes and the blue pill/red pill nonsense |
| 184 | Something along the lines of Found footage/Hidden Footage? It's a classic method that Paranormal believers and conspiracy nuts alike are prone to resorting to as an easy way to fool the more gullible on the Internet, whether it be a high-budget film or a grainy video inside a Freemason Lodge, and claiming said footage as proof for whatever crank belief/conspiracy theory they have. |
| 184 | Earthquake lights. A somewhat-mysterious phenomenon linked with earthquakes and reportedly sometimes confused for UFOs (see also ball lightning). Wikipedia is vague. |
| 184 | Richard 'Brad'shaw Watson IICreate draft and his Planet NestorCreate draft who managed to get a conference poster of his ( http://exep.jpl.nasa.gov/exep_exoMtgPosters.cfm / http://PlanetNestor.blogspot.com ) mentioned on the JPL NASA website |
| 184 | Leslie KeaneCreate draft - Reporter who wrote a book on UFOs. Poses as a moderate, but is fundamentally a kook. |
| 184 | Cloudflare is a DDOS protection service, DNS manager and domain name registrar that has repeatedly given coverage to Alt-right crank sites. They have bowed a few times under pressure, but there is a pattern here and they often have not. Also they pretty much are centralizing the internet with all the dangers that entails. |
| 183 | VeggieTales — a Christian indoctrination program disguised as a children's show. |
| 183 | Intervention, both the general idea and the A&E television series of the same name. Tricking someone into treatment under threat of excommunication doesn't sound like the healthiest or most effective route. |
| 182 | PseudoengineeringCreate draft. As opposed to out-and-out pseudoscience, pseudoengineering is a method of engineering that uses sound scientific principles but poor engineering practices that can't be justified via cost or time excuses and are usually motivated by politics or pluralistic ignorance. The Strategic Defense Initiative is a prime example of pseudoengineering. |
| 182 | Nicolás Maduro: 46th president and dictator of Venezuela since 2013. |
| 181 | Roberto DeMatteiCreate draft, President of Italian National Research Council and a complete wingnut: japanese tzunami is god's terrible yet benevolent voice, Roman Empire failed due to homosexuals and Eden is an historical reality. |
| 181 | ASEA, another classic example of a water woo pyramid scheme, they make bold health claims and use vague, nonscientific descriptions of free radicals and "Redox Signaling Molecules", sometimes even mixing it with real science.[33][34] I found this quote regarding the ingredients: "Recently, a company called ASEA, was able to take sodium, chloride, hydrogen and oxygen (salt water) molecules, separate them and recombine them to form oxidants (free radicals) and reductants (which neutralize oxidants)."[35] They also have a YouTube channel.[36] |
| 181 | Roanoke colony - which has two complementary aspects. Firstly there is the question of what happened to the mysterious lost colony, with various theories and contested "evidence" including the Dare Stones (now recognised as fakes) and other more recent finds[57][58]. But there's also the importance of Roanoke (and its newborn inhabitant Virginia Dare) for American white nationalism (most obviously VDARE but it extends way beyond it - the article Pocahontas mentions crazy theories that Pocahontas was descended from VD which relate to the whole system behind segregation); Andrew Lawler wrote a book on it[59]). |
| 181 | Mass Formation Psychosis is a pseudoscientific theory about the COVID-19 pandemic that started gaining traction in January 2022. The primary driver of this bullshit is a |
| 181 | Caitlyn Jenner is vaguely mentioned here and here. It seems that she's becoming more and more like Buck Angel when looking at her twitter and seeing some of her tweets. She has appeared on the most truthful news channel in the US. She ran as a replacement candidate in the 2021 California gubernatorial recall election for certain political party. She calls herself a transgender activist, yet not everyone in the LGBTQ+ community sees it that way. In fact, she sounds more like one of those special kind of activists. |
| 181 | Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex (But Were Afraid to Ask) by David Reuben — A sex guide from the late 60's which was a best seller in its time (inspired a Woody Allen movie of the same name). Relevant because the original edition portrays homosexuality as a disorder, advocates reparative therapy, somewhat flirts with the whole pink swastika idea, claims that all lesbians are prostitutes, and also recommends a Coca-Cola douche as a contraceptive (you can read about it all in the following link). I don't know too much about the 1999 revised edition, but based on Amazon reviews it's just as bad on the homophobia front. |
| 181 | The Rockefellers/Rockefeller Foundation. They're as much a magnet for conspiracy whackjobs as the Rothschilds. One story, popular among paranoid anti-feminists, is that they started feminism so that women would eventually be allowed to have jobs and thus be taxable. |
| 180 | Wayne HerschelCreate draft, a South African crank author (website). Tried to hoax Above Top Secret and it backfired (just search for "Wayne Herschel hoax"). |
| 180 | Roseanne Barr — TV star, Trump supporter, and multiple conspiracy theory believer.[60][61] |
| 179 | OPEC |
| 179 | John McAfee Libertarian burn-out businessman who is running for President at the same time that he is under scrutiny for maybe committing several crimes. He is the founder of McAfee, Inc. (now Intel Security) and was a potential 2016 Libertarian Party candidate and plans to run again in 2020. He has come out against the TSA and government surveillance, but he may not know what he is talking about when it comes to modern encryption. He also appears to be seems prone to pop-psychology. He has also never been convicted of rape or murder, but not in the same way that you or I have never been convicted of rape or murder. |
| 179 | archive.is — currently just a redirect. |
| 179 | Time for lulz: Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth. This is an organisation led by 9/11 Truther Richard Gage. His website. |
| 179 | Göbekli Tepe is a archeological site in Şanlıurfa (Turkey) it dates back to the neolithic age and it is unknown who has built it, how has it been built and why has it been built and this (of course) leads to nonsense. More specifically (ancient) alien nonsense. |
| 179 | Rendlesham Forest incident: Britain's equivalent of the Roswell Incident. |
| 179 | World Health OrganizationEdit draft one of the specialized agencies of the United Nations. They are also a popular scapegoat for anti-vaxx conspiracy theorists, and quacks in general. |
| 178 | Lamaze, a natural childbirth technique. |
| 178 | Let's continue on with our liberal boogeypersons: Rosie O'Donnell. |
| 178 | American Conservative Union and its CPAC (Conservative Political Action Conference), frequently mentioned in articles but never handled directly. Its leader made the bizarre claim that the alt-right is actually alt-left. |
| 178 | Microchip implant, specifically the belief that we're all going to get microchipped so *they* know where we are and what we're doing and thinking, and to control us somehow. It's such a frequent claim that's a little surprising it doesn't have its own article. A good debunking is due. |
| 178 | Operation Highjump was a 1947 United States Navy expedition to Antarctica headed by Admiral Richard E. Byrd. Ancient Aliens says that in a diary found by his son, he wrote that he found an enormous cave that was an entrance to a warm, lush, and green Inner Earth which they compared to the giant long-hidden Vietnamese cave Son Doong. |
| 178 | Groomer (slur). May deserve a separate article from Draft:Groomer to make it clear this hateful smear against LGBT people is distinct from the legitimate concept used by child-protection agencies. |
| 178 | The Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership — which parts of it are fine and which are not? |
| 177 | Indigenous science, an other way of knowing with a strange resemblance to made-up BS. Has an actual meaning, then getting culturally useful but scientifically questionable, but now basically just made-up BS. Spotted on /r/skeptic. |
| 177 | Universe - the Cosmology QuestCreate draft, apparently a documentary about scientists who think the Big Bang theory is wrong. This goes right with the anti-science part of our mission. You can watch it here. |
| 177 | Hunting and Conservation; an article discussing how trophy hunting is being used to provide conservation in Africa by creating economic incentives for conservation over vast areas, including areas which may be unsuitable for alternative wildlife-based land uses such as photographic ecotourism. Arguments for and against should be used. |
| 176 | October Surprise This can apply to both the political term and the conspiracy theory that Reagan cheated and withheld American hostages in Iran until after he had beaten Jimmy Carter. |
| 175 | The Great Dictator is a 1940 American political satire comedy-drama film written, directed, produced, scored by and starring Charlie Chaplin. The film advanced a stirring, controversial condemnation of Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, fascism, antisemitism, and Nazi Germany. |
| 175 | Colleen ThomasCreate draft, a possibly mentally ill woman who has made a variety of nutty claims, including that Obama is an alien lizard[62]. Russia Today saw fit to interview her. |
| 175 | Atrazine, the the scientist who discovered this. He now runs a website: http://atrazinelovers.com |
| 175 | The ongoing Australian bushfire crisis and the conspiracy theories that have been spreading like wildfire in response to it. There are claims that environmentalists deliberately started the fires to build High Speed Rail lines, that it's part of the Agenda 21 conspiracy to kill everybody, that 200 people were arrested for arson that on further inspection is only 24 and with no evidence they had any political motive for doing so, and a bunch of other wacky theories. |
| 175 | October Surprise conspiracy theory Speaking of which. |
| 174 | Non-Celiac Gluten Sensitivity (NCGS), which is likely to not exist at all and has been used to justify Gluten-free fad diets. |
| 174 | Uranium One conspiracy theory — Another conspiracy against Hillary Clinton |
| 174 | PowerLungCreate draft, Elevation Training Mask and similar knockoff products. Could all be in one article. Woo products claiming to exercise your lungs and diaphragm and simulate higher altitudes. Actually they are just expensive ways to breathe through a straw. |
| 174 | Bisphenol A, also known as BPA. Harmful to developing fetuses? Causing widespread infertility in adults? Or just the latest public health scare? |
| 174 | Whales and specifically whaling, which is the subject of some scientific debate (basically the Norwegians and Japanese claim it's incredibly important for science that they kill whales, but nobody else believes them). We have a section on Whaling in Japan (Japan#Whaling) and an article on Whale Wars, but no overview that discusses the science. There is also potential material about whale biology, whale evolution, the keeping of killer whales in parks, conservation, whether whales are more deserving than other animals, and the history of whaling, that may be relevant (see e.g. Oil#Whale oil, and compare Dolphin). |
| 174 | Think we ought to have a page for Ivanka Trump? There seems to be a fair bit of material to rake her over the coals with, especially her recent epic fail at the G20 summit, trying to hobnob with world leaders who looked like, "WTF is she doing here?" |
| 174 | Monkeypox: The latest infectious disease panic, like a very mild version of smallpox, but with added monkey. It's dangerous for those with weak immune systems, but not a great threat to others, especially as it can only be passed by close body contact. There has been a certain amount of panic[63][64] but just give us the facts! |
| 174 | Geneva Conventions. I'm surprised the wiki doesn't have an article on the seminal conventions regarding the laws of war, especially since it's of relevance to the War on Terror and associated acts of government incompetence and/or malice. |
| 174 | The 2023 Ohio train derailment, where a derailed freight train resulted in the spill and fire of vinyl chloride and other chemicals which was removed with a controlled burn. Has become a massive subject of speculation on the causes of the accident, issues of railway safety and various claims and concerns of long-term environmental impact with possibly alarmist comparisons to Chernobyl. Also, the arrest of a reporter at a press confrence didn't help matters. |
| 174 | Anastasia Romanov, whose alleged escape from the massacre of her family at the hands of the Bolsheviks has inspired lots of storytelling and urban myths, despite her remains having been found alongside the rest of Tsar Nicholas's family. She has a particular penchant for starring alongside Grigori Rasputin, another common urban myth subject, in alternative-history stories. Speaking of Rasputin, why do we have an article on him and not Anastasia? Rumors of her survival persisted for several decades, and DNA testing was required to prove that she died with the rest of the Romanovs! |
| 174 | Hwang Woo-suk, Korean scientist who faked human stem cell cloning. His story also includes nationalism, fraud, and even trace amounts of misogyny. |
| 173 | Pesticide. Someone made User:Tweenk/Pesticide residue, which is relevant. |
| 173 | Bahram KatiraiCreate draft (1948-2010), a Baha'i crank who claimed, among other things, that galaxies contain only one star (the rest of the stars of the Milky Way are actually planets, asteroids and clouds of dust reflecting sunlight) |
| 173 | Considering most of the guys at RationalWiki are a bunch of sex-deprived assholes, it's shocking we haven't written on Karen Stollznow, Kylie Sturgess, Catherine Deveny, Jennifer Ouellette, Rachael Dunlop, Susan Blackmore, Vicki Hyde, Iszi LawrenceCreate draft, Rebecca Watson, and the Skepchicks yet. Note: "Skepchick" re-directs to Rebecca Watson's page as of writing. |
| 173 | There's nothing here about Eugene Podkletnov? |
| 173 | Lost Ship of the Desert, a legend about a ship stranded in the Sonoran Desert (or sometimes Mojave Desert), generally said to be in southern California or possibly Mexico. Probably Spanish, maybe pirates, but also claimed to be Viking, or crewed by lost Israelites. There is a rumored treasure, and various wacky people are still hunting for it.[65][66][67][68][69][70] It's the intersection of several myths: Pre-Columbian contact theories, legends from the American West about lost gold mines[71], and entrepreneurs worldwide promoting rumored shipwrecks laden with unimaginable treasure. |
| 173 | Overtoun Bridge, the "dog suicide bridge"[72], a bridge in Scotland where lots of dogs reportedly commit suicide by jumping off the side. This has got press attention for a while, with some blaming supernatural influences and others suggesting bizarre canine-psychological factors. |
| 172 | Bill Gaede, physics crank known for his theory the Rope Hypothesis. His WP article talks about his legal troubles, but the woo goes deep here and is very RW. Has followers. Site: http://www.youstupidrelativist.com/ Already in the list of Internet kooks and pushes the Rational Science Method. The Facebook group is remarkable. |
| 172 | The Fort Hood shooting is now getting coverage because wingnuts believe |
| 172 | Shadow Inc., the technology company that gained attention after their IowaReporterApp software failed during the 2020 Iowa Democratic caucuses and received donations from Pete Buttigieg, Joe Biden, and Kirsten Gillibrand. Its parent company is ACRONYM manipulates a hybrid model of a 501(c)4 entity that does not disclose donors and a Super PAC that does.[73] |
| 172 | Diogenes — Ancient Greek who was a founder for the school of thought of Cynicism. Was also an influence on Stoicism. More humorously though he lived in a large barrel and once mocked Alexander the Great to his face. Other feats of his include "urinating on some people who insulted him, defecation in the theatre, and masturbation in public". He is also known for his stunt mocking Plato's definition of a man as a "featherless biped". |
| 171 | The hygiene hypothesis of child cleanliness and immune systems, e.g. [74]. There's a short section in food allergy. |
| 171 | Edward BabinskiCreate draft - interesting-looking blogger who moved from fundamentalism to agnosticism.[75] and [76] might be useful. |
| 171 | Bounty Hunters. No, I'm not talking about the ones from Star Wars, but real life ones, such as bail recovery agents. Learned about this one after watching this episode of John Oliver (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IS5mwymTIJU) |
| 171 | Allen Ginsberg, a beatnik, commie, homosexual, marijuana enthusiast, and an overall very liberal icon. I'm genuinely surprised that he doesn't have a RationalWiki page yet (see the Wikipedia article for a start). |
| 171 | Eyewitness testimony: A common police procedure known for being unreliable but also known for having terrible methodology in regards to preventing contamination. An example of this is the police lineup, which pressures the witness into picking someone out of the lineup even when the perpetrator isn't present. Eyewitness identification and the accuracy thereof, especially in law enforcement (e.g. identity parades, picking out mugshots), is an interesting topic that has been widely studied. The failure of people to correctly identify suspects seems to go against common sense, and has relevance to other epistemological questions, as well as to wider issues in the criminal justice system. |
| 171 | Aztec UFO hoax, relevant to the "FBI memo" that recently made headlines[77] (no, it was not about Roswell) See wp:Frank Scully. |
| 171 | The Denisovans, as in the "Woman X" found in Siberia who may have inhabited the area throughout eastern Asia. |
| 171 | Stevia currently has a one-line reference under Sweetener, but probably deserves more due to how common it is in food products currently. A traditional sweetener containing various sweet-tasting extracts that can be extracted easily just by boiling the leaves, stevia is incredibly marketable under the Naturalistic fallacy despite the fact that commercial stevia-based sweeteners are standardised extract concentrations made in labs. There is some fear it causes cancer (it doesn't unless you're eating a terrifying amount of it), some enthusiasm that it can help manage diabetic sugar cravings and people trying to lose weight (which, used sensibly as a substitute for sugar and not as a magical potion, it does), and a few weirdos convinced that it can cure cancer, cure depression, and provide infinite energy to earth from "cold fission". |
| 171 | Bélmez Faces are a bunch of images on a concrete floor supposedly appearing out of no where. |
| 171 | Archaeological interest of Pedra da Gávea - not in any way timely, but still a particularly delicious set of pseudohistory, pseudoarchaeology, pseudolinguistics, and pareidolia. |
| 171 | Ship of Theseus. Both the traditional thought experiment and the fallacious debate tactic outlined in this Innuendo Studios vid. |
| 171 | Galen WinsorCreate draft, "the man who eats uranium"[78], gained popularity due to a 1986 video from his tour of US campuses during which he gave lectures on the safety rather than the dangers of nuclear power. During these lectures, he regularly ate uranium and claims to have regularly swam in the spent fuel pools during his tenure in the field of nuclear energy.[79]IMDb |
| 171 | Maury Island incident, alleged UFO sighting with men in black |
| 170 | Victor SenchenkoCreate draft author of Revelations of a Human Space Navigator (no, it's not science fiction) and an atheist |
| 170 | LK-99 was a proclaimed room-temperature superconductor invented by a team from Korea University in July of 2023. It is a gray–black, polycrystalline compound, identified as a copper-doped lead‒oxyapatite. The claim has since been refuted by the scientific community.[80] The method was particularly sensational because of the comparatively inexpensive copper and lead used in its production,[81] so DIY engineers are still trying their own methods to recreate it.[82] |
| 170 | Predatory lending. |
| 169 | Colin Powell, or how a moderate Republican got suckered into peddling the Iraq War. |
| 169 | Perhaps a page that helps with Refuting claims about the Russo-Ukrainian war that tankies keep regurgitating. Things like "Ukraine is run by nazis", "Zelenskyy is banning all the parties", "It's all NATO's fault", "It's all the CIA's fault", "It's all Western propaganda", etc., etc... |
| 169 | Excited delirium |
| 169 | Sloot Digital Coding System, a woo-ish system of storing computer data. Its inventor, Jan Sloot, purported that his system could encode a feature-length film in just eight kilobytes, despite the apparent impossibility of storing reams of complex data in such a small package. Sloot died of a heart attack in 1999, which lent itself well to conspiracy theories especially as the source code was never recovered. |
| 169 | Xylazine, or "Tranq" how the MSM calls it. The newest drug addiction in Philly, that originated in Puerto Rico. Has some really nasty side effects. |
| 168 | XMRV (see ERV's coverage) |
| 168 | David Evans and his organisation Science SpeakCreate draft - global warming denialist and conspiracy theorist wrapped up in one (http://za.news.yahoo.com/global-warming-global-domination-163100611.html) |
| 168 | Mississippi personhood amendmentCreate draft. Now that it's over and done with, I'm shocked nobody's done anything on it. Good thing the voters realized that zygotes don't give a shit about much. |
| 168 | Hurricane Sandy denialismCreate draft. Yes, this is a real thing, I kid you not. Hell, we have an article dedicated JUST to the hurricane. You know, the cocktail of conspiracy theories, global warming denialism, and just general Congressional vileness. |
| 168 | The Insurrection Act of 1807 has been used by QANONers to claim that Trump is still the president because he invoked this act before leaving office. It places the military (General Charles A. Flynn) in command, and suspends habeas corpus, and allegedly gives him the ability to strip the media of the their licenses. Apparently mixed a bit with beliefs from the sovereign citizen movement.[83][84][85] |
| 168 | The Army of Northern Virginia. "This is composed of about 820 military intelligence people. They're the primary intel source for the president. Because he doesn't have faith in the CIA or the FBI. And Q gets a lot of the information from the Army of Northern Virginia." ~ Gen. Paul E. Vallely |
| 168 | Virginia Giuffre, The woman who brought Prince Andrew down. I thought of her as she has liked and retweeted QAnon Horseshit in her anti trafficking activism. This tweet being one of them Tweet Link Here |
| 167 | Brilliant Light Power, formerly Blacklight Power, another physics-defying startup that claims to be able to burn water by knocking hydrogen into a state below the ground state. Amazed writeup here, the crackpot paper it springs from. Noteworthy because it's soaked up millions in venture capital over a couple of decades for something that literally defies physics. Quantum physics is all wrong, energy from water, guy with an MD came up with it, $100M from investors despite every scientific authority from DoE secretary Nobel Prize winner to American Physics Society spokesman denouncing it, etc. That there is no RationalWiki article about it is less believable. See [86] |
| 167 | Zuma, the Pentagon satellite recently launched by SpaceX. Right now, it seems like it simply failed. However, that conclusions hurts not only the pride in US military and technology, but also the faith of myriad geeks in SpaceX and Elon Musk. This heady mix resulted in many theories that the failure was a false flag, it's working fine because it's stealth and it's actually meant to counter North Korean EMPs. |
| 167 | The "Olduvai theory" that blackouts became normal last year and we're going to hell in a handbasket. Refuting chart. |
| 167 | Prevent, the British government's anti-extremism strategy[87] founded under Tony Blair in 2003 but reviewed under David Cameron/Theresa May in 2011[88] and still active, initially founded primarily to combat radical Islamism, but also involved with countering the far right[89], and radical environmentalism[90]. There are concerns about freedom of speech.[91][92] |
| 167 | TR-3 Black Manta/TR-3B, alleged to be top secret US government stealth planes, beloved by conspiracy theorists.[93][94][95] Connected by some with black triangle UFO sightings. Or maybe they don't exist. |
| 167 | Bill Gates, former CEO of Microsoft and current head of the Gates Foundation who has recently been linked in coronavirus and anti-vaccination conspiracy theories. |
| 167 | Jean-Luc Brunel, another known associate of Jeffrey Epstein, he was arrested and charged with rape of minors. He was later found dead in his jail cell in La Santé Prison, after he died from an alleged "suicide by hanging". |
| 167 | Transhumanist theoristsCreate draft, a catch-all of all the more popular nutters. (Especially Ronald Bailey, a Reasonoid who doesn't really understand liberal theory.) |
| 167 | Libel laws, with information on their abuse by woo-meisters, libel tourism, and science by lawsuit. Could possibly be merged with SLAPP suit. |
| 166 | Fight The New Drug, an organization dedicated to teaching the ills of pornography as well as treating addiction to porn using all the wrong methods. Full of Mormons and with some direct LDS Church support. |
| 166 | Terasem[96][97][98] made the news not long ago for tricking NCIS actress Pauley Perrette into appearing to endorse their arrant bullshit. It's been described as a "robot cult" and calls itself a "transreligion". |
| 166 | Applied Zoopharmacognosy - "Applied Zoopharmacognosy enables self-medicative behaviour in domesticated or captive animals by offering plant extracts that would contain the same, or similar constituents to those found in an animal’s natural environment. The practice encourages and allows an animal to guide its own health, since unlike their wild counterparts, captive and domesticated animals rarely have the opportunity to forage on medical plants. The extracts offered include a variety of essential oils, absolutes, plant extracts, macerated oils, tubers, clays, algae, seaweeds and minerals. Once the animal has selected its remedy, it will then guide the session by inhaling it, taking it orally, or by rubbing a part of its body into it." Basically animal abuse with woo. (Quote from http://www.ingraham.co.uk/.) |
| 166 | uBeam: a physics-defying startup whose big idea is to transmit power by ultrasonic sound. If you do the numbers you'll see that this would require power levels that would not just deafen everyone in the vicinity, but be such that air starts going nonlinear. Site, breathless press [99][100][101] Any bored physicists in the house? |
| 166 | Solar Roadways is a crowdfunded, startup company which is trying to replace all asphalt pavements with solar panels which will power embedded LEDs that will melt snow and light up roads. This idea is entirely, scientifically flawed and unfeasible; Thunderf00t does a good job explaining why this idea isn't even efficient.[102][103] |
| 166 | Lynn AndrewsCreate draft, a shaman healer and mystic who peddles all sorts of falsehoods. Her webshite |
| 166 | 5-HTP, a supplement commonly advertised as a treatment for everything from depression to migraines to OCD by increasing serum levels of serotonin. Regardless of whether it works for these maladies it can be dangerous to take without taking Carbidopa alongside to regulate it, because too much peripheral serotonin can damage the heart. |
| 166 | Eye color, specifically changing eye color that some claim correlates with their mood, weather, fatigue, or aging. I've also seen several versions of this eye color chart which does not accurately portray how Punnett squares really work[37] and could potentially lead some to falsely believe that infidelity has occurred. This could be its own article about eye colors or even just a new section added to the already existing eye article. |
| 166 | United Constitutional Patriots, a right-wing militia group in New Mexico that has been |
| 166 | Disease mongering - There should really be an article on this IMHO. Wikipedia. |
| 165 | SCIgen, the fake paper generator used to test scam conferences and predatory journals. |
| 165 | The Vega test or Vega machine[104][105][106], by reader request. |
| 165 | John Bolton, future Trump train casualty, arch-conservative wingnut, chicken hawk extraordinaire, deserves to be mocked for a long, long time. |
| 165 | Jackalopes are the elusive horned rabbits of the Wild West. They are often said to be a tall tale, although Shope papilloma is actually quite common among rabbits and may provide an explanation other than taxidermy. |
| 164 | EOC InstituteCreate draft [107] |
| 164 | Powdered alcohol or Palcohol is the newest moral panic drug that has been banned in several states and was subject to a moral panic after the FDA determined the non-alcoholic ingredients were safe for consumption. It is mostly an ineffective way to get drunk, but that hasn't stop people from believing it will get you drunk instantly or that it can be used to smuggle alcohol into public places. [108] (Another Thunderf00t video) |
| 164 | Scaremongering "documentary" The Demographic WinterCreate draft. |
| 164 | Missing Universe MuseumCreate draft (http://missinguniversemuseum.com). Found this retarded YEC website by way of Something Awful. |
| 164 | Al-Anon, because people seem to think they are owned by the Co$ in the same way that Narconon is. Al-Anon and Nar-Anon are twelve step programs for the friends and families of those affected by addiction and are associated with Alcoholics Anonymous and Narcotics Anonymous, respectively. |
| 164 | Jaime Maussan, the journalist pretending to be an archaeologist who created the "1000-year old alien mummies" from Nazca, Peru. The mummies were presented before Mexican Congress on September 13, 2023 while they were holding a hearing on the existence of Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP). He was also involved in a number of other hoaxes including the "Metepec Creature", the "Roswell Slides", and the "demon fairy" photos that have circulated online.[109] |
| 163 | Medical Hypotheses - Controversial non-peer-reviewed journal taken over by quacks, mostly of the anti-vax and AIDS denialist stripes. |
| 163 | Source FieldCreate draft - not the sane version, but the cracktastic one, with capitals. |
| 163 | FeministWiki:[40] is a website run by TERFs who, in a manner indistinguishable from that of the editors at Conservapedia, claimed "'RationalWiki' is a whacksite long run by teenage liberals who follow queer theory. (An ideology that supports prostitution and pedophilia because of its obsession with 'breaking taboos.'"[41] FeministWiki has repeatedly been caught promoting conservative Christian front organisations.[42] The person who runs the FeministWiki Twitter account is a self-admitted child molester who was previously suspended from Twitter.[43] All of the information mentioned above warrants a RationalWiki article for this TERF version of Conservapedia. |
| 163 | Roblox, a video game platform which has >50% of US kids on it, surprisingly has on-mission points. Compliance with Chinese government censorship, firstly. Young'uns are now politically active at increasingly early ages, so political & religious groups of every stripe (believe me, anything you can think of) have evangelized there, from Roman Catholic masses & processions in the Philippines (done in lieu of in-person ceremonies no thanks to COVID-19) to even creationists (here is a group based on AiG). Wired discusses fascist recruitment, but only scratches the surface (NBC report on the same). This discusses one arrest involving an ISIS group. Multiple reports argue the platform's business model is based on child labor (and, this editor would add, something akin to a pyramid scheme). Many reports cover sexual predators "run amok" on Roblox. There are some more topics of potential coverage, but that's enough. We have GTA & even Ruben Sim, why not this? |
| 162 | UrsuAdamsCreate draft ("Donnie" Adams), a Planet X-spinning YouTuber with a fixation on Neumayer Station. Recent hijinks include popularizing a fake picture of a "Heavy Mass Object" and accusing amateur astronomer Ian Musgrave of being a liar after Musgrave pointedoutthat the fake is actually 'shopped from one of his pictures. |
| 162 | Dr Brad HarrubCreate draft of Focus Press and YouTube. A Ph.D. 'scientist' who only seems to do Christian apologetics |
| 161 | RMS Titanic: As with the Lusitania, there seems to be conspiracy theories surrounding the sinking of the Titanic, e.g. that it was torpedoed by a U-boat or deliberately sunk for insurance money. (See here for one instance.) |
| 157 | NoFap and Your Brain On Porn. If you've been on Reddit for long enough you should know what NoFap is: A subreddit (and now a site) about abstaining from porn and/or masturbation; movement is full of claims that abstaining from porn and/or masturbation gives them "superpowers". Your Brain On Porn is a site and book by Gary Wilson claiming that pornography is the new cocaine. I don't have a particular stance on it, but I'd like to see some RationalWiki writers take a look at them. |
| 154 | There's No TomorrowCreate draft, a 30-minute animation on peak oil. Add legitimate criticism of infinite growth forever and some environmentalism with fair amounts of poorly-masked Rotschild conspiracy and survivalism (especially towards the end). Their site, with the video. |
| 154 | 2024 U.S. presidential election: Might as well start the clownshow already, given the current candidates. Including the manchild that used to be president. And some current rumors about certain people that might wanna run as well. |
| 151 | The October Surprise conspiracy theory, or how Ronald Reagan supposedly won the presidency in 1980. |
| 150 | The Simpsons For supposedly predicting everything from 9/11 to Trump's presidential run. |
| 150 | biofeedback is the awareness and control of physical responses in the body that may be useful for treating stress and anxiety. Articles like brainwave woo link to the biofeedback page (which is currently a fork) and is referenced in many other articles so it is probably a good idea for all those links to go somewhere |
| 150 | The utterly terrifying duumvirate of reactionary state representatives, Charles DavidsonCreate draft and Charles FuquaCreate draft Both of them support slavery and theocracy. In the 21st century, I might point out. |
| 150 | Activated charcoal - the newest fad involving ingesting and brushing your teeth with burnt wood. |
| 150 | EnergiewendeCreate draft is Germany's transition away from nuclear power and towards renewables. Most of the nuclear reactors have been shut down. Unfortunately, this will inevitably delay the closure of coal-fired power plants. The project has faced difficulties in developing sufficient renewable infrastructure. |
| 150 | Black HammerCreate draft: an org run by one Gazi Kodzo, formerly a high-level officer in the African People's Socialist Party until they deemed him a public embarrassment. Known for anti-white supremacy and decolonial efforts taken to the VERY extreme, including anti-Semitism in the thinnest of trappings of anti-white supremacy, having a "Reparations Corps" for white allies to pay their way into (complete with steep payment tiers), and attempting to start a commune in the mountains of Colorado as of late, with no confirmed water rights and a harsh microclimate at the altitude of their potential settlement site. To quote @RabbitThoughts on Twitter: "I've no idea whether this is a cult, a grift, or just dreamers with no life experience. Either way, people could get hurt." |
| 150 | Avi LoebCreate draft physicist in the news for first claiming "aliens!" about 'Oumuamua, then claiming to have found remnants of a crashed alien spaceship on Earth. In a recent book he rejects Carl Sagan's idea that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, calling it a logical fallacy.[110] More links here. Has Wikipedia article. |
| 148 | Two suns or second sun - see http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=two+suns (one of the incarnations of Planet X/Nibiru claims) |
| 147 | Isaac Bonewits was a prominent Druid and Neopagan as well as the only person to receive a degree in magic from an accredited university. (UC Berkeley of course.) He also wrote a commonly-used list of how to spot cultishness in an organisation. A fascinating fellow. |
| 147 | Implicit bias - when you don't think you're biased against a group, but you behave as if you are (and most people behave that way in tests). |
| 147 | Brothers of Italy. Founded in 2012 after they split from this man's party. The winners of the 2022 Elections. Right-wing to Far-Right party that has a Neo-Fascist faction aswell. Have been apologetic towards Mussolini, aswell having some Mussolinis in their Party. Conservative & Nationalistic twats, who are also anti-migration, Eurosceptic, against Euthanasia & Abortion and some other things worth mentioning, like certain hand gestures. They're also BFF's with the UK Conservative Party, The Republicans, Vox and their leader, Giorgia Meloni seems to be good buddies with this fine fella. |
| 146 | Do we have an article on the tendency of cranks and their followers to dishonestly cite a letter to the editor in a peer-reviewed journal as if it indicates the journal supports their crackpottery or somehow magically proves their claims? Not quite quote mining. (It's similar to dishonest TV ads for a movie which quote "The New York Times", when in fact the quote comes from a newspaper ad for the movie and not from a legitimate critic.) Needs a snappy name too. |
| 144 | False flag claims about the Brussels airport bombing. EG: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUDumwfs_80 |
| 144 | handwashing and drying: there is a lot of scientifically-illiterate nonsense about this everyday activity that has enormous importance in public health. One issue is antibacterial soap which research shows is pointless in general use[111][112]; there's also a heated debate about how to dry your hands.[113] And, is washing your hands after you go to the bathroom necessary, if washing your privates prior to oral sex isn't?[114] |
| 143 | The whole tough on crimeCreate draft disaster, including three strikes laws could get the RW treatment. Do harsh sentences work? Do they have racial or class components? Who came up with this ideology in the first place? How do we end the epidemic of incarceration? |
| 143 | Plastic or Plastic pollution.[115] The subject of a lot of environmentalist scare stories.[116][117][118] But are they justified? What can be done? Are plastic bag taxes and plastic bottle deposit schemes useful or just window dressing? |
| 143 | Banksy, I am quite surprised we don't have an article about him. While he did get a lot of praise and attention as a sociopolitical activist and a staunch critic of consumerism, taking potshots at celebrities such as Paris Hilton just because they're "famous for being famous" and most recently at Putin for his so-called "special military operation" in Ukraine, some accuse him of being a sellout to the very same fiends he claims to despise (case in point him having been commissioned by Viacom to make station IDs for Nickelodeon) |
| 142 | Occidental DissentCreate draft, Stuff Black People Don't LikeCreate draft, and the Vanguard News Network. As white supremacist sites, these are second pretty much only to Stormfront in terms of prominence, or at least far more popular than something like Jew Watch, so there's no excuse for having an article on that but not them. |
| 142 | Dave DaubenmireCreate draft Raging homophobic, wingnut, asshole extraordinaire who defends Fred Phelps on several occasions, and not only openly advocates bullying gays, but says not being allowed to bully them is a form of bullying against Christians. Also a true believer of CHEMTRAILS. |
| 142 | Saturated fat and cardiovascular disease, and Cholesterol denialism. Since the discovery that there are two types of LDL cholesterol -- small, dense and large, fluffy -- the paleo diet crowd has started using that fact as an excuse to claim that saturated fat doesn't contribute to heart disease. (one example) Also, recently, the health difference between long-chain and medium-chain saturated fatty acids have come under scrutiny. |
| 141 | Serial killer. We have several articles on individual instances. I could see that an article on stereotypes vs. reality might be relevant, as would some comment on their prominence in Western pop culture. |
| 141 | Ateshgah of Baku, This structure in Azerbaijan has been subject to some controversy for a while. It is an abnormally well preserved shrine of some sort just outside of Baku that depending on who you talk to, is either a Zoroastrian Fire Temple, a Hindu Temple, or both. While it was long assumed to be a Zoroastrian Fire Temple some Parsis back in the 19th century who visited the place doubted that and suggested that it could be a Hindu Temple. This association at first seems a bit far fetched due to its geographical implausibility (and the differences between Zoroastrianism as it was practiced during the Sassanian Empire and Zoroastrianism as it is practiced now in India). While the association with Hinduism isn't entirely made up, as it is clear that Hindu Merchants liked visiting the shrine as is evident by the inscription they left behind, the idea that it was founded as a Hindu Temple, or was only a Hindu Temple is rather far fetched. However the existence of a relatively even sided controversy has never dissuaded the Hindutva types from claiming that said controversy is settled in their favor and this case is no exception. The other wiki has an extremely one sided article on this building. I would advise visitors visiting the page with Google Chrome to visit the same page in other languages (specifically Russian, Azerbaijani, and Persian) to compare with the English article. They are all well balanced, presumably because Indians don't speak any of those languages... Given that Wikipedia seems to have ditched neutrality for this one article, and given our critique of Hindu Nationalism and our evaluation of their various claims, it would make sense to have an article evaluating this issue. |
| 141 | Central limit theorem. The central limit theorem states that if you aggregate enough random variables, you find its sum within a normal distribution. According to FiveThirtyEight, the central limit theorem plays a key role in mathematical "proofs" of God's existence. fivethirtyeight on the subject |
| 141 | Rabbi Moshe AverickCreate draft should have his own page, just for all the sexist, bigoted, racist stuff he's spewed in his little column at The Algemeiner. [119] |
| 140 | Laplace's demon -- the whole idea of scientific determinism and how it doesn't work/gets falsified. |
| 140 | Bill Cosby should be discussed, especially why he was an idol and a voice of wisdom, his comments before the accusations, and his massive hypocrisy. |
| 140 | The Phenomenon (2020 film): supposedly "The most credible documentary about UFOs". Cites loon Jacques Vallée |
| 140 | Pegasus (spyware), spyware from the Israeli firm NSO Pegasus that's reportedly being used by a lot of totalitarian/authoritarian governments to spy on dissidents and journalists. The Guardian did a big investigation.[120] A more general article about spyware might also be good, and could include Pegasus. |
| 140 | A Tankie glossary, similar to those for the ones made for the Alt-right, TERFs, and the Manosphere, might be a good idea. |
| 140 | The Women's Encyclopedia of Myths and SecretsCreate draft and/or Barbara G. Walker; Amazon.com link to the book. The Britannica of feminist woo. |
| 140 | Vicious cycle - I've heard some people making arguments involving vicious cycles being falsely accused of making circular arguments. |
| 139 | Aluminum's connection (or lack of) to Alzheimer's and other maladies. |
| 139 | The Ahnenerbe was an institute in Nazi Germany purposed to research the archaeological and cultural history of the Aryan race. Founded on July 1, 1935, by Heinrich Himmler, Herman Wirth, and Richard Walther Darré, the Ahnenerbe conducted pseudo-scientific experiments and launched pseudo-archaeological expeditions in an attempt to prove that mythological Nordic populations had once ruled the world as a way to promote political propaganda. Originally, the official mission of the Ahnenerbe was to find new evidence of the racial heritage of the Germanic people; however, due to Himmler's obsession with occultism it quickly became his own occult tool. |
| 138 | Hillary's America: The Secret History of the Democratic Party is yet another paranoid political documentary by Dinesh D'Souza about presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and an examination of the "history" of the Democratic Party. Currently just a subsection of the D'Souza article. |
| 137 | r/K selection theory, an obsolete biological concept, also taken up in the past by racialists (particularly Rushton) and currently a conservative meme (that conservatives are K and liberals are r, therefore science - frequently from people who previously didn't believe in evolution). This doesn't make coherent sense on any level, but we could do with a dissection of the meme version. (Koanic Soul of course gibbers wonderfully.) PZ Myers has a good dissection to crib from. |
| 137 | "Social engineering," used to legitimately describe government/business practices, or alternatively as loaded language by cranks. |
| 137 | Something around website blocks and bans, Shadow banning, and similar topics. The alt-right and similar groups are fond of complaining about "ghost banning", "shadow banning", etc, where they're supposedly denied access to different social media sites by stealth, or their posts are mysteriously deprioritized or hidden. An overview of what this means, whether this is actually possible on different sites, etc, would be useful. Wikipedia mentions a conspiracy theory about Twitter shadow banning Republicans.[121] |
| 137 | a pseudoscience glossaryCreate draft |
| 136 | Great Zimbabwe (Better idea: a list of the major non-Egyptian African civilizations, to smack racists on the heads with.) |
| 136 | The Rind et al. controversy |
| 136 | Marcus Garvey was an early founder of the Pan-African movement and black nationalism, but he tended to see blacks and whites as two different peoples who would be unable to coexist and therefore believed all people of African descent should return to their homeland. He had a famous dispute with W.E.B Dubois and was against the idea of "racial mixing" in order to prevent mulattoes. He is also considered a prophet of Rastafari. |
| 136 | Since we now have an article on Nintendo, how about covering the other scumbags in the gaming industry: Activision (Most famously known for the Blitzchung Controversy. As well as several allegations of sexual harassement & discrimination, workplace harassement, multiple workplace walkouts…), Ubisoft (most recently known for the sexual misconduct accusations leaked out in 2020 and their boss feigning ignorance and delivering a half-botched excuse & several controversies around Watch Dogs: Legion, such as hiring a Transphobic voice actress), Electronic Arts (Most famously known for their loot boxes (which they later on called "Surprise Mechanics") that they put in almost every single game, including their FIFA series. Which led to this happening. Which led to EA embarrassing itself by trying to sue one of these countries for following their laws. As well as other criticisms that pushed the other wiki to give it its own page), Konami (on how it treats its employees and former employees) & Acclaim Enterainment. The latter one went bankrupt in 2004 due to its own stupidity. This video explains some stuff that isn't mentioned in the Wikipedia article, such as animal abuse. |
| 136 | How about an article on Parasocial interaction? Since we have a Psychology section, why not make our own article about this kind of behaviour, aswell as pointing out the cons and dangers that Parasocial stuff holds? |
| 136 | The Liz LibraryCreate draft ([122]), edited by "holistic lawyer" Liz Kates which denies confabulations, supports recovered memory therapy, states that women who support the concept of false memories and the sex industry deserve to be raped. |
| 136 | Last Ounce of Courage. A hilarious fundamentalist Christian/right-winger propaganda film in which the child of a dead war vet returns to his home town and finds that evil libruls are trying to ban Christmas. Who knew that the ACLU possessed either the will or the capability to get students expelled for keeping a Bible in their lockers or force a church not to display a cross! And did we mention the only non-white character in the entire movie is the evil librul ACLU lawyer? |
| 135 | Human nutrition; we have so many articles on food woo, why not a basic list of all nutrients you really need? Essential nutrients and what they do. Proteins lipids and carbs, various vitamins, trace metals, etc. |
| 135 | Microcredit is the extension of very small loans (microloans) to impoverished borrowers who typically lack collateral, steady employment and a verifiable credit history. It is designed not only to support entrepreneurship and alleviate poverty, but also in many cases to empower women and uplift entire communities by extension. Critics argue, however, that microcredit has not had a positive impact on gender relationships, does not alleviate poverty, has led many borrowers into a debt trap and constitutes a "privatization of welfare". The first randomized evaluation of microcredit, conducted by Esther Duflo and others, showed mixed results: there was no effect on household expenditure, gender equity, education or health, but the number of new businesses increased by one third compared to a control group. |
| 135 | Viktor Grebennikov, insect-powered anti-gravity |
| 135 | Crowdfunding, from Kickstarter to Indiegogo and the even smaller sites. How many quacks gain support and apparent legitimacy for their books or "documentaries" through these means? |
| 134 | Surprised that Malcolm Gladwell is a redlink. His glibness and propagation of scientific misconceptions in the name of popular science is definite article material. Also, history as an actual corporate shill. Also, the rich are so hard done by. |
| 134 | Midbrain activationCreate draft: woo marketed to parents in India to pay for coaches to train up their kids' midbrains. Skeptics in India deal with this one a bit. [123][124] |
| 134 | Nudism wooCreate draft Especially in the 19th century when nudism first became a political movement instead of just people foregoing clothes, a lot of woo was associated with it. Be it antisemitism, nationalism or the believe that nudity was some kind of panacea. Some of this woo still remains, as a short visit to one of the places where it is practiced will show you. |
| 134 | Shungite - a type of rock that some believe protects against "harmful electromagnetic signals and radiations" and has healing powers. Could be at least added as a minor section under 5G. |
| 134 | The DebriefCreate draft an increasingly popular UFO and tech woo "news" site, with the particular theme of having "insider" "intelligence" "whistleblowers" |
| 134 | Peter RagnarCreate draft This crank has been around so long it's amazing we DON'T have an article on him. Chi, magnet woo, pseudoscience, and claims to be able to achieve age reversal through breathing techniques. No, really. |
| 133 | The Medea hypothesis since we have an article on the Gaia hypothesis. There isn't a lot of info on the Wikipedia article.[125] |
| 133 | Blue Planet ProjectCreate draft, a notebook detailing several different types of aliens and our numerous exchanges with them. This document is the alleged result of the actions of one or more scientists creating a covert, unauthorized notebook documenting their involvement with an Above Top Secret government program. A copy of the document can be found here. There is also an associated Facebook page.[44] |
| 133 | Lip reading - not so much the practice as used in conversation by deaf people, as the tendency of the media to get lip-readers to reconstruct private conversations (e.g. [126][127]). How accurate is it? Probably not very. There's also a joke/meme of publishing intentionally bad lip readings of political speeches, events, etc, which may or may not be worth covering (probably not, to be honest). |
| 132 | Cryosaunas are the hip new exercise woo based on whole-body cryotherapy (WBC). While WBC has legitimate uses in treating the symptoms of multiple sclerosis and rheumatoid arthritis, cryosaunas were popularized by some professional athletes claiming that WBC alleviates post-exercise soreness. As a result, casual athletes are now jumping on the bandwagon. The practice's lack of regulation has come under scrutiny after a cryosauna worker was killed inside one on October, 2015. |
| 132 | Pro-smokingCreate draft is a thing. Pro-smoking example: https://smokerswrites.wordpress.com In the middle-ish example: https://www.heartland.org/ideas/smokers-rights Harassment: http://www.theguardian.com/society/2012/jun/01/pro-smoking-activists-health-campaigners |
| 132 | George Orwell's Politics and the English Language, arguably the best anti-bullshit guide there is. Update: topic now covered within the George Orwell page. |
| 132 | Insane Clown Posse. Because magnets. |
| 131 | Suriname Small country in South-America; on-mission as it's the source of quite a bit of herbal nonsense and its ... interesting ... take on politics (the current present is a convicted drug smuggler in the Netherlands, and accused of playing a part in the december killings). |
| 131 | Ian Miles CheongCreate draft, an alt-right "journalist" who spreads misinformation and propaganda, and has history with GamerGate. |
| 131 | Prostasia FoundationCreate draft, which is, depending on who you ask, either an evidence-based organization for the prevention of child sexual abuse, or a pro-pedophile front group. |
| 131 | William BengstonCreate draft, a sociologist who claims he can cure cancer by waving his hands, thus doing... something with energy. [128] [129] [130][131] |
| 130 | Symbionese Liberation Army One of the cults responsible for the downfall of the New Left. Most famous for the kidnapping and brainwashing of Patty Hearst. |
| 130 | Catholicism and far-right politicsCreate draft, the wikipedia category includes quite a few entries from the modern era. I don't think simply adding this to the page for Catholicism is a good idea because it will most likely end up almost as long as rest of the page, like how Child sexual abuse in the Roman Catholic Church has 55 references compared to Catholicism's 56. |
| 130 | Skunk ape could have its own article or even be a section of the Bigfoot article. Also, the Orang Pendek is a similar biped from Indonesia whose fur is orange resembling an orangutan. |
| 130 | La Griffe du LionCreate draft, the pseudonym of a (pseudo)sociologists beloved by white nationalists, the "human biodiversity" crowd, and other assorted racist nutters. [132] |
| 130 | Owning the libs. The right-wing political strategy of deliberately trying to provoke or offend "libs." |
| 129 | Colin Kaepernick. I hardly think this one merits an explanation. |
| 129 | Vincent CheungCreate draft, yet another sociopath Calvinist with a god complex. |
| 129 | "Queen" Romana Didulo, a Philippine-born British Columbian crackpot who claims to be the "Queen of Canada" and has become involved with QAnon and other whack-job groups and conspiracy theories.[133] |
| 129 | Dennis SewellCreate draft, who has drunken the Hitler and evolution/scientism kool-aid to the point that he believes that the British welfare state iseugenics in disguise. Seriously. |
| 129 | Revelation RoadCreate draft - a two-part Christian post-Rapture film, in the vein of Left Behind. |
| 128 | Bribery Seriously? We don't have an article for one of the major sources of government corruption? |
| 127 | Flint water crisis a city that is mostly poor black folks gets literally toxic water on the orders of an "emergency manager" who nobody voted for. |
| 127 | German ethnic cleansingCreate draft (working title; should be changed) is a claim that many white supremacists and Neo-nazis use as a red herring when discussing the Holocaust. Examples include the German POWs killed in Utah during the Midnight Massacre, in Dachau after its liberation, those who died during Rheinwiesenlager, and those who died laboring for the Soviets. They may also mention the treatment of German prisoners of war in the United States or the flight and expulsion of Germans across Europe during and after WWII. A book called Other Losses, by Canadian novelist, James Bacque, purports that millions of Germans were purposely killed by the Allies after the war but it was heavily criticized for misrepresenting and misreporting facts; his book Crimes and Mercies, also about the treatment of the Germans wafter WWII, was better received. The forced assimilation of German Americans during WWI may also be relevant to this topic. |
| 127 | Cult of SaturnCreate draft, an ambiguous, but obviously evil (and nonexisting) cult that Conspiracy Theorists like to invoke when their Apophenia isn't working enough for the usual, boring Illuminati symbols to be shoehorned. Simple things like cubes and rings are proof of some grand Conspiracy. It is a common scapegoat for Christian End Times, and Illuminati Predictions and Conspiracies. A couple of examples |
| 126 | WehraboosCreate draft WTF we don't have an article on this already?! Wehraboos is a slang term for fans of Nazi Germany, especially their military. While not being Nazis themselves (though some are), they are essentially Nazi Apologists, and propagate myths about German military superiority. They range from some guy on Reddit to the History Channel itself. |
| 126 | Sinéad O'Connor, a perfect example of how the Roman Catholic Church can still psychologically destroy the life of someone who tried to speak the truth to the ignorant majority. |
| 126 | Gay adoption is a civil rights issue that currently redirects to same-sex marriage. Might need a better title, like same-sex parenthood. |
| 126 | Canada convoy protestCreate draft protests/blockades against vaccination requirements and COVID-related restrictions that have become a cause célèbre of various far-right groups in both Canada and the US. |
| 125 | As it stands, the Oath Keepers are mentioned by another article on this site, but I believe they deserve their own page, especially since they've been showing up in solidarity with a bunch of rightwing causes lately. The group was involved in the 2021 U.S. Capitol riot. |
| 125 | Ninja A lot of woo, myths, urban legends, and bullshit about them. Ties in with a lot of the mall ninja McDojo crap we talk about. (Currently a redirect to RationalWiki:Ninja.) |
| 125 | Laura EisenhowerCreate draft - see http://americanloons.blogspot.com/2013/07/644-laura-magdalene-eisenhower.html |
| 124 | Dogfighting, Cockfighting, Bullfighting, and maybe even Fox hunting all involve vast amounts of animal cruelty, and with various batshit arguments in favor (or against) them. |
| 124 | "BlatherCreate draft is an educational tool that allows users to analyze and pinpoint the accuracy of claims made on social media. This site is meant to help people spot out erroneous logic so that similar arguments will not be made in the future. However, there are a number of factors that make this a difficult task." https://blather.io/ |
| 124 | Bad Webcomics WikiCreate draft is a riffing website that covers webcomics of questionable quality. While sometimes accurate with their criticisms towards webcomics like Sonichu, the community has a heavy right-wing slant with many of it's prominent members being alt-right apologists and sycophantic towards comic writers like Stonetoss, frequently engaging in transphobia and other reactionary behavior both on certain reviews and in their forum on Tapatalk. |
| 123 | Founding Fathers on IslamCreate draft - we should discuss what the rather heterogeneous group that declared independence from Britain, fought the war and wrote the Constitution had to say about Islam. Given that they are often cited by both sides to make some kind of point. |
| 123 | RationalWiki:Monthly RW/Archive, RationalWiki:Monthly RW being long dead, but we should keep the history, dontcha think? |
| 123 | Shouldn't We have an article on slavery in the Qur'anCreate draft? There's an article on slavery in the Bible. |
| 123 | Chapel Hill shooting. In 2015, Craig Stephen Hicks shot and killed his neighbours in the late afternoon. He later turned himself in to Pittsboro police. He was an atheist and strongly against religion, and his neighbours were Muslim. It may have been a hate crime or the product of a dispute over parking. One of the theories posits that it was a parking dispute made worse by him disagreeing with their religion. |
| 123 | Facebook, considering its role in radicalizing people into antivax, QAnon, etc. groups, and the fact that it's allowed cranks like Mike Adams to gain massive followings, it definitely deserves its own article. |
| 123 | The Daily Wire. Shapiro's website (currently a re-direct to his page, btw), founded in 2015. Launched DailyWire+ this year, which is a video on demand site full off podcasts and videos filled with wingnut BS, like this thing. Are you're a Reaganite, Trumpist or MAGA? Then you will definitely love this site. |
| 122 | Anime - We have an article on Furry fandom, I don't think it's that much of a jump. Sandbox Start |
| 122 | Lectin-freeCreate draft is the latest bit of food woo to turn up. |
| 122 | Hatreon: Basically Patreon if it was founded by the Alt-Right, Far Right and those that have an obsession with the Second Amendment |
| 122 | Lindsey Graham. One of the loudest wingnut voices in the Senate on social issues, though he manages to have stopped clock moments on issues such as global warming and torture. |
| 121 | Chemo KillsCreate draft (https://chemokills.info/) The absolute worst sort of quack website, as they don't just promote cancer woo (Paleo diet, Vitamin C megadosage, etc.), but also actively and very strongly encourage people to not get (life-saving) chemothrapy. Claims that "globally 1.5 million people a year are murdered by chemotherapy for profit.". A number that cited by Mike Adams (The Health Ranger) on http://pharmadeathclock.com/ . (Could perhaps also be covered in Chemotherapy, which is a stub). |
| 121 | Elon Musk is a business magnate, inventor, engineer and investor. He is the founder, CEO and CTO of SpaceX; co-founder, CEO and product architect of Tesla Motors; chairman of SolarCity, co-chairman of OpenAI; co-founder of Zip2; and co-founder of PayPal. Has recently taken to talking up transhumanist and singularitarian woo as if it's solid engineering. One crappy stub version was already deleted, so please do a half-decent one if you do this one. Currently a redirect to Hyperloop. |
| 121 | The Labour FilesCreate draft Leaked documents on Al Jazeera showing anti Jeremy Corbyn corruption. Supported by Martin Forde himself, (the man who wrote the forde report). |
| 120 | The Passing of the Great Race is a 1916 book by the American eugenicist, lawyer, and amateur anthropologist Madison Grant. The book became an immediate best seller, with new editions in 1918, 1920 and 1921, multiple printings and translations in German, French and Norwegian. It became hugely influential among leading academics, politicians and scientists. Grant expounds a theory of Nordic superiority and argues for a strong eugenics program. Grant's proposal to create a strong eugenics program for the "Nordic" population to survive was repudiated by Americans in the 1930s and Europeans after 1945. It is considered one of the main works in the 20th century tradition of scientific racism and has been described as "The Manifesto of Scientific Racism". |
| 120 | Deus Ex, a series of video games rife with real world conspiracy theories. |
| 120 | Eastern Orthodoxy and far-right politicsCreate draft, ditto for this one. |
| 120 | ComicsGate is a political movement by the alt-right whose goal is to ‘combat SJW control of popular media’. Given their reminiscence of GamerGate in terms of tactics, their excessive focus on Marvel's new Iron Man Riri Williams, and how the group acted as a catalyst in the firing of Chuck Wendig, then this article should become a priority. |
| 120 | Tom DeLonge, former singer and guitarist of Blink-182 turned UFO hunter.[45] He also founded the To The Stars Academy of Arts and Sciences and launched the website Strange Times[46] dedicated to extraterrestrials, paranormal activity, cryptozoology, and conspiracy theories. |
| 120 | CutiesCreate draft: A 2020 French coming-of-age drama about a Senegalese Muslim girl who is struggling between her family's conservative upbringing and the prospect of her joining a dance crew. It became more well known for the controversy it generated and how both sides of the American political spectrum are upset about the perceived pedophilic content of the film despite assertions by both its director and Netflix that the film was intended to criticise the sexualisation of young girls. |
| 120 | The Federalist (website): Conservative website known to post misinformation. According to their page on the other wiki, they used to have a "Black crime" tag on their website, and publish pseudoscience. Top hits from their headlines department include "For Christians, Dying From COVID (Or Anything Else) Is A Good Thing" and "Pedophilia Isn’t The Main Problem With Catholic Priests, Homosexuality Is". |
| 119 | The Voldemort EffectCreate draft, a neologism created by Maajid Nawaz, occurs when someone is afraid to name someone or something which can lead to them ignoring the problem. The idea comes from the Harry Potter universe where no citizen is willing to name Voldemort out of fear of retaliation; this is usually used against liberals who are supposedly afraid of calling out Islamic terrorism. |
| 119 | The Hammer and ScorecardCreate draft Conspiracy Theory alleging that Joe Biden and Obama stole the election using software developed by noted conman Dennis Montgomery |
| 118 | Vox (political party), Spanish populist far-right party becoming a significant electoral force. |
| 118 | Fuyan pillCreate draft Supposedly a traditional Chinese herbal remedy for gynecological diseases. Sounds like bullshit, but there's very little legitimate information about it, and a search mostly brings up supportive clogs. |
| 117 | Four-day week: there are a lot of articles recently claiming that a four day week in the workplace greatly increases productivity, as well as benefiting workers and the environment.[134][135] However, evidence is limited to a few, frequently-cited studies whose methodology is unclear, and a lot of claims seem exaggerated. There have been a few studies that seemed to find benefits (including fewer pointless meetings, less absenteeism) but the Hawthorne effect may be involved, durations were short, and it's hard to double blind these things.[136][137] In some cases cited (e.g. Utah cited on Wikipedia) workers still did the same number of hours, just over fewer but longer days, while others suggest workers doing fewer hours can accomplish more. There have been a lot of claims about political parties planning to make it mandatory. Labour at the 2019 UK general election allegedly planned it, but in fact their research found that a hard cap on hours wouldn't work.[138] Finland was reported to have been planning a four day week, possibly even with 6 hour days, but this turned out to be fake news.[139] So is there anything to it, what are the pros and cons, and is it all wishful thinking? |
| 117 | Gays Against Groomers: Twitter account & site. Basically LGB Alliance (whom they actually follow on twitter). Some other notable and very interesting people that this "organisation" follows. And someone that is following them, despite having no issues with Trans people anymore according to our article. Some sources: 1 2 3. |
| 117 | Conservatism. Currently a re-direct to this article. But seeing how Conservatism has grown |
| 117 | WION, AKA World is One News, some India-based schmuck of a "news" outlet which is part of the Zee Media network of channels owned by the Essel Group. Both WION itself and its Zee Media parent have been involved in sensationalism, fake news and corruption; for one, YouTube once suspended their channel for trivialising and bellitling the war in Ukraine, only for WION to mount an intense |
| 117 | Doomscrolling, The practice of spending too much attention to negative news especially online, which can be detrimental to one's health and well-being. Has seen a surge during the 2020s especially in a time of anxiety and uncertainty during the COVID-19 pandemic and the Ukrainian conflict. |
| 116 | Detroit. See Chicago, below, add municipal bankruptcy and dog-whistle criticisms of the decidedly non-Caucasian city administration. Who - liberals, conservatives or the Stormfront crowd - if any of them, is correct about the reasons for it becoming what it has? |
| 116 | Mommy UniversityCreate draft. Whereas the Mommy instinct is the notion that mothers magically know how to care for their children better than healthcare professionals, Mommy University is the even bolder notion that mothers know more about everything than everybody else. Products are hawked as having been "invented by a mom," for example, as though this makes the product better. Mommy bloggers are notorious graduates of this University, and tend toward a surprising level of anti-vax and food woo. (See also "sanctimommy," and the recent hashtag #MomHarder ) |
| 116 | TransethnicCreate draft. As nonsensical as this idea is, perhaps we should define it at least? |
| 116 | Standing desks, or Dangers of sitting depending on the planned scope of the article. Standing desks are being heavily promoted right now as a cure for the serious and crippling health problems caused by our lifestyles of sitting in the car, sitting in front of the computer for eight hours, sitting in the car again, then sitting in front of Netflix for five hours. The studies that have been done have links to standing desk manufacturers that were not disclosed in the papers, and do not show as much positive effect on these problems as claimed. Independent studies show that standing desks do increase physical activity but have no real effect on cardiovascular health; there is emerging evidence that (as anyone who's ever worked retail will tell you) standing on the job is even more damaging to the body; and the frequent canard that hours spent sitting undo the benefits of exercise is not based on any evidence whatsoever. There is even a danger that the standing-health link will be used by ruthless airlines to make flying even worse. Related to the Alexander Technique, the more zealous promoters of which have been known to claim that the chair is the most harmful invention of mankind. (Most Alexander technique teachers are quite happy to use chairs so long as you sit up straight, though.) |
| 116 | Real Life Villains WikiCreate draft is a wikia that categorizes real world villains and displays their crimes. While it obviously shows your standard dictators, cult leaders, and religious centric jerkassess like Adolf Hitler, Charles Manson, and Jerry Falwell the wikia does display some questionable merit. The wiki is very biased towards American imperialism and holds a US centric worldview, there are articles on people for very petty reasons such as user being slightly mean on Deviantart and such, and war criminals such as Henry Kissinger and Vladimir Putin are displayed as "Grey Zone" villains. The worst bias is the disallowed articles which consists of American and pro-American war criminals such as George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Tony Blair, Donald Trump, Woodrow Wilson and Hillary Clinton. It also stated that if you make an article on any of these people you will be banned immediately. Another blatant bias they possess is their constant need to create articles for mythological characters; primarily characters from the Bible. This completely violates their number eight rule: NO Articles on People Who are Too Fictitious. |
| 116 | Kid Rock We already have a page on Dee Snider whose views on transgender people raised some eyebrows, but what about Kid Rock who ostensibly is in favour of abortion and gay marriage yet is also a GOPher and a transphobe? |
| 115 | Village atheistCreate draft. The stereotype of the evangelical atheist did not begin with "New Atheism". The character of Miles Bjornstam from Sinclair Lewis's Main Street is one starting point. |
| 115 | 1080; pesticide used to control invasive species in New Zealand and save NZ's native wildlife. Subject of all sorts of ridiculous crazy conspiracy nonsense akin to anti-vaxx nonsense. See Wikipedia and http://www.1080facts.co.nz/ |
| 114 | Hypochondria. Not quite the same as self-diagnosis, but relevant. Current article is a near-worthless stub. |
| 114 | The Satanic Temple.[140] A group of Satanists that are fairly active with social and political issues surrounding religious freedom, including their current mission to get a statue of Satan erected outside the Oklahoma state capital building. |
| 114 | Marijuana woo, a rich and high-THC seam of batshit claims about the health, economic and social benefits of everything to do with cannabis, and totally not just because the proponents want to get high as shit nonono. Currently two sentences at Marijuana#Woo. |
| 113 | My Parents Open CarryCreate draft. Naming the father character in a pro-gun book "Dick Strong", frankly, is begging liberals to make fun of it. Even ignoring the content of this book, it's awful: wooden prose, bad grammar, hectoring tone. Yet, it's quite popular on Amazon (it was promoted by Stephen Colbert and Bill Maher according to the back cover). |
| 113 | Gentrification. When the white hipsters discover your funky and quaint neighborhood and price you out of it. |
| 113 | FIFA. The world's largest sports governing body is a filthy, corrupt cesspool. |
| 113 | Doctor Who Arguably the most popular science fiction program in the world. Numerous scientists have commented on the possibility of the various technologies addressed, though seemingly not hard science advocate Richard Dawkins, despite being married to actress Lalla Ward who played Time Lady Romana. [141] It would be worth including a discussion of the actual educational merits of the show which began as a BBC children's program, and whether or not it promotes harmful science woo doing harm to the young as the Chinese government alleges all time travel fiction does. [techland.time.com/2011/04/13/china-decides-to-ban-time-travel/] There are bound to be homophobes complaining about the latest companion being gay. [142] As of 2018, Doctor Who is now a woman.[47] |
| 113 | Yellow fever, the phenomenon of reactionary white men preying on Asian women under a misguided belief that they're submissive and feminine, as versus western women they believe to be "infected by feminism". This is quite a prominent issue in feminist and social justice circles; Asian-American feminists really hate it. |
| 112 | Street EpistemologyCreate draft developed by Peter Boghossian is a newer activity which is a partly scripted question asking method some atheists use to induce doubts in people's god beliefs-seems worth researching for potential benefits and problems it might have. Or it could just be acting like a stereotypical atheist dick. Let's write it up and see! |
| 112 | Joy of SatanCreate draft, Neo-Nazi UFO Satanic Cult, large presence on the Internet |
| 112 | Stalinism A political philosophy espoused by Joseph Stalin, basically one of the original totalitarian ideologies of the 20th century, along with Italian Fascism and Nazism. Currently just a redirect to Joseph Stalin |
| 112 | Hideki Tojo, Japanese prime minister/dictator during World War II and notorious war criminal. |
| 112 | Geomancy, the art and "science" of predicting the future by tossing and then interpreting dirt. May be confused with Feng Shui, which is sometimes also called "Geomancy" |
| 112 | Illumicorp video hoaxCreate draft An INCREDIBLY well done hoax/parody showing an Illuminati training video. Although the video producer admitted it was a joke a while back, it still is being touted as real by conspiracy whackers that didn't quite get the message. This could be its own article, or an add-on to our current Illuminati article.[143] |
| 111 | It Works!Create draft Actually, it's apparently some kind of body wrap that is supposed to help weight loss in spite of any evidence that it actually, y'know, works. Also promoted via multi-level marketing. |
| 111 | Tiananmen Square Massacre - Pretty self-explanatory, a very violent crackdown on a peaceful protest which the Chinese government continues to cover up to this day. |
| 111 | Savant syndrome is a condition in which a person with a mental disability, such as an autism spectrum disorder, demonstrates profound and prodigious capacities or abilities far in excess of what would be considered normal. |
| 111 | Steven Bonnell IICreate draft, better known as Destiny, is a Twitch streamer that recently gained fame for his debate with YouTuber JonTron. He also did debates with notable Anti-SPOOKs such as Lauren Southern and Sargon of Akkad (twice), as well as infamous "Pharma Bro" Martin Shkreli. |
| 111 | Night Wolves, Russian outlaw motorcycle gang co-opted by Putin in order to push his agenda. Western commentators have noted how Vlad used otherwise criminal gangs (*cough* Wagner Group *cough*) such as the Wolves to his advantage so as long as they play ball with him. |
| 111 | "Everyone is racist - I just admit it" - an argument that certain racist individuals and organisations use to justify their prejudices. (Comment: Actually, it's a form of a more general argument: "everyone is [negative quality X], therefore [my (extreme) form of X] is OK", though I'm not sure what to call that one) |
| 110 | Ted Bundy - Aside from being a disgusting serial killer, his career trajectory reads like a who's who's of the pre-Reagan religious right. |
| 110 | ScienceProvesIt.comCreate draft[144] a project of AIG. |
| 110 | Tong renCreate draft: smacking dolls with a hammer will heal you. Yeah, it's as silly as it sounds. |
| 110 | Night of Long Knives The Nazi purge of political dissidents as well as people who helped Hitler rise to power. |
| 110 | Night of Shattered Glass The Nazi purge & riot of Jewish ghettos |
| 110 | Transgender TrendCreate draft a British anti-Transgender group that wants to circulate anti-trans material in schools. |
| 109 | John SearlCreate draft. Free energy con man. By reader request. |
| 109 | Onion - the vegetable, not the website. Provoked by encountering the idea that a red onion applied to the sole of your foot sucks out toxins and negative energy. (Really.) There's probably other fascinating woo. |
| 109 | Judicial review denialismCreate draft, the latest form of right-wing pseudolaw created to oppose same-sex marriage, by denying that the Obergefell v. Hodges decision is legally binding, which is being trotted out by Republican pundits ad nauseam. Could possibly be just a section in Judicial review. |
| 109 | World of Lucid DreamingCreate draft: 400,000 monthly views. Relevant research: Lucid dreaming exists as a measurable phenomenon (also this and this) but that's about as far as you should trust the site. Bob_M's review: "Its suggestions on how do reality checks while dreaming, what to do about false awakenings - where people dream they have woken up multiple times - along with their description of sleep paralysis are all pretty good. Just don't buy any supplements or machines." But see this mishmash of new age folk psychology and Jungian symbolism. They peddle lucid dreaming supplements, lucid dreaming books, lucid dreaming products and the likes. The woman running the site, Rebecca, also offers an expensive lucid dreaming course, which she uses the site to advertise for. (and use those three to expand this). Reverend Black Percy (talk) 13:56, 27 December 2016 (UTC) |
| 108 | A Chinese therapy called paidaCreate draft ("pat therapy" or "slap therapy") was covered earlier this year by the BBC. There has been at least one death associated with it.[145] |
| 108 | COINTELPRO, a series of covert, and at times illegal, projects conducted by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) aimed at surveilling, infiltrating, discrediting, and disrupting domestic political organizations. Discussed briefly in the article on the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The topic appears in all sorts of conspiracy theories and might warrant an article of its own. |
| 108 | If anyone here can speak Portuguese, please enlighten us on the antics of Josue YrionCreate draft. |
| 108 | getoutofdebtfree.orgCreate draft deserves a fisking of its "methods" (e.g. "common law" copyrighting of your name), or at least a section in the suitable article, whichever it is. (Prompted by someone linking to RW in their forum and the assertion that they are not FOTL; please don't touch this unless you have a good understanding of (pseudo)law) |
| 107 | Connection theoryCreate draft is a new nuttiness dreamed up by the Bay Area transhumanist crowd. It's sufficiently nutty that even LessWrong posters take the piss out of it. But they're apparently attracting actual money. Anyone feel like researching and writing it up? [146] [147] [148] [149] Most of the original pages about it have been taken down, but are still in the Wayback Machine. |
| 107 | InternetAristocratCreate draft - conservative, racist, MRA who is a leader of Gamergate. |
| 107 | The concept of a Baby BrainCreate draft which is basically the other side of the Mommy instinct coin. The idea that once a (previously competent) woman has had a baby, she magically is unable to do anything other that look after the baby (and often by implication, he husband.) |
| 107 | Ricky Gervais, comedian and internet atheist |
| 107 | Naomi Wolf, the once-regarded feminist intellectual who wrote The Beauty Myth and is now a conspiracy theorist (5G a speciality) and Twitter reject. |
| 107 | Interpol — the international police agency. China possibly forced the former president of Interpol into resigning. Russia almost got its man appointed to be the new head. China, Russia and other states have used Interpol to harass political dissidents contrary to Interpol's rules. The predecessor to Interpol was headed by three different class-A Nazi war criminals. |
| 107 | The Kali Yuga: In Hinduism, this is supposed to be the dark age in a supposed four-stage cycle, with the other three being the Satya Yuga, the Treta Yuga, and the Dvapara Yuga. It has been been incorporated into esoteric fascist philosophy multiple times since the 1930s, often with a particular interest in its predicted end and the subsequent dawn of the Satya Yuga (a golden age), which is comparable to the Christian end times or the Germanic pagan Ragnarok. It has also crept into many New Age movements, unfortunately this usually comes by way of the the aforementioned esoteric fascist philosophy. |
| 106 | Edinburgh Creation GroupCreate draft - a creationist group in Edinburgh with a bunch of videos (most of them by Seraph Media) on the web site featuring the guys promoted by AiG |
| 106 | Another "messiah", Goel RatzonCreate draft, convicted on rape and incest, this one went on a breeding campaign in Israel. See [150] and [151] |
| 106 | Troubled teen homeCreate drafts, Christian and secular, for the abuse in them. (Example coverage from 2011, but I've seen a more recent one].) RW already has coverage of one, Hephzibah House, that is currently shoved as a section in Magdalene laundries where it doesn't belong. |
| 106 | Rhema - weird-arse fundie sect founded by Kenneth Hagin. Anyone from Perth, Western Australia will have encountered these loons. |
| 106 | Something on the LessWrong "LessWrong SequencesCreate draft Treated as scripture there (in the sense of being proclaimed as the foundational text but roundly ignored in practice). The actual content is somewhere between stopped clock and Sherlock's criticism |
| 106 | Adolf Eichmann was a German Nazi SS-Obersturmbannführer (lieutenant colonel) and one of the major organizers of the Holocaust. Eichmann was charged by SS-Obergruppenführer (general/lieutenant general) Reinhard Heydrich with facilitating and managing the logistics of mass deportation of Jews to ghettos and extermination camps in German-occupied Eastern Europe during World War II. In 1960, he was captured in Argentina by Mossad, Israel's intelligence service. Following a widely publicized trial in Israel, he was found guilty of war crimes and hanged in 1962. |
| 106 | TheQuarteringCreate draft is a very popular Anti SJW youtuber. The fact that there is no article on this motherfucker and his multicolored beard is offensive. A draft has been created. |
| 106 | Vertical farming and the claimed environmental benefits. |
| 106 | What Is a Woman? Matt Walsh's transphobic propaganda film. |
| 106 | Health Impact NewsCreate draft - a woo-freindly, anti-vaxxer promoting site, only a few rungs above NaturalNews. Also has articles such as "Intelligent Design vs. Scientism" (sic) and "More Evidence of Scientism as Religion." Website |
| 106 | [152] Raw for BeautyCreate draft: Social media's answer to NaturalNews and mercola.com. Essentially a hive of misinformation advocating raw foodism, nature woo, alternative medicine, and other bogus crap. Unfortunately, they're also extremely popular and, being a Facebook page, their claims spread like wildfire. |
| 105 | Modafinil, a sleep-cycle-adjusting drug with some documented effects and some woo-ish notions that it's a smart drug of some sort. |
| 105 | Cuckold, currently a redirect to Manosphere glossary, but the history of its use as a generic term of abuse would be good to write up, particularly with the recent prominence of cuckservative. [153] has some well-traced history, [154] has an anecdote on how it became common on 4chan (posters trolling /pol/ with interracial cuckold porn). "cuck" has a long history in both /pol/ and neoreactionary circles; as it happens, Robin Hanson of overcomingbias.com (predecessor to LessWrong) has done the hard thinking on cuckoldry (and how). Honestly, it's like these people literally spend all day every day thinking about nothing but BIG BLACK COCKS. More: [155] |
| 105 | Koanic SoulCreate draft: a deeply nuts ([156][157][158]) scientific racist site that actually gets >0 play in neoreaction. Mr. 74 liked them too. Vault-Co is also a fan. With added Bitcoin.[159] |
| 105 | Pussy Church of Modern WitchcraftCreate draft, a church run by TERFs. |
| 105 | Boomers. I'm surprised the wiki doesn't have an article on Boomers yet, considering the current intergenerational divide and associated strife, as well as the gerontocracy that is the United States. |
| 105 | ReligiousTolerance.org, a well-known website that is one of the few generally unbiased resources of various religions. |
| 105 | Stop the Thyroid MadnessCreate draft ([160]), a book and blog by a non-endocrinologist non-doctor who blames everything that's wrong in the lives of people with hypothyroidism on the mainstream treatment regimen. Focus is on how much better you feel when you switch to desiccated thyroid extract, the "natural" treatment we used in the good ol' days. |
| 104 | Jace ConnorsCreate draft. Youtuber, conspiracy theorist, wingnut, stoner, mall ninja, racist, homophobe, and Islamophobe guilty of both consuming and promoting gratuitous amounts of paramilitary woo. Hosts a weekly political call-in show where he has, among other things, posited that not only is Obama a Muslim but one born in the Middle East who plans to destroy America by instigating a race war. On the other hand, he isn't that well-known outside of his cult following of trolls. |
| 104 | Masonicinfo.comCreate draft. If you have an anti-freemason claim, masonicinfo will have the refutation, and the conspiracy theorist will throw the shill gambit. |
| 104 | Remnant of GodCreate draft, a Webshite about end times paranoia. Apparently thinks The Pope is the Antichrist. |
| 104 | Dogs NaturallyCreate draft - "the most complete source of natural health care for dogs" [161]. Has been called the NaturalNews of dog ownership. Animal abuse for the wootastic. |
| 104 | How to Good-Bye DepressionCreate draft If You Constrict Anus 100 Times Everyday. Malarkey? or Effective Way?. Might be a Poe, might be a racist joke, but dude has a website. |
| 104 | ADoseofBuckleyCreate draft, a Canadian humorist who posts YouTube videos under the tagline "Angry Humour From An Angry Man." He posts videos on everything from pop music and ad campaigns to social concerns, with purposefully snarky comments. In particular consideration to watch, and comment on either in an article or side-by-side list or refutation are his videos about Slutwalk, patriarchy, the Oregon bakery case (as a side note in the patriarchy video) nice guys, marijuana (specifically 420), AlterNet (in a video entitled Fox News vs. Alternative Media), and obesity. His YouTube channel is here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9kMnSZQd53hE-1sb1f9sdA/videos?feature=hovercard |
| 104 | Heinrich Himmler Reichfuhrer-SS Heinrich Himmler was the leader of the SS, one of the main perpetrators of the Holocaust, as well as a nutty Neo-pagan who financed several archaeological trips which helped inspire the Indiana Jones movies. |
| 104 | National Socialist Movement in the Netherlands is a former Dutch Far-Right party during WO II that sided with the Nazi's. |
| 104 | Food preservation: I recently encountered a food storage bag that "improved" food preservation by supposedly removing ethylene gas using some sort of sachet. Similar products are available: [162][163][164][165]. There are some papers written on the subject that lack experimental data. This is legit or pseudoscience? (I notice food preservation claims of Pyramids and magnets) |
| 104 | Pornhub, While we do have an article about porn and human trafficking in general, perhaps an overview on the moral panic involving the premier adult entertainment portal should be in order, especially considering how sweeping changes it enacted regarding user content was spurred by a relentless campaign by far-right fundie group Exodus Cry. |
| 104 | Testimony of conversionCreate draft, or some similar phrase, for every conservative Christian who starts a bout of proselytizing with "I used to be atheist/liberal/evolutionist/whatever, but then I learned about Jesus." |
| 103 | Mariusz Trynkiewicz, a notorious pedophile from Poland arrested in the 80s for murdering children, released 20 years later under an insanity plea, and recently for cybercrimes on unnamed victims. The lack of info people know of his case, or him of general outside Poland, is a strong indicator of how truly corrupt the CBA and the FBI are, refusing to investigate possible accomplices in the Americas, with many of his victims outside Poland who have outspoken accused of being liars, making the whole story up out of pity. Remind you of anything? (draft here: User:NoJohYouAreTheDemons/Mariusz_Trynkiewicz) |
| 103 | PsycheTruthCreate draft - A channel on Youtube with over 880,000 subscribers, yet it's jam-packed with woo. |
| 103 | Manifesto for a Post-Materialist ScienceCreate draft: Document arguing against scientific materialism. Cowritten by Rupert Sheldrake. ID supporters like it, as do Christians (Mormons?). The original is here, the fawning HuffPo is here, the less-fawning SciAm blog is here; Skeptiko forums likes it. A skeptical view is here, snarky comments here here and here. |
| 103 | Needs to be done, for Thunderf00t's sake. Argumentum ad vos-fistulaCreate draft, literally, "argument from you-tube"; a logical fallacy where "facts" are cited to videos found on Youtube. Or just Argumentum ad YouTube if you want anyone to click on the title ever. |
| 103 | We seriously don't have an article on Causality? How did that happen? |
| 103 | Modes of learningCreate draft, the idea that some people are more "visual" of "auditory" etc. learners. I hear that there's no scientific evidence for it. |
| 103 | 2023 Anheuser-Busch boycottCreate draft Oooh boy... As if one trans person's endorsement of a product would make you wingnuts any less of a person. |
| 102 | Monika MilkaCreate draft, proprietor of Monika's EntityCreate draft, a deeply fraudulent medical woo site. News reports, homeopathy of the oceans. The writing on the Facebook page should be entirely in green. And the Freeman disclaimer. |
| 102 | Yurugu: An African-Centered Critique of European Cultural Thought and BehaviorCreate draft, by Marimba Ani. One of the most popular black supremacist books. Some of its analysis is arguably defensible, but it's also full of bizarre woo and pseudohistory, such as this bit about blacks being more capable of absorbing "divine energy" due to their dark skin, and virtually every stick-shaped object (including, I shit you not, umbrellas) being a manifestation of the white man's fear of the black man's penis. |
| 102 | Alive.comCreate draft[166] is an alternative medicine quack fest from Biritsh columbia, it is a magazine and website about "natural" (ie Bullshit medicinal ways. it is full of random quackery |
| 102 | Nazi experimentation (under whatever title) - for its ironically anti-scientific nature. |
| 102 | Article Four of the Articles of ConfederationCreate draft - Not sure the Most Unexceptional way to title the article, but I've noticed a lot of sovereign citizen nuts screaming about it in youtube videos where they get themselves arrested. They apparently believe that it's the basis for them not having to obey the law. Based on wikipedia, and my reading of that particular article just says States can't bar citizens of other States from entering unless they're criminals or homeless (apparently tMigrants around Calaishe Constitution made that part more PC), and has to treat them the same as citizens of the State they're entering. Thought we should tackle this. |
| 102 | BoughtCreate draft, a movie about how vaccines and GMOs are evil -- and, worse, corporationy. (c.f. this examiner.com article) |
| 102 | The Panama Papers or Panama Leak. I think the biggest leak in the history of Journalism concerning 143 politicians including 12 world leaders, 2.6 terabytes of information, summary of information released and reactions, links to the leak itself is anyone can be bothered to read it. This is fairly basic jumping off point [167] and here is the leak's website [168] |
| 102 | Girl DefinedCreate draft, a pair of right-wing evangelical Christian youtubers who make videos marketed heavily towards tween and teen girls. |
| 101 | New Zealand First, a populist, anti-immigrant party in New Zealand, currently part of the government coalition with the Labour Party. With the focus on racism and anti-immigrant feeling after the Christchurch terrorist attacks, an article would be timely. Plus they're actually in government. |
| 101 | Kundalini is a loose new-age concept becoming popular in mainstream circles and celebrities, and also a bogeyman in religious circles; for example when you push someone to explain how they know Beyonce sold their soul they bring up her "Kundalini awakening" and how it helps her dance |
| 100 | Benjamin FulfordCreate draft. claims a bunch of absurd things about the Illuminati and Freemasons, and that he'll take them down singlehandedly. This is him. |
| 100 | Inference: International Review of ScienceCreate draft, an alleged academic journal with a taste for crankery. Includes Michael Denton on |
| 100 | AuroraTekCreate draft I stumbled on this Webshite today; they sell a "Self-Charging Electric Scooter" for $1500 ... their "science" page talks about travelling faster than light, and their news page talks about "my contact with human-appearing extraterrestrials" ... It has all the indications of being complete bullshit (but didn't investigate too deeply)... ((I'm writing this; it'll be up in a few hours so no removing it tyvm ~$catb0t(Totally |
| 100 | Lindsey DuncanCreate draft and his companies agreed to pay the Federal Trade Commission a fine of $9 million for false claims about weight loss from their green coffee bean extract. |
| 100 | Gabor FeketeCreate draft a physics crank and troll. Emails physicists pretending to be from the Nobel committee; has attained some small fame for this in the field. [169][170][171][172][173] Has been at this for years[174]. |
| 100 | Blackshirts Fascist militants who were instrumental to Mussolini's rise to power. |
| 100 | Collagen, the protein which is key for our skin make-up. Beauty industry had long capitalised on it with creams, injections, etc. Recently, drinks and other such supplements appeared, as reported here and here, even though collagen obviously doesn't survive going through the digestion system. More dubious links[175][176][177][178][179] Skeptical: Arthritis Research UK[180] |
| 100 | #ThotPatrolCreate draft, also known as "#ThotAudit" is a campaign led by incels trying/threatening to report Snapchat and Instagram cam girls to the IRS.[48] Unsurprisingly, many of the ThotPatrollers are trying to claim that #ThotPatrol is ACKCHYUALLY about ethics in taxation, indicating that the movement is nothing more than a reincarnation of Gamergate. |
| 100 | James Stephanie Sterling (aka Jimquisition) has always been a staunch critic of what they perceive to be shady business practices within the video games industry, especially AAA publishers in recent years. JSS is also critical of Capitalism in general. [181] [182] |
| 100 | The Forde Report I figured the wiki should have a page on Martin Forde's report on Anti Semitism being used as a weapon in the british Labour Party by both the Corbynites and the Blairites. |
| 99 | Jack DonovanCreate draft White nationalist, neoreactionary internet kook obsessed with masculinity. Hates gays despite, bizarrely, being gay himself. Currently a paragraph in Manosphere. |
| 99 | Joyce Meyer; yet another televangelist who begs for money from her followers under the ostensible penalty of God's disfavor and spends it on private jets and Mercedes-Benzes. |
| 99 | Yeonmi Park is a defector from North Korea aka the DPRK, running the channel Voice of North Korea who shot to fame thanks to her pretty outlandish claims of North Korean life and with regards to her escape. She made the rounds on UN panels and big podcasts warning against "woke culture", political correctness and the dangers they pose to freeze peach and, ultimately, to freedom in the west. Here's an article by the Diplomat covering the questionable veracity of her story, and and here's another article covering her more recent antics. |
| 99 | TFP Student ActionCreate draft Is a branch from the American TFP society (tradition, family, property), very devious and manipulative group of young (well dressed) Catholics who travel the states protesting for right wing solutions to problems as well as running chivalry camps which are basically right wing indoctrination centres for kids |
| 98 | Jennifer HoultCreate draft, because we should be weary of someone who had a false memory of child sexual abuse back in the day, still believes it, and does research on sexual abuse (because there is good chance her research is heavily tinged by her conspiratorial views). Also a parental alienation denier (why not, since both false memories and parental alienation are heavily linked?) |
| 98 | An Inconvenient Truth was more than just a redirect, but still needs a fair amount of both criticism and praise for its content. Also, some "Denialist Debunking" section is needed. |
| 98 | Facts over feelingsCreate draft a.k.a "facts don't care about your feelings." Ben Shapiro catchphrase that's grown into a fallacious debate tactic on the right. |
| 97 | Pawns in the GameCreate draft By William Guy Carr. Oh boy... |
| 97 | Conspiracy theorists tend to call themselves Political prisoners. We could make a list of actually political prisoners and cranks who call themselves that. It would be similar to our whistleblower page. |
| 97 | Dead Sea Scrolls: important as evidence for or against the New Testament account and traditional theories of Biblical authorship. But also subject of a zillion myths, strange claims, and erroneous interpretations, which should be documented and refuted. |
| 97 | An article on White OppressionCreate draft cause it turns out that Republican white people especially think their whiteness is being oppressed. |
| 97 | FCKH8 Gay rights group accused of being biphobic, transphobic and misogynistic. |
| 97 | Boogie2988, Youtuber who thinks gay marriage shouldn’t be legal until 20 years from now in order to prevent gay people from being murdered for being gay.[49] He has also argued that some good came out of the Holocaust, using the Nazis murdering Anne Frank as an example of said "good".[50] It makes no sense to us either. |
| 97 | Non-fungible tokens or NFTs. The latest blockchain bullshit that people and organizations that don't know any better are getting in on. Waste obscene amounts of money and electricity so you can get a certificate for a jpg or some other file that says you own it, but not really, you can't collect royalties on it or control the IP rights, and other people can still copy it and... yeah. |
| 97 | Spanish Civil War. A simply startling omission. |
| 96 | Rima LaibowCreate draft, aka Dr Rima [183][184], quack and conspiracy theorist. |
| 96 | Pink tax or things aimed at women being priced higher than the male equivalent. Is it real or just a conspiracy made up by people on tumblr. |
| 96 | The Atheist DelusionCreate draft is a "response to the famous "The God Delusion" by Richard Dawkins, and the points it makes are very flawed to say the least. |
| 96 | Gareth Icke, a singer-songwriter who is Dave's son, and has some really "interesting" views on things like vaccines, Soros, and the coronavirus. |
| 96 | "Clean Wehrmacht" myth, Germany's answer to the so-called "Lost Cause" of the Confederacy, with denialists/negationists especially within veterans' circles downplaying if not completely dismissing any atrocities carried out by Werhmacht servicemen. While there could be indeed those who simply fought for the fatherland and did not simply buy into Hitler's bullshit (hurr durr Pope Benedict XVI when he was a Hitlerjugend soldier even if he was roped into it despite the Ratzingers being vehemently anti-Nazi), there's damning evidence that a significant number of German troops who were indeed just as guilty as the Waffen-SS goons who are even more villified. |
| 95 | SA Nazi militants who were instrumental to Hitler's rise to power - Later pushed to the side because the Wehrmacht didn't like them and because of fears they'd take the "socialist" in "national-socialist" seriously |
| 95 | Interstellar is a 2014 science fiction film directed by Christopher Nolan and starring Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain, and Michael Caine. Caltech theoretical physicist Kip Thorne, whose work inspired the film, was an executive producer and acted as scientific consultant. While the film did well with both critics and moviegoers, the film received mixed reception by members of the scientific community for its scientific accuracy. |
| 95 | SaveOurSteelCreate draft Basically the uk steel industry is being discussed to be closed down by the Tories after dismantling half the welfare state, leading to the loss of hundreds if not thousands of jobs, pissing of the people with those jobs, and creating a massive controversy. Summary of events, for and against. Really needed |
| 95 | Bob WhitakerCreate draft/Robert Whitaker, former Reagan staffer, running an openly racist campaign for 2016 US president on the American Freedom Party ticket.[185] Inventor of the "anti-racist is a code word for anti-white" crap. |
| 95 | Aceh: An autonomous part of Indonesia under sharia law (for Muslim residents) known for several human rights abuses, such as the public flogging of gays and the "reeducation" of trans inhabitants. |
| 95 | David Hogg, notable gun control activist. Has received several rape threats and death threats from various gun nuts. |
| 95 | List of Religions It would be nice to have a list of religions and their denominations, especially since it would make ot easy to find which of them haven't had pages written about them yet. |
| 95 | Bill Barr, Donald Trump's attorney general. He enables Trump's authoritarian instincts by using his authority to protect the president and his allies, and punish real and perceived political opponents. |
| 95 | sv3rigeCreate draft (aka. Goatis) a Youtube personality who poses as a nutritionist. He's a flat-earther, anti-vegan, anti-vaxxer, raw meat eater, grifter, germ theory and covid denialist and an all-around crank magnet. He loves to call everything unnatural. |
| 94 | Inflammation, the latest trendy bogeyman in the alternative medicine/food woo crowd. If you don't feel good, it must be because of "inflammation" caused by eating junk food/exposure to toxins/not being on the paleo diet. Plus, inflammation is why you're fat. |
| 94 | CNBC. I am surprised we don't have an article on it yet. |
| 94 | The idea of a Feminazi (currently a redirect to Rush Limbaugh) should be discussed, and its minority status made clear. [186] |
| 94 | European refugee crisis, 2015 European refugee crisis, Syrian refugee crisis, or maybe just Refugees. Lots of missional stuff here. We have Immigration (stub), but IMHO refugees is not the same thing as (economic) immigration (although there is obviously a large overlap). |
| 94 | Engrams are a supposed mental image of past pain in the "reactive mind" on Scientology. They are also a legitimate explanation for the consistency of memory; in neuroscience engrams are biophysical or biochemical changes in the brain which are a part of a biological neural network. |
| 94 | The Panama Deception is a documentary about the 1989 US invasion of Panama. It asserts that the US invaded in order to renegotiate the Torrijos-Carter Treaty , but also states that the US tested energy weapons in order to test them. This film won an Academy Award for Most Unexceptional Documentary. |
| 94 | The argument used by racists that George Washington Carver stole his ideas from Edmund Ruffin should be debunked if possible. |
| 94 | Arch WarhammerCreate draft - A Youtuber who makes videos on Warhammer Lore, Video Games, and his political beliefs. Arch has asked if the Imperium in Warhammer 40k is Fascist [187] [188], discussed drama over him pertaining to the 40k Lore subreddit [189] [190] [191], among other wingnutty takes (e.g. gender pronouns, Christchurch shooting, and Project Veritas) [192] [193] [194] [195] [196] [197] [198] [199] [200] |
| 94 | Project 2025, a plan by the Heritage Foundation to reshape the Federal Government according to the values of Donald Trump; As one could expect, it's Bigoted and Authoritarian as all hell. |
| 93 | The Federalist, the latest socially conservative website masquerading as a force of reason. |
| 93 | Nazi Occultism The occult beliefs that the nazis had, especially when it came to Atlantis, Thule, magic, neo-paganism, etc. |
| 93 | Dr ShaymCreate draft is a youtuber, antifeminst, and critic of "SJWs." He is quite popular with nearly 450k subcribers. |
| 93 | The Adam and Eve StoryCreate draft, a 1960's book allegedly censored by the Central Intelligence Agency and declassified in 2013, contains pole shift and flood myth/Bible/angels nonsense, as well as some quackery about antigravity and evolution. |
| 93 | Myles PowerCreate draft - a Youtuber who is skeptical of Alternative medicine and Pseudoscience (which he occasionally conflates with each other.) Miles has also tackled Holocaust denial, Conspiracy theories, and Genetically modified food. Some of his videos have even been mentioned in, if not cited as sources on our articles for Kyle Kulinski, Jilly Juice, and The Young Turks. |
| 93 | Looking for DarwinCreate draft, a book by Lloyd Spencer Davis, might deserve its own article, as it proclaims to be "a search for meaning in a world that pits evolution against creationism, Intelligent Design of an all-seeing God versus the blind hand of Natural Selection". Considering the subject of many articles here, it sounds like it deserves a place in that discussion, while so far it isn't there anywhere, not even mentioned on any page as paragraph or source. |
| 92 | 1980 October Surprise, A conspiracy theory that the Ronald Reagan administration stole the election from Jimmy Carter by negotiating with Iran to delay hostage releases until after Carter left office. I don't have time, but it does seem on mission to me. |
| 92 | Volkstaat - an Afrikaner political project in South Africa to basically start over with Apartheid on a smaller territory but without any black people in it Wikipedia has an article on it. Thankfully it has stayed a fringe movement even within white South Africans... |
| 92 | Obergefell v. Hodges is currently just a redirect to Same-sex marriage i think we should give it the same treatment as Roe v. Wade and Kitzmiller v. Dover |
| 92 | Hippotherapy? |
| 92 | Human Longevity WooCreate draft seems to be a topic that comes up a lot amongst people who push New Age and alternative medicine. A common talking point for these sorts of promoters involves an ill-defined period in the past when humans weren't being exposed to toxins and had longer lifespans |
| 92 | Firearms Policy CoalitionCreate draft Is a fringe lobbyist group that advocates for weapon deregulation in the United States. Arguably more extreme than the GOA. |
| 91 | Twitchy, a Twitter propaganda site run by none other than Michelle Malkin herself. |
| 91 | Google Earth. Perfect for finding Symbols of your favorite Secret Society in geography, finding FEMA Camps, certain prophecies in the bible being fulfilled (like the shapes of certain things like lakes in Asia relating the the Symbols in Revelation), and a LOT more Bullshit. Currently just a redirect to Google. |
| 91 | Consensual crime - A.k.a. victimless crimes, e.g. recreational drugs, prostitution, gambling, sodomy (in some jurisdictions), etc.. |
| 91 | MOVE Black Power & Radical Environmentalist/Animal Rights group that committed 2 shootings and 1 bombing. |
| 91 | Disposition Matrix is Obama's administration's official kill/capture list used for drone killings, rendition, and surveillance of suspected terrorists. The criteria for someone to end up on this list is classified and the CIA and Obama administration have refused to comment on it; this list has been said to most likely exist indefinitely. John Brennan has heavily shaped how this list works. The WaPo originally revealed this story and everyone from the ACLU to Rand Paul has condemned it. This should be chalk full of civil liberties violations and have many conspiracy theories surrounding it. |
| 91 | Thule Society Early 1920s German occultic society that would later inspire the Nazis. |
| 91 | Moonshine is illicitly distilled or smuggled liquor. |
| 91 | PSA SitchCreate draft An anti-SJW YouTuber who recently cracked 100k subscribers. He actually makes some points that deserve response unlike most anti-SJWs who are just in it to troll and mock leftists. |
| 91 | Progressive conservative - no, not a oxymoron, and actually still exist in some pockets outside the US. (Also, movement conservative.) |
| 90 | Geuzen. They were a lose collection of Calvinist Christians who would launch terrorist attacks against Dutch towns (e.g. burning down churches associated with Catholicism; raping nuns when nunneries ran out of supplies to raid) to force people into converting to their religious ideology. They later set up ships for piracy attacking Spanish Catholics. Other than that, they believed Muslim Turks to be more favourable than Catholics and used the crescent in medals. (But see wp:Geuzen before you do anything about it.) |
| 90 | Zoltan Istvan, a transhumanist "philosopher". His Wikipedia article is puffed-up to ridiculous proportions ("no really, he's a philosopher!") His transhumanist novel is an Objectivist diatribe. Even other transhumanists find him too annoying and not useful. |
| 90 | Cathy Young - a self-described feminist who has been very critical of the movement since the early 1990s. She writes about gender issues, tending to focus on men's issues, and also speaks out against some of the SPOOK hysterics on the subject of rape and especially campus rape. Also one of the Gamergate supporters, and by extension a critic of its opponents. In addition, she comments on politics as a self-described libertarian. |
| 90 | Omar Al-Bashir (or any of the various other spellings) supreme dipshit of (North) Sudan and only sitting head of state to ever be accused of war crimes, I am sure we can elaborate on his guilt or innocence and maybe there are even some apologists for his deeds in some woo-ish crank corners... |
| 90 | The Killian documents controversy, a.k.a. the forged documents which "proved" that Dubya didn't go to war. |
| 90 | Sesame Credit, the Authoritarian game designed by Tencent that gives you points and benefits for toeing the CPP's line, and will become mandatory in 2020. |
| 90 | Sons of Iraq, a |
| 90 | Keith Lowell JensenCreate draft, atheist comedian. |
| 90 | Nim Chimpsky or Project Nim or chimp sign language: another topic with grand claims but also allegations of bad science or scientific fraud. The film Project Nim covers a famous experiment with teaching sign language to a chimpanzee Nim Chimpsky. Separating fact from fiction would be good. |
| 90 | Solyndra! It's the new ACORN and part of the eco-fascist conspiracy! Run! |
| 90 | Smart home systems are commonly believed to be spying on their users |
| 90 | America's Frontline Doctors Anti-Vax foundation founded in 2019 by Right-wing troll Simone Gold. |
| 89 | Eyewitness identification and the accuracy thereof, especially in law enforcement (e.g. identity parades, picking out mugshots), is an interesting topic that has been widely studied. The failure of people to correctly identify suspects seems to go against common sense, and has relevance to other epistemological questions, as well as to wider issues in the criminal justice system. |
| 89 | Alignment FallacyCreate draft: The assumption that X and Y must be the same just because they oppose Z. (Real World Example: Michael Knowles equating the left and Alt-right because they are "both alternatives to American conservatism") Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHXL00wY3nY at the 1:00 mark. |
| 89 | Hurricane Maria, since we have Hurricane Katrina as an article, which criticizes the government for its response before and after the storm, then we might as well make one for Maria for Trump's poor response,[51] his attacks on San Juan's mayor, Carmen Yulin Cruz, and his excuses and lies about the death toll[52] by claiming that democrats are saying it "to make him look bad"[53] along with right-wing media defending him.[54][55][56][57] |
| 89 | 9/11 Truth Action ProjectCreate draft: Another 9/11 group that wants the truth about the inside jobby-job. their website. An observation made by someone from the ISF And according to that post, it would seem that the leader of this "movement", is a guy called David Fura. |
| 89 | Thor Heyerdahl, known for his Kon Tiki expedition and his theories of Polynesian migration. |
| 89 | William Henry HarrisonCreate draft: The 9th and first president to die in office |
| 89 | Mark Meechan: also known as "Count Dankula", is a white nationalist who got his claim-to-fame through being arrested for teaching his dog how to do the Nazi Salute. He's a far-right libertarian who hides his true nature under the excuse of comedy and "trolling", and he also once operated with Carl Benjamin in UKIP to run on a far-right platform |
| 89 | Folding IdeasCreate draft. Another BreadTuber who has made videos focusing on everything from Flat Earthers to NFTs. Though the channel and its creator, Dan Olson, currently lack a Wikipedia article, the NFT documentary has one. |
| 89 | Denazification — How did it go down? Is the story really more complicated than the popular understanding, as this Politico article says? Whose approach to denazification was more successful: East Germany or West Germany? And what can we make of current applications of denazification to other contexts, such as the removals of Confederate statues and the appropriation of the term by Putin's Russia? |
| 89 | Esoteric Nazism, a small new religious movement that literally believes Adolf Hitler was a god or some such. A wide range of other very surreal beliefs may or may not include that there is or once was a secret utopian continent called Hyperborea where Aryans came from (who may have been giants... or aliens... or Amalekites... or something), that traditional European folklore is literally true (gnomes and shit — but is that just overlap with broader Western esotericism?), swastikas and runes are magical, Atlantis existed and maybe Aryans came from there actually, etc. Often ties into neopaganism and/or Hinduism. See also: Savitri Devi, Vril, Nazi UFOs, Faustian spirit, Occultism in Nazism, O9A, Thule Society, Julius Evola, Ahnenerbe, Robert Charroux, Woden's Folk, Axel Stoll, and Otto Rahn. Compare: Positive Christianity. |
| 88 | The Freikorps, the infamous Weimar Republic-era volunteer paramilitary group that was well known for it's brutality (partially a result of personnel being derived from former Sturmtruppen) and regular use against communists. Like many shock troops left over from WWI, it soon became entangled with fascist elements. |
| 88 | Late-stage Capitalism. Maybe not the academic term but the colloquial term of profits before people. |
| 88 | The notion of dimensions, which has become a woo-magnet for people uneducated in physics. |
| 87 | Internalized racism - Same reason as the below. Definitely related to False consciousness. |
| 87 | George Pataki. Former Republican governor of New York, currently running for President. May be of more note if he does well enough in the primaries, but he's one the very few sane Republicans left, even if he is a tad boring. (Currently redirect to 2016 Republican Party presidential nomination.) |
| 87 | Fred Rogers. If more Christians were like him, this site would be vastly different. So would the world. |
| 87 | Infomercials and shopping channels. How can we not have an article each (or together) on these two sources of fraud, pseudoscience and general crankery? |
| 87 | "Personal responsibility", another platitudinous piece of sophistry, extolled with such religious zeal by conservatives and libertarians that it's practically become an incantation (e.g. "freedom", "free market", "small government", "hard work", etc.). |
| 87 | God's Not Dead 2 the verdict is in! The movie sucks. http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/gods_not_dead_2/. |
| 87 | World of Warcraft. The MMO video game for excellence, that has been around for 13 years (and counting) having millions of subscribers. Given its popularity, that it's precisely a video game, its genre (fantasy) and what it entails (Dungeons & Dragons-lifted off stuff as elves, orcs, etc, paganism, magic, demons, dragons, undead, etc.), those reports of people who got addicted to it often to negligent extremes, |
| 87 | I'm thinking an article on reframingCreate draft Part of the paradox of tolerance, but deliberately invoked by the bigoted. Like how Christians oppress LGBT people, then turn it around as them being oppressed when we ask them to stop. |
| 87 | Transvestigation: Transphobic conspiracy theory that alleges many, or all, celebrities, historical figures, etc. are secretly transgender for some reason. |
| 87 | There is a website humancondition.comCreate draft about 'the human condition', mainly stuff from Jeremy Griffith, a biologist, whose work the late Harry Prosen greatly advocates. At a first glance, the quality of the material is dubious, but some of it seems almost cult-like with 'transformation affirmations' from people who feel 'transformed' through this eye-opening material. Some of it also reads dubiously like psychoanalysis or at least its kinds of immunising strategies or weird claims. Like 'people naturally unconsciously stop listening and don't want to hear about this subject that I come to tell an important truth about, but I was lucky to not have this aversion so I could understand it and share it and it will save us all', this is almost literally the message, which, for something that claims to be based in science, is awfully propagandistic and evangelical. It is a trademarked organisation 'World Transformation Movement', and the first video after an interview they have is literally 'your block to the most wonderful of all gifts', which reads an awful lot like claims from psychoanalysis, which is of course always right because it already explains that people will reject it for unconscious reasons that psychoanalysis explains, and similar immunising strategies of pseudoscience. Further it has some political aspects, mentioning somewhere 'death by dogma left wing threat' and 'saving western civilisation from left wing dogma', while not having any such thing on 'right wing' or 'capitalism'. Perhaps the titles are just clickbaity and it goes into it in nuance in the essays themselves, but some of it is raising some flags, though I couldn't be bothered to check everything yet. So because it is so questionable, perhaps some good rationalists of various backgrounds need to look into it and create a write up of their findings in articles here on RW. There are ads for this stuff regularly popping up on youtube on just about anything for different people, so as it attempts to force its way into popular discourse, it seems in need of some rational treatment. |
| 86 | Max Keiser is an American film maker who hosts shows on RT and Press TV. He is a goldbug and supports Bitcoin. |
| 86 | Heightism - It's somewhat overlooked as a form of discrimination but there have been studies showing a wage gap between shorter people and taller people, and I have heard anecdotes about tall people not being taken as seriously when they're the victims of crimes. Not to mention the stereotypes. |
| 86 | The Palestinian right of return is a claimed right of those who lived in what is now Israel prior to 1948 and left it in the course of the fighting - Unlike any other refugee situation this right is claimed to be inheritable (including through adoption). There might be on-mission stuff to say about whether this unique interpretation of international law for this one case holds water |
| 86 | Copulin, the latest gibbering nonsense from the manosphere. There are real things of this name, but the MGTOW version is Barely Noticeable. ZOMBIFYING VAGINA GOO! |
| 86 | Oddly enough despite having articles on the rest of the manosphere we don't have an article on Red Pillers, an even more extreme and militant form of misogyny pushed on the internet. It's also arguably the most dangerous form of internet misogyny in the real world considering a good chunk of red pillers are rape apologists, pedophilia apologists, and a few mass shooters have been encouraged by their rhetoric.They're so bad even some MRA's dislike them. |
| 86 | Alternative facts - This'll be good. Currently only exists as a redirect. |
| 86 | The Black Sea deluge in 5400 BC. I've heard it may have had some relation to the origin of the myth of the Ark, despite being some 3000 years apart. |
| 86 | Chepo TeamCreate draft is a propaganda comic written by a fiercely right-wing and pro-Trump author that is about fictional Hispanics who are fiercely conservative and spout the same right-wing rhetoric that Trump and other Republicans do. The author also owns two accounts on facebook which are named after the comic that both use a copy-and-paste message that immediately begins with an appeal to identity (showing no proof that he/she is Hispanic) to make wildly inaccurate claims and generalizations about leftists, along with praising other far-right figures and pro-right meme posting. |
| 86 | Debbie HaytonCreate draft a trans woman who seems to spend a good chunk of her time concern trolling and spouting terf-esque arguments online and apparently calls the declaration of trans women being women to be "Orwellian thinking"[58]. Arguably an older, British version of Blaire White. |
| 86 | Ghoul We already have a page about folklore things, like zombies, vampires, ghosts & aliens. So, why not have one about Ghouls? Wikipedia has one, but seeing that article and their talk page, I think we can safely assume that their shitty NPOV is also at work here and that they literally believe in ghouls (especially if you look at some of those "experts" that claim to have knowledge about these things...)... |
| 86 | I think that an article on this crank website called serendipity.liCreate draft and the author Peter Meyer would be cool. |
| 86 | Caleb Maupin, ostensibly communist YouTuber and |
| 86 | Chad LoderCreate draft. Cybersecurity expert and anti-fascist researcher. Has identified multiple participants in the 2021 U.S. Capitol riot, including Eric Christie, Adam Kiefer, and Libs of TikTok. It's been confirmed they were suspended from Twitter by diktat of Elon Musk, seemingly either because Andy Ngo gave Musk a hitlist of "Antifa accounts," or in retaliation for reporting a massive breach of Twitter user data. |
| 86 | UltrafinitismCreate draft Ultrafinitism is a crank idea that says that there is a largest natural number. Obviously,there isn't. |
| 86 | Vince McMahon, former WWE owner and a heel both in the ring and in real life. Best friends with Donald Trump, and was recently accused of sex trafficking and rape, just like Trump's other best friend. |
| 86 | Culture-bound syndromes: phenomena believed within a culture to be diseases, but which are completely unknown outside of that culture, suggesting psychological rather than physiological origin. An example would be fan death, the belief that sleeping in a room with a running fan can be fatal, which is widespread in both North and South Korea but unheard of elsewhere. |
| 85 | James Dobson, other than a link to the Focus on the Family page. |
| 85 | Akiane Kramarik: Child prophet and painting prodigy or hack exploited by her parents? It's worth it for RW to assemble the evidence scattered all over the web. |
| 85 | Lokiarchaeota, a transitional form from about two billion years ago. See Lokiarchaeota. |
| 85 | Genocide Watch - given their "2014 Countries at Risk" report lists the U.S. as a 10 (because "Colonists, US Army & slave traders" are going to kill "Native Americans & African slaves" and Japan as a 10, because the "Japanese Army" are going to kill "Chinese, Koreans and Philipinos" they appear to be way off the scale. It's a "countries at risk" report, not a "Countries that did bad shit in the past" report.[201] (Correction/comment by ScepticWombat: The "10" is a phase in genocide, specifically denial, not a risk factor for an imminent danger of genocide. Genocide Watch's description of the 10-stage model of genocide is found here) |
| 85 | Senkaku Islands - a bunch of uninhabited (but close to some oil) islands owned by Japan which China, rather dubiously claims as their own (as the Diaoyu Islands) and have in recent years threatened war with Japan over. With the latter's alliance with the US this dispute has the (albeit quite unlikely) potential to lead to a Third World War. |
| 85 | Opposition to pornography, separate and distinct from the article on pornography, since the opposition (Fight the New Drug, The End of Porn By Wire, SWERFs, Judith Reisman, certain religious groups, etc.) on both ends of the horseshoe tends to have its own special flavor of batshit arguments and questionable tactics. |
| 85 | Phosphorus. Currently, the link redirects to the "Category:Elements" page. It's essential for life, it's the title character in White Phosphorus (sometimes used to horrific effect in warfare), it's why phosphates are called phosphates, and modern agriculture is using so much we're starting to face a shortage. What's not to love about this element? |
| 85 | The infamous white supremacist and "comedian" Sam Hyde.[202] |
| 85 | List of Political Parties A page to show the political parties of the world and whether pages have been made on them or not. |
| 85 | Flemish Interest: Political Far-Right party in Belgium, formerly known as Flemish Bloc. They're racists, Neo-Libturds & Ultra Nationalists and claim to have tight connections with the Israelian Likud, The Swiss People's Party, The Republicans, & United Russia. As well as being close with Dutch Trump's cronnies, Le Pen, Salvini & Barrage The Farage. How would they solve the mass immigration problem? With boxing gloves! |
| 85 | Jesus Strikes Back: Judgment Day A third-person shooter in the vein of Hatred and Ethnic Cleansing themed around inciting violence against liberal and LGBTQ+ groups. Despite making claims that the game (along with others such as the Christchurch-themed The Shitposter) is "satire" ostensibly to poke fun at cancel culture and the current sociopolitical climate, developer 2Genderz Productions is clearly intending to troll and sow controversy through their so-called "games" based on their antisemitic and racially-charged drivel on their website. |
| 85 | Centrist StupidityCreate draft Now that the category has been removed, why not create a page about it? You can't ignore the fact that the midfield loves to spew stupid nonsense aswell (uniting left-wing with right-wing idea, being obsessed with the status quo, trying to find an agreement where both parties can live with despite no one asking for this, blaiming both parties (this can be non-political, such as people who pointed fingers towards Anti-vaxxers aswell as to those that would tell you to get the vaccine),... These can be found both within' aswell as outside of Politics (ex. Several self-proclaims "centrists" on youtube (like this clown) that give more leeway to the Right). |
| 85 | Giorgia Meloni The New Mussolini. We definitely should have an article on her as part of our series on the fascism creep occurring worldwide. |
| 85 | An FAQ on GMOs (name changed to "FAQ on genetically modified food"), similar to the FAQ on radioactivity and nuclear technology, would be a very helpful addition to the wiki, as a way of both collecting together rebuttals to common anti-GMO arguments and refuting others that haven't yet been refuted on other pages. |
| 84 | Cold-EEZE, as in that new common cold medication. Not sure what to think of this: it says it's homoeopathic but also approved by physicians. Is this just the placebo effect or what? I'm not sure. |
| 84 | Not Dead Yet is a disability rights group that is opposed to euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide. They argue that legalization will place pressure upon severely handicapped people to end their lives and avoid "being a burden" on others. They protested the removal of Terri Schiavo's feeding tube, and also protested the Clint Eastwood film Million Dollar Baby for its positive portrayal of assisted suicide. |
| 84 | Gay panic is a legal defense recognized in many US states that allows someone to state that the reason they killed someone was because the victim had made homosexual advances against them. This defense not only marginalizes gay and bi men, but also trans and intersex individuals. |
| 84 | Waiting for "Superman" was a neoliberal propaganda documentary that criticized American public schools and American teacher unions. It endorsed charter schools as the miracle solution, but cherry picked inaccurate data. The movie was criticized by the the Grassroots Education Movement made a documentary critical of it called The Inconvenient Truth Behind Waiting for Superman which is named after the director's, Davis Guggenheim, previously famous documentary An Inconvenient Truth |
| 84 | Toynbee tiles are an urban phenomenon where messages of unknown origin are embedded in asphalt. The tiles sometimes exhibit cryptic political statements, and and their origin and history, dating back to the 1980s are somewhat covered on the other wiki. The phenomenon is also associated with shortwave pirate radio. |
| 84 | Something about pedometer/Fitbits, steps per day targets, or similar. There's a lot of scientific debate about whether walking 10000 steps per day is necessarily good for you and the 10,000 target seems to be an arbitrary figure somebody just made up one day.[203][204][205] On the other hand, walking more is probably good for you. |
| 84 | Filip Dewinter: Far-Right Politician & member of Flemish Interest. Is good friends with these fine people. Has alot of shit on his name. He's basically the Belgian version of Geert Wilders, with the exception that Wilders never went to a meeting of Golden Dawn, whereas Dewinter did (I can't find a english source for this, sorry). |
| 84 | OneTaste (sometimes spelt One Taste), providers of orgasmic meditation services (apparently they make men pay large amounts of money to masturbate women members). Seems to be a scam or cult, and they've been in trouble with the law.[206][207] Orgasmic meditation is briefly mentioned in meditation but might be worth a more general article if there are other significant practitioners beyond OneTaste. |
| 84 | El Yunque (organization) which is either a secret Roman Catholic organisation committed to using all means (legal and illegal) to preserve the church's power, or is a baseless conspiracy theory. It seems to focus on Mexico and to a lesser extent other Spanish-speaking countries, but is also allegedly active in the USA. |
| 84 | Henry VIII, for creating an entire religious sect so he could marry six wives, and Edward VIII, who was one step to creating the most dangerous constitutional crisis of the modern era. |
| 83 | Prop 65, named after the IQ of the people implementing it, is the reason everything in California causes cancer. By law, everything must state whether or not it contains any possible carcinogens or heavy metals in any quantity, but since virtually everything does, the result is that everything comes with a warning label that most people ignore. A number of small law firms exist only to sue companies that don't put this label on their products. |
| 83 | Long Island Medium yet another of the many people who claim they can talk to the dead |
| 83 | GhostPolitics, True Capitalist Radio, or True Conservative Radio, whatever you want to call it: Yet another right-wing kook with a microphone on the internet. Transphobic (refers to his trans callers as "transtesticles"), homophobic ("You're fruitin' up my broadcast! The whole place smells like butt-crack!"), racist ("I'M A MELTING POT OF FRIENDSHIP!! I'M A NICE GUYYY!!!1!"), brony-hatin', sexist ("Your mother is out at Applebees' lookin' for the high hard one from some ethnic minority, huh?"), conspiracy-theorizin' (the usual "Moon Landing in Nevada" tripe, for starters), hyper-capitalist, fat-shamin' ("You're a fat greasy-ass smelly HAAAAAAMBOOOOOOOOOOOOONE!"), Islamophobic (spouts out the usual Eurabia fearmongering and says that Muslim women have to wear "beekeeper suits"), and all-around asshole with a humongous ego ("I'm listened to by TENS OF THOUSANDS of capitalists THROUGHOUT THE WUUURLD!!1!") and attempts to be a Goat ("MAAAAAH MAAAAAH MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH"). Has gained a cult following among trolls due to how easily angered he is. Some of his fans could also use a RWing. Sandbox start page here. |
| 83 | Do Not Open (2007 book). Provides a kind of an "at a glance" view of various pseudosciences and conspiracies (sans anti-allopathy), although it sometimes reads like an Ancient Aliens episode. |
| 83 | Dairy is ScaryCreate draft, a vegan propaganda video with over 5 million views (found here). It alleges to "explain" the dairy industry. It's filled with gross exaggerations, misrepresentations, outright falsehoods, and occasional grains of truth about how dairy cattle are treated. |
| 83 | America First Political Action Conference: kinda like CPAC, but with more paleoconservative racists. Featuring the likes of people who aren't racist, like Nick Fuentes, Michelle Malkin, and Patrick Casey.[59] |
| 83 | I'm surprised we don't have a page on Alexander Lukashenko yet. He's pretty much Discount Putin at this moment. |
| 83 | Bounding into ComicsCreate draft. Far right nerd news and arguably conspiracy theorist site. Member of both Comicsgate and The Fandom Menace. Owned by fundamentalist Trump supporter John F Trent. |
| 83 | Connexions ClassroomCreate draft, a Utah-based self-help cult run by former family vlogger Ruby Franke and ethically dubious sex therapist Jodi Hildebrandt. Offers classes that purport to help people abandon "distortion" and follow the "Principles" of "Truth," the latter two always capitalized. Both founders being Mormons, the morality standards underpinning Connexions often reflect Mormon teachings, though Franke and Hildebrandt tend to be more directly and tightly controlling of their followers' adherence to their interpretation of said teachings. Ex-Mormon podcasters Jordan and McKay have noted a resemblance between Connexions and the beliefs precluding the Killings of Tylee Ryan and J. J. Vallow, expressing concerns that Connexions could spiral into similar extremism. Franke and to a lesser extent Hildebrandt have been embroiled in enough controversy to potentially warrant their own articles as well. |
| 83 | Everyone's got an opinionCreate draft It's something I often hear when I tell people about casual bigotry that I heard. (Relevant category: "Clichéed sayings") |
| 83 | Alexei Navalny, I'm actually shocked the man Putin fears the most doesn't have a page here. He should. |
| 82 | G. Edward Griffin, a famous conspiracy theorist and Bircher who popularized Federal Reserve and cancer-related conspiracy whackery (he even authored the libertarian/Glenn Beck favorite The Creature from Jekyll Island). A little suprising we don't have an article on him yet since he's a far more influential figure on the radical right conspiracy circuit than the likes of Mark Dice. |
| 82 | Interposition, the concept that U.S. state asserts rights to oppose actions of the federal government that the state deems unconstitutional. Under the theory of interposition, a state may "interpose" itself between the federal government and the people of the state by taking action to prevent the federal government from enforcing laws that the state considers unconstitutional. Interposition has not been upheld by the courts. Rather, the courts have held that the power to declare federal laws unconstitutional lies with the federal judiciary, not with the states. |
| 82 | Peshmerga, the ragtag band of Kurdish freedom fighters that are successfully holding against ISIS. |
| 82 | Julius and Ethel Rosenberg One of the most controversial executions Of The Last 30 Seconds, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were a couple with 2 kids at the time of their execution for espionage. A great way to delve into the politics of the Cold War and an omen to those who dare to repeat history. |
| 82 | Mexican Drug War A lot of the cartels often incorporate nutty Folk Catholicism in their chaos. Ties in with the whole War on Drugs legalize weed thing. |
| 82 | The Confederate Constitution has many supporters who range from southern sympathizers to libertarians who see it as the true small government America ought to be and saw Lincoln as the ultimate tyrant. Ironically it would have limited states rights and didn't remove the government's ability to quash rebellion. |
| 82 | Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis. We can explain the book's history and thesis and probably do a side by side refutation of his arguments. |
| 82 | McDonald's coffee lawsuit is an infamous lawsuit usually brought up to show how obsessed Americans are with suing people. However the lawsuit is far more reasonable with the plaintiff suffering third degree burns, originally suing only for medical expenses and the coffee itself being so hot it was considered unfit for consumption which was an issue that McDonalds knew for years. |
| 82 | The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), anyone? It's unambiguously homophobic, exhibits rampant double-standards in regards to male and female sexuality as well as sex and violence, and refuses to conclusively reveal who it is composed of, among other things. We might as well have a page on the documentary that points all this out, This Film is Not Yet Rated, too. |
| 82 | Spanish American War and/or the Philippines War. The parallels with the Iraq War are uncanny and disgraceful. Never forget. |
| 82 | Ordo Templi Orientis. Transformed by Aleister Crowley into an anti-Christian Horus-worshipping cult, this secret society is basically Freemasonrymeets Wicca. It's this, by the way, and not Freemasonry and Wicca, that paranoid fundies should actually be concerned about. |
| 82 | Chanty BinxCreate draft, also known as Big Red, is a Toronto resident who gained notoriety online after appearing in a video in which she aggressively promotes feminism while arguing against men's rights activists at an event in Toronto, Canada. After the video was released, Chanty was subsequently turned into a meme and was given the name "Big Red." Anti-feminists (especially those on YouTube) frequently use her video as an example to "prove" why modern feminism is stupid. |
| 82 | Rich of ReviewTechUSACreate draft has had a variety of political opinions over the years. Rich has been a critic of Anita Sarkeesian [208], retracted criticism against PewDiePie and the "DEATH TO ALL JEWS" incident[209], and even referred to fat acceptance as a "plague".[210] |
| 82 | The liberal arts/humanities; a stock pet peeve of right-wingers—but are they truly as useless as said right-wingers claim they are? |
| 82 | The Incel ProjectCreate draft: an old Incel documentary series from the now defunct Blip.tv from 2008 to 2012 [211]. Two months prior to the 2014 Isla Vista killings, the videos were deleted from Blip. |
| 82 | Article on PSICreate draft http://www.principia-scientific.org/why-psi-is-proposed-as-a-cic/. A strong conspiracy and Pseudoscience website that promotes anti-vaccine propaganda and frequent misinformation regarding climate change http://www.mediabiasfactcheck.com/principia-scientific-international/. |
| 82 | ZubyCreate draft is a conservative rapper who mocked trans people by claiming to break women's sports records by identifying as a women and says black people and women are not oppressed, but if they are they should "work hard and make the right decisions" to get over it. He's also been a guest on several right wing talk shows including Steven Crowder's show, fake university PragerU's show, Dave Rubin's show, Ben Shapiro's show, and was praised by Tucker Carlson who went on to say the left would tell people who disagree with gender fluidity to "shut up and believe it, or we'll hurt you,". |
| 82 | Jason KenneyCreate draft is the current right-wing populist premier of Alberta, and leader of the United Conservative Party, which formed from a merger before the most recent election. He has been unpopular recently under the COVID-19 pandemic, part of this being that he cut doctor's salaries. His campaign involved a conspiracy theory against Canadian environmental organisations, claiming that they received money from the US in order to prevent Canadian oil from being exported to any country other than the US. He has also been a federal cabinet minister for the Conservative Party. He also has a history of homophobia. |
| 82 | E;RCreate draft. Also known as ERofthesemicolon, EsemicolonR, and PUNISHE;R. E;R is a Far-Right/Crypto-Fascist movie reviewer who mostly uses the "I'm just playing a character" card to make everybody be brainwashed into unironically believing his lies that his Far-Right political beliefs and extremely unsubtle Far-Right dogwhistles are just "Jokes" (E;R himself even admitted that all of his so-called "Jokes" are actually him trying to Red-Pill everybody into believing the Jewish Question over on his Gab account in November 2017). Some of his most infamous videos are: His Steven Universe review were he used the David Reimer & John Money gender reassignment controversy of 1966 as a straw-man for why LGBTQ people are all "monsters" and pedophiles, and even inserted a 4-minute-long unedited Hitler speech about how Jews control everything, his so-called "Non-Racist" review of Get Out which was basically him being extremely racist to black people for 39 minutes (with a side of TONS of blackface-type imagery), etc. I'm surprised RationalWiki doesn't have an article on him that documents all of his dogwhistle-filled reviews. |
| 82 | Pipkin PippaCreate draft. A VTuber who works for PhaseConnect, it is under this agency that she has been enabled to dogwhistle to an Alt-Right/Far-Right/Neo-Nazi audience (especially /pol/ and Kiwi Farms) and continuously get away with: In this clip, you can see Pipkin Pippa manipulating her Japanese co-worker into thinking that Kiwi Farms is a 'good place' (when in reality, it's actually a Alt-Right/Far-Right/Neo-Nazi honeypot, and a cyberbully honeypot), calling them her "Kiwi Bros". In this timestamp you can see her clearly reacting positively to the notion of Joshua Moon talking about her over on Kiwi Farms (Thhrang (A.K.A. Granthh) (the user who initiated the conversation about Moon in that clip) later went on to become a mod in her chat. During this time he was not only ACTIVE on Kiwi Farms but also facilitated+encouraged her breaking moral and ethical rules. This ended w/ him being fired. Thhrang (A.K.A. Granthh) also supported and encouraged interactions with former GamerGate figures such as Mister Metokur (of whom Pipkin Pippa is a big fan of) (and it also still doesn't help that Mister Metokur is an unironic fan of Murdoch Murdoch (a Far-Right Propaganda animation series))). In this clip, you can see Pipkin Pippa heartlessly mocking George Floyd's death in the context of a "Cop VTuber" debuting. In this clip, you can see her denying the Holocaust and heartlessly laughing about it (Note: Due to the full stream being RIGHTFULLY taken down by PhaseConnect, this is the only footage from that stream that was saved). In this clip, you can see her unironically believing in the Jewish Question with her chat. And lastly, here, she references the extremely infamous "Happy Merchant" meme after being donated "Shekels", asks "Is that too far?", and then laughs. This is just the tip of the iceberg regrading Pipkin Pippa's true colors, as there is so much more of her Far-Right bigotry that has been neglected. |
| 81 | Archetype and or collective unconscious. Carl Jung's idea about our inborn psychic connections, and his gift to the New Age. |
| 81 | Grand Theft Auto: One of the highest rated video game series of all time. In addition to being Jack Thompson's favorite video game series to blame violence on, it's also commonly used as an example of poor depiction of women in video games. A crappy stub was created and then deleted for being garbage - an article will need to be clearly substantive and missional. |
| 81 | The Moynihan report. |
| 81 | Lists of weird laws are generally cherry-picked if not made up entirely. |
| 81 | We should have an article on the "Right to be Forgotten". It has been in the EU for awhile now but there is a push to pass such a law in the US. It seems positive for those little mistakes we make on the internet but raises some interesting free speech questions. It also seems to get abused i.e. George Osborne. |
| 81 | Pink Ribbon/Susan G. Komen for the Cure/pinkwashing. Highly visible, highly questionable breast cancer awareness organization. Their antics include suing the bejezus out of other charities and plastering pink ribbons on carcinogenic products (and firearms). Is more interested in self-promotion than actually doing something against breast cancer. A general article on awareness raising/awareness campaign would also be nice. |
| 81 | Soong May-ling, who lived a very long and storied life far too complicated to even attempt to summarize here. She and her husband had a unique synergy while in power, and she's also one of those people who eludes easy classification into "good"/"bad" categories. So basically, an article that will avoid being either hysterical ranting or effusive gushing. |
| 81 | Erin Brockovich. Made a name for herself around a scary-sounding chemical whose carcinogeneity is still uncertain. Currently a strongly anti-GMO voice with her own following. |
| 81 | Shining Path A Maoist terrorist group/cult/insurgency/organized crime syndicate in Peru that operates to this very day.Been condemned worldwide for its brutality towards peasants and they smuggle cocaine. |
| 81 | Concussions in Sport, or more specifically Concussions in American Football a long tragic story of denial and lawsuits, now a major motion picture. Debunking those that say "ah getting hit on the head can't be that bad" should be a major component of the article. |
| 81 | Stoicism is a school of Hellenistic philosophy founded in Athens by Zeno of Citium in the early 3rd century BC. The Stoics taught that destructive emotions resulted from errors in judgment, and the active relationship between cosmic determinism and human freedom, and the belief that it is virtuous to maintain a will (called prohairesis) that is in accord with nature. |
| 81 | Jeremy Hunt for pissing off all the Junior Doctors. |
| 81 | Convex Earth-The Documentary: A 90 minute "documentary" of "scientists" and "researchers" trying to prove the Earth is flat. The video can be viewed [here.] |
| 81 | Chemical castration, increasingly considered as a crime policy. |
| 81 | Zinnia JonesCreate draft is an Orlando trans activist and science writer. |
| 81 | Sex differences in humans: Is a specific gender genetically inclined to read/do maths better? Have better physical strength? Be more emotional or aggressive? etc. |
| 81 | Medicare, which Ronald Reagan originally opposed because be claimed that it would lead us down the dark path to socialism, which never happened. Many arguments used against it back then are being used again to fight the ACA, even though almost everybody today agrees not to touch Medicare. |
| 81 | American religions: Mormonism; Unitarian Universalism; the AME; the Seventh Day Adventists; Megachurches; Jesus Freaks; Jehovah's Witnesses. While we have articles on most of these things separately, I would love to read a decent history of the development of all of these uniquely American churches, something that ties together the dynamics -- historical, cultural, and theological, that make America such rich soil for people with new ideas about what God wants. |
| 80 | Petrodollar - reader suggestion. Conspiracists have some fondness for conspiracies involving the price of oil and US dollars as global currency. There's plenty of real economics and economics woo around this concept too. |
| 80 | Just ran into this really cogent counterargument to the idea that the bible is divinely inspired.[212] Could make an article from this, or part of one. |
| 80 | Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey into the Afterlife, by Eben Alexander, Harvard neurosurgeon. Widely popular book that claims to prove an afterlife exists; see eg here from The Spirit Science; one rebuttal here. |
| 80 | Frivolous lawsuits[213] are often cited as arguments for tort reform or as proof that corporations can't accomplish anything because little people hold them back or other bullshit, and they're almost always fake or misreported.[214][215][216] |
| 80 | Okra, particularly the Facebook meme that it's a miracle cure for diabetes. It does help slow and regulate glucose uptake, though it's not the miracle cure it's touted as in way too many woo sites, videos, etc. Snopes, Healthline with papers linked; this paper appears to be the one originally hyped beyond reason. |
| 80 | Mamajuana is a herbal alcoholic alternative medicine that is supposedly an aphrodisiac, flu remedy, digestion and circulation aid, blood cleanser, kidney and liver tonic. |
| 80 | Christian persecution, documenting and debunking the widespread claims that Christians are being persecuted in modern America / Europe, and discussing real Christian persecution in non-developed countries (possibly merge with Christophobia)? |
| 80 | The International Jew is an antisemitic booklet made by Henry Ford. He later launched The Dearborn Independent in order to expose the vast Jewish conspiracies. |
| 80 | Naprapathy, a variant on osteopathy and chiropracty. Popular in Scandinavia. |
| 80 | Frank Miller A once critically acclaimed comic book writer & artist now a generally right wing sexist/misogynistic and racist who published Holy Terror. See Linkara's reviews for more information. |
| 80 | National Socialist Underground, Jena Cell, NSU or whatever we want to call it. A far right group of terrorists who went around mrudering for nearly a decade - lots of Conspiracy theories out there. Did the intelligence agencies just fail or botch stuff on purpose? |
| 80 | The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement is an attempt to remove foreign aid and foreign business and academic ties with Israel in order to help create an independent Palestine. They compare themselves to the anti-Apartheid movement and suggest Israel to be similar to Apartheid South Africa. Many opponents have called it a form of hate speech as they believe it to be an antisemitic movement. Even some critics of Israel like Jimmy Carter disagree with the means this movement employs. |
| 80 | Prager U or whatever these guys are called - they are rather consistently wrong about almost everything... |
| 80 | Millennials, the easy scapegoats for everything that's wrong in the world today, at least until their children grow up. Perhaps a more exhaustive article about the cyclical history of blaming young people too. |
| 80 | Awake DatingCreate draft [217] is a dating site created to facilitate romantic connections between conspiracy theorists. |
| 80 | Bruce Lee, was a Hong Kong American actor, martial artist, philosopher, filmmaker, and founder of the martial art Jeet Kune Do. He is widely considered by commentators, critics, media, and other martial artists to be one of the most influential martial artists of all time, and a pop culture icon of the 20th century. He is often credited with helping to change the way Asians were presented in American films. His eclectic philosophy often mirrored his fighting beliefs, though he was quick to claim that his martial arts were solely a metaphor for such teachings. |
| 80 | Thuggees Worshippers of the goddess Kali who according to colonial British sources believed themselves to have been created from her sweat, they were known to strangle travelers; Guinness Book of Records estimates they killed two million people and Political scientist David C. Rapoport says theya re the most destructive terrorist group in history. Mentioned as an example of nutpicking. |
| 80 | Cosmetics wooCreate draft. Strong overlap with Alternative medicine, Bodybuilding woo, and whatever the Food woo trend is at the time. The beauty industry is one of the primary sources of ambient woo exposure for most people living in modern Western societies, and products using unproven plant extracts for supposed medicinal properties are available at any level of the market, meaning it is very likely that most keen believers of the Naturalistic fallacy came to this belief through shampoo advertisements. It's also on-mission as this has real potential to cause harm, especially to young women; online recipes for "natural", preservative-free personal care products have been known to mutilate skin, rot teeth, and significantly increase risk of skin Cancer, or at least dye people's hairlines neon yellow. Quack beauty products also form a major revenue source for NaturalNews, the Food Babe and Goop, as well as many high-end companies which make a killing through flogging $2000 moisturisers, Swiss apple stem cells, snail slime and copper peptides, none of which are proven to work. At the same time, there are hyped ingredients like retinol, which, while its side effects are significant, has been shown through conventional medical research to cure mild to horrific acne; this is a topic a little more complicated than 'all the gunk is just the same'. Very big and complex topic; current page is a stub. |
| 80 | Manly Palmer Hall, a mystic Freemason author[218] Deserves a mention at least because of his name. :) |
| 80 | An analysis and description of deprogramming |
| 80 | The so-called liberal paradox (think classical liberal), a paradox in political philosophy with some interesting implications for real-life socio-political problems. |
| 79 | Central South Slavic diasystem - a bullshit concept in Slavic linguistics invented by nationalists to support splitting Serbo-Croatian into separate Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian and Montenegrin languages, whereas in fact they are standardized based on the same subdialect of the same dialect of Serbo-Croatian, are 100% mutually intelligible, have 95% identical lexis and 99% identical grammar. This is absurd to the point that Croatian linguists cite books written by Serbs as excellent sources of information on Croatian. Subject of content-forking articles on Wikipedia. |
| 79 | Conehead Skulls. Deformed skulls supposedly belonging to human/alien hybrids (or nephilim, depending on who you ask) that supposedly prove that aliens have visited earth. Supposedly they are found worldwide according to some claims, thought the most notable specimens confirmed are from Paracas, Peru. I figure that perhaps a page detailed what is actually known about them and their history, as well as listing the various claims made about them (like having greater volume, thicker skull plates, unknown DNA, etc...), and debunking them would be sufficient. |
| 79 | Daniel Di MartinoCreate draft is a Venezuelan-American student at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. Because he experienced the terrible consequences of socialism firsthand in Venezuela, he's become a conservative and libertarian voice against what he perceives as the rise of socialism in America. |
| 79 | Elijah SchafferCreate draft, also known as Slightly Offensive, is an alt-right YouTuber whose entire gimmick is to generalize the left by mocking the far-left. His channel is populated mainly with videos of him asking politically charged questions to people he meets on the street — sometimes until one of them attacks his film crew. He titles his videos somewhat less introspectively: “PUNCHED by ANTIFA” and “Exposing the Sluts,” for example. |
| 79 | The fallacious debate tactic that Innuendo Studios calls "Never Play DefenseCreate draft" in this video. |
| 78 | Nouri al-Maliki, because he was "elected" to prime minister of Iraq during the United States occupation, acted like a dictator, used American troops to carry out ethnic killings, and had the full backing of the US government. (Or Hamid Karzai, who's also become a straight-up asshole.) |
| 78 | Activism - The general concept; whether and where it's effective, in what cases the members of any activist movement are and aren't sensible, etc.. |
| 78 | Fighting words - There isn't a page on how insults and rudeness breaks the limit of free speech, and there isn't an entry on the Freedom of speech page. |
| 78 | Narcissistic Personality Disorder A lot of cult leaders and dictators are said to have this. Jim Jones, David Koresh, etc. Currently just a redirect to personality disorder. |
| 78 | Óscar Romero was a prelate of the Catholic Church in El Salvador, who served as the fourth Archbishop of San Salvador. He spoke out against poverty, social injustice, assassinations and torture. In 1980, Romero was assassinated while offering Mass in the chapel of the Hospital of Divine Providence. |
| 78 | Vaping - its claimed benefits, conspiracy aspects ("Government trying to kill it because taxes on smoking are higher") and the missionary zeal of some addicts. Currently a redirect to a small section on Tobacco smoking. Draft in progress. |
| 78 | Time zero, i.e. the time "before" the Big Bang. Not the Doctor Who thing. That is, use this article to discuss naturalistic hypotheses on the cause of the Big Bang. |
| 78 | Arab — currently a fork page, but we should have an article. Arab ethnic & cultural identity is pretty important in Middle Eastern politics (e.g. the Arab League, Arab Spring, Pan-Arabism), plus there are a few misconceptions to be debunked (e.g. it's not synonymous with Islam). Plus it would complement our articles on other ethnic groupings (caucasians, black people, Jews, Native Americans). |
| 78 | Kurt SchlichterCreate draft Townhall columnist and general right-wing nut who's notorious for his rabidly pro-Trump stance and... interesting commentary on many issues. |
| 78 | Sex-selective abortion. |
| 78 | The Department of Education, which, before Obamacare, was the GOP's Great Satan. |
| 78 | Dendritic cells, a possible legitimate alternative to chemotherapy that currently has a lot of woo and quackery around it. |
| 77 | Maimonides. This guy's influence over Judaism is enormous to put it mildly, he was also one of the most committed rationalists of the entire medieval period though he said some rather mean things about non-Jews. However from a theological perspective to say that he reconciled Rabbinic Judaism with rationalism would be an understatement, he jammed it down his colleagues throats. He had a substantial impact on Aquinas and like other medieval rationalists he ought to be included in Rationalwiki |
| 77 | The Federalist Society, the ultraconservative answer to "activist judges" though they manage to be FAR more partisan than the judges they typically hate. Seriously though despite their full wingnut views they are extremely influential and their members include some of the most powerful people in the US, and some of the wackery in a few recent court rulings can be partly attributed to their members. |
| 77 | David Silverman, or at least more about American Atheists |
| 77 | Eurasian Economic Union - Putin's club for aging autocrats |
| 77 | Samaritan is a redirect to Good Samaritan rather than a page on Samaritans. I say fix. |
| 77 | It might be useful to have an article on forensic science. Science News has a recent article on the problems and prospects of the field.[219] |
| 77 | The al-Quds day is an antisemitic shitfest-lollapalooza invented in 1979 by Iranian supreme dipshit Khomeini and thus almost certainly part of our mission statement, if possible flamewar-bait. |
| 77 | A Joe job is a spamming technique for smearing a target by spoofing the sender ID so an unflattering or otherwise damaging message seems to have come from the target. See the Wikipedia article on Joe job. |
| 77 | We need to have a page on "modern day Nostradamus" Gary Spivey because just look at him. What is this? The inverse of a tinfoil hat to better attune to the messages from God? |
| 77 | Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, a man popularly believed to be either guilty of a triple homicide or railroaded by a racist conspiracy. Here, discussion over the case and evidence on both sides (and the fact that it's possible that he's innocent while only being convicted because it was reasonable to think that the evidence pointed to him, with no frame-up needed), the Bob Dylan song "Hurricane", and the 1999 film starring Denzel Washington (and why he should've won the Oscar then and there, and that he was robbed because of well-intentioned but misguided protests to the Oscar board). One of various possible information sources: http://graphicwitness.com/carter/index.html |
| 77 | James Clerk Maxwell, one of the top 5 greatest physicists ever, but also a devout Christian (albeit one who shopped about between denominations) who proposed an unusual version of intelligent design; his views on evolution are also argued about between pros and antis. |
| 77 | The Knights of Columbus is the world's largest Catholic fraternal service organization. Founded by Father Michael J. McGivney in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1882, it was named in honor of the mariner Christopher Columbus. Originally serving as a mutual benefit society to low-income immigrant Catholics, it developed into a fraternal benefit society dedicated to providing charitable services, promoting Catholic education and actively defending Roman Catholicism in various nations. |
| 77 | Outreach Judaism is a Jewish counter-missionary organization founded by Rabbi Tovia Singer. It is described as "an international organization that responds directly to the issues raised by missionaries and cults, by exploring Judaism in contradistinction to fundamentalist Christianity." It's a great website for those looking for arguments against the fundamentals of Christianity such as Jesus being the messiah. |
| 77 | Blue Lives Matter is a pro-police movement in the United States. It was started after the killings of NYPD officers Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu in Brooklyn, New York, on December 20, 2014, after they were ambushed in their patrol car. Blue Lives Matter was formed in reaction to the Black Lives Matter movement, which seeks to end police brutality against the African American community. |
| 77 | Reader request: "I'm wondering if Bronze Age PervertCreate draft might deserve an entry? He has gained vast popularity in the alt-right and similar circles lastly. His book has sold very well and he seems to be something of an ideologue for them" |
| 77 | The Party of Reason and ProgressCreate draft (PORP) is an non-profit organization dedicated to promoting reason and empirically sound decision-making in modern politics. Their mission is to implement effective and rational policies through educating the general public and supporting reasonable and logical public officials and initiatives. |
| 77 | Michael BiggsCreate draft, a sociologist at Oxford University who opposes trans rights and claims to defend academic freedom of speech. He has also been caught running a Twitter account which posted a load of transphobic nonsense.[220][221][222] He is becoming one of the leading figures in the UK in the war against trans rights, cited in mainstream media and writing on dubious TERF blogs like Transgender Trend.[223][224][225] |
| 77 | HedgewikCreate draft needs a article, if you don’t know, he is a rising star in the Nazi comic world whose art is as good as a preschooler. |
| 77 | Felix Steiner, Former Waffen-SS commander during WO II. Mostly known for his part during the attack on Berlin in 1945. Steiner was arrested as a war criminal but released for lack of evidence, he is missional for his post-war writings of Nazi apologia (all of which are only in German). |
| 77 | Dead Horse InterchangeCreate draft: Link. Think Kiwi Farms, minus the doxxing. The majority of it's members are people who left the Farms, because of the doxxing. They have some pretty "interesting" topics in their politics sections. Such as Islam, Sweden, Germany, Feminism & SJW's, China, Black Lives Matter, How Dubya is worser than The Donald, Xi Jinping & The CCP, How the EU is banning Memes, The UK, California (Which they call "Commiefornia") & The "God Emperor" Megathread. They also have a lolcow section, or like they called it: "Internet Nobodies". Most notable topics there are: the one on Noah Antwiler from The Spoony Experiment (more than 2200 pages as of 24/05/2020), 2 topics on John Bain aka TotalBiscuit (literally celebrating his death, shortly after he succumbed to cancer), Angry Joe, Hbomberguy, Laci Green, Jim Sterling, The Skeptic Community, ProJared & Article 13. The owner of the site (Poonoo) has an interesting youtube channel aswell. If you look at the thumbnails for his "Atop The 5th Wall" video's, you'll see in the background a poster from a guy playing a guitar that has an interesting pattern on it. |
| 77 | Water from airCreate draft, a recurring green tech scam based on bad science. A Water-from-air device is a dehumidifier that's marketed as a water source. These devices can't function in dry climates where they would be desirable, and are unnecessary in wet climates where they would sort of work at least some of the time. In many cases these devices are designed in such a way that makes them function worse than legit dehumidifiers, if they work at all. Regardless, any water they do produce is not fit for human consumption, at least not without a ton of filtering. |
| 77 | Haitian Revolution. Given that we have articles on both the American and French Revolutions, the Haitian Revolution, which was just as impactful (the world's only country founded by a successful slave rebellion), deserves its own article too. It's currently just a section on the Haiti article, and that doesn't do the subject justice. At all. |
| 77 | Oswald Spengler, historian who was a major influence on the Nazis, although he was opposed to and eventually ostracized by them. (On Wikipedia.) |
| 77 | The Association of Mature American Citizens a.k.a. AMAC: A wingnut version of the AARP, apparently created as response to the AARP being too liberal for supporting the funding of Medicare and Obamacare. The site itself runs several clogs, with the main one being about Obamacare. The fact that Glenn Beck promotes it is a telling sign. |
| 76 | I'm surprised that the cultish, deceptive ultra-Orthodox Jewish "kiruv" organizations, such as Chabad and Aish HaTorah, haven't been mentioned here yet. |
| 76 | Charlemagne. A hugely important figure in the history of the Western world, he also became the focus of a large body of fantasy. |
| 76 | Yoshiro Nakamatsu, Aka "Dr. NakaMats" - Prolific Japanese inventor and Ig Nobel Prize recipient. Has made some genuinely useful contributions (such as various advances on floppy disks) but most often his work goes into straight-up crankery and woo. |
| 76 | Islamic Society of North America is the largest Muslim group in North America. It has been accused by Stephen Schwartz as a Wahhabi front group. The Justice Department had considered them as co-conspirators to radical Islamic groups. |
| 76 | Bioscience Resource Project - according to their page on WP (which has been subject to at least one edit war) they do some agenda pushing related to genetics and GMOs. As some IP editor recently inserted them into our article on genetically modified food they seem to be something we should cover |
| 76 | Rick and Morty is an American adult animated television series created by Justin Roiland and Dan Harmon for Adult Swim. It has been suggested that the show carries some messages in a philosophical vein, including themes of existentialism, and of human impact on the environment. It has also been pointed out that the show can be interpreted as a critique of western attitudes towards science, and of scientism in particular. |
| 76 | Ex Machina (stylized as ex_machina) is a 2015 British science fiction psychological thriller film written and directed by Alex Garland in his directing debut. We can do an article discussing the themes of artificial intelligence, roboethics, and gender politics. |
| 76 | Reich-Wing WatchCreate draft is a YouTube channel dedicated to exposing any far-right individual and group who's political philosophy parallels that of fascist leaders like Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini. |
| 76 | Hipsters. |
| 76 | Joseph EverettCreate draft, known for his YouTube channel What I've Learned, which has nearly 1 million subscribers and over 64 million video views. Has made videos promoting low-carb dieting for general weight loss, statin denialism, antidepressant denialism, and NoFap. However, he has high production values and claims to be pro-science, so perhaps it can be presumed that he's doing this all in good faith? According to Everett: "This is about connecting the dots, making conclusions and weighing that against modern dogma." Seems like the perfect subject for a RationalWiki article. |
| 76 | Since we cover Mythology, how about a page of the Ulster demigod: Cú Chulainn? |
| 76 | Dr. Seuss - We have an article on Horton Hears a Who! but not on the man himself whose extensive use of sociopolitical messages on his children's picture books attracted criticism and commentary. Some of Seuss's books were pulled from circulation due to racially insensitive themes, though it is worth noting that he wrote Horton as an apology to the Japanese whom he denounced and mocked during the war, especially when he saw the aftermath of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. |
| 76 | Socionics. Fad pop-psychology butchery of MBTI, which is itself suspect, but this takes it up to eleven. Popular in Eastern Europe. |
| 76 | Adrenal fatigue, a made-up condition that alt med practitioners use to blame general aches and fatigue on a failing of the adrenal gland. |
| 75 | Pre-Columbian Contact. This field of study is a prime breeding ground for proffessional cranks. However looking further into some individual claims it becomes clear that a couple lesser known claims of contact may actually hold some water. As such the various claims regarding Pre-Columbian trans oceanic contact ought to be investigated and commented on. |
| 75 | Hyperphysics: reader suggestion. "It's hosted by Georgia state University, and is run by Rod Nave. At first glance it seems to be an education resource. My problem is the creationist slant of the site. False claims made include: DNA is a true code, and that amino acid selection during protein synthesis is not chemically determined [226] Other pages directly relate to god, and creationism. [227]" |
| 75 | Bono deserves his own article, especially in terms of talking about why he's such a polarizing figure, why he and U2 are a popular target to attack these days, and debunking the more spurious claims. |
| 75 | megabrain store A virtual store that sells a lot of woo products |
| 75 | Retraction Watch, part of the immune system of science. Useful for flagging interesting terrible past science. |
| 75 | Jozef Tiso Josef Tiso was in charge Slovakian puppet regime during ww2 from 1939 to 1945. Was tried and executed after the war. |
| 75 | Development dictatorshipCreate draft the curious idea on the right that developing countries have to go through a phase of basically being Singapore, South Korea until the 1980s, Taiwan until the 1980s or China today if they ever want to get out of poverty. Similar and related to the "if only the Chinese were running things" complaint of Western very serious people |
| 75 | mobile phone or cellphone: there are mentions in Radiation woo and microwave and an article on Electromagnetic hypersensitivity, but RW could do with a more detailed article on the research into mobile phone safety, as well as more recent topics such as the smartphones are damaging kids/adults hysteria (Parents Against Underage Smartphones does have an article, but smartphones are ruining your relationship apparently). |
| 75 | Standard & Poor's, Given how much they have been in the news recently... |
| 75 | Long Island Medium - |
| 75 | EssenceOfThoughtCreate draft is a Youtuber who makes videos defending LGBTQ rights, atheism, secular humanism, and abortion.[60][61][62][63] |
| 75 | Fidesz: Right-wing to Far-Right Conservative Party led by this fine bloke. Literally Hungary's answer to Trump. |
| 75 | Art policeCreate draft: Named after a snarl word frequently used when I see stuff like this, I think it's Twitter artists whining about people whining about their artstyles, has a vibe suspiciously similar to Gamergate. |
| 75 | Ideological captureCreate draft. Probably a legitimate concept that's been twisted into a right-wing snarl word thrown out whenever an institution acknowledges systemic oppression or tries to improve its treatment of minorities. |
| 75 | How do we not have an article on Nylonase? It's the greatest proof of evolution! |
| 75 | Argan oil, apparently increasing in popularity to cure all skin/nail/hair ailments. I encountered it on a Dutch website where it is touted as `miracle cure' and `liquid gold', with `positive effects never seen before' ... all of which are supposed to be `scientific proven' (the louder it says that...the bigger the chance it's woo). Yet, perhaps there is some (kernel of) truth here? |
| 75 | The Science wars, wherein academia was divided between the sciences and the postmodern humanities. Shots were fired, feelings were hurt, people were trolled. NOTE: We already have an article titled War on Science, about attempts to get science removed from schools; the Science Wars appear to be a different topic. |
| 75 | Believe it or not, George Will seems to have surpassed Krauthammer in "respectable" neoconservative theatrics. |
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