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   | 2 | Benjamin H. Freedman, a Holocaust denier and soap salesman (no, that is not a joke). He was a Jew who converted to Catholicism, and seems to have been rather early among Holocaust deniers: he published a book ("Facts are Facts") as early as 1954 that could at the least be called Holocaust-distortionist. It's rather religiously oriented, and promotes the Khazar myth. It is also said that this book influenced some leaders in Arab countries. |
   | 1 | Valiant Panda, Basically the CCP's equivalent to Ben Garrison or Antonio F. Branco. A group of five CCP-worshipping useful idiots on social media who draw anti-American political cartoons that push the CCP's false narratives as well as falsehoods denigrating the United States and the West. Their disinformation has been reposted nearly constantly by CCP mouthpieces. |
   | 3 | Javier Milei, the new president-elect of Argentina. This is such a "duh" and he hardly needs introduction, but: he's a self-described anarcho-capitalist, with a massive hatred for anyone/anything he considers "leftist". He promised to destroy the country's central bank with dynamite, wants to take back the Falkland Islands, and possibly legalize the human organs trade. This is just to name a few of his many strange quirks. He was elected mainly on the back of there being an extreme economic disaster in the country. |
   | 3 | James Somerton, "video essayist" and notorious plagiarist, who was recently exposed by Hbomberguy. |
   | 1 | Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, an LGBTQ+ performance art collective and parody religion whose campy drag parodies of Catholic clergy and symbolism garnered controversy from religious authorities. Depending on your faith and/or level of cynicism, they're either a group of satirists who hold protests over pressing issues within and around the LGBTQ+ community, or a horde of anti-Catholic trolls bent at callously mocking religion. |
   | 12 | Munk Debates, series of debates on relevant issues that occurs once or twice a year in toronto. I thought it would be fine here since a lot of stupid arguments have won such as political correctness being mad. |
   | 11 | The Bad Webcomics Wiki: Conservative-leaning creator-bashing website that shares a large portion of its userbase with Kiwi Farms and has spread potentially harmful misinformation about both webcomic authors/artists and various subject matter their webcomics cover such as LGBT rights and psychology, done reviews of and subsequently provided links to actual child pornography, and is known for either directly or indirectly causing loads and loads of unwanted attention and harassment of whatever authors they choose to cover, as well as brigading of the sites they host their webcomics on, and has driven numerous people offline because of this. Also keeps pages for every response they've ever gotten from authors whose works they've covered, with snarky counter-responses provided for each one, and was originally based on one man's personal webcomic-bashing review blog, which he has since gone to disown and attempt to wipe from the internet, only for the BWW to archive it themselves and mock him for it. |
   | 11 | Nuremberg 2 : Anti-vax pipe dream calling for all those who ordered vaccinations and lockdowns to be tried and executed. Could be a part of an anti-vaccination glossary. |
   | 32 | Gay Germ Hypothesis: The Hypothesis that male homosexuality is caused by a mind-altering parasite. Yes, really. Currently, our information on that is mostly on the page of Gregory Cochran, the pseudoscientist that created the idea. Wikipedia also uses his page to cover this topic. There's also a section of the Toxoplasma Gondii article on this, as sometimes this particular parasite is blamed, though sometimes it's suggested to be an undiscovered parasite. Should we have a dedicated article on the subject? |
   | 60 | List of anti-LGBT advocacy groupsCreate draft would have sections for specifically anti-gay or specifically anti-trans groups, and a main section for those that are anti-both. These groups have been popping up almost like weeds the past few years now to the point it's difficult to keep up with well, and this could serve as a way to have at least a line or two on the wiki about each one without needing a whole page (as, oftentimes, nobody is bothering to make one, although occasionally somebody does). Not to mention a way to round-up a list of all the notable holdovers from the early 2000s or so (on that note, possibly a "historical" section listing defunct groups that are historically notable, e.g. groups associated with Anita Bryant back in the day). |
   | 33 | Virtue signalling, Currently redirects to a small section on the social justice warrior page. But it may be worthy of it's own page to describe why this behaviour exists, and the fact that it's not exclusively a progressive phenomenon. Though, the term was originally coined by The Spectator, a right-wing British magazine. |
   | 16 | Glossary of US politics A glossary of terminology used in politics of the United States. American uses of the word "liberal" will redirect to a part of this glossary, while Liberalism will still represent the global usage. It may also give American-specific explanations for terms such as "conservative" and "globalist". |
   | -2 | Category:Anti-Wokers I couldn't figure out how to make this on a category suggestion page so I am just putting it here. I know what is considered anti-woke is different between England & The USA, But I think there are similar ideas, Particularly Bigotry against minorites especially LGBTQ+ people. |
   | 16 | Brett Cooper, Far-right political YouTuber and wannabe 'actress'. She is also set to star in what amounts to the wingnut answer to Disney's Snow White remake. |
   | 10 | Christopher Luxon The new prime minister of New Zealand. An Evangelical Conservative & Member of the National Party. We'll have to wait & see how much of a wingnut he might turn out to be. |
   | 32 | The Stolen Generations One of the worst crimes in Australian History, Where The Government, Under the white australia policy Kidnapped Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander children from their families & sent them to white families to be raised. There was also Eugenics involved as A.O. Neville tried to breed out the color. I'm Honestly Suprised we don't have a page on the stolen generations already. |
   | 11 | National RightCreate draft Far Right Section of the Liberal Party of Australia, Tony Abbott was a member & Dutton is the De facto leader. |
   | 11 | Peter DuttonCreate draft, We Have a page on Tony Abbott So we should certainly have a page on Dutton. Especially Given he has spread the white genocide conspiracy theory though his comments on south african farmers. |
   | 9 | Hasan Piker, also known as HasanAbi online. Lefty Twitch streamer who's been going down a tankie rabbit hole lately. |
   | 12 | Human Centipede, Tom SixCreate draft, It probably is irrelevant but I’ve never seen the centipede films but I have seen Tom Six’s Twitter & I can see he is a man who deluded himself into believing that he’s the only one in film still truly taking risks anymore. He has also liked anti woke, transphobia & other silly things like that so |
   | 24 | Five stages of grief A psychological theory that does not always work, sometimes having a character of telling someone going through depression or grief to "man up". |
   | 51 | Homeowner Association Homeowners' associations get a bad rap for a lot of things, including charging unnecessary and debilitating fines and bills, catalyzing racial discrimination in housing, general misconduct, and more. |
   | 3 | Toni Fowler, Filipino content creator dubbed as the country's answer to Cardi B, whose sexually charged videos and outspoken support for sex-positivity sparked debates over objectification of women, pornography, influence on minors and conservatism in the Philippines. |
   | 4 | Hakim: An Iraqi Youtuber with roughly 235k subscribers who has published some good work criticizing capitalism and exposing scientific and cultural racism but has also pushed CCP propaganda and Uyghur genocide denialist talking points. |
   | 40 | The Land Back movement. What it means, what it doesn't mean, some successful examples, dissecting arguments of those who go too far, and so on. Kinda surprised we don't already have an article on this. |
   | 6 | Animaniacs, Both the original 1993 animated series and the 2020 reboot satirize politics and history. Aside from the variety show format and younger target demographic, both versions of Animaniacs share an appeal to adult audiences in common with The Simpsons and South Park. While the original 1993 series is still fondly remembered, 2020 reboot has garnered a mixed reception for how it handled it's subject matter. [1] |
   | 26 | Global Times, basically the CCP's version of RT. Why don't we have an article on this already? |
   | 113 | 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. |
   | 146 | 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.[4] More links here. Has Wikipedia article. |
   | 11 | John RiccitielloCreate draft Former EA CEO and basically pretty much the reason why video gaming sucks these days, case in point the Unity runtime fees scandal which tarnished the engine's reputation overnight. We've had articles about businesses like Nestlé who are notorious for their scummy business practices, so why not Filthy Riccitiello? |
   | -7 | Midnight's edgeCreate draft last one for now but has had interviews with people such as Nicholas Meyer, Alan Dean Foster & Matthew Lillard. |
   | 18 | Tony Blair Institute for Global ChangeCreate draft We cover the man quite well. it only figures to cover what he's been doing since he has continued to kiss up to dictators such as saudi arabia with his institure. |
   | 6 | Games Workshop, a British miniature wargaming company with an allegedly cultish following and scummy business practices[5], comparable to Nintendo and Apple. They are best known for their Warhammer 40K IP, which the Alt-right tried to co-opt [6]. |
   | 8 | A glossary of terms used by Alternative Medicine practitioners. (Note: somewhat of a funspace equivalent exists at Fun:Quacktionary). |
   | 60 | No page on USA Today ? It's one of the 5 biggest newspapers in the US! |
   | 31 | RapeLay, (レイプレイ, Reipurei), 2006 Japanese erotic computer game whose goal is to molest a mother and her two daughters. Unsurprisingly generated a lot of furor over its rape-based gameplay and paedophilic content (two of the in-game rape victims are underage: a twelve-year old girl and her seventeen-year old sister). |
   | 107 | 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. |
   | 6 | National Center on Sexual Exploitation (NCOSE) is a 501(c)(3) organization generally accused of insincerity, regardless of the the reliability of cited sources, how said sources are cited, who cited them, and the sincerity of the citation. By contrast, NCOSE opposes sexual abuse and exploitation, according to their website.[7][8] |
   | 33 | Mockbusters, which are ripoffs of popular movies. Some, like Finding Jesus below,and What's Up: Balloon To The Rescue, (Which is a Mockbuster of Up), have racism, as seen by Saberspark here. (He heard the N-word. Yes, THAT N-word.) |
   | 90 | "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. |
   | 38 | Call of Duty, Popular series of first-person shooter video games by Activision. Besides accusations of propaganda and/or militainment by critics, at least some of the games from the series have attracted scrutiny, such as the inclusion of former NRA president and traitor Oliver North both as a consultant and in a cameo appearance in Black Ops II (the irony isn't lost either when he accused video games of desensitising kids to violence even after he promoted COD), as well as Russophobic sentiment both in the infamous "No Russian " level in Modern Warfare 2 (2009) and the 2019 Modern Warfare reboot. |
   | 35 | Oliver North, Former NRA President. Most notably known for his involvement during the Iran-Contra Scandal, when he was a staff member of the National Security Council. Currently a re-direct. |
   | 18 | Finding JesusCreate draft Faith-based mockbuster of Pixar's Finding Nemo . Popular animation commentator Saberspark even found at least one instance of racism in the film, in the form of a sushi character shamelessly appropriating Japanese culture in a mockingly stereotypical way. |
   | 30 | Sanctioned Suicide, Infamous internet message board framing itself as a "pro-choice" venue for suicidal people but in reality is an incredibly disturbing venue where users pool resources and methods to off themselves. |
   | 14 | Since we already have a parcer call for the FIFA, how about we get the other corrupt embodiements on here aswell? Such as the UEFA, CONCACAF, & CONMEBOL. |
   | 137 | 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) |
   | 21 | Evie MagazineCreate draft, a conservative women's magazine. According to Rolling Stone, it may be linked to Peter Thiel, PragerU, and the Daily Wire. A reader could easily confuse it for something like Elle Magazine, and indeed the founder wrote for Quillette in 2018: "Women's publications have tried to convince women they can be just like men, instead of celebrating femininity ... It was this gap in the market that made me and my colleagues wonder: 'What if there were a conservative Cosmo?'". The site posted an article somewhat defending QAnon (see here). Features other articles against vaccines/masks, trans people, birth control, abortion. Pro-election denial, etc., all laced between regular lifestyle articles. Coat the bullshit in sugar, and... |
   | 17 | John AmanchukwuCreate draft, an asshole far right pastor making the rounds in North Carolina spreading bigoted queerphobic bullshit in front of school boards. |
   | 83 | UltrafinitismCreate draft Ultrafinitism is a crank idea that says that there is a largest natural number. Obviously,there isn't. |
   | 21 | Glenn MortonCreate draft, a former "creation scientist" who eventually became a well-known critic of creationism, and who coined the term Morton's demon. See his obituary for further details. |
   | 57 | WhatIfAltHistEdit draft, a YouTuber who claims to focus on alternative history, but uses his videos for long alt-right and fascist screeds and to "own the libs." Also proclaims that he hasn't read any major historigraphical and anthropological studies made after the '60s because "that's when it all became too woke." |
   | 70 | Neuticles, Their website They are, basically, fake testicles for dogs. They claim that "dogs feel bad when they're neutered", seems like very much so wingnuttery to me. |
   | 53 | He XinCreate draft, a famous and meanwhile infamous Chinese scholar trumpeting Greek history denialism. |
   | 53 | Guo JichengCreate draft, a Chinese professor with the Marxist college of China University of Political science and Law, promoting the Confucian school and Buddhist conservatism. |
   | 42 | The Utopia, a Chinese nationalist and conservatist website posing as Maoist. |
   | 40 | The Guancha, a Chinese nationalist website featuring publicizing such alternative right as LGBT discrimination, racism and patriarchy. |
   | 47 | Language family , including the legitimate families and the BS ones like Altaic, Nostratic, Uralo-Siberian, Dene-Caucasian, and Amerind. |
   | 17 | José Rizal Filipino nationalist, author and polymath. Best known for pissing off both Spanish colonial authorities and the Catholic Church through his novels Noli Me Tángere and its sequel El Filibusterismo which decried the excesses of the colonial government and the friars who were in hock with them. Rizal's supposed retraction prior to his execution as well as his Masonic affiliation could be on-mission here. |
   | 102 | 2023 Anheuser-Busch boycottEdit draft Oooh boy... As if one trans person's endorsement of a product would make you wingnuts any less of a person. |
   | 113 | 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? |
   | 23 | Humza Yousaf He is the current First Minister of Scotland. It's quite suprising he dosen't have a page yet. |
   | 118 | 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). |
   | 99 | 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. |
   | 132 | The DebriefCreate draft an increasingly popular UFO and tech woo "news" site, with the particular theme of having "insider" "intelligence" "whistleblowers" |
   | 34 | Grigori Grabovoi Kazakhstanian fraudster, whoomeister who believes he is psychic and can resurrect the dead, teleport, cure AIDS and cancer at any stage, diagnose and solve problems of electronic devices remotely, to be clairvoyant and to be able to change reality, also believes he is the second coming of christ, was convicted of fraud after promising to the mothers of victims of the 2004 Beslan school siege that he could resurrect their children (see his Wikipedia article.
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   | 11 | Peter Scully Australian paedophile and child pornographer who gained infamy for producing the hurtcore film Daisy's Destruction and is now serving a longer-than-life sentence in the Philippines. So-called conservative Josh Duggar was apparently a fan of Scully's work. |
   | 30 | Tomorrow's Pioneers Palestinian children's propaganda edutainment programme which gained notoriety for advocating violence, Islamic extremism and antisemitism. The show was condemned by Disney themselves (particularly former CEO Bob Iger and even Walt's last surviving daughter Diane Disney Miller) for its depiction of a Mickey Mouse-like character named Farfour and using said Militant Mickey to indoctrinate Palestinian children. |
   | 12 | Tom O'Carroll Notorious British-Irish paedophile activist. Has caused a bit of a stir on Wikipedia when his blog was used in a citation for an article; Wikipedia admins were forced to block a certain user for using said paedophile's site besides a number of disturbing contributions which ran afoul of the site's child protection policy. |
   | 15 | Wes Streeting Blarite, Member of Keir Starmer’s cabinet and Transphobe and Rowling apologist despite being a gay man himself |
   | 6 | Robin Padilla : Filipino former ex-convict actor turned politician. Outspoken in both his conversion to Islam to which he became the de facto spokesperson representing the Filipino Muslim community (particularly the "Back to Islam" movement), as well as his misplaced nationalism where he went full racist towards a Korean contestant in a talent show he judged in and DID NOT SHOW A SHRED OF REMORSE despite intense criticism. He has also filed legal action against a Twitter user for calling him an ex-con and called for a ban on the Gerard Butler film Plane due to its unflattering depiction of the country. |
   | 32 | history of X where X is any country, especially in articles where the history section makes up the bulk of the page. |
   | 66 | 2024 Libertarian Party presidential nominationCreate draft: I haven't found a page for 2020, but let's be honest: what would RW be, without a page on the biggest Meme party for 2024? |
   | 67 | 2024 Democratic Party presidential nominationEdit draft: It's like playing X-Com UFO Defense, with the difference that you've been unlucky that your first units have godawful stats. So you have no clue which units are good and which are completely useless. |
   | 12 | Edward de Bono Oxbridge professor, doctor, author, psychologist and proponent of lateral thinking. |
   | 33 | A Glossary of Italian Fascism and National Socialism prior to 1945 |
   | 12 | Future of Life Institute, Organisation dedicated to making sure technology doesn't wipe out Humanity (A.I., Climate Change, Biotechnology, Nuclear Weapons). Unfortunately Associated by Noted Para- Fascists Sam Harris and Elon Musk. |
   | 7 | Elly Schlein: The current leader of the Italian Democratic Party and the woman who looks like she will be going up against female Mussolini next Italian election. She's Bi and very left wing. Some may say too left wing. We can only hope she can beat Meloni. |
   | 102 | 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. |
   | 70 | White trash: A racial & class-related slur used against white people of the Southern United States. Mostly being used against those living in rural areas. |
   | 116 | 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 astroturfing social media campaign to have the channel reinstated. |
   | 14 | Peter Mandelson, Given the wiki’s disdain for Mandelson. I am surprised he didn’t have a page here immediately when Blair and Brown got theirs. Let’s just say he rubs elbows with Facist Russia like Blair did. |
   | 41 | No ethical consumption under capitalism: The notion that "voting with your wallet" isn't always feasible, even more so for people who's options are limited by poverty and availability. Of course, it should also be addressed on how this isn't an excuse for apathy or buying luxury items like, say, a video game based on the works of an insufferable TERF. |
   | 52 | CancelThisCompany.comCreate draft Alt-right mouthpiece webshite riddled with canards against companies whom they perceive as espousing cultural Marxism. In fairness, the likes of Amazon and Disney aren't by any means clean and do have their fair share of atrocities, but said site takes things too far, as if the alt-tech nonsense they promote is any better at all. |
   | 63 | John Cleese: Given all the old man yells at cloud anti woke nonsense Cleese has spurted out since he said London was no longer English in 2019. When it comes to the site mission, I think Cleese is right on our money. On a personal note, I think Sadiq Khan is quite right. Cleese has acted like he's in character as Basil Fawlty. Maybe he just got old. |
   | 71 | Nicola Sturgeon I'm honestly shocked she doesn't have a page already. After trying so hard to pass the updated gender reform bill. I think she's an absolute queen |
   | 79 | Everyone's got an opinionEdit draft It's something I often hear when I tell people about casual bigotry that I heard. (Relevant category: "Clichéed sayings") |
   | 61 | Algerian Civil War - The Algerian Civil War was a seminal moment in the history of Islamism in North Africa. The memories of the conflict are probably the reason why the Algerian regime wasn't toppled during the Arab Spring; people remembered what a destabilized country was like and were loathe to experience that again. Come the Arab Winter, they'd be proven right. |
   | 66 | People Power Revolution, aka the EDSA Revolution. Besides leaving a mark in history as the nonviolent revolution in the Philippines that inspired similar calls for regime change in Eastern Europe and elsewhere during (and after) the twilight years of the Cold War, conspiracy theories have emerged over alleged CIA involvement in the revolution (perhaps using it as a jumping pad to spark similar revolutions overseas; not helping matters was Corazon Aquino's speech in the US Congress), as well as the revolution's legacy being rendered moot when the same populace who demanded for Marcos's ouster in '86 are now rooting for the good old days by way of Ferdinand's son Bongbong Marcos, thanks to both a systematic fake news and historical revisionism campaign downplaying on Marcos's atrocities as well as the Filipinos' eventual disillusionment of the Aquinos post-EDSA. |
   | 135 | 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? |
   | 60 | Genspect Anti-trans pressure group that pushes debunked ROGD nonsense. Has lobbied internationally (including in the UK, Ireland, US, and NZ) in favour of gender-affirming care bans and against conversion therapy bans. |
   | 67 | Sir SicCreate draft, a conspiracy-debunking YouTuber who is (self-described) "handsome, famous, and good at the sex". |
   | 79 | 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). |
   | 74 | 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. |
   | 64 | Poverty porn, a pejorative term referring to media portraying impoverished people and societies in a manner that provokes sympathy and publicity both towards those portrayed and the organisations running such campaigns. The approach has been criticised for oversimplifying chronic poverty, carelessly exploiting their subjects and sensationalising their plight, e.g. with the Filipino vlogger Ramil "TechRam" Manalastas whose videos have been criticised by some for perpetuating such drama, as well as the far better-known drama film Slumdog Millionaire whose casting of Indian slum-dwellers received scrutiny. The related inspiration porn refers to similarly exploitative and what some perceive to be patronizing portrayals of special needs and disabled people. |
   | 81 | 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. |
   | 81 | 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. |
   | 16 | Bishop Joseph Strickland Batshit insane Texan Fundamentalist Catholic Priest. Liked By fandom menace member John F Trent. Speaking of which... |
   | 86 | 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. |
   | 5 | Emily Calandrelli. A science communicator & internet influencer who has begun to shill for the propane industry. |
   | 97 | 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. |
   | 127 | Owning the libs. The right-wing political strategy of deliberately trying to provoke or offend "libs." |
   | 16 | Kenneth Zucker. Another American-born Canadian sexologist. Has an extensive body of published work advocating conversion therapy for gender-variant children. Surprisingly only the second most controversial psychology professor at the University of Toronto. |
   | 37 | Transgender Trend. British anti-trans lobbying group. Pushes fringe and denialist positions on trans health e.g. "ROGD." The founder is apparently a sculptor who formerly belonged to a cult. |
   | 7 | John Howard I’m also shocked we don’t have a page on him as well given he was just as hawkish (to say the least) in Iraq as Bush, Cheney and Blair. He is also a big homophobe. He once called a play school episode foolish for showing a lesbian couple to kids. |
   | 5 | Alan Jones I have had a particular dislike for this Australian hate radio host for a couple of years I know he’s in the liberal party of Australia page but I think he’s loony enough to have a page of his own. |
   | 41 | Magdalen Berns. British TERF. Arguably one of the main figures behind the rise of transphobia in the UK. Has become something of a saint-like figure in TERFdom since her untimely death. |
   | 38 | Jesse Singal. Another contrarian wanker. An early force in pushing anti-trans hysteria, dropping an infamous piece in The Atlantic in 2018. Has even defended Kiwi Farms. |
   | 37 | Bari Weiss. "Radical centrist"-type journalist with a long history of laundering Republican talking points for NYT readers. Most recently had the dubious honour of being one of the journalists through whom Elon Musk released the so-called "Twitter Files." |
   | 126 | Bribery Seriously? We don't have an article for one of the major sources of government corruption? |
   | 129 | 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. |
   | 69 | Hubert Humphrey The man who whipped the votes for the civil rights act, and the voice of American ‘60s liberalism. |
   | 2 | An article on Second Thought, a prominent Socialist Breadtuber, who is in a podcast with the aforementioned Hakim. |
   | 14 | An article on Luiz Inácio Lula da SilvaEdit draft, Brazil's current president; We already have an article on Jair Bolsonaro, so why not one for Lula? |
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   | 161 | Hwang Woo-suk Korean scientist who faked human stem cell cloning. His story also includes nationalism, fraud, and even trace amounts of misogyny. |
   | 151 | Galen WinsorCreate draft, "the man who eats uranium"[15], 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.[16]IMDb |
   | 161 | 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 |
   | 164 | 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 it's community being all about "wholesomeness"?Well, what do you think yourself? |
   | 153 | Roblox, 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? |
   | 153 | 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! |
   | 162 | 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. |
   | 160 | 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. |
   | 156 | 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.[17] |
   | 157 | 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.[18] The method was particularly sensational because of the comparatively inexpensive copper and lead used in its production,[19] so DIY engineers are still trying their own methods to recreate it.[20] |
   | 155 | 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 |
   | 155 | 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. |
   | 162 | 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. |
   | 161 | 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. |
   | 163 | 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. |
   | 160 | Dr Brad HarrubCreate draft of Focus Press and YouTube. A Ph.D. 'scientist' who only seems to do Christian apologetics |
   | 164 | 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... |
   | 161 | 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. [21] (Another Thunderf00t video) |
   | 163 | Scaremongering "documentary" The Demographic WinterCreate draft. |
   | 169 | 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. |
   | 170 | Edward BabinskiCreate draft - interesting-looking blogger who moved from fundamentalism to agnosticism.[23] and [24] might be useful. |
   | 175 | 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. |
   | 173 | 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. |
   | 161 | Medical Hypotheses - Controversial non-peer-reviewed journal taken over by quacks, mostly of the anti-vax and AIDS denialist stripes. |
   | 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. |
   | 182 | 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. |
   | 184 | Leslie KeaneCreate draft - Reporter who wrote a book on UFOs. Poses as a moderate, but is fundamentally a kook. |
   | 162 | Prevent, the British government's anti-extremism strategy[28] founded under Tony Blair in 2003 but reviewed under David Cameron/Theresa May in 2011[29] and still active, initially founded primarily to combat radical Islamism, but also involved with countering the far right[30], and radical environmentalism[31]. There are concerns about freedom of speech.[32][33] |
   | 184 | John Lenard WalsonCreate draft, a guy who claims that he has made pictures of (alien) spaceships in Earth orbit with his telescope[35] (possibly known as GRIDKEEPER (channel) on YouTube) |
   | 189 | 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. |
   | 188 | David SewellCreate draft - mastermind behind PRATTs like this and this; author of books such as The Political Gene: How Darwin's Ideas Changed Politics |
   | 170 | 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?" |
   | 172 | 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. |
   | 165 | 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. |
   | 167 | 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.[37][38][39][40][41][42] It's the intersection of several myths: Pre-Columbian contact theories, legends from the American West about lost gold mines[43], and entrepreneurs worldwide promoting rumored shipwrecks laden with unimaginable treasure. |
   | 166 | Ketanji Brown Jackson: The first new justice to joint the Supreme Court during the Biden administration, and the first black woman to serve on the Supreme Court. |
   | 163 | 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/.) |
   | 199 | Patriot FrontCreate 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] |
   | 163 | Bongbong Marcos: Old Macoy's son and contender for the 2022 elections. His rise to prominence as a politician has polarised Filipinos especially in light of him and his family's tax evasion and their patriarch's notoriety as a dictator and plunderer. |
   | 163 | Libel laws, with information on their abuse by woo-meisters, libel tourism, and science by lawsuit. Could possibly be merged with SLAPP suit. |
   | 201 | 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. |
   | 207 | Microbes on the ArkCreate draft Nothing on Noah and the amoeba? |
   | 219 | 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". |
   | 223 | Kyle RittenhouseCreate draft Kinda surprised that this little shit doesn't already have a page here. Contrary to what the Right says, he's a murderer and a terrorist. |
   | 180 | 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. |
   | 192 | 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. |
   | 162 | SCIgen, the fake paper generator used to test scam conferences and predatory journals. |
   | 170 | 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[49][50] but just give us the facts! |
   | 168 | The Denisovans, as in the "Woman X" found in Siberia who may have inhabited the area throughout eastern Asia. |
   | 163 | 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. |
   | 163 | 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[2] 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. |
   | 163 | 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.[51][52] |
   | 177 | Ferdinand Marcos needs no introduction. The best worst president the Philippines ever had. |
   | 162 | 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. |
   | 180 | Gadsden flag: Used as a symbol of defiance and vigilance during the American Revolution, but has since been co-opted by libertarian and far-right groups to justify their agendas. |
   | 166 | Robb Elementary School shooting (section in school shooting) Deadliest elementary school shooting since Sandy Hook. I am not surprised if this has attracted wingnut conspiracist nonsense using very much the same anti-gun control rhetoric like what happened ten years ago where "Sandy Hoax" crisis actors were purportedly used to 'stage' such a mass shooting. Not to mention the twisted and fallacious argument "iF ThE TeAcHeRs wErE ArMeD ThIs wOuLdN'T HaVe hApPeNeD" as espoused by some Republican legislators especially in Texas whose gun culture is up to cartoonish proportions. Currently a subsection in school shooting |
   | 197 | 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: [56] |
   | 165 | 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". |
   | 166 | Overtoun Bridge, the "dog suicide bridge"[57], 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. |
   | 191 | 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. |
   | 172 | VeggieTales — a Christian Indoctrination program disguised as a children's show. |
   | 226 | 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. |
   | 162 | 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. |
   | 226 | 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.[58][59] But the woo health press is all over them.[60][61] (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.[62] |
   | 180 | 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. |
   | 180 | 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. |
   | 162 | 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 [64][65][66] Any bored physicists in the house? |
   | 163 | 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 [67] |
   | 226 | 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. |
   | 164 | The Fort Hood shooting is now getting coverage because wingnuts believe Obama the FBI has a double standard for "not treating it as a terrorist act." |
   | 174 | 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. |
   | 172 | 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. |
   | 223 | Mary Elizabeth CroftCreate draft 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) |
   | 174 | Lamaze, a natural childbirth technique. |
   | 180 | 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. |
   | 163 | 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 |
   | 192 | 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. |
   | 175 | 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 German Belgian/Flemish professor named Matthias Desmet. (Maarten Boudry and psychologist Bram Vervliet have written about his crank ideas, for inspiration for sources.) |
   | 220 | 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. |
   | 180 | 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. |
   | 200 | 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. |
   | 215 | 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. |
   | 323 | 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. |
   | 420 | Doe v. Trump (2016) 1:16-cv-07673-RA ([72] [73] [74]) 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 ([75] [76]) 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.[77] [78] [79] [80] A draft has been created at Draft:Donald Trump child rape cases. |
   | 290 | Jeff Bezos is the founder of Lexcorp Amazon. He is one of the richest men in the world. He briefly traveled to space, during which time he was one of the richest men off the world. |
   | 309 | 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. |
   | 220 | 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. |
   | 240 | 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.[81] Initially in the US but a similar group, Auditing Britain, has been invading COVID testing centres.[82] |
   | 344 | Matt GaetzCreate draft 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. |
   | 316 | Ghislaine Maxwell: Her trial starts today.[83] I definitely expected there to be an article here already. |
   | 228 | Vril — holy shit, we don't have a page on this? |
   | 196 | 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. |
   | 189 | 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. |
   | 193 | 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.) |
   | 205 | 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".[85] |
   | 206 | Palladium hydride is an odd one that can absorb 800~900x its volume in hydrogen.[6] 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. |
   | 282 | 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? |
   | 229 | 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. |
   | 279 | Amazon RainforestCreate draft As there has been a lot of misinformation about this in the media in recent years, it seems fitting. |
   | 376 | This so-called COVID-19 lab leak hypothesis — with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying being some of its main proponents [86] [87] [88] — 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. |
   | 225 | Thorium-based nuclear power: A lot of crap surrounding the thorium powered reactor in pop sci magazines, a lot of it debunked by thunderf00t. |
   | 213 | 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). |
   | 237 | 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".[89][90] 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. |
   | 195 | 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. |
   | 254 | 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. |
   | 393 | 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). |
   | 441 | Dr. Salvatore Cezar Pais is listed as the inventor of four 2019 U.S. Navy patents that have been described as "Star Trek technology".[91] 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.[92] |
   | 345 | 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. |
   | 284 | 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. |
   | 303 | 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.[93] |
   | 294 | 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). |
   | 230 | 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. |
   | 252 | 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. |
   | 235 | 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." |
   | 230 | 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. |
   | 201 | 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. |
   | 259 | 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. |
   | 190 | 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.[94][95] 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. |
   | 295 | 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. |
   | 192 | 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. |