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   | 2 | 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. |
   | 9 | 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. It's 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? |
   | 9 | Ricky Gervais We all know he’s a raging TERF and anti woker. But I’m mixed on us using his speech for our Hollywood pages. While he definitely said things that needed to be said, he also gave the alt right (particularly the fandom menace) ammunition. But then again he does share the Absolutely mental podcast with Sam Harris and we all know what an apologist he is. Bottom line I think he fits the mission like a glove. |
   | 20 | 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 |
   | 20 | 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") |
   | 13 | 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. |
   | 18 | 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. |
   | 31 | 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? |
   | 18 | 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. |
   | 23 | Sir SicCreate draft, a conspiracy-debunking YouTuber who is (self-described) "handsome, famous, and good at the sex". |
   | 21 | 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). |
   | 46 | 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. |
   | 26 | 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. |
   | 27 | ReduxxCreate draft. A "pro-woman" anti-trans news and commentary site that's basically the TERF answer to Breitbart. Addendum: Co-founder Anna Slatz is a homophobic piece-of-work who recently mocked a gay TikToker for publicly disclosing his HIV diagnosis, and reportedly has a history of Scientology/cult apologism. |
   | 26 | 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. |
   | 31 | 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. |
   | 32 | 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. |
   | 15 | Bishop Joseph Strickland Batshit insane Texan Fundamentalist Catholic Priest. Liked By fandom menace member John F Trent. Speaking of which... |
   | 7 | James Stephanie Sterling a.k.a. Jim Sterling. YouTuber who focuses mainly on video games, but has also covered questionable industry practices (e.g. loot boxes), transphobia, and mental health. |
   | 35 | 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. |
   | 4 | Emily Calandrelli. A science communicator & internet influencer who has begun to shill for the propane industry. |
   | 42 | 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. |
   | 54 | 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. |
   | 38 | Owning the libs. The right-wing political strategy of deliberately trying to provoke or offend "libs." |
   | 8 | 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. |
   | 11 | Ray Blanchard. American-born Canadian sexologist. Did some pioneering work in advancing the scientific understanding of homosexuality. Has also spent decades pushing transphobic nonsense like autogynephilia. |
   | 12 | 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. |
   | 10 | Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull. British TERF. Popularised the "adult human female" dogwhistle. Notable as one of the first big-name TERFs to start openly cozying up to the far-right. |
   | 3 | 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. |
   | 4 | 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. |
   | 6 | 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. |
   | 7 | 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. |
   | 8 | 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." |
   | 35 | Bribery Seriously? We don't have an article for one of the major sources of government corruption? |
   | 32 | 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. |
   | 20 | Hubert Humphrey The man who whipped the votes for the civil rights act, and the voice of American ‘60s liberalism. |
   | 53 | 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 |
   | 25 | Canadian Coalition for Firearm Rights, The Canuck answer to the NRA; had the gall to promote the online shopping code "POLY", seemingly in reference to the 1989 École Polytechnique massacre when a gunman killed 14 women. |
   | 16 | The Fandom Menace, I’m surprised these scumbags don’t have a page already as both several ComicsGate members and Computing Forever are members of this hate group. IMO Cullen is the group’s most dangerous member. They mostly spread lies about Star Wars and formed after The Last Jedi, but they attack other franchises. Star Trek, Doctor Who, Lord of the Rings, Game of Thrones, cartoons. Basically gamergate and ComicsGate but encompassing all of need culture. |
   | 51 | Brave BooksCreate draft (official website) is a conservative children's book company founded in 2021. Their blatant mission, according to them, is to arm American children with conservative alternatives to mainstream and especially progressive children's literature so that they fight as child soldiers in the culture war against evil liberal values that are plaguing mainstream American culture and making them hate the country they live in and the values it was built upon. Their books lure children with colorful illustrations, anthropomorphic animal characters (which is a surefire way to elicit a reaction from the furry fandom, in which many of its members are left-leaning), an immersive universe, adventure stories, and activities to morals crafted with conservatism in mind, ranging from apolitical and benign ones ("Eat healthily", The Candy Calamity; "Persevere", Fiona's Fantastical Fort; "Overcome fear", Surfing Past Fear [co-written by Bethany Hamilton of freaking Soul Surfer fame]) to explicitly political and wicked ones ("People can't be transgender", Elephants Are Not Birds; "Abortion is wrong", Little Lives Matter [sounds familiar?]; "Critical race theory is wrong", More Than Spots & Stripes). They've rounded up conservative figures (including the wingnuts), such as Jack Posobiec, Dan Crenshaw, the Hodgetwins, Zuby, Dinesh and Debbie D'Souza, Julie Banderas, and Michael Flynn, to co-write the books and thus add their fame factors to the brand (Also, note how they list reputable media that have discussed Brave Books and/or their product[s] on their website and don't link to them to fool people). Hell, Brave Books has published The Plot Against the King and The Plot Against the King: Part 2: 2,000 Mules, which are written by Kash Patel and meant to defend his subject of loyalty, Donald Trump, with medieval fantasy retellings of real political events starring caricatures of real people and perpetuating false claims regarding the Trump-Russia connection and 2020 U.S. presidential election. And this is all for children! Politico article of interest. Also, treat yourself to Jimmy Kimmel ripping The Plot Against the King and Brave Books. |
   | 51 | Herschel Walker for being one of the looniest Senate candidates of all time. Beyond that, there are a lot of shady business dealings he was involved in, not to mention being a deadbeat dad who also payed for his mistress' abortions despite supposedly being pro-life. |
   | 60 | 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. |
   | 101 | 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. |
   | 101 | Conservatism. Currently a re-direct to this article. But seeing how Conservatism has grown and brainwashed people over the past decades, it definitely deserves its own article page. |
   | 74 | I'm surprised we don't have a page on Viktor Lukashenko yet. He's pretty much Discount Putin at this moment. |
   | 13 | Code talking. This is of relevance to RW's mission because code talking was utilized by the Allies in WW2 as a cheap and easy form of ciphering (through the principle of security through obscurity while discriminating against the languages of the code talkers themselves back home. |
   | 33 | Swahili. The Swahili had a huge influence on the cultural and economic history and development of East Africa (including the Arabic Slave Trade), and the Swahili language itself has been adopted by black nationalist groups as a form of code talking . |
   | 15 | Ralph Bakshi is an animator who has been known for his hard-hitting political works, launching mainstream adult animation head-on, and also never being afraid to satirize anyone and everyone. His works of note on this wiki would likely include Fritz the Cat, an interesting piece of America's social revolution that started in the 1960s. It gave the middle finger to the notion that animation was a kids' genre by going so raunchy that it became the first animated film that the MPA gave an X rating, with lots of graphic sex, language, violence, drug usage, and a whole host of other stuff you sure as heck wouldn't want a child to watch. Heavy Traffic also played out in a similar fashion, being Ralph's passion project, and also being filled to the brim with a lot of X rated content. This was also part of where his strong social commentary become even more apparent. The latter aspect of Heavy Traffic would climax into Coonskin, a film that especially sought to bring down the negative treatment of the African-American community by using every stereotype of African Americans to flip them on their head and lampoon said stereotypes. However, despite never seeing the film, CORE lobbied hard against its release for its use of blackface (never having seen it themselves), going as far as to throw smoke bombs in theaters. In the end, he had to take on a fantasy film called Wizards, but still managed to sneak a level of commentary with how the villain's weapon was Nazi propaganda. I wish I could talk about the other ones, but that would best be saved for his article. If you need more information, I highly recommend that you watch Animation Lookback: Ralph Bakshi on YouTube, which goes over his history. In fact, Mat Brunet, the guy who made it, even got a follow from Bakshi himself on Twitter. |
   | 39 | Murdoch MurdochCreate draft ([7]). A Far-Right Propaganda animation series that is literally a hideously ugly Wojak clip-art eyesore. I'm surprised RationalWiki doesn't have an article on this Far-Right Propaganda animation series. |
   | 24 | 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. |
   | 13 | A few additions could be made to the list of cranks and pseudoastrologers that can be found around the internet, who mess around with physics they don't understand and 'prove Einstein wrong' and the like. Here are a few so far that aren't on RW yet: One is Roger Anderton, who has some videos on youtube that are exactly what you'd expect of doing maths and physics wrong, it seems similar to what Stephen Crothers does and things that Robitaille creates crank rants about, and those both have entire personal pages. Another one I can't immediately find any more, perhaps someone else here has more luck, but at least a few years back the stuff was easy to find: some Russian aeronautics/aerospace engineer who had some website and youtube videos, a lot with ugly yellow background, of course all about how 'Einstein was wrong', you know the drill, I seem to remember he called his own stuff 'absolutism', or something similar, but obviously a search on that gets you all kinds of things that are unrelated so if someone knows and remembers or finds them, those can also be added to the crackpot list. |
   | 12 | Science and Nonduality is basically the kind of combination of science woo and gibberish you'd expect. It could fit on some existing pages about woo, maybe it doesn't need its own full page. |
   | 91 | 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. |
   | 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. |
   | 72 | 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. |
   | 77 | 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. |
   | 150 | 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. |
   | 12 | Federal Department for Media Harmful to Young Persons, German federal agency responsible for examining and censoring media they deem to be dangerous for the youth. While born out of good intentions, e.g. atoning for past sins done by the Nazis, some of their decisions reeked of crankery, e.g. the ban on River Raid as a knee-jerk reaction to a moral panic, and on the use of Nazi imagery by video games, the censorship of which ultimately backfired on them, when efforts by game developers to bowlderise the likes of Wolfenstein in order for them to be legally sold in Germany amounted more to Holocaust denial than protecting the youth, as it essentially strips the games of the historical elements it uses extensively for its narrative. |
   | 27 | Richard Swinburne : English professor in philosophy of science and philosophy of religion. |
   | 18 | The ExposéEdit draft a fake news website known for misinformation about the COVID-19 pandemic. Ernie Piper of counter-misinformation watchdog Logically remarked that the site is "try[ing] to make it look like they were doing hard-hitting investigative journalism". |
   | 11 | People of Praise, a charismatic Christian organisation notable for teaching that women should be subservient to men as well as anti-LGBT policies. Known for its association with US Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett.[8] |
   | 21 | American Council on Science and Health — I'm surprised we don't have an article on this already, considering it is an industry-funded group masquerading as a group of skeptics in order to spread propaganda against government regulation. Hell, there are some articles on this very site citing them as if they are a reliable source! |
   | 137 | 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... |
   | 41 | Jared Diamond American geographer, historian and award winning best selling author of popular science books |
   | 108 | "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.[9] |
   | 12 | Interfaith dialogue : The practice of promoting positive relations between religions. Some alternative terms have popped up in recent years such as "interbelief dialogue" or "interpath dialogue" to be inclusive towards irreligious groups. |
   | 18 | Dan Pena : I Have mistrusted the trillion dollar man since i heard him with his climate change denial. It got worse with his anti snowflake crap and the fact that he seems legit. I Think he fits the site's mission given that he is a pretty batshit especially regarding climate change |
   | 8 | Graham Phillips, a British pro-Russian "journalist", who has various times breached the Geneva Conventions by harassing and interrogating POWs for propaganda purposes. Recently got sanctioned by his own country. |
   | 79 | Firearms Policy CoalitionCreate draft Is a fringe lobbyist group that advocates for weapon deregulation in the United States. Arguably more extreme than the GOA. |
   | 13 | Steven Gundry is a heart surgeon that has turned into a woomeister promoting lectins as an enemy to health. |
   | 83 | 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. |
   | 85 | 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 |
   | 92 | 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 |
   | 78 | 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 |
   | 94 | 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. |
   | 77 | William Henry HarrisonCreate draft: The 9th and first president to die in office |
   | 15 | Popular Psychology Popular Science while not rigorously scientific is useful for teaching the general public scientific ideas. Same with Pop Psychology. Unfortunately, Psychology is already a "soft" science rife with opinion and unreproducable ideas. Popular Psychology is sometimes barely indistinguishable from self-help ideas. |
   | 55 | Narcissism The Pop Psychology concept, not the Personality disorder. Popularized by Psychs such as Doctor Romani (A survivor) and Sam Vaknin, an admitted and proud NPD sufferer who calls God and Jesus narcissists, promotes his own brand of self-projected psychological woo, generally paints a negative perception of Psychology of the "Psychology calls people/views people as 'objects'" sort. He calls it a "loss of ego" and his self a "life-threatening vacuum". This sort of pseudopsychology is damaging because it preys on abuse survivors and gives then extremely maladaptive coping patterns for trauma, starting a cycle of failed relationships and many people who believe this stuff think they're "drawn" to Narcissists and every relationship they had in the past was with one if it failed. Ironically might be a way to avoid accountability in some cases. |
   | 74 | I think that an article on this crank website called serendipity.liCreate draft and the author Peter Meyer would be cool. |
   | 72 | 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. |
   | 89 | Thought MoralityCreate draft (couldn't come up with a better title) is the belief that thoughts can be categorized under morality. Religious people are most likely to think that some thoughts are immoral, a sin, or a crime. |
   | -27 | Pooh-pooh is a fallacy in informal logic that consists of dismissing an argument as being unworthy of serious consideration |
   | 14 | Richard Tol is a so called economic from Essex university who claims climate change is good for the economy actually and stopping it is bad in so many flipping publications that is spam any search results about economic impacts of climate change and took too much digging to figure out he is a scambag, Wikipedia have some red flags like mentioning he is beloved by the republicans and some of his buddies have pages here that show they are fossil fuel buddies, |
   | 108 | 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. |
   | 15 | Junípero Serra : A Spanish Roman Catholic priest and missionary who founded a number of Spanish missions in California. Beatified by Pope John Paul II on 25 September 1988 and canonized by Pope Francis on 23 September 2015 amid denunciations by Indigenous American tribes who criticise Serra over accusations of brutal subjugation, cultural genocide and forced conversions. However, while Native Americans did not take kindly to Serra, some have accused them of fostering cancel culture through vandalism of monuments and renaming of institutions established in Serra's name. |
   | 108 | 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. |
   | 60 | Mahavatar Babaji is said to be a yogi who has living for more then 2000 years and has supernatural abilities. |
   | 57 | Pharmakeia is a word used in the bible in a couple of places translated to witchcraft or sorcery (depending on the translation). This is why Harry Potter is seen as bad in some circles, but the word has a connotation to "drugs" and has been used as a reason to not take the COVID-19 vaccine in recent years. The drug connotation is not new but was likely isolated to Christian Scientists and some puritans. |
   | -82 | Cocomelon : Popular YouTube channel catered towards children. While it did rise to prominence as a go-to venue for entertaining and educating small children, others have accused Cocomelon of gaming the system and cynically exploiting their juvenile audience for YouTube revenue and clout while providing nothing of substance compared to established children's educational programming such as Mister Rogers' Neighborhood or Sesame Street, not to mention that the channel has also been criticised by experts and parenting groups alike as being hyper-stimulating and addictive. One prominent critic is PewDiePie, who released a diss track satirising the channel. |
   | 10 | Apollo Quiboloy : A Jesus wannabe claiming to be "the Appointed Son of God" as well as being "the Owner of the Universe", but in reality is a certified megachurch kook who started a media empire and sexually abused children in exchange for privileges as well as avoiding "eternal damnation". Has recently been indicted by the US Department of Justice due to said accusations. On February 5, 2022, the Federal Bureau of Investigation released a wanted poster for Quiboloy. |
   | -14 | Adam SomethingEdit draft[10] is a BreadTuber with over 700K subscribers. His videos are often about transportation and city building as subject, along with critique about capitalism. His most popular videos take shots at Elon Musk and Dubai. As of recent he also closely covers the Russo-Ukrainian War. |
   | 26 | Surrogacy when a woman uses her body to give birth to someone else's baby. Many different groups fight over whether this should be illegal: LGBT, feminists, TERFS, conservatives, the Catholic Church, etc. An interesting topic for this wiki to cover as there are many different opinions on whether or not it should be illegal. With so many different groups with different opinions crankery is bound to be found. Perfect for this wiki. |
   | -40 | "Personal choice" is a thing that people bring up when they decide not to take safety precautions because they desire a sort of freedom. Some elaboration and counter-arguments would be nice. |
   | 45 | An umbrella review is known to be scholarly pieces of evidence. They are reviews of systematic-reviews and meta-analyses. |
   | 41 | John Rosemond is a American pseudopsychologist associated with the American College of Pediatricians. Some of his popular advice to new parents includes: never bending down to children, always saying "because I said so" when giving a command, denying any treatment for ADHD (as it's non-existent according to him), potty training toddlers by forcing them to be naked and physically moving them to the toilet when they have an inevitable accident, AND LOCKING YOUR FUCKING KID IN THEIR ROOM FOR A MONTH IF THEY HIT YOU. His abusive methods of parenting are popular on nanny blogs and was featured on a PragerU video about raising obedient kids. |
   | 106 | Hồ Chí Minh : The founding father of modern Vietnam as well as one of the most well known Asian communist leaders. He deserves to have an article of his own. |
   | 128 | Patriot Prayer : Far-right organization that has hosted numerous pro-Trump rallies since their foundation in 2016. Have ties to the Proud Boys and some militia movement groups. Not-so-fun fact: Jeremy Joseph Christian, the man responsible for the 2017 Portland train attack in which he murdered two people (and was sentenced to life without parole in 2020 for it) had attended a few Patriot Prayer rallies. |
   | 151 | 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. |
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   | 152 | 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/.) |
   | 159 | 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. |
   | 153 | 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.[12] Their names have been released by the sheriff's office here: [13] |
   | 156 | 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. |
   | 159 | John Bolton, future Trump train casualty, arch-conservative wingnut, chicken hawk extraordinaire, deserves to be mocked for a long, long time. |
   | 158 | Libel laws, with information on their abuse by woo-meisters, libel tourism, and science by lawsuit. Could possibly be merged with SLAPP suit. |
   | 158 | 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. |
   | 161 | Microbes on the ArkCreate draft. Nothing on Noah and the amoeba? |
   | 168 | 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". |
   | 169 | Kyle RittenhouseEdit 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. |
   | 166 | 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. |
   | 168 | 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. |
   | 161 | SCIgen, the fake paper generator used to test scam conferences and predatory journals. |
   | 164 | 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[17][18] but just give us the facts! |
   | 164 | 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. |
   | 161 | 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[1] 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. |
   | 162 | 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.[19][20] |
   | 161 | Ferdinand Marcos Needs no introduction. The best worst president the Philippines ever had. |
   | 161 | 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. |
   | 168 | 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. |
   | 164 | 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 |
   | 178 | 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: [24] |
   | 163 | 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". |
   | 165 | Overtoun Bridge , the "dog suicide bridge"[25], 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. |
   | 180 | Stochastic terrorism and/or Lone wolf - terms used to describe terrorist attacks carried by by an individual but inspired by extremist groups and public figures. It started with Daesh but has horseshoed over to the far right. |
   | 165 | VeggieTales - a Christian Indoctrination program disguised as a children's show. |
   | 182 | 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. |
   | 183 | 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.[26][27] But the woo health press is all over them.[28][29] (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.[30] |
   | 168 | 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. |
   | 168 | 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. |
   | 161 | 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 [32][33][34] Any bored physicists in the house? |
   | 161 | 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 [35] |
   | 185 | 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. |
   | 162 | 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." |
   | 171 | The Rockefeller s/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. |
   | 168 | 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. |
   | 182 | 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) |
   | 170 | Lamaze, a natural childbirth technique. |
   | 177 | 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. |
   | 162 | 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 |
   | 182 | 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. |
   | 186 | 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. |
   | 173 | 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.) |
   | 201 | 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 have been known to commit suicide as a result of their newfound delusions. It's also really hard on your bladder for some reason. |
   | 171 | 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. |
   | 195 | 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. |
   | 190 | 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. |
   | 282 | 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. |
   | 357 | Doe v. Trump (2016) 1:16-cv-07673-RA ([40] [41] [42]) 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 ([43] [44]) 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.[45] [46] [47] [48] A draft has been created at Draft:Donald Trump child rape cases. |
   | 248 | 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. |
   | 254 | Carbon tax : A tax levied on the carbon content of fuels, used to discourage CO2 emissions. Despite it's 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 |
   | 217 | 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 | 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.[49] Initially in the US but a similar group, Auditing Britain, has been invading COVID testing centres.[50] |
   | 297 | Matt GaetzEdit 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. |
   | 281 | Ghislaine Maxwell Her trial starts today.[51] I definitely expected there to be an article here already. |
   | 200 | Vril - holy shit, we don't have a page on this? |
   | 190 | 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. |
   | 187 | 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. |
   | 188 | 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.) |
   | 198 | 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".[53] |
   | 191 | Palladium hydride is an odd one that can absorb 800~900x its volume in hydrogen.[5] 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. |
   | 262 | 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? |
   | 211 | 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. |
   | 231 | Amazon RainforestEdit draft: As there has been a lot of misinformation about this in the media in recent years, it seems fitting. |
   | 347 | This so-called COVID-19 lab leak hypothesis — with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying being some of its main proponents [54] [55] [56] — 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. |
   | 217 | Thorium-based nuclear power A lot of crap surrounding the thorium powered reactor in pop sci magazines, a lot of it debunked by thunderf00t. |
   | 211 | 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). |
   | 226 | 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".[57][58] 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. |
   | 190 | 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. |
   | 212 | 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. |
   | 391 | 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). |
   | 426 | Dr. Salvatore Cezar Pais is listed as the inventor of four 2019 U.S. Navy patents that have been described as "Star Trek technology".[59] 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.[60] |
   | 340 | 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. |
   | 275 | 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. |
   | 297 | 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.[61] |
   | 283 | 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). |
   | 227 | 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. |
   | 246 | 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. |
   | 231 | 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." |
   | 227 | 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. |
   | 198 | 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. |
   | 222 | 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. |
   | 188 | 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.[62][63] 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. |
   | 253 | 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. |
   | 191 | 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. |
   | 207 | 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. |
   | 235 | Rick SimpsonCreate draft, who believes that hemp oil cures cancer and every other ill.[64] "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. |
   | 183 | 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. |
   | 177 | 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.[22][23] 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)."[24] They also have a YouTube channel.[25] |
   | 269 | 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.[26][27] Another follower killed herself in 2013 after not receiving treatment for schizophrenia which they do not think exists.[28] 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.[29] |
   | 351 | 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. |
   | 214 | 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". |
   | 209 | The Crystal GridCreate draft: a woo-tastic website.[65]. Besides trying to build worldwide network of crystals, they've got a bogus cell phone radiation blocker.[66] |
   | 210 | 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.) |
   | 230 | 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) |
   | 217 | 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.[67] 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 |
   | 184 | 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? |
   | 179 | 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. |
   | 161 | 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. |
   | 212 | 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. |
   | 234 | AIPAC. It's a lobbying group and pro-Israel, so it's basically a giant magnet for conspiracy theories. |
   | 200 | The Kyshtym dwarf or Aleshenka / Alyoshenka was a small humanoid body found near Kyshtym, Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia.[34] 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.[35][36] |
   | 221 | 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. |
   | 222 | 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. |
   | 175 | ACTA, or put an area for it in the SOPA article. |
   | 177 | 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. |
   | 217 | The Great ResetCreate draft a proposal to utilize capitalism to rebuild the economy sustainably following COVID-19, and a subject of conspiracy theories about socialism and NWO bullshit. |
   | 220 | Tom Hanks was accused of being a pedophile with no evidence by QAnon nutters[68] then became an honorary citizen of Greece. |
   | 187 | 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.) |
   | 164 | Bélmez Faces are a bunch of images on a concrete floor supposedly appearing out of no where. |
   | 167 | 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. |
   | 166 | 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[72][73]. 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[74]). |
   | 177 | Nicolás Maduro : 46th president and dictator of Venezuela since 2013. |
   | 167 | 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). |
   | 172 | El Al : Israel's flag carrier, and a heavy target for some Anti-Zionist, sometimes Anti-semitic, and even Islamophobic conspiracy theories. |
   | 211 | Super PAC. How is there not an article on these yet? |
   | 164 | 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. |
   | 166 | Bisphenol A, also known as BPA. Harmful to developing fetuses? Causing widespread infertility in adults? Or just the latest public health scare? |
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   | 21 | Ian Miles CheongCreate draft is a Malaysian right-winged grifter that promotes various conspiracy theories targeting "the left" and has lied about being attacked by Antifa. He had been used by Conservapedia and other blogs as evidence of supposed anti-AAPI sentiment in the left. |
   | 8 | Draconian constitution was enforced by Draco in Athens. Basically, minor criminals were dealt with harshly, some even getting the death penalty. What other places have implemented it and how has it backfired? |
   | 25 | Mark Rutte is Prime Minster of the Netherlands for over ten years and still running. While he and his conservative-liberal Party VVD have won the elections for four consecutive times, he himself, his Party and his cabinet have met several controversies, most notoriously the benefit scandal. |
   | 94 | 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. |
   | 31 | Éric Zemmour is the rising star of French Far-Right politics likely to displace Le Pen in the 2022 elections or push her to be even more far-right to survive, promising to be the extremist France needs in the clash of civilizations. |
   | 56 | Volt Europa is a pro-European, progressive leaning political movement, founded in response to the growing populism and the Brexit. |
   | 30 | Klaus Schwab is economist and founder and executive chairman of the World Economic Forum . He is also target of many conspiracy theorists and often linked to "the Great Reset". |
   | 40 | Reiner FuellmichCreate draft, grifting lawyer at the center of hyped (e.g. [78]) "Nuremberg 2.0" plandemic trial.[79][80] |
   | 127 | 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.[81] A more general article about spyware might also be good, and could include Pegasus. |
   | 87 | Smart home systems are commonly believed to be spying on their users |
   | 38 | Soka Gakkai International is an organization linked to the Soka Gakkai new religious movement. At first glance their teachings are harmless--they're an offshoot of Nichiren Buddhism, they campaign for nuclear disarmament and environmentalism, they conduct humanitarian aid after disasters, etc.--but they appear to be a cult, their financial practices are sketchy, and they encourage the use of chanting their central mantra as a thought-stopping technique. They've been disowned from mainstream Nichiren Buddhism since 1991, but they also claim to be the foremost authority on it. |