RationalWiki:To do list/archive2012

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42The disgrace to civilized society that is Mark Steyn.Wikipedia
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44We tend to mention Roger EbertWikipedia a lot around here.
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150The utterly terrifying duumvirate of reactionary state representatives, Charles DavidsonCreate draft and Charles FuquaCreate draft Both of them support slavery and theocracy. In the 21st century, I might point out.
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40The born alive rule,Wikipedia an interesting little bugger.
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41Warren Farrell,Wikipedia top MRA and pedo defender. This extensive series of reviews may be good for cribs.
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37Oryx and CrakeWikipedia - together with its sequel, The Year of the Flood,Wikipedia in which Margaret AtwoodWikipedia shows a near-future dystopian view of bio-technology and religious eco-activists. Move over, Handmaid's Tale, you need bringing up to date with a whiff of cyberpunk.
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37Halos,Wikipedia another art staple that Christianity totally ripped off.
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38Sheldon AdelsonWikipedia - single largest private donor in history... all 8 of the candidates he backed lost, costing him some $50 million.
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63Consumer ReportsWikipedia - The magazine that on occasion exposes woo.
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75Long Island MediumWikipedia - Insufferable Popular psychic du jour with the housewife crowd
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42Michael Moore Hates America.Wikipedia The title implies that the film consists of an angry wingnut ranting about Moore being a commie and verbally-fellating George W. Bush, but interestingly, the film isn't really anything like that. It's tone is actually very collected and sensible, and most of its criticisms of Moore are valid. Not all people who criticise liberalism are like Limbaugh and Coulter.
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60History of atheismWikipedia/freethinking/agnosticism etc., rather than just a lowly stub. Also Ibn al-Rawandi.Wikipedia
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82Ordo Templi Orientis.Wikipedia Transformed by Aleister Crowley into an anti-Christian Horus-worshipping cult, this secret society is basically Freemasonrymeets Wicca. It's this, by the way, and not Freemasonry and Wicca, that paranoid fundies should actually be concerned about.
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40beliefnetWikipedia (lower case), a blogging site composed of erudite fuzzy-mindedness, much-referenced in RW articles.
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82Spanish American WarWikipedia and/or the Philippines War.Wikipedia The parallels with the Iraq War are uncanny and disgraceful. Never forget.
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44AurangzebWikipedia: Thanks a lot for taking the most then-advanced civilization on earth and setting back Middle Eastern and Indian civilization for several centuries, you fundamentalist jerk.
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73An article specifically on Omission bias.Wikipedia Prevalent and potent poison to human thinking.
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38Admiral Hyman G. Rickover.Wikipedia Made the United States Navy, especially the nuclear submarine/aircraft carrier components, what they are today. While he has a ginormous skeptic and extremely critical of the 'blindly follow procedure' mentality that infects the technical departments of militaries, his interest to RationalWiki is that his program was SO successful that much like TJ he inadvertently locked both U.S. commercial and military fission nuclear power firmly into suboptimal pseudoengineering. Why does the United States use light water, partial or completely pressured, highly enriched 2nd-gen nuclear reactors with as much operator-input as possible even though there are better models and methods of maintaining them? Because Rickover's legacy, that's why.
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62Paul Johnson.Wikipedia British triumphalist historian who pushes American exceptionalism as far as it can go without getting into pseudohistory. I've had more than one history teacher/professor push him as the conservative counterpart to Zinn.
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45David Hart.Wikipedia He's this theologist who attacked new wave atheists such as Dawkins and then defined God as: "an absolute plenitude of actuality".
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48An article on state legislative bills intended to push creationism, especially the shitload that have been proposed since the beginning of legislative sessions in 2011
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40Mata AmritanandamayiWikipedia aka 'The Hugging Saint' with a bizarre cult of personality.
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132George Orwell's Politics and the English Language,Wikipedia arguably the best anti-bullshit guide there is.
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40The value added taxWikipedia aka. sales tax, consumption tax, Pigovian tax, yadda yadda...
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73The Medieval Warm Period.Wikipedia Proof that global warming is fake!
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40Jerry Boykin,Wikipedia for any number of reasons but especially because of his recent role in the Huma Abedin debacle
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60I've been meaning to do this for a while: write an article on vertebrates.Wikipedia There's at least one red link to "invertebrate" (in the mollusc article), and we need to have something good on the "unbridgable gap" between something without a backbone and something with. Helpful link.
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82The Motion Picture Association of AmericaWikipedia (MPAA), anyone? It's unambiguously homophobic, exhibits rampant double-standards in regards to male and female sexuality as well as sex and violence, and refuses to conclusively reveal who it is composed of, among other things. We might as well have a page on the documentary that points all this out, This Film is Not Yet Rated, too.
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71Esoteric breast massage,Wikipedia an actual alt-med therapy.[1][2][3][4][5][6]
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43Mary Daly.Wikipedia Wrote about misogyny in the Roman Catholic Church and organized religion in general, but also subscribed to lesbian separatist utopia fantasies.
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108If anyone here can speak Portuguese, please enlighten us on the antics of Josue YrionCreate draft.
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48AgeismWikipedia
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90Solyndra!Wikipedia It's the new ACORN and part of the eco-fascist conspiracy! Run!
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40Christopher Horner,Wikipedia who's quite butthurt over James Hansen.
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40Margaret McBride,Wikipedia excommunicated for allowing an abortion on a woman who would have died should she have remained pregnant
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44RW, I am disappoint. Why no Ernst HaeckelWikipedia?
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126Gay adoptionWikipedia is a civil rights issue that currently redirects to same-sex marriage. Might need a better title, like same-sex parenthood.
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43Feminists For LifeWikipedia arguably an oxymoron as it contains Caribou Barbie multiple ideologues against women's rights.
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68Jihad Watch,Wikipedia one of Breivik's enablers
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92HippotherapyWikipedia?
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47Paul CameronWikipedia - anti-gay loony and "expert" used by American Family Association
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70Origin of deluvian myths.Wikipedia There are flood myths from around the world, not just the Noachid one. Creationists unsurprisingly jump on this as "proof" the Deluge was global.
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42For our economics fans, Dutch disease.Wikipedia
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37British People's PartyWikipedia: this lot, another bunch of white supremacists. Allied with World Union of National Socialists (maybe they need an article too).
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70The awesome developments at Vostok StationWikipedia probably merit an article. It even has its own Hitler conspiracy.
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44All this talk of the Higgs boson reminds me of Marietta Higgs,Wikipedia a dodgy UK paediatrician who promoted some dubious diagnostic technique to do with poking kid's bums and seeing how much their sphincter dilated, as an indicator of whether child abuse had occurred. This led to a great many children been taken away from their parents and a general scandal. It was also tied to general ballyho about alleged ritual child abuse in the OrkneyWikipedia islands and something sinister to do with Thomas the Tank Engine.Wikipedia Thoroughly Bad Medicine.
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73The Baby Tooth Survey,Wikipedia which lead to several environmental regulations
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80An analysis and description of deprogrammingWikipedia
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47Nexus Magazine.Wikipedia It's a vast collection of conspiracy theories, alt medicine, stories from readers about "what is really going on", and of course, ads selling just about every crank product you can imagine. A good example of Crank magnetism, I thought it should have an article.
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68Income inequality was already requested below - why not the Gini coefficientWikipedia?
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126Sinéad O'Connor,Wikipedia a perfect example of how the Roman Catholic Church can still psychologically destroy the life of someone who tried to speak the truth to the ignorant majority.
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62Henry Hyde,Wikipedia one of the most heartless figures (and that's saying something) in the history of the GOP.
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62Bright green environmentalism.Wikipedia
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67DSHEA,Wikipedia the Dietary supplement health and education act of 1994, which regulates what claims supplement/alternative medicine medicine products can make. Also codified the unregulated nature of supplements.
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74Depression,Wikipedia especially the purported connection it has with atheism and liberalism and everything else.
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76Hipsters.Wikipedia
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48Ho'oponopono,Wikipedia a Hawaiian cultural practice appropriated by woosters. In its wooish incarnation, it was allegedly able to "heal a ward of mentally ill criminals".[7] Endorsed by Law of Attraction proponent Joe Vitale.Wikipedia
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55I think someone should make an article on the Congo,Wikipedia considering how utterly devastating that war was and how few people in the First World know about it.
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68A look at infanticide,Wikipedia the pro-lifers' main snarl word.
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45The Health and Social Care Bill,Wikipedia David Cameron and co.'s attempt to reform the NHS. It has the wonderful status of having zero support by the medical establishment, who are sure it's a mass privatization scheme.
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63Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association,Wikipedia the 2005 landmark case on banning inappropriate video games to children without parental supervision. Assfly and the PTC went on a tirade when it didn't go their way.
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68The SetsudenWikipedia movement, basically Earth Hour on steroids (and more effective) in the wake of Fukushima.
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84 Cold-EEZE,Wikipedia as in that new common cold medication. Not sure what to think of this: it says it's homoeopathic but also approved by physicians. Is this just the placebo effect or what? I'm not sure.
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61John Cook,Wikipedia the evangelical owner of award-winning climate denial-debunker Skeptical Science. Yes, you heard that right.
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83Do Not Open (2007 book).Wikipedia Provides a kind of an "at a glance" view of various pseudosciences and conspiracies (sans anti-allopathy), although it sometimes reads like an Ancient Aliens episode.
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44Might be relevant to FCC/censorship discussions: shock jock radio host Howard Stern.Wikipedia
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78Time zero,Wikipedia i.e. the time "before" the Big Bang. Not the Doctor Who thing. That is, use this article to discuss naturalistic hypotheses on the cause of the Big Bang.
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72Brominated flame retardants.Wikipedia
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37Gabriel's RevelationWikipedia
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86The Black Sea delugeWikipedia in 5400 BC. I've heard it may have had some relation to the origin of the myth of the Ark, despite being some 3000 years apart.
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48We need an article specifically on organized religion.Wikipedia That or I need to stop playing Civ4.
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40The Science WarsWikipedia - Science (and Alan Sokal) vs. postmodern drivel. (Note: This is not the same thing as the War on Science.)
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45The ousting of secular, pro-Western Mohammad MosaddeghWikipedia, one of the dumbest foreign policy decisions ever made.
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41Groups like Veterans for Peace,Wikipedia the moral opposite of Chickenhawks.
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40Patrick Moore (environmentalist),Wikipedia founder-turned-critic of Greenpeace and staunchly anti-science.
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36R. Joseph Hoffmann,Wikipedia an "unbelieving" scholar of theology who has attracted recent attention for blog posts flinging dung at the New Atheists, but whose history of suck goes back much further.