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   | 40 | 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. |
| 41 | Robert Nixon (prophet), alleged prophet. No relation to Richard. |
| 72 | 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. |
| 58 | 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. |
| 40 | Ingo Swann Alleged psychic. |
| 77 | Haitian Revolution. Given that we have articles on both the American and French Revolutions, the Haitian Revolution, which was just as impactful (the world's only country founded by a successful slave rebellion), deserves its own article too. It's currently just a section on the Haiti article, and that doesn't do the subject justice. At all. |
| 123 | The Daily Wire. Shapiro's website (currently a re-direct to his page, btw), founded in 2015. Launched DailyWire+ this year, which is a video on demand site full off podcasts and videos filled with wingnut BS, like this thing. Are you're a Reaganite, Trumpist or MAGA? Then you will definitely love this site. |
| 25 | Public order crime A Newspeak dogwhistle for "victimless crime" coined by the "law and order" crowd to refer to the fact that certain "crimes" are only "crimes" because of the legislative process and not by any actual harm done. |
| 39 | Kyrie Irving. The very reason athletes are often told to “stick to sports”. Has spewed enough alternative medicine, anti-semetic, black supremacist, conspiracy theories, and Covid-19 disinformation to warrant a RW article. |
| 117 | Conservatism. Currently a re-direct to this article. But seeing how Conservatism has grown |
| 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. |
| 38 | 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. |
| 19 | 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. |
| 136 | Since we now have an article on Nintendo, how about covering the other scumbags in the gaming industry: Activision (Most famously known for the Blitzchung Controversy. As well as several allegations of sexual harassement & discrimination, workplace harassement, multiple workplace walkouts…), Ubisoft (most recently known for the sexual misconduct accusations leaked out in 2020 and their boss feigning ignorance and delivering a half-botched excuse & several controversies around Watch Dogs: Legion, such as hiring a Transphobic voice actress), Electronic Arts (Most famously known for their loot boxes (which they later on called "Surprise Mechanics") that they put in almost every single game, including their FIFA series. Which led to this happening. Which led to EA embarrassing itself by trying to sue one of these countries for following their laws. As well as other criticisms that pushed the other wiki to give it its own page), Konami (on how it treats its employees and former employees) & Acclaim Enterainment. The latter one went bankrupt in 2004 due to its own stupidity. This video explains some stuff that isn't mentioned in the Wikipedia article, such as animal abuse. |
| 54 | Murdoch MurdochCreate draft ([1]). 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. |
| 81 | E;REdit draft. Also known as ERofthesemicolon, EsemicolonR, and PUNISHE;R. E;R is a Far-Right/Crypto-Fascist movie reviewer who mostly uses the "I'm just playing a character" card to make everybody be brainwashed into unironically believing his lies that his Far-Right political beliefs and extremely unsubtle Far-Right dogwhistles are just "Jokes" (E;R himself even admitted that all of his so-called "Jokes" are actually him trying to Red-Pill everybody into believing the Jewish Question over on his Gab account in November 2017). Some of his most infamous videos are: His Steven Universe review were he used the David Reimer & John Money gender reassignment controversy of 1966 as a straw-man for why LGBTQ people are all "monsters" and pedophiles, and even inserted a 4-minute-long unedited Hitler speech about how Jews control everything, his so-called "Non-Racist" review of Get Out which was basically him being extremely racist to black people for 39 minutes (with a side of TONS of blackface-type imagery), etc. I'm surprised RationalWiki doesn't have an article on him that documents all of his dogwhistle-filled reviews. |
| 14 | 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. |
| 13 | 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. |
| 147 | Brothers of Italy. Founded in 2012 after they split from this man's party. The winners of the 2022 Elections. Right-wing to Far-Right party that has a Neo-Fascist faction aswell. Have been apologetic towards Mussolini, aswell having some Mussolinis in their Party. Conservative & Nationalistic twats, who are also anti-migration, Eurosceptic, against Euthanasia & Abortion and some other things worth mentioning, like certain hand gestures. They're also BFF's with the UK Conservative Party, The Republicans, Vox and their leader, Giorgia Meloni seems to be good buddies with this fine fella. |
| 105 | Boomers. I'm surprised the wiki doesn't have an article on Boomers yet, considering the current intergenerational divide and associated strife, as well as the gerontocracy that is the United States. |
| 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. |
| 87 | There is a website humancondition.comCreate draft about 'the human condition', mainly stuff from Jeremy Griffith, a biologist, whose work the late Harry Prosen greatly advocates. At a first glance, the quality of the material is dubious, but some of it seems almost cult-like with 'transformation affirmations' from people who feel 'transformed' through this eye-opening material. Some of it also reads dubiously like psychoanalysis or at least its kinds of immunising strategies or weird claims. Like 'people naturally unconsciously stop listening and don't want to hear about this subject that I come to tell an important truth about, but I was lucky to not have this aversion so I could understand it and share it and it will save us all', this is almost literally the message, which, for something that claims to be based in science, is awfully propagandistic and evangelical. It is a trademarked organisation 'World Transformation Movement', and the first video after an interview they have is literally 'your block to the most wonderful of all gifts', which reads an awful lot like claims from psychoanalysis, which is of course always right because it already explains that people will reject it for unconscious reasons that psychoanalysis explains, and similar immunising strategies of pseudoscience. Further it has some political aspects, mentioning somewhere 'death by dogma left wing threat' and 'saving western civilisation from left wing dogma', while not having any such thing on 'right wing' or 'capitalism'. Perhaps the titles are just clickbaity and it goes into it in nuance in the essays themselves, but some of it is raising some flags, though I couldn't be bothered to check everything yet. So because it is so questionable, perhaps some good rationalists of various backgrounds need to look into it and create a write up of their findings in articles here on RW. There are ads for this stuff regularly popping up on youtube on just about anything for different people, so as it attempts to force its way into popular discourse, it seems in need of some rational treatment. |
| 93 | Looking for DarwinCreate draft, a book by Lloyd Spencer Davis, might deserve its own article, as it proclaims to be "a search for meaning in a world that pits evolution against creationism, Intelligent Design of an all-seeing God versus the blind hand of Natural Selection". Considering the subject of many articles here, it sounds like it deserves a place in that discussion, while so far it isn't there anywhere, not even mentioned on any page as paragraph or source. |
| 106 | Vertical farming and the claimed environmental benefits. |
| 56 | Klaus Schwab, founded the World Economic Forum, and is seen as being a mastermind of the Great Reset by crazy conspiracy theorists. |
| 7 | Neil Horan, defrocked Irish Catholic priest known for his outrageous protests preaching about the end times, the most infamous of which is perhaps the incident in the 2003 Formula 1 Grand Prix, besides his antisemitic leanings and support for Adolf Hitler. Not only that, he was also alleged to have played an indecent game of hide-and-seek with a little girl, though was unfortunately acquitted; he did, however, show support for convicted actor and paedophile Rolf Harris, as Neil was spotted outside the court during Harris's trial. |
| 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. |
| 29 | Ziauddin Sardar, British-Pakistani writer on Islam and author of Thomas Kuhn and the Science Wars. |
| 28 | Richard Swinburne: English professor in philosophy of science and philosophy of religion. |
| 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.[2] |
| 22 | 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! |
| -30 | That Vegan Teacher; she is basically PETA, but as a person. She is a homophobe and antisemite, went after YouTubers like PewDiePie and MrBeast, and made her dog vegan. |
| 55 | Vladislav Surkov, Kremlin chief propagandist 1999-2020 |
| 32 | George H. Smith, prolific American atheist author |
| 45 | Jared Diamond American geographer, historian and award winning best selling author of popular science books |
| 129 | "Queen" Romana Didulo, a Philippine-born British Columbian crackpot who claims to be the "Queen of Canada" and has become involved with QAnon and other whack-job groups and conspiracy theories.[3] |
| 120 | The Federalist (website): Conservative website known to post misinformation. According to their page on the other wiki, they used to have a "Black crime" tag on their website, and publish pseudoscience. Top hits from their headlines department include "For Christians, Dying From COVID (Or Anything Else) Is A Good Thing" and "Pedophilia Isn’t The Main Problem With Catholic Priests, Homosexuality Is". |
| 13 | 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. |
| 21 | 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 |
| 117 | Gays Against Groomers: Twitter account & site. Basically LGB Alliance (whom they actually follow on twitter). Some other notable and very interesting people that this "organisation" follows. And someone that is following them, despite having no issues with Trans people anymore according to our article. Some sources: 1 2 3. |
| 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. |
| 92 | Firearms Policy CoalitionCreate draft Is a fringe lobbyist group that advocates for weapon deregulation in the United States. Arguably more extreme than the GOA. |
| 13 | Steven Gundry is a heart surgeon that has turned into a woomeister promoting lectins as an enemy to health. |
| 95 | sv3rigeCreate draft (aka. Goatis) a Youtube personality who poses as a nutritionist. He's a flat-earther, anti-vegan, anti-vaxxer, raw meat eater, grifter, germ theory and covid denialist and an all-around crank magnet. He loves to call everything unnatural. |
| 99 | TFP Student ActionEdit 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 |
| 101 | Kundalini is a loose new-age concept becoming popular in mainstream circles and celebrities, and also a bogeyman in religious circles; for example when you push someone to explain how they know Beyonce sold their soul they bring up her "Kundalini awakening" and how it helps her dance |
| 89 | Mark Meechan: also known as "Count Dankula", is a white nationalist who got his claim-to-fame through being arrested for teaching his dog how to do the Nazi Salute. He's a far-right libertarian who hides his true nature under the excuse of comedy and "trolling", and he also once operated with Carl Benjamin in UKIP to run on a far-right platform |
| 107 | The Kali Yuga: In Hinduism, this is supposed to be the dark age in a supposed four-stage cycle, with the other three being the Satya Yuga, the Treta Yuga, and the Dvapara Yuga. It has been been incorporated into esoteric fascist philosophy multiple times since the 1930s, often with a particular interest in its predicted end and the subsequent dawn of the Satya Yuga (a golden age), which is comparable to the Christian end times or the Germanic pagan Ragnarok. It has also crept into many New Age movements, unfortunately this usually comes by way of the the aforementioned esoteric fascist philosophy. |
| 89 | William Henry Harrison: The 9th and first president to die in office |
| 17 | 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. |
| 70 | 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. |
| 86 | I think that an article on this crank website called serendipity.liCreate draft and the author Peter Meyer would be cool. |
| 85 | Jesus Strikes Back: Judgment Day A third-person shooter in the vein of Hatred and Ethnic Cleansing themed around inciting violence against liberal and LGBTQ+ groups. Despite making claims that the game (along with others such as the Christchurch-themed The Shitposter) is "satire" ostensibly to poke fun at cancel culture and the current sociopolitical climate, developer 2Genderz Productions is clearly intending to troll and sow controversy through their so-called "games" based on their antisemitic and racially-charged drivel on their website. |
| 101 | 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. |
| -26 | 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, |
| 124 | Bad Webcomics WikiEdit 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. |
| 17 | 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. |
| 120 | CutiesCreate draft: A 2020 French coming-of-age drama about a Senegalese Muslim girl who is struggling between her family's conservative upbringing and the prospect of her joining a dance crew. It became more well known for the controversy it generated and how both sides of the American political spectrum are upset about the perceived pedophilic content of the film despite assertions by both its director and Netflix that the film was intended to criticise the sexualisation of young girls. |
| 60 | Mahavatar Babaji is said to be a yogi who has living for more then 2000 years and has supernatural abilities. |
| 59 | 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. |
| 9 | Adam SomethingEdit draft[4] 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. |
| 140 | A Tankie glossary, similar to those for the ones made for the Alt-right, TERFs, and the Manosphere, might be a good idea. |
| 28 | 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. |
| -38 | "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. |
| 47 | 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. |
| 14 | Wang Jingwei: The Asian Vidkun Quisling/Benedict Arnold. Headed the Japanese collaborationist government based in Nanjing during World War II. |
| 121 | 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. |
| 147 | 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. |
| 99 | Mobutu Sese Seko: Batshit insane dictator of Zaire from 1965 to 1997. Know for his lavish and pimp-tastic outfits and for being a one-man kleptocracy. He's covered in the article about the Democratic Republic of the Congo but deserves to have his own page. |
| 85 | Vaccine Choice Canada: Canada's leading anti-vaxxer organization. |
| 98 | Cultured Person BroadcastingCreate draft: Japanese far-right television channel and YouTube channel associated with Netto-uyoku. They are known to engage in war crime denial (in regards to Imperial Japan's numerous atrocities during World War II) and also engange in anti-Chinese, anti-Korean, and xenophobic propaganda. |