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![]() ![]() ![]() | 47 | Human resources![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 40 | Davos![]() ![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 126 | Founding Fathers on IslamCreate draft - we should discuss what the rather heterogeneous group that declared independence from Britain, fought the war and wrote the Constitution had to say about Islam. Given that they are often cited by both sides to make some kind of point. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 73 | Gavin Menzies![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 92 | Volkstaat![]() ![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 61 | Anne Graham Lotz![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 43 | 350.org![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 66 | A grand coalition![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 91 | Disposition Matrix![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 73 | Frozen Conflict![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 82 | Mere Christianity![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 46 | New Year's Eve sexual assaults in Cologne![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 90 | Sons of Iraq,![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 64 | Someone in the archives proposed we do an article on the phenomenon of the emergency manager![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 76 | Bioscience Resource Project![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 127 | Dogfighting,![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 81 | Concussions in Sport![]() ![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 146 | The whole tough on crimeCreate draft disaster, including three strikes laws![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 60 | Simon Magus![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 82 | The Confederate Constitution![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 58 | Robert Kiviat![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 86 | Oddly enough despite having articles on the rest of the manosphere we don't have an article on Red Pillers, an even more extreme and militant form of misogyny pushed on the internet. It's also arguably the most dangerous form of internet misogyny in the real world considering a good chunk of red pillers are rape apologists, pedophilia apologists, and a few mass shooters have been encouraged by their rhetoric.They're so bad even some MRA's dislike them. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 149 | Do we have an article on the tendency of cranks and their followers to dishonestly cite a letter to the editor in a peer-reviewed journal as if it indicates the journal supports their crackpottery or somehow magically proves their claims? Not quite quote mining. (It's similar to dishonest TV ads for a movie which quote "The New York Times", when in fact the quote comes from a newspaper ad for the movie and not from a legitimate critic.) Needs a snappy name too. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 74 | 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi,![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 113 | Tong renCreate draft: smacking dolls with a hammer will heal you. Yeah, it's as silly as it sounds. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 75 | Retraction Watch,![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 42 | Shmuley Boteach![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 124 | Chemo KillsCreate draft (https://chemokills.info/) The absolute worst sort of quack website, as they don't just promote cancer woo (Paleo diet, Vitamin C megadosage, etc.), but also actively and very strongly encourage people to not get (life-saving) chemothrapy. Claims that "globally 1.5 million people a year are murdered by chemotherapy for profit.". A number that cited by Mike Adams (The Health Ranger) on http://pharmadeathclock.com/ . (Could perhaps also be covered in Chemotherapy, which is a stub). |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 135 | Pro-smokingCreate draft is a thing. Pro-smoking example: https://smokerswrites.wordpress.com In the middle-ish example: https://www.heartland.org/ideas/smokers-rights Harassment: http://www.theguardian.com/society/2012/jun/01/pro-smoking-activists-health-campaigners |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 80 | National Socialist Underground,![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 87 | Infomercials![]() ![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 77 | Rubin "Hurricane" Carter,![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 114 | It Works!Create draft Actually, it's apparently some kind of body wrap that is supposed to help weight loss in spite of any evidence that it actually, y'know, works. Also promoted via multi-level marketing. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 140 | "Social engineering,"![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 71 | Deer Tribe Medicine Society![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 45 | Avatar Course![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 91 | MOVE![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 42 | Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 78 | Narcissistic Personality Disorder![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 48 | House of Yahweh![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 82 | Mexican Drug War![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 61 | Order of the Solar Temple![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 81 | Shining Path![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 62 | True Russian Orthodox Church![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 128 | Ninja![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 67 | Crank magnet libertarianism![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 82 | Julius and Ethel Rosenberg![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 81 | Erin Brockovich![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 85 | Phosphorus.![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 116 | TransethnicCreate draft. As nonsensical as this idea is, perhaps we should define it at least? |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 80 | Frank Miller![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 83 | Long Island Medium![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 75 | Bono![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 83 | Prop 65,![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 130 | Symbionese Liberation Army![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 110 | ScienceProvesIt.comCreate draft[3] a project of AIG. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 90 | Sesame Credit![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 136 | Marcus Garvey![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 92 | 1980 October Surprise![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 112 | Joy of SatanEdit draft, Neo-Nazi UFO Satanic Cult, large presence on the Internet |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 74 | Biblical Creation Ministries![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 94 | The Panama Deception![]() ![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 97 | Conspiracy theorists tend to call themselves Political prisoners.![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 140 | Bill Cosby![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 115 | Village atheistCreate draft. The stereotype of the evangelical atheist did not begin with "New Atheism". The character of Miles Bjornstam from Sinclair Lewis's Main Street is one starting point. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 66 | Fulton Lewis,![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 106 | Something on the LessWrong "LessWrong SequencesCreate draft Treated as scripture there (in the sense of being proclaimed as the foundational text but roundly ignored in practice). The actual content is somewhere between stopped clock and Sherlock's criticism |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 119 | The Voldemort EffectCreate draft, a neologism created by Maajid Nawaz, occurs when someone is afraid to name someone or something which can lead to them ignoring the problem. The idea comes from the Harry Potter universe where no citizen is willing to name Voldemort out of fear of retaliation; this is usually used against liberals who are supposedly afraid of calling out Islamic terrorism. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 74 | I personally think that an article on Sacco and Vanzetti![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 71 | P. J. O'Rourke,![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 137 | r/K selection theory,![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 104 | ADoseofBuckleyCreate draft, a Canadian humorist who posts YouTube videos under the tagline "Angry Humour From An Angry Man." He posts videos on everything from pop music and ad campaigns to social concerns, with purposefully snarky comments. In particular consideration to watch, and comment on either in an article or side-by-side list or refutation are his videos about Slutwalk, patriarchy, the Oregon bakery case (as a side note in the patriarchy video) nice guys, marijuana (specifically 420), AlterNet (in a video entitled Fox News vs. Alternative Media), and obesity. His YouTube channel is here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9kMnSZQd53hE-1sb1f9sdA/videos?feature=hovercard |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 68 | Aaron Copland,![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 76 | Islamic Society of North America![]() ![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 73 | Muslim American Society![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 64 | Allan Kardec,![]() ![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 86 | Copulin,![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 70 | Binding arbitration![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 81 | Soong May-ling,![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 74 | A new moral panic called Chemsex![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 109 | Judicial review denialismCreate draft, the latest form of right-wing pseudolaw created to oppose same-sex marriage, by denying that the Obergefell v. Hodges decision is legally binding, which is being trotted out by Republican pundits ad nauseam. Could possibly be just a section in Judicial review. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 132 | Cryosaunas![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 80 | Naprapathy,![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 90 | The Killian documents controversy,![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 80 | The International Jew![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 70 | Neotantra![]() ![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 68 | Liberty Central![]() ![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 94 | Engram![]() ![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 84 | Not Dead Yet![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 86 | The Palestinian right of return![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 113 | FIFA.![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 72 | Tim Farron![]() ![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 90 | Omar Al-Bashir![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 76 | Yoshiro Nakamatsu,![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 108 | A Chinese therapy called paidaCreate draft ("pat therapy" or "slap therapy") was covered earlier this year by the BBC. There has been at least one death associated with it.[4] |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 70 | The Automotive city![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 80 | Christian persecution,![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 77 | We need to have a page on "modern day Nostradamus" Gary Spivey![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 74 | Hans Magnus Enzensberger![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 70 | Ken Jebsen![]() ![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 104 | How to Good-Bye DepressionCreate draft If You Constrict Anus 100 Times Everyday. Malarkey? or Effective Way?. Might be a Poe, might be a racist joke, but dude has a website. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 73 | Greyhound Therapy:![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 134 | Nudism wooCreate draft Especially in the 19th century when nudism first became a political movement instead of just people foregoing clothes, a lot of woo was associated with it. Be it antisemitism, nationalism or the believe that nudity was some kind of panacea. Some of this woo still remains, as a short visit to one of the places where it is practiced will show you. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 113 | Gentrification.![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 91 | Consensual crime![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 71 | Tom Wolfe.![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 70 | The Natural Resources Defense Council![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 94 | European refugee crisis![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 66 | Bill Whittle,![]() ![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 100 | Gabor FeketeCreate draft a physics crank and troll. Emails physicists pretending to be from the Nobel committee; has attained some small fame for this in the field. [5][6][7][8][9] Has been at this for years[10]. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 109 | Onion![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 81 | Pink Ribbon![]() ![]() ![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 77 | A Joe job![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 73 | International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 72 | Marcus Aurelius![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 77 | The al-Quds day![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 102 | BoughtCreate draft, a movie about how vaccines and GMOs are evil -- and, worse, corporationy. (c.f. this examiner.com article) |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 105 | Koanic SoulCreate draft: a deeply nuts ([11][12][13]) scientific racist site that actually gets >0 play in neoreaction. Mr. 74 liked them too. Vault-Co is also a fan. With added Bitcoin.[14] |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 66 | The Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness![]() ![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 77 | It might be useful to have an article on forensic science.![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 98 | Jennifer HoultCreate draft, because we should be weary of someone who had a false memory of child sexual abuse back in the day, still believes it, and does research on sexual abuse (because there is good chance her research is heavily tinged by her conspiratorial views). Also a parental alienation denier (why not, since both false memories and parental alienation are heavily linked?) |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 81 | We should have an article on the "Right to be Forgotten".![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 64 | Allan Savory![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 79 | Central South Slavic diasystem![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 86 | Heightism![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 71 | The stuff that's happening in Calais with the migrants (The ones Cameron called a swarm) and the ferry strikers. Right wing response should be covered in this. Can't think of a good name for it. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 77 | Samaritan![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 66 | RationalWiki:Please climb the Riksdag dressed as Batman |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 77 | Oswald Spengler,![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 102 | Article Four of the Articles of ConfederationCreate draft - Not sure the Most Unexceptional way to title the article, but I've noticed a lot of sovereign citizen nuts screaming about it in youtube videos where they get themselves arrested. They apparently believe that it's the basis for them not having to obey the law. Based on wikipedia, and my reading of that particular article just says States can't bar citizens of other States from entering unless they're criminals or homeless (apparently the Constitution made that part more PC), and has to treat them the same as citizens of the State they're entering. Thought we should tackle this. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 73 | Some kind of LessWrong-to-normal-person glossary, giving the terms the rest of the world uses for concepts Yudkowsky gave his own names to so he would seem more original. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 93 | The Federalist![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 107 | The concept of a Baby BrainCreate draft which is basically the other side of the Mommy instinct coin. The idea that once a (previously competent) woman has had a baby, she magically is unable to do anything other that look after the baby (and often by implication, he husband.) |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 86 | Max Keiser![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 71 | The Book of Matt,![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 105 | Cuckold,![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 116 | Mommy UniversityCreate draft. Whereas the Mommy instinct is the notion that mothers magically know how to care for their children better than healthcare professionals, Mommy University is the even bolder notion that mothers know more about everything than everybody else. Products are hawked as having been "invented by a mom," for example, as though this makes the product better. Mommy bloggers are notorious graduates of this University, and tend toward a surprising level of anti-vax and food woo. (See also "sanctimommy," and the recent hashtag #MomHarder ) |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 73 | Bristol Palin,![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 80 | Mamajuana![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 136 | The Rind et al. controversy![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 80 | Okra![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 80 | Frivolous lawsuits![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 81 | Lists of weird laws are generally cherry-picked if not made up entirely. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 133 | The Medea hypothesis![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 85 | Opposition to pornography,![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 72 | The Dominican Republic,![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 82 | Peshmerga![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 87 | Fred Rogers![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 94 | The idea of a Feminazi![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 72 | Eliot Spitzer![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 87 | George Pataki.![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 73 | Leaky gut syndrome.![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 72 | Advanced Training Institute![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 90 | Cathy Young![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 85 | Senkaku Islands![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 87 | Internalized racism![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 80 | Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey into the Afterlife,![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 70 | Al Murray![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 85 | Genocide Watch![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 65 | Lionel R. Milgrom![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 62 | Theodore Gray![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 85 | Lokiarchaeota,![]() ![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 106 | Troubled teen homeCreate drafts, Christian and secular, for the abuse in them. (Example coverage from 2011, but I've seen a more recent one].) RW already has coverage of one, Hephzibah House, that is currently shoved as a section in Magdalene laundries where it doesn't belong. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 68 | Dieudonne M'bala M'bala,![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 72 | Foucault's Pendulum![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 81 | The Moynihan report.![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 104 | Dogs NaturallyCreate draft - "the most complete source of natural health care for dogs" [28]. Has been called the NaturalNews of dog ownership. Animal abuse for the wootastic. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 65 | Theodore Dalrymple![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 96 | Pink tax![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 72 | A bunch of parapsychology journals: Journal of Parapsychology![]() ![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 103 | Manifesto for a Post-Materialist ScienceCreate draft: Document arguing against scientific materialism. Cowritten by Rupert Sheldrake. ID supporters like it, as do Christians (Mormons?). The original is here, the fawning HuffPo is here, the less-fawning SciAm blog is here; Skeptiko forums likes it. A skeptical view is here, snarky comments here here and here. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 131 | Suriname![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 85 | Akiane Kramarik:![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 102 | Alive.comCreate draft[33] is an alternative medicine quack fest from Biritsh columbia, it is a magazine and website about "natural" (ie Bullshit medicinal ways. it is full of random quackery |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 134 | Midbrain activationCreate draft: woo marketed to parents in India to pay for coaches to train up their kids' midbrains. Skeptics in India deal with this one a bit. [34][35] |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 141 | Ateshgah of Baku,![]() ![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 102 | Yurugu: An African-Centered Critique of European Cultural Thought and BehaviorCreate draft, by Marimba Ani. One of the most popular black supremacist books. Some of its analysis is arguably defensible, but it's also full of bizarre woo and pseudohistory, such as this bit about blacks being more capable of absorbing "divine energy" due to their dark skin, and virtually every stick-shaped object (including, I shit you not, umbrellas) being a manifestation of the white man's fear of the black man's penis. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 75 | Hyperphysics:![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 73 | Sharyl Attkisson:![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 135 | Human nutrition;![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 166 | Terasem![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 77 | Eurasian Economic Union![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 103 | PsycheTruthCreate draft - A channel on Youtube with over 880,000 subscribers, yet it's jam-packed with woo. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 82 | Interposition,![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 90 | Zoltan Istvan,![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 88 | The Freikorps,![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 140 | Laplace's demon![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 80 | Just ran into this really cogent counterargument to the idea that the bible is divinely inspired.[43] Could make an article from this, or part of one. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 136 | Great Zimbabwe![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 72 | Michael Tellinger,![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 71 | Bruno Bettelheim.![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 141 | Serial killer.![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 71 | 3HO![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 100 | Lindsey DuncanCreate draft and his companies agreed to pay the Federal Trade Commission a fine of $9 million for false claims about weight loss from their green coffee bean extract. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 77 | David Silverman,![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 90 | Geuzen.![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 71 | Another Tumblr trend that needs a thorough thrashing, Headmates![]() ![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 100 | AuroraTekCreate draft I stumbled on this Webshite today; they sell a "Self-Charging Electric Scooter" for $1500 ... their "science" page talks about travelling faster than light, and their news page talks about "my contact with human-appearing extraterrestrials" ... It has all the indications of being complete bullshit (but didn't investigate too deeply)... ((I'm writing this; it'll be up in a few hours so no removing it tyvm ~$catb0t(Totally |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 147 | Isaac Bonewits![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 60 | Ann McElhinney![]() |