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Whale.to
| Some dare call it Conspiracy |
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| What THEY don't want you to know! |
| Sheeple wakers |
“”In any discussion involving science or medicine, citing Whale.to as a credible source loses you the argument immediately... and gets you laughed out of the room.
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| —Scopie's Law, first formulated by Rich Scopie on the Bad Science forum.[1] |
Whale.to is a webshite which contains every (and we do mean every) half-baked pseudoscientific woo and conspiracy theory ever concocted. It is run by English pig farmer John Scudamore.[2] Scudamore has a long history of trying to insert links to his website on Wikipedia under the username Whaleto, but a few years ago, this was put to an end when someone added whale.to to the global spam blacklist.[3] This means no one can link to it in any Wikipedia article, which led to Scudamore whining about being suppressed (obviously) by the "Church of Satan."[4]
It is a notorious dumping ground for all things pseudoscientific... as well as a few other things. Like the complete text of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, documentations of Illuminati mind control plots, Islamophobic rants,[5], articles about the Catholic world conspiracy and promotion of the International Jewish conspiracy.[6] Unsurprisingly, we managed to piss off Scudamore, and we even got our own little page! How sweet.[7] In other words, this is the type of website that results after months of doing LSD while smoking crack.
Fans[edit]
- Whale.to was used as a source by the plaintiffs in the autism omnibus trial, and it has seen increasing use as a "source" by anti-vaccinationists and propagators of the vaccine-autism "connection" (which should be a clue right there to the validity of their claims).[8]
- NaturalNews is itself known to violate Scopie's Law and cite Whale.to on numerous occasions.[9]
- WikiLeaks cited Whale.to in a now-deleted tweet claiming Gloria Steinem
to be a CIA agent,[10] which happened to be sort of true,[11][12] though according to The New York Times she says that "no one in the C.I.A. ever asked her to do or say anything … she did not report back to the agency."[13]
See also[edit]
- Educate-yourself.org – Similar website.
- Biblioteca Pleyades – Similar but more New Age-centered.
- Green ink
- Time Cube
External links[edit]
References[edit]
- ↑ See the original post here - archived here. This post was cited by Orac of Respectful Insolence as the first mention of the law.
- ↑ Stacy Mintzer Herlihy and E. Allison Hagood. Your Baby's Best Shot: Why Vaccines Are Safe and Save Lives. Lanham, MD: Roman and Littlefield, 2012.
- ↑ Spam blacklist. Wikipedia.
- ↑ Caution.
- ↑ http://www.whale.to/c/islam.html
- ↑ A Whale of an Expert, Neurodiversity. 13 June 2008.
- ↑ Our little slice of hell.
- ↑ Archived post on Kathleen Seidel's blog Neurodiversity
- ↑ Five times in this article alone.
- ↑ Archive link
- ↑ Louis Menand (March 16, 2015). "A Friend of the Devil". The New Yorker.
- ↑ John D. Lofton, Jr. (May 10, 1975). "Ms. Steinem's CIA Connection". Human Events, via the Central Intelligence Agency.
- ↑ John Leland (October 7, 2016). "Showgirls, Pastrami and Candor: Gloria Steinem's New York". The New York Times.