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   | 2 | Hanson, an American pop-rock boy band comprised of the titular Hanson brothers Isaac, Taylor and Zac. They gained international fame for the 1997 bubblegum pop single "MMMBop", but this turned to infamy more than two decades later when the brothers' true colours emerged in an exposé of the Hansons' political views. To add further insult to injury, a Redditor took notice of a dogwhistle Instagram comment made by Taylor Hanson obliquely expressing his delight over Trump's (hollow) victory in the elections. |
| 3 | Propaganda Due, aka P2, an Italian Masonic lodge formed in 1877 within the tradition of Continental Freemasonry but was transformed by Worshipful Master Licio Gelli into a clandestine radical right criminal outfit, to the point that the Grand Orient of Italy wanted nothing to do with them and expelled P2 from their ranks. Has some shady links with both the CIA and the Mafia; the latter isn't surprising given how the Cosa Nostra took elements from Freemasonry and how some families allegedly forged connections with certain lodges such as P2. |
| 5 | Ferdinand Marcos Currently just redirects to the Marcos dictatorship section of the Philippines article, he is an infamous enough figure to absolutely deserve an article of his own. A brutal dictator and kleptocrat who served as the 10th president of the Philippines, his 2 decade long regime was infamous for its nightmarish corruption and brutality. While undeniably having some positive impacts on the country, such as infrastructure and boosting franchises in the Philippine economy for many businesspeople, his authoritarian rule amongst the lower class and he and his family's theft of tens of billions of US dollars from the Central Bank of the Philippines makes him easily the most controversial politician in the country. While he is mostly (and rightfully) seen internationally as the dictator that he was, to this day, Marcos has an army of loyalists in the country who will defend the man and his family's legacy in what can be best described as the Filipino equivalent to Stalin apologetics. Though in terms of his economic impact on the country and how his supporting praise said aspect, he's best described as the Filipino Reagan. |
| 14 | Killing of Brian Thompson I mean come on it’s all over the news. The killing of the CEO of a health insurance company, two things commonly disliked by both left and right leaning people (except for corporate bootlickers), is a big deal, and got a huge amount of attention. There’s been a vast amount of support, memes related to the killing and the shooter. Some have also shared their personnal stories relating to being fucked over to save a couple of bucks for the higher ups over actual health. The common sentiment being the killing shouldn’t have happen but it’s not surprising as seeing how common it is to hear about some executives screwing over people (clients, patients, employees) to save a quick buck in their already immense hoard of money. To me this isn’t the last time a violent attempt will happen (see Trump). Some have joked about how X unlikable higher up is next or asking to give the name of someone in a higher up position behind a bad decision. There’s also been people like Ben Shapiro and Matt Walsh getting backlash from their audience for defending the CEO and how some came to the realization that people like those at the Daily Wire are there to make other people hate each other. As for the suspect, there is some irony such as him praising people like Elon Musk and Peter Thiel whilst being against secularism, DEI and wokeism, seemingly failing to understand how people like Elon are a detriment to the common people and not (for example) a disabled man wanting equal opportunities of his non-disabled peers. |
| 6 | Jubilee, a YouTube channel and media company whose mission is to "Provoke understanding & create human connection". Their flagship series Middle Ground has gained criticism in recent years for promoting the balance fallacy and often featuring controversial guests such as Myron Gaines, Pearl Davis, and Blaire White. They also gained a fair bit of controversy in the run-up to the 2024 US election for frequently featuring far-right guests such as Charlie Kirk (his is one of the most viewed videos on the channel) and Ben Shapiro. Their affiliate channel, Nectar, primarily focuses on promoting healthy dating and relationships. |
| 11 | Jon Stewart, currently just redirects to The Daily Show; he's an interesting and notable enough progressive voice to deserve his own separate article. He's a highly popular comedian and news/political commentator known for The Daily Show. Stewart is very progressive and is renowned for his great comedic timing and effective mocking of conservative nutjobs and the Republican Party. He is not afraid, however, to criticize the Democratic Party for their flaws, such as their disastrous handling of the 2024 Biden and later Harris campaigns. His fierce, combative rhetoric yet extremely likable personality have many leftists hoping for him to be the Democratic nominee in the 2028 United States presidential election in an effort to combat the Trump administration's right-wing populist rhetoric which was one of the main reasons the latter won the 2024 election, as well as a way for leftists to mirror Trump's ascension by putting a non-career politician at the top of the ticket. |
| 3 | Whatever, a former prank YouTube channel-turned-Manosphere podcast hosted by Bryan Atlas, with all the typical fare one would expect. Basically Fresh and Fit's whiter, West Coast counterpart. |
| 3 | Fresh and Fit Podcast, one of the most infamous Manosphere podcasts, hosted by Walter "FreshPrinceCEO" Weekes and Myron "Fit" Gaines. Guested similar assholes such as Andrew Tate, Nick Fuentes, Candace Owens, Pearl Davis, and Tim Pool. Only has a mention in the Sexuality Webshites page, so it's probably worth expanding on their antics given their infamy. (Draft is being worked on) |
| 6 | Kamen America, American super hero/magical girl comic book series created by the "NinjaInk" duo (writer Mark Pellegrini and illustrator Tim Lim), whom you might from their previous work "My Hero Magademia". Centering on buxom, all-womens superhero team, it's big gimmick is that it's unabashedly right-wing. And by "unabashedly right-wing" we don't mean just that its sexualized female leads represent "conservative values" or that many of its design choices are nods to concerns of The Fandom Menace (the main character is essentially "the old" Ms. Marvel, created in response to Kamala Khan and MCU's Brie Larson incarnations)... but also in a way that many of its plot points and "jokes" are nods to everything from alt-right glossary to right-wing conspiracies. For example it's main villain organization being analogue to "Woke Hollywood" discriminating against conservative talent in favor of DEI, it being cahoots with Evil Liberal Science Conspiracy that's involved in depopulation schemes and France having fallen to great replacement and being full of stereotypical Arabs,etc etc. Also it's issue 1 made "a choice" to feature the main character involved in a war orchestrated by Russians, released months before the Ukraine war started... not to mention the "slavic merc" opponent joining the main character's side in subsequent issues. |
| 4 | Nelk Boys, Canadian-American Youtube channel turned into minor media empire, which was originally known for prank videos before shifting to full-on right-wing shilling, including having been present on stage during Donald Trump's presidential campaigns in 2020 and 2024. They had also organized parties to openly defy the COVID-19 restrictions during the pandemic. Their channel has 8.3 million subscribers as of September 8, 2024. |
| 6 | Aniconism, the aversion to (religious) icons by some people. A number of Christian sects roll their eyes on Catholics' habit of keeping and praying to icons as they view it to be idolatrous, which is taken to the cranky extreme by at least some Muslims who not only view the visual depiction of Muhammad as haram, but also the depiction of living things in general, i.e. no TV, no movies, no works of fiction, nothing. The Taliban is notorious for such repressive practices as we all know. We have an article about iconoclasm or the destruction of religious iconography but not aversion to them in general. |
| 6 | Richard Saul, author of "ADHD Does Not Exist: The Truth about Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder." Appears to have legitimate credentials but still dabbled in denialism to some extent. |
| 4 | Madonna, American musician and actress who gained notoriety for her use of religious symbolism in her music which led to accusations of blasphemy and condemnations from the likes of the Vatican. |
| 20 | Bluesky, a social network that started as a fork of Twitter and founded by former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey. Currently owned by software engineer Jay Graber, many former Twitter users migrated to the platform following Donald Trump's victory in the 2024 U.S. presidential election and many non-political/partisan Twitter uses migrated to Bluesky anyway simply because Twitter's been infested by bots and AI. It's grown a userbase of mainly left-leaning individuals leading to accusations from conservatives of it being a "liberal echo chamber" with there being several Twitter accounts dedicated to mocking certain users and posts on Bluesky. |
| 6 | GradeAUnderACreate draft, a reactionary YouTuber who started as the prototype storytime animator before devolving into a YouTube drama channel. In 2016, he tried his hand at political content where he criticized Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, endorsing neither and instead was a supporter of Bernie Sanders. He gained controversy for his COVID-19 denialism video that downplayed the virus entirely. He eventually came out as an open Trump supporter following the Donald's victory in the 2024 election. |
| -7 | Shipping_discourse, major discourse in the fan fiction comunity around if taboo and abusive sexual content should be censored. |
| 20 | 2024 Election Fraud conspiracy theoriesCreate draft, Left wingers, mostly liberals, upset at Trump’s Fascism have started to believe that The Donald cheated again, this time with the help of Elon Musk’s Starlink. They are trying to start a movement to investigate and recount. This is best shown in the election denial subreddit r/somethingiswrong2024. |
| 9 | 4B movement, a radical feminist movement started in South Korea, proponents refuse to date men, get married, have sex with men, or have children. Seen a recent interest gain in AMerica since Trump became president-elect. |
| 13 | Action4Canada, Canadian equivalent of Project 2025. Very anti trans, pro homeschooling (bc liberal education), anti immigrant, even showing a film of Tommy Robinson, notorious Islamophobe. Here’s their website. |
| 16 | Gamergate 2:A huge resurgence in anti-DEI outrage in gaming starting with the attempted takedown of the Sweet Baby Inc detected steam page by Sweet Baby Inc. They mostly target major game studios and consulting groups and played a part in the failure of multiple high profile triple-A games. Most of its supporters are on YouTube or twitter such as Grummz, Nerdrotic, Critical drinker and Asmongold. |
| 4 | Vote Swapping: A non-binding agreement by which a would-be third-party voter in a swing state agrees to vote for one of the two major-party candidates, and in exchange two voters in a non-swing state agree to make protest votes for the swing-state voter's preferred candidate. Seen here. |
| 10 | American Psycho: C'mon, you don't have an article on American Psycho. Seeing how despite being a satire of toxic masculinity, narcissism, and hyperconsumerism, the book's main character (Patrick Bateman) is now unironically used as a symbol by the same community he was meant to be a satire of. |
| 10 | Testosterone: Gets brought up a lot in our various bro-space and MRA/red pill pages. Go over what it is, what it does, what it doesn't do and what too much can do. Also about how so many are obsessed with T-levels and taking supplements. |
| 5 | Movie and Television Review and Classification Board aka MTRCB: Philippines-based film ratings board which doubles as a censorship bureau. While the organisation touts itself as promoting Filipino values and "intelligent viewing", they have been accused of abusing their mandate to stifle free expression on religious grounds (not helping matters is current chief Lala Sotto, daughter of comedian and former senator Tito Sotto, is an Evangelical Christian). Notably, they gave an R rating to The Da Vinci Code over concerns about its views on Jesus, and a reluctant PG-13 rating on The Passion of the Christ (as they must have felt conficted on whether to ban or greenlight its release given its faith-based premise, Mortal Kombat-level gorefest regardless). They recently garnered controversy over the films Alipato at Muog (about an activist who was forcibly disappeared by Filipino servicemen) and Dear Satan (about a girl who innocently misspelled "Santa" as "Satan" and ends up interacting with the dark prince himself), which one lawyer argued as unconstitutional. |
| 10 | Flip-flop aka U-Turn: the act of suddenly changing of position on an issue. A flip-flopper is someone who frequently changes their opinions. It's often used to describe politicians who change their stances to go with the current popular sentiment. |
| 7 | Exotic pet: Animals not normally thought of as domesticated being kept as companions by humans. Generally considered a textbook example of animal cruelty especially when the so-called "pet" is ill-suited to a suburban/urban life they're not accustomed to, e.g. the emergence of "otter cafes" and pet influencers in Japan where their critters spend their existence begging their owners for food and attention, giving people the impression that such practices are kawaii even when the poor creatures themselves aren't exactly happy. |
| 11 | Progress 2028Create draft, a fake Harris campaign counter to Project 2025, but is actually funded by many republicans including Elon Musk, who apparently funded 100 million dollars into it. Think of it like black propaganda, something made by someone against a group, pretending to be part of that group to make them look bad. Here’s an article on it. If it doesn’t deserve its own page, at least include it in Elon’s page. |
| 21 | The Anarchist Cookbook: Infamous paranoiac screed instructing people on how to make LSD, Molotov cocktails and other such nasties. Its contents have made it legally questionable if not illegal to possess in some countries, though both the Canadian government and the FBI notably dismissed calls for it to be banned out of free speech grounds. |
| 6 | Real Raw News: Farther than far-right news source that pulls news out of nothing. To see how insane they are, look at any of their articles. Here's a report by News Guard during the era where I think their nonsense was tamer. Apparently, it's owned by a dude named Michael Baxter who claims to be a journalist. Also, he states that it's satire, but in interviews, states that the website was only marked satire so the Deep State won't cancel it! |
| 10 | The Rageoholic (alias Razörfist): real name Daniel Paul Harris, this (allegedly) Cronkite School-educated Arizonian pursued various venues of fame early in his adult life unsuccessfully. He eventually started a mildy successful game and movie review channel on Youtube. Following Donald Trump’s ascension, he reinvented himself as a full-on right-wing political Youtuber and in the process, accumulated an relatively large following. Known for his obnoxious mannerisms, dizzyingly shit takes (primarily politics, music, videogames, pulp novels), engaging in Mall ninja fantasies to compensate his ratty presence, being a thin-skinned and block-happy asshat on Twitter/X, and having dated a girl when she was under-aged and being aware of it. Draft underway as "Daniel Paul Harris" |
| 4 | Mocha Uson: Filipino former actress and singer who initially gained notoriety for her sexually charged performances as part of the group Mocha Girls (think Pussycat Dolls) but later gained further notoriety as a Duterte bootlicker and fake news propagandist. While she did have some stopped clock moments, in particular her support for reproductive health laws, she has nonetheless made scathing remarks and gestures on a number of groups, such as an ableist mockery of sign language and red-baiting of human rights groups among others. |
| 19 | Reality television: Popular television genre presented as (ostensibly) rooted in reality, hence the name. Besides receiving criticism for its deceptive nature e.g. premediated scripting and allegations of rigging contest outcomes and scenarios (Big Brother and Pimp My Ride come to mind) as well as its generally low-brow, brain rot nature, producers of "reality" programming such as TLC and History Channel have also been complicit in enabling the antics of conservative and/or crank scumbags, such as Toddlers and Tiaras (child abuse and exploitation) and its spinoff Here Comes Honey Boo-Boo (cancelled when reports surfaced of a cast member was associating with a convicted child molester and registered sex offender), and 19 Kids and Counting (where cast member Josh Duggar was convicted for his extensive cp stash, including but not limited to the infamous Daisy's Destruction hurtcore video). |
| 37 | P Diddy, or Sean Combs, or Puff Daddy. Rapper who’s notorious for his accusations of sexual violence, as well as other violence (domestic, gun, etc), though some has been proven; leaked video footage shows him abusing his then girlfriend Cassidy in a hotel, to which he made a lazy public apology video (“YouTuber style”). He’s the Jeffrey Epstein of rap, with notorious phrases like “there’s nothing like a P Diddy party”, which are infamous for their drugs, and “freak offs”. He has many connections with many celebrities and having been recently arrested, put on suicide watch, the list of those that are complicit will soon be released, and we hopefully don’t get a repeat of Epstein and have everyone who has either participated in the crimes too or being complicit will be held accountable. He has a history of crimes. I do think he should have a page on here. |
| 6 | Mortal Kombat (I’m unsure if anyone suggested it before or if it fits in RW, better ask I guess) Multimedia franchise (games, movies etc) that was controversial ever since it’s first installement for its notable gore, and the eventual creation of the ESRB. It was one of boogeyman of the “video games cause violence”, though it often goes towards games featuring guns. Each mainline game to my knowledge has a “Controversy” section in their Wikipedia page, can be just which country has banned it to other related controversies such as workplace conditions, outfits etc. Speaking of other controversies in the franchise… The 2011 game (simply titled “Mortal Kombat”) had its female characters wearing obscenely sexual outfits (compared to their male counterparts) among many other concerns surrounding sexism. There’s also been concerns for racism as the main characters are Asian, but the franchise is made by Americans, which has lead to concerns to stereotypes, not just mere offensive, but poor representation, first that comes to mind is “Nightwolf”, a Native American character that hasn’t been well received by actual Native Americans, due to it being just a stereotype (this is even an issue “Mortal Kombat 11” which was released in 2019). As to workplace issues, one I can think of is for the 11th installement, some employees began suffering from PTSD due to the graphic material they had seen in order to create some of the gore in the game, if my memory is right there’s also issues of crunch time (which is unfortunately not uncommon in the gaming industry and probably deserves its own article). |
| 35 | Generative AI Not just deepfakes but more so centered on art. It’s ethics, how it impacts artists (which was a big part of the SAG-AFTRA strikes), job stability, and AI 'artists', its defenders (companies and people thinking this helps individuals). How big companies are pushing them out much to the dismay of artists and video game developers (EA’s CEO claims that developers are eager to use AI, this came after mass layoffs, which the surge in layoffs in the gaming industry could be an article in it of itself) as well as ordinary gamers who are affected by GPU manufacturers' shift towards AI processing at the cost of video cards becoming increasingly inaccessible to the mass market (entry level and midrange options are becoming more and more pathetic as a result). The lawsuits and the future of it all. |
| 8 | Ajit VadakayilCreate draft Former Indian merchant navy captain and conspiracy blogger. Probably the biggest conspiracy theorist in the Indian blogosphere. Sends his followers to spam various online websites. Don't wanna say much here because he likes to threaten people with lawsuits. Google him for more info. He traffics in the usual antisemitism, but there are so many more layers they will make your brain melt.(he thinks even Hitler was Jewish) |
| 8 | Alaina Hicks Formerly/also known as "Bonnie Rotten." This might be a long shot and farfetched idea. She's an ex-porn actress turned gun rights enthusiast. Recently suggested on Xitter that teachers in schools should be armed, smugly mocked those who voiced opposition to her idea. Alex Jones was a guest at her wedding. In 2020 she went on a QAnon lite tirade on social media about how the adult industry is "full of libs." |
| 25 | BlackRock A behemoth of an investment management firm. Has some skeletons in their closet regarding their inconsistent ESG, but is also a regular scapegoat for the far-right and conspiracy theorists alike. |
| 15 | Ashley Madison: Dating site for married people seeking affairs. Has been controversial since its founding in 2002 and was subject to a widely-reported data breach in 2015. Missional due to the questions of privacy and sexual morality its existence raises. Several prominent conservatives (including Josh Duggar and Christopher Rufo) have been linked to Ashley Madison accounts through the data breach. |
| 13 | Popular Mechanics: Long-running American pop science rag whose recurring topics include cars, DIY and the latest in tech and military/aerospace porn. The magazine did roast 9/11 "truthers" in a 2005 issue, though it has also slanted towards sensationalism (e.g. their gushing praise of Harley-Davidson in a November 1998 issue) and woo-ish topics such as UFOs. |
| 7 | Commission on Human Rights (Philippines): Human rights board whose mandate is ostensibly to protect the dignity and civil rights of everyone regardless of age, sex or creed. They have come under Duterte's crosshairs because why would he be letting opposition run rampant anyway? However, their drive towards dignity and civil rights for all has also led to at least some genuine criticism like when Apollo Quiboloy's mugshots were censored by the local police under the CHR's mandate. |
| 4 | Power (social and political): It's a regular part of nearly every aspect of human life and is the main driving force behind much of the news, yet we don't have an overall article on the general concept of political and sociological power and the effects it has on humanity. |
| 28 | Hachette v. Internet Archive: since they’ve lost the appeal I think this more than fits the site mission. With how much this is not a good thing. |
| 23 | Superman curse: Series of misfortunes that befell the cast and crew of various Superman media throughout the years. |
| 38 | Dave Chappelle: I'm not sure if he has been suggested yet, but for the past 5 years he's kinda gone off the edge with his netflix specials. |
| 38 | Tech Bros: I mostly got the idea after thinking of how much i think tony blair has become one. But I think it could apply to everyone (Mush, Bezos etc) and I think it fits the site's mission perfectly. Update: I'm hoping this will be a category. But I can't figure out how to put up a category vote here. |
| 27 | SAG-AFTRA labor strikes: Series of labour strikes by members of the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) in 2023 to the present, initiated over concerns about the use of deepfakes and large language models potentially replacing human creative labour (and studios greedily exploiting it at the expense of those whom they replicated) and the usual contractual disputes between them and Hollywood studios. |
| 8 | CREDO Mobile: Progressive-leaning mobile virtual network operator, started off as Working Assets Wireless in 1985. The company's shift towards progressive advocacy apparently led to the inception of its wingnut counterpart Patriot Mobile. |
| 9 | Can't believe there's no Steven Gundry page here. Lindy West recounts a story in The Witches are Coming about when she attended a Gwyneth Paltrow Goop event how Gundry told the crowd of gullible women they shouldn't eat plants native to North America, like corn and potatoes, because humans aren't native to North America; "they're only native to Africa, Europe, and Asia." |
| 29 | Rumble: BitChute clone with a few exceptions. It has less ads, but more fundie shit. It was founded 2013, 4 years before BitChute and it doesn't look like it was made with Microsoft Publisher. While not entirely filled with right-wing content, as apolitical channels like Lofi Girl appear there after all, it has been extremely popular with conservatives and the alt-right. |
| 32 | Imane Khelif, a female Algerian amateur boxer who participated in the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris. She's been the target of misinformation and a harassment campaign by conservatives that falsely accused her of being a trans woman or a man due to supposedly having high levels of testosterone in her system. |
| 22 | Kim Dotcom, German-Finnish IT specialist and entrepreneur. Had an extensive criminal record in his native Germany for hacking and gained further notoriety for Megaupload, a file-sharing service seized by US authorities in 2012 amid accusations of copyright infringement; in the years following his arrest Dotcom styled himself as a conspiracy theorist, crying persecution from the US government and Hollywood for stifling his business, and went full vatnik when he expressed support for the Russian invasion of Ukraine. |
| 6 | Lance Wallnau: The face of the NAR on the Internet who hosts his own show, and a major threat to both US national security as well as global security. Currently only mentioned on pages related to the NAR. |
| 23 | Yasuke, Japanese historical figure of African descent who by some accounts is considered the first Black samurai. He recently became the subject of a shitstorm by reactionaries who negatively reacted to Ubisoft's depiction of him as one of the playable protagonists in Assassin's Creed: Shadows, which brought up discussions over his life and subsequent career in Japan, of which very little reliable information is known. |
| 20 | Kaspersky Lab, Russian cybersecurity provider and antivirus firm. Was recently sanctioned by the US especially in light of the Ukraine invasion, where the Department of Commerce ordered a ban on the sale and support for Kaspersky products in the States, especially given Eugene Kaspersky's connections with the Kremlin. |
| 31 | Order of the Nine Angles. Currently, this is just a section on our Satanism article, but given the 764 scandal and the fact that they're actively targeting minors on social media, I'd argue that they deserve their own article. |
| 8 | Daniel Defense: Gun company founded by outspoken GOP supporters infamous for its AR-style assault rifles being implicated in school shootings such as the Uvalde elementary school massacre which led to the horrific deaths of several grade-school students. Known for its cavalier attitude towards gun control supporters and what amounts to peddling firearms to impressionable youths much like what Big Tobacco does to kids with Joe Camel and the like, and has been sued alongside Call of Duty series publisher Activision by relatives of those killed in the school attack. |
| 25 | Briahna Joy Gray, former staffer for Bernie Sanders. Has boosted misinformation concerning Israel's war in Gaza on Xitter. Recently fired from The Hill for rolling her eyes at an Israeli hostage. |
| 21 | "Dr" Dawn MichaelCreate draft counsellor and sex therapist who has moved on to COVID denial and has been retweeted by Donald Trump. Has no medical degrees, and according to her old website, she obtained her PhD from "IASHS". That is, the Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality, which was shut down by the California Department for Consumer Affairs for being a diploma mill! As a pseudo-medical huckster, Trump orbiter, and minor TV personality, she fits rationalwiki's remit perfectly. As the information about her qualifications (or lack thereof) is no longer readily available, a rationalwiki page with details and links could do at least some damage prevention for people who might be fooled by the two letters she puts in front of her name. |
| 50 | Afrocentrism - Currently it is a section under the Black supremacy article, but the topic is notable enough that it deserves its own topic. We have a fair share of articles on Black supremacists, so an article about this would not be odd. Afrocentrists usually claim that Ancient Egyptians, Ancient Greeks, Romans, Europeans in general, Native Americans, Arabs, and more were actually Black. Afrocentrists are racist to White people by comparing them to Neanderthals and are racists to Native Americans by calling them "Five Dollar Indians". We have an article about Eurocentrism, so an article about Afrocentrism which debunks its claims would be needed. |
| 31 | Terrence Howard former Actor, now fringe crank, "1x1=2" pseudomath, also appeared on the Joe Rogan Experience to PIDOOMA a bunch of other bullshit including claiming he can "kill gravity" etc. |
| 42 | Asmongold: Gamer and YouTube/Twitch streamer who has also done sociopolitical commentary, typically of the right-wing variety. To be fair he did express his opposition to loot boxes due to them being a gateway to underage gambling, but he has been known to make a lot of anti-woke screeds such as this video questioning Epic Games' inclusivity guidelines, among other things. We have articles for shitheads like PewDiePie so why not Asmongold? |
| 20 | Hatred: Isometric shooter game developed by Poland-based Destructive Creations, who cited creeping political correctness as their impetus for releasing a mass murder simulator. Unsurprisingly attracted a legion of immature edgelords, especially considering the developers' alleged far-right leanings. |
| 9 | Alois Hudal: Austrian former bishop and neo-Nazi ass kisser; he helped form the ratlines i.e. the sort of Underground Railroad for fugitive Nazi officers. |
| 36 | Blackpill: Currently just redirects to the Manosphere glossary page. But this toxic ideology does warrant its own page for the sheer amount of conspiratorial thinking and pseudoscience it contains. |
| 41 | Brianna Wu: Once a primary target of the GamerGate crowd, since October 7, 2023, she has become a major zionist and has been making increasingly anti-progressivism takes. She may not have gone completely right-wing just yet, but it's certainly something to keep an eye on. She was infamously a target of transphobic hate and doxxing due to being a formerly stealth trans woman, but has since began expressing transmedicalist viewpoints and has gotten into conflict with other trans people. |
| 30 | Transnational repression: Dictatorships are sometimes so afraid of dissent that they try to hunt down dissidents as well as diaspora populations and communities well outside of their borders. |
| 32 | Anti-Christian Bigotry - This should be an article considering how Christians are treated in Muslim countries,India,Israel, Communist countries and even factions within Alt-right. Anti-Christian bigotry also partly inspired Armenian genocide and Christians were persecuted in Roman empire.Chrstians aren't persecuted in America but that doesn't excuse not talking about this topic |
| 11 | Chandra Wickramasinghe, student of Fred Hoyle, focused on proving panspermia, (choosing a far-fetched proposition and then choosing is not how you're meant to do science). Also links to dodgy tory MP Jamie Wallis whose dad seems to fund him. |
| 27 | Tommy Tallarico, "legendary video game composer" and pathological liar featured in an Hbomberguy exposé. His mother is very proud of him. |
| 71 | Operation Paperclip: After WWII, the Americans recruited several Nazi scientists to work on American projects to beat the Soviets — most notably Werner Von Braun, the Nazi scientist who fathered the Moon program. |
| 24 | An article on Plurality, a subculture of people who identify as having multiple personalities, and also works as a support community for those with Identity Disorders; more and more awareness about these people has been raised, and in my experience, are recognized and accepted in the Leftist Communities that I am in however most people who identify with Plurality are Fakers who make the DID community look bad |
| 12 | Voice of the Martyrs: A human rights activism group that claims to aid persecuted Christians around the world (to the point that their online domain is "persecution.com"). While they've done some legitimately noble things, this doesn't change the fact that they also have a very scummy underside, à la Salvation Army. Amongst other things, they covered up the allegations of child abuse against their USA branch's executive director (who committed suicide over the allegations) to the point that they fired Michael Wurmbrand, the son of VOM's founder, when he called for an independent investigation into the matter, and refused to accept his wishes to stop using his parents' images afterward. Not to mention, they cut off all support to their Nigerian branch after it turned out that the leader was responsible for committing numerous crimes, including child labor and rape. |
| 52 | Demiurge: A.K.A. Yaldabaoth. The Gnostic answer to the problem of evil — that jerk answering to the name of "YHWH" in the Old Testament was really a filthy, narcissistic, tyrannical impostor, and the material universe was never intended to be free of suffering in the first place. It's surprising that we don't have an article on this yet. |
| 43 | Might makes right: It gets mentioned as a talking point for multiple faulty arguments, many of which involve a god. Yet we somehow don't have an article on this particular aphorism. |
| 32 | Amala EkpunobiCreate draft - Pretty much discount Candace Owens. Another starlet from PragerU whose major claim of being brainwashed at an early age by the "far-left" and spouting several far-right talking points under the guise of reasonable discourse who would be right at home having a page on this website to tell people to steer clear. |
| 74 | Content farms — These sites and accounts regularly push false or misleading information with clickbait titles to fool people, usually minors, into clicking and then they reap the advertising revenue from it. Especially pervasive on YouTube due to the lack of moderation, but also present on search engines. Generative AI only makes this problem worse. |
| 66 | Dead Internet theory — An up-and-coming conspiracy theory that states the internet in general "died" in 2017, and has been hijacked by AI and algorithms created by the U.S. government to manipulate humans. |
| 17 | John Hughes — I know it seems like a silly suggestion that doesn't fit the site's mission at all. But check his personal life on the other wiki. For starters, he was close friends with Ben Stein & people think his films are pro-Reagan. |
| 28 | Profanity — I'm surprised we don't have a page on this yet, especially with its implications on free speech and how some public figures gleefully abuse it, like with Duterte giving Pope Francis his classic "your mom's a whore" epithet. |
| 16 | Peter Dutton: I'm from Australia & I can see how dangerous he is and I think he needs a page here. |
| 48 | Yulia Navalnaya: She is continuing her late husband Alexei Navalny's work and what he fought for. She NEEDS a page. |
| -27 | DutchBondFanCreate draft Youtuber with over 44 k subscribers. Batshit Insane on Twitter. Anti Woke, Pro Trump, Pro Putin, Pro Geert Wilders. Transphobic, Etc. Here's one of his many hateful hits. Where he thinks he's on the right side just because his grandfather was. https://twitter.com/DutchBondFan/status/1664142259300827136 Don't give him a license to kill. |
| -10 | An article on Breadtube; We already have articles on various figures within the community, so we might as well make one for the genre itself. |
| 76 | Dr. Seuss - We have an article on Horton Hears a Who! but not on the man himself whose extensive use of sociopolitical messages on his children's picture books attracted criticism and commentary. Some of Seuss's books were pulled from circulation due to racially insensitive themes, though it is worth noting that he wrote Horton as an apology to the Japanese whom he denounced and mocked during the war, especially when he saw the aftermath of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. |
| 52 | Sweet Baby Inc. - AKA the targets behind GamerGate Part 2: Electric Boogaloo: The Legend of Curly's Gold. |
| 32 | Angel Studios - The Utah-based company responsible for unleashing Sound of Freedom to the world, though they've also taken on other conservative Christian content in hopes of turning them into the next big thing via crowdfunding. An entire article could be devoted to their antics as they make Pure Flix look sane by comparison. While they boast a creator-friendly platform, a couple of filmmakers have cried fowl on how that operates. Even the story of how they formed is legally suspect and rooted in Mormonism. |
| 23 | Genetically Modified Skeptic. Come on, we're the Atheist Wiki, but we still don't have an article for one of the figureheads of 2020s Atheist Youtube? Seriously? |
| 56 | Enshittification: This is a recurring trend with online platforms, social media, and more. Most of it is for squeezing out even more profits. |
| 13 | Digital ID, I figured this deserves a page. Blair is obsessed with forcing it on the world as he reckons it’s part of the “technology revolution” speaking of which. |
| 11 | Elsie Dinsmore, 19th-century American children's book series whose Christian themes found an audience within the fundie crowd in spite of its racist, sexist and more disturbingly, paedophilic subplots. The book series have also been adapted into doll form a la American Girl. |
| 59 | David Zaslav, Current CEO of Warner Bros. Discovery. Known for his deleting shows & movies that haven't been aired yet. Such as Batgirl (which off course The Fandom Menace loved him for). Has recently been revealed to have been collaborating with Chinese Propaganda Outlets. There is a current movement to get rid of him: #FireDavidZaslav that i support. |
| 59 | Charlie Chaplin, English comedian and later political activist, best known as The Tramp and Adenoid Hynkel. Given how we have an article about fellow McCarthyism victim John Lennon, I am surprised that we don't have a page on this guy yet. |
| 62 | The "Mother of all Short Squeezes" or MOASS Edit draft for short. It's an apocalyptic event where the price of gamestop stock will dramatically increase in price to "infinity". Believed mostly on reddit. Detailed in this video |
| 17 | Infestation: Origins, Thinly-veiled neo-Nazi dog whistle game themed after Steamboat Willie to cash in on Mickey Mouse's newfound freedom. Despite the developers' attempts at feigning ignorance over the references, the game was still clearly made with the intent to sow far-right sentiment. |
| 83 | Alexei Navalny, I'm actually shocked the man Putin fears the most doesn't have a page here. He should. |
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| 167 | Transhumanist theoristsCreate draft, a catch-all of all the more popular nutters. (Especially Ronald Bailey, a Reasonoid who doesn't really understand liberal theory.) |
| 168 | Hurricane Sandy denialismCreate draft. Yes, this is a real thing, I kid you not. Hell, we have an article dedicated JUST to the hurricane. You know, the cocktail of conspiracy theories, global warming denialism, and just general Congressional vileness. |
| 174 | Hwang Woo-suk, Korean scientist who faked human stem cell cloning. His story also includes nationalism, fraud, and even trace amounts of misogyny. |
| 171 | Galen WinsorCreate draft, "the man who eats uranium"[7], gained popularity due to a 1986 video from his tour of US campuses during which he gave lectures on the safety rather than the dangers of nuclear power. During these lectures, he regularly ate uranium and claims to have regularly swam in the spent fuel pools during his tenure in the field of nuclear energy.[8]IMDb |
| 189 | Big TechEdit draft Suprised we don't already have an article on this, Big Tech is one of the right wing's favorite boogymen they always complain about it when their Bigotry and Misinformation is censored, this is due to a Persecution complex. |
| 188 | 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. Its 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 its community being all about "wholesomeness"? Well, what do you think yourself? |
| 174 | Anastasia Romanov, whose alleged escape from the massacre of her family at the hands of the Bolsheviks has inspired lots of storytelling and urban myths, despite her remains having been found alongside the rest of Tsar Nicholas's family. She has a particular penchant for starring alongside Grigori Rasputin, another common urban myth subject, in alternative-history stories. Speaking of Rasputin, why do we have an article on him and not Anastasia? Rumors of her survival persisted for several decades, and DNA testing was required to prove that she died with the rest of the Romanovs! |
| 176 | October Surprise This can apply to both the political term and the conspiracy theory that Reagan cheated and withheld American hostages in Iran until after he had beaten Jimmy Carter. |
| 169 | Sloot Digital Coding System, a woo-ish system of storing computer data. Its inventor, Jan Sloot, purported that his system could encode a feature-length film in just eight kilobytes, despite the apparent impossibility of storing reams of complex data in such a small package. Sloot died of a heart attack in 1999, which lent itself well to conspiracy theories especially as the source code was never recovered. |
| 170 | LK-99 was a proclaimed room-temperature superconductor invented by a team from Korea University in July of 2023. It is a gray–black, polycrystalline compound, identified as a copper-doped lead‒oxyapatite. The claim has since been refuted by the scientific community.[9] The method was particularly sensational because of the comparatively inexpensive copper and lead used in its production,[10] so DIY engineers are still trying their own methods to recreate it.[11] |
| 168 | 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 |
| 178 | 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. |
| 174 | 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. |
| 162 | UrsuAdamsCreate draft ("Donnie" Adams), a Planet X-spinning YouTuber with a fixation on Neumayer Station. Recent hijinks include popularizing a fake picture of a "Heavy Mass Object" and accusing amateur astronomer Ian Musgrave of being a liar after Musgrave pointedoutthat the fake is actually 'shopped from one of his pictures. |
| 168 | Mississippi personhood amendmentCreate draft. Now that it's over and done with, I'm shocked nobody's done anything on it. Good thing the voters realized that zygotes don't give a shit about much. |
| 162 | Dr Brad HarrubCreate draft of Focus Press and YouTube. A Ph.D. 'scientist' who only seems to do Christian apologetics |
| 169 | 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... |
| 164 | Powdered alcohol or Palcohol is the newest moral panic drug that has been banned in several states and was subject to a moral panic after the FDA determined the non-alcoholic ingredients were safe for consumption. It is mostly an ineffective way to get drunk, but that hasn't stop people from believing it will get you drunk instantly or that it can be used to smuggle alcohol into public places. [12] (Another Thunderf00t video) |
| 164 | Scaremongering "documentary" The Demographic WinterCreate draft. |
| 173 | Considering most of the guys at RationalWiki are a bunch of sex-deprived assholes, it's shocking we haven't written on Karen Stollznow, Kylie Sturgess, Catherine Deveny, Jennifer Ouellette, Rachael Dunlop, Susan Blackmore, Vicki Hyde, Iszi LawrenceCreate draft, Rebecca Watson, and the Skepchicks yet. Note: "Skepchick" re-directs to Rebecca Watson's page as of writing. |
| 171 | Edward BabinskiCreate draft - interesting-looking blogger who moved from fundamentalism to agnosticism.[14] and [15] might be useful. |
| 182 | PseudoengineeringCreate draft. As opposed to out-and-out pseudoscience, pseudoengineering is a method of engineering that uses sound scientific principles but poor engineering practices that can't be justified via cost or time excuses and are usually motivated by politics or pluralistic ignorance. The Strategic Defense Initiative is a prime example of pseudoengineering. |
| 174 | PowerLungCreate draft, Elevation Training Mask and similar knockoff products. Could all be in one article. Woo products claiming to exercise your lungs and diaphragm and simulate higher altitudes. Actually they are just expensive ways to breathe through a straw. |
| 163 | Medical Hypotheses - Controversial non-peer-reviewed journal taken over by quacks, mostly of the anti-vax and AIDS denialist stripes. |
| 177 | Universe - the Cosmology QuestCreate draft, apparently a documentary about scientists who think the Big Bang theory is wrong. This goes right with the anti-science part of our mission. You can watch it here. |
| 181 | Roberto DeMatteiCreate draft, President of Italian National Research Council and a complete wingnut: japanese tzunami is god's terrible yet benevolent voice, Roman Empire failed due to homosexuals and Eden is an historical reality. |
| 184 | Leslie KeaneCreate draft - Reporter who wrote a book on UFOs. Poses as a moderate, but is fundamentally a kook. |
| 167 | Prevent, the British government's anti-extremism strategy[19] founded under Tony Blair in 2003 but reviewed under David Cameron/Theresa May in 2011[20] and still active, initially founded primarily to combat radical Islamism, but also involved with countering the far right[21], and radical environmentalism[22]. There are concerns about freedom of speech.[23][24] |
| 185 | John Lenard WalsonCreate draft, a guy who claims that he has made pictures of (alien) spaceships in Earth orbit with his telescope[26] (possibly known as GRIDKEEPER (channel) on YouTube) |
| 197 | Military worship hysteriaCreate draft. Distinct though related to the military woo suggestion below. The tendency for society to be reluctant to criticize soldiers and military personnel because military. |
| 190 | David SewellCreate draft - mastermind behind PRATTs like this and this; author of books such as The Political Gene: How Darwin's Ideas Changed Politics |
| 174 | Think we ought to have a page for Ivanka Trump? There seems to be a fair bit of material to rake her over the coals with, especially her recent epic fail at the G20 summit, trying to hobnob with world leaders who looked like, "WTF is she doing here?" |
| 177 | Hunting and Conservation; an article discussing how trophy hunting is being used to provide conservation in Africa by creating economic incentives for conservation over vast areas, including areas which may be unsuitable for alternative wildlife-based land uses such as photographic ecotourism. Arguments for and against should be used. |
| 171 | Eyewitness testimony: A common police procedure known for being unreliable but also known for having terrible methodology in regards to preventing contamination. An example of this is the police lineup, which pressures the witness into picking someone out of the lineup even when the perpetrator isn't present. Eyewitness identification and the accuracy thereof, especially in law enforcement (e.g. identity parades, picking out mugshots), is an interesting topic that has been widely studied. The failure of people to correctly identify suspects seems to go against common sense, and has relevance to other epistemological questions, as well as to wider issues in the criminal justice system. |
| 173 | Lost Ship of the Desert, a legend about a ship stranded in the Sonoran Desert (or sometimes Mojave Desert), generally said to be in southern California or possibly Mexico. Probably Spanish, maybe pirates, but also claimed to be Viking, or crewed by lost Israelites. There is a rumored treasure, and various wacky people are still hunting for it.[28][29][30][31][32][33] It's the intersection of several myths: Pre-Columbian contact theories, legends from the American West about lost gold mines[34], and entrepreneurs worldwide promoting rumored shipwrecks laden with unimaginable treasure. |
| 170 | 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. |
| 166 | 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/.) |
| 208 | Patriot FrontCreate 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.[35] Their names have been released by the sheriff's office here: [36] |
| 169 | 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. |
| 167 | Libel laws, with information on their abuse by woo-meisters, libel tourism, and science by lawsuit. Could possibly be merged with SLAPP suit. |
| 202 | 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. |
| 214 | Microbes on the ArkCreate draft Nothing on Noah and the amoeba? |
| 227 | 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". |
| 186 | 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. |
| 204 | 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. |
| 165 | SCIgen, the fake paper generator used to test scam conferences and predatory journals. |
| 174 | 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[40][41] but just give us the facts! |
| 171 | The Denisovans, as in the "Woman X" found in Siberia who may have inhabited the area throughout eastern Asia. |
| 166 | 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. |
| 166 | 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. |
| 166 | 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.[42][43] |
| 186 | Ferdinand Marcos needs no introduction. The best worst president the Philippines ever had. |
| 166 | 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. |
| 188 | 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. |
| 169 | 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 |
| 207 | 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: [47] |
| 171 | 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". |
| 173 | Overtoun Bridge, the "dog suicide bridge"[48], 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. |
| 204 | Stochastic terrorism and/or Lone wolf — terms used to describe terrorist attacks carried out by an individual but inspired by extremist groups and public figures. It started with Daesh but has horseshoed over to the far right. |
| 183 | VeggieTales — a Christian indoctrination program disguised as a children's show. |
| 237 | 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. |
| 165 | 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. |
| 231 | 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.[49][50] But the woo health press is all over them.[51][52] (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.[53] |
| 189 | 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. |
| 188 | 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. |
| 166 | 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 [55][56][57] Any bored physicists in the house? |
| 167 | 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 [58] |
| 235 | 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. |
| 172 | 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." |
| 181 | The Rockefellers/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. |
| 181 | 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. |
| 226 | Mary Elizabeth CroftCreate draft 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) |
| 178 | Lamaze, a natural childbirth technique. |
| 184 | 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. |
| 168 | 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 |
| 200 | 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. |
| 181 | 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.) |
| 227 | 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 and have been known to commit suicide as a result of their newfound delusions. It's also really hard on your bladder for some reason. |
| 186 | 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. |
| 216 | 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. |
| 218 | 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. |
| 334 | 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. |
| 428 | Doe v. Trump (2016) 1:16-cv-07673-RA ([63] [64] [65]) 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 ([66] [67]) 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.[68] [69] [70] [71] A draft has been created at Draft:Donald Trump child rape cases. |
| 301 | 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. |
| 314 | Carbon tax: A tax levied on the carbon content of fuels, used to discourage CO2 emissions. Despite its 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. |
| 226 | 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. |
| 244 | 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.[72] Initially in the US but a similar group, Auditing Britain, has been invading COVID testing centres.[73] |
| 357 | Matt GaetzCreate 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. |
| 328 | Ghislaine Maxwell: Her trial starts today.[74] I definitely expected there to be an article here already. |
| 236 | Vril — holy shit, we don't have a page on this? |
| 205 | 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. |
| 201 | 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. |
| 197 | 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.) |
| 214 | 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".[76] |
| 213 | 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. |
| 288 | 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? |
| 241 | 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. |
| 291 | Amazon RainforestCreate draft As there has been a lot of misinformation about this in the media in recent years, it seems fitting. |
| 385 | This so-called COVID-19 lab leak hypothesis — with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying being some of its main proponents [77] [78] [79] — 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. |
| 231 | Thorium-based nuclear power: A lot of crap surrounding the thorium powered reactor in pop sci magazines, a lot of it debunked by thunderf00t. |
| 221 | 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). |
| 244 | 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".[80][81] 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. |
| 201 | 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. |
| 258 | 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. |
| 401 | 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). |
| 451 | Dr. Salvatore Cezar Pais is listed as the inventor of four 2019 U.S. Navy patents that have been described as "Star Trek technology".[82] 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.[83] |
| 355 | 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. |
| 292 | 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. |
| 309 | 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.[84] |
| 299 | 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). |
| 237 | 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. |
| 258 | 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. |
| 242 | 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." |
| 235 | 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. |
| 208 | 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. |
| 266 | 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. |
| 193 | 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.[85][86] 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. |
| 304 | 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. |
| 199 | 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. |
| 225 | 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. |
| 283 | Rick SimpsonCreate draft, who believes that hemp oil cures cancer and every other ill.[87] "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. |
| 188 | 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. |
| 181 | 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] |
| 317 | 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] |
| 362 | 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. |
| 261 | 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". |
| 253 | The Crystal GridCreate draft: a woo-tastic website.[88]. Besides trying to build worldwide network of crystals, they've got a bogus cell phone radiation blocker.[89] |
| 216 | 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.) |
| 239 | 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) |
| 263 | 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.[90] 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 |
| 195 | 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? |
| 185 | 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. |
| 167 | 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. |
| 256 | 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. |
| 245 | AIPAC. It's a lobbying group and pro-Israel, so it's basically a giant magnet for conspiracy theories. |
| 203 | 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] |
| 229 | 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. |
| 232 | 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. |
| 185 | ACTA, or put an area for it in the SOPA article. |
| 189 | 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. |
| 278 | 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. |
| 229 | Tom Hanks was accused of being a pedophile with no evidence by QAnon nutters[91] then became an honorary citizen of Greece. |
| 199 | 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.) |
| 171 | Bélmez Faces are a bunch of images on a concrete floor supposedly appearing out of no where. |
| 179 | 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. |
| 181 | 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[95][96]. 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[97]). |
| 174 | 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). |
| 189 | El Al: Israel's flag carrier, and a heavy target for some Anti-Zionist, sometimes Anti-semitic, and even Islamophobic conspiracy theories. |
| 244 | Super PAC. How is there not an article on these yet? |
| 175 | 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. |
| 174 | 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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| 22 | Tony Blair Institute for Global ChangeCreate draft We cover the man quite well. it only figures to cover what he's been doing since he has continued to kiss up to dictators such as saudi arabia with his institure. |
| 8 | Alternative medicine glossaryCreate draft — A glossary of terms used by Alternative Medicine practitioners. (Note: somewhat of a funspace equivalent exists at Fun:Quacktionary). |
| 64 | No page on USA Today? It's one of the 5 biggest newspapers in the US! |
| 32 | RapeLay, (レイプレイ, Reipurei), 2006 Japanese erotic computer game whose goal is to molest a mother and her two daughters. Unsurprisingly generated a lot of furor over its rape-based gameplay and paedophilic content (two of the in-game rape victims are underage: a twelve-year old girl and her seventeen-year old sister). |
| 111 | Night Wolves, Russian outlaw motorcycle gang co-opted by Putin in order to push his agenda. Western commentators have noted how Vlad used otherwise criminal gangs (*cough* Wagner Group *cough*) such as the Wolves to his advantage so as long as they play ball with him. |
| 6 | National Center on Sexual Exploitation (NCOSE) is a 501(c)(3) organization generally accused of insincerity, regardless of the the reliability of cited sources, how said sources are cited, who cited them, and the sincerity of the citation. By contrast, NCOSE opposes sexual abuse and exploitation, according to their website.[103][104] |
| 35 | Mockbusters, which are ripoffs of popular movies. Some, like Finding Jesus below,and What's Up: Balloon To The Rescue, (Which is a Mockbuster of Up), have racism, as seen by Saberspark here. (He heard the N-word. Yes, THAT N-word.) |
| 96 | "Clean Wehrmacht" myth, Germany's answer to the so-called "Lost Cause" of the Confederacy, with denialists/negationists especially within veterans' circles downplaying if not completely dismissing any atrocities carried out by Werhmacht servicemen. While there could be indeed those who simply fought for the fatherland and did not simply buy into Hitler's bullshit (hurr durr Pope Benedict XVI when he was a Hitlerjugend soldier even if he was roped into it despite the Ratzingers being vehemently anti-Nazi), there's damning evidence that a significant number of German troops who were indeed just as guilty as the Waffen-SS goons who are even more villified. |
| 40 | Call of Duty, Popular series of first-person shooter video games by Activision. Besides accusations of propaganda and/or militainment by critics, at least some of the games from the series have attracted scrutiny, such as the inclusion of former NRA president and traitor Oliver North both as a consultant and in a cameo appearance in Black Ops II (the irony isn't lost either when he accused video games of desensitising kids to violence even after he promoted COD), as well as Russophobic sentiment both in the infamous "No Russian" level in Modern Warfare 2 (2009) and the 2019 Modern Warfare reboot. |
| 39 | Oliver North,Former NRA President. Most notably known for his involvement during the Iran-Contra Scandal, when he was a staff member of the National Security Council. Currently a re-direct. |
| 22 | Finding JesusCreate draft Faith-based mockbuster of Pixar's Finding Nemo. Popular animation commentator Saberspark even found at least one instance of racism in the film, in the form of a sushi character shamelessly appropriating Japanese culture in a mockingly stereotypical way. |
| 35 | Sanctioned Suicide, Infamous internet message board framing itself as a "pro-choice" venue for suicidal people but in reality is an incredibly disturbing venue where users pool resources and methods to off themselves. |
| 15 | Since we already have a parcer call for the FIFA, how about we get the other corrupt embodiements on here aswell? Such as the UEFA, CONCACAF, & CONMEBOL. |
| 143 | Banksy, I am quite surprised we don't have an article about him. While he did get a lot of praise and attention as a sociopolitical activist and a staunch critic of consumerism, taking potshots at celebrities such as Paris Hilton just because they're "famous for being famous" and most recently at Putin for his so-called "special military operation" in Ukraine, some accuse him of being a sellout to the very same fiends he claims to despise (case in point him having been commissioned by Viacom to make station IDs for Nickelodeon) |
| 18 | John AmanchukwuCreate draft, an asshole far right pastor making the rounds in North Carolina spreading bigoted queerphobic bullshit in front of school boards. |
| 86 | UltrafinitismCreate draft Ultrafinitism is a crank idea that says that there is a largest natural number. Obviously,there isn't. |
| 22 | Glenn MortonCreate draft, a former "creation scientist" who eventually became a well-known critic of creationism, and who coined the term Morton's demon. See his obituary for further details. |
| 66 | WhatIfAltHistCreate draft, a YouTuber who claims to focus on alternative history, but uses his videos for long alt-right and fascist screeds and to "own the libs." Also proclaims that he hasn't read any major historigraphical and anthropological studies made after the '60s because "that's when it all became too woke." |
| 71 | Neuticles, Their website They are, basically, fake testicles for dogs. They claim that "dogs feel bad when they're neutered", seems like very much so wingnuttery to me. |
| 54 | He XinCreate draft, a famous and meanwhile infamous Chinese scholar trumpeting Greek history denialism. |
| 54 | Guo JichengCreate draft, a Chinese professor with the Marxist college of China University of Political science and Law, promoting the Confucian school and Buddhist conservatism. |
| 43 | The Utopia, a Chinese nationalist and conservatist website posing as Maoist. |
| 41 | The Guancha, a Chinese nationalist website featuring publicizing such alternative right as LGBT discrimination, racism and patriarchy. |
| 50 | Language family, including the legitimate families and the BS ones like Altaic, Nostratic, Uralo-Siberian, Dene-Caucasian, and Amerind. |
| 17 | José Rizal Filipino nationalist, author and polymath. Best known for pissing off both Spanish colonial authorities and the Catholic Church through his novels Noli Me Tángere and its sequel El Filibusterismo which decried the excesses of the colonial government and the friars who were in hock with them. Rizal's supposed retraction prior to his execution as well as his Masonic affiliation could be on-mission here. |
| 103 | 2023 Anheuser-Busch boycottCreate draft Oooh boy... As if one trans person's endorsement of a product would make you wingnuts any less of a person. |
| 116 | Kid Rock We already have a page on Dee Snider whose views on transgender people raised some eyebrows, but what about Kid Rock who ostensibly is in favour of abortion and gay marriage yet is also a GOPher and a transphobe? |
| 23 | Humza Yousaf He is the current First Minister of Scotland. It's quite suprising he dosen't have a page yet. |
| 121 | The Labour FilesCreate draft Leaked documents on Al Jazeera showing anti Jeremy Corbyn corruption. Supported by Martin Forde himself, (the man who wrote the forde report). |
| 100 | The Forde Report I figured the wiki should have a page on Martin Forde's report on Anti Semitism being used as a weapon in the british Labour Party by both the Corbynites and the Blairites. |
| 134 | The DebriefCreate draft an increasingly popular UFO and tech woo "news" site, with the particular theme of having "insider" "intelligence" "whistleblowers" |
| 34 | Grigori Grabovoi Kazakhstanian fraudster, whoomeister who believes he is psychic and can resurrect the dead, teleport, cure AIDS and cancer at any stage, diagnose and solve problems of electronic devices remotely, to be clairvoyant and to be able to change reality, also believes he is the second coming of christ, was convicted of fraud after promising to the mothers of victims of the 2004 Beslan school siege that he could resurrect their children (see his Wikipedia article.
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| 11 | Peter Scully Australian paedophile and child pornographer who gained infamy for producing the hurtcore film Daisy's Destruction and is now serving a longer-than-life sentence in the Philippines. So-called conservative Josh Duggar was apparently a fan of Scully's work. |
| 31 | Tomorrow's Pioneers Palestinian children's propaganda edutainment programme which gained notoriety for advocating violence, Islamic extremism and antisemitism. The show was condemned by Disney themselves (particularly former CEO Bob Iger and even Walt's last surviving daughter Diane Disney Miller) for its depiction of a Mickey Mouse-like character named Farfour and using said Militant Mickey to indoctrinate Palestinian children. |
| 12 | Tom O'Carroll Notorious British-Irish paedophile activist. Has caused a bit of a stir on Wikipedia when his blog was used in a citation for an article; Wikipedia admins were forced to block a certain user for using said paedophile's site besides a number of disturbing contributions which ran afoul of the site's child protection policy. |
| 17 | Wes Streeting Blarite, Member of Keir Starmer’s cabinet and Transphobe and Rowling apologist despite being a gay man himself |
| 6 | Robin Padilla: Filipino former ex-convict actor turned politician. Outspoken in both his conversion to Islam to which he became the de facto spokesperson representing the Filipino Muslim community (particularly the "Back to Islam" movement), as well as his misplaced nationalism where he went full racist towards a Korean contestant in a talent show he judged in and DID NOT SHOW A SHRED OF REMORSE despite intense criticism. He has also filed legal action against a Twitter user for calling him an ex-con and called for a ban on the Gerard Butler film Plane due to its unflattering depiction of the country. |
| 33 | history of X where X is any country, especially in articles where the history section makes up the bulk of the page. |
| 67 | 2024 Libertarian Party presidential nominationCreate draft: I haven't found a page for 2020, but let's be honest: what would RW be, without a page on the biggest Meme party for 2024? |
| 68 | 2024 Democratic Party presidential nominationCreate draft: It's like playing X-Com UFO Defense, with the difference that you've been unlucky that your first units have godawful stats. So you have no clue which units are good and which are completely useless. |
| 13 | Edward de Bono Oxbridge professor, doctor, author, psychologist and proponent of lateral thinking. |
| 33 | A Glossary of Italian Fascism and National Socialism prior to 1945 |
| 12 | Future of Life Institute, Organisation dedicated to making sure technology doesn't wipe out Humanity (A.I., Climate Change, Biotechnology, Nuclear Weapons). Unfortunately Associated by Noted Para- Fascists Sam Harris and Elon Musk. |
| 7 | Elly Schlein: The current leader of the Italian Democratic Party and the woman who looks like she will be going up against female Mussolini next Italian election. She's Bi and very left wing. Some may say too left wing. We can only hope she can beat Meloni. |
| 104 | Pornhub, While we do have an article about porn and human trafficking in general, perhaps an overview on the moral panic involving the premier adult entertainment portal should be in order, especially considering how sweeping changes it enacted regarding user content was spurred by a relentless campaign by far-right fundie group Exodus Cry. |
| 71 | White trash: A racial & class-related slur used against white people of the Southern United States. Mostly being used against those living in rural areas. |
| 117 | WION, AKA World is One News, some India-based schmuck of a "news" outlet which is part of the Zee Media network of channels owned by the Essel Group. Both WION itself and its Zee Media parent have been involved in sensationalism, fake news and corruption; for one, YouTube once suspended their channel for trivialising and bellitling the war in Ukraine, only for WION to mount an intense astroturfing social media campaign to have the channel reinstated. |
| 15 | Peter Mandelson, Given the wiki’s disdain for Mandelson. I am surprised he didn’t have a page here immediately when Blair and Brown got theirs. Let’s just say he rubs elbows with Facist Russia like Blair did. |
| 42 | No ethical consumption under capitalism: The notion that "voting with your wallet" isn't always feasible, even more so for people who's options are limited by poverty and availability. Of course, it should also be addressed on how this isn't an excuse for apathy or buying luxury items like, say, a video game based on the works of an insufferable TERF. |
| 53 | CancelThisCompany.comCreate draft Alt-right mouthpiece webshite riddled with canards against companies whom they perceive as espousing cultural Marxism. In fairness, the likes of Amazon and Disney aren't by any means clean and do have their fair share of atrocities, but said site takes things too far, as if the alt-tech nonsense they promote is any better at all. |
| 65 | 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. |
| 74 | 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 |
| 83 | 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") |
| 61 | 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. |
| 67 | 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. |
| 136 | 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? |
| 61 | 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. |
| 69 | Sir SicCreate draft, a conspiracy-debunking YouTuber who is (self-described) "handsome, famous, and good at the sex". |
| 85 | 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). |
| 75 | 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. |
| 65 | 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. |
| 83 | 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. |
| 83 | 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. |
| 17 | Bishop Joseph Strickland Batshit insane Texan Fundamentalist Catholic Priest. Liked By fandom menace member John F Trent. Speaking of which... |
| 89 | 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. |
| 5 | Emily Calandrelli. A science communicator & internet influencer who has begun to shill for the propane industry. |
| 98 | 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. |
| 130 | Owning the libs. The right-wing political strategy of deliberately trying to provoke or offend "libs." |
| 16 | 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. |
| 37 | 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. |
| 8 | 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. |
| 6 | 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. |
| 42 | 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. |
| 38 | 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." |
| 128 | Bribery Seriously? We don't have an article for one of the major sources of government corruption? |
| 131 | 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. |
| 72 | Hubert Humphrey The man who whipped the votes for the civil rights act, and the voice of American ‘60s liberalism. |
| 2 | An article on Second Thought, a prominent Socialist Breadtuber, who is in a podcast with the aforementioned Hakim. |
| 19 | An article on Luiz Inácio Lula da SilvaCreate draft, Brazil's current president; We already have an article on Jair Bolsonaro, so why not one for Lula? |
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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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 117 | 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. |
| 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. |
| 54 | Murdoch MurdochCreate draft ([109]). 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. |
| 82 | 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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.[110] |
| 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! |
| 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.[111] |
| 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 |
| 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 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 |
| 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 HarrisonCreate draft: 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 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. |
| 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 SomethingCreate draft[112] 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
2021 [edit]
| 10 | 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? |
| 35 | 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. |
| 99 | 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. |
| 42 | 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. |
| 66 | Volt Europa is a pro-European, progressive leaning political movement, founded in response to the growing populism and the Brexit. |
| 31 | 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". |
| 140 | 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.[116] A more general article about spyware might also be good, and could include Pegasus. |
| 90 | Smart home systems are commonly believed to be spying on their users |
| 41 | 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. |
| 40 | WrathOfGnonCreate draft is a "traditionalist", meme-creating, far-right anonymous social media personality that uses discussions of architecture, community & nature to draw people in and then convert them to ideas like "feminism is destructive", "racism isn't a social construct, society is a racial construct," and "Hierarchies are celestial. In Hell, all are equal." Has 107K followers just on Twitter, and is on practically every other social media site too. |
| 24 | Tom MacDonald, a Canadian rapper, infamous for songs as 'Whiteboy', 'Straight White Male', among others. His catalogue attracts an audience in the libertarian/republican, anti-SJW corner. Also keen believer of conspiracy theories, like the illuminati. |
| 29 | David Starkey - British historian and TV personality best known for a long series of idiotic remarks on race that have flared up into major media scandals (from the 2011 riots to 2020 BLM protests), still writing for various contrarian publications. |
| 17 | The Morning of the Magicians (French: Le Matin des magiciens) is a book published in 1960 that was influential in the counterculture's embrace of conspiracy theories and the occult. Neither of the authors, Louis Pauwels and Jacques Bergier, has an article on RationalWiki, though the latter is cited in the article on alchemy. Several of the book's more prominent critics at the French Rationalist Union published a rebuttal in 1965 called The Twilight of the Magicians (French: Le crépuscule des Magiciens), and one of the rebuttal's authores, Jean-Claude Pecker, is cited, though not in-line, in the article on alternative cosmology. It's possible that the general absence of articles on these figures is due to a general Anglophone bias on RationalWiki, and perhaps we could be more comprehensive in our coverage of non-Anglophone cranks and rationalists. |
| 150 | Black HammerCreate draft: an org run by one Gazi Kodzo, formerly a high-level officer in the African People's Socialist Party until they deemed him a public embarrassment. Known for anti-white supremacy and decolonial efforts taken to the VERY extreme, including anti-Semitism in the thinnest of trappings of anti-white supremacy, having a "Reparations Corps" for white allies to pay their way into (complete with steep payment tiers), and attempting to start a commune in the mountains of Colorado as of late, with no confirmed water rights and a harsh microclimate at the altitude of their potential settlement site. To quote @RabbitThoughts on Twitter: "I've no idea whether this is a cult, a grift, or just dreamers with no life experience. Either way, people could get hurt." |
| 35 | Making Karajou Funny Part ThreeCreate draft: Karajou has recently restarted making karatoons for Conservapedia's side bar. They are somehow worse than the ones from 10 years ago. |
| 53 | FreedomToonsCreate draft is a right-wing libertarian YouTube channel that is heavily biased against the Democratic Party and the progressive movement. Video titles include "Ben Shapiro REKS Ocasio Cortez", "How Socialism Killed Venezuela", and "The Debunkers VS Gun Control BS." The owner of the YouTube channel is Seamus Coughlin, who also happens to have connections with the Foundation for Economic Education. |
| 42 | George AlexopoulosCreate draft, a so-called "moderate" who's actually an alt-right grifter infamous for making comics involving dramatic strawmen of leftists and liberals while trying to paint conservatives as refined in the most blatantly false manner. |
| 37 | I know it's briefly discussed in censorship, freedom of speech and social media, but perhaps we should have a whole article focusing on Big Tech censorship free expression on social mediaCreate draft. People from various political positions argue that we should "break up" and "democratize" online monopolies, extend free speech rights to online corporations, we need a "Bill of Rights for the Internet", and so on so forth. And ever since Twitter (finally) banned Donald Trump from its platform, many worry that this sets a dangerous precedent, i.e., that a few people in Silicon Valley can silence the POTUS. I feel like we should address the misconceptions, argumentative flaws, and possibly legitimate concerns when this topic comes up in one article. |
| 14 | The anti-porn National Center on Sexual Exploitation probably deserves an article. They used to be known as Morality in Media, until they rebranded. Special notice to the way they've clumsily co-opted feminist language to support their bullshit ideas. They basically think there is no such thing as a sex worker that isn't being exploited. They make a lot of specious claims. However, they happen to be on the right side in the Pornhub controversy, though obviously because they want to get rid of all porn and any reason will do. |
| 43 | IM Mastery AcademyCreate draft (formerly known as IMarketsLive) is a multi-level marketing scheme founded by Christopher Terry that supposedly centers around foreign exchange(forex) trading. |
| 41 | Just FactsCreate draft, something I found when doing research on Kiribati. It disguises itself as a nonpartisan, completely objective source while promoting climate denial, opposing any kind of government interference on the free market, and other right-libertarian bullshit. It's essentially a more subtle version of PragerU. Here's its website and here's its entry on Media Bias/Fact Check in case anyone wants to get started. |
| 16 | Gina Carano is a former Star Wars actress who was recently fired after previously mocking the Black Lives Matter movement,[42] making transphobic jokes,[43] sharing misinformation online about COVID-19 mask mandates,[44] spreading conspiracy theories about voter fraud in the 2020 United States presidential election,[45] and comparing conservatives to victims of the Holocaust.[46] |
| 45 | Brandon Straka is a self-proclaimed "former liberal" who founded the #WalkAway movement to convince liberals to leave the Democratic Party. Straka participated in the U.S. Capitol attack on January 6, 2021 and was later arrested by FBI agents for doing so on January 25, 2021.[47] |
| 39 | Hipster ChristianityCreate draft is a style of Evangelical Christianity that attempts to appeal to younger generations by incorporating modern music into their sermons and constant use of social media platforms such as Twitter. The pastors at these churches are often young guys wearing modern casual clothing, horned rimmed glasses, and may even have tattoos and/or piercings to appear hip. However, beneath Hipster Christianity's modernized surface hides the same old far right social conservatism and religious fundamentalism as their evangelical predecessors. |
| 20 | Joshua P. WarrenCreate draft, a minor hollywood actor who eventually spun off into a Reality Show and "Documentary" Paranormal Investigator, attached to many dubious projects over the years. |
| 11 | I'm surprised there isn't a page on California governor Gavin Newsom |
| 32 | Demolition Man is a 1993 American science fiction action film directed by Marco Brambilla and stars Sylvester Stallone and Wesley Snipes. The story makes allusions to classic science fiction stories including Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, and H.G. Wells' The Sleeper Awakes. Though it was initially viewed as a over the top big budget action film when it was released, in recent years (especially due to COVID-19) it has garnered a massive cult following with many seeing it as an eerie prediction of today's socio-political climate such as the rise of political correctness and government overreach. |
| 18 | Campus Reform is a conservative news website focused on higher education. It trains conservative students to monitor, surveil and report on the speech and actions of left-leaning professors, students and campus activist groups for the organization’s daily blog. It is operated by the Leadership Institute. |
| 77 | Water from airCreate draft, a recurring green tech scam based on bad science. A Water-from-air device is a dehumidifier that's marketed as a water source. These devices can't function in dry climates where they would be desirable, and are unnecessary in wet climates where they would sort of work at least some of the time. In many cases these devices are designed in such a way that makes them function worse than legit dehumidifiers, if they work at all. Regardless, any water they do produce is not fit for human consumption, at least not without a ton of filtering. |
| 42 | Christian WalkerCreate draft is an internet personality and the son of former NFL football player Herschel Walker. Like his father, Christian is an obnoxiously staunch Donald Trump supporter, and and has openly called the Black Lives Matter movement “a terrorist organization” and the “KKK in black face”. He is actively involved on TikTok, Twitter, and Instagram which he uses to spread bigotry and misinformation. |
| 84 | OneTaste (sometimes spelt One Taste), providers of orgasmic meditation services (apparently they make men pay large amounts of money to masturbate women members). Seems to be a scam or cult, and they've been in trouble with the law.[122][123] Orgasmic meditation is briefly mentioned in meditation but might be worth a more general article if there are other significant practitioners beyond OneTaste. |
| 150 | EnergiewendeCreate draft is Germany's transition away from nuclear power and towards renewables. Most of the nuclear reactors have been shut down. Unfortunately, this will inevitably delay the closure of coal-fired power plants. The project has faced difficulties in developing sufficient renewable infrastructure. |
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| 82 | Jason KenneyCreate draft is the current right-wing populist premier of Alberta, and leader of the United Conservative Party, which formed from a merger before the most recent election. He has been unpopular recently under the COVID-19 pandemic, part of this being that he cut doctor's salaries. His campaign involved a conspiracy theory against Canadian environmental organisations, claiming that they received money from the US in order to prevent Canadian oil from being exported to any country other than the US. He has also been a federal cabinet minister for the Conservative Party. He also has a history of homophobia. |
| 20 | The Boys Is an Amazon Prime original series based on the comic series of the same name that has become popular since it's debut in 2019. It has been praised for it's critique of alt-right ideology and American exceptionalism.[1] |
| 92 | Human Longevity WooCreate draft seems to be a topic that comes up a lot amongst people who push New Age and alternative medicine. A common talking point for these sorts of promoters involves an ill-defined period in the past when humans weren't being exposed to toxins and had longer lifespans |
| 44 | Squirrel and Hedgehog is a North Korean propaganda cartoon that is shown to kids that became popular with furries for some reason. It glorifies military service while demonizing the Japanese, South Koreans, and Americans. |
| 42 | Wolf Warrior 2 is the highest grossing Chinese film of all time, and is also complete propaganda, constantly glorifying Chinese involvement in Africa. |
| 34 | FactCheckArmenia.com is a website whose stated purpose is "exposing Armenian distortions and hypocrisies". Despite the name, it is not a fact-checking website; it publishes false information denying the Armenian Genocide. |
| 15 | TVP Info is a Polish public news channel run by a state-owned broadcaster. While it isn’t suprising that a populist government is using public media for political purposes, TVP Info is on a whole new level of propaganda. Almost entirety of the air time is spent on either showing how successful the government is (It isn’t.) or on attacking its’ opponents with most absurd accusations and buzzwords, aswell as promoting homophobia (they even made an entire schlockumentary about how „LGBT ideology” is trying to „sexualize children”, while comparing the rise of LGBT rights movement in Poland to an „invasion”), fear of refugees, euroscepticism, religious fundamentalism, Antifa-baiting, George Soros conspiracy theories and demonizing abortion (the last one intensified during the pro-choice protests of late 2020). The channel’s headlines were nicknamed by Poles as „headlines of terror” due to their extremely agressive and fear-mongering contents („Left-wing fascism is destroying Poland”, „Atheists want to take away 500+ (a state welfare program) from Poles”, „LGBT ideology is destroying the family”, „Opposition wants anarchy, because it lost the elections” - these are only few out of hundreds of examples). I’m reminding once again that this is a public station that is funded from people’s taxes. TVP Info’s bullshit definitely influenced the outcome of elections in 2019 and 2020 in favor of the ruling party aswell as general public discourse in Poland and there’s no sign that they’re planning to stop. Even worse, it was recently announced that a new English-language side channel appear in 2021, so the language barrier will no longer protect you. |
| 119 | The Hammer and ScorecardCreate draft Conspiracy Theory alleging that Joe Biden and Obama stole the election using software developed by noted conman Dennis Montgomery |
| 43 | Madison Cawthorn, a young GOP congressman from North Carolina who fancies himself as the Republican Party's answer to AOC. However, he is quite possibly a neonazi, given that he has said that visiting Hitler's vacation home was on his bucket list, as well as having been accused by multiple women of being a sexual predator. |
| 18 | World Contact Day, a "holiday" that occurs every 15th of March where Ufologists mass-think the same paragraph of text in attempt to contact them aliens. Made famous by the song "Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft" by the Beatles Klaatu. |
| 15 | Atlas Network - a network of right-wing "libertarian" (i.e. anti-regulation, anti-environmentalist) organisations, funded by Philip Morris, ExxonMobil, and other Kochs. It has a long history in pro-tobacco bullshit and is involved in a lot of dubious science including the Great Barrington Declaration.[124][125] It's also closely aligned with the State Policy Network which has similar aims, and links to the Cato Institute, etc.[126] |
| 21 | Cynical Theories, a book produced in August 2020 by two of the perpetrators of the Grievance studies hoax. Cynical Theories, which has become a bestseller, criticizes a boogeyman in the form of "Woke" or "Social Justice" ideology, asserting that all of its various strands - fourth-wave feminism, queer theory, critical race theory, postcolonial theory, intersectionality - are steeped in and derive from 1960s postmodernist philosophy, which they see as opposed to liberalism itself. The book's blurb presents what appear to be straw-man distortions of numerous social justice talking points (e.g. "biological sex doesn't exist", "all white people are racist" etc.) This review outlines how the authors have misrepresented the words of influential writers such as Kristie Dotson and incorrectly characterized certain philosophers as postmodernists who "cannot by any scholarly standard be put into that bucket". |
| 52 | The Gravel Institute is a progressive media outlet launched in September 2020. Named after Mike Gravel, the former senator from Alaska, the media outlet is designed as a direct aim against PragerU's disinformation and right wing propaganda. |
| 16 | Brad Jones - Better known as the Cinema Snob, he has criticized movies and specials of a right-wing and fundamentalist nature for their bullshit and has expressed left-wing beliefs. Unfortunately, he’s recently been using his platform to make infrequent jabs at “the left” and political correctness and continues to be associated with Channel Awesome even after it went to shit. |
| 17 | Howard Hughes - The original techbro. Billionaire, film producer, aviation magnate, casino owner, etc.. Also known for his obsessive behavior and severe hypochondria that lead to his reclusiveness twards the end of his life. |
| 21 | Attila Hildmann - a Turkish-German vegan cookbook author and TV personality, who's also a far-rightist, conspiracy theorist, COVID skeptic, antisemite, and German nationalist?[127][128] Apparently he told a German Jewish group that the anti-COVID measures are worse than the Holocaust, which he elsewhere suggested Jews were responsible for.[129] |
| 134 | Shungite - a type of rock that some believe protects against "harmful electromagnetic signals and radiations" and has healing powers. Could be at least added as a minor section under 5G. |
| 25 | Richard D. Wolff A leftist economics professor who seems to be gaining a lot of traction recently. Social media presence, interviews by other leftists, praised by new york times. |
| 46 | Work from home, also known as telecommuting, has been an option in white-collar professions for some time now, however the ongoing COVID-19 outbreak has forced it to become the norm. This caused some media sources to warn about the potential economic effects of people not buying avocado toast and skinny lattes during their lunches (oh the irony!). |
| 42 | TheWorldMustKnowCreate draft TheWorldMustKnow, a website run by Jason, the creator of the new "free speech" social media service "WIMKIN" based on the same name. This website is a treasure-trove of yet-to-be properly debunked but yet still nonsense conspiracy theories regarding issues surrounding George Floyd's death, whether or not he really is death, whether it was staged, Bill Gates being tied to Nazis, and generally claiming that the CDC and Dr. Fauci are frauds and that COVID is a hoax. It would be very useful to have these issues debunked to satisfaction with the uprising of the new social media conspiracist haven 'WIMKIN'. |
| 5 | Alex Berenson is a novelist and fucking liar whose 2019 anti-marijuana screed "Tell your Children" was denounced by multiple researchers and scientific communities for cherry-picking fear-mongering, and stretching the truth more than just a little[3]. So of course, he is now hyped up by conservatives for grossly downplaying the seriousness of the COVID-19 pandemic[4]. |
| 32 | Marc Dutroux/Regina Louf – the former being very much a confirmed murderer and sex offender, the latter probably being a victim who started to suffer from mental health issues and began to make SRA/Pizzagate-esque claims. |
| 11 | Marsy's Law is an amendment to California's constitution and penal code that gives a special "bill of rights" to alleged crime victims, and expands the power of parole boards to deny parole to prison inmates with life sentences. Similar amendments have been passed in ten states and counting. It has been criticized by the ACLU for undermining the legal rights of the accused. |
| 32 | Common Sense Media, an organisation devoted to protecting children from harmful media influences by promoting age ratings, banning sales to minors, restricting children's time viewing media, promoting privacy rights, etc. Its funders cover a range of political views but include hate-monger Republicans like Charles R. Schwab, and it has partnerships with many media companies. Lead figure Jim Steyer is a campaigner for privacy rights especially for children, and a lead figure in the anti-Facebook group Stop Hate For Profit. Is it common sense? Is its science correct? Is it censorship of things kids should see, or defence against evil corporations? |
| 17 | Dan Bongino is a right wing political commentator and pro-Trump supporter who's entire career is "owning the libs". |
| 10 | Tom Woods, A paleolibertarian/paleoconservative writer and one of the founding members of League of the South, and quite a defender of the ol' south to the point that he called abolitionists "utterly reprehensible"[5]. Has a youtube channel where he spews his opinions[6]. |
| 8 | Laura Agustín, the migrations scholar better known for disputing the idea that sex trafficking is an actually statistically significant issue rather than a fig leaf for persecuting prostitutes under the guise of "rescuing" them. Coined the term "rescue industry" for the set of well-funded orgs that promote the idea of sex trafficking as significant and perform the "rescue", as well as their supporters. |
| 30 | The Trump Prophecy is a 2018 Christian political propaganda film based on the ravings of a retired firefighter with PTSD who claims to have been told by God that Donald Trump would becomes president. Described by Vox as a depiction of Christian nationalism in the United States, The Trump Prophecy was released in a time when the idea that God was responsible for Trump winning the election was shared by several evangelical leaders like Franklin Graham, Richard Land, and Robert Jeffress. |
| 2 | Killer Mike is a rapper of Run the Jewels. Mike is known for being a social and political activist, focusing on subjects including social inequality, police brutality, and systemic racism. On May 29, 2020, Mike spoke during a press conference with Atlanta mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms in response to the death of George Floyd and the ensuing protests in Atlanta and other major US cities. |
| 131 | Ian Miles CheongCreate draft, an alt-right "journalist" who spreads misinformation and propaganda, and has history with GamerGate. |
| 43 | Homonationalism, or how some LGBT+ people (specifically gay people) learned to stop worrying and love far-right ideology. |
| 50 | The Hodge TwinsCreate draft are YouTubers, fitness experts, and stand-up comedians. Together, they own and operate the Hodgetwins fitness and entertainment brand. In recent years, they've become actively political and have come out as insufferable right wingers in support of Donald Trump. |
| 2 | Denis Rancourt is a former professor of physics at the University of Ottawa best known for his years-long legal battle with his former employer over his 2009 firing, which he claims was politically motivated. An avid climate change denier, Rancourt most recently published a "study" purporting to prove that facemasks, lockdowns, and social distancing do not help against Covid-19, and that we should NOT try to stop it. |
| 77 | Dead Horse InterchangeCreate draft: Link. Think Kiwi Farms, minus the doxxing. The majority of it's members are people who left the Farms, because of the doxxing. They have some pretty "interesting" topics in their politics sections. Such as Islam, Sweden, Germany, Feminism & SJW's, China, Black Lives Matter, How Dubya is worser than The Donald, Xi Jinping & The CCP, How the EU is banning Memes, The UK, California (Which they call "Commiefornia") & The "God Emperor" Megathread. They also have a lolcow section, or like they called it: "Internet Nobodies". Most notable topics there are: the one on Noah Antwiler from The Spoony Experiment (more than 2200 pages as of 24/05/2020), 2 topics on John Bain aka TotalBiscuit (literally celebrating his death, shortly after he succumbed to cancer), Angry Joe, Hbomberguy, Laci Green, Jim Sterling, The Skeptic Community, ProJared & Article 13. The owner of the site (Poonoo) has an interesting youtube channel aswell. If you look at the thumbnails for his "Atop The 5th Wall" video's, you'll see in the background a poster from a guy playing a guitar that has an interesting pattern on it. |
| 3 | Janice Fiamengo is a particularly nutty anti-feminist MRA and English professor at the University of Ottawa with a bizarre (and possibly Poe's Law) fetish for inventions made by men [7]. Also went onto the white nationalist Radio 3Fourteen to warn listeners that men live under a "feminist version of Sharia Law"[8]. |
| 28 | Related to Mr Shockley below: James Watson, the co-worker of Francis Crick, experienced the same pratfall with his comments about the alleged differences between white European and black African intelligence. |
| 11 | William Shockley was a physicist and inventor. He was awarded the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics for his research on semiconductors and discovery of the transistor effect. Throughout the civil rights movement, Shockley increasingly espoused eugenic theories about the biological inferiority of African Americans. |
| 62 | Seeing how big wikipedia's article is on this subject, I think that the Stasi deserves it's own article (there's only a bit of it written in the DDR article). Note: the Stasi article was previously deleted because it wasn't good enough. |
| 65 | Ghost PoliticsCreate draft: Alias: True Capitalist Radio, True Conservative Radio, PoliticsGhost. An all-around crank, Ghost spews racist, sexist, Islamophobic, and homophobic garbage to a bunch of trolls and people who laugh at him interracting with them TENS of THOUSANDS of capitalists THROUGHOUT DA WURRRRRRRLD! He also dabbles in conspiracy-mongering (particularly ones involving "international bankers", Hilldebeest, WWIII being juuuuuust around the corner, HAARP, and denialism of the existence of space (No, seriously.).), transphobia, Brony-hating, fat-shaming, and generally being a massive scumbag. He has been known to give out numbers of callers on air, hang up on callers for "sounding fruity", and treat his few honest fans like trash. For a small-time podcaster, he has been the centre of a surprising amount of drama, including dox-wars amongst his fans. |
| 15 | Pat Tillman was a professional football player for the Arizona Cardinals. In response to the September 11 terrorist attacks, he passed up a $3.6 million contract and joined the United States Army, which made him a symbol of patriotism and a poster child for Army recruiters. His service in Iraq and Afghanistan, and subsequent death, were the subject of national attention when he was killed by friendly fire. In recent years following his death, Tillman's image has been appropriated by right-wing bloggers, as well as Donald Trump, in response to the Colin Kaepernick protests. Despite the establishment's admiration for him, the real Tillman was an anti-Bush atheist who called the the Iraq War "fucking illegal" and maintained correspondence with one of his favorite authors, Noam Chomsky, who he had made an appointment with for after his return from the military. Because of his celebrity status at the time as well as the cover up surrounding his death, it is believed that Tillman was murdered by the military due to his opposition to the wars and the military industrial complex. |
| 60 | Joseph BackholmCreate draft is a far-right Christian anti-LGBT bigot who is both a legal counsel and director of the Colson Center for Christian Worldview and former director and founder of the Family Policy Institute of Washington. Backholm is infamous for his transphobic and homophobic rhetoric and lobbying, has fought against marriage equality, defended conversion therapy, and maintains that gender identity and sexual orientation are a choice. He was the head of "Just Want Privacy", a campaign committee gathering signatures for Initiative 1515, a failed ballot that would've allowed businesses to discriminate openly against trans people by not allowing them to use bathrooms and locker rooms that match their gender identity. He also recently created a right-wing Christian YouTube channel called What Would You Say?, which gives believers advice on how to respond to common statements regarding their faith such as "Jesus was a socialist" as well as how to give responses to affirm their prejudices against the LGBT. Aside from being a homophobic and transphobic asshole, he is also staunchly pro-life, anti-immigration, Islamophobic, anti-atheist, and doesn't entirely believe in the idea of the separation of church and state.https://www.queerty.com/anti-trans-activist-encourages-men-chase-women-bathrooms-20160617 https://medium.com/@elisacatrina/family-policy-institute-of-washingtons-just-want-privacy-lies-transphobia-and-what-to-do-86597aac95e1 |
| 82 | ZubyCreate draft is a conservative rapper who mocked trans people by claiming to break women's sports records by identifying as a women and says black people and women are not oppressed, but if they are they should "work hard and make the right decisions" to get over it. He's also been a guest on several right wing talk shows including Steven Crowder's show, fake university PragerU's show, Dave Rubin's show, Ben Shapiro's show, and was praised by Tucker Carlson who went on to say the left would tell people who disagree with gender fluidity to "shut up and believe it, or we'll hurt you,". |
| 60 | Joshua CollinsCreate draft is an aspiring young politician running for Congress who is most notable for claiming to be the most left-wing federal candidate in U.S. history,[9] founding the Rose Caucus,[10] and using TikTok to further his campaign.[11] He probably never heard of Gus Hall. |
| 2 | Frank Dux is a martial artist whose alleged victory at the Kumite, a fighting competition, served as the inspiration for the 1988 cult film Bloodsport starring Jean-Claude Van Damme. Dux's victory at the Kumite has been largely disputed, as has the existence of both the Kumite he described and the existence of his alleged teacher Senzo Tanaka. He has also falsified his military and CIA service, and was the subject of libel against Soldier of Fortune magazine in 1999 because of his lies. |
| 62 | Vivian KrauseCreate draft, a Canadian blogger who claims to just be "exposing" the foreign funding of environmentalist organizations. However, it's very likely she is just another shill for the mining and oil industries. |
| 42 | Friends of Abe was a support and networking group for politically conservative members of the Hollywood elite. Formed in 2004 by actor Gary Sinise, the group consisted of various actors, directors, and producers including Jerry Bruckheimer, Pat Boone, Jon Voight, Kelsey Grammer, Kevin Sorbo, and Scott Baio. The group dissolved due to split differences over Donald Trump. |
| 62 | Grant ChisholmCreate draft is a street preacher and antique boutique business owner based out in Portland, Oregon. When he’s not selling the ultimate in Portland vintage wares he’s working as a street preacher, railing against strip clubs, homosexuality, Catholics, football, abortion clinics, marijuiana clinics, and probably most Portland residents. The Daily Beast has dubbed him "The Hipster Fred Phelps".https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-hipster-fred-phelps |
| 75 | Art policeCreate draft: Named after a snarl word frequently used when I see stuff like this, I think it's Twitter artists whining about people whining about their artstyles, has a vibe suspiciously similar to Gamergate. |
| 69 | Chad Felix GreeneCreate draft is a conservative writer for The Federalist and American Thinker who frequently authors articles either A): attacking LGBT rights and activists (especially of the trans variety) or B): defending homo/transphobic people and orginizations (including Mike Pence[12]). All of this while being gay himself. |
| 15 | Dean Cain is an actor who was best known for playing Superman on Lois and Clark in the 1990s. Now a washed-up has-been, Cain has become more well known for being an outspoken conservative and right-wing pundit on Fox News and Louder with Crowder. He's a staunch Donald Trump supporter, supports various right wing individuals, groups, and causes, and has said some outrageous things on social media such as misidentifying R. David Edelman as the Ukraine whistle blower and supporting Gamergate. Cain also appeared in God's Not Dead, and 'performed' FBI Lovebirds, a live reading/performance of Peter Strozk/Lisa Page texts, in Washington, D.C. at CPAC alongside fellow right wing Trumpster Kristy Swanson. https://www.wonkette.com/worst-superman-dean-cain-proves-hes-an-asshole-again |
| 16 | Project 100,000: A Vietnam War era scheme by Defense Secretary Robert McNamara to fill out the ranks with recruits that were below established mental and medical standards. Billed as an attempt to prepare and empower said recruits with the latest in educational technology (ie: video presentations) for their return to civilian life. A massive failure that left surviving recruits worse off then they were before. |
| 5 | Jeanne Calment, generally considered the oldest person who ever lived and proof of the health-giving effects of cigarettes and being French. However there are claims that her longevity was faked and she was replaced by her daughter in the 1930s. It's amusing to see how she's used in health debates, but the debate over her age is more interesting. |
| 24 | We should make an article about school grades in America, obviously the A-F scale, and how they are a terrible way to find out how intelligent a student is. Also, let's talk about how racist the grading system is, and how it favors white students over people of color. |
| 64 | Diabetes. It afflicts millions of people in the First World, and so of course has attracted its fair share of alternative medicine and diet woo. Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes have different causes and different treatments, but you'd never know it to read some diatribes (e.g. Sugar Blues). |
| 3 | Paul Gottfried: a paleoconservative douchebag who coined the term "alternative right". Despite his sympathy with white supremacists, he is Jewish, thus making him closer to neocons than the paleocon he viewed himself as. |
| 7 | The Game Changers, a documentary about athletes with plant based diets, which alleged that animal agriculture was a leading cause of deforestation and carbon emissions, along with criticizing gender roles perpetuated by fast food commercials [148] [149] [150]. The movie has even been accused of promoting misinformation and pseudoscience, among other things [151] [152] [153] [154] [155] [156] [157]. |
| 7 | There is this person who goes by the nickname of "Ghost" who's website has been covered by Media Fact/Bias Check as a questionable source [158] [159]. "Ghost" has also had numerous podcasts since 2008, usually spanning hundreds of episodes, each having a runtime of around two hours [160] [161] [162] [163]. Basically, "Ghost" is a wingnut, and a pretty nutty one at that [164]. Ghost has even gone on quite a few ableist rants [165] [166] [167], and went as far to tell fans of anime to commit suicide [168]. |
| 82 | Rich of ReviewTechUSACreate draft has had a variety of political opinions over the years. Rich has been a critic of Anita Sarkeesian [169], retracted criticism against PewDiePie and the "DEATH TO ALL JEWS" incident[170], and even referred to fat acceptance as a "plague".[171] |
| 100 | James Stephanie Sterling (aka Jimquisition) has always been a staunch critic of what they perceive to be shady business practices within the video games industry, especially AAA publishers in recent years. JSS is also critical of Capitalism in general. [172] [173] |
| 117 | Four-day week: there are a lot of articles recently claiming that a four day week in the workplace greatly increases productivity, as well as benefiting workers and the environment.[174][175] However, evidence is limited to a few, frequently-cited studies whose methodology is unclear, and a lot of claims seem exaggerated. There have been a few studies that seemed to find benefits (including fewer pointless meetings, less absenteeism) but the Hawthorne effect may be involved, durations were short, and it's hard to double blind these things.[176][177] In some cases cited (e.g. Utah cited on Wikipedia) workers still did the same number of hours, just over fewer but longer days, while others suggest workers doing fewer hours can accomplish more. There have been a lot of claims about political parties planning to make it mandatory. Labour at the 2019 UK general election allegedly planned it, but in fact their research found that a hard cap on hours wouldn't work.[178] Finland was reported to have been planning a four day week, possibly even with 6 hour days, but this turned out to be fake news.[179] So is there anything to it, what are the pros and cons, and is it all wishful thinking? |
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| 7 | Belle Gibson is a well known charlatan and pseudoscience promoter from Australia. She claimed, that she managed to cure her multiple cancers with specific alternate medicine and a diet which was described in her mobile app, The Whole Pantry, aswell as in its' companion cookbook, both of which gave Gibson around $1 milion of profit. Further media investigation revealed however, that her claims were false and all evidence was fabricated, while research shown that there was no proof for effectiveness of her methods. She also constantly lied about her lifestyle and donating income from sales to charity. Gibson ultimately admitted to lying in an April 2015 interview. |
| 116 | Real Life Villains WikiCreate draft is a wikia that categorizes real world villains and displays their crimes. While it obviously shows your standard dictators, cult leaders, and religious centric jerkassess like Adolf Hitler, Charles Manson, and Jerry Falwell the wikia does display some questionable merit. The wiki is very biased towards American imperialism and holds a US centric worldview, there are articles on people for very petty reasons such as user being slightly mean on Deviantart and such, and war criminals such as Henry Kissinger and Vladimir Putin are displayed as "Grey Zone" villains. The worst bias is the disallowed articles which consists of American and pro-American war criminals such as George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Tony Blair, Donald Trump, Woodrow Wilson and Hillary Clinton. It also stated that if you make an article on any of these people you will be banned immediately. Another blatant bias they possess is their constant need to create articles for mythological characters; primarily characters from the Bible. This completely violates their number eight rule: NO Articles on People Who are Too Fictitious. |
| 83 | Dairy is ScaryCreate draft, a vegan propaganda video with over 5 million views (found here). It alleges to "explain" the dairy industry. It's filled with gross exaggerations, misrepresentations, outright falsehoods, and occasional grains of truth about how dairy cattle are treated. |
| 77 | Felix Steiner, Former Waffen-SS commander during WO II. Mostly known for his part during the attack on Berlin in 1945. Steiner was arrested as a war criminal but released for lack of evidence, he is missional for his post-war writings of Nazi apologia (all of which are only in German). |
| 33 | James Shupe, formerly Jamie Shupe, one of the first people to legally identify as non-binary in the US before detransitioning back to male. Nowadays, he is rabidly and-trans on social media. |
| 28 | Team Trees - A campaign started by Youtuber MrBeast to raise $20 million to plant 20 million trees. It's in need of a reality check, as many people don't realise the fact that this would add a whooping 0.0006% to the world's current tree population while we're still cutting down 15 billion each year. |
| 32 | The WalkAway campaign, also styled #WalkAway, is a social media campaign that launched ahead of the 2018 mid-term elections by right-wing grifter Brandon Straka, a hairstylist and failed actor from New York City, in a video released 29th June 2018 entitled #WalkAway - Brandon Straka, "Why I Left The Democrat Party". The campaign's stated goal is to "encourage others to walk away from the "divisive" left, but also take back the narrative from the "liberal" media about what it means to be a conservative in America." |
| 79 | Elijah SchafferCreate draft, also known as Slightly Offensive, is an alt-right YouTuber whose entire gimmick is to generalize the left by mocking the far-left. His channel is populated mainly with videos of him asking politically charged questions to people he meets on the street — sometimes until one of them attacks his film crew. He titles his videos somewhat less introspectively: “PUNCHED by ANTIFA” and “Exposing the Sluts,” for example. |
| 10 | Other Losses, a 1989 book by Canadian James Bacque about the alleged mistreatment and deliberate mass murder of German prisoners of war by Allied authorities in general and Dwight D. Eisenhower in particular. The book has been mostly condemned as completely baseless, but it still influences some revisionist circles. |
| 50 | Sabo is the pseudonym of a politically conservative street artist active based out in Los Angeles, California. He's been active in street art since 1999, though he began to take his activity in the scene more seriously around 2008. Sabo's works have been critical of left-wing politics (and its prominence in the entertainment industry) and the Democratic Party, claiming that "leftism is a mental disorder". |
| 13 | A page on the Younger case, involving a 7-year old trans girl in Texas named Luna, who's father was just awarded joint custody of.[1] |
| 79 | Daniel Di MartinoCreate draft is a Venezuelan-American student at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. Because he experienced the terrible consequences of socialism firsthand in Venezuela, he's become a conservative and libertarian voice against what he perceives as the rise of socialism in America. |
| 7 | Katie Hill is an American politician who has recently become a subject of controversy after her ex-husband leaked revenge porn of her.[2] |
| 33 | Penile plethysmograph used to detect sexual arousal and in the diagnosis of pedophilia and (formerly) homosexuality. It's mentioned in Pseudopsychology but without a proper explanation of the history, nefarious uses, and whether it has any validity at all. |
| 5 | Nik & Eva Speakman, otherwise known as The Speakmans, are a pair of English former financial advisors and life coaches who're now pretending to be psychologists or psychotherapists, promoting their invention "schema conditioning psychotherapy" through frequent TV appearances, notably on ITV's This Morning. They typically focus on problems such as phobias, often treated in a gimmicky fashion, and make a lot of money in the process.[180] According to their Wikipedia page they once gave a DeLorean car to pedophile politician Cyril Smith, but I'm sure there's nothing dodgy about that. |
| 60 | Windrush scandal, after whom the Windrush generation are named, a racist UK policy under the present Conservative government involving deportation and other denial of rights to people of African-Caribbean heritage. |
| 93 | The Adam and Eve StoryCreate draft, a 1960's book allegedly censored by the Central Intelligence Agency and declassified in 2013, contains pole shift and flood myth/Bible/angels nonsense, as well as some quackery about antigravity and evolution. |
| 6 | Hanne Nabintu Herland, a Norwegian right-wing/alt-right author who pushes borderline if not outright racist/islamophobic/anti-western conspiracy theories. Also collaberates with Milo Yiannopoulos from time to time. Also has a Youtube channel[3]. |
| 44 | Hasan Piker is an entertainment and political journalist known for his explainer videos on The Young Turks that provide detailed analysis on the top news stories of the day.[4] |
| 106 | TheQuarteringCreate draft is a very popular Anti SJW youtuber. The fact that there is no article on this motherfucker and his multicolored beard is offensive. A draft has been created. |
| 55 | Austen "Fleccas" Fletcher is an alt-right youtuber and the host of Fleccas TalksCreate draft featuring interviews at protest rallies from across the political spectrum including conservatives, liberals, and libertarians. Much like Elijah Schaffer, his main gimmick, however, is making anti-Trump protesters look like politically clueless idiots. |
| 33 | Igor and Grichka Bogdanoff, French television personalities who authored several nonsensical physics/mathematics/quantum woo articles and papers in notable publications in the early 2000's and caused a minor shitstorm in the academia (the similarities to Alan Sokal are obvious) |
| 12 | Jussi Halla-aho, Finnish blogger and MP, and the former chairman of the far-right Finns Party. Has a cult-like following among the Finnish far right – seriously, he is known as The Master among them. |
| 1 | Elizabeth Heng, a failed California candidate for the House of Representatives who sparked controversy recently over an ad her campaign comparing AOC to the Khmer Rouge[5]. |
| 124 | "BlatherCreate draft is an educational tool that allows users to analyze and pinpoint the accuracy of claims made on social media. This site is meant to help people spot out erroneous logic so that similar arguments will not be made in the future. However, there are a number of factors that make this a difficult task." https://blather.io/ |
| 77 | HedgewikCreate draft needs a article, if you don’t know, he is a rising star in the Nazi comic world whose art is as good as a preschooler. |
| 87 | I'm thinking an article on reframingCreate draft Part of the paradox of tolerance, but deliberately invoked by the bigoted. Like how Christians oppress LGBT people, then turn it around as them being oppressed when we ask them to stop. |
| 10 | Derrick Jensen is an anarcho-primitivst in the same vein as John Zerzan, except with a great deal more emphasis on the environment, and arguably a hefty dose of Native Woo (who knows how much of my memory of him has turned to straw...). Worth noting that he heads a movement called Deep Green Resistance, which at the very least dismisses the idea of transsexuality, believing that gender is a strictly social construct with no biological basis. Apparently there have been concerns (including from Zerzan?) that it's become a personality cult. |
| 91 | PSA SitchCreate draft An anti-SJW YouTuber who recently cracked 100k subscribers. He actually makes some points that deserve response unlike most anti-SJWs who are just in it to troll and mock leftists. |
| 77 | Michael BiggsCreate draft, a sociologist at Oxford University who opposes trans rights and claims to defend academic freedom of speech. He has also been caught running a Twitter account which posted a load of transphobic nonsense.[185][186][187] He is becoming one of the leading figures in the UK in the war against trans rights, cited in mainstream media and writing on dubious TERF blogs like Transgender Trend.[188][189][190] |
| 52 | A page for Brock Turner, maybe? Or maybe about the larger case, not necessarily with his name on it. Or at least a section in an existing article. The case says quite a lot about rape culture and privilege, so it would seem to be on mission. |
| 42 | Harry Price, a British magician and psychic researcher in the early 20th century who debunked several mediums and hauntings, although he still preserved some belief in the possibility of psychic phenomena. He is mentioned in various articles here (e.g. Helen Duncan) but there are lots of stories about his investigations and he deserves his own page as a promoter of rationalism. EDIT: Price was also a sensation-monger of huge proportions who blew up the non-story of Borley Rectory into the legendary "most haunted house in England." |
| 11 | Coleman Livingston Blease, a politician and an unrepentant white supremacist who was responsible for making the law that labels undocumented immigrants as criminals. |
| 85 | List of Political Parties A page to show the political parties of the world and whether pages have been made on them or not. |
| 95 | List of Religions It would be nice to have a list of religions and their denominations, especially since it would make ot easy to find which of them haven't had pages written about them yet. |
| 73 | Philip DeFranco, a news commentator and YouTuber who basically goes over current events with a rather centrist tone. There are times, despite meaning well in his commentary, that he can be a useful idiot due to his tendency to attract reactionaries to his fanbase on account of his apologism for right-wingers at times and also adding onto the hysteria on how NYT was supposedly "labeling him far-right" because he popped up in a background of various YouTubers in an article of a young adult who was radicalized by YouTubers. |
| 137 | Something around website blocks and bans, Shadow banning, and similar topics. The alt-right and similar groups are fond of complaining about "ghost banning", "shadow banning", etc, where they're supposedly denied access to different social media sites by stealth, or their posts are mysteriously deprioritized or hidden. An overview of what this means, whether this is actually possible on different sites, etc, would be useful. Wikipedia mentions a conspiracy theory about Twitter shadow banning Republicans.[191] |
| 45 | A Hat in Time, an indie platformer that has seen its fair share of controversies from Jontron to Trans Flags. |
| 76 | Joseph EverettCreate draft, known for his YouTube channel What I've Learned, which has nearly 1 million subscribers and over 64 million video views. Has made videos promoting low-carb dieting for general weight loss, statin denialism, antidepressant denialism, and NoFap. However, he has high production values and claims to be pro-science, so perhaps it can be presumed that he's doing this all in good faith? According to Everett: "This is about connecting the dots, making conclusions and weighing that against modern dogma." Seems like the perfect subject for a RationalWiki article. |
| 96 | The Atheist DelusionCreate draft is a "response to the famous "The God Delusion" by Richard Dawkins, and the points it makes are very flawed to say the least. |
| 8 | Mammon, the Hebrew term for money and greed, personified in medieval times as a literal being. |
| 73 | Inner Peace MovementCreate draft, a 501(c)(3) non-profit group founded in 1964 with a trademarked name that has been the subject of court disputes. Their professed mission is to "help people clarify their minds and balance their spiritual direction." |
| 75 | EssenceOfThoughtCreate draft is a Youtuber who makes videos defending LGBTQ rights, atheism, secular humanism, and abortion.[6][7][8][9] |
| 74 | The Binding of Isaac Is a 2011 indie game with randomly generated dungeons and over 500+ items. I'm suggesting this one because of the game's criticisms of Religion and the Bible and how the entire thing is somehow a controversy magnet that has avoided any actual controversy. |
| 66 | Vampire facials (or platelet-rich plasma facials) are the latest beauty craze, apparently involving having blood removed from your body and injected into your face. They're loved by Goop, but Kim Kardashian's was less successful, and they have been linked to 2 cases of HIV transmission in New Mexico.[192][193] |
| 86 | Ghoul We already have a page about folklore things, like zombies, vampires, ghosts & aliens. So, why not have one about Ghouls? Wikipedia has one, but seeing that article and their talk page, I think we can safely assume that their shitty NPOV is also at work here and that they literally believe in ghouls (especially if you look at some of those "experts" that claim to have knowledge about these things...)... |
| 60 | Renaud Camus, a gay French writer who is partially known for his connection to the racist "Great Replacement" conspiracy theory... a theory that helped in motivating the man behind the Christchurch terrorist attacks. His name redirects to an article on the aforementioned great replacement theory, but he should probably have his own article. |
| 21 | Rosa Luxemburg: Polish revolutionary socialist who had a large impact on history. She's the most well-known female socialist theorist. I'm surprised there isn't already an article on her. |
| 69 | Thierry Baudet: A Dutch populist euroskeptic who leads the Forum for Democracy, that recently won the majority vote in the Dutch provincial elections and is expected to win the majority in the Dutch Senate in May. Apparently is liked by the Dutch alt-right.[10] A draft can be started here. |
| 115 | 1080; pesticide used to control invasive species in New Zealand and save NZ's native wildlife. Subject of all sorts of ridiculous crazy conspiracy nonsense akin to anti-vaxx nonsense. See Wikipedia and http://www.1080facts.co.nz/ |
| 51 | Jeanine Pirro, a Fox News host who's spent nearly her entire career in some sort of controversy over one of her rants. A draft has been created at Draft:Jeanine Pirro. |
| 61 | Captain Marvel is a movie that somehow managed to attract the outrage of conservatives, MRAs, Gamergaters, and alt-righters who didn't even watch it. (And which, at the same time, Marvel marketed as though it were the first movie to feature a strong female character evar.) |
| 49 | Puzzle in a ThunderstormCreate draft, the guys behind three (and a half) rational podcasts including The Scathing Atheist, the Skepticrat, God Awful Movies and half of Citation Needed. |
| 16 | Lindsay Shepherd is a professional victim[11] and alt-right grifter[12] who rejects indigenous land acknowledgements[13] and sympathizes with white nationalism[14] |
| 71 | Libb ThimsCreate draft is an engineer from Chicago and creator of eoht.info, an encyclopedia of "human thermodynamics". |
| 11 | Christine Weick: Fundamentalist Christian who opposes same-sex marriage and protested against Muslims. She also claimed that Monster Energy depicts the Number of the Beast. |
| 102 | Girl DefinedCreate draft, a pair of right-wing evangelical Christian youtubers who make videos marketed heavily towards tween and teen girls. |
| 2 | Ethan Van Sciver, an American comic book artist known for illustrating and/or drawing covers primarily for DC and Marvel. Van Sciver has recently revealed himself to be an alt-right scumbag by becoming a central figure in the recent Comicsgate campaign, a campaign spearheaded by misogynistic, racist and anti-LGBTQI+ bigots who are butthurt about the idea of members of those communities being fairly and equally represented in the comic book medium. Comicsgate is essentially Gamergate but for comics instead of games, it's a campaign created by and for the Alt-right. |
| 86 | Debbie HaytonCreate draft a trans woman who seems to spend a good chunk of her time concern trolling and spouting terf-esque arguments online and apparently calls the declaration of trans women being women to be "Orwellian thinking"[15]. Arguably an older, British version of Blaire White. |
| 10 | Debra Soh is a useful idiot who advocates for conversion therapy for transgender children and accuses transgender activism of homophobia. |
| 78 | Kurt SchlichterCreate draft Townhall columnist and general right-wing nut who's notorious for his rabidly pro-Trump stance and... interesting commentary on many issues. |
| 3 | Nicholas Sandmann is a Trump supporter who has recently attracted controversy for harassing a Native American Vietnam veteran with the help of his fellow Trump-supporting high school classmates at a March for Life rally. His mother blamed black Muslims for his deplorable behavior. |
| 10 | The Skwawkbox, a British left-wing news blog noted for conspiracy theories (e.g. on the Grenfell Tower fire) and a lot of bias.[194] It's also had issues with press regulators.[195][196] |
| 71 | KukuruyoCreate draft is the artist of one of the most infamous pro-Gamergate comic series. |
| 81 | Zinnia JonesCreate draft is an Orlando trans activist and science writer. |
| 25 | Comicsgate is a movement dedicated to targeting the woman that Gamergate was dedicated to harassing, with similarly spurious reasons.[16] "B-BUT, IT'S ABOUT ETHICS IN GAMING JOURNALISM SWEAR WORDS[17] KARAOKE[18] COMICS JOURNALISM![19]" |
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2018 [edit]
| 133 | Lip reading - not so much the practice as used in conversation by deaf people, as the tendency of the media to get lip-readers to reconstruct private conversations (e.g. [198][199]). How accurate is it? Probably not very. There's also a joke/meme of publishing intentionally bad lip readings of political speeches, events, etc, which may or may not be worth covering (probably not, to be honest). |
| 21 | Religious education, in British schools (and possibly elsewhere if relevant): for decades, RE has been taught as a subject with a broadly Christian basis in British schools (today a variety of faiths are taught, and there is discussion of wider issues around spirituality and religion, but the focus is still on Christianity), often one of the few or only compulsory subjects children must study.[200][201] It would be interesting to have a history of the way it has been taught in the various British nations, and arguments for and against it as a subject. |
| 19 | The Parable of the talents or minas, is - according to the Gospels of Matthew & Luke - a story told by Jeebus about how maximising profits was virtuous. For the Christian right the parable serves as an ideological & moral justification for the advancement of right-wing economics (tax cuts for the rich etc.). Could also be a sub-topic under Prosperity gospel. |
| 100 | #ThotPatrolCreate draft, also known as "#ThotAudit" is a campaign led by incels trying/threatening to report Snapchat and Instagram cam girls to the IRS.[1] Unsurprisingly, many of the ThotPatrollers are trying to claim that #ThotPatrol is ACKCHYUALLY about ethics in taxation, indicating that the movement is nothing more than a reincarnation of Gamergate. |
| 8 | The Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market is a controversial proposed EU directive best known for two parts of it: Article 11, which grants publishers the rights to usage of their articles et al. by ISSPs and which has been nicknamed a 'link tax', and Article 13, which gives the responsibility of removing copyrighted works to ISSPs and which has received the epithet of a 'meme ban'. It is supported by, among others, the music industry and the British Labour Party. Opponents include several Silicon Valley companies, such as Google, YouTube and Facebook, as well as several famous Internet figures, like Jimmy Wales and Tim Berners-Lee. |
| 107 | Interpol — the international police agency. China possibly forced the former president of Interpol into resigning. Russia almost got its man appointed to be the new head. China, Russia and other states have used Interpol to harass political dissidents contrary to Interpol's rules. The predecessor to Interpol was headed by three different class-A Nazi war criminals. |
| 17 | The term cotton ceiling refers to the difficulty trans people experience when seeking lesbian and gay relationships, and in lesbian and gay social spaces more generally. |
| 12 | Bret Stephens: One of the most notable Never Trumpers, and a right-wing hack if there ever was one. |
| 89 | 9/11 Truth Action ProjectCreate draft: Another 9/11 group that wants the truth about the inside jobby-job. their website. An observation made by someone from the ISF And according to that post, it would seem that the leader of this "movement", is a guy called David Fura. |
| 72 | Jobbik: our article on Viktor Orban mentions them a lot and there's certainly a lot to talk about with them. |
| 10 | Harvard University is a university that has recently been accused of discriminating against Asian-Americans.[2] |
| 86 | Chepo TeamCreate draft is a propaganda comic written by a fiercely right-wing and pro-Trump author that is about fictional Hispanics who are fiercely conservative and spout the same right-wing rhetoric that Trump and other Republicans do. The author also owns two accounts on facebook which are named after the comic that both use a copy-and-paste message that immediately begins with an appeal to identity (showing no proof that he/she is Hispanic) to make wildly inaccurate claims and generalizations about leftists, along with praising other far-right figures and pro-right meme posting. |
| 10 | 314 Action is a nonprofit political action committee that seeks to elect scientists in the United States. The mission of 314 Action is to connect people with backgrounds in science, technology, engineering, and math to the skills and funding needed for a successful political campaign. |
| 150 | Activated charcoal - the newest fad involving ingesting and brushing your teeth with burnt wood. |
| 20 | Philadelphia pride flag [202] - this version of the LGBTQ pride flag includes a black and brown stripe intended to represent inclusion of LGBTQ people of color. It experienced controversy as some considered it more divisive than unifying, and in response some have argued that opposition to the flag is racist. |
| 77 | The Party of Reason and ProgressCreate draft (PORP) is an non-profit organization dedicated to promoting reason and empirically sound decision-making in modern politics. Their mission is to implement effective and rational policies through educating the general public and supporting reasonable and logical public officials and initiatives. |
| 110 | Transgender TrendCreate draft a British anti-Transgender group that wants to circulate anti-trans material in schools. |
| 89 | Hurricane Maria, since we have Hurricane Katrina as an article, which criticizes the government for its response before and after the storm, then we might as well make one for Maria for Trump's poor response,[3] his attacks on San Juan's mayor, Carmen Yulin Cruz, and his excuses and lies about the death toll[4] by claiming that democrats are saying it "to make him look bad"[5] along with right-wing media defending him.[6][7][8][9] |
| 82 | Chanty BinxCreate draft, also known as Big Red, is a Toronto resident who gained notoriety online after appearing in a video in which she aggressively promotes feminism while arguing against men's rights activists at an event in Toronto, Canada. After the video was released, Chanty was subsequently turned into a meme and was given the name "Big Red." Anti-feminists (especially those on YouTube) frequently use her video as an example to "prove" why modern feminism is stupid. |
| 60 | Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria, a "syndrome" made up by TERFs to lure in transphobic parents upset that their kids came out trans. Currently a two-sentence redirect, but there's a pile of bad science involved. |
| 84 | Something about pedometer/Fitbits, steps per day targets, or similar. There's a lot of scientific debate about whether walking 10000 steps per day is necessarily good for you and the 10,000 target seems to be an arbitrary figure somebody just made up one day.[203][204][205] On the other hand, walking more is probably good for you. |
| 11 | The Canary, a pro-Jeremy Corbyn British news/campaigning website. It's associated by some with a fake news perspective, pushing endless biased reporting, and also criticised for its sometimes toxic tone (including attacks on the BBC). So is it the left-wing Breitbart or a legitimate news source? |
| 16 | The Love That Dares to Speak Its Name by James Kirkup, a 1976 poem about Jesus having gay sex with a Roman soldier. It was the last work to be subject of a successful blasphemy prosecution in England, brought against Gay News Ltd and editor Denis Lemon. The case was appealed through the full range of appeal courts up to Europe, the conviction being upheld at each stage, Lemon receiving a suspended sentence. There is debate over whether the poem was any good (or was some kind of proto-Chuck Tingle). |
| 71 | Momo is a fictional creature in the vein of Slender Man which people pretend to be, then they contact children and teenagers (typically via WhatsApp) to make them do dangerous things like self-harm, doxxing, and hurting their family members under threat of curses, being attacked by the disturbing-looking creature, etc. It has caused at least one death. |
| 68 | Peter SageCreate draft is just another snake-oil salesman peddling woo. Apparently "serial-entrepreneur" is the new term for con-artist. |
| 35 | BlacKkKlansman is a 2018 American biographical drama film directed by Spike Lee. The film is based on the 2014 memoir Black Klansman by Ron Stallworth. Set in 1972 Colorado Springs, the plot follows Stallworth, the first African-American detective to join the Colorado Springs Police Department, who sets out to infiltrate and expose the local chapter of the Ku Klux Klan. The film uses this historical event to offer a trenchant commentary on current events coinciding with the one year anniversary of Unite the Right and the death of Heather Heyer. The film received acclaim from critics, with many praising the performances and timely themes, as well as noting it as a return to form for Lee. |
| 77 | Reader request: "I'm wondering if Bronze Age PervertCreate draft might deserve an entry? He has gained vast popularity in the alt-right and similar circles lastly. His book has sold very well and he seems to be something of an ideologue for them" |
| 6 | Peter Navarro is one of Donald Trump's main trade advisors and largely thought of as a crank in economics. In his own words he "provide[s] the underlying analytics that confirm [Trump's] intuition [on trade]. And his intuition is always right in these matters." |
| 93 | Dr ShaymCreate draft is a youtuber, antifeminst, and critic of "SJWs." He is quite popular with nearly 450k subcribers. |
| 48 | Jordan SatherCreate draft is a right-wing conspiracy theorist and a prominent QAnon promoter on YouTube. He subscribes to the whole gamut of conspiracy theories, ranging from Pizzagate to UFOs. He makes Alex Jones look tame by comparison. He is allied with the likes of David Wilcock and Corey Goode. After QAnon made national news, he went on Comedy Central to defend QAnon, to the dismay of his own followers. |
| 38 | Shiva Ayyadurai is a man running for US Senate against Elizabeth Warren.[10] He is most notable for falsely claiming to be the “inventor of email”.[11] He also assaulted his girlfriend and tried to stab a police officer with a pen while resisting arrest.[12] And he pretended to be black.[13] Did I mention that he is also an anti-GMO activist who is willing to pay people $10 million if they can prove that GMOs are safe?[14] Unsurprisingly, he is also a 9/11 conspiracy theorist.[15] |
| 33 | Peter LloydCreate draft, aka The inSuffragent on Youtube, an anti-feminist MRA author who thinks marriage is a "Fraud of The Rings" against men (and blames feminists for this, of course).[16] |
| 38 | LifeBuzzCreate draft: Clickbait and fake news website. Published homeopath video ("Scientists From Germany Show That Water Has Memory. This Video Blows My Mind.". 500k+ views). Over 2 million monthly users. They also operate a woo site called Welt im Tropfen --> Here's a pdf with their findings and here is the psiram article of one of the authors Bernd Kröplin. In the homeopathy video, a scientist was cited who allegedly belongs to a department that doesn't exist at the Uni Stuttgart. There is really no "Aerospace Institute" at the Uni Stuttgart. There is an "Institute for Aviation Systems", an "Institute for Airplane Construction", an university course called "Aerospace Technology" at (among others) the "Institute for Aerodynamics and Gas Dynamics", an "Institute for Aviational Propulsion", an "Flight Mechanics and Controls Lab" and a few other with a connection to Aerospace topics, but not "Aerospace Institute". They didn't even brag with the name of the alleged scientist. |
| 63 | Joey SaladsCreate draft: right wing youtube who produces racist "social experiments" about how aggressive blacks are. See this video for famous example of him staging one of his "experiments", and the followup "interview". |
| 8 | Jimmie Åkesson, current leader of the far-right party known as the Sweden Democrats, who is attempting to brush aside his party's dark history and shenanigans to make his party look more moderate in an attempt to gain control of Sweden to enact his party's agenda. |
| 11 | Sarah Jeong was recently hired to the NYT and was claimed to have made "racist" tweets a few years ago after being repeatedly trolled and harassed. This started a controversy that got worse after Jeong and NYT defended themselves. |
| 43 | Sacrificial VirginsCreate draft, and anti-vaccine movie disguised as a "documentary". This time relating to HPV vaccines. |
| 74 | Sacha Baron Cohen, comedian who tricked various notable gun nuts into advocating for the arming of four-year-olds.[17] |
| 53 | With Canadian election season quickly approaching, articles on new party leaders and prime ministerial candidates Andrew Scheer and Jagmeet Singh would probably be appreciated by Canuck RWers, or at least a more up-to-date expansion of their parties' pages (Conservative and NDP) commenting on their new platforms in response to Justin Trudeau's government |
| 4 | Cochrane Library or Cochrane (formerly Cochrane Collaboration), an important organisation in evidence-based medicine, which provides a database of systematic reviews. Article should explain why it's so valuable as a source of information, and maybe look at any criticisms. |
| 32 | Otto Strasser, Nazi who opposed Hitler, had another brother who did the same thing known as Gregor Strasser. He is known for creating the ideology of Strasserism which is basically some weird form of socialism but with a mix of nationalism (more worthy of actually being called national socialism). |
| 68 | Autumn AsphodelCreate draft, transgender Youtuber who makes videos ranting against the “Transgender Population Control Agenda”, the mainstream media, vaccines, and political correctness. She is essentially the poor man’s Blaire White. |
| 31 | Death of a Nation, an upcoming film by Dinesh D'Souza that basically accuses Democrats of being "the real racists". It will be shown in theaters on August 3. Feel free to add more details as new information about this film is revealed. |
| 45 | Brandon StrakaCreate draft gay conservative who founded the #WalkAway movement. |
| 28 | ReSistersCreate draft, TERF Twitter account that regularly posts memes consisting of anti-trans dogwhistles.[18] |
| 62 | That Guy TCreate draft, Libertarian, anti-feminist, atheist, anarcho-capitalist. Totally not a fascist.[19] |
| 43 | The Anatomically Correct BananaCreate draft - an alt-right clog full of barely sourced multi-thousand word screeds like Year of the Cuck, Pungent Musk of Success (where they use an ambiguous tweet by Elon Musk as a jumping-off point to claim him as redpilled Anti-Semite, and a proxy for a woke white European "Faustian Man" doomed to self-destruct between the pressure from Jews and Muslims), or The Jewish Kvetchion. |
| 3 | The Hebrew Hammer is a 2003 comedy film written and directed by Jonathan Kesselman. The plot concerns a Jewish blaxploitation crime fighter known as the Hebrew Hammer who must save Hanukkah from the antisemitic son of Santa Claus, who wants to destroy Hanukkah and Kwanzaa and make everyone celebrate Christmas. While the film was somewhat controversial for satirizing common Jewish stereotypes, it has retained a cult following. In 2017 a sequel titled 'The Hebrew Hammer Vs. Hitler' was announced as part of a crowd funding campaign. The sequel is a response to the rise of online antisemitism brought on by Donald Trump's election. |
| 48 | Claudia BrownCreate draft, feminist Youtuber who makes videos that debunk anti-SJW arguments. |
| 44 | CourtCreate draft or Court SystemCreate draft. It would be useful to have an article just on courts. Probably would include some history contrasted with what freemen on the land say. |
| 97 | Boogie2988, Youtuber who thinks gay marriage shouldn’t be legal until 20 years from now in order to prevent gay people from being murdered for being gay.[20] He has also argued that some good came out of the Holocaust, using the Nazis murdering Anne Frank as an example of said "good".[21] It makes no sense to us either. |
| 41 | Bunty KingCreate draft, centrist Youtuber who loves goats. |
| 44 | Activist MommyCreate draft, the pseudonym of Elizabeth Johnston, a conservative vlogger and activist, who became infamous through her Facebook videos against the LGBTQ community, specifically trans people.[23] |
| 36 | Progressive DadCreate draft, most infamous example of Poe’s Law on the internet. Suspected of being a 4chan op after putting his “partner’s daughter” in a cage.[24] |
| 36 | Mark Lane, a notable JFK conspiracy theorist with connections to Jim Jones |
| 68 | Creationist CatCreate draft, Youtuber who is notable for his most recent video, “Prager U Are The Dangerous People Teaching Your Kids (with Jordan Peterson!)”, in which he exposed Jordan B. Peterson, the Wilks brothers, PragerU, Dave Rubin, Dennis Prager, Tara McCarthy, Milo Yiannopoulos, Betsy Devos, Turning Point USA, Charlie Kirk, Candace Owens, Ben Shapiro, Kanye West, Christina Hoff Sommers, and the Koch brothers as liars.[25] |
| 123 | Chapel Hill shooting. In 2015, Craig Stephen Hicks shot and killed his neighbours in the late afternoon. He later turned himself in to Pittsboro police. He was an atheist and strongly against religion, and his neighbours were Muslim. It may have been a hate crime or the product of a dispute over parking. One of the theories posits that it was a parking dispute made worse by him disagreeing with their religion. |
| 49 | Miranda YardleyCreate draft, a trans woman who supports TERFs and has been banned from Twitter at least once for harassment of trans activists. |
| 47 | The Million Man MovementCreate draft, Youtuber who makes videos debunking right-wing racist propaganda.[26] |
| 55 | Trans Crime UKCreate draft, internet hate site dedicated to portraying trans people (especially trans women) as criminals. Is also notorious for fake news reporting, since many of the supposedly transgender individuals that the website talks about are actually cisgender crossdressers. |
| 62 | Misgendering, a common form of transphobia utilized by wingnuts and TERFS. |
| 49 | Andy LewisCreate draft, also known as User:Lecanardnoir (IP address: 95.147.39.33) on RationalWiki and @lecanardnoir on Twitter. He is a skeptic and creator of his project The Quackometer. He does not believe trans women are women. When called out on this belief by RationalWiki on Twitter, Andy flipped out and attacked the RationalWiki Twitter account, even going so far as to create a RationalWiki account and harass a bunch of RationalWiki users who have never even heard of him on the talk page of Trans-exclusionary radical feminism. Needless to say, the results were not pretty. |
| 103 | Modes of learningCreate draft, the idea that some people are more "visual" of "auditory" etc. learners. I hear that there's no scientific evidence for it. |
| 45 | PeachyoghurtCreate draft, TERF and conspiracy theorist who thinks that doctors should not be trusted and that transsexuality is caused by narcissism, borderline, depression, and autism.[27] Also makes videos that mock transgender women in a similar style as that of minstrel shows.[28] |
| 51 | Magdalen BernsCreate draft, a TERF who frequently misgenders the trans people that she makes videos about. Also thinks that trans women are like blackface actors by just pretending they are "men who get sexual kicks from being treated like women".[29] Believes that passing trans women do not exist.[30] |
| 95 | David Hogg, notable gun control activist. Has received several rape threats and death threats from various gun nuts. |
| 37 | Doug Ford - the head of the Progressive Conservative party of Ontario, Canada and soon-to-be leader of the province. While this site is largely American, why don't we have something aboot him? |
| 61 | Ling AndersonCreate draft, Asian-American transgender Trump-supporting white supremacist. Yes, you read that correctly. |
| 20 | Kyle Kashuv, pro-NRA school shooting survivor. Yes, you read that correctly. |
| 12 | Frantz Fanon, Martinican existentialist psychiatrist and revolutionary theorist, known for his ideas about how colonised people internalise the racism of their oppressors, and how revolutionary violence is the best way of re-establishing dignity and autonomy in colonised people. Influential in anti-colonial studies and via Sayyid Qutb and Ali Shariati on radical Islamism. As well as the question of whether his ideas are batshit crazy or merely a challenge to shallow liberal humanist thought, his work relates to political extremism and a bunch of other relevant topics. |
| 47 | Prostate massage/milking. At times used during prostate exams for legit medical purposes, and also for individual sexual purposes. However, there are proponents who claim that prostate massage or milking can prevent prostate cancer and bring other health benefits. There have also been some statement on medical websites online saying that it could spread prostate cancer if present. This is an issue that I think warrants a RW article on. |
| 7 | John Pilger is an Australian journalist and BAFTA award-winning documentary film maker, but according to Wikipedia, he is a strong critic of American, Australian and British foreign policy, which he considers to be driven by an imperialist agenda: it seems to be bordering on conspiracy territory, but it does not hurt to investigate. |
| 38 | kyroot.comCreate draft also known as 1708 Reasons Christianity is False is a guest post created by atheist Michael Runyan. Each point listed presents a claim for questioning the authenticity of Christianity. In total, they lay out a convincing case that Christianity is untrue based on the premise that a true, factual religion guided by a supernatural god would be precise, flawless, authentic, transcendent, unmatched, unique, prescient, prophetic, revelatory, internally consistent, and scientifically accurate. |
| 17 | Pat McCrory: Former governor of North Carolina, managed to do bad enough to lose to a Democrat in an state won by Trump. Screwed over the LGBT community then violated federal law, along with letting an energy giant off scot-free with a coal ash spill. A draft has been made. |
| 22 | Not sure of a title, maybe House of Commons paedophile hoax, but the panic over every British politician in the 1970s and 80s being a paedophile, which was motivated by one or two genuine cases such as Cyril Smith but rose to cover Edward Heath, Lord McAlpine and many more. It has been largely exposed as the work of fantasists, but provides an excellent example of fake news, conspiracy theories, and how people can believe horrible things without evidence.[210][211] |
| 10 | Red Christmas - an Australian pro-life Christmas horror movie wherein a stranger born from a botched abortion returns to take revenge on his mother[212]. There's apparently a detailed making-of doc Horror Movie: A Low Budget Nightmare. If anybody fancies watching this and writing a bit, that would be a noble deed. |
| 23 | Alfie Evans case - I know too little about medicine to do this but he was a 18 month old British toddler who passed away recently after his life support system was cut off after his doctors realised that he would never recover from his condition and that leaving it on, as well as moving him to Italy as the parents wanted to do would merely exacerbate and prolong his suffering. Before his body was even cold, people around the world were condemning the doctors who did so as murderers and making death treats against them. Notably it has become a media sensation in the US as an emotional argument as to why socialised medicine is evil. |
| 95 | Aceh: An autonomous part of Indonesia under sharia law (for Muslim residents) known for several human rights abuses, such as the public flogging of gays and the "reeducation" of trans inhabitants. |
| 84 | Toynbee tiles are an urban phenomenon where messages of unknown origin are embedded in asphalt. The tiles sometimes exhibit cryptic political statements, and and their origin and history, dating back to the 1980s are somewhat covered on the other wiki. The phenomenon is also associated with shortwave pirate radio. |
| 10 | Andrew Klavan: Surprised that there isn't an article on him. Anyway, best known as the first person to claim that The Dark Knight was 2.5 hour defense of the Bush Administration and other wingnuttery and bullshit. |
| 30 | Jezebel, a feminist blogfest that drew ire from reasonable people and Paul Elam alike for an article in which several contributors nonchalantly described how they abuse their male partners. |
| 21 | Open-air preaching, street preaching, or public preaching is the act of evangelizing a religious faith in public places. It is an ancient method of proselytizing a religious or social message and has been used by many cultures and religious traditions, but today it is usually associated with Evangelical Protestant Christianity. Some notable modern street preachers are Jesse Morell, Jed Smock, Ruben Israel, Dean Saxton and Dominic Mauro. |
| 14 | The Believer is a 2001 American drama film directed by Henry Bean and written by Bean and Mark Jacobson. It stars Ryan Gosling as Daniel Balint, a Jew who becomes a Neo-Nazi. The film is loosely based on the true story of Dan Burros, a member of the American Nazi Party and the New York branch of the United Klans of America. He committed suicide after being revealed as Jewish by a New York Times reporter. While the film has been well praised, especially for Gosling's performance, unfortunately the film has been dangerously misinterpreted by many Neo-Nazi and white supremacist groups as being pro-antisemtic and pro-racist. |
| 20 | Derek Black is the son of Don Black and former white nationalist. In 2016 he disavowed the beliefs held by his father and family and the Stormfront site, according to an article in The Washington Post. Through his years in college, Black came to feel that white nationalism is not supportable |
| 10 | Heterodox Academy, a campaign for more right-wing and libertarian faculty on university campuses, formed in 2015 and gaining popularity after the 2015-16 U of Missouri protests. Supported by Spiked, Paul Singer, Richard Lounsbery Foundation (which has also funded climate skeptics), Cato Institute people, and other usual suspects on the libertarian right. Are they a serious organisation devoted to diversity, or a front to protect rich white men? (Wikipedia) (Their website with annoying transitions) |
| 42 | Hope LyeCreate draft a trans woman who supports TERFs and has been banned from twitter at atleast once for harassment of trans activists. Think a low-budget, British version of Miranda Yardley. |
| 8 | Broadcasting Board of Governors, which supervises the Voice of America (VOA), Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Radio y Television Marti, Radio Free Asia, and the Middle East Broadcast Networks. VOA also runs Polygraph.info, which appears on Google News' Fact Check section. There have been numerous accusations about how independent the news outlets are from the Board of Governors, and be extension the US government. |
| 15 | Asgardia, also known as the Space Kingdom of Asgardia, is a group of people who have joined together to establish a new nation. They have adopted a constitution and they intend to access outer space free of the control of existing nations. They are in the process of electing a 150-member parliament and they plan to seek recognition as a nation-state. Their first satellite, named Asgardia-1, was launched into space on 12 November 2017. Currently just a single paragraph in the Micronation article. |
| 29 | BabaMailCreate draft (http://www.ba-bamail.com): A general interest website full of clickbait. Mostly decent content, except their Health section seems to promote questionable material and woo at times. |
| 49 | Telltale AtheistCreate draft is an atheist youtuber. His content is primarily aimed against cults, most specifically the Jehovah's Witnesses, of which he is a shunned ex-member, and he often reacts to and comments on their propaganda. He has stated he would like his channel to be "pro-science" as well as "anti-cult." |
| 47 | Michael CaputoCreate draft Christian apologist who runs the hilariously named website http://atheismexposed.tripod.com/index.htm and attempts to "debunk" atheism and "prove" Christianity. He wrote several books which involve copy and pasting a list of Christian figures which unsurprisingly have no ratings. |
| 31 | Kidnapped for Christhere, a movie that is somehow worse than Jesus Camp, it involves kids getting kidnapped from their homes and put into a Jamaican "reeducation" school. Activities there include: punishing people for things they can't biologically control (i.e. panic attacks), beating them senseless with a wooden paddle for little to no reason, restricting any and all communication between kids and their parents, etc. |
| 49 | Morocco. A major player in regional politics and economics, has been attempted and deleted thrice. It's also committed genocide against the Sahrawi ethnic group. |
| 28 | Self-hating Jew or self-loathing Jew is a pejorative term used for a Jewish person who is alleged to hold antisemitic views. Bobby Fischer is an example of this. |
| 6 | Michael Parenti - American journalist and political scientist who wrote To Kill a Nation: The Attack on Yugoslavia which supposedly pushes genocide denial. |
| 15 | Laura Huhtasaari. Think Marine Le Pen, but with more overt racism and sex appeal. Currently in charge of the True Finns party, the xenophobic party of Finland, but is getting international attention due to, well, racism in Scandinavia seems to be something alt-righters are obsessed with. Also, a Creationist. |
| 46 | FelicifiaCreate draft; Imagine LessWrong, shrink it to about 1% of its size, and focus it exclusively on utilitarianism. Last posts were in April, and not much activity went on in total, as members predictably decided doing other things was more "utility-maximising" than maintaining the forum. Even so, it still provides crankery galore, with its self-professed utilitarians reaching some interesting conclusions. I.e. donating to human-focused charities is less efficient than to animal ones because humans living better and longer will make more animals suffer and so cancel out all the gains. However, both are inefficient right now, and true path is to accelerate neuroscience giving people (and animals) "entirely euphoric lives", which must be possible because "euphoric" surgery is possible now. Another is belief in a "welfare state for animals" that'll eliminate suffering in the wild by, amongst other things, wiping out the predators and protecting insects (high return on investment for doing so.) Also contains many links to webshites with similar ideas like this detailed plan for "overcoming our natural species conservation bias" and wiping out all predators. |
| 43 | AltHealthWORKSCreate draft (link), the title says it all really. Articles pushing against vaccines, GMOs and other alt-med topics |
| 41 | Roger Waters, the former frontman of Pink Floyd has in recent years gained controversy for his anti-Israel rhetoric both on stage and off. |
| 10 | David Suzuki, the ever-renowned Canadian environmentalist. Given his fame, some scrutiny (not necessarily condemnation) is warranted. |
| 100 | Collagen, the protein which is key for our skin make-up. Beauty industry had long capitalised on it with creams, injections, etc. Recently, drinks and other such supplements appeared, as reported here and here, even though collagen obviously doesn't survive going through the digestion system. More dubious links[216][217][218][219][220] Skeptical: Arthritis Research UK[221] |
| 21 | Juicero, the $400 juice machine that received tons of funding before anyone realised it only worked with sachets you could squeeze by hand anyway. This a clear example of irrationality by itself, but to add extra juice to the story, its CEO is a raw water fan as well. |
| 73 | Cough medicine and claims that it does not work.[222][223] There seems to be an idea promoted by various alternative healthcare practitioners and critics of conventional medicine/drug companies/etc that cough syrup is completely ineffective, thus indicating that all modern medicine is a con.[224] Criticisms of OTC cough medicine are not always unjustified: a Cochrane review found a lack of evidence of efficacy in treating accute coughs due to the poor quality of existing studies[225], the NHS in the UK recommends drinking honey and lemon instead[226], and unless you have a serious underlying disease like TB, coughs tend to be self-limiting. However, cough drops and codeine might be beneficial[227], cough medicines can also help you sleep[228], and cough medicines can help with coughs from non-viral causes. |
| 45 | Balloon releases, in particular their impact on the environment/wildlife. They are commonly done to celebrate or to commemorate something. Detractors claim that balloon releases result in the deaths of wildlife, whereas the balloon industry claims otherwise. A very hot button issue. |
References
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| 40 | Lawrence WilsonCreate draft (website drlwilson.com). Promotes "nutritional balancing" and believes the world is run by "Rogues", extraterrestrial beings who manipulate society with a nice bit of jonanism |
| 13 | Camp of the Saints - a 1973 book by French "author" Jean Raspail that is a popular reference point for alt-right in regards to the refugee crisis and such. Given that a pdf of it is available online, it's best to do a chapter-by-chapter breakdown to show what people like Steve Bannon and his fans actually praise when they refer to it. Chapter One already describes people on migrant ships as "ant columns" and "microbes in a culture", and bemoans that "scorn of a people of other races, the knowledge that one's own is best" was quashed by "the monstrous cancer implanted in the Western conscience." There's also praise for South Africa at the time as "white nation with eighty percent blacks, not a black nation with twenty percent whites" and what not. |
| 14 | What the Health, a documentary available on Netflix that pushes a vegan diet. |
| 23 | Muscular Christianity was a philosophical movement that originated in England in the mid-19th century, characterised by a belief in patriotic duty, manliness, the moral and physical beauty of athleticism, teamwork, discipline, self-sacrifice, and "the expulsion of all that is effeminate, un-English and excessively intellectual". This movement spread to other countries in the 19th century. Today this movement is well entrenched with athletes, most notably Tim Tebow, Manny Pacquiao, Josh Hamilton, and George Wilson. |
| 31 | The Billy Graham rule or Pence rule is a practice among male Protestant Christians, in which they avoid spending time alone with women to whom they are not married. It is named after Billy Graham, the most notable proponent of the practice. It is adopted as a display of integrity, a means of avoiding sexual temptation, and to avoid any appearance of doing something considered morally objectionable, but has been criticized as being sexist. |
| 13 | Supersessionism, also called replacement theology or fulfillment theology, is a theological view on the current status of the church in relation to the Jewish people and Judaism. It holds that the Christian Church has succeeded the Israelites as the definitive people of God and that the New Covenant has replaced or superseded the Mosaic covenant. This doctrine has been said to justify anti-Semitism within fundamentalist Christian and Islamic circles. |
| 50 | Robert LindsayCreate draft (webshite), ex Communist Party USA founder of liberal race realism and the altleft, has a IQ of 147 and is friends with Jared Taylor; Chris Langnan and Gilead Atzmon once commented on his blog |
| 36 | Guns, Germs, and Steel is a book by Jared Diamond that tries to explain why Eurasian and North African civilizations were historically dominant.While generally well received critics argue against many of the details as well as the lack of accounting for human action |
| 28 | War Room. From the people who brought you Fireproof, comes another terrible film that follows the same basic plot as Fireproof only with black people instead of white people! |
| 51 | A Twitter account called AntifemcomicsCreate draft[229] used to post strawmen comics. Comics can still be seen from the hashtag. |
| 15 | Lee Camp is a Progressive comedian and writer who hosts Redacted Tonight with Lee Camp on the RT network, He has promoted conspiracy theories, such as the debunked claim that Seth Rich's murder was connected to the Democratic National Committee leaks (here), That all information reported by the MSM on Syria is "fake news" (here), and that GMO's cause cancer (here). |
| 25 | Scared Straight! is a 1978 documentary directed by Arnold Shapiro. The subject of the documentary is a group of juvenile delinquents and their three-hour session with actual convicts. It had several follow ups including Beyond Scared Straight on A&E, which Shapiro served as an executive producer. This article should explain why this type of juvenile rehabilitation program and other similar programs are outdated and ineffective in deterring criminal activity. These types of programs can also be harmful and increase delinquency relative to no intervention at all with the same youths. |
| 56 | Megalodon, the most overhyped predator in history. A lot of information about this giant shark is put out all over the internet, and a lot of it is terrible. This article could debunk a lot of the crap people say about megalodon, as well as give some basic info about it. Given how it's such a popular thing to talk about, how have we not gotten an article about megalodon yet? Sandbox page here, open for editing. |
| 10 | The Portable Atheist compiled by Christopher Hitchens. It contains a huge selection of atheist writings from middle age philosophers such as Thomas Hobbes to enlightenment philosophers like David Hume to 19th century philosophers like Karl Marx to Modern philosophers such as Bertrand Russell to present day new atheists such as Sam Harris. |
| 14 | The Good Book: A Humanist Bible written by noted atheist academic A C Grayling. It's a book written in the style of the Bible but instead of having religious texts and quotes, it has secular ones instead. It's suppose to show that inspiration, morals and a general guide to life can be secular and areligous. |
| 42 | Braving RuinCreate draft. Previously known as Edgy Sphinx before he got exposed for being an alt-righter just pretending to be moderate so he could dog whistle and introduce alt-rightism to centrists, Braving Ruin has such gems on his channel as De-Platforming = Death youtube, "Centrists" are liars (which is a totally not extremist thing to say) (YT again) and a video about (((Google))) (his anti-Semitic Triple parentheses, not mine) (more YT). He currently almost has 10,000 subscribers and over 150,000 views as well as over 4,500 twitter followers. |
| 68 | The Olympics and the World Cup. Beneath the manufactured, feel-good veneer of athletic prowess, international unity and wholesome fun lies a dark reality, which host cities, thankfully, are starting to grow more privy to. Both of these events invariably result in tremendous financial net losses for host cities, both require the construction of venues which, more often than not, are never thereafter used again and which, more often than not, are constructed by migrant laborers subject to borderline slave-like conditions, and both, finally, are essentially money-grubbing opportunities for their disgustingly corrupt organizing bodies. Plus, they're basically dick-measuring contests for countries, aren't they? Are games in which people run around in a circle as fast as they can or kick a leather sphere around really worth looking past all this? |
| 116 | Standing desks, or Dangers of sitting depending on the planned scope of the article. Standing desks are being heavily promoted right now as a cure for the serious and crippling health problems caused by our lifestyles of sitting in the car, sitting in front of the computer for eight hours, sitting in the car again, then sitting in front of Netflix for five hours. The studies that have been done have links to standing desk manufacturers that were not disclosed in the papers, and do not show as much positive effect on these problems as claimed. Independent studies show that standing desks do increase physical activity but have no real effect on cardiovascular health; there is emerging evidence that (as anyone who's ever worked retail will tell you) standing on the job is even more damaging to the body; and the frequent canard that hours spent sitting undo the benefits of exercise is not based on any evidence whatsoever. There is even a danger that the standing-health link will be used by ruthless airlines to make flying even worse. Related to the Alexander Technique, the more zealous promoters of which have been known to claim that the chair is the most harmful invention of mankind. (Most Alexander technique teachers are quite happy to use chairs so long as you sit up straight, though.) |
| 6 | Trae Crowder is an American comedian and co-author of The Liberal Redneck Manifesto: Draggin' Dixie Outta the Dark. Crowder attributed his liberal political views to the "abject poverty" of his family during his childhood in rural middle Tennessee. His trademark comedic monologues have garnered both controversy and cumulative views now in the millions on YouTube. |
| 73 | BearingCreate draft. Australian Youtuber, antifeminist, skeptic and general bigot and wingnut. His videos are mainly just roasts of feminists, fat people, transgender and gender queer people. He also targets tiny YouTube channels, and hides behind a cartoon avatar of the bear from Total Drama. In 2017 he made a video where he explained why he was going to vote no to making same sex marriage legal in Australia. He has over 460,000 Youtube subscribers, almost 300 vidoes and over 63,000,000 views. Listed on our religion webshites page. Is extensively and scathingly described on Encyclopedia Dramatica, and is also covered on Everipedia. |
| 61 | UndoomedCreate draft. Youtube skeptic and atheist. Does a lot of anti-feminist vidoes but has also recently done vidoes against BLM aswell. His main gimmik is that his avatar is slenderman and he has a pretty cool voice. over 310,000 subscribers, over 32,000,000 views and 163 videos. |
| 87 | World of Warcraft. The MMO video game for excellence, that has been around for 13 years (and counting) having millions of subscribers. Given its popularity, that it's precisely a video game, its genre (fantasy) and what it entails (Dungeons & Dragons-lifted off stuff as elves, orcs, etc, paganism, magic, demons, dragons, undead, etc.), those reports of people who got addicted to it often to negligent extremes, and sucking more than a black hole, I'm more than sure it will have been the target of Fundies and the like (not to mention sensationalist/dishonest reporters). There have also been a few times when the game got social flak, for things like disbanding a guild for stating they welcomed gay people, and forcing a player-character named "TwoGenders" to change its name. Plus, there was the Corrupted Blood incident. |
| 46 | Rwanda, an East African country with progressive (given its area) laws on homosexuality. |
| 48 | Semen retention: A form of alternative therapy based around the theory that men who do not ejaculate semen gain superpowers from retaining more masculine essence, such as increased physical strength and various psychic powers. (Think Fortunato from the Wild Cards books.) Derived from an extremely liberal reading of Tantra, and currently promoted by great thinkers such as Mike Cernovich, the Proud Boys (a bunch of wankers who claim to be "no wank") and various bodybuilding and alt-med cranks. While it's partially covered by Masturbation and NoFap, the former is based on crank theories about negative results from masturbating, not the insane claimed benefits of not masturbating, and NoFap is a specific subculture within this larger movement. I think we need a general and, uh, as tasteful as possible overview about this sticky subject. |
| 60 | Plant-based enzymesCreate draft: Various businesses and "medical professionals" (who lead said businesses) say that "plant-based enzymes" are apparently not denatured within gastric acid in order to sell them as food supplements. Examples: [248][249] |
| 50 | Tuttle TwinsCreate draft: A children's book series featuring a little boy and girl spouting libertarian talking points. Apparently they're taking the fundie approach and trying to get em' while they're young. |
| 59 | Kaiser Wilhelm II - Ruler of Germany during World War One and coiner of the term "Yellow Peril". While the Entente powers were far from innocent either, he did certainly help escalate tensions with other nations with the naval arms race and ending Otto von Bismarck's policy of not pissing off Russia. After losing the war, rather than blaming himself, blamed the Jews and argued they should all be gassed. I wonder how that turned out? |
| 67 | Spoon theory, the mental health taxation thing. Even Wikipedia's article on the subject lacks any mention of evidence for or against the theory. A skeptical treatment is sorely needed somewhere. |
| 14 | Greg Palast A far-left Journalist "forensic economist and activist chalk full of incredible sounding stories supported by laughably bad evidence. His work is defined by [[250] stupidity] and defamation of those who disagree with him. An example Palast constantly engages in name dropping and sexist commentary. |
| 20 | Daryl Gates was the Chief of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) from 1978 to 1992. He was highly controversial due to his hardline, aggressive, paramilitary approach to law enforcement. He also earned notoriety for his controversial rhetoric on many occasions. Some of the most notable examples of this were: that infrequent or casual drug users "ought to be taken out and shot" because "we're in a war" and even casual drug use is considered "treason" and his dismissive response to concerns about excessive force by police employing "chokeholds." In 1982, Gates attributed several deaths of people held in chokeholds to the theory that "blacks might be more likely to die from chokeholds because their arteries do not open as fast as they do in 'normal people.'" |
| -28 | Emer PrevostCreate draft, apparently an awful MRA who died recently. Reader request. There's an ED article which may be mineable for actual sources. |
| 30 | The online Hapa community (or another title along these lines). There exists a moderately sizable, moderately vocal online community of half-white, half-Asian men pissed about the ubiquitousness of interracial couples composed of white men and Asian women, and who claim that having been born from such pairings themselves has bestowed them with mental illnesses, an inability to attract women, and hopeless futures among other things (they often cite Elliot Rodger as one of their numbers). r/Hapas is easily the community's principal watering hole; Model Minority is another. While the fetishization of Asian women is certainly a legitimate issue, this community often approaches the level of whininess, narcissism and misogyny characteristic of MRAs, MGTOWs, and Incels. |
| 39 | FisherofMenCreate draft, one of the oldest members of Youtube's Conspiracy community (And probably one of the craziest). Notable mostly because he was arrested in 2016 for threatening to attack what he believes are enemies to Christianity/America if some vague crisis happens (read: Gays/Non-Christians). While some of the more pleasant cranks like WhiteRabbit just simply hopes he gets better from his "Illness", FisherofMen has recently been released and is now framing himself as one of the first "Christian Martyrs" of the New World Order, despite his trial and sentencing being publicized. |
| 25 | Trumpwave is a subgenre of vaporwave and synthwave that focuses on Donald Trump. Vice writes that Trumpwave exploits vaporwave's ambivalence towards the corporate culture it engages with, allowing it to recast Trump as "the modern-day inheritor of the mythologized 80s, a decade that is taken to stand for racial purity and unleashed capitalism". |
| 82 | McDonald's coffee lawsuit is an infamous lawsuit usually brought up to show how obsessed Americans are with suing people. However the lawsuit is far more reasonable with the plaintiff suffering third degree burns, originally suing only for medical expenses and the coffee itself being so hot it was considered unfit for consumption which was an issue that McDonalds knew for years. |
| 12 | McMansion is a pejorative term for a large "mass-produced" dwelling, constructed with low-quality materials and craftsmanship, using a mishmash of architectural symbols to invoke connotations of wealth or taste, executed via poorly thought-out exterior and interior design. Note: A previous attempt was deleted in 2012. |
| 49 | Brett KeaneCreate draft, who apparently was the original YouTube atheist, being the inspiration for all others like TheAmazingAtheist et al., although he has since alternated between christianity and atheism, mainly because of plagiarism and vote boting his videos, as well as being an e-begger. Today has a very small audience. His wife divorced him due to domestic violence. |
| 127 | Cult of SaturnCreate draft, an ambiguous, but obviously evil (and nonexisting) cult that Conspiracy Theorists like to invoke when their Apophenia isn't working enough for the usual, boring Illuminati symbols to be shoehorned. Simple things like cubes and rings are proof of some grand Conspiracy. It is a common scapegoat for Christian End Times, and Illuminati Predictions and Conspiracies. A couple of examples |
| 53 | Straight pride is a slogan that arose in the late 1980s and early 1990s and has been used primarily by social conservative groups as a political stance and strategy. The term is described as a response to gay pride adopted by various LGBT groups in the early 1970s or to the accommodations provided to gay pride initiatives. Straight pride backlash incidents have generated controversy and media attention. School policies and court decisions regarding freedom of expression have drawn particular attention, spotlighting individuals protesting school expressions against harassment of LGBT adolescents. |
| 12 | William Walker, 19th century American mercenary who in 1856 was hired to fight in the Nicaraguan civil war and decided to seize power for himself in the hopes of creating a pro-slavery, Amerocentric regime in Central America. |
| 80 | Thuggees Worshippers of the goddess Kali who according to colonial British sources believed themselves to have been created from her sweat, they were known to strangle travelers; Guinness Book of Records estimates they killed two million people and Political scientist David C. Rapoport says theya re the most destructive terrorist group in history. Mentioned as an example of nutpicking. |
| 23 | broken window policing Another police practice that became popular in the 1990s that focuses on the idea that a area that seems more crime ridden will encourage crime. This practice was used to encourage stop and frisk procedures and was focused on minority populations. |
| 113 | Doctor Who Arguably the most popular science fiction program in the world. Numerous scientists have commented on the possibility of the various technologies addressed, though seemingly not hard science advocate Richard Dawkins, despite being married to actress Lalla Ward who played Time Lady Romana. [251] It would be worth including a discussion of the actual educational merits of the show which began as a BBC children's program, and whether or not it promotes harmful science woo doing harm to the young as the Chinese government alleges all time travel fiction does. [techland.time.com/2011/04/13/china-decides-to-ban-time-travel/] There are bound to be homophobes complaining about the latest companion being gay. [252] As of 2018, Doctor Who is now a woman.[1] |
| 57 | Foreign Workers in Asia and the Middle EastCreate draft. To support their families, people of low socioeconomic status from developing countries such as Indonesia and the Philippines often travel to perform unskilled labor in capacities such as domestic service and construction work in nouveau-riche countries such as Saudi Arabia, Dubai and Singapore, wherein they are often subject to borderline slave-like conditions, including rape, domestic abuse and non-payment of wages, against which they have no means of legal recourse. |
| 25 | Male gaze red linked on sexual objectification, the name is used frequently in feminist analysis in the arts and humanities, though it is used somewhat less in psychology or sociology. The article should also include the lesbian, gay, hetero sexual female and trans equivalents of the visual cues of objectification. On one hand the my face is up here T shirt makes a valid point, but on the other hand telling someone their glance hurts you or that their gaze makes the stars collapse outside the village menstrual hut can make them feel like Scott Summers; perhaps a see also for the evil eye. What constitutes an inappropriate amount of gawking can be difficult to quantify and varies by individual and culture but is a major and nebulous societal issue, while wearable tech that can record video complicates the issue. |
| 20 | The Doctors, the CBS show that focuses on medical/health issues. Given its popular status, I think RationalWiki editors should have a look at it. |
| 44 | Perhaps an article on science advisers for fictional worksCreate draft in TV and film [256],Dr. John Underkoffler was one of the first for Steven Spielberg's Minority Report. Also ties into the authors of the science of superheroes books, Michio Kaku Science of the Impossible is another good source. |
| 26 | Inception the 2010 film about experiencing and interfacing with other peoples dreams through technology, compliments the article request for the equally fantastical Interstellar. This Forbes article mentions a team in Japan and can reconstruct simple black-and-white images the subject is viewing by analyzing the blood flow in the brain’s visual cortex. According to Dr. Jack Gallant "“I think it’s legitimate for some people to have some concerns about brain-reading technology being used for bad things, but nobody has to be worried about one of those bad things being writing stuff to the brain.” [257] |
| 46 | Hentai is popular with Gamergaters and MRA's but there's little scientific analysis of it in Japan, or western academia. |
| 66 | RecaptioningCreate draft or a less generic name - specifically, the alt-right practice of "redpilling" cartoons by other artists with white nationalist captions. Examples include Ben Garrison (whose opinions are half way there) and Sarah Andersen (whose opinions aren't). |
| 12 | Aestheticization of violence, considering how many GamerGate articles with references mentioning sexism, elaborating more on violence in fiction in general seems appropriate and on mission and this topic would cover more mediums than just video games, stretching back well into antiquity. There's a number of fairly reputable news sources commenting on this [258] and [259], as well as some claims by the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry whom appear to be academic and don't seem to be religiously founded like the Parents Television Council. It would be nice to establish if there's a scientific consensus on this. |
| 40 | Dean Saxton aka Brother DeanCreate draft is a University of Arizona student who gained some media attention in 2013 for his protests on campus with Westboro-styled signs declaring that women who wear "short shorts" deserve to be raped, that "sorority girls" are whores, predictable homophobic slogans, and other bizarreness. While there is mention of him on the Brother Jed article, I think he should have his own article. |
| 51 | Gary FranchiCreate draft a.k.a Next News NetworkCreate draft is being put on notice for the following: 9/11 trutherism, doomsday soothsayer, clickbait headlines with questionable validity, and also spreading fake news at a rate. In a nutshell, he makes Alex Jones of all people look sane. |
| 13 | Original position; the question of what society people would choose if they didn't know where in said society they'd start off in. Not a particularly extensive topic, but useful for understanding some of the nuttier "utopias"; e.g., people advocating for eugenics and so forth never consider the possibility they wouldn't be the ones on top. |
| 17 | Belle Gibson is a young Australian woman who fooled large sections of the media and huge numbers of people that she had miraculously recovered from several episodes of terminal cancer, strokes and major heart surgery (her scars had miraculously disappeared too) through nothing more than following a healthy diet and using alternative medicine. She became a star of the celebrity circuit, and sales of her Apple app (which was featured by Apple in promotional material for their Apple Watch) and book The Whole Pantry made her rich, but she unfortunately neglected to make the promised charitable donations and instead splashed out on a high-flying lifestyle. In 2015 the begrudgers won out and she finally admitted her entire story was fabricated. Interestingly, she claims that delusionality was the reason for her false claims, and was later discovered selling more scam health advice under a pseudonym.[260] |
| 7 | Ami Horowitz, who recently came into the spotlight for being cited in Donald Trump's "Sweden Incident" debacle. As of yet, Horowitz's claims have been debunked by numerous sources, including Swedish authorities. |
| 24 | Questions White Men have for SPOOKs, a notorious Gish Gallop by the "Rationals" done as a "style parody" of two sketches by Buzzfeed. I'm shocked how this hasn't gotten a side-by-side rebuttal here yet, given its content being a bunch of strawman representations of intersectional feminism and anti-racism. |
| 42 | Heart of Darkness is a novella written in 1899 by Polish-British novelist Joseph Conrad, about a voyage up the Congo River into the Congo Free State, in the heart of Africa. Central to Conrad's work is the idea that there is little difference between so-called civilised people and those described as savages; Heart of Darkness raises questions about imperialism and racism. |
| 38 | TL;DR/Teal Deer, yet another of the Rationals, who somehow manages to be even dumber, more smug, and more grating to listen to than his peers. Also known for being unable to let any criticism of himself slide (often completely missing/proving his critic's point in the process), confusing pedantry for intelligence, failing at pedantry, and for being unable to admit when he's wrong, even when his own audience points it out (see when he accused Anita Sarkeesian of making up the term neoliberal), alongside the usual angry right-wing YouTuber faults. (Currently a mention under Webshites.) Also the title of his channel make no fraggling sense since it stands for "Too Long; Didn't Read", and people don't read videos. |
| 27 | Marching to Zion (2015) is an American "documentary" directed by Paul Wittenberger, written by Steven Anderson of Faithful Word Baptist Church, and staring Anderson, as well as Texe Marrs. This "documentary" states that it's about tracing the "history" of the Jewish people from the destruction of the temple in 70 AD to the modern-day nation of Israel, however, it is actually a typical anti-semitic propaganda piece that's filled with heavy bias, strawman, and blatant misconceptions that are utilized throughout the film to undermine the Jewish faith by promoting a replacement theology that claims that Christians are the real Jews. In fact Anderson came under fire by the Jewish community when it was discovered that he lied to the rabbis who were interviewed by telling them the interviews were for a neutral PBS documentary on Jewish history. |
| 21 | Hard right folks on the internet keep bringing up Mark Levin's "Liberty Amendments". Basically proposed amendments to the Constitution to strictly enforce Tea Party dogma. Perhaps a point-by-point deconstruction is in order? |
| 20 | Currency Manipulation - Tends to come up in anti-China rants. Not sure if it's a Wingnut conspiracy theory, or something real. |
| 48 | Roger JimenezCreate draft is an independent Baptist pastor at Verity Baptist Church in Sacramento, California. A recording of a sermon, given by Pastor Jimenez, was posted to YouTube on June 13, 2016, the day after the Pulse Orlando Shooting (2016) which brought much criticism. In the video, Pastor Jimenez preached to his congregation that they should not be grieving for the victims of the shooting, and compared them to pedophiles. He is also a cohort of Steven Anderson, which should come to no surprise. |
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| 20 | Cassie Jaye - a feminist filmmaker who directed the documentary film The Red Pill that details her journey (and eventual descent) into the men's rights movement. |
| 56 | Killer bee/Africanized bee, hyped for many years as a grave threat to American civilisation, but what is the scientific reality? We have a lot of bee and honey articles but not this. Maybe we could build some kind of a wall? |
| 73 | Terraforming (literally, "Earth-shaping") of a planet, moon, or other body is the hypothetical process of deliberately modifying its atmosphere, temperature, surface topography or ecology to be similar to the environment of Earth to make it habitable by Earth-like. Prospective planets include Mars and Venus. We can also do an article regarding the philosophical concerns within biology and ecology as to whether terraforming other worlds is an ethical endeavor. |
| 54 | Liberland, a particularly silly and amusing micronation scam. Currently a redirect to Micronation, but there's material here for a proper article. Founder is of course a serial scammer, with several other serial scammers participating. |
| 7 | Sojourners, American magazine with conservative bent |
| 21 | John F. MacArthur, known for his best-selling bible commentary, but after looking at his Wikipedia page (John F. MacArthur) he seems a crazy of a high degree, on the fringe of mainstream Protestantism, and to have been involved in several controversies - all of which is rather worrying considering the influence he has on how the Bible is interpreted. |
| 41 | Saqqara Bird, a wooden artifact recovered from Egypt and carved in the image of, as one might expect by the name, a bird. With a wingspan of little more than half a foot, it is a fairly small construct, but this hasn't stopped people from claiming that it must have been a model for actual flying devices invented by the ancient Egyptians, which "mysteriously" left absolutely no evidence of their existence outside of this artifact. Most of this stems from its tail being vertical instead horizontal, the fact that birds are aerodynamic, as well as the works by such sorts as Martin Gregoria who built an upscaled version where the startling discovery was made that the thing was far too heavy and unstable to even glide. As one might expect, this of course hasn't stopped others from claiming they've made their own models work. |
| 27 | Military Association of Atheists & Freethinkers (MAAF) is a community for atheists, humanists, and freethinkers in the military, both within the United States and from around the world. The MAAF can assist U.S. military members to respond to illegal and insensitive religious proselytizing on military bases. It is an independent 501(c)(3) organization building community for humanists and other nontheists in the military. The MAAF supports constitutional separation of church and state and First Amendment rights for all service members. It also educates and trains both the military and civilian community about atheism and humanism in the military. Flagship programs for MAAF are its local Network, with over 70 worldwide points of contact, lay leaders, and local groups from Kyrgyzstan to Japan and throughout the US and its Chaplain Outreach program to educate 5000 military chaplains on how to support atheists and humanists in the military. Supporting those major programs are care package delivery, lay leader and chaplain endorsement, and a robust advocacy program to identify and resolve issues to make the military a safe place for nontheists. (Well, as safe as an organization whose purpose is to fight wars can be, at least.) |
| 16 | God on Trial is a 2008 BBC/WGBH Boston television play written by Frank Cottrell Boyce. The play takes place in Auschwitz during World War II. The Jewish prisoners put God on trial in absentia for abandoning the Jewish people. The question is if God has broken his covenant with the Jewish people by allowing the Nazis to commit genocide. |
| 13 | The Agora, formerly Agora, Inc, is the parent company of many, MANY crank publishers and "news" sites, including Natural News and the below-mentioned MoneyWeek. This body of the crank hydra is infamous for its spam emails offering a "free"* book by some Austrian School nutjob. |
| 12 | MoneyWeek (who also runs Capital & Conflict) is a magazine whose website makes wild claims about wealth confiscation before telling you to buy a "report" or sign up for some newsletter. For example, that weird ad at their homepage (http://moneyweek.com) |
| 49 | ThePhoraCreate draft, another major hate site. Basically Stormfront with slightly less overt racism. |
| 16 | Paul McHugh, anti-transgender and anti-gay[269] formerly distinguished psychiatrist, widely criticised by those who've read more recent research.[270] He also defended the Catholic Church (of which he's a member) over paedophile priest allegations, blaming it all on the church for being insufficiently anti-gay. |
| 17 | Peace and Freedom Party, California-centred leftist minor party with an impressive range of celebrity Presidential/VP candidates including Roseanne Barr, Cindy Sheehan, Eldridge Cleaver, and Benjamin Spock. Standing again in 2016. |
| 72 | Conspiracy theories about higher educationCreate draft (or something of that nature), because the eebill essjaydubyaz are turning campuses into places where you are encouraged not to treat others like crap SAFE SPACEZ with warning people about sensitive topics TRIGGAH WEGHNINGZ!!1! These are chock full of something familiar... |
| 14 | Rocky IV is a 1985 American sports film written, directed by, and starring Sylvester Stallone. Because the film came out during the height of the Cold War era, it is basically pro-American nationalism with Rocky Balboa as the symbol of both the American Dream and American idealism taking on the six foot tall goliath, Ivan Drago, who is the physical embodiment of the Soviet Union. |
| 42 | Hoodia gordonii, the plant marketed as Hoodia as an appetite suppressant, even though it totally isn't one. A favourite of herbal and diet scammers. |
| 66 | Women's studies or Gender studies programs in the Humanities departments of universities. Are they statistically-rigorous investigations of the relationship between gender and society, or a liberal plot to make you hate men? |
| 56 | The Forbidden KnowledgeCreate draft, at theforbiddenknowledge.com. Magnetic crank website with a significant amount of views, combination of Antimasonry, Freeman on the Land, NWO nightmare, and a great example of Haig's law in action. |
| 75 | Development dictatorshipCreate draft the curious idea on the right that developing countries have to go through a phase of basically being Singapore, South Korea until the 1980s, Taiwan until the 1980s or China today if they ever want to get out of poverty. Similar and related to the "if only the Chinese were running things" complaint of Western very serious people |
| 18 | Correct the Record, a PAC founded by Media Matters creator David Brock to "defend Hillary Clinton from baseless attacks," and one of the latest boogeymen for angry pro-Trump Redditors. |
| 53 | Activia is a mostly irrelevant yoghurt brand these days, but it caused quite a shitstorm a few years ago when the people discovered that the supposed active ingredient, "Bifidus regularis", turned out to be regular old gut bacteria. Classic example of food woo and deepity in action. |
| 36 | Chestahedron, a geometric shape invented by a student of Rudolf Steiner that is claimed to have some mystical connection to the heart. |
| 32 | A more global, wider-ranging article on immigration: there is Myths and facts about immigration to the United States, Britain is full and illegal immigrant as well as coverage of Islam in the West, nationalism, and more, but nothing about legal migration in general. Anti-immigrant sentiment is related to racism, but not the same, as it references cultural factors (religion, etc) and worries about overcrowding and economics. Immigration is now a major political issue in much of Europe: cover anti-immigrant parties and agitators. Also, myths advanced by the far-right about immigrants all being criminals, stealing jobs, being lazy, acting as a secret invasion force/being terrorists, etc (which are covered in the US article but not globally). Plus, how worries about immigrants often don't reflect actual levels of immigrants, or the racial/ethnic/religious identity of most immigrants. There may be scope for merging or writing more of an overview. |
| 17 | We need to investigate the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, a target of conspiracy theories that allege that the act allows the US government to confiscate savings in the same way as Cyprus did in 2013 (although it I did not get to design new banknotes for them since they did not leave the euro in the end). Examples include govtslaves.info, which itself needs an article, and Zero Hedge. |
| 12 | Jay Severin was a radio show host who openly claimed that all Muslims should be killed. |
| 80 | Bruce Lee, was a Hong Kong American actor, martial artist, philosopher, filmmaker, and founder of the martial art Jeet Kune Do. He is widely considered by commentators, critics, media, and other martial artists to be one of the most influential martial artists of all time, and a pop culture icon of the 20th century. He is often credited with helping to change the way Asians were presented in American films. His eclectic philosophy often mirrored his fighting beliefs, though he was quick to claim that his martial arts were solely a metaphor for such teachings. |
| 52 | Apricot kernel, a "Health food" that causes Cyanide poisoning (see also laetrile). Also basis for a cheap substitute of marzipan |
| 53 | Asses see Demons and Cocks see AngelsCreate draft, or some variation on this entertaining title. Belief held by some Muslims which references scripture alongside donkeys and roosters seeing IR/UV to conclude that their braying/crowing is a result of seeing Demons/Angels. |
| 78 | Vaping - its claimed benefits, conspiracy aspects ("Government trying to kill it because taxes on smoking are higher") and the missionary zeal of some addicts. Currently a redirect to a small section on Tobacco smoking. Draft in progress. |
| 6 | Tawfik Hamid is a self-described ex-Islamic fundamentalist and a campaigner for a more "peaceful Islam". He is also a Muslim Zionist. |
| 41 | Virginity test "medical procedure" which tests to see if a woman has had sexual intercourse. Human Rights Watch has documented incidences where these tests have been used to deny women jobs and marriages. |
| 24 | CrossFit and the controversy and criticism surrounding it. |
| 16 | Washington Legal Foundation, the mortal enemy of the Food and Drug Administration. They oppose all government regulation, but they're particularly gunning for the FDA and are responsible for most of the setbacks in FDA regulation in the past thirty years. They are horrifyingly effective at what they do. Funding is not clear but is probably the Kochs. Their 2015 annual report covers their hard work against regulation in general. |
| 50 | Choice CenterCreate draft Las Vegas, a Landmark-style Large Group Awareness Training that teaches you "leadership" and oh yeah, wants you to fundraise for them too. Suggested by a reader. |
| 41 | clitoris: things I've heard lately (1) the excellent example of bad science where male anatomists totally ignored it for hundreds of years, because patriarchy (2) it's allegedly the only human organ with no evolutionary purpose (cats have clitoris in their vagina btw), or that may be a myth, but creationism[273] (3) lots of myths and tall stories about its nerves or lack of nerves, sensitivity or insensitivity, plus dangers of clitoral piercing. |
| 17 | Eugene Landy was an American psychologist and psychotherapist most notorious for his unconventional 24-hour therapy, as well as for ethical violations concerning his treatment of the Beach Boys co-founder Brian Wilson in the 1980s. |
| 66 | WeAreTheLeftCreate draft (actually "#WeAreTheLeft", but you can't start an article with a #) was an open letter posted on Medium that argued that the left needs to embrace intersectionality and address bigotry in the ranks. A lot of leftists seem to be taking umbrage at it (including many on this very site). |
| 33 | Repatriation, the idea of returning legal immigrants (invariably non-whites) to their "homelands", either "voluntary" or by force. A mainstay of the racist right in Britain since the 1960s, it would be interesting to trace the history of the idea and the practicalities or impracticalities. A contrast could be made with the "Back to Africa" movement or the "right of return" in the Middle East and similar ideas of voluntary return "home". |
| 72 | Onision, a YouTube atheist known for angry rants against those who disagree with his views, and calls himself a feminist, in an attempt to hide and excuse his true misogynistic behavior. |
| 63 | Erin ElizabethCreate draft has gained notoriety on Facebook for promoting food woo, anti vaccine nonsense and other miscellaneous quackery, so a page here is now a must-have. |
| 20 | Howard Stern, the shock jock known for banter about sexuality, bashing and starting feuds with celebrities of all kind, and using big tragic events for his brand of comedy and/or moralizing. |
| 28 | Islamic Jihad is an Islamist group in the Middle East known for collaboration with Hamas in Palestine. |
| 27 | Mujahideen is a term in Islam which means holy warrior, and often used by extremists. |
| 20 | Fitna is a term which generally referred to anything that is a distraction in Islam, but is now mostly used as a snarl word by Muslim fundies to describe women's actions if they aren't dressed "properly" or are even in the public eye. |
| 74 | STEMlordCreate draft is a term used by some people about those too holier than thou about science. |
| 15 | Bill Warner is an anti-Islam speaker known for his YouTube channel "Political Islam". |
| 20 | Asra Nomani is a feminist Muslim who gained controversy over her opinions about Islam. She originlly was known for championing the cause of desegregation in mosques by gender, but later started voicing more controversial statements. One of her biggest points currently (and probably the only one she focuses on) is about the Muslim headscarf. She has even gone so far as to equate it with terror, which led to even others who criticize the headscarf to distance themselves from her views on this (claiming that she has become paranoid on the topic). Other questionable views include her loudly supporting Ben Carson, being one of the most vocal voices against the "Park 51", supporting profiling of Muslims, and claiming that a common Islamic expression is symbolic with extremist ideology. |
| 15 | Ana Kasparian is Cenk Uygur's reporting partner for TheYoungTurks. |
| 25 | Yitzhak Rabin was Israel's beloved Prime Minister who was murdered by some fundamentalist Jew because he intended to make peace. |
| 20 | Mondoweiss has been popping up in WIGO a lot recently - who are they, what do they do and who reliable are they as a source |
| 36 | Perhaps an article on Treason, including the history of the charge, and its abundant presence in Pseudolaw, especially in the United States, where some believe that Treason is anything the government does that they don't like. |
| 33 | Monica Lewinsky. This article would focus on her as a person, her veering between shunning publicity and embracing it since the scandal, and her claims about being the patient zero for cyberbullying. Also would address claims that feminists berated her at the Tiny Noses' urging. |
| 17 | Healy-Rae family or perhaps Danny Healy-Rae, scary Irish political family who hide behind "the veneer of a friendly/simple country yokel" but are a lot worse than one may think. Jackie left Fianna Fáil and made a huge furore about how unprincipled they were (despite only quitting for political reasons), then proceeded to support them anyway. Michael was absent for over two thirds of Dáil debates but claimed expenses on all of them anyway, and decided that excluding the number 13 would 'save the Irish car industry', and is current head of Oireachtas Committee on European Affairs, and worst of all is Danny, who decided that climate change was controlled by 'God alone' and puny humans can do nothing to stop it (This isn't something I implied, HE EXPLICITLY STATED THIS IN DÁIL EIREANN). Worse still, they are currently best mates with Fine Gael (yep) and could be damaging if they get anywhere near the cabinet. And yet the people of Kerry love them. Michael got the most votes out of anyone in the 2016 general election surpassing 20,000 ON A SPLIT STRATEGY (the next guy was Stephen Donnelly in Wicklow, who is JOINT LEADER OF THE SOCIAL DEMOCRATS) and Danny got in on the second count, pushing out a MINISTER and experts said there were enough for 3 Healy-Raes. While they say they will bring it up to "dose smart alecks up in Dublin" they have a very sinister, unstoppable agenda. |
| 72 | "YADA"Create draft is a youtuber and crank. He is also a member of the Hotep Movement. |
| 20 | J. Warner Wallace is an American homicide detective and Christian apologist. He has authored several books, including Cold-Case Christianity and God’s Crime Scene, in which he applies principles of cold case homicide investigation to apologetic concerns such as the existence of God and the reliability of the Gospels. |
| 32 | Klaus Barbie was a Nazi officer (in)famous for his methods of torturing French resistance fighters. Instead of being tried for war crimes, he was hired by the CIA to track down German commies - and possibly to capture Che Guevara. |
| 67 | Good schoolsCreate draft a dog whistle term for white people to explain why they move away from "those people" once they start a family. Ripe for analysis of the (mis)use of the term and if the inherent claim actually holds water |
| 66 | Brexit: The Movie A pro-leave film made by the same guy who made the Great Global Warming Swindle. I don't think I know enough to respond to all of it but I'm pretty sure the bit about fishing is bullshit given that most of the decline in British fishing occurred before the Common Fisheries Policy was introduced thanks to its own overfishing. |
| 30 | Bernard Nathanson - was an abortion provider and pro-choice advocate, now a pro-life nutter. |
| 80 | Awake DatingCreate draft [279] is a dating site created to facilitate romantic connections between conspiracy theorists. |
| 38 | Annie Lacroix-Riz, French literature professor, is an unreconstructed Stalinist, arguing no famine happened in Ukraine on 1933, that an Vatican-Berlin-Warsaw axis worked to fight against Communism in the 1930s and that France has been stabbed in the back by the Synarchie - business and industry bigwigs - on 1940. |
| 47 | Calvary Chapel is an evangelical association of Christian churches, which grew out Chuck Smith's Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa in Southern California in 1965. There are over 1,000 churches in the United States alone and have affiliations with half a dozen colleges campuses. While they try to promote themselves as a friendly organization they have conservative leanings when it comes to Biblical teachings, which tends to piss off most non-Christians and most moderate to liberal Christians |
| 65 | Americans for Common Cents, otherwise known as the penny lobby. They are one of the groups pushing the keep the U.S. penny in circulation, despite the fact it costs more to make a penny than what the coin is actually worth, or the fact that the coin has become essentially obsolete in this day and age. They claim we need to keep it for such reasons as charity drives and the "fact" that millions of Americans want to keep it, and totally not because the group is backed by the industrial company Jarden Zinc Products, which produces the blank zinc disks from which pennies are made. For more info: (https://www.publicintegrity.org/2014/07/02/14959/saving-penny-makes-cents-zinc-backed-front-group) |
| 74 | The Muslim Students' Association is a decently sized religious organization operating on college campuses. While they try to promote themselves as a friendly organization they have ultraconservative leanings on the Quran and support political Islamism, to the point where they don't even allow moderate Muslims to join them on some campuses because they don't consider them real Muslims. Unfortunately it can be difficult to separate the genuine extremeness of the MSA from the more conspiritorial ramblings of Islamophobic crazies who use them as a favorite boogeyman (though this time they're not completely wrong that the MSA likes to use social justice organizations for cover). |
| 60 | John Kennedy Toole satirised neoreactionary politics in A Confederacy of Dunces and religion in The Neon Bible. |
| 83 | GhostPolitics, True Capitalist Radio, or True Conservative Radio, whatever you want to call it: Yet another right-wing kook with a microphone on the internet. Transphobic (refers to his trans callers as "transtesticles"), homophobic ("You're fruitin' up my broadcast! The whole place smells like butt-crack!"), racist ("I'M A MELTING POT OF FRIENDSHIP!! I'M A NICE GUYYY!!!1!"), brony-hatin', sexist ("Your mother is out at Applebees' lookin' for the high hard one from some ethnic minority, huh?"), conspiracy-theorizin' (the usual "Moon Landing in Nevada" tripe, for starters), hyper-capitalist, fat-shamin' ("You're a fat greasy-ass smelly HAAAAAAMBOOOOOOOOOOOOONE!"), Islamophobic (spouts out the usual Eurabia fearmongering and says that Muslim women have to wear "beekeeper suits"), and all-around asshole with a humongous ego ("I'm listened to by TENS OF THOUSANDS of capitalists THROUGHOUT THE WUUURLD!!1!") and attempts to be a Goat ("MAAAAAH MAAAAAH MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH"). Has gained a cult following among trolls due to how easily angered he is. Some of his fans could also use a RWing. Sandbox start page here. |
| 135 | Microcredit is the extension of very small loans (microloans) to impoverished borrowers who typically lack collateral, steady employment and a verifiable credit history. It is designed not only to support entrepreneurship and alleviate poverty, but also in many cases to empower women and uplift entire communities by extension. Critics argue, however, that microcredit has not had a positive impact on gender relationships, does not alleviate poverty, has led many borrowers into a debt trap and constitutes a "privatization of welfare". The first randomized evaluation of microcredit, conducted by Esther Duflo and others, showed mixed results: there was no effect on household expenditure, gender equity, education or health, but the number of new businesses increased by one third compared to a control group. |
| 144 | handwashing and drying: there is a lot of scientifically-illiterate nonsense about this everyday activity that has enormous importance in public health. One issue is antibacterial soap which research shows is pointless in general use[280][281]; there's also a heated debate about how to dry your hands.[282] And, is washing your hands after you go to the bathroom necessary, if washing your privates prior to oral sex isn't?[283] |
| 57 | Lysander Spooner, who was an anarchist, abolitionist, early competitor with the US Post Office and, apparently, pro-pedophile. Supposedly a major influence on Murray Rothbard. |
| 97 | FCKH8 Gay rights group accused of being biphobic, transphobic and misogynistic. |
| 95 | SaveOurSteelCreate draft Basically the uk steel industry is being discussed to be closed down by the Tories after dismantling half the welfare state, leading to the loss of hundreds if not thousands of jobs, pissing of the people with those jobs, and creating a massive controversy. Summary of events, for and against. Really needed |
| 74 | Fetal homicide laws have been passed in numerous US states and countries in order to punish women who have abortion, whether medically or self induced, or have had miscarriages. There have also been attempts to punish "fetal harm" which involves any "injury" done unto the fetus and has punished women for fetal deformities. |
| 62 | The Voltaire Network is a French NGO that supports securalism and studies far right movements; they have been heavily critical of the US's foreign policy, but they have supported Hezbollah. |
| 71 | CounterPunch is a American leftist (socialist) magazine dedicated to muckraking and has been consistently antiwar. They cover environmental and labor issues. They have occasionally endorsed anticapitalist conspiracies and have hosted underhanded anti-semitic articles. |
| 48 | Standpoint theory is a postmodern method for analyzing how authority is rooted in individuals' knowledge. It is decried by the right wing as being used by the left and spooks as a form of thoughtcrime. |
| 58 | Peter James Knight, the perpetrator of the only instance of murder by an anti-abortion activist in Australian history.[285][286] His motivation involved opposition to oath-making and a refusal to pay tax, as well as living off the grid and pursuing his own unique interpretation of Christianity, which appears relevant to recent American fringe wingnuttery. Info about his ideas and actions would be interesting, and the Wikipedia page on him is kind of shit. |
| 71 | The American Conservative definitely deserves an article for being one of the only paleoconservative outlets left in the US.They have also been against the growth of the surveillance state and big business corruption. |
| 60 | Lord of the World I think I found the source of every NWO conspiracy theory. It depicts a totalitarian one world state based around Marxism run by Freemasons lead by the Antichrist who oppress hard working Roman Catholic priests.It was written 1907 and has been praised by both Pope Benedict XVI and Pope Francis. I think we pretty much have to talk about itas conspiracy theories (most likely) based off of it and its believers have taken up a lot of our time Edit: Wording in stuff. Can't think straight right now |
| 46 | Percy Shelley: atheist, socialist, libertine, celebrity, mediocre poet, hero to the left. Must be some jokes in there somewhere. |
| 62 | Salt Lake City, headquarters of Mormonism. Surely someone could provide a useful travel guide? (Utah is quite brief too.) |
| 72 | Lourdes, a popular pilgrimage site associated with miraculous cures. Also the subject of a thoughtful fiction film of the same name directed by Jessica Hausner. |
| 32 | A list of fiction that everyone should read/watch/listen/play |
| 87 | "Personal responsibility", another platitudinous piece of sophistry, extolled with such religious zeal by conservatives and libertarians that it's practically become an incantation (e.g. "freedom", "free market", "small government", "hard work", etc.). |
| 76 | Ex Machina (stylized as ex_machina) is a 2015 British science fiction psychological thriller film written and directed by Alex Garland in his directing debut. We can do an article discussing the themes of artificial intelligence, roboethics, and gender politics. |
| 75 | Jozef Tiso Josef Tiso was in charge Slovakian puppet regime during ww2 from 1939 to 1945. Was tried and executed after the war. |
| 71 | Ioannis Metaxas Fascist ruler of Greece from 1936-1941. Lost to Mussolini in the Greco-Italian War. |
| 77 | The Knights of Columbus is the world's largest Catholic fraternal service organization. Founded by Father Michael J. McGivney in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1882, it was named in honor of the mariner Christopher Columbus. Originally serving as a mutual benefit society to low-income immigrant Catholics, it developed into a fraternal benefit society dedicated to providing charitable services, promoting Catholic education and actively defending Roman Catholicism in various nations. |
| 74 | Communitarianism It's fiscally liberal (social security, universal healthcare) while being socially conservative (ban abortion, traditional values). |
| 70 | Chrismukkah is a pop-culture portmanteau neologism referring to the merging of the holidays of Christianity's Christmas and Judaism's Hanukkah. The term was popularized by the TV drama The O.C., wherein character Seth Cohen creates the holiday to signify his upbringing in an interfaith household with a Jewish father and Protestant mother. |
| 126 | WehraboosCreate draft WTF we don't have an article on this already?! Wehraboos is a slang term for fans of Nazi Germany, especially their military. While not being Nazis themselves (though some are), they are essentially Nazi Apologists, and propagate myths about German military superiority. They range from some guy on Reddit to the History Channel itself. |
| 95 | Interstellar is a 2014 science fiction film directed by Christopher Nolan and starring Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain, and Michael Caine. Caltech theoretical physicist Kip Thorne, whose work inspired the film, was an executive producer and acted as scientific consultant. While the film did well with both critics and moviegoers, the film received mixed reception by members of the scientific community for its scientific accuracy. |
| 120 | Deus Ex, a series of video games rife with real world conspiracy theories. |
| 80 | The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement is an attempt to remove foreign aid and foreign business and academic ties with Israel in order to help create an independent Palestine. They compare themselves to the anti-Apartheid movement and suggest Israel to be similar to Apartheid South Africa. Many opponents have called it a form of hate speech as they believe it to be an antisemitic movement. Even some critics of Israel like Jimmy Carter disagree with the means this movement employs. |
| 71 | Robert Chambers propounded evolutionary ideas in the mid 19th century, most famously in Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation which was hugely popular (Prince Albert read it to Queen Victoria) and controversial, with a strong Christian counter-attack. It doesn't seem to have been hugely accurate, claiming there was evolution in rocks and other inanimate things, and it didn't propose a mechanism for evolution even in animals. But very historically important; allegedly it outsold Origin of Species throughout the 19th century. |
| 45 | Samir Chachoua, another alternative to medicine practitioner, but this one actually has some experience in actual medicine. Notably ripped off a small african country and "treated" Charlie Sheen's HIV. Now in Mexico. |
| 78 | Óscar Romero was a prelate of the Catholic Church in El Salvador, who served as the fourth Archbishop of San Salvador. He spoke out against poverty, social injustice, assassinations and torture. In 1980, Romero was assassinated while offering Mass in the chapel of the Hospital of Divine Providence. |
| 91 | Moonshine is illicitly distilled or smuggled liquor. |
| 120 | The Passing of the Great Race is a 1916 book by the American eugenicist, lawyer, and amateur anthropologist Madison Grant. The book became an immediate best seller, with new editions in 1918, 1920 and 1921, multiple printings and translations in German, French and Norwegian. It became hugely influential among leading academics, politicians and scientists. Grant expounds a theory of Nordic superiority and argues for a strong eugenics program. Grant's proposal to create a strong eugenics program for the "Nordic" population to survive was repudiated by Americans in the 1930s and Europeans after 1945. It is considered one of the main works in the 20th century tradition of scientific racism and has been described as "The Manifesto of Scientific Racism". |
| 139 | The Ahnenerbe was an institute in Nazi Germany purposed to research the archaeological and cultural history of the Aryan race. Founded on July 1, 1935, by Heinrich Himmler, Herman Wirth, and Richard Walther Darré, the Ahnenerbe conducted pseudo-scientific experiments and launched pseudo-archaeological expeditions in an attempt to prove that mythological Nordic populations had once ruled the world as a way to promote political propaganda. Originally, the official mission of the Ahnenerbe was to find new evidence of the racial heritage of the Germanic people; however, due to Himmler's obsession with occultism it quickly became his own occult tool. |
| 77 | James Clerk Maxwell, one of the top 5 greatest physicists ever, but also a devout Christian (albeit one who shopped about between denominations) who proposed an unusual version of intelligent design; his views on evolution are also argued about between pros and antis. |
| 110 | Night of Long Knives The Nazi purge of political dissidents as well as people who helped Hitler rise to power. |
| 100 | Blackshirts Fascist militants who were instrumental to Mussolini's rise to power. |
| 95 | SA Nazi militants who were instrumental to Hitler's rise to power - Later pushed to the side because the Wehrmacht didn't like them and because of fears they'd take the "socialist" in "national-socialist" seriously |
| 91 | Thule Society Early 1920s German occultic society that would later inspire the Nazis. |
| 93 | Nazi Occultism The occult beliefs that the nazis had, especially when it came to Atlantis, Thule, magic, neo-paganism, etc. |
| 47 | Human resources, a department of a business in charge of hiring, firing, mediating employee disputes and so on. A minority of conservatives, racists, MRAs, etc. rail against them because, I dunno, because they "enforce diversity quotas and only exist to create jobs for people with useless liberal arts degrees", or something. One suspects that the real reason why so many of them hate them so much is because many of them have themselves been reprimanded by human resources departments for exhibiting racist or sexist attitudes at work that prompted complaints from co-workers... |
| 123 | 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. |
| 92 | Volkstaat - an Afrikaner political project in South Africa to basically start over with Apartheid on a smaller territory but without any black people in it Wikipedia has an article on it. Thankfully it has stayed a fringe movement even within white South Africans... |
| 43 | 350.org[287]: "Climate-focused campaigns, projects and actions led from the bottom-up by people in 188 countries. Email is how 350 connects — Join in and get started" |
| 66 | A grand coalition is a government form in parliamentary systems that usually combines the two biggest parties (often one socialist/social democratic/liberal and one christian democratic/conservative) in an often temporary "unholy alliance". It is usually seen as a stopgap and perceived very negatively by all involved, but countries like Austria have ended up with the Grand Coalition as the "standard" government on the federal level. A RW article on the phenomenon should explore reasons that lead to grand coalitions and whether the purported negative consequences actually exist. |
| 91 | Disposition Matrix is Obama's administration's official kill/capture list used for drone killings, rendition, and surveillance of suspected terrorists. The criteria for someone to end up on this list is classified and the CIA and Obama administration have refused to comment on it; this list has been said to most likely exist indefinitely. John Brennan has heavily shaped how this list works. The WaPo originally revealed this story and everyone from the ACLU to Rand Paul has condemned it. This should be chalk full of civil liberties violations and have many conspiracy theories surrounding it. |
| 73 | Frozen Conflict are unresolved wars that end up in perpetual ceasefires. The first example came out of the Korean War, but has since been used by authoritarian governments as a tactic to take over land that has a large ethnic group that makes up their country. Some examples include Northern Cyprus (annexed by Turkey), Transistria, South Ossetia, Abkhazia, the Donbass, and Crimea (annexed by Russia), and Nagrano-Karabakh (claimed by Armenia, but owned by Azerbaijan) |
| 82 | Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis. We can explain the book's history and thesis and probably do a side by side refutation of his arguments. |
| 90 | Sons of Iraq, a security contractor friggen death squad in Iraq. The "troop surge"? Those guys. Basically, Sunni militants made up of various groups including former Saddam soldiers who had been funded by Syria and Iran (yes those were Shia but they hated the US more), but cheaply, so the US hired them for 3-4 times the pay. Then used them to pacify murder the fraggle out of all the Shia militias that were ALSO being funded by Iran and Syria. And it worked. Until the US left and the mercenaries stopped getting paid, the Prime Minister sacked his Sunni President, and made every inclination that he'd begin oppressing the Sunnis. Where are they now? Well, most got integrated into the Iraqi forces or did other stuff, but a few of them ended up in another group you might have heard of... |
| 64 | Someone in the archives proposed we do an article on the phenomenon of the emergency manager as seen in Flint and other places in Michigan and throughout these United States of America. Given the fact that it has recently become a lot more pressing to debate this issue, we should definitely cover it |
| 81 | Concussions in Sport, or more specifically Concussions in American Football a long tragic story of denial and lawsuits, now a major motion picture. Debunking those that say "ah getting hit on the head can't be that bad" should be a major component of the article. |
| 143 | The whole tough on crimeCreate draft disaster, including three strikes laws could get the RW treatment. Do harsh sentences work? Do they have racial or class components? Who came up with this ideology in the first place? How do we end the epidemic of incarceration? |
| 60 | Simon Magus is a famous magician from Christian tradition. He could change himself into a goat! As well as become invisible, jump off tall buildings, and antagonise pretty much everybody. |
| 58 | Robert Kiviat director of such hits as "Alien Autopsy" and "Aliens on the Moon: The Truth Exposed", the latter of which is available on Netflix. Also not just alien "documentaries", with "I Shot JFK: The Shocking Truth" and ironically "World's Greatest Hoaxes: Secrets Finally Revealed". |
| 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. |
| 146 | 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. |
| 75 | Retraction Watch, part of the immune system of science. Useful for flagging interesting terrible past science. |
| 42 | Shmuley Boteach[288] came into the public eye for writing about sex. Er, that may not have been the best way of phrasing that. Anyway, being pro-sex (in a strictly religious sort of way) and Jewish are the main things that distinguish him from Christian fundamentalist conservatives. Has defended thinly veiled antisemitic remarks by Ted Cruz during the 2016 Republican primary campaign |
| 121 | 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). |
| 80 | National Socialist Underground, Jena Cell, NSU or whatever we want to call it. A far right group of terrorists who went around mrudering for nearly a decade - lots of Conspiracy theories out there. Did the intelligence agencies just fail or botch stuff on purpose? |
| 87 | Infomercials and shopping channels. How can we not have an article each (or together) on these two sources of fraud, pseudoscience and general crankery? |
| 77 | Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, a man popularly believed to be either guilty of a triple homicide or railroaded by a racist conspiracy. Here, discussion over the case and evidence on both sides (and the fact that it's possible that he's innocent while only being convicted because it was reasonable to think that the evidence pointed to him, with no frame-up needed), the Bob Dylan song "Hurricane", and the 1999 film starring Denzel Washington (and why he should've won the Oscar then and there, and that he was robbed because of well-intentioned but misguided protests to the Oscar board). One of various possible information sources: http://graphicwitness.com/carter/index.html |
| 111 | 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. |
| 45 | Avatar Course Former Scientology mission sued by the Church of Scientology only to convert into some kind of Free Zone cult |
| 91 | MOVE Black Power & Radical Environmentalist/Animal Rights group that committed 2 shootings and 1 bombing. |
| 78 | Narcissistic Personality Disorder A lot of cult leaders and dictators are said to have this. Jim Jones, David Koresh, etc. Currently just a redirect to personality disorder. |
| 82 | Mexican Drug War A lot of the cartels often incorporate nutty Folk Catholicism in their chaos. Ties in with the whole War on Drugs legalize weed thing. |
| 61 | Order of the Solar Temple Italian cult claiming they are the decedent of the Knights Templar. Committed some mass suicides & as well as some murders between 1994-1995. |
| 62 | True Russian Orthodox Church An offshoot of the Russian Orthodox Church that threatened mass suicide if authorities intervened with them holding up a cave to await the end of the world. |
| 125 | Ninja A lot of woo, myths, urban legends, and bullshit about them. Ties in with a lot of the mall ninja McDojo crap we talk about. (Currently a redirect to RationalWiki:Ninja.) |
| 67 | Crank magnet libertarianism People like Alex Jones, Mark Dice, Bo Gritz, etc. Basically the antithesis of Rationalwiki's views in general |
| 82 | Julius and Ethel Rosenberg One of the most controversial executions Of The Last 30 Seconds, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were a couple with 2 kids at the time of their execution for espionage. A great way to delve into the politics of the Cold War and an omen to those who dare to repeat history. |
| 81 | Erin Brockovich. Made a name for herself around a scary-sounding chemical whose carcinogeneity is still uncertain. Currently a strongly anti-GMO voice with her own following. |
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| 85 | Phosphorus. Currently, the link redirects to the "Category:Elements" page. It's essential for life, it's the title character in White Phosphorus (sometimes used to horrific effect in warfare), it's why phosphates are called phosphates, and modern agriculture is using so much we're starting to face a shortage. What's not to love about this element? |
| 116 | TransethnicCreate draft. As nonsensical as this idea is, perhaps we should define it at least? |
| 80 | Frank Miller A once critically acclaimed comic book writer & artist now a generally right wing sexist/misogynistic and racist who published Holy Terror. See Linkara's reviews for more information. |
| 75 | Bono deserves his own article, especially in terms of talking about why he's such a polarizing figure, why he and U2 are a popular target to attack these days, and debunking the more spurious claims. |
| 83 | Prop 65, named after the IQ of the people implementing it, is the reason everything in California causes cancer. By law, everything must state whether or not it contains any possible carcinogens or heavy metals in any quantity, but since virtually everything does, the result is that everything comes with a warning label that most people ignore. A number of small law firms exist only to sue companies that don't put this label on their products. |
| 130 | Symbionese Liberation Army One of the cults responsible for the downfall of the New Left. Most famous for the kidnapping and brainwashing of Patty Hearst. |
| 90 | Sesame Credit, the Authoritarian game designed by Tencent that gives you points and benefits for toeing the CPP's line, and will become mandatory in 2020. |
| 136 | Marcus Garvey was an early founder of the Pan-African movement and black nationalism, but he tended to see blacks and whites as two different peoples who would be unable to coexist and therefore believed all people of African descent should return to their homeland. He had a famous dispute with W.E.B Dubois and was against the idea of "racial mixing" in order to prevent mulattoes. He is also considered a prophet of Rastafari. |
| 92 | 1980 October Surprise, A conspiracy theory that the Ronald Reagan administration stole the election from Jimmy Carter by negotiating with Iran to delay hostage releases until after Carter left office. I don't have time, but it does seem on mission to me. |
| 112 | Joy of SatanCreate draft, Neo-Nazi UFO Satanic Cult, large presence on the Internet |
| 94 | The Panama Deception is a documentary about the 1989 US invasion of Panama. It asserts that the US invaded in order to renegotiate the Torrijos-Carter Treaty , but also states that the US tested energy weapons in order to test them. This film won an Academy Award for Most Unexceptional Documentary. |
| 97 | Conspiracy theorists tend to call themselves Political prisoners. We could make a list of actually political prisoners and cranks who call themselves that. It would be similar to our whistleblower page. |
| 140 | Bill Cosby should be discussed, especially why he was an idol and a voice of wisdom, his comments before the accusations, and his massive hypocrisy. |
| 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. |
| 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 as well as their trial is desperately needed. |
| 137 | r/K selection theory, an obsolete biological concept, also taken up in the past by racialists (particularly Rushton) and currently a conservative meme (that conservatives are K and liberals are r, therefore science - frequently from people who previously didn't believe in evolution). This doesn't make coherent sense on any level, but we could do with a dissection of the meme version. (Koanic Soul of course gibbers wonderfully.) PZ Myers has a good dissection to crib from. |
| 68 | Aaron Copland, an American composer with a distinctly populist streak in both his music and his apparent politics; had to testify before McCarthy, and was almost tried for perjury afterwards. FBI kept a very close watch on him for some while. |
| 81 | Soong May-ling, who lived a very long and storied life far too complicated to even attempt to summarize here. She and her husband had a unique synergy while in power, and she's also one of those people who eludes easy classification into "good"/"bad" categories. So basically, an article that will avoid being either hysterical ranting or effusive gushing. |
| 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 are the hip new exercise woo based on whole-body cryotherapy (WBC). While WBC has legitimate uses in treating the symptoms of multiple sclerosis and rheumatoid arthritis, cryosaunas were popularized by some professional athletes claiming that WBC alleviates post-exercise soreness. As a result, casual athletes are now jumping on the bandwagon. The practice's lack of regulation has come under scrutiny after a cryosauna worker was killed inside one on October, 2015. |
| 80 | Naprapathy, a variant on osteopathy and chiropracty. Popular in Scandinavia. |
| 80 | The International Jew is an antisemitic booklet made by Henry Ford. He later launched The Dearborn Independent in order to expose the vast Jewish conspiracies. |
| 70 | Neotantra is a new age cultural appropriation of the spiritual practice tantra in Hinduism and Buddhism. It involves unconventional sex, called tantric sex, which is "sacred". |
| 84 | Not Dead Yet is a disability rights group that is opposed to euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide. They argue that legalization will place pressure upon severely handicapped people to end their lives and avoid "being a burden" on others. They protested the removal of Terri Schiavo's feeding tube, and also protested the Clint Eastwood film Million Dollar Baby for its positive portrayal of assisted suicide. |
| 86 | The Palestinian right of return is a claimed right of those who lived in what is now Israel prior to 1948 and left it in the course of the fighting - Unlike any other refugee situation this right is claimed to be inheritable (including through adoption). There might be on-mission stuff to say about whether this unique interpretation of international law for this one case holds water |
| 113 | FIFA. The world's largest sports governing body is a filthy, corrupt cesspool. |
| 90 | Omar Al-Bashir (or any of the various other spellings) supreme dipshit of (North) Sudan and only sitting head of state to ever be accused of war crimes, I am sure we can elaborate on his guilt or innocence and maybe there are even some apologists for his deeds in some woo-ish crank corners... |
| 76 | Yoshiro Nakamatsu, Aka "Dr. NakaMats" - Prolific Japanese inventor and Ig Nobel Prize recipient. Has made some genuinely useful contributions (such as various advances on floppy disks) but most often his work goes into straight-up crankery and woo. |
| 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.[290] |
| 70 | The Automotive city has been one of the driving forces in city design for the last century, and is heavily tied into the politics of race and class. |
| 80 | Christian persecution, documenting and debunking the widespread claims that Christians are being persecuted in modern America / Europe, and discussing real Christian persecution in non-developed countries (possibly merge with Christophobia)? |
| 77 | We need to have a page on "modern day Nostradamus" Gary Spivey because just look at him. What is this? The inverse of a tinfoil hat to better attune to the messages from God? |
| 70 | Ken Jebsen a former radio persona and all around kook and woo-meister. Got fired for an antisemitic dog whistle and instead of toning it down he went off the deep end completely. Likes to make common cause with Jürgen Elsässer and is/has been a major Pegida apologist. English WP has nothing on him but German WP does. He's also rather active on Youtube |
| 73 | Greyhound Therapy: The "medical treatment" of putting unwanted/undesirable/troublesome patients, such as the mentally ill, on a bus and sending them on a one-way trip to the next state over. |
| 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. When the white hipsters discover your funky and quaint neighborhood and price you out of it. |
| 91 | Consensual crime - A.k.a. victimless crimes, e.g. recreational drugs, prostitution, gambling, sodomy (in some jurisdictions), etc.. |
| 71 | Tom Wolfe. Started his career as an avant-garde journalist. Turned into a conservative Very Serious Person and satirist of left-wing sensibilities in novels like Bonfire of the Vanities. |
| 81 | Pink Ribbon/Susan G. Komen for the Cure/pinkwashing. Highly visible, highly questionable breast cancer awareness organization. Their antics include suing the bejezus out of other charities and plastering pink ribbons on carcinogenic products (and firearms). Is more interested in self-promotion than actually doing something against breast cancer. A general article on awareness raising/awareness campaign would also be nice. |
| 77 | A Joe job is a spamming technique for smearing a target by spoofing the sender ID so an unflattering or otherwise damaging message seems to have come from the target. See the Wikipedia article on Joe job. |
| 77 | The al-Quds day is an antisemitic shitfest-lollapalooza invented in 1979 by Iranian supreme dipshit Khomeini and thus almost certainly part of our mission statement, if possible flamewar-bait. |
| 77 | It might be useful to have an article on forensic science. Science News has a recent article on the problems and prospects of the field.[301] |
| 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?) |
| 64 | Allan Savory and his concept of holistic grazing, interesting ideas and solutions about ecology of arid landscapes, claims he can help reduce global warming, but a bit of research reveals a lot of controversy over the man and his project. Unknown Hero ? Or full-of-shit opportunist ?. |
| 79 | Central South Slavic diasystem - a bullshit concept in Slavic linguistics invented by nationalists to support splitting Serbo-Croatian into separate Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian and Montenegrin languages, whereas in fact they are standardized based on the same subdialect of the same dialect of Serbo-Croatian, are 100% mutually intelligible, have 95% identical lexis and 99% identical grammar. This is absurd to the point that Croatian linguists cite books written by Serbs as excellent sources of information on Croatian. Subject of content-forking articles on Wikipedia. |
| 86 | Heightism - It's somewhat overlooked as a form of discrimination but there have been studies showing a wage gap between shorter people and taller people, and I have heard anecdotes about tall people not being taken as seriously when they're the victims of crimes. Not to mention the stereotypes. |
| 71 | The stuff that's happening with the Migrants around Calais (The ones Cameron called a swarm) and the ferry strikers. Right wing response should be covered in this. |
| 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 tMigrants around Calaishe 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. |
| 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.) |
| 105 | Cuckold, currently a redirect to Manosphere glossary, but the history of its use as a generic term of abuse would be good to write up, particularly with the recent prominence of cuckservative. [302] has some well-traced history, [303] has an anecdote on how it became common on 4chan (posters trolling /pol/ with interracial cuckold porn). "cuck" has a long history in both /pol/ and neoreactionary circles; as it happens, Robin Hanson of overcomingbias.com (predecessor to LessWrong) has done the hard thinking on cuckoldry (and how). Honestly, it's like these people literally spend all day every day thinking about nothing but BIG BLACK COCKS. More: [304] |
| 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, from out of the shadow of her mother comes a new challenger to all things ironic and hypocritical, shouting at teh gays and promoting abstinence while simultaneously having children out of wedlock. |
| 80 | Mamajuana is a herbal alcoholic alternative medicine that is supposedly an aphrodisiac, flu remedy, digestion and circulation aid, blood cleanser, kidney and liver tonic. |
| 80 | Okra, particularly the Facebook meme that it's a miracle cure for diabetes. It does help slow and regulate glucose uptake, though it's not the miracle cure it's touted as in way too many woo sites, videos, etc. Snopes, Healthline with papers linked; this paper appears to be the one originally hyped beyond reason. |
| 80 | Frivolous lawsuits[305] are often cited as arguments for tort reform or as proof that corporations can't accomplish anything because little people hold them back or other bullshit, and they're almost always fake or misreported.[306][307][308] |
| 85 | Opposition to pornography, separate and distinct from the article on pornography, since the opposition (Fight the New Drug, The End of Porn By Wire, SWERFs, Judith Reisman, certain religious groups, etc.) on both ends of the horseshoe tends to have its own special flavor of batshit arguments and questionable tactics. |
| 82 | Peshmerga, the ragtag band of Kurdish freedom fighters that are successfully holding against ISIS. |
| 87 | Fred Rogers. If more Christians were like him, this site would be vastly different. So would the world. |
| 72 | Eliot Spitzer - the former attorney and governor of New York who had quite an impressive list of transgressions involving prostitutes and use of state funds to pay for them. His successor, David Paterson, might warrant an article too. |
| 87 | George Pataki. Former Republican governor of New York, currently running for President. May be of more note if he does well enough in the primaries, but he's one the very few sane Republicans left, even if he is a tad boring. (Currently redirect to 2016 Republican Party presidential nomination.) |
| 90 | Cathy Young - a self-described feminist who has been very critical of the movement since the early 1990s. She writes about gender issues, tending to focus on men's issues, and also speaks out against some of the SPOOK hysterics on the subject of rape and especially campus rape. Also one of the Gamergate supporters, and by extension a critic of its opponents. In addition, she comments on politics as a self-described libertarian. |
| 85 | Senkaku Islands - a bunch of uninhabited (but close to some oil) islands owned by Japan which China, rather dubiously claims as their own (as the Diaoyu Islands) and have in recent years threatened war with Japan over. With the latter's alliance with the US this dispute has the (albeit quite unlikely) potential to lead to a Third World War. |
| 70 | Al Murray - A British comedian Most Unexceptional known for his "Al Murray the Pub Landlord" act; a satirical impersonation of a right-wing, jingoistic publican. Recently however, he ran for Parliament as joke candidate for the Free the United Kingdom Party (or FUKP) in the same constituency as Nigel Farage. This of course, pissed off a lot of people who never got the joke, to the extent that he actually had break character a few times on his Facebook page. |
| 85 | Genocide Watch - given their "2014 Countries at Risk" report lists the U.S. as a 10 (because "Colonists, US Army & slave traders" are going to kill "Native Americans & African slaves" and Japan as a 10, because the "Japanese Army" are going to kill "Chinese, Koreans and Philipinos" they appear to be way off the scale. It's a "countries at risk" report, not a "Countries that did bad shit in the past" report.[311] (Correction/comment by ScepticWombat: The "10" is a phase in genocide, specifically denial, not a risk factor for an imminent danger of genocide. Genocide Watch's description of the 10-stage model of genocide is found here) |
| 62 | Theodore Gray and his Barely Noticeable growth sprayis an element collector(which is always cool), cofounded Wolfram Industries with Stephen Wolfram, wrote a column for Popular Science magazine, tends to be pro-science, anti-woo, an outspoken critic of Global warming denial, and a general on-mission science populariser. It's so nice to see a Viz character turn up in real life. |
| 72 | Foucault's Pendulum, by Umberto Eco. Three editors at a vanity publishing house, exasperated by all the stupid manuscripts by conspiracy nuts they're forced to read, mock their clients by making up a Grand Unified Conspiracy Theory incorporating all of the lesser ones. Alas, inevitably, actual conspiracy theorists take their joke seriously, and start stalking them. A brilliant commentary on the gullibility of just exactly these types - a breath of fresh air after Dan Brown. |
| 104 | Dogs NaturallyCreate draft - "the most complete source of natural health care for dogs" [314]. Has been called the NaturalNews of dog ownership. Animal abuse for the wootastic. |
| 65 | Theodore Dalrymple, British retired physician and conservative commentator who's written for Taki's Magazine and Townhall.com among others. His principal thesis: liberal intelligentsia and the welfare state have prompted the British underclass to devolve into lazy, scummy, entitled savages. Like Roger Scruton, the guy broadly seems to resent (and advocate the repeal of) the entire 20th century. |
| 131 | Suriname Small country in South-America; on-mission as it's the source of quite a bit of herbal nonsense and its ... interesting ... take on politics (the current present is a convicted drug smuggler in the Netherlands, and accused of playing a part in the december killings). |
| 85 | Akiane Kramarik: Child prophet and painting prodigy or hack exploited by her parents? It's worth it for RW to assemble the evidence scattered all over the web. |
| 102 | Alive.comCreate draft[319] 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. [320][321] |
| 141 | Ateshgah of Baku, This structure in Azerbaijan has been subject to some controversy for a while. It is an abnormally well preserved shrine of some sort just outside of Baku that depending on who you talk to, is either a Zoroastrian Fire Temple, a Hindu Temple, or both. While it was long assumed to be a Zoroastrian Fire Temple some Parsis back in the 19th century who visited the place doubted that and suggested that it could be a Hindu Temple. This association at first seems a bit far fetched due to its geographical implausibility (and the differences between Zoroastrianism as it was practiced during the Sassanian Empire and Zoroastrianism as it is practiced now in India). While the association with Hinduism isn't entirely made up, as it is clear that Hindu Merchants liked visiting the shrine as is evident by the inscription they left behind, the idea that it was founded as a Hindu Temple, or was only a Hindu Temple is rather far fetched. However the existence of a relatively even sided controversy has never dissuaded the Hindutva types from claiming that said controversy is settled in their favor and this case is no exception. The other wiki has an extremely one sided article on this building. I would advise visitors visiting the page with Google Chrome to visit the same page in other languages (specifically Russian, Azerbaijani, and Persian) to compare with the English article. They are all well balanced, presumably because Indians don't speak any of those languages... Given that Wikipedia seems to have ditched neutrality for this one article, and given our critique of Hindu Nationalism and our evaluation of their various claims, it would make sense to have an article evaluating this issue. |
| 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: reader suggestion. "It's hosted by Georgia state University, and is run by Rod Nave. At first glance it seems to be an education resource. My problem is the creationist slant of the site. False claims made include: DNA is a true code, and that amino acid selection during protein synthesis is not chemically determined [322] Other pages directly relate to god, and creationism. [323]" |
| 135 | Human nutrition; we have so many articles on food woo, why not a basic list of all nutrients you really need? Essential nutrients and what they do. Proteins lipids and carbs, various vitamins, trace metals, etc. |
| 103 | PsycheTruthCreate draft - A channel on Youtube with over 880,000 subscribers, yet it's jam-packed with woo. |
| 82 | Interposition, the concept that U.S. state asserts rights to oppose actions of the federal government that the state deems unconstitutional. Under the theory of interposition, a state may "interpose" itself between the federal government and the people of the state by taking action to prevent the federal government from enforcing laws that the state considers unconstitutional. Interposition has not been upheld by the courts. Rather, the courts have held that the power to declare federal laws unconstitutional lies with the federal judiciary, not with the states. |
| 90 | Zoltan Istvan, a transhumanist "philosopher". His Wikipedia article is puffed-up to ridiculous proportions ("no really, he's a philosopher!") His transhumanist novel is an Objectivist diatribe. Even other transhumanists find him too annoying and not useful. |
| 88 | The Freikorps, the infamous Weimar Republic-era volunteer paramilitary group that was well known for it's brutality (partially a result of personnel being derived from former Sturmtruppen) and regular use against communists. Like many shock troops left over from WWI, it soon became entangled with fascist elements. |
| 140 | Laplace's demon -- the whole idea of scientific determinism and how it doesn't work/gets falsified. |
| 80 | Just ran into this really cogent counterargument to the idea that the bible is divinely inspired.[326] Could make an article from this, or part of one. |
| 136 | Great Zimbabwe (Better idea: a list of the major non-Egyptian African civilizations, to smack racists on the heads with.) |
| 71 | Bruno Bettelheim. Made a name for himself as a child psychologist and author of the "refrigerator parent" theory of autism. Turns out to have been mostly a fraud; his only academic degree was in art history. Still widely cited and respected. |
| 141 | Serial killer. We have several articles on individual instances. I could see that an article on stereotypes vs. reality might be relevant, as would some comment on their prominence in Western pop culture. |
| 71 | 3HO "Healthy, Happy, Holy Organization", founded by a Sikh from India, but membership is mostly white Americans. Declared heterodox by mainstream Sikhs, it's teachings are primarily derived from Kundalini Yoga. There are some sex abuse accusations and cult accusations.[327] They own a billion dollar security firm. |
| 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. |
| 90 | Geuzen. They were a lose collection of Calvinist Christians who would launch terrorist attacks against Dutch towns (e.g. burning down churches associated with Catholicism; raping nuns when nunneries ran out of supplies to raid) to force people into converting to their religious ideology. They later set up ships for piracy attacking Spanish Catholics. Other than that, they believed Muslim Turks to be more favourable than Catholics and used the crescent in medals. (But see wp:Geuzen before you do anything about it.) |
| 71 | Another Tumblr trend that needs a thorough thrashing, Headmates or "multiplicity" is the trend of claiming multiple personalities and believing that integration of them is evil. |
| 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 Not a Bot!) 01:01, Sunday, December 22, 2024 (UTC))) |
| 147 | Isaac Bonewits was a prominent Druid and Neopagan as well as the only person to receive a degree in magic from an accredited university. (UC Berkeley of course.) He also wrote a commonly-used list of how to spot cultishness in an organisation. A fascinating fellow. |
| 60 | Ann McElhinney and Phelim McAleer Could do with a real article for all the anti science they do. |
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| 70 | Hasbarah - because Israel's "public diplomacy" is cuttingly close to both Propaganda and espionage. |
| 112 | Street EpistemologyCreate draft developed by Peter Boghossian is a newer activity which is a partly scripted question asking method some atheists use to induce doubts in people's god beliefs-seems worth researching for potential benefits and problems it might have. Or it could just be acting like a stereotypical atheist dick. Let's write it up and see! |
| 61 | Kang Youwei, A Chinese political thinker and reformer of the late 19th century and the turn of the century who was popular in China than under the rule of the Qing Dynasty. Among other things he advocated both Constitutional Monarchy and Socialism in China. On the other hand, he was a eugenicist. The political theories he set forth in his book Da Tong Shu are objective and utterly indisputable proof that the Horseshoe theory is either mostly or completely correct, it is the "missing link" between Communism and Fascism. In light of what he wrote in that book he should be either given a prominent spot on the Horseshoe Theory page or given his own page. |
| 50 | Justicar - He's one of thunderfoot's buddies. misogynist, conservative, and anti-feminist (and a Slymepitter), and may I add, extremely pedantic. |
| 57 | Lucis trust We had a stub article, but it was deleted. It's a company that focus of occultry, conspiracy Theories regarding Freemasons, etc. The reason this particular one gets so much attention is because it's original name was "Lucifer Publishing Company", and was acknowledged by the United Nations. |
| 64 | Myron Fagan - A Red Scare Proponent, and an early proponent of the Illuminati conspiracy Theory. "A lot of modern ideas about the Rothschilds come from him, and I am sick of me being linked to videos of his talk show." (example) |
| 107 | InternetAristocratCreate draft - conservative, racist, MRA who is a leader of Gamergate. |
| 116 | Detroit. See Chicago, below, add municipal bankruptcy and dog-whistle criticisms of the decidedly non-Caucasian city administration. Who - liberals, conservatives or the Stormfront crowd - if any of them, is correct about the reasons for it becoming what it has? |
| 100 | Benjamin FulfordCreate draft. claims a bunch of absurd things about the Illuminati and Freemasons, and that he'll take them down singlehandedly. This is him. |
| 66 | George Dillman, a mall ninja manager of McDojo training camps who claims that, among other things, you can use your body to generate chi/bioelectricity/radio waves to block attacks and knock people out. |
| 104 | Masonicinfo.comCreate draft. If you have an anti-freemason claim, masonicinfo will have the refutation, and the conspiracy theorist will throw the shill gambit. |
| 64 | Reader suggestion: "An article about the term freedom, in my eyes its current usage in the States resembles pretty much some damn newspeak, as a great example calling French fries freedom fries because of France not.. er, supporting the forced spreading of freedom huh? Anyway, that's pretty much all I can say myself about that topic, but I'd really appreciate someone writing an essay or something about it." Two crappy articles at this title have been deleted already, so do a good one if you do this one. |
| 72 | Justine Tunney. Possibly the clearest living embodiment of the horseshoe theory, she went from being the voice of Occupy Wall Street (literally, managing a Twitter account with the name OccupyWallSt) in 2011 to vocally supporting the neoreactionary movement in 2014, particularly its technocratic wing. (Though she has consistently stated that she is not affiliated with neoreaction.) She even said Obama should be kicked out and Google CEO Eric Schmidt installed as the new President. Arthur Chu has a nice summary of her bizarre swing here. |
| 105 | Modafinil, a sleep-cycle-adjusting drug with some documented effects and some woo-ish notions that it's a smart drug of some sort. |
| 80 | Petrodollar - reader suggestion. Conspiracists have some fondness for conspiracies involving the price of oil and US dollars as global currency. There's plenty of real economics and economics woo around this concept too. |
| 104 | Jace ConnorsCreate draft. Youtuber, conspiracy theorist, wingnut, stoner, mall ninja, racist, homophobe, and Islamophobe guilty of both consuming and promoting gratuitous amounts of paramilitary woo. Hosts a weekly political call-in show where he has, among other things, posited that not only is Obama a Muslim but one born in the Middle East who plans to destroy America by instigating a race war. On the other hand, he isn't that well-known outside of his cult following of trolls. |
| 73 | Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), the Pakistani CIA, cuz we're all about authoritarianism, liars, and extremism, and ISI provides plenty of each |
| 73 | John Gray (philosopher). I just read his Straw Dogs and am uncertain whether I just read brilliance or bullshit. That in itself is an achievement. Not the John Gray behind Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus. |
| 82 | G. Edward Griffin, a famous conspiracy theorist and Bircher who popularized Federal Reserve and cancer-related conspiracy whackery (he even authored the libertarian/Glenn Beck favorite The Creature from Jekyll Island). A little suprising we don't have an article on him yet since he's a far more influential figure on the radical right conspiracy circuit than the likes of Mark Dice. |
| 71 | Presstitutes, what with part of our mission being to criticize the media where necessary. |
| 71 | Averroes. We have an article on Saint Thomas Aquinas, and Al-Ghazali, so we ought to have an article on Averroes too. It is extremely interesting to note that, according to both Westerners and Muslims, his influence on the Western world has been far greater than his influence on the Islamic world. |
| 70 | Silencing - suppressing opposition arguments, directly or indirectly. The idea is to claim that counterarguments don't exist. Feminist versions here [333][334], though these are highly generalisable. |
| 113 | My Parents Open CarryCreate draft. Naming the father character in a pro-gun book "Dick Strong", frankly, is begging liberals to make fun of it. Even ignoring the content of this book, it's awful: wooden prose, bad grammar, hectoring tone. Yet, it's quite popular on Amazon (it was promoted by Stephen Colbert and Bill Maher according to the back cover). |
| 51 | Ahstar Sheran, a fake-ass pseudogod who migrated all across Europe via 1999-eschatology and then into China via 2012-eschatology. Nauseating face. |
| 107 | Connection theoryCreate draft is a new nuttiness dreamed up by the Bay Area transhumanist crowd. It's sufficiently nutty that even LessWrong posters take the piss out of it. But they're apparently attracting actual money. Anyone feel like researching and writing it up? [335] [336] [337] [338] Most of the original pages about it have been taken down, but are still in the Wayback Machine. |
| 66 | Elizabeth Whelan, a wingnut libertarian who is currently head of the American Council on Science and Health, the "go to" source for many right-wing bloggers. ACSH is either an astroturf denialist organization that spreads misinformation, or the most staunchly centrist anti-public-scare organization on the web. |
| 110 | Ted Bundy - Aside from being a disgusting serial killer, his career trajectory reads like a who's who's of the pre-Reagan religious right. |
| 70 | Morton Downey Jr., a pro-life activist and right-wing Democrat who became a pundit who's controversial "edgy" style bascally helped lead to the rise of nearly every wingnut pundit you can think of. If Coughlin was the prototype for right-wing radio pundits Downey was basically the same for televised ones such as Hannity. |
| 94 | CNBC. I am surprised we don't have an article on it yet. |
| 94 | Inflammation, the latest trendy bogeyman in the alternative medicine/food woo crowd. If you don't feel good, it must be because of "inflammation" caused by eating junk food/exposure to toxins/not being on the paleo diet. Plus, inflammation is why you're fat. |
| 76 | I'm surprised that the cultish, deceptive ultra-Orthodox Jewish "kiruv" organizations, such as Chabad and Aish HaTorah, haven't been mentioned here yet. |
| 73 | Brute fact, a fact that cannot be explained at a more "fundamental" level, or a fact in a different category than "institutional" facts, which depend on social agreement for their validity. |
| 106 | Edinburgh Creation GroupCreate draft - a creationist group in Edinburgh with a bunch of videos (most of them by Seraph Media) on the web site featuring the guys promoted by AiG |
| 78 | Activism - The general concept; whether and where it's effective, in what cases the members of any activist movement are and aren't sensible, etc.. |
| 78 | Nouri al-Maliki, because he was "elected" to prime minister of Iraq during the United States occupation, acted like a dictator, used American troops to carry out ethnic killings, and had the full backing of the US government. (Or Hamid Karzai, who's also become a straight-up asshole.) |
| 70 | Cybertopianism. I can't be the only one who remembers the days when the Internet would create a global village of peace and understanding. |
| 85 | James Dobson, other than a link to the Focus on the Family page. |
| 104 | Testimony of conversionCreate draft, or some similar phrase, for every conservative Christian who starts a bout of proselytizing with "I used to be atheist/liberal/evolutionist/whatever, but then I learned about Jesus." |
| 105 | Stop the Thyroid MadnessCreate draft ([340]), a book and blog by a non-endocrinologist non-doctor who blames everything that's wrong in the lives of people with hypothyroidism on the mainstream treatment regimen. Focus is on how much better you feel when you switch to desiccated thyroid extract, the "natural" treatment we used in the good ol' days. |
| 112 | Illumicorp video hoaxCreate draft An INCREDIBLY well done hoax/parody showing an Illuminati training video. Although the video producer admitted it was a joke a while back, it still is being touted as real by conspiracy whackers that didn't quite get the message. This could be its own article, or an add-on to our current Illuminati article.[341] |
| 75 | Argan oil, apparently increasing in popularity to cure all skin/nail/hair ailments. I encountered it on a Dutch website where it is touted as `miracle cure' and `liquid gold', with `positive effects never seen before' ... all of which are supposed to be `scientific proven' (the louder it says that...the bigger the chance it's woo). Yet, perhaps there is some (kernel of) truth here? |
| 106 | Health Impact NewsCreate draft - a woo-freindly, anti-vaxxer promoting site, only a few rungs above NaturalNews. Also has articles such as "Intelligent Design vs. Scientism" (sic) and "More Evidence of Scientism as Religion." Website |
| 70 | Campbell's law - States that introducing definite criteria (often quantitative) into a decision-making process can make it easier to game the system, and so degrade the quality of decisions made based on those criteria. |
| 108 | getoutofdebtfree.orgCreate draft deserves a fisking of its "methods" (e.g. "common law" copyrighting of your name), or at least a section in the suitable article, whichever it is. (Prompted by someone linking to RW in their forum and the assertion that they are not FOTL; please don't touch this unless you have a good understanding of (pseudo)law) |
| 74 | Ripoff Report, a consumer complaints website whose owner and operator is somewhat paranoid and which is sometimes accused of being an extortion racket. |
| 76 | Adrenal fatigue, a made-up condition that alt med practitioners use to blame general aches and fatigue on a failing of the adrenal gland. |
| 68 | The American Council on Science and Health (ACSH). Orac calls these guys a "questionable science-based organization". They're staunchly anti-smoking and anti-hysteria (particularly when it comes to food scares), but they also have a definite axe to grind and it's hard to say how trustworthy they are. They call themselves a "consumer education consortium," and are currently funded by various large corporations. (They weren't corporate funded for the first two years, but were accused of being corporate shills during that period anyway.) SourceWatch article Added: See also the mess on Talk:Skepticism. |
| 86 | Culture-bound syndromes: phenomena believed within a culture to be diseases, but which are completely unknown outside of that culture, suggesting psychological rather than physiological origin. An example would be fan death, the belief that sleeping in a room with a running fan can be fatal, which is widespread in both North and South Korea but unheard of elsewhere. |
| 76 | Socionics. Fad pop-psychology butchery of MBTI, which is itself suspect, but this takes it up to eleven. Popular in Eastern Europe. |
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| 80 | The so-called liberal paradox (think classical liberal), a paradox in political philosophy with some interesting implications for real-life socio-political problems. |
| 134 | Peter RagnarCreate draft This crank has been around so long it's amazing we DON'T have an article on him. Chi, magnet woo, pseudoscience, and claims to be able to achieve age reversal through breathing techniques. No, really. |
| 122 | Lindsey Graham. One of the loudest wingnut voices in the Senate on social issues, though he manages to have stopped clock moments on issues such as global warming and torture. |
| 68 | The wishy-washiness behind "free-market environmentalism" (ie. PERC, which openly criticized Bush on his green policies yet still gave the status quo answer.) |
| 75 | How do we not have an article on Nylonase? It's the greatest proof of evolution! |
| 113 | Yellow fever, the phenomenon of reactionary white men preying on Asian women under a misguided belief that they're submissive and feminine, as versus western women they believe to be "infected by feminism". This is quite a prominent issue in feminist and social justice circles; Asian-American feminists really hate it. |
| 66 | Considering our addiction to sci-fi, the Prime Directive (as a section of Star Trek or in a separate article). The principle of complete non-intervention in the internal affairs of less technologically-advanced civilizations could be prophetic in the years to come, and should be skeptically analyzed. |
| 142 | Occidental DissentCreate draft, Stuff Black People Don't LikeCreate draft, and the Vanguard News Network. As white supremacist sites, these are second pretty much only to Stormfront in terms of prominence, or at least far more popular than something like Jew Watch, so there's no excuse for having an article on that but not them. |
| 66 | Zahi Hawass, good fun because of his utter arrogance and corruption. Egyptian woo-merchants all seem to be very proud of their excellent relations with this villain. |
| 88 | The notion of dimensions, which has become a woo-magnet for people uneducated in physics. |
| 81 | Sex differences in humans: Is a specific gender genetically inclined to read/do maths better? Have better physical strength? Be more emotional or aggressive? etc. |
| 67 | The Enabling Act - the most recognizable proof of the importance of an effective judiciary in democracy. |
| 61 | The Euston Manifesto and Spiked, two unusual mutations of the UK left that swung to the right post-9/11 (Eustoners typically supporting the Iraq War against the Galloway types, Spiked a quasi-libertarian whinefest). Representatives of both typically write for The Telegraph, Standpoint and Spectator. |
| 141 | Rabbi Moshe AverickCreate draft should have his own page, just for all the sexist, bigoted, racist stuff he's spewed in his little column at The Algemeiner. [344] |
| 63 | The Burakumin, an oppressed minority group that, sadly, most people have never heard of. Also evidence against racial realism - they regularly test 15 IQ points below the Japanese mainstream, but are the same genetically. |
| 67 | David Suzuki, a zoologist and environmentalist. (Second time requested) |
| 112 | Geomancy, the art and "science" of predicting the future by tossing and then interpreting dirt. May be confused with Feng Shui, which is sometimes also called "Geomancy" |
| 71 | Sulforaphane, an experimental cancer drug (found in many vegetables) being touted as a cancer cure by CAM promoters. Naturalnews |
| 112 | Hideki Tojo, Japanese prime minister/dictator during World War II and notorious war criminal. |
| 129 | Vincent CheungCreate draft, yet another sociopath Calvinist with a god complex. |
| 44 | Corneliu Zelea Codreanu, a Romanian politician who founded the Iron Guard, an extremist far-right political movement. |
| 82 | The liberal arts/humanities; a stock pet peeve of right-wingers—but are they truly as useless as said right-wingers claim they are? |
| 46 | We need an article on the emergency managers being used in Michigan. There's hardly a more authoritarian position in American government. They have no real oversight, and they can do whatever they want to the city, regardless of the will of the people or their elected officials. They're essentially mini-dictators installed to control townships. |
| 73 | Boiling frog — particularly the idea that introducing beliefs or political measures gradually is likely to meet less resistance than doing so abruptly. |
| 66 | Fathers' rights, a movement related with the MRAs but much much more mainstream. |
| 46 | The Robin Williams movie Patch Adams. While it doesn't directly push pseudoscience, it pushes an attitude and pseudoskepticism towards medical science indistinguishable from most alternative medicine promoters. |
| 66 | We don't have an article on general Misanthropy yet? For shame... |
| 40 | Tim Ferriss, perennial slinger of high expectations of success for low effort in works such as The Four Hour Workweek and The Four Hour Body. |
| 73 | The taxonomic clusterfuck that is the Ediacaran biota. (Aliens and creationists, anyone?) |
2012 [edit]
| 42 | The disgrace to civilized society that is Mark Steyn. |
| 150 | The 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. |
| 38 | Sheldon Adelson - single largest private donor in history... all 8 of the candidates he backed lost, costing him some $50 million. |
| 42 | Michael Moore Hates America. 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. |
| 40 | beliefnet (lower case), a blogging site composed of erudite fuzzy-mindedness, much-referenced in RW articles. |
| 44 | Aurangzeb: 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. |
| 73 | An article specifically on Omission bias. Prevalent and potent poison to human thinking. |
| 38 | Admiral Hyman G. Rickover. 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. |
| 62 | Paul Johnson. 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. |
| 45 | David Hart. He's this theologist who attacked new wave atheists such as Dawkins and then defined God as: "an absolute plenitude of actuality". |
| 48 | An article on state legislative bills intended to push creationism, especially the shitload that have been proposed since the beginning of legislative sessions in 2011 |
| 40 | The value added tax aka. sales tax, consumption tax, Pigovian tax, yadda yadda... |
| 60 | I've been meaning to do this for a while: write an article on vertebrates. 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. |
| 82 | The Motion Picture Association of America (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. |
| 43 | Mary Daly. Wrote about misogyny in the Roman Catholic Church and organized religion in general, but also subscribed to lesbian separatist utopia fantasies. |
| 108 | If anyone here can speak Portuguese, please enlighten us on the antics of Josue YrionCreate draft. |
| 90 | Solyndra! It's the new ACORN and part of the eco-fascist conspiracy! Run! |
| 40 | Margaret McBride, excommunicated for allowing an abortion on a woman who would have died should she have remained pregnant |
| 70 | Origin of deluvian myths. There are flood myths from around the world, not just the Noachid one. Creationists unsurprisingly jump on this as "proof" the Deluge was global. |
| 70 | The awesome developments at Vostok Station probably merit an article. It even has its own Hitler conspiracy. |
| 44 | All this talk of the Higgs boson reminds me of Marietta Higgs, 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 Orkney islands and something sinister to do with Thomas the Tank Engine. Thoroughly Bad Medicine. |
| 47 | Nexus Magazine. 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. |
| 62 | Henry Hyde, one of the most heartless figures (and that's saying something) in the history of the GOP. |
| 67 | DSHEA, 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. |
| 74 | Depression, especially the purported connection it has with atheism and liberalism and everything else. |
| 48 | Ho'oponopono, a Hawaiian cultural practice appropriated by woosters. In its wooish incarnation, it was allegedly able to "heal a ward of mentally ill criminals".[357] Endorsed by Law of Attraction proponent Joe Vitale. |
| 55 | I think someone should make an article on the Congo, considering how utterly devastating that war was and how few people in the First World know about it. |
| 68 | A look at infanticide, the pro-lifers' main snarl word. |
| 45 | The Health and Social Care Bill, 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. |
| 83 | Do Not Open (2007 book). 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. |
| 44 | Might be relevant to FCC/censorship discussions: shock jock radio host Howard Stern. |
| 86 | The Black Sea deluge 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. |
| 48 | We need an article specifically on organized religion. That or I need to stop playing Civ4. |
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an upcoming film by Dinesh D'Souza that basically accuses Democrats of being "the real racists". It will be shown in theaters on August 3. Feel free to add more details as new information about this film is revealed.