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The pipe trick can save you from some fidgety editing, especially when trying to link across namespaces.

For example: by typing in [[Forum:Loya Jirga|]] the software will automatically place [[Forum:Loya Jirga|Loya Jirga]] for you when saving, resulting in Loya Jirga.

Another useful trick is disambiguations such as [[mass (physics)|]], which is automatically replaced with [[mass (physics)|mass]], resulting in mass.

You can even use this to link to other wikis, e.g, [[wp:Help:Pipe trick|]] produces Help:Pipe trick.

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If you are really bored, you can help RationalWiki by writing stuff for us.

If you are really really bored, you can visit articles for deletion and see what needs pruning.

You can also help expand articles.

This is a place where:

  • You can add topics that you think might be good article subjects.
  • You can draw people's attention to articles which you think are mission-critical and/or need work.
  • You can find articles that are nearing front page status and bask in the reflected glory of getting "your" article on the main page.
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  1. Expand each of the year subsections and Ctrl-F or Cmd-F to see if your suggestion already exists.
  2. If no one has suggested it, yet, add your entry under Put article suggestions here (if you like focused editing) or at the top of the most recent year under Recent (if you don't mind doing tons of scrolling).
  3. Considering searching for and linking to related existing RationalWiki articles as well as the Wikipedia entry on your suggested topic in order to help stimulate interest.

Put article suggestions here[edit]

Gnome-colors-gtk-edit.svg If you click the [Edit] link next to "Put article suggestions here" and edit in this section here, the editor window won't show the full list of recent suggests and new articles, so you won't have to scroll as much to preview your changes. You can move your suggestion down to the Recent list when you're done, or another editor will move it for you.
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1Monsieur ZCreate draft an alternate history YouTuber who is so good at his job that he bends history at his will when he tries to tell real history. Saying outlandish things such as "Woodrow Wilson did nothing wrong"[1] even though he was a pro-eugenics KKK supporter, downplaying Project 2025 as "more left-wing fearmongering"[2] while as of 24 March 2025, 42% of it has already been executed,[3] looks at Trump allying with a dictator live on TV and says "meh ¯\_(シ)_/¯",[4] and other things I can't fit here.
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3Emilio Aguinaldo,Wikipedia Filipino revolutionary, military leader and statesman who became the first president of the Philippines, and the first president of an Asian constitutional republic. His public image in recent years has been marred with controversy especially in relation to his involvement in the assassinations of fellow revolutionaries and open collaboration with Japan during World War II, on top of his storied rivalry with Commonwealth-era president Manuel Quezon, as well as his antisemitism (Quezon spearheaded the sheltering of Jewish people escaping from the Holocaust, which Aguinaldo responded by espousing the usual canards against them). His descendants are still politically active in their home town of Kawit where the Aguinaldo Shrine is situated in.
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6Tradwives,Wikipedia a growing social media trend that focuses on women influencers pursuing the aesthetic of the 1950s housewife, all the while mixing bits of antifeminism, the Raw milk movement, anti-vaccination movement, fundamentalism (both within Christianity and Mormonism), and in some cases, alt-right ideologies.
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4Jason Aldean,Wikipedia American country singer, Trump ass-kisser and gun nut. His 2023 single "Try That in a Small Town" is little more than a right-wing slop of a dudebro anthem criticised by artists, politicians and consumers alike for its thinly veiled incitement of racism, lynching and other such forms of politically motivated violence.
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7Mark Carney,Wikipedia new prime minister-designate of Canada, and in two days, the real prime minister.[5] Previously Governor of the Bank of Canada and the Bank of England. His uprising came about after confidence in Justin Trudeau plummeted within the Liberal Party. He then announced his resignation from the post,[6] which led to a whole race for who was to become the new leader of said party, and eventually Canada as a whole (if only the country founded on democracy had that...). Curiously, the race for the Liberalship included Chrystia Freeland,Wikipedia who was the woman who caused the political fiascoWikipedia in the first place by resigning rather abruptly from the Cabinet in December.[7]
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7Mozilla,Wikipedia free and open-source software community supported by the non-profit Mozilla Foundation and the tax-paying for profit Mozilla Corporation. They best known for their web browser Firefox as well as their email client Thunderbird. Both products have been praised as privacy-focused alternatives to Google Chrome and the Microsoft Outlook email client. However, they gained controversy amongst the privacy-focused and open-source community in 2025 when they suddenly made changes to Firefox's terms of use that stated there would be a "nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license" to use any information that was uploaded or inputted into the browser. Mozilla tried defending themselves by saying the new terms of use "does NOT give us ownership of your data". They made yet another change by removing a pledge to never "sell your personal data". Mozilla have tried to clarify their terms but to a lot of the FOSS community, the damage was already done. The fallout led to many dropping Firefox and switching to its forks such as LibreWolf.
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6Mr. BeatCreate draft YouTuber, political educator. He's a Libertarian and supports figures like Ron Paul but against Trumpism and right-wing nutjobs, as well as holding several progressive beliefs.
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22025 Jubilee,Wikipedia Jubilee year announced by Pope John Paul II in 2000, and held from Christmas 2024 to Epiphany in January 2026. Knowing the growing conspiracist scourge of the early 21st century, the event was inevitably marred by conspiracy theories shared on the usual social media dumping grounds spuriously claiming that Pope Francis is supposedly opening a Luciferian portal to hell or something a la DOOM.
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25Jeff Bezos,Wikipedia Founder & Longtime CEO of Amazon. I'm honestly shocked that he dosen't have a page to himself already. Since he's proven himself an Oligarch with his support of Donald Trump & his censoring of The Washington Post.
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10Edgar Rice Burroughs,Wikipedia American author of Tarzan & John Carter fame. He also unfortunately used his works to push his eugenicist and scientific racism views, though the official Tarzan website later billed the titular ape-man as "a fighter against social injustice".
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8Red Scare Podcast,Wikipedia initially a duo of crass women who were part of the socialist "dirtbag left", they eventually grew to become alt-right MAGA die hards and began platforming figures like Tucker Carlson and Alex Jones.
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18Hulk Hogan,Wikipedia once the biggest icon in American pro wrestling, now best known for his racist comments that briefly got him blacklisted from WWE, his sex tape lawsuit that killed Gawker, his cheerleading for a fellow WWE Hall of Famer's presidential campaign, and the many blatant lies he's told about his career and life.
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-6Mecha,Wikipedia giant robots or machines or humanoid walking vehicles in science fiction. They are typically depicted as piloted. A notable IRL example is Kuratas by Suidobashi Heavy Industry.
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4Vibecamp,Wikipedia yet another meatspace networking event for the LessWrongers and their splinter movements
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2Study Technology,Wikipedia a.k.a. Study Tech, is a teaching method concocted by L. Ron Hubbard and used by Scientologists in their training. Study Tech is presented as a secular teaching method by the Church of Scientology affiliated corporation Applied Scholastics.
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3Quantified Self,Wikipedia, a mostly harmless movement which many LessWrongers are involved in; see also self-experimentation
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3Rationalist Solistice: "don't call LessWrong a cult! We just live in group houses, do drugs, and hold solistice festivals in the Bay Area like Leslie Fish" https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/CGkZEQdeBZZXbBT7o/on-rationalist-solstice-and-epistemic-caution (cp. https://archive.is/IC7Gt)
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1William MacAskill,Wikipedia leader of Longtermist Effective Altruism who used GiveWell EA as a front
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1Dwarkesh Patel, podcaster who funnels LessWrong ideas to the public via endorsements by tech billionaires and strange bloggers; he attended Manifest 2024 in Berkeley
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13Sex offender registries,Wikipedia Reasonable deterrent against sex predators and/or paedophiles, or a draconian measure affecting even otherwise innocent families and children themselves? This Human Rights Watch article highlights the problems inherent in it, or at least in its current implementation.
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4Joachim Hagopian,Wikipedia Conspiracist author who churned out screeds reeking of undue Satanic panic against the so-called deep state and taking discussion about Hollywood depravity way overboard, including but not limited to the horror stories surrounding child actress Shirley Temple.
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8Nepo baby,Wikipedia a neologism referring to someone who has achieved success or opportunities because of their family connections.
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10Europe now has an Alt-right faction since the last EU elections called "Europe of Sovereign Nations Group,Wikipedia", which was found by these assholes.
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4Embassy of Iran, Tokyo,Wikipedia the highest diplomatic representation of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Japan. Their current ambassador is Peiman Seadat. In 1986, the Embassy of Iran in Tokyo also protested a Golgo 13 story over it's portrayal of Iran and Ruhollah Khomeini
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11 ZiziansEdit draft is a weird cult-like movement on the fringes of the Silicon Valley artificial intelligence risk world. Nominally headed by a character known as Ziz, whose social conduct is based on Yudkowsky and Soare's "functional decision theory". They're obsessed with Center for Applied Rationality (CFAR) and the Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI). Zizians are linked to bizarre protests and several serious crimes, including murder and shootouts with police.
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7True Capitalist RadioCreate draft is a podcast hosted by a texan with the pseudonym of Ghost, a wingnut who spouts conspiracy theories and attracts a lot of trolls.
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-11Golgo 13,Wikipedia A long-running manga series about a professional assassin. It is the oldest manga in publication, dating back to 1968. The manga's creator, Takao Saito, died in 2021.
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5Mohammed Ben Sulayem,Wikipedia Emirati former rally driver and current president of the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA). Recently gained notoriety for F1 rules meant to curb on potentially inflammatory statements e.g. profanities by drivers in FIA-sanctioned events, which did not sit well with Formula One drivers to say the least. Not to mention that Ben Sulayem reportedly made a congratulatory statement towards Trump on his socials, making the FIA's DEI initiatives (especially considering Lewis Hamilton's ethnicity and all) rather pretentious and hypocritical.
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7Nick Bostrom,Wikipedia an Oxford professor, Existential Risk theorist, and writer of racist emails to the Extropians mailing list in the 1990s which he sort of apologized for in January 2023. Established Brits in general and OxBridge in particular throw around libel suits like confetti but an Oxford student newspaper and Wikipedia cover the emails.
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24Jesse James,Wikipedia an infamous outlaw and robber from the Old American West. He is falsely mythologized, mostly by confederate sympathizers or just some Southern right-wingers, as a Robin Hood-style folk hero when in reality he was an extremely racist asshole who was part of the Lost Cause of the South, worked as a Confederate guerilla, and a mass murderer who killed many Union soldiers and innocent civilians.
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19Paladin PMCCreate draft is one of the shadowy military groups that are loosely linked to the Kremlin. Founder and leader, Georgy Zakrevsky, called for the Russian army to oust Vladimir Putin.[8][9][10][11][12]
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74CarShieldCreate draft is a car insurance company and airwave polluter on par with the likes of MyPillow. The company purportedly provides extended warranty coverage for automobiles, but in reality it is basically a total scam.[13][14][15][16][17] Their ads claim that they will cover parts that need to be repaired, but in practice they will try to find any excuse to not cover the costs. It has 1.5 stars on the Better Business Bureau (keep in mind one is the lowest possible number)!
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33Proton AG,Wikipedia a Swiss tech company known for their privacy-focused alternative services such as Proton VPN, Proton Calendar, and most famously Proton Mail. Mail in particular is an extremely lauded and heavily audited alternative to Gmail due to its end-to-end encryption in contrast to the latter's privacy controversies. The company garnered backlash after CEO Andy Yen supported Donald Trump's nomination of Gail Slater and stated that modern Republicans to supposedly now being the ones "standing up for the little guys" and that liberals were the pro-big business party, despite the Republicans even more pro-big business than even establishment dems.
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412025 Southern California fires,Wikipedia a series of wildfires which erupted in, well, Southern California. Naturally this has been politicised and has also led to much conspiracism and chudbags playing the goddidit card, blaming the blaze on rampant debauchery and secularism particularly a viral video claiming that a certain celebrity's proclamation of LA as a "godless town" at the 2025 Golden Globes, or a bearded cross-dresser at the awards, led God to smite on the poor Angeleños. Besides religious nutjobs, many conservatives have been blaming supposed DEI hires of firefighters as well as governor Gavin Newsom as the cause for the fires spreading.
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31Woke Content DetectorCreate draft Steam group by Gamergater chud-bags collating games they deem to be too woke for their twisted and bigoted tastes, even those from series such as Grand Theft Auto whose brand of equal-opportunity satire is not too far off from the likes of South Park (e.g. the mere presence of LGBTQ+ characters in The Ballad of Gay Tony, never mind the fact that said community did get a litany of potshots at their expense such as the "Transfender" auto shops in San Andreas and the "Faggio" motor scooter, a portmanteau of "faggot" and the Piaggio brand of bikes). One forum user pointed out how the Half-Life series of first-person shooters was deemed "non-woke" even when the sequels added proto-DEI themes such as a Black scientist and his headstrong mixed-race daughter leading an anti-colonial resistance movement since 2004. The list also inspired a webshite made in the name of "satire".
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0MentisWaveCreate draft. A relative newcomer to the political commentary scene, he's Hoppean and describes himself as Right-Libertarian leaning, but he also claims to use rationalism in his content. Potential RationalWiki user as it stands.
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21 Since we cover technology as well, how about a page on Motion captureWikipedia?

New articles[edit]

New icon shiny badge.svg These former suggestions have been recently created and may still need plenty of work.

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Hasan PikerWikipedia 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.[18]

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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"

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Esoteric Nazism,Wikipedia a small new religious movement that literally believes Adolf Hitler was a god or some such. A wide range of other very surreal beliefs may or may not include that there is or once was a secret utopian continent called Hyperborea where Aryans came from (who may have been giants... or aliens... or Amalekites... or something), that traditional European folklore is literally true (gnomes and shit — but is that just overlap with broader Western esotericism?), swastikas and runes are magical, Atlantis existed and maybe Aryans came from there actually, etc. Often ties into neopaganism and/or Hinduism. See also: Savitri Devi, Vril, Nazi UFOs, Faustian spirit, Occultism in Nazism, O9AWikipedia, Thule Society, Julius Evola, Ahnenerbe, Robert Charroux, Woden's Folk, Axel Stoll, and Otto Rahn. Compare: Positive Christianity.

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Matt Gaetz:Wikipedia 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.

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Oliver North,WikipediaFormer 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.

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Enshittification:Wikipedia This is a recurring trend with online platforms, social media, and more. Most of it is for squeezing out even more profits.

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Movie and Television Review and Classification BoardWikipedia 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.

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Oswald Spengler,Wikipedia historian who was a major influence on the Nazis, although he was opposed to and eventually ostracized by them. (On Wikipedia.)

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Mark RobinsonWikipedia The current Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina and Republican nominee for Governor of North Carolina. A self-described "Black Nazi," Robinson has promoted racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, antisemitism, atheophobia, and Holocaust denial.

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UP PhoneCreate draft, Yet another one of them libertarian smartphones sold by Big Alt-Tech in similar vein to Freedom Phone. Conceived by Blackwater founder Erik Price, and despite claims that they developed the phone from scratch, it could be just another generic ODM device flashed with a sketchy ROM and sold at a marked up price.

Most wanted articles[edit]

Gnome-emblem-favorite.svg These suggestions have scored 150 or more. We would love you to write something on-mission for them! See RationalWiki:Most upvoted to do entries for a list sorted by upvotes.
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162There's No TomorrowCreate draft, a 30-minute animation on peak oil. Add legitimate criticism of infinite growth forever and some environmentalism with fair amounts of poorly-masked Rotschild conspiracy and survivalism (especially towards the end). Their site, with the video.
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171Transhumanist theoristsCreate draft, a catch-all of all the more popular nutters. (Especially Ronald Bailey, a Reasonoid who doesn't really understand liberal theory.)
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171Hurricane 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.
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213Donald Trump sexual misconduct allegationsWikipedia Especially after the E. Jean Carroll trials these should have an article. There are many, and not all of them were children.
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173Maury Island incident,Wikipedia alleged UFO sighting with men in black
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178Hwang Woo-suk,Wikipedia Korean scientist who faked human stem cell cloning. His story also includes nationalism, fraud, and even trace amounts of misogyny.
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171 Xylazine,Wikipedia or "Tranq" how the MSM calls it. The newest drug addiction in Philly, that originated in Puerto Rico. Has some really nasty side effects.
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185World Health OrganizationEdit draft one of the specialized agencies of the United Nations. They are also a popular scapegoat for anti-vaxx conspiracy theorists, and quacks in general.
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177Galen WinsorCreate draft, "the man who eats uranium"[1], 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.[2]IMDb
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198 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.
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173Excited deliriumWikipedia
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177Ship of Theseus.Wikipedia Both the traditional thought experiment and the fallacious debate tactic outlined in this Innuendo Studios vid.
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180DiogenesWikipediaAncient Greek who was a founder for the school of thought of Cynicism. Was also an influence on Stoicism. More humorously though he lived in a large barrel and once mocked Alexander the Great to his face. Other feats of his include "urinating on some people who insulted him, defecation in the theatre, and masturbation in public". He is also known for his stunt mocking Plato's definition of a man as a "featherless biped".
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196VTuber:Wikipedia 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?
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181Anastasia Romanov,Wikipedia 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!
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182October Surprise conspiracy theoryWikipedia Speaking of which.
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182October SurpriseWikipedia 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.
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173Sloot Digital Coding System,Wikipedia 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.
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176LK-99Wikipedia 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.[3] The method was particularly sensational because of the comparatively inexpensive copper and lead used in its production,[4] so DIY engineers are still trying their own methods to recreate it.[5]
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171Virginia Giuffre,Wikipedia 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
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184Groomer (slur).Wikipedia 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.
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168David EvansWikipedia and his organisation Science SpeakCreate draft - global warming denialist and conspiracy theorist wrapped up in one (http://za.news.yahoo.com/global-warming-global-domination-163100611.html)
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173Predatory lending.Wikipedia
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178The 2023 Ohio train derailment,Wikipedia 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.
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162UrsuAdamsCreate 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.
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168Mississippi 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.
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163Dr Brad HarrubCreate draft of Focus Press and YouTube. A Ph.D. 'scientist' who only seems to do Christian apologetics
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176Perhaps 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...
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164Powdered alcoholWikipedia 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. [6] (Another Thunderf00t video)
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165Scaremongering "documentary" The Demographic WinterCreate draft.
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164Missing Universe MuseumCreate draft (http://missinguniversemuseum.com). Found this retarded YEC website by way of Something Awful.
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163Source FieldCreate draft - not the sane version, but the cracktastic one, with capitals.
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167Lynn AndrewsCreate draft, a shaman healer and mystic who peddles all sorts of falsehoods. Her webshite
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164EOC InstituteCreate draft [7]
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189The Matrix (film)Wikipedia both for it's themes and the blue pill/red pill nonsense
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175Considering most of the guys at RationalWiki are a bunch of sex-deprived assholes, it's shocking we haven't written on Karen Stollznow,Wikipedia Kylie Sturgess,Wikipedia Catherine Deveny,Wikipedia Jennifer Ouellette,Wikipedia Rachael Dunlop,Wikipedia Susan Blackmore,Wikipedia Vicki Hyde,Wikipedia Iszi LawrenceCreate draft, Rebecca Watson,Wikipedia and the SkepchicksWikipedia yet. Note: "Skepchick" re-directs to Rebecca Watson's page as of writing.
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173Bahram KatiraiCreate draft (1948-2010), a Baha'i crank who claimed, among other things, that galaxies contain only one star (the rest of the stars of the Milky Way are actually planets, asteroids and clouds of dust reflecting sunlight)
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170Victor SenchenkoCreate draft author of Revelations of a Human Space Navigator (no, it's not science fiction) and an atheist
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171Edward BabinskiCreate draft - interesting-looking blogger who moved from fundamentalism to agnosticism.[8] and [9] might be useful.
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186PseudoengineeringCreate 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.
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174PowerLungCreate draft, Elevation Training MaskWikipedia 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.
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168XMRVWikipedia (see ERV's coverage)
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163Medical HypothesesWikipedia - Controversial non-peer-reviewed journal taken over by quacks, mostly of the anti-vax and AIDS denialist stripes.
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181American Conservative UnionWikipedia and its CPACWikipedia (Conservative Political Action Conference), frequently mentioned in articles but never handled directly. Its leader made the bizarre claim that the alt-right is actually alt-left.
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178Atrazine,Wikipedia the pesticide chemical that turns frogs gay, and Tyrone Hayes,Wikipedia the scientist who discovered this. He now runs a website: http://atrazinelovers.com
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166Al-Anon,Wikipedia because people seem to think they are owned by the Co$ in the same way that Narconon is. Al-Anon and Nar-AnonWikipedia are twelve step programs for the friends and families of those affected by addiction and are associated with Alcoholics Anonymous and Narcotics Anonymous, respectively.
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182archive.isWikipedia — currently just a redirect.
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177Universe - 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.
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175Colleen ThomasCreate draft, a possibly mentally ill woman who has made a variety of nutty claims, including that Obama is an alien lizard[10]. Russia Today saw fit to interview her.
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187Twitter Files.Wikipedia Might deserve its own article independent of Elon Musk or Twitter, as an example of propaganda/disinformation.
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180Wayne HerschelCreate draft, a South African crank author (website). Tried to hoax Above Top Secret and it backfired (just search for "Wayne Herschel hoax").
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181Roberto 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.
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184Richard 'Brad'shaw Watson IICreate draft and his Planet NestorCreate draft who managed to get a conference poster of his ( http://exep.jpl.nasa.gov/exep_exoMtgPosters.cfm / http://PlanetNestor.blogspot.com ) mentioned on the JPL NASA website
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184Leslie KeaneCreate draft - Reporter who wrote a book on UFOs. Poses as a moderate, but is fundamentally a kook.
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183Roseanne BarrWikipedia — TV star, Trump supporter, and multiple conspiracy theory believer.[11][12]
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167Prevent,Wikipedia the British government's anti-extremism strategy[13] founded under Tony Blair in 2003 but reviewed under David Cameron/Theresa May in 2011[14] and still active, initially founded primarily to combat radical Islamism, but also involved with countering the far right[15], and radical environmentalism[16]. There are concerns about freedom of speech.[17][18]
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180The Great DictatorWikipedia is a 1940 American political satire comedy-drama film written, directed, produced, scored by and starring Charlie Chaplin. The film advanced a stirring, controversial condemnation of Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, fascism, antisemitism, and Nazi Germany.
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166Disease mongeringWikipedia - There should really be an article on this IMHO. Wikipedia.
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171Aztec UFO hoax,Wikipedia relevant to the "FBI memo" that recently made headlines[19] (no, it was not about Roswell) See wp:Frank Scully.
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185John Lenard WalsonCreate draft, a guy who claims that he has made pictures of (alien) spaceships in Earth orbit with his telescope[20] (possibly known as GRIDKEEPER (channel) on YouTube)
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200Military 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.
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193We have an article for Audio woo, why not Video wooCreate draft?
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187John LearCreate draft - thinks that the Moon has atmosphere and aliens live there; wears a tin foil shako
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190David SewellCreate draft - mastermind behind PRATTs like this and this; author of books such as The Political Gene: How Darwin's Ideas Changed Politics
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176Think we ought to have a page for Ivanka Trump?Wikipedia 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?"
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177Hunting and Conservation;Wikipedia 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.
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173Eyewitness testimony:Wikipedia 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 identificationWikipedia 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.
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171The hygiene hypothesisWikipedia of child cleanliness and immune systems, e.g. [21]. There's a short section in food allergy.
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196Guide to the Book of MormonCreate draft
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173Lost Ship of the Desert,Wikipedia 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.[22][23][24][25][26][27] It's the intersection of several myths: Pre-Columbian contact theories, legends from the American West about lost gold mines[28], and entrepreneurs worldwide promoting rumored shipwrecks laden with unimaginable treasure.
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172Ketanji Brown Jackson:Wikipedia The first new justice to joint the Supreme Court during the Biden administration, and the first black woman to serve on the Supreme Court.
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166Applied ZoopharmacognosyWikipedia - "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/.)
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181Rendlesham Forest incident:Wikipedia Britain's equivalent of the Roswell Incident.
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175Geneva Conventions.Wikipedia I'm surprised the wiki doesn't have an article on the seminal conventions regarding the laws of war, especially since it's of relevance to the War on Terror and associated acts of government incompetence and/or malice.
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209Patriot FrontEdit draft is an offshoot of the Nazi group Vanguard America,Wikipedia 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.[29] Their names have been released by the sheriff's office here: [30]
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181Operation HighjumpWikipedia was a 1947 United States Navy expedition to Antarctica headed by Admiral Richard E. Byrd. Ancient Aliens says that in a diary found by his son, he wrote that he found an enormous cave that was an entrance to a warm, lush, and green Inner Earth which they compared to the giant long-hidden Vietnamese cave Son Doong.Wikipedia
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170Bongbong Marcos:Wikipedia 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.
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168Libel laws,Wikipedia with information on their abuse by woo-meisters, libel tourism, and science by lawsuit. Could possibly be merged with SLAPP suit.
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202AculifeCreate 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.
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172Amy Coney Barrett:Wikipedia The newest member of the conservative wing of the Supreme Court, added to the court following the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
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215Microbes on the ArkCreate draft Nothing on Noah and the amoeba?
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167The "Olduvai theoryWikipedia" that blackouts became normal last year and we're going to hell in a handbasket. Refuting chart.
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229Warranted 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".
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189Gain of function researchWikipedia or how COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) S2 spike proteins gained the functional spike protein from HIV-1 gp41. [31] [32] [33]
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187Grooming,Wikipedia 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.
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205Russell Brand:Wikipedia 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.
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165SCIgen,Wikipedia the fake paper generator used to test scam conferences and predatory journals.
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175Monkeypox:Wikipedia 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[34][35] but just give us the facts!
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171The Denisovans,Wikipedia as in the "Woman X" found in Siberia who may have inhabited the area throughout eastern Asia.
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1665-HTP,Wikipedia 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.
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167Eye color,Wikipedia 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[19] 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.
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167Solar RoadwaysWikipedia 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.[36][37]
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188Ferdinand MarcosWikipedia needs no introduction. The best worst president the Philippines ever had.
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175Uranium One conspiracy theoryWikipediaAnother conspiracy against Hillary Clinton
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167Fight The New Drug,Wikipedia 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.
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166TerasemWikipedia[38][39][40] made the news not long ago for tricking NCIS actress Pauley Perrette into appearing to endorse their arrant bullshit. It's been described as a "robot cult" and calls itself a "transreligion".
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189Gadsden flag:Wikipedia 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.
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172Robb Elementary School shootingWikipedia (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
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212Isaac Hayes,Wikipedia 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: [41]
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196HotepWikipedia or Hotep movement; a sexist and conspiratorial version of black nationalism, mixed with standard Afrocentric woo about ancient Egypt.
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173SteviaWikipedia 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".
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173Overtoun Bridge,Wikipedia the "dog suicide bridge"[42], 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.
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207Stochastic terrorismWikipedia and/or Lone wolfWikipedia — 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.
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185VeggieTalesWikipedia — a Christian indoctrination program disguised as a children's show.
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166United Constitutional Patriots,Wikipedia a right-wing militia group in New Mexico that has been illegally detaining kidnapping immigrants at gunpoint while they are attempting to cross the border. Their felonious leader Larry Mitchell Hopkins was recently arrested by the FBI on firearms charges.[20] There is also an associated Facebook page.[21]
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239Sweatshop,Wikipedia 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.
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165JackalopesWikipedia are the elusive horned rabbitsWikipedia 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.
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231Get 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.[43][44] But the woo health press is all over them.[45][46] (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.[47]
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190Filibuster in the United States Senate,Wikipedia 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.
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190Oil pipelineWikipedia — 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.
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174Non-Celiac Gluten SensitivityWikipedia (NCGS), which is likely to not exist at all and has been used to justify Gluten-free fad diets.
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181Caitlyn JennerWikipedia is vaguely mentioned here and here. It seems that she's becoming more and more like Buck Angel when looking at her twitter and seeing some of her tweets. She has appeared on the most truthful news channel in the US. She ran as a replacement candidate in the 2021 California gubernatorial recall election for certain political party. She calls herself a transgender activist, yet not everyone in the LGBTQ+ community sees it that way. In fact, she sounds more like one of those special kind of activists.
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178The Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic PartnershipWikipedia — which parts of it are fine and which are not?
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185Earthquake lights.Wikipedia A somewhat-mysterious phenomenon linked with earthquakes and reportedly sometimes confused for UFOs (see also ball lightning). Wikipedia is vague.
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208Processed food.Wikipedia Also something that will kill you. (Or save you. [48])
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166uBeam:Wikipedia 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 [49][50][51] Any bored physicists in the house?
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167Brilliant Light Power,Wikipedia 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 [52]
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236VoatWikipedia 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.
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258Rodney King.Wikipedia We've got pages on Matthew Shepard, Trayvon Martin, and Vincent Chin; why not King?
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173The Fort Hood shootingWikipedia is now getting coverage because wingnuts believe Obama the FBI has a double standard for "not treating it as a terrorist act."
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179Let's continue on with our liberal boogeypersons: Rosie O'Donnell.Wikipedia
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165The Vega testWikipedia or Vega machineWikipedia[53][54][55], by reader request.
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173Pesticide.Wikipedia Someone made User:Tweenk/Pesticide residue, which is relevant.
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184The RockefellersWikipedia/Rockefeller Foundation.Wikipedia 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.
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182Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex (But Were Afraid to Ask)Wikipedia 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.
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226Mary Elizabeth Croft 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)
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172Bill Gaede,Wikipedia physics crank known for his theory the Rope Hypothesis. His WP article talks about his legal troubles, but the woo goes deep here and is very RW. Has followers. Site: http://www.youstupidrelativist.com/ Already in the list of Internet kooks and pushes the Rational Science Method. The Facebook group is remarkable.
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250TDP lampCreate draft aka biolamp (a reader request), with wooish claims of the magickal powers of far-infrared — the Wikipedia article is noticeably lacking in critique. Perhaps the wooish side of infrared in general.
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178Lamaze,Wikipedia a natural childbirth technique.
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185Something along the lines of Found footageWikipedia/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.
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173There's nothing here about Eugene Podkletnov?Wikipedia
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197BP.Wikipedia Why?
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168Jean-Luc Brunel,Wikipedia another known associate of Jeffrey Epstein, he was arrested and charged with rape of minors. He was later found dead in his jail cell in La Santé Prison, after he died from an alleged "suicide by hanging".
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169The Army of Northern Virginia.Wikipedia "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. VallelyWikipedia
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202Montessori educationWikipedia 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.
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181Mass Formation PsychosisWikipedia 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.)
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185Project AvalonWikipediahttp://projectavalon.net/, also have a look at their forum
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229Ketamine:Wikipedia 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. LillyWikipedia 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.
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181Time for lulz: Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth.Wikipedia This is an organisation led by 9/11 Truther Richard Gage. His website.
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172Shadow Inc.,Wikipedia the technology company that gained attention after their IowaReporterApp software failed during the 2020 Iowa Democratic caucuses and received donations from Pete Buttigieg, Joe Biden, and Kirsten Gillibrand. Its parent company is ACRONYMWikipedia manipulates a hybrid model of a 501(c)4 entity that does not disclose donors and a Super PAC that does.[56]
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186Uplifting,Wikipedia 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.
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218Dr. Phil:Wikipedia 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.
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219We should create an article on the subject of a surveillance stateWikipedia 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.
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215David Rockefeller,Wikipedia a pundit whose speeches are constantly quote mined for conspiracies.
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338I don't know how RationalWiki typically deals with ongoing current events, but I think an article about the Russo-Ukrainian War,Wikipedia maybe in a liveblog-style article, would be pretty useful.
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437Doe v. Trump (2016)Wikipedia 1:16-cv-07673-RA ([57] [58] [59]) 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 ([60] [61]) 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.[62] [63] [64] [65] A draft has been created at Draft:Donald Trump child rape cases.
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305Jeff BezosWikipedia 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.
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316Carbon tax:Wikipedia 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.
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228An actual article on Mass Surveillance;Wikipedia we currently just have Security theater, which isn't a very expansive discussion on the topic. Missional for explorations of authoritarianism.
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246First Amendment auditsWikipedia — 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.[66] Initially in the US but a similar group, Auditing Britain, has been invading COVID testing centres.[67]
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202Whitehouse.gov petitions:Wikipedia An ePetition site started by the Obama administration to make the people's voices feel heard. It was mostly ignored during the Trump administration, then taken down the day Biden was sworn into office. But why?
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208Process Church of the Final Judgment:Wikipedia An offshoot of the Church of $cientology with influences from Satanism featuring infamous members such as Charles Manson and David Berkowitz;Wikipedia the church itself or a splinter group known as "The Children" may have been tied to the Son of SamWikipedia killings. Manson said of the church: "Well, a lot of the guys were interested in studying how to clear your mind. That's where Scientology started. Then it got to be The Process."
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237Operation FishbowlWikipedia was a series of nuclear weapons tests. Cranks somehow think this proves Flat Earth.
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333Ghislaine Maxwell:Wikipedia Her trial starts today.[68] I definitely expected there to be an article here already.
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238VrilWikipedia — holy shit, we don't have a page on this?
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189The Rife machineWikipedia uses electricity in an attempt to treat cancer, Lyme disease, and other diseases. It went out of favor for awhile and has now been revived. Even Andrew Weil says they don't work.[69]
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206Leaky gut syndrome,Wikipedia 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.
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240Mark Rossini,Wikipedia former FBI agent who played a major role in trying to track al-Qaeda before the CIA blocked him from sharing the information that two known terrorists (Khalid al-Mihdhar and Nawaf al-Hazmi), who later went on to carry out the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center, had entered the US.[22]
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205QAnon AnonymousWikipedia 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.
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202The importance of Yuri BezmenovWikipedia 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.)
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217Q: Into the StormWikipedia 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 WatkinsWikipedia and Ron Watkins.Wikipedia QAnon followers have already tied it into their "conspiracy".[70]
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215Palladium hydrideWikipedia is an odd one that can absorb 800~900x its volume in hydrogen.[23] There's a lot of woo behind it including claims that it can be used to make a room-temperature superconductorWikipedia 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 PalladiumWikipedia would be fine.
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292After the 2019 release of the Afghanistan PapersWikipedia detailing that the feds had, as of then, been lying us for the past 18 years, maybe an article on them is appropriate?
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245ComicsgateWikipedia 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.
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306Vitamin CWikipedia (and ZincWikipedia) — people take them when they're sick, but how much does it really help? Currently has a section in Vitamin and mineral supplements, but if Vitamin D has its own article then Vitamin C definitely deserves one.
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296Amazon RainforestCreate draft As there has been a lot of misinformation about this in the media in recent years, it seems fitting.
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2082020–2021 Indian farmers' protestWikipedia Indian Farmers Protest
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392This so-called COVID-19 lab leak hypothesisWikipedia — with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying being some of its main proponents [71] [72] [73] — 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.
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232Thorium-based nuclear power:Wikipedia A lot of crap surrounding the thorium powered reactor in pop sci magazines, a lot of it debunked by thunderf00t.
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224The Capitol Hill Autonomous ZoneWikipedia 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).
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248Isaac KappyWikipedia was an American actor known for his roles in Thor, Terminator: Salvation, and Breaking Bad. He was also best friends with Seth GreenWikipedia until allegedly being approached by Seth about pedophilia in Hollywood and being asked to participate apparently referring to it as "chicken".[74][75] 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,Wikipedia John Podesta,Wikipedia Dan Schneider,Wikipedia Jimmy Savile,Wikipedia and Tom HanksWikipedia 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.
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204HuaweiWikipedia and ZTE,Wikipedia 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.
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218Occupy Democrats:Wikipedia An extreme left-wing series of websites with an abysmal fact-checking record and Breitbart style spin according to MBFC, Politifact, and Snopes.
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259Fake 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.
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406Something along the lines of race and police brutality in the United StatesWikipedia – 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).
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347Sutherland Springs church shooting,Wikipedia and the Atomwaffen scum perpetrator Devin Patrick KelleyWikipedia[24] A draft has been created at Sutherland Springs church shooting.
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462Dr. Salvatore Cezar PaisWikipedia is listed as the inventor of four 2019 U.S. Navy patents that have been described as "Star Trek technology".[76] 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.[77]
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302We should have an article on Christian supremacy,Wikipedia the societal mindset in the US promotes the superiority of Christianity and by extension Christians, be they social or institutionalized norms. (Think of the phrase "It's the Christian thing to do.") Note: we already have articles on the United States as a Christian nation, Christian Identity, and Dominionism.
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357Dr. Mary's MonkeyWikipedia 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.
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299Gun control in Nazi GermanyWikipedia - 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.
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314AATIPWikipedia - 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.[78]
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307Project 1794,Wikipedia 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).
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333Eric P. DollardCreate draft, an electrical engineer and inventor who claims to be continuing the works of Tesla and focusing on earthquake prediction[25][26] and what appears to be free energy.[27][28] His lab is mentioned on Wikipedia[29] as well as Powerpedia[30] and John Chappell's Natural Philosophy Society wiki.[31] He has had several successful Indiegogo campaigns.[32][33][34][35][36][37] He also has his own website,[38] and there even is an entire forum dedicated to his work.[39]
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238False rape accusations.Wikipedia 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.
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262NESARAWikipedia (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.
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245Gravitational wavesWikipedia 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."
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322From the darker bits of the Dark Enlightenment: James A. DonaldCreate draft (JAD, http://blog.jim.com/ ), the guy so racist even Eric S. Raymond calls him a racist and such an asshole even Slate Star Codex regularly bans him from commenting. He comes out with such gems as "National socialism kills people not because it is nationalist, but because it is socialist" and calls white nationalism "moderate leftism". And he has important information on the Jews. And he's an anarcho-capitalist. And he is also self admitted pedophile, rapist, rape and pedophilia apologist, admirer of ISIS and Boko Haram (for their solution of the "women question") Even hard core Nazis are calling him a monster. I don't think I've ever seen a non-asshole word from him, though I will credit him with enough sense to realise Bitcoin was unscalable from day one.
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237DARPAWikipedia 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.
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304Secret Mysteries of America's BeginningsCreate draft, a four-part, twelve-hour schlockumentary by Dr. Stan MonteithWikipedia linking the founding fathers to every conspiracy theory imaginable. Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4
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225Charleston church shooting,Wikipedia and the white supremacist Dylann RoofWikipedia who massacred nine African American people at a church in 2015. He has been pictured wearing the flags of Rhodesia and apartheid-era South Africa, as well as the Confederate flag. In 2017, he became the first person in the US to be sentenced to death for federal hate crimes.
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213Alexander Technique,Wikipedia it is mentioned on RW under Alternative Medicine Education and listed as a "Medical Cult" in Martin Gardner's Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science alongside iridodiagnosis and zone therapy, but we have no page explaining what the technique entails.
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212Making a MurdererWikipedia 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.
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266GCHQ,Wikipedia 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.
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193Josef PappWikipedia 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.[79][80] 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.
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208Florence Nightingale,Wikipedia a nurse who was an early pioneer of evidence-based medicine.
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218Since Trump has been in the news for signing a federal ban on animal abuse, let's look back on Animal rights in Nazi GermanyWikipedia and/or/combined with Hitler and environmentalism.Wikipedia When these have entered mainstream conservative thought in America, you know something's up.
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306Cryptocurrency:Wikipedia 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.
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201The Innocence ProjectWikipedia 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.
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271Hunting Hitler,Wikipedia a History Channel show that claims Adolf Hitler and his wife, Eva Braun, managed to escape from Berlin to Argentina. And the rest...is pseudohistory.
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205Vanguard America,Wikipedia an American white supremacist, neo-Nazi, neo-fascist hate group that has been attached to several acts of violence and domestic terrorism, including the car attack in Charlottesville on people protesting the Unite the Right rally. The perpetrator of the attack, James Alex Fields Jr., had been seen at the rally wielding a shield distributed by Vanguard America. The organization is also a member of the Nationalist Front.Wikipedia
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229The O. J. Simpson murder caseWikipedia (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.
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283Rick SimpsonCreate draft, who believes that hemp oil cures cancer and every other ill.[81] "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.
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290Big OrganicCreate draft, or how the organic food lobby gets its way. A draft has been created at Draft:Big Organic.
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188Bill WeldWikipedia 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.
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181ASEA,Wikipedia another classic example of a water woo pyramid scheme, they make bold health claims and use vague, nonscientific descriptions of free radicalsWikipedia and "Redox Signaling Molecules", sometimes even mixing it with real science.[40][41] 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)."[42] They also have a YouTube channel.[43]
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266Keto diet,Wikipedia if not adequately covered by Low-carb diet. Here's /r/keto's "in a nutshell" explanation. Apparently the low-carb diet article has already got some criticism from the related communities, so the article should better appeal to the kind of people who'd pursue this stuff.
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317Sherry 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.[44][45] Another follower killed herself in 2013 after not receiving treatment for schizophrenia which they do not think exists.[46] 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.[47]
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366CoreCivic,Wikipedia 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.
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263Operation 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 TerrorWikipedia, is actually "Gladio B".
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334The Cult Awareness NetworkWikipedia (CAN), aka Old Cult Awareness Network (Old CAN), an anti-cult group, and its doppelganger, the New Cult Awareness NetworkWikipedia (New CAN), a Scientology-controlled fake anti-cult front group. (See: wp:Cult Awareness Network and wp:New Cult Awareness Network.)
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273FunVaxCreate draft, short for "Fundamentalist Vaccine", is the vaccine for religious fundamentalism described in a video allegedly leaked from the Pentagon[48] and later sensationalized popularized by Natural News.[49] It works by using a viral vector that inhibits/decreases the expression of the VMAT2 gene[50] which has also been referred to as the "God gene".Wikipedia[51] A copy of the final report can be found here.
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253The Crystal GridCreate draft: a woo-tastic website.[82]. Besides trying to build worldwide network of crystals, they've got a bogus cell phone radiation blocker.[83]
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263Street light interferenceWikipedia of the human variety, aka SLIders (not the TV show). A way some woomongers make themselves feel special. The Wikipedia article is pretty good, if understated.
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192change.orgWikipedia We have ePetitions, why not this?
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217Electronic pickpocketing:Wikipedia 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.)
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242International Monetary Fund.Wikipedia 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)
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263ADIFOCreate 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.[84] 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
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197Apparently we don't have an article on Rosa ParksWikipedia? 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?
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186Alexander Shulgin.Wikipedia 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.
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167Zuma,Wikipedia 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.
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257HmolpediaCreate 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.
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247AIPAC.Wikipedia It's a lobbying group and pro-Israel, so it's basically a giant magnet for conspiracy theories.
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207The Kyshtym dwarfWikipedia or Aleshenka / Alyoshenka was a small humanoid body found near Kyshtym, Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia.[52] 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.[53][54]
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184Intervention,Wikipedia both the general idea and the A&E television series of the same name. Tricking someone into treatment under threat of excommunication doesn't sound like the healthiest or most effective route.
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230With protests against police brutality currently going on, I feel like an article discussing the movement towards defunding the policeWikipedia 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.
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333Jim WatkinsWikipedia is a former military helicopter repairman and since 2016 the owner of 8chan. There are also indicators that he (or his son who admins 8chan, Ron WatkinsWikipedia a.k.a. C!Odemonkey on 8chan or CodeMonkeyZ on Twitter) might be the "Q" from QAnon on 8chan. He is also the owner of the far right Japanese messageboard 2channel.Wikipedia (monetized QAnon, Reddit evidence compilation, Fred Brennan proves that Watkins owns QMAP)
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232The Socialist Rifle AssociationWikipedia 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.
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185ACTA,Wikipedia or put an area for it in the SOPA article.
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180OPECWikipedia
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172Allen Ginsberg,Wikipedia a beatnik, commie, homosexual, marijuana enthusiast, and an overall very liberal icon. I'm genuinely surprised that he doesn't have a RationalWiki page yet (see the Wikipedia article for a start).
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171Bounty Hunters.Wikipedia No, I'm not talking about the ones from Star Wars, but real life ones, such as bail recovery agents. Learned about this one after watching this episode of John Oliver (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IS5mwymTIJU)
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192 The Woozle effect,Wikipedia 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.
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255Meether ConceptCreate draft - cosmological pseudoscience that is currently being spread through Quora by its author a guy who just happened to recently discover it, Lou Liu, at a rate of ~2 posts a day. Begins with a reasonable-sounding explanation of the Big Bang, and progresses into outright batshit. "our soul and our Set Meether are one and the same. When our Set Meether pressure drops to zero, it loses its control over our body and our life ends. ImMeether will then vanish as our body decomposes."
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282The 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.
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232Tom HanksWikipedia was accused of being a pedophile with no evidence by QAnon nutters[85] then became an honorary citizen of Greece.
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213I see we don't have any pages for Georgy Malenkov,Wikipedia Nikita Khrushchev,Wikipedia Leonid Brezhnev,Wikipedia Yuri Andropov,Wikipedia & Konstantin ChernenkoWikipedia yet. We can't leave those comrades out, now can we?
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202Tila Tequila,Wikipedia 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.)
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168The Insurrection Act of 1807Wikipedia has been used by QANONers to claim that Trump is still the president because he invoked this act before leaving office. It places the military (General Charles A. FlynnWikipedia) in command, and suspends habeas corpus, and allegedly gives him the ability to strip the media of the their licenses. Apparently mixed a bit with beliefs from the sovereign citizen movement.[86][87][88]
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172Bélmez FacesWikipedia are a bunch of images on a concrete floor supposedly appearing out of no where.
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172Archaeological interest of Pedra da GáveaWikipedia - not in any way timely, but still a particularly delicious set of pseudohistory, pseudoarchaeology, pseudolinguistics, and pareidolia.
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181Göbekli TepeWikipedia 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.
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262CantelmoismCreate draft, what appears to be a (dead) "Reddit cult"[55][56] apparently obsessed with DMT.[57]
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183Roanoke colonyWikipedia - 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[89][90]. 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[91]).
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175Whales and specifically whaling,Wikipedia 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).
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192El AlWikipedia: Israel's flag carrier, and a heavy target for some Anti-Zionist, sometimes Anti-semitic, and even Islamophobic conspiracy theories.
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247Super PAC.Wikipedia How is there not an article on these yet?
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203The Goop LabWikipedia: A Netflix documentary series hosted by actress Gwyneth Paltrow, which has received quite some attention & negative responses due to the amounts of Pseudoscience & health woo on the show. BS like: "Mushrooms being good for relaxation & health", "Icebaths being good for "making your body Alkaline" which, in return, gets all the poison out of your body" & "Needles are good for your skin". Others include: Energy Healing, "how to get rid of evil demons!!1!!" & female sexuality.
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177The ongoing Australian bushfire crisisWikipedia 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.
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170TR-3 Black MantaWikipedia/TR-3B, alleged to be top secret US government stealth planes, beloved by conspiracy theorists.[92][93][94] Connected by some with black triangle UFO sightings. Or maybe they don't exist.
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177Bisphenol A,Wikipedia also known as BPA. Harmful to developing fetuses? Causing widespread infertility in adults? Or just the latest public health scare?

References[edit]

  1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_CCYMXZ7yQ
  2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8snfV5xWYYg
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