The blog goes on holiday.
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David will have no internet for at least a week, so won’t be posting. (Others may.) Fortunately, we know how to prepare properly for a holiday. Read more ›
New articles on RationalWiki, 5-11 May 2013.
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Blog postings have slowed while David moves house, but the wiki cranks along just the same. New stuff this week, and if you’re feeling further inspired there’s the to do list. Read more ›
Self-projection as goat.
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Self projection as goat, or vicarious autorationalism, is a process of psychological projection in which “rationalists” redefine or anticipate the results of their thinking, cherry-picking from The Fine Art of Baloney Detection to devise a rationalisation system reflecting their own personal beliefs, needs and desires. Read more ›
What “They” Don’t Want You To Know About Herbal Medicine
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The nutraceutical industry is actively disseminating lies and suppressing the truth about its placebo pills. Luckily for you, the savvy consumer, RationalWiki is here to save the day and tell you all the things that “They” (including your naturopath) don’t want you to know. Read more ›
New articles on RationalWiki, 28 April-4 May 2013.
0New pages, new pages, w00t, new pages! And of course the to-do list if you’re looking for ideas. Read more ›
Big Placebo.
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Big Placebo is a nickname for alternative medicine companies, coined as a counterpart to the name Big Pharma for drug companies. The main difference is that Big Pharma is regulated, while Big Placebo is free to sell more or less whatever it wants, label be damned. Read more ›
Intelligent design and academic freedom.
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Intelligent design proponents like to make a lot of noise about academic repression and denial of academic freedom. Beyond the whining are very few specific examples, and upon closer scrutiny even these examples are personality conflicts and academic politics rather than a vast conspiracy to suppress intelligent design. Read more ›
Best of the clogosphere, April 2013.
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We proudly present last month’s most upvoted entries from What is going on in the Clogosphere?, collecting the best of the worst of the Internet and the media as voted on by you, the readers, with tasty little up-down arrows Read more ›
The Arecibo answer.
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The Arecibo answer is a crop circle — or crop rectangle — that is purported to be a response to the Arecibo message, a piece of coded information about Earth and humanity beamed into space in 1974. It appeared in 2001 near the Chilbolton radio telescope in Hampshire, UK. Read more ›
New articles on RationalWiki, 21-27 April 2013.
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The blog may have been indisposed, but the wiki cranks on regardless. Do stop by and polish up the new stuff, or hit the to do list for fresh inspiration. Read more ›
State of the blog: recovering.
0And the blog returns from its holiday at the seaside. The blog is now happily resident on the main RationalWiki server. Just waiting for the DNS to resolve everywhere. I also need to fix the front page images. Read more ›
The RW Diet!
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THE RW DIET is a revolutionary new diet created by the world’s leading nutritionist, Bob Kapoor, in conjunction with RationalWiki and an international team of prize-winning scientists, such as the renowned Dr. R. Publicoaler, ND, Dr. X. Wu, MD, and the world famous Dr. D. Locklear, Ph.D, author of the award-winning book “How Quantum Herbs Cure Cancer”. Read more ›
State of the blog: addled.
5The site the blog is presently living on is fine for what it is, but what it is includes not being up to our needs, hence the blog’s party-stopping yoyo impression for much of today. We’re finally getting around to doing the sensible thing and setting it up on the main RationalWiki server. Read more ›
The North American Union, the NAFTA Superhighway and the Amero.
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The North American Union (NAU) is a theoretical — specifically, conspiracy theoretical — union of Canada, the US and Mexico in an oppressive Satanic theocracy as a precursor to one-world government, the New World Order, dogs and cats living together and real true patriots being thrown into FEMA concentration camps. Read more ›
Crank magnetism.
2Crank magnetism is the phenomenon where people become attracted to multiple crank ideas at the same time. You know that saying about not being so open-minded your brain falls out? People with crank magnetism didn’t pay attention to that. Read more ›
New articles on RationalWiki, 14-20 April 2013.
0New stuff, we got new stuff! Well, a bit. A few more than last week. And do glance over the to-do list. Read more ›