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RationalWiki started in May 2007 after a group of editors at Conservapedia were banned for trying to counteract the overwhelming anti-scientific and far-right political bias, largely by debating the issues on talk-pages. Althought the site was called RationalWiki to highlight the pro-scientific worldview of the founders, the content was largely weighted to the perceived lunacy of events at Conservapedia. Most articles focus on unfounded medical claims, pseudoscience and Biblical literalism. Despite a seemingly anti-religious stance, many editors are practicing Christans or Jews, tending towards the more liberal aspects of their religion rather than fundamentalism.

The site works to refute a range of faith based ideas and superstitions. They have material on Scientology, Astrology, New Age and many others.

Their stated goals are:

• Analyzing and refuting the anti-science movement, ideas and people.
• Analyzing and refuting the full range of crank ideas.
• Explorations of authoritarianism and fundamentalism.

Most of their traffic is to do with the page What is going on at Conservapedia? The website has a highly controversial sense of humour.
Example of RationalWiki’s perspective:-

As a site we have a point of view, and that point of view is that the scientific method and the information gained from its application is better than almost anything else humanity has come up with. We believe that the support of, profiting from and creation of pseudosciences is dangerous and wrong. [1]

Criticism

Many of the members, especially admins, admit to having been vandals at many different wikis including Conservapedia. They have attacked Conservapedia in the following manners

• Fighting and picking fights;
• Trying to remove content;
• Adding content that portrays Liberals as something other than Evil Incarnate;
• Blanking pages, including pages of admins;
• Using foul language against other editors;
• Showing outright contempt for the site, conservatism in general, Christianity, and family values;
• The insertion of objectionable content, such as porn images and links to porn sites;
• Lying, by either including deliberately false article content, suggesting that Conservatives might not be divine beings of immaculate virtue, or lying in their own conduct;
• Vandalism and cyber-terrorist tactics. Because making malicious edits to a webpage that can be reverted with a single click is the moral equivalent of car-bombing.

On RationalWiki

• Many of the users hold Fundamentalist Religion in contempt, they often criticize Christianity, conservativism, family values, pro-life, etc.
• Many of the admins insult religion on their user pages
• Many users at RationalWiki will remove factual material, even if backed up by sources, from articles, which are supposed to unoffically express a liberal point of views for example see http://rationalwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Liberal&curid=935&diff=202920&oldid=202917

See also

• Atheism Wiki
• FreeThoughtPedia
• Iron Chariots
• RationalWikiWiki meta site for RationalWiki.

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further tags:

• creationism