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LostOne4Ever

(9,286 posts)
Tue Feb 3, 2015, 07:40 PM Feb 2015

What is your opinion of Rational wiki

[font style="font-family:papyrus,'Brush Script MT','Infindel B',fantasy;" size=4 color=teal]Was having an offsite discussion about this site and I was wondering what all the skeptics of DU think of Rationalwiki.[/font]

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/RationalWiki:History

[font style="font-family:papyrus,'Brush Script MT','Infindel B',fantasy;" size=4 color=teal]It has some rather dubious history and connections to Conservapedia, but it seems that the two site have nothing but an undying hatred of each other now. In their new incarnation they have even removed all editors that ever contributed to conservapeon. Further, I have never seen any articles there that seem to have an right wing libertarian or conservative bent to them...or if they do it is a bias that is parallel to our own as liberal skeptics.

In fact, I would say the only bias there is a pro-science and pro-skeptic one.

What do all of you think? Is this a RW Libertarian site that we as liberals should avoid linking to on DU?

Or is it simply pro-skeptic and a good place to use as a source as we combat the forces of Woo here on DU?
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Rational Wiki is a Conservative PoS on the internet and no one here on DU should EVER link to them
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Rational Wiki is a Right Wing Libertarian Website and should not be used linked to on DU
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Rational Wiki is a Right Wing Libertarian Website and should only be linked to on DU on issues where liberals agree
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Rational Wiki is a Right Wing Libertarian Website but it's okay to link to them as their main purpose is promoting skepticism
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Rational Wiki is a Libertarian (both left and right wing) Website and should only be linked to on DU on issues where liberals agree
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Rational Wiki is a Left Wing Libertarian (ala the ACLU) Website and is fine to link to here on DU
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Rational Wiki is a Liberal website and should be linked to even more than it is now, not less
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Rational Wiki is neither Liberal/Libertarian/or Conservative, but strictly a pro-skeptic website and it is fine to link to them
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I am a major advocate of woo and pseudoscience so I want them banned from DU so they can't expose my nonsense with logic, facts, science and stuff...
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What is your opinion of Rational wiki (Original Post) LostOne4Ever Feb 2015 OP
I've never seen anything from RationalWiki that seemed right-wing EvolveOrConvolve Feb 2015 #1
Hey.... AlbertCat Feb 2015 #2

EvolveOrConvolve

(6,452 posts)
1. I've never seen anything from RationalWiki that seemed right-wing
Tue Feb 3, 2015, 09:24 PM
Feb 2015

Until today, I'd never even heard how RW got its start. But in general, it's been a pretty good source.

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