RationalWiki:Websites

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This is a list of websites that help further our mission.

Contents 1 General research 2 General rationality 3 Skepticism 4 Refuting YEC nonsense 5 Atheism 6 Religion 7 Refuting health quackery 8 Refuting Holocaust denialism 9 Refuting New Age nonsense 10 Rationalwikian sites, perhaps of dubious value 11 Snark and lulz 12 See also

[edit] General research

• Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org - "the encyclopedia any teenager can vandalize"
• Snopes - http://www.snopes.com - excellent debunkers of the endless flow of urban, rural, and cyber myths
• Hoax-Slayer - http://www.hoax-slayer.com/ - like Snopes but not as good focuses more on chain emails.
• Thirty Free Image Resources on the Web - http://websearch.about.com//od/bestwebsites/tp/free-images.htm

[edit] General rationality

• Less Wrong- http://www.lesswrong.com - a community blog devoted to refining the art of human rationality

[edit] Skepticism

• Skeptic magazine (edited by Michael Shermer) - http://www.skeptic.com/
• SkepticWiki - http://skepticwiki.org
• Skeptics Dictionary - http://skepdic.com
• Skeptic Report - http://www.skepticreport.com
• The James Randi Educational Foundation - http://www.randi.org
• Skeptics Annotated Bible/Koran/Book of Mormon - http://www.skepticsannotatedbible.com/

[edit] Refuting YEC nonsense

• Talk Origins - http://www.talkorigins.org

[edit] Atheism

• The Secular Web (Internet Infidels) - http://www.infidels.org
• About.com: Atheism/Agnosticism - http://atheism.about.com
• The Freedom From Religion Foundation - http://www.ffrf.org/index.php

[edit] Religion

• Religious tolerance - http://www.religioustolerance.org
• Lots of interesting data at http://www.adherents.com
• Need a Bible quote in multiple translations, languages and fully searchable - http://www.biblegateway.com
• Or a more skeptical look at the Bible - http://skepticsannotatedbible.com/
• Open discussion between believers and non believers - http://www.religiousfreaks.com/
• Dissection of non-Christian messages in Christian text - http://www.evilbible.com/

[edit] Refuting health quackery

• Quackwatch - http://www.quackwatch.com
• Sloan-Kettering database on "alternative" treatments - http://www.mskcc.org/mskcc/html/11570.cfm

[edit] Refuting Holocaust denialism

• Nizkor Project - http://www.nizkor.org/

[edit] Refuting New Age nonsense

• New Age Frauds and Plastic Shamans - debunking white phonies charging big bucks for a "taste of nativism", while laying claim to Native American ancestry or teachings.
• SIMPOS - site in the Netherlands (in English and Dutch versions)

[edit] Rationalwikian sites, perhaps of dubious value

• Human Thoughts - A random "thought" according to the website's owner. Main page.
• We couldn't make this up... - http://cpmonitor.wordpress.com/, Psygremlin's blog.

[edit] Snark and lulz

• The Onion - http://www.theonion.com
• Uncyclopedia - http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com
• Wikiality - http://www.wikiality.com
• Some of the parody sites listed in our Poe's Law article

[edit] See also

• RationalWiki:Blogroll
• RationalWiki:Webshites - the "bad guys"