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Scopie's Law states:

“

In any discussion involving science or medicine, citing Whale.to as a credible source loses you the argument immediately ...and gets you laughed out of the room.

”

It was first formulated by Rich Scopie on the Bad Science forum.^[1]

Contents 1 Whale.to 2 Others not to cite 3 External links 4 Footnotes

[edit] Whale.to

Whale.to is a website run by Herefordshire pig farmer John Scudamore. It is a notorious dumping ground for all things pseudoscientific... as well as a few other things. Like the complete text of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, documentations of Illuminati mind control plots, and articles about the Catholic world conspiracy.^[2] It contains every (and we do mean every) half-baked pseudoscientific theory ever concocted.

Shockingly, it was used as a source by the plaintiffs in the Autism omnibus trial, and it has seen increasing use as a "source" by anti-vaccinationists and propagators of the vaccine-autism connection.

[edit] Others not to cite

• A similar thing can be said of citing Answers in Genesis to back up a creationist point.

[edit] External links

• Whale.to Warning: Storehouse of extreme pseudoscientific and conspiracy-mongering crap. Enter at your own risk. But good for a laugh, if you have that sense of humour.

[edit] Footnotes

1. ↑ See the original post here. This post was cited by Orac of Respectful Insolence as the first mention of the law.
2. ↑ Seidel, Kathleen. "A Whale of an Expert." Neurodiversity Weblog 13 June 2008. Neurodiversity.com. 23 Jun 2008.

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