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RationalWiki is a liberal alternative to Conservapedia. Liberal atheists will find there a lot of ammunition for fighting online battles. Other people may get t
by Viliam1234 8y ago
RationalWiki is a liberal alternative to Conservapedia. Liberal atheists will find there a lot of ammunition for fighting online battles. Other people may get the impression that the wiki comes with its own set of biases.
Generally, the wiki tries to promote science and oppose pseudoscience, and often does a good job. The problem is with politically charged topics, where politically correct ideas are automatically presented as science, and politically incorrect ideas as pseudoscience.
Unlike Wikipedia, the idea of impartiality is considered a joke at RationalWiki. As soon as you decide that an idea is pseudoscientific, you are allowed and actually encouraged to use the "snarky point of view", which provides an excuse for exaggerations or straw men, because if anyone objects, hey, I was just joking, don't you understand a joke? Of course the articles do not distinguish the factual and the snarky parts, so everyone is free to make their own guess.