RationalWiki

Handy resource. Ok to have access to.

[lizardlady]

MarDhea, thanks for the link. Looks interesting.

[MuddyBoots]

That site is a conspiracy. It tries to teach people about conspiracies and pseudoscience, but there's hidden meaning in the text that is really implanted there by malicious aliens bigoted against earth people and want to throw us in their version of concentration camps, turn us into slaves, and brainwash us into thinking we can and should drag this planet into a black hole.

JK just to clarify haha.

Originally Posted by MuddyBoots

That site is a conspiracy. It tries to teach people about conspiracies and pseudoscience, but there's hidden meaning in the text that is really implanted there by malicious aliens bigoted against earth people and want to throw us in their version of concentration camps, turn us into slaves, and brainwash us into thinking we can and should drag this planet into a black hole.

JK just to clarify haha.

yahhhh!

[divine1966]

Ouch. I think you should post warnings. I didn’t expect to see naked person doing vagina steaming or whatever that crazy nonsense was. 🤦*♀️

[SquarePegGuy]

I was gonna ignore it, but then I was intrigued by "naked person doing vagina steaming" and all of what @MuddyBoots wrote, and I couldn't resist!

[divine1966]

Originally Posted by SquarePegGuy

I was gonna ignore it, but then I was intrigued by "naked person doing vagina steaming" and all of what @MuddyBoots wrote, and I couldn't resist!

Hahahahaha

"naked person doing vagina steaming'??? I realize I'm not awake here yet but what are y'all talking about??? I had to go look that term up to see if it was a thing and it apparently is...but what does it have to do with anything here? Is my view of this page missing something???

[MuddyBoots]

Originally Posted by mar dhea

"naked person doing vagina steaming'??? I realize I'm not awake here yet but what are y'all talking about??? I had to go look that term up to see if it was a thing and it apparently is...but what does it have to do with anything here? Is my view of this page missing something???

You didn't see the vagina steaming? Did you even see the Biden bukkake?

[SquarePegGuy]

Probably not. The site offers a random page when it loads; I suppose @divine1966 was lucky to see it so soon.

Originally Posted by SquarePegGuy

Probably not. The site offers a random page when it loads; I suppose @divine1966 was lucky to see it so soon.

The Rational Wiki site???

[divine1966]

Originally Posted by mar dhea

"naked person doing vagina steaming'??? I realize I'm not awake here yet but what are y'all talking about??? I had to go look that term up to see if it was a thing and it apparently is...but what does it have to do with anything here? Is my view of this page missing something???

That is what I saw when I clicked on your link. What did you think you posted? I just tried again and that’s what I see. It’s not a photo. Article and a drawing with a title vagina steaming. On top it says rational wiki

[Mountaindewed]

Hopefully you guys aren't getting malware from clicking on that.

It's the RationalWiki site. At least it opened as that for me. [and still does] Hey, I like a joke as well as most but that sorta thing isn't really my style of funny. Don't know why it opens for me. Did EVERYONE here have it open to anything other than the rational wiki website?

Seeing how the site is basically used to address nonsense posing as fact, it's no doubt disliked by some who believe their views to be pretty much sacrosanct. I'm wondering now if the site was messed with. Obviously, I guess it was. Messed with by someone who isn't coping well with the idea that people have a right to expose both sketchy concepts and the people that propagate them. I'm going to poke around a bit and see if this has happened elsewhere. Really sorry to those who might have been thrown off by what they opened up here. Not really surprised that someone did this. While it has always existed, the war against reason has been expanding exponentially. Pretty fugged up stuff.

I still recommend the site. Here's a brief Wikipedia description of the RationalWiki site. No worries...just some copy/pasting.

RationalWiki is an online wiki which is written from a scientific skeptic, secular, and progressive perspective. Its stated goals are to "analyze and refute pseudoscience and the anti-science movement, document crank ideas, explore conspiracy theories, authoritarianism, and fundamentalism, and analyze how these subjects are handled in the media."[7] It was created in 2007 as a counterpoint to the Christian fundamentalist Conservapedia after an incident in which some editors of Conservapedia were banned.[5][8] RationalWiki has been described as liberal in contrast to Conservapedia.[9][10]

RationalWiki aims to provide information about pseudoscientific theories[13] and to educate "individuals with unorthodox views".[14]

[divine1966]

Originally Posted by Mountaindewed

Hopefully you guys aren't getting malware from clicking on that.

Omg that didn’t occur to me. I hope not. I certainly don’t intend to do it again. You are smart if you didn’t touch that link.

[divine1966]

Originally Posted by mar dhea

It's the RationalWiki site. At least it opened as that for me. [and still does] Hey, I like a joke as well as most but that sorta thing isn't really my style of funny. Don't know why it opens for me. Did EVERYONE here have it open to anything other than the rational wiki website?

Seeing how the site is basically used to address nonsense posing as fact, it's no doubt disliked by some who believe their views to be pretty much sacrosanct. I'm wondering now if the site was messed with. Obviously, I guess it was. Messed with by someone who isn't coping well with the idea that people have a right to expose both sketchy concepts and the people that propagate them. I'm going to poke around a bit and see if this has happened elsewhere. Really sorry to those who might have been thrown off by what they opened up here. Not really surprised that someone did this. While it has always existed, the war against reason has been expanding exponentially. Pretty fugged up stuff.

I still recommend the site. Here's a brief Wikipedia description of the RationalWiki site. No worries...just some copy/pasting.

RationalWiki is an online wiki which is written from a scientific skeptic, secular, and progressive perspective. Its stated goals are to "analyze and refute pseudoscience and the anti-science movement, document crank ideas, explore conspiracy theories, authoritarianism, and fundamentalism, and analyze how these subjects are handled in the media."[7] It was created in 2007 as a counterpoint to the Christian fundamentalist Conservapedia after an incident in which some editors of Conservapedia were banned.[5][8] RationalWiki has been described as liberal in contrast to Conservapedia.[9][10]

RationalWiki aims to provide information about pseudoscientific theories[13] and to educate "individuals with unorthodox views".[14]

It does open as rational wiki site on the article about conspiracy using example about steaming genitalia and a drawing of a naked woman. Yes it addresses nonsense (no one is going to steam their vagina) as fact.

Really sorry everyone...no idea on the mechanics of how this happened. As I said it opens ok for me and continues to do so. Really confused me when I began to read the posts that were being left.

Originally Posted by divine1966

It does open as rational wiki site on the article about conspiracy using example about steaming genitalia and a drawing of a naked woman. Yes it addresses nonsense (no one is going to steam their vagina) as fact.

Ohhh...ok. So it opened for some on a page explaining that stuff. I'm going to go enter'vagina steaming' in the search function of the site and see where it leads. Well I just did and there are quite a few pages mentioning it. Mentions Gwyneth Paltrow as a proponent of the practice. Haha!...Ok...now I'm sorta clear on what happened.

Still strange it opened on anything other than the home page though. No huge harm done I guess and I'll reiterate: for some, the site can provide some interesting info on a lot of eyebrow-cocking stuff. There's humor in there too but the main aim is to open eyes at what's out there parading as level-headed rational thought.

[mote.of.soul]

I might just stick to the "Irrational" wiki going by all these crazy comments at this point hah. But always good to read other views etc for sure. It's the internet👍

[SquarePegGuy]

The link took my browser to the Rational Wiki site. Regrettably, it did not display a page with "naked person doing vagina steaming." You cannot possibly fathom my disappointment. (Is that sarcasm I detect? Yes.) I had to do a search for that subject.

Anyway, my browser tends to block popups and other forms of web-based chicanery.

I wonder if it mentions **** bleaching?

[SquarePegGuy]

I think the purpose of the site is to make it easier to respond to online trolls who promote conspiracy theories.

All one has to do is reply with a link.

[divine1966]

Originally Posted by SquarePegGuy

I think the purpose of the site is to make it easier to respond to online trolls who promote conspiracy theories.

All one has to do is reply with a link.

Well I’d not respond with “that” link. It might be misunderstood 🤣🤣🤣 ..

I find conspiracy fans not ever responding to common sense. I listen this one special on BBC world and they did research about conspiracy and there are people who lost their family and friends and jobs and still won’t give up conspiracy. It’s such s phenomenon

Originally Posted by SquarePegGuy

The link took my browser to the Rational Wiki site. Regrettably, it did not display a page with "naked person doing vagina steaming." You cannot possibly fathom my disappointment. (Is that sarcasm I detect? Yes.) I had to do a search for that subject.

Anyway, my browser tends to block popups and other forms of web-based chicanery.

I wonder if it mentions **** bleaching?

After a regular Google search for the heck of it...it appears that uhh.... 'gina bleaching is indeed a quacky fad and unsupported by the mainstream medical community.

After checking Rational Wiki,it appears they don't have any articles on that subject but hey, it's a concept seemingly deserving of the same ballpark I figure. Fringe health practices and such.

Jesus...whatta world. With all the fringe-y stuff out there these days ya gotta wonder. Is the social evolution of humankind hitting a period of stalled progress? Speed bumps seem to be popping up quicker than they're being ground down. Some might opine that collectively we're taking a few more few steps backward than forward at this point. The internet sure does produce a lot of dubious wisdom. That much at is confirmed...as well as the fact that a properly running healthy rationale doesn't come as standard operating equipment.

[MuddyBoots]

Wait, vagina steaming was an actual thing that popped up? I was just joking about the Biden bukkake and I really hope I didn’t just provide more fake jews lol

First I’m hearing of vag bleaching too. Knew a-hole bleaching was a thing especially for “actors/actresses” but why don’t you want the pink pink?

Originally Posted by MuddyBoots

Wait, vagina steaming was an actual thing that popped up? I was just joking about the Biden bukkake and I really hope I didn’t just provide more fake jews lol

First I’m hearing of vag bleaching too. Knew a-hole bleaching was a thing especially for “actors/actresses” but why don’t you want the pink pink?

Hahaha! Yep! Got me too! Feckin' world...what a ball of con-freakin-fusion these days. Surely history has never witnessed such a buggered swatch in time. Maybe it's all relative. Hell of a show in the here and now though!