http://metabunk.org/blogs/1-Mick All about bunk, and how to debunk it en Sat, 18 May 2013 12:32:38 GMT vBulletin 60 http://metabunk.org/images/misc/rss.jpg http://metabunk.org/blogs/1-Mick http://metabunk.org/entries/7-Skeptical-Software-Tools Sat, 01 Jan 2011 21:51:23 GMT Tim Farley's site Skeptical Software Tools has some interesting posts, particularly this one about Building Internet Tools For Skeptics.

http://skeptools.wordpress.com/2008/...-for-skeptics/

It does not seem like there's been much activity there. Being a programmer I find it pretty interesting, and I'd like to experiment with some tools myself.

I think one of the more useful tools would be some way of getting a quick perspective on the scale of a topic, its relative size and links to other topics. This is quite hard to do at the moment. ]]> Mick http://metabunk.org/entries/7-Skeptical-Software-Tools http://metabunk.org/entries/6-Lists-of-Skeptical-Topics Sat, 01 Jan 2011 08:33:34 GMT I'd just posted a link to the periodic table of irrational topics, and I realized that I was familiar with about 90% of the topics there. It got me wondering what other lists there are of skeptical topics.

Periodic table of irrational topics (118 Topics)
http://www.crispian.net/PTIR/Nonsense.html

Investigator Topics List from Investigator Magazine (189 topics)
http://ed5015.tripod.com/SkepticsTopicsList69.htm

Skpetic Dictionary (645)
http://www.skepdic.com/
This is more of a glossary than a list of topics.

Wikipedia Rational Skepticticism Watchlist
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...tical_subjects

Debunkatron (Maybe 100 or so topics, hierarchical , with multiple links)
http://debunkatron.com/
Also has a large list of links, well worth trawling through.

I'm thinking these could be combined programmatically into some kind of metabunktionary. ]]> Mick http://metabunk.org/entries/6-Lists-of-Skeptical-Topics http://metabunk.org/entries/5-Periodic-Table-of-Irrational-Nonsense Fri, 31 Dec 2010 23:47:54 GMT A good overview of some of the bunk out there: http://www.crispian.net/PTIR/Nonsense.html Attachment 44... A good overview of some of the bunk out there:

http://www.crispian.net/PTIR/Nonsense.html



Unfortunately I can't really condone it, as it use extremely pejorative terms to describe the various groups. While you might be technically right to describe Christians as delusional, it's hardly going to help the discussion, is it?

This poking fun at people (and just plain insulting them) is entertaining for the skeptics, but it's not actually helping the cause of promoting science and reason. ]]> Mick http://metabunk.org/entries/5-Periodic-Table-of-Irrational-Nonsense http://metabunk.org/entries/4-New-Year-New-Site Fri, 31 Dec 2010 18:17:09 GMT So for 2011 I'm going to try a new place to put my musings and investigations. The old sites worked pretty well, and I've got over 20,000 comments on them over the years. I thought it was time to add a more general place, where I could talk about the real meat-topic, debunking.

So here's metabunk.org, still nascent and rather empty. We'll see what 2011 shall bring to fill it up. ]]> Mick http://metabunk.org/entries/4-New-Year-New-Site