Wikipedia:Wikiproject Rational Skepticism/Skeptic watchlists

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This page is for skeptics to post their watchlist suggestions, or links to their watchlists.

Contents

[edit] Lists of skeptical subjects

[edit] General skeptical topics

Title Status Last checked
Anecdotal evidence 16/04/06
Coincidence theory Short. 16/04/06
Cold reading 16/04/06
Debunker Possible POV issues, weighted towards criticism. Talk page empty. 16/04/06
Demarcation problem 16/04/06
Falsifiability 16/04/06
Ideomotor effect Stub. Talk page empty. 16/04/06
Manipulation Quasi-disambiguation page. 16/04/06
Occam's Razor Cited by media outlet. Rename under discussion. 16/04/06
Oxymoron 16/04/06
Pareidolia 16/04/06
Psychic Needs some work. 01/11/2006
Skeptic's Dictionary 16/04/06
Skepticism 16/04/06
Scientific skepticism
The Demon-Haunted World Stub. Has some strange sentence structure. 16/04/06
Therianthropy Quasi-scientific neologism on Otherkin. 27/11/06

[edit] Organizations

Title Status
Center for Inquiry Has a cleanup tag; article needs improvement in quality and NPOV. 16/04/06
Committee for Skeptical Inquiry Formerly CSICOP, changed name. Needs attention. 19/08/06
James Randi Educational Foundation 16/04/06
National Council Against Health Fraud Under constant attack by promoters of quackery. 06/11/06
Quackwatch Under constant attack by promoters of quackery. 06/11/06
The Skeptics Society Short article. Talk page empty. 16/04/06

[edit] Medicine

Title Status Last checked
Acupuncture Some unsourced statements. 16/04/06
Alternative medicine Merge under discussion. "Controversial". 16/04/06
Applied kinesiology Merge under discussion. 16/04/06
Chiropractic Neutrality and factual accuracy disputed. "Controversial". 16/04/06
Complementary and alternative medicine Merge under discussion. 16/04/06
Diagnostic kinesiology Merge under discussion. Does not cite its sources. Short article. 16/04/06
Doctor of Chiropractic Does not cite its sources. Not Wikified. 16/04/06
Evidence-based medicine 16/04/06
Homeopathy "Controversial". 16/04/06
Innate intelligence Does not cite its sources. Short article. Talk page empty. 16/04/06
Joint manipulation Created by skeptic, quacks don't like it. 05/11/06
Magnet therapy 16/04/06
Megavitamin therapy Under constant attack, including personal attacks. 12/08/06
Morgellons Under very aggressive attack from User:Pez1103 28/10/06
Mucoid plaque Talk page empty. 16/04/06
National Anti-Vaccination League Has a cleanup tag; provides insufficient context and is inaccessible to readers. Merge under discussion. Not Wikified. Poor English grammar. 16/04/06
National Vaccine Information Center Some unsourced statements. 16/04/06
Orthomolecular medicine 16/04/06
Parapsychology Neutrality disputed. Many unsourced sections. 16/04/06
Placebo effect 16/04/06
Psychic surgery 16/04/06
Quackery Does not cite its sources. 16/04/06
Reflexology 16/04/06
Spinal adjustment Neutrality disputed. Does not cite its sources. 16/04/06
Subluxation Quasi-disambiguation page. Stub. 16/04/06
The National Council Against Health Fraud 16/04/06
Vertebral subluxation Neutrality disputed. Does not cite its sources. 16/04/06
Wilk v. American Medical Association Has a cleanup tag; provides insufficient context and is inaccessible to readers. 16/04/06

[edit] Paranormal claims

Title Status Last checked
Anomalous phenomenon Expanded and more neutral. 15/12/06
Aura analysis 26/06/2006
Aura (paranormal) Person at CSICOP talk page claiming Synaesthesia as proof of paranormal auras 24/06/2006
Astral projection 16/04/06
Astrology 16/04/06
Automatic writing Has a cleanup tag. Does not cite its sources. 16/04/06
Bigfoot Original research, unverified claims. (Watched by WP:Paranormal.) 16/04/06
Chakra External links suffer from linkspam. "Controversial". 16/04/06
Clairvoyance 16/04/06
Crop circle Under recent revert attack, but generally under control. 17/04/06
Dowsing Neutrality disputed. (Watched by WP:Rational Skepticism.) 11/08/06
Electronic voice phenomenon EVP being claimed as fact. History distorted. Unverified claims. Psuedoscientific researchers claiming legitimacy, POV Pushing 19/11/06
Extra-sensory perception Neutrality disputed. (Watched by WP:Paranormal.) 16/04/06
Ghost hunting Mostly written by me. Needs review and suggestions. 21/11/06
Inedia Some unsourced statements. 16/04/06
Loch Ness Monster (Watched by WP:Paranormal.) 16/04/06
Lunar effect May have some inaccurate or misleading statements. 16/04/06
Magic (paranormal) (Watched by WP:Supernatural.) 16/04/06
Magick Some unsourced statements. 16/04/06
Mars effect Most of article expresses subtle POV (positive). 16/04/06
Medium (spirituality) Subtle pro-POV. No analysis of claims; short article 17/40/06
New Age Cited by media outlet. 16/04/06
Numerology Has a cleanup tag; not written in formal, encyclopedic tone. One section lacks references. 16/04/06
Occult 16/04/06
Ouija 16/04/06
Patterson-Gimlin film Neutrality disputed. Original research, unverified claims in one section. 16/04/06
Psychokinesis Neutrality disputed in one section. 16/04/06
Reiki Some unsourced statements. "Controversial". (Watched by WP:Alternative medicine, WP:Japan.) 16/04/06
Spiritualism 16/04/06
Supernatural 16/04/06
True-believer syndrome Much of the article is about Robert Carroll, not the topic. 30/04/06

[edit] People

Self-identified skeptics are marked in italics.

Title Status Last checked
Sathya Sai Baba
Stephen Barrett
Sylvia Browne 16/04/06
Robert Todd Carroll
Harris Coulter Short article. 16/04/06
Richard Dawkins
Natasha Demkina Edit war still going on. A pro-Demkina editor has requested comments on the talk page. He and his supporters insist on including reports from the disreputable news tabloid Pravda RU and from self-published personal web sites 27/08/06
John Edward Neutrality disputed. Recently peer reviewed.
Barbara Loe Fisher Stub. 16/04/06
Kendrick Frazier
Martin Gardner 16/04/06
Mark Geier Edits own article, removing stuff. 03/08/06
Uri Geller 16/04/06
Samuel Hahnemann Founder of homeopathy. Far from neutrality.
L. Ron Hubbard Some unsourced statements. 16/04/06
Philip J. Klass
Paul Kurtz
Billy Meier
Joe Nickell
B. J. Palmer Needs verification and citations. Short article. Talk page empty. 16/04/06
Daniel David Palmer 16/04/06
Philip Plait
Karl Popper
James Randi
Wilhelm Reich 16/04/06
Carl Sagan
Viera Scheibner Merge under discussion. Short article.
Michael Shermer
Doris Stokes Neutrality and factual accuracy disputed. 16/04/06
Kevin Trudeau 16/04/06
Marcello Truzzi 16/04/06
Immanuel Velikovsky 16/04/06
Victor Zammit Hagiography 02/05/06

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