Skeptoid #283: Top 10 Worst Anti-Science Websites
Skeptoid
Brian Dunning
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🗓️ 8 November 2011
⏱️ 18 minutes
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My list of the worst offenders on the web in the promotion of scientific and factual misinformation.
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| 0:00.0 | At some point, and my eyes just get tired of how much rolling they do, whenever someone |
| 0:08.7 | who is hostile to science sends me a link to some online article that he thinks proves |
| 0:14.3 | his anti-science point. |
| 0:16.6 | Eventually, I got to where I could recognize most of these just by the name of the website |
| 0:20.8 | hosting the article. |
| 0:22.1 | Yes, there are many that are automatically bad. |
| 0:25.9 | And today we're going to list the 10 worst offending websites. |
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| 1:26.5 | The top 10 worst anti-science websites. |
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