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Skeptoid #495: Updated: Top 10 Worst Anti-Science Web Sites

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Brian Dunning

Skeptic, Social Sciences, Skepticism, Paranormal, Conspiracy Theories, Urban Legends, Science, History

4.63K Ratings

🗓️ 1 December 2015

⏱️ 16 minutes

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The worst offending sites on the Internet for promoting bad misinformation.

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Today we have a handy guide for you. Did a friend send you a link to some terrible article

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that proves their conspiracy theory or other false belief?

0:13.0

Turn to today's Skeptoid episode to check up on the source of that article. If it's

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in today's list, you can almost certainly throw that article into the round file. For

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today we've got the top 10 worst websites for scientific misinformation. And that's

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coming right up on Skeptoid.

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For listening to Skeptoid, I'm Brian Dunning from Skeptoid.com.

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Updated top 10 worst anti-science websites.

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You've seen it on Facebook or other places a million times. Someone makes some untrue,

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medical or science or conspiracy claim. And to give it the appearance of authority, attach

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a web link to it. And where's that web link from? As often as not, it turns out to be

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a site that specializes in terrible misinformation. And such sites are all too often far more

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popular than sites dedicated to correcting the record or presenting data.

2:02.2

Sudo science is unfortunately more sensational, compelling, and fun.

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A few years ago on this show, I gave a list of the top 10 websites that promoted the worst

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bad science as a resource for those hoping to stand up to such web links.

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Times change, sites come and go, rise an ebb, and we're ready for an update.

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And so here are this year's winners, my picks for the worst sites on the internet, which

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your friends are likely to link you to, organized by their Alexa popularity rating. Tweet

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