Can you recommend a good summary of RationaWiki as such from an external and fairly unbiased point of view? To me it looks like a place that very easily hands out insulting, degrading evaluations of other people’s work/thoughts and the part I find kind of weird is that while they clearly have a kind of an agenda or ideology it is not really clear what that is. Who are the main people behind it and what are their convictions etc.
They appear to be a bunch of reasonably smart people who got really good at guessing the teacher’s password. Now they’ve heard that the passwords are “skepticism” and “science”, unfortunately they don’t appear to understand what either of those words mean.
Can you recommend a good summary of RationaWiki as such from an external and fairly unbiased point of view? To me it looks like a place that very easily hands out insulting, degrading evaluations of other people’s work/thoughts and the part I find kind of weird is that while they clearly have a kind of an agenda or ideology it is not really clear what that is. Who are the main people behind it and what are their convictions etc.
I think you summarised it pretty well. RationalWiki is exactly what it looks like.
They appear to be a bunch of reasonably smart people who got really good at guessing the teacher’s password. Now they’ve heard that the passwords are “skepticism” and “science”, unfortunately they don’t appear to understand what either of those words mean.
I heard it described somewhere as “providing arguments for left-wing atheists to win internet debates”. Seems accurate.
The ideology is called “Atheism Plus”.
Have you read the Wikipedia article on it?