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Revision as of 14:20, 6 November 2006

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

Lists of skeptical subjects

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
Inquisition some christians are making it POV, removing any reference to Inquisition practices and statistics of deaths 18/10/06
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

Organizations

Title Status
Center for Inquiry Has a cleanup tag; article needs improvement in quality and NPOV. 16/04/06
Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal Mediation has started again. The pro-CSICOP editor has gone on vacation for a week. 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

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

Paranormal claims

Title Status Last checked
Anomalous phenomenon Short article. "Controversial". 16/04/06
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
Extra-sensory perception Neutrality disputed. (Watched by WP:Paranormal.) 16/04/06
Inedia Some unsourced statements. 16/04/06
List of predictions made by Sylvia Browne Not Wikified. 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

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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