TruthWiki

TruthWiki is a website that purports to publish "truth". Instead, it is uniformly pro-pseudoscience and pro-conspiracy. If scientific consensus says X, TruthWiki will calmly explain that X is just a government plot to keep the wool over your eyes. TruthWiki is, in fact, created and run by Mike Adams of NaturalNews.http://newsvoice.se/2014/07/28/mike-adams-starts-naturalwiki-and-truthwiki/https://www.facebook.com/EfilsGod/posts/10152299088503621 Unsurprisingly, then, many, many of its sources are from NaturalNews or from pages that host NaturalNews posts, and its tone alone closely resemble NaturalNews's (both are anti-science conspiracy-mongering and slinging mud on people they don't like).
Despite claiming to be a wiki, none of TruthWiki's entries are editable by the public (compare Wikipedia and RationalWiki; even Conservapedia pretends that the public can edit it), and it does not use wiki software. Instead, TruthWiki is essentially a collection of blog posts presented as fact. Indeed, it is run on WordpressIf the login page doesn't convince you, we don't know what will. with a typical blog format. Just five authors have written all of TruthWiki's posts.Sitemap, see the author/ section:http://www.truthwiki.org/author/7549wpczar/http://www.truthwiki.org/author/davidr/http://www.truthwiki.org/author/goodnature/http://www.truthwiki.org/author/rolyan2531/http://www.truthwiki.org/author/wptruthwiki/ Just like NaturalNews, if TruthWiki likes you, you're probably not doing something right.
==Purpose==
According to its creator, Mike Adams, TruthWiki is:
In short: to publish any bullshit that feels "alternative".
==Scope==
According to Alexa, TruthWiki doesn't get many views. It is currently ranked about 1,000,000th in the world. Despite that, Alexa reports that 400 sites link to it.truthwiki.org Traffic Statistics Alexa data retrieved January 10, 2017.
==On vaccines==
TruthWiki has an article on "Vaccine Fanaticism"http://www.truthwiki.org/vaccine_fanaticism/ (but not on "vaccines"http://www.truthwiki.org/vaccines/). The page reads:
TruthWiki has articles on: "Mercury in Vaccines",http://www.truthwiki.org/mercury-in-vaccines/ the MMR Vaccine,http://www.truthwiki.org/mmr-vaccine-measles-mumps-rubella/ Flu Shot,http://www.truthwiki.org/flu-shot-influenza-vaccine/ Zika,http://www.truthwiki.org/zika/ http://www.truthwiki.org/polio-a-true-investigative-history/ CDC director Julie Gerberding,http://www.truthwiki.org/dr-julie-gerberding/ and Dr. Andrew Wakefield.http://www.truthwiki.org/dr-andrew-wakefield/ All pages allege that vaccines have huge harms being covered up by Big Pharma and that vaccines don't work. The pages are patently absurd.
==On skeptics==
TruthWiki really doesn't like skeptics. In four sentences, they go from the dictionary definition of skepticism to Hitler to "skeptics are shills for Big Pharma":http://www.truthwiki.org/skeptics/
TruthWiki doesn't like Snopes,http://www.truthwiki.org/snopes-snopes-com/ Skeptical Raptor,http://www.truthwiki.org/skeptical-raptor/ PolitiFact,http://www.truthwiki.org/politifact-com/ SciBabe,http://www.truthwiki.org/science-babe-scibabe/ Science-Based Medicine,http://www.truthwiki.org/science-based-medicine-also-evidence-based-medicine/ James Randi,http://www.truthwiki.org/james-randi/ CSI,http://www.truthwiki.org/committee-for-skeptical-inquiry-csi/ Quackwatch,http://www.truthwiki.org/stephen-barrett-quackwatch/ Bill Nye,http://www.truthwiki.org/bill-nye-science-guy/ or Neil deGrasse Tyson.http://www.truthwiki.org/neil-degrasse-tyson/
TruthWiki really doesn't like David Gorski:http://www.truthwiki.org/orac-david-h-gorski/http://www.truthwiki.org/dr-farid-fata/
==On alternative medicine==
TruthWiki breathlessly believes every damn single alternative medicine page. TruthWiki has glowing pages on NaturalNewshttp://www.truthwiki.org/natural_news/ (of course since TruthWiki is created by Mike Adams), Burzynski Clinic,http://www.truthwiki.org/dr-stanislaw-r-burzynski-the-burzynski-clinic/ Dr. Oz,http://www.truthwiki.org/dr-oz-dr-mehmet-oz/ Center for Food Safety,http://www.truthwiki.org/center-food-safety-cfs/ and Food Babe.http://www.truthwiki.org/food-babe-vani-hari/ They describe allopathic medicine thusly:http://www.truthwiki.org/allopathic-medicine/
They also like oregano,http://www.truthwiki.org/Oregano/ quince,http://www.truthwiki.org/quince/ quinoa,http://www.truthwiki.org/191/ bananas,http://www.truthwiki.org/45/ and cucumbers.http://www.truthwiki.org/cucumbers/ They describe Cannabidiol thusly:http://www.truthwiki.org/cbd-cannabidiol/
==On global warming==
It doesn't exist, because 2014 was colder than their vision of what they think climate change is:http://www.truthwiki.org/climate-change-global-warming/
==On the 2016 U.S. Presidential election==
TruthWiki really likes Donald Trump. Supposedly he tells the truth, he "woke up" America, and will remove "crooked politicians and corporate interests" from our democracy:Donald J. Trump – President-Elect of USA Last update on December 2, 2016. TruthWiki
We're still waiting on that swamp draining thing, by the way.
It's very interesting that TruthWiki doesn't seem to like Trump for his policies, but instead because he was the candidate enamored by conspiracists (e.g., Alex Jones). Conversely, this is how they describe Hillary Clinton:
Right. Whenever people think "Hillary Clinton", they continue with "the Bride of Frankenfood".
==On GMOs==
Surprisingly, TruthWiki hates on Whole Foods Market, but only because they think Whole Foods is in cahoots with Monsanto to hide nasty things like GMOs (which they think is as toxic as the chemicalz and isn't natural) and whatever imaginary toxin they have on their mind today. They criticize Whole Foods for being hypocritical about artificial products by disguising "toxins" in their food.http://www.truthwiki.org/whole-foods-market/ Because Whole Foods opposes GMO labeling and because in an interview the CEO "talks like a Monanto operative" and "praises the compromise just as Monsanto operatives do",Waking Science. (June 29, 2016). Waking Science. Whole Foods CAUGHT LYING to customers about its support for Monsanto-pushed GMO fake labeling bill in the U.S. Senate: VIDEO. The article they cited is posted by NaturalNews, so they're basically citing themselves. they conclude that they blatantly support Monsanto, the "worlds[sic] most evil corporation".
==External links==
*"Truth" "Wiki"
:*Broken page 1: Yamoa
:*Broken page 2: Project
*Déjà vu all over again: "Natural medicine" wikis, Orac
==See also==
*Good Gopher
*NaturalNews
*Badger's law
==References==
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