Whale.to

{{conspiracy|1}}{{cquote|In any discussion involving science or medicine, citing Whale.to as a credible source loses you the argument immediately... and gets you laughed out of the room.|||'''Scopie's [[Internet Law|Law]]''', first formulated by Rich Scopie on the [[Bad Science]] forum.<ref>See the original post [http://www.badscience.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=5240&p=90463#p90279 here] - archived [https://archive.md/BW2g here.] This post was [https://web.archive.org/web/20121020063442/http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2008/06/14/the-nuttiness-that-is-whaleto/ cited by Orac of Respectful Insolence] as the first mention of the law.</ref>}}
'''Whale.to''' (Full Name: BARTON HILL MATRIX RESEARCH LIBRARY) is a [[webshite]] which contains every (and we do mean ''[[Crank magnetism|every]]'') [[Half-assed|half-baked]] [[Pseudoscience|pseudoscientific]] [[woo]] and [[conspiracy theory]] ''ever'' concocted. It is run by [[English]] pig farmer '''John Scudamore'''.<ref>Stacy Mintzer Herlihy ond E. Allison Hagood. [http://books.google.pt/books?id=tWRKH-bz6qgC&pg=PA133&lpg=PA133&dq=john+scudamore+whale.to&source=bl&ots=_UTsrcMMoe&sig=bN5YYrrnVeaaAOvRa9Al8AW7y-8&hl=pt-PT&sa=X&ei=cT7IUfyJDcGN7QbStYAY&ved=0CDwQ6AEwAjgK#v=onepage&q=john%20scudamore%20whale.to&f=false ''Your Baby's Best Shot: Why Vaccines Are Safe and Save Lives'']. Lanham, MD: Roman and Littlefield, 2012.</ref> Scudamore has a long history of trying to insert links to his website on [[Wikipedia]] under the username Whaleto, but a few years ago, this was put to an end when someone added whale.to to the global spam blacklist.<ref>[https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Spam_blacklist Spam blacklist]. Wikipedia.</ref> This means no one can link to it in any Wikipedia article, which led to Scudamore whining about being [[Persecution complex|suppressed]] (obviously) by the "[[Satanic Panic|Church of Satan]]."<ref>[http://www.whale.to/a/wikipedia.html Caution.]</ref>

It is a notorious dumping ground for all things [[pseudoscientific]], as well as a few other things. Like the complete text of the ''[[Protocols of the Elders of Zion]]'', documentations of [[Illuminati]] [[mind control]] plots, [[Islamophobia|Islamophobic]] rants,<ref>http://www.whale.to/c/islam.html</ref>, articles about the [[Anti-Catholicism|Catholic world conspiracy]] and promotion of the [[International Jewish conspiracy]].<ref>[http://archive.today/3nwnQ  A Whale of an Expert], Neurodiversity. 13 June 2008.</ref> Unsurprisingly, we managed to [[RationalWiki:Pissed at us|piss off]] Scudamore, and we even got our own little page! How sweet.<ref> [http://www.whale.to/c/rationalwiki.html Our little slice of hell].</ref> In other words, this is the type of website that results after months of doing LSD while smoking crack. 

==Fans==
*Whale.to was used as a source by the plaintiffs in the [[autism omnibus trial]], and it has seen increasing use as a "source" by [[Vaccine hysteria|anti-vaccinationists and propagator]]s of the [[vaccine]]-[[autism]] "connection" (which should be a clue right there to the validity of their claims).<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20101129133641/http://neurodiversity.com:80/weblog/article/163/ Archived post on Kathleen Seidel's blog Neurodiversity]</ref>
*[[NaturalNews]] is itself known to violate Scopie's Law and cite Whale.to on numerous occasions.<ref>Five times in [http://www.naturalnews.com/026434_vaccine_vaccines_vaccination.html this article] alone.</ref>
*[[WikiLeaks]] cited Whale.to in a now-deleted tweet claiming {{wpl|Gloria Steinem}} to be a CIA agent,<ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20170121213209/https:/twitter.com/wikileaks/status/822918370433650688 Archive link]</ref> which happened to be sort of true,<ref>Louis Menand (March 16, 2015). [https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/03/23/a-friend-of-the-devil "A Friend of the Devil"]. ''The New Yorker''.</ref><ref>John D. Lofton, Jr. (May 10, 1975). [https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP88-01315R000300380009-2.pdf "Ms. Steinem's CIA Connection"]. ''Human Events'', via the Central Intelligence Agency.</ref> though according to ''The New York Times'' she says that "no one in the C.I.A. ever asked her to do or say anything … she did not report back to the agency."<ref>John Leland (October 7, 2016). [https://archive.ph/YynS7 "Showgirls, Pastrami and Candor: Gloria Steinem's New York"]. ''The New York Times''.</ref>

==See also==
*[[Educate-yourself.org]] &ndash; Similar website.
*[[Biblioteca Pleyades]] &ndash; Similar but more New Age-centered.
*[[Green ink]]
*[[Time Cube]]

==External links==
*[http://www.whale.to/ Whale.to] ('''Warning''': Enter at your own risk. Some images on the website are [[NSFW]] or NSFL.)

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