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I'm re-wording this because I think it sounded odd the first time. I had asked what your favorite UL-busting sites were, but that was rather misleading. Obviously our favorite UL busting site is Snopes!
What I was trying to ask is, what sites do you visit, or use as a reference, when you want to show someone why a conspiracy theory is wrong?
For example, faking the lunar landing. I showed a friend of mine the link to BadAstronomy.com
What other critical thinking, conspiracy-cracking type sites do you know of?
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moviemistakes.com is a pretty good one for movie-related ULs. They have a trivia section for each movie listed, and you often see myths posted there and then corrected and moved to the "corrections" section.
Of course, the flip side of that is that I occasionally see stories debunked that I always hoped were true. For example, there's Bert and Ernie...I always thought the Sesame Street characters were named after the It's A Wonderful Life ones and rather liked the idea, but apparently it was entirely coincidental.
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I just updated the title and re-worded the OP. Sorry about that!
I'm not really looking for more UL sites. I'm looking for sites that go into they hows and whys of debunking.
What kind of poor logic will lead a person to believe the multitude of outlandish claims out there? And what good logic can counter that?
Those are the kinds of links/sites I'm looking for.
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ETA: both sites do have some discussion as to why people fall for these things.
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If you're investigating any sort of medical UL it's a good place to start. Any claim of "studies show" can easily be investigated there. Occasionally, a you can find a case report of a bizarre death that may have been the basis for a UL.
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Thank you guys so much! And please, keep 'em coming!
These are the kinds of sites I need to bookmark in a reference folder. I'm tired of having to Google search a billion different things every time someone makes an outlandish claim. A lot of the time I can point them here, but for stuff that requires more in depth discussion I usually think "there was a thread on snopes about that...now where is it?" *grin*
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Something else I use a lot is Newsbank. I access it though my local library's website since it's a subscription thing. Usually, I use to research my local paper's archives but it also includes newspapers from all over. Some of these ULs make a story sound like it caused a big deal in an area but it is usually pretty easy to see if there have been any news paper stories about it. I've noticed that in some of the ULRP Barbara and snopes reference Newsbank too.
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