As its name suggests, this website encourages visitors to take a skeptical attitude toward “facts” and views promoted by established government, business, political, and religious institutions. The authors of the site believe that misinformation put out by these mainstream institutions causes great harm to individuals, and to society in general, and one of the purposes of the site is to correct this misinformation by providing the true facts.
The site contains more than a thousand individual articles. The titles in the main index give a good indication of who its authors regard as their major opponents. These titles include “Reforming Big Pharma”, “U.S. Stolen Elections”, “Social Justice – Eight Steps Forward”, “Holy Horrors”, and “American Justice Revealed through Published Federal Cases”. There are also a number of articles about economic theory and the defects of capitalism.
The most depressing article I read is called “Holy Horrors”. It contains a long list of atrocities, enslavements, and mass murders committed in the name of religion. Examples include the human sacrifices of the Incas and Aztecs, the Christian persecutions of the Jews, the Thugee cult murderers of India, the “holy wars” of Islam, and the torturing and burning alive of thousands of witches by Christians. The article points out that religious wars aren’t just things of the past, but still occur in the modern world, and mentions recent conflicts in northern Ireland, Croatia, Palestine, and Kashmir as examples.
Go to Skeptically.org to view this site. In addition to the articles, there are also videos, cartoons, and book reviews.
