The Wikipedia Pseudo-skeptics

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This web page has a simple purpose. There are a group of skeptics on Wikipedia who consider anything remotely close to paranormal to be "pseudoscience." Ergo, I call them the pseudo-skeptics. Their main problem is that they insist upon ganging up- criticize one, and the whole flock will come after you. Many people online complain already; some even advocate spamming or worse. That's not what this site is about. I'm here to provide the names in a group, so that if you come under siege, you'll know why. Also, I'll be including links to some of their obvious-POV statements, so that if you're drawn into an RfC with them, you'll have ammunition. Should there be a problem, by all means try to talk to them, but be advised that most of these people have each other's talk pages on their watchlists; you'll get a slew of nasty comments back.

If you want to sent me any information, be it a new name or a link, or see some problem that needs fixed, post it to the guestbook. Note that external sites are not valid in RfCs by themselves; make sure they're linking to something important. Also, make sure what you post can't be linked to your activities on Wikipedia. Some of them are admins and they will find a way to block you. ScienceApologist is, by far, the worst of this group; his name is highlighted below.

Also, if there are typos, I apologize. I miss a lot of little mistakes.

I leave you with a quote, that sums up their mentality:

I appreciate many of your edits, because, frankly, they're right on the spot. However, KillerChihuahua, aka the Puppy, is an admin who supports the NPOV when it matches the Scientific POV. Don't be fighting with the puppy, because that's not going to help your edits. IMHO. OrangeMarlin Talk • Contributions 19:06, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

He left that on PouponOnToast's talk here. Yes, that's right, he admitted to POV pushing.

Name	Activities	Useful items
Adam Cuerden (notice protections and deletion logs) a.k.a. Vanished user	Pretty severe POV	De-sysopped for making POV edits RfC #1 RfC #2 SA style deception- change user name, asks for redirects from old name to be deleted citing that he's leaving wikipedia, then starts editing under the new name, and gets blocked for it. Returns by registering a new name and having it renamed back to "Adam Cuerden".
Albion Moonlight	Minor ganging up, but at least appears to watch others' talk pages.
Antelan	POV editing and ganging up
BullRangifier Formerly known as Fyslee	POV edits, gangs up	User rename attempt
Filll	POV edits
Guettarda	Some POV and ganging up; has a habit of sarcasm in ganging up (lots of quotes around the article subject or bone of contention)
Hipocrite	Gangs up in discussions plus POV-pushing	Retired for a while as DepartedUser, before returning only to vote on ArbCom elections. (These guys tried to stack the votes on anyone that would do their bidding.) He then requested his old name back, forcing someone else who had registered it off of it (now Hipocrite (usurped)). Sock PouponOnToast PoT acted as a meatpuppet of ScienceApologist- after a RFCU accusing him of being SA, he left, despite a close of "no connection." PouponOnToast was caught as a sock of Hipocrite and blocked indefinitely. Loses a page to MfD.
Jim62sch	Gangs up	Tries to get opposing user fired from their job
JzG Link to talk as no user page exists	POV and pretty severe misuse of admin privileges- has blocked editors he disagrees with.	Real name Guy Chapman; has his own website at http://chapmancentral.co.uk The IP address from it, 80.176.82.42, made some pretty interesting edits. Check out the way he uses his admin powers to continually blank the talk page. For a while, his signature read "Guy", so he's easy to miss. Check out this attack on the filer of Checkuser Forum about him Days are numbered- RfCed, then attempts to MfD the RfC page! I'm sure he would have deleted it himself, except he knew it would get him emergency-desysopped. Use Google on this one too
Mccready	POV editing, gangs up (you'll see him in many RfCs)	Real name Kevin McCready Caught IP-socking to evade a ban Got in trouble in January of 2010. Appeared to be friendly with JzG here, but later turned on him (link, link) after OrangeMarlin and Jim62sch turned on him (link, link) (ironically, because these "skeptics" were re-inserting pro-acupuncture sections that Mccready was trying to remove).
Orangemarlin	Pretty severe POV-pushing, also gangs up, particularly in RfCs. Extremely uncivil.	Blocked in March 2009 for a three-revert violation. His last edit to date was a few hours before the block; he has not returned.
Ronz	Gangs up
ScienceApologist	Pretty heavy changing from NPOV to wording that makes it sound totally made up; gangs up in discussions.	Googling the name will get you far. Notice these, however: Real name is Joshua Schroeder; former part-time physics professor at Harold Washington College in Chicago and a current grad student at Columbia University. His page at RateMyProfessors His Myspace Facebook His contact info as a grad student at Columbia Possible his Chicago contact info NYC meetup where he gave a presentation on "Pseudoscience on Wikipedia"- proof he's not neutral Failed RfA (thank God) Blocked for three months for violating ArbCom. Hopefully the admins that are his friends (COUGH Jehochman COUGH) won't unblock him in a week. See also WR thread
		Unethical behavior: Considerable abuse he perpetrated on a wiki site His lies part 1, he claims to be leaving Wikipedia and requests a username change Lies part 2, first edit under new name, he asks for a talk page deletion claiming he's leaving Wikipedia. This was November 24th, 2005; he was back on December 1st. Ban evading sockpuppet #1 Ban evading sock #2 Blatant canvassing
		Blocked indefinitely in March 2010: Block notice posted Discussion of his final sock
Shot info	Gangs up; in fact, makes almost no other edits besides jumping into discussions and talk pages
Skinwalker	POV edits
Svetovid	Mildly POV edits, but challenges factual accuracy of articles when someone raises a NPOV dispute	Left in 2008 after being blocked; last edit was to remove the old block notices and warnings.
Verbal	POV edits

Here is a good example of the groupthink in these people: Someone with their viewpoint is nominated to be an administrator: Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Kww 3. Kww has previously said, as people in the opposes have pointed out:

If people add statements supporting homeopathy, paranormal occurrences, and similar quackery and nonsense as true, block them immediately, and escalate to bans quickly. The problem will never go away for the same reasons that vandalism will never go away, but it can be managed if it is dealt with the same as any other effort to damage the encylopedia is. (Link)

Then, in the RfA, users report being contacted off-wiki asking them to vote a certain way.

There will be more coming, so keep your eyes here...