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“An outstanding and entertaining resource in the struggle against obscurantism, supersitition, pseudoscience, pseudo-history, quackery and dogma.”
Oliver Kamm
Leader Writer, The Times

“One of the most heartening places on the net. A reliable source of good sense, ammunition and general hilarity. Proof that though the world may be a madhouse there is still sanity out there to be found.”
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“The excellent Counterknowledge.com”
Mr Eugenides

We are in the middle of a pandemic of credulous thinking, such as 9/11 conspiracy theories, cults, homeopathy, vitamin cures for AIDS, creationism and Afrocentric history.

Counterknowledge.com draws attention to every kind of bogus theory, whether it emanates from maverick scientists, Christian evangelists, media nutritionists, Muslim scholars or “alternative” historians.

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Usage note

• Counterknowledge.com is the name of this website
• counterknowledge is what we write about
• Counterknowledge is the name of the book by Damian Thompson
• The following are always wrong: counter-knowledge, counter knowledge, CounterKnowledge