Badger's Law

Badger's Law states that the content of any website which contains the word "truth" in its name or URL contains anything but that. The law states:

Badger badger badger badger badger, mushroom mushroom.
Someone is wrong on
The Internet
Log in:
v - t - e


“”Websites with the word "Truth" in the URL have none in the posted content.


In practice, this means that websites with this word in their name and/or URL can be considered webshites. Citing such webshites as a credible source is in turn a violation of Scopie's Law. WorldTruth.TV is a prime example of this.

Origins

The law was named in April 2016 on Facebook by the admin of the page "Genetically Modified Humans for Monsanto"[1] and has since quickly been taken over by other pro-science pages.[2][3]

Extension

Badger's Law also seems to apply in the cases of certain other words:

Possible exceptions

Note the Badger's Law has exceptions; in particular, it does not apply recursively (for example, "example.com/blog/my-experience-with-foobartruth-dot-org" is probably an acceptable primary source about "foobartruth.org"). It applies less strongly when the URL is in the form of a question ("example.com/blog/is-frank-telling-the-truth-about-his-encounter-with-mr-badger"), as many such cases fall under the scope of Betteridge's law.

gollark: It may also be worth investigating high energy gender physics as apparently this is vaguely quantumly similar to small distance scale gender physics.
gollark: Their gender is determined by a periodic or just weirdly varying function.
gollark: However, we may need new theories of "quantum gender physics" for small scales.
gollark: Obviously people can change gender substantially over larger timescales.
gollark: Yes, but by how much? Are people making extremely small gender shifts constantly? Do genders change every time electrons move in the brain (by essentially zero amount?)?!!!!?

See also

Exceptions to the rule

More seriously, there are actually some exceptions to the rule.

References
  1. https://www.facebook.com/GenMods4Monsanto/photos/a.348632358621103.1073741828.348578411959831/628851123932557/
  2. https://www.facebook.com/therealcrediblehulk/photos/a.892787380752581.1073741828.892778157420170/1162959590402024/
  3. https://www.facebook.com/You.keep.using/photos/a.421150881298641.102335.415508481862881/1021569427923447/
  4. https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/the-truth-about-guns/
  5. https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/exposing-the-truth/
  6. https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/the-elkhart-truth/
  7. https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/citizen-truth/
  8. https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/truthdig/
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