Response to Tim Farley's Virtual Skeptics #84 and his online influence campaigns
157 views · Published 18 September 2017 · 16:19 · Indexed 24 September 2026
Channel: Rome · 2017 · Science & Technology
Tim Farley is a significant influencer in the online "skeptic" community, in the spirt of James Randi. Tim claims to be an expert in online misinformation and is quite active promoting what appear to be well intentioned skeptic activities. However, Tim Farley also works along side a toxic community, essentially a "troll farm", and has played a direct role in suppressing voices who expose Wikipedia harassment as well as amplify skeptic influence operations, far extending beyond the scope of responsible skeptic activism. https://web.archive.org/web/20191007115609/http://wikipediawehaveaproblem.com/case-studies-rupert-sheldrake-deepak-chopra/ I've asked Tim many times directly to respond to these claims, of which there is direct evidence. To date, Tim's response to this case study was to dismiss it as something I am doing to troll him and just get attention. Although I have informed Tim a number of times that my case study was apart of my R and D for Aiki Wiki, and I would be making this case study public, he has continued to dismiss the case study as "conspiracy theory" while directly avoiding issues raised in the study.
