Anti-Pseudoscience Purity

The obsessive enforcement of ideological conformity within communities that claim to champion "science and reason." It involves purging members, silencing discussions, or ostracizing individuals who engage with ideas labeled "pseudoscientific," even tangentially or critically. This purity spiral values rhetorical and tribal cleanliness over genuine intellectual rigor. It creates echo chambers where the primary activity is not exploring truth, but performing one's allegiance by correctly identifying and shunning the "contaminated" other. Debate is replaced by excommunication.

Example: "The skeptic forum descended into anti-pseudoscience purity. A moderator was doxxed and expelled for the crime of attending a public lecture on the history of alchemy—not to believe it, but to understand its historical context. The ruling clique declared, 'Engagement with the topic is contamination. True skeptics must maintain purity of contact.' Their community became a sterile lab where no actual thinking, only ritualized disdain, was allowed."

Anti-Pseudoscience Purity by AbzuInExile January 31, 2026

Anti-Pseudoscience Puritanism

A purity culture within skeptical and scientific communities where opposition to pseudoscience becomes so intense that it transforms into a crusade against the impure—treating not just pseudoscientific claims but those who hold them as enemies to be purged. Anti-pseudoscience puritanism demands perfect orthodoxy in distinguishing science from pseudoscience, treats any ambiguity or uncertainty as weakness, and engages in public rituals of condemnation for those who fail the purity test. It's the skeptic community that turns on its own members for insufficient zeal; the debunker who treats anyone who entertains an unproven claim as contaminated; the science advocate who sees the fight against pseudoscience as a holy war. The irony is that in becoming puritanical, it abandons the very scientific values it claims to defend—open inquiry, proportionality of response, and the distinction between being wrong and being bad.

Example: "The skeptical forum turned on a member for suggesting that maybe some alternative medicine had value—Anti-Pseudoscience Puritanism, treating any deviation from orthodoxy as heresy rather than just disagreement."

Anti-Pseudoscience Puritanism by Dumu The Void March 14, 2026

Breadhead 

Someone who is addicted to obtaining money and building wealth. A money addict and fanatic. Breadheads often work more than one full-time job, and some even participate in illicit activities to "obtain the bread".

A breadhead is like a crackhead, but for money instead of crack.

Breadhead by 🅱️ U S 3 4 8 March 30, 2022

Stink lines

As seen in illustrations or cartoons: Wavy, vertical lines rising above a person, place or thing. Denotes a foul odor.

"You didn't put enough stink lines on your picture of the teacher."

Stink lines by Athene Airheart March 14, 2004

schmegegge 

Yiddish slang word meaning bullshit, baloney, hogwash, nonsense, crock of shit or hot air.

I don't buy the schmegegge about Morty sleeping with Moira.
His version of the story was pure schmegegge.
The whole schmegegge was made up to get Liz a little bit of attention.

schmegegge by budsbabe February 1, 2008

eye bleach 

Looking or experiencing something nice after witnessing something horrid like a disgusting gif or a disturbing video. Typically used as eye bleach are nice images of whatever makes the disturbed person happy.

"Bleach my eyes! Why is that woman's face ripped off!?"
*Looks up images of puppies and kittens.*
"That's good eye bleach."

eye bleach by Rini2012 November 29, 2016

Stroad

Noun. Portmanteau of "street" and "road": it describes a street, er, road, built for high speed, but with multiple access points. Excessive width is a common feature. A common feature in suburbia, especially along commercial strips. Unsafe at any speed, their extreme width and straightness paradoxically induces speeding. Somewhat more neutral than synonymous traffic sewer.

Did you see what the traffic engineers want to do to our street? They're going to turn it into a total stroad!

Stroad by hammersklavier February 21, 2012