Citation Needed? Ha ha! Citation Provided.

The website I'm creating will be called "Citation Provided" or www.citationprovided.com

It'll take a couple of days to work out the DNS and the hosting and the initial code... but I have registered the domain and am presently waiting on the hosting provider to figure out that yes... I did in fact respond to the registration verification email.

One step at a time.

The essence of the website shall be apolitical.  I will acknowledge my personal biases as a matter of integrity.  There may be a section, like a sidebar of "notes" or something similar when I feel compelled to offer opinions, but it will be an optional section.  Never has to be seen.  The function of this website will be to provided relevant, reputable sources for various topics.

I will also at some point institute a community aspect in which others can submit and discuss things that should be added, possibly a secondary "version" of the site (like opensource.citationprovided.com or something similar)... but ultimately, at least at first, I will be the sole arbiter of what gets included.  I have a few different topics already that I want to get included quickly, including:

Climate Change
Race issues in the US
Gender issues in the US

By the way... for climate change there really is one website that cannot be beaten: https://www.skepticalscience.com/

Seriously, that place has it all for climate change.  It's honestly my inspiration for Citation Provided.

Anyway, I'll let you know when I have things up and running!

Jumping off place...

I'll be starting a new website soon to serve as a repository and resource for reputable sources for common arguments.  The next time someone wants to tell you that climate change is fake you'll know right where to look to avoid having to go off and find links to crap that you've already looked up 100 times before when trying to make the same argument for a 100 different people who just don't want to accept the truth.

Actually... there's already an amazing website for that.  But it is specific to climate change.  What's up coming will cover more topics.  Gender issues.  Race issues.  Gun violence.  Also: I will be posting ANY AND ALL reputable sources that I am able to review INCLUDING those that represent competing ideas.  Logic and standards of integrity will be the primary filter for inclusion rather than personal bias.  I do have biases and they will be appropriately noted.

Check back here for an update, hopefully within the next couple of days, for either the main website or a Tumblr/Reddit/Blogger that is dedicated to bringing in new topics, new sources, discussion, etc.

Also... if you don't like the 4 other posts on here don't worry about it... it's been what, 3 years since I wrote those?  Some views may have changed, some may not have, but all are more refined.  Regardless... I'm only writing this post as a placeholder and somewhere to check back to for when I get a proper site set up.