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Resources to use in investigating your site (you’ll definitely want to go through at least several of these–no two sites are the same in terms of how to investigate them)

• Sourcewatch (great for front groups, funding sources)
• Link to some principles of propaganda (that you’re likely to see on some of these sites)
• Sourcewatch on how to investigate front groups
• Cleo Dan on spotting astroturf groups
• Skeptical Science (mythbusters)
• National Academies (high on credibility, a prestigious organization of reputable scientists)
• Union of Concerned Scientists
• Rocky Mountain Institute (good for claims on energy-related issues)
• Open Secrets (following money in politics)
• Center for Media and Democracy (on front groups)
• realclimate.org (real info)
• Skeptic (mythbusters)
• Charity Navigator (not always what they say they are!)
• Center for Science in the Public Interest (mythbusters)
• DeSmog (great resource for people and organizations in climate science)
• Crap Detection (more generally understanding how BS works)
• LittleSis (watchdog organization, but not a watchdog like Big Brother)