"notes that RationalWiki's "contents often include sarcasm and satire, posing special challenges to statistical analysis".Andrea Ballatore, a lecturer in GIS at the University of California, Santa Barbara categorizes RationalWiki as a debunking website in a 2015 study, finding it to be the third most visible website when researching conspiracy theories in terms of Google and Bing search results, slightly more visible than rense.com and less visible than YouTube or Wikipedia.