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February 2015
![]() ![]() ![]() | 43 | Idaho Representative Vito Barbieri is not an OB-GYN |
![]() ![]() ![]() | -62 | Why academia is such a toxic environment |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 26 | The perfect response to sexist questions |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 37 | Cracked: "Feminism! And with that one word, I've already set the world speed record for turning a comment section into a septic tank." |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 34 | N.J. judge rules ‘conversion therapy’ claims are fraud. A professor at BYU considers the ruling (which he misrepresents) "totalitarian in the extreme" and "censorial". |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 34 | Christian pediatrician refuses to treat baby girl because her parents are lesbians. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 24 | It actually is about ethics in mainstream journalism. Peter Oborne quits the Torygraph over HSBC whitewashing. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 23 | Evidence that everyday Islam and radical Islamism aren't quite identical: the jihadists who needed to buy Islam for Dummies. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 15 | 1. Use lynching imagery to sell Photoshop addons, during Black History Month. 2. When people go "whoa wtf", assert your right to free speech, and threaten to sue them. 3. PROFIT!!! [citation needed] (The proprietor is also not the sharpest spoon in the drawer regarding copyright.) |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 8 | Steven Novella: "While I do not know what [NBC Host Brian Williams] remembered, it is wrong and naive to assume he is lying. Williams was likely betrayed by his memory." |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 15 | Daily Kos: "Can a vaccine be responsible for the profoundly stupid?" (Probably not.) |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 27 | Cracked talks about what it's like to be a trans man. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 33 | We sceptics need to have a talk about Bill Maher and his rather unsettling views about such topics as the anti-vaccination movement. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 16 | Comrades! The Glorious Leader has published the latest set of slogans for the DPRK! Let us turn ours into a country of mushrooms by making mushroom cultivation scientific, intensive and industrialised! |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 29 | TL;DR version of right wingers' reaction to Obama's National Prayer Breakfast comments about the Crusades: "You say 'Crusades' like they were a bad thing." "The point is that whitewashing of one of the most bloody periods in world history is troubling on many levels." (Fun fact: Up to one percent of the entire world's population died as a result of 200 years of Crusades.) |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 17 | (Maybe NSFW) It's not disordered eating, it's detox! SciBabe shows the concerning parallels between the FoodBabe's new book on healthy living and pro-ana advice. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 21 | The Encyclopedia of American Loons was a new one to me. It does exactly what it says on the tin, and cites RW in a manner that suggests a high degree of familiarity with RW... |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 34 | If you see anyone linking to an article about a feminist who aborted a baby because it was male, it's made-up BS. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 20 | FoodBabe was, for two years, promoting products containing the "evil" ingredient BHT in the Kellogg's products she protested. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 38 | On vaccines, Bill Maher is being a common-or-garden-variety dangerous crank again. Time to start the Bill Maher Dead Children Ticker? |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 36 | For next time some foolish person asks you what feminism has ever done for men. (Way more than MRAs ever have.) |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 15 | Gay marriage in Alabama looms, so let's refresh the memories of everyone who's been misled by the devil himself as to what biblical marriage really is! |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 38 | Cracked: 5 Ways We Misunderstand Pedophilia (That Makes it Worse) |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 18 | potholer54 takes on the anti-biotech crazies - and owns! |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 33 | Guys, I wanted to let you know about a personal decision I recently made. I’m an Anti-Braker. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 24 | Reformed anti-vax Mom on the journey back to sanity. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 23 | Mississippi and West Virginia (of all places) are the two states that deny religious exemptions for vaccinations. And -- surprise! -- neither state has had a case of measles in more than 20 years. (Unfortunately, the writer didn't completely knock down anti-vaxxer arguments by discussing autism rates in the two states.) |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 36 | BuzzFeed in long-form quality journalism shock: How Men’s Rights Leader Paul Elam Turned Being A Deadbeat Dad Into A Moneymaking Movement. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 14 | A week ago, liberal NYMag writer Johnathan Chait wrote a piece decrying how "the language police are perverting liberalism." Slate responds by saying that while he may be misguided on a number of things, he's not entirely wrong. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 20 | Scientists to increase interference with the Church. "Wasn’t Jesus himself the result of a three-parent family? Or did I get the wrong idea there?" |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 19 | You always wondered: Why cats love sitting in boxes. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 19 | The polygraph has been lying to us for 80 years. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 14 | From Sluts Against Monsanto on Facebook: Science Denial Mad Libs! |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 29 | The International Team of Comics Historians (I.T.C.H.) website weighs in on the anti-vaccination movement by posting images from a 1930 anti-anti-vaxxer tract titled Health in Pictures. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | -5 | Three notes on religion by Wesley Morganston. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 30 | In 1962, the 7-year-old eldest daughter of author Roald Dahl and actress Patricia Neal died of measles. In 1988, Dahl wrote an open letter begging parents to get their children vaccinated. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 27 | The main problem with anti-vaccination parents is their 'rugged individualist' egotism. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 21 | The 15 most offensive things written on ReturnofKings.com |
January 2015
![]() ![]() ![]() | 18 | What hope does public science reporting have when professional scientists have a hard time with the basics of each others' fields |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 9 | Why the macho sludge peddled by the American Sniper is really cowardice. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 18 | The GOP’s Long Love Affair With Schmucks: Why Republicans fall in love with inexperienced, no-hope candidates every four years. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 24 | Anti-vaxxerism as a reflection of American political culture. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 15 | Protest outside John Edward show draws police to the scene. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 18 | Idaho Chief of Police: We need to protect trans rights. *mic drop* |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 22 | They're Gr-r-r-rossly Greedy! Harvard researcher shows again just how easy it is to get a paper into crap or fake medical journals with a nonsense paper entitled "Cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs?" |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 32 | Cracked.com takes on Oprah Winfrey's woo promotion. You know it's bad when "giving a platform to Jenny McCarthy" is only #4 on the list. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | -17 | In response to a euphoric fever dream of an infographic, 14 Bitcoin Predictions for 2015. (self promotion warning) |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 28 | A week in the life of Anita Sarkeesian. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 16 | Open Carrying cop-watchers: Well, what can possibly go wrong? |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 2 | A trollish headline, but an evidential examination says that Muslims and non-Muslims aren't really different in the way some people say they are. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 5 | One word: Nosewitness |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 2 | Another damned liberals and conservatives are fundamentally different article. (paywalled full article) |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 10 | An overview of the controversy over American Sniper. Though it is less about the movie and more about the background and subject. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 15 | Consent is key NSFW but it ought to be |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 3 | Nebraska anti-Keystone group BOLD (comprised primarily of Nebraskans) concedes its total loss to Senate pressure with a final statement that sounds just like their initial statements. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 26 | Cracked: 6 Ways to Keep Terrorists From Ruining the World |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 59 | "WARNING: This product contains deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA). The Surgeon General has determined that DNA is linked to a variety of diseases in both animals and humans. In some configurations, it is a risk factor for cancer and heart disease. Pregnant women are at very high risk of passing on DNA to their children." |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 9 | What happens when a woman agrees with a compliment about her looks on social media? Damned if you do or don't - she can't win! |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 21 | Suzanne Moore at The Guardian: Add faithophobia to my crimes: I have no respect for religions that have little respect for me. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 3 | Over at eSkeptic Kenneth Krause makes some points about the elephant in the room, why monotheistic religions inspire more violence than others, and what needs to happen for change. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 6 | Dear lonely nerds: feminist bloggers cannot be your therapists. (And why we need to direct men who have a crippling fear of female rejection to therapists, not feminist literature.) |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 14 | Bitcoin has not had the best 2015 so far. Everything listed here has happened in less than two weeks. (As well as the price dropping from $320 to $190 in less than 24 hours.) |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 14 | Real science vs. fake science: How can you tell them apart? (Complete with handy pocket-sized guide!) |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 8 | The Plight of the Bitter Nerd, Arthur Chu's take on nerd opposition to feminism. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 8 | All those leaders marching in France for freedom of speech .....?? ...perhaps not as much as you might think!! |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 10 | The state of satire in the Muslim world. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 13 | You can lead a misogynist to evidence, but you can't make them accept it. (Full on Anita's Law in comments section) |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 32 | Actual words people say to a blonde woman studying engineering at MIT. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 11 | Discovery channel promises to mend its ways, entire internet calls bullshit. [citation NOT needed] |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 9 | So much for respect for the dead. At least in the eyes of William Donahue. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 30 | "Should children be exposed to sounds of sodomy?" asks a leafleting campaign by a Christian group opposing same-sex marriage in Ireland. Twitter responds with various #soundsofsodomy jokes & memes. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 21 | "Is Earth Actually Flat?" Short answer: NO. Long answer: More interesting than you might expect. |
December 2014
![]() ![]() ![]() | 22 | Have you heard? NASA has announced that on Jan. 04, 2015, a rare interplanetary alignment will render the world briefly partially weightless. Except... They didn't, and it won't. A lesson on Internet credulity and the dangers of sources mixing fact with entertaining fiction: How one of the oldest astrophysics hoaxes in the book went viral. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 51 | "Vaccines Work." A cartoon guide to vaccines and vaccine denialist arguments. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 18 | Happen to be Hindu and born under a certain positioning of Mars in the sky? Being Manglik: a lesser known pseudoscientific stigma straining love lives in India. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 10 | The Interview is out!! and it's offensively stupid garbage. WHAT ARE THE ODDS HUH |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 2 | Schneier on Security: Did North Korea Really Attack Sony? |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 2 | Rather unsurprisingly WND and David Barton seem to be being less than truthful about his recent court case. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 13 | Steven Novella: Nobody's Perfect: dealing with flawed characters and the inverse stopped clocks of the world (a.k.a. "Welcome to Being Human.") |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 14 | Apropos of the current "Black Lives Matter" movement, here is a photo-essay about the history of lynching in the USA. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 24 | Tax protesters appeal their conviction by saying the judge should not have let them use their pseudolaw theories in court, so therefore it's his fault. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 16 | Another slam dunk for Kareem Abdul-Jabar. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 22 | "Hunger, filth, fear and death": remembering life before the NHS. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 24 | David Dunning (of Dunning-Kruger): We are all confident idiots. Yes, you too. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 48 | Jimmy Wales tries to patiently explain to a Gamergater why Gamergate has some public relations problems. "It is very difficult for me to buy into the notion that gamergate is 'really about ethics in journalism' when every single experience I have personally had with it involved pro-gg people insulting, threatening, doxxing, etc." They don't quite take the recommendations of the world-famous and highly influential charity founder they enquired with to heart. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 24 | Ayn Rand reviews children's movies. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 7 | "Web pages, including [Doubtful News], deemed “critical” of Universal Medicine removed from Google Search results" - let's "Streisand" 'em! |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 9 | Failed psychic predictions of 2014. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 11 | Hey, Creationists! Charles Darwin got something wrong about evolution! But it won't help your case. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 22 | Sweden's newest popular television show, Trolljägarna, hunts down internet trolls to interview in real life |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 17 | If you claim God and the Bible are necessary for morality ... pedophilia might not be the most robust example. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 9 | So, what do U.S. cops get punished for? |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 13 | There's one kind of bias that affects extremists less than other people. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 15 | Harper's meets the Silicon Valley capitalists and transhumanists. It's unclear if the LessWrong crew realise how they appear to normal humans. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 2 | Lendrem B A D, Lendrem D W, Gray A, Isaacs J D. "The Darwin Awards: sex differences in idiotic behaviour." BMJ 2014; 349:g7094. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 26 | Racists are still doing that racism thing and Cracked has the studies to prove it. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 25 | Does John McCain Really Have To Remind You About Torture Again, You Assholes? |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 12 | The 5 Most Insidious Conspiracy Theories of 2014. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 20 | Gamergate isn't over as long as its targets are still being harassed. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 28 | Conservative blogger goes to the Chicago zoo and finds “anti-human prejudice” and Liberal propaganda in signs that say over-hunting and habitat destruction threaten species. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 16 | It will go nowhere, but thanks to ye. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 12 | 9 ways Christian zealots cripple America. (No, it's not from Cracked. It's a Salon.com repost from Alternet.com.) |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 9 | A seventeen-year-old writes a poem composed entirely of anagrams of Eric Garner's last words. Chilling. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 22 | "Is the Food Babe a fearmonger?" Is the Space Pope reptilian? |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 16 | One of the great ironies of American politics likely to be realized this weekend: The Democratic Party will cease to be the party of the South. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 11 | In this video, Barbie performs sex acts that are now forbidden in UK porn. There's also an ePetition (which is coherently written and correctly spelt). |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 12 | Chart Brut: The red-string-and-thumbtacks of the Internet generation |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 10 | A truly beautiful and only slightly cruel writeup of a Bitcoin convention at Disney in Florida. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 19 | The Tea Party: Dunning-Kruger effect at its finest. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 36 | Zoe Quinn gives a rather thorough breakdown of just how much Gamergate set back journalistic ethics. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 14 | Some scientist has no choice but to sell his Nobel medal. |
November 2014
![]() ![]() ![]() | 16 | So that's why American conservatives have been red-baiting Pope Francis. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 23 | io9: 10 Scientific Ideas That Scientists Wish You Would Stop Misusing |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 13 | Rioting over a lack of indictment is unacceptable |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 20 | More homeopathy fighting ebola - NOT!: some idiots flew to Liberia to 'cure' ebola patients with homeopathy. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 32 | In which Thanet South UKIP mistakes Westminster Cathedral for a mosque. Update: "The people's army are not all wholly trained," responded Farage. Washington Post story, BBC video on Facebook. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 16 | “A system cannot fail those it was never meant to protect.” - W. E. B. Du Bois |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 25 | The International Journal of Advanced Computer Technology only accepts the very best papers (warning, older than I first thought) |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 26 | With a plan to 'heal the oceans' by dumping homepathic 'medicine' down toilets, "Have Homeopaths Reached Peak Stupid?" Sadly, Betteridge's law is probably in effect. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 22 | "So Much For Post-Racial America." |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 44 | Go fuck yourself, ESPN! ESPN suspends MLB writer Keith Law ostensibly for defending evolution. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 28 | A good example of how to complain politely to a shop about pseudoscientific merchandise. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 8 | Now that the Keystone XL debate is suddenly relevant again. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 29 | National Organization for Marriage sinking into debt. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 28 | io9: Stop Using Quantum Mechanics as Evidence for Magic |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 3 | Dubai, as understood by the Mustache of Understanding. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 33 | Chris "RINO" Ladd: "Few things are as dangerous to a long term strategy as a short-term victory. Republicans (in the midterms) scored the kind of win that sets one up for spectacular, catastrophic failure and no one is talking about it." |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 9 | An incredibly useful site: Realorsatire.com. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 25 | Fifty years from now, when historians analyze this decade in American politics, what will they think when "believ(ing) the rational should overcome the superficial" was considered a personality flaw? |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 25 | Somehow, Not The Onion: "White People Think Black People Are Magical" |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 27 | A useful reference work for the internet: An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 14 | The Guru Effect: if something's hard to understand, it must be true. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 9 | How to be a pickup artist (with science) (contains satire) |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 9 | The Mind Body Soul Experience: "a celebration of good posture, human credulousness and the placebo effect" |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 12 | Scamworld: how internet get-rick-quick schemes work to separate you from your money. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 11 | King v. Burwell, or How I Learned to Stop Obamacare and Lose the South. (Make your choice, Roberts.) |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 20 | The Oatmeal has a thing or 2 to say to Senator Cruz about net neutrality. Won't anyone think of the crabs?? |
![]() ![]() ![]() | -1 | The Lessons of Libya |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 33 | You don’t protect my freedom, or, why hero worship of the military and police is bad for us and them. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 27 | "You're a lame-duck president now. What are you going to do?" "Let's save the Internet." |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 28 | When cranks turn on each other: watching Gamergate eat itself from the inside. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 36 | Cracked gives its diagnosis of why Christian movies bomb in mostly Christian America. Bonus coverage: A day earlier, they published this article on how to fix some recent box office bombs, including changing the Nick Cage version of Left Behind to a horror flick about the Christian god. |
October 2014
![]() ![]() ![]() | 45 | "I'm not a scientist" = "I'm losing the War on Science." |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 13 | Matt Walsh Doesn’t Get Historical Marriage Rate Trends |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 23 | The Good Student in North Korea |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 17 | A Natural A/B Test of Harassment — not just in the world of big AAA games, but even in the world of casual Flash games. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 30 | The Affordable Care Act: who was helped most. Guess what? It's pretty much the opposite of the Religious Right's predictions. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 10 | When is "awareness" awareness day? |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 20 | Because "Bridgegate" didn't make the point clearly enough: Why Chris Christie (and Andrew Cuomo) will never be POTUS. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 2 | Cultural differences on opposite sides of the Atlantic to Ebola make for comedy.... |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 22 | What Doctors Don't Tell You seems to be lying to potential advertisers ... |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 4 | Stopped clock, meet Thomas Friedman. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 17 | How Conservatives Justify Poll Taxes. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 27 | Man calls a suicide prevention hotline, SWAT Team shows up and kills him |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 49 | Oh behalf of actual gamers everywhere, everyone's favourite former NFL player Chris Kluwe spectacularly rips Gamergaters several new ones. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 28 | When Women Stopped Coding |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 31 | Rebecca Watson's hosting a comedic science panel quiz show, Quiz-O-Tron, on the 25th. Naturally, there's a Gamergate petition to shut it down, signed mostly by people who don't know who she is, what she's doing or why they're supposed to hate her. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 12 | Just imagine if Fox News went bankrupt out of nowhere. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 10 | In which many of the people ruining the reputation of skeptics are the people ruining the reputation of gamers. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 18 | Paul Krugman on being accused of rudeness, of arguing ad hominem, and of arguing from authority |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 15 | A guide to the glossary of the oh-so-accountable kids behind Gamergate. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 23 | Shepard Smith goes off script again, calls out media on Ebola fearmongering. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 18 | Shh, don't show this to American conservatives. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 16 | Fracking + OPEC = this. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 29 | How must Japan prevent its coming demographic crisis? It starts with one wretched word... |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 24 | Science Denial for Beginners |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 16 | Chris Wallace: "We have always been at war with Eastasia." |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 35 | Should papers be retracted if one of the authors is a total asshole? Literally. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 35 | Growing Up Unvaccinated |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 12 | The Great Russo-Ukrainian Fuckup, summarized. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 26 | The USA is finally on the verge of making peace with pornography. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 26 | How libertarians would handle an Ebola outbreak. Guess. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 29 | Let's not entertain the idea of "Democrats Are People Too" being chosen as a political ad. Update: The trainwreck continues: "At this point, it's hard not to wonder if the people being hired to do outreach to women on behalf of Republican candidates aren't all a bunch of Democratic moles." |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 22 | Only a few more months of Stephen Colbert and the Papa Bear. *sniff* |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 24 | And Ayn Rand is no longer a thing. |
September 2014
![]() ![]() ![]() | 14 | The idea of "environmental classism" in America looks moronic now. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 28 | National Review writer Kevin D. Williamson says women who have abortions should be hanged, and so should doctors, nurses and hospital staff. (Somebody's been reading The Handmaid's Tale.) |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 20 | Blowback's a bitch, China. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 5 | Why academic writing stinks |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 18 | Focus on the Family offers handy tips for parents about teaching their children about homosexuality. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 28 | "If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich." |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 16 | Why UN climate talks continue to fail |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 16 | Three sexist newspapers that completely missed the point of Emma Watson's UN speech (Daily Telegraph, The Star, Daily Mail) |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 14 | The “Emma You Are Next” site is an assault on the civil rights of women. (Looks like it's a hoax. But damn, anti-feminists have humiliated themselves yet again.) |
![]() ![]() ![]() | -1 | Ever wonder who brings the VA problems to light and why? There you go. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 10 | Number #1 on Frank Luntz's Key Principles to Take Your Business from Ordinary to Extraordinary: Do not hire Frank Luntz. (The presser in question.) |
![]() ![]() ![]() | -7 | Hillary Clinton once wrote Saul Alinsky fan mail You hear that squealing off in the distance? That's Glenn Beck having an orgasm. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 17 | In which Christopher "moot" Poole gets new mods in and kicks #gamergate off 4chan. NOT EVEN 4CHAN wants these people. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 31 | Atlas Shrugged III reviewed. "A light went on. This film. What it is. What the book is. It’s the libertarian Left Behind." |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 24 | Next on the List of Questions that Would Garner an "Are You Crazy?" Reaction a Decade Ago: Is the GOP losing Kansas? |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 5 | Let's try this again: Why Scotland didn't secede: economics. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 11 | "37 percent of Americans think a free press is overrated." Ah. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 9 | Because the head-exploding nature of Republicans wanting to move to Canuckistan does not seem to be a joke. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 47 | Cracked: A 90-Second Guide to Determine if Your Internet Cause Is BS |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 15 | "Just how secure is Xi Jinping, really?" |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 12 | Which Iraq War are you? |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 23 | "The Only Thing Unusual About Ray And Janay Rice Is That Anyone Noticed." NFL fans and MRAs are having a very poor year. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 21 | Organized homeschooling's obsession with false reports of child abuse. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | -12 | Those RationalWikians of the "Yes" persuasion in the Scottish referendum should have a look at this. Update: No, stop downvoting, they should really look at this. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 30 | White people refuse to believe black people's experiences. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 9 | "Capt. Kirk vs. the Internet" |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 17 | Stung by Zoe Quinn's partial release of the IRC logs where they planned her harassment, the perpetrators of #GamerGate release 3,756 pages of full logs. They actually think this stuff makes them look anything not like pieces of shit. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 11 | Even Albert Einstein once got fooled by a purported psychic. (HT PZ Myers.) |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 28 | Obama Outperforms Reagan on Jobs, Growth, and Investing. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 14 | Skeptical Science launches a cheeky quote/caricature series called 97 Hours of Consensus. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 5 | Do you still think #GamerGate was a spontaneous grassroots movement of any sort? Zoe Quinn has screenshots for you. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | -37 | People don't know how to find the true gems of the internet: The Most Underrated Websites(self promotion warning) |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 14 | Turns out you can do direct A/B comparisons on workplace gender discrimination: ask a transgender person. (Similar response comment on HN.) |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 7 | AlterNet looks at the men's rights movement |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 13 | Herbals, Dietary Supplements Linked To Liver Injury |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 15 | Willing to reconsider your no-byline policy, Economist? (Update: no, but they withdrew the review.) |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 48 | Muslims take the piss out of ISIS, using genuinely funny snark and satire. We at Rationalwiki salute you. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 11 | Every time ISIS murders a journalist in broad daylight, there's only one conclusion. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 3 | Shaking the foundation? -- DJ Grothe "no longer with JREF", LA offices closed and re-headquartered in Falls Church, VA |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 29 | Cracked strikes again. "6 Tricks I Learned as a Faith Healer (for Scamming You)" |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 19 | Jeff Berwick's Galt's Gulch in Chile isn't going well... |
August 2014
![]() ![]() ![]() | -13 | Milo Manara's Spiderwoman, rendered as a 3D model by Dino Ignacio. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 34 | Dylan Avery, director of Loose Change, is unemployed and getting out of the Truther Movement. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 22 | Chiropractic Abuse: An Insider’s Lament |
![]() ![]() ![]() | -10 | Zara fashion: After swastika handbags in 2007, this time: Children's pyjamas in concentration camp style. Dafuq? |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 8 | NY Times - the internet is One big circle jerk |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 16 | io9: This Classic Science-Denying Scandal Shows Why Too Much Testing Is Bad. "Bad", you say? This needs further study! |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 36 | Cracked: 5 Successful People Who Everyone Forgets Are Exposed Frauds |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 20 | Sorry, Republicans: going full-libertarian will alienate all your other bases. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 8 | “Should we call ISIS evil? — Evil is the most powerful word we have to prepare ourselves to kill other people comfortably.” |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 18 | Reason magazine actually does something useful, says that the Bill of Rights isn't just for white people. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | -16 | You're writing a story and it's got a ... white character. How to describe them so normal people will understand. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 10 | Somebody is using Lorem Ipsum to troll google translate. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 39 | Salon: Why rightwingers hate smart people in general, and Neil deGrasse Tyson in particular. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 24 | A recent review of court cases has shown that courts nearly always side with wind farms, finding insufficient evidence of Wind Turbine Syndrome. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 32 | Fark bans misogyny in comments |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 40 | From The Onion's new website: "My Doctor Told Me I Should Vaccinate My Children, But Then Someone Much Louder Than My Doctor Told Me I Shouldn’t" |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 30 | Facebook will now point out satire. Because people really are that stupid. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 13 | The man who liked everything on Facebook has his counterpart: The woman who liked nothing. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 17 | Alex Gabriel: To the atheist tone police: stop telling me how to discuss my abuse. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 26 | The A-Z of what can give you cancer, according to the Daily Fail. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 8 | "This time it's the Democrats who are united." (Just a matter of time now.) |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 32 | When Cracked delivers, it delivers. 6 Ways a Creationist Textbook Sabotaged Science. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | -3 | Strangely, the Electronic Frontier Foundation files an amicus brief against the National "Michael Mann is a pedophile" Review defamation suit. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 24 | (VIDEO) "Humans Need Not Apply," a fascinating, yet somewhat harrowing, mini-documentary on the current state of automation, and its consequences for the future of our labor workforce. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 10 | Why Twitter won't do shit to fix its harassment problem |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 34 | Not a Tea Party, a Confederate Party |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 3 | The reality of the Middle East: The Cold War is over. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 20 | Ferguson, the NRA and the hypocrisy of silence. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 18 | "The libertarian dogma of our time is turning our polities, economies, and cultures upside down—and blinding us to this by making us even more self-absorbed and incurious than we naturally are. The world we are making with our hands is as remote from our minds as the farthest black hole. Once we had a nostalgia for the future. Today we have an amnesia for the present." |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 21 | Former Occupy activist turns to neoreactionary politics... that or trolling. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 17 | Sex offender laws have gone too far. (Parts one and two of a series from Slate.) |
![]() ![]() ![]() | -22 | Reasons to Lose Faith in Humanity. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 25 | Paul Krugman uses statistics to prove that scientists tend to be liberals. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 30 | If you "like" everything on Facebook your feed will become brands, clickbait and right-wingnut politics. No humans. Your friends' feeds will also go to shit. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 18 | A new study confirms everything we knew about anti-immigrant sentiment. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 25 | New York Times Science writer Nicholas Wade publishes a "racial realism" book, which is met with condemnation by the majority of scientists he cites |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 15 | August 9th marks the 40th anniversary of Richard Nixon's resignation. And as one HuffPo blogger reminds us, it also marks the 30th anniversary of "the stupidest thing ever written about Watergate." Namely, a Washington Post op-ed by Ben Stein that "was a screed so cretinous that even its author seems to have recognized what an embarrassment it was" by having all links to it scrubbed from the internet. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 9 | On the different degrees of subtlety in a person's opinions and behavior: The Subtlety Illusion |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 43 | Daily Kos: Neil deGrasse Tyson makes important scientific discovery: Liberals can be just as anti-science about GMOs as Conservatives are about Global warming. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 14 | Cherry Picking or Context in Bible Verse Selection |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 1 | The mind of a men's right's activist |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 10 | Juan Williams: "...I work at Fox News." |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 22 | The bizarre tale of how post-Soviet Russia descended into (nearly) every wingnut's wet dream. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 32 | American discourse is now so dumbed-down that it's become the equivalent of the POTUS talking to an Internet Tough Guy. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 18 | The Pundit-Polling Statistics War begins anew! |
July 2014
![]() ![]() ![]() | 17 | "Israel and Hamas are Both Just Winging It." Well this will end well. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | -17 | The dysgenics of Idiocracy. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 16 | Why Can’t the Banking Industry Solve Its Ethics Problems? |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 6 | Richard Dawkins, please STFU. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 10 | We have a problem with child refugees because the government of the United States is serious about you staying clean and sober. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 13 | The Texas Tank delivers yet again with a new series teaching science at a middle school level. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 22 | With Maureen Dowd's assured blessing, The New York Times publishes a five-part editorial to end the War on Drugs. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 38 | Ophelia Benson and Richard Dawkins (really): Dear atheists, please desist from acting like dicks. "Disagreement is inevitable, but bullying and harassment are not." |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 25 | Greta Christina has a few choice words for those who see fit to defend the Amazing Atheist. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 21 | "As Reason's editor defends its racist history, here's a copy of its holocaust denial 'special issue'." |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 22 | Slate discovers Roko's basilisk and the LessWrongians. "I worry less about Roko’s Basilisk than about people who believe themselves to have transcended conventional morality." |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 13 | End the Green Lantern Theory of the Presidency. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 28 | Thomas E. Ricks: Good god, I'm turning into a leftie! |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 18 | It was bound to happen eventually. Dr. Steven Novella, et al., are currently being sued by Dr. Edward Tobinick and the so-called "Institute of Neurological Recovery" over a May 2013 article on Science-Based Medicine outlining his clinic's dubious practices. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 17 | Jon Stewart explains that the only winning move in the Israel-Palestine debate may be not to play. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 19 | The Scopes Trial as drama. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 14 | The only explanation for The Orange Overlord's "sue Obama" gambit that makes sense. Well, other than pettiness. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 17 | How the Israel-Palestine peace process died. Again. (Commentary) |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 16 | "Slavic George W. Bush" may have been an underexaggeration. (Especially to the oligarchs.) |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 23 | Government by moral panic. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 11 | "I still hear about how I’m destroying gender relations, I still get told I’m unintelligent and ignorant, I still get threats of assault and rape. Let me repeat that: Men threaten to rape me, while telling me misogyny isn’t real. So why should I feel bad for hating the culture that allows this to go on?" |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 15 | How 65-million-year old geographic formations affect contemporary US voting patterns. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 9 | IO9: The Fine Line Between Conspiracy Theory And Rational Skepticism. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 22 | Right-wingers and their hatred of economics, grrr... |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 20 | Horseshoe theory comes to the Levant: Neocons suggest cutting off aid to Israel because Obama is sticking his evil filthy hands everywhere. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 23 | While the chickenhawks persist in their delusion, the military quietly prepares for global warming. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 18 | A story of TERFs stalking two trans women and their cis friend. "I write this post as that this isn’t some sort of intellectual parlour game." |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 26 | "Why the Myers-Briggs test is totally meaningless." |
![]() ![]() ![]() | -11 | Why Do We Need Labels Like “Gay”, “Bi”, “Trans”, and “Cis”? |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 34 | It's called the American Dream 'cause you have to be asleep to believe it. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 10 | A Brown University professor became skeptical of the use of weasel words and vague numbers in mainstream media reportage of satanic ritual abuse in daycare sex abuse cases. So he did a fifteen year study of these cases and found that in many cases the allegations of satanic rituals originated with various defense teams to make the public believe that prosecutors were conducting crusades based on moral panics and not on the actual evidence. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 39 | Yet another Cracked article recommendation - this one is on conspiracy theories |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 28 | Tea Party Founding Father Rick Santelli: Wrong about everything. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 19 | Let's sing the praises of L. Ron Hubbard and auditing. And make CDs and videos of our sung praises. No, this is not a joke. (WARNING: contains the actual music.) |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 16 | Oh, look. SomethingAwful.com just found the Left Behind film trilogy -- the Kirk Cameron version, that is; not the upcoming it's-gotta-be-totally-awesome-'cause-Nicolas-Cage-is-in-it version -- and decided to dedicate three webpages to an analysis of the awfulness. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 36 | George Clooney: The problem with the Daily Mail. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 20 | Show this to anyone dumbfounded on why Iran is itching to fight ISIS (and avoid the Flying Carpet Fallacy). |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 2 | Neil deGrasse Tyson is, sadly, the latest to hop on board the philosophy hate train. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 11 | Will this be the cause of the third Intifada? |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 37 | "Many people who would not dream to claim they understand how antibiotics, microprocessors or immunisations work seem happy to wax lyrical on their views on climate change." |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 14 | "We allow ourselves only two major political parties. One of them is completely out of its fcking mind." |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 33 | Russian priest says soccer is homosexual because of the colored shoes. "Wearing pink or blue shoes, [the players] might as well wear women's panties or a bra." (The original article in Russian.) |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 17 | Two years before a Democratic primary and we're already getting bullshit on whether Obama will pick Clinton or Warren. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 16 | A FOTL asks the British government if membership of society is compulsory, and, surprisingly, gets a comprehensive answer. "Indeed, many people seek solitude, and there are a number of hermits living in Britain today..." |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 13 | Your time is running out, Lockheed Martin. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 8 | Who needs a psychic Octopus (or whatever it is this year) when you have the protozoic parasite Toxoplasma gondii? |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 16 | "Instead of saving the GOP, reformers risk being consumed by the Republicans' ongoing identity crisis." It helps when the word 'reformer' actually means something. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 21 | The greening of Islam. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 20 | The lunacy of the Austrian school. ("The years 2011 and 2012 were to Austrians like sunrise is to a vampire. It was simply amazing to sit there and watch Austrians writhe and contort under the pure, burning light of extant reality.") |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 15 | Note to Islamophobes: It is, to put it lightly, difficult to claim that Muslims are terrorists when the majority of people those terrorists kill are Muslims. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 10 | Jeffrey Stacey contends: Putin is losing the current round of the Ukraine crisis |
June 2014
![]() ![]() ![]() | 16 | Nearly 80 gays served in Dubya's White House. What they experienced. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 8 | Look at all the female Democratic votes, they're falling from the sky! |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 13 | Dear Sam Brownback: Stay in politics for as long as you possibly can. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 7 | Reason magazine and Ralph Nader see eye to eye. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 18 | The interesting paradox of the incoming Sebelius v. Hobby Lobby Stores holding: If the Four Horsemen want to avoid a political landmine, they may have to tacitly endorse single-payer health care in the process. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 11 | Strangely moving account of the "First International Conference on Men’s Issues" day one by the SPLC |
![]() ![]() ![]() | -18 | Men expose themselves to women, often quite young, and masturbate on a regular occurrence. No women are surprised at this. Some men feel the need to defend or deny this behavior. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 54 | "Dear 1%ers, many of our fellow citizens are starting to believe that capitalism itself is the problem. I disagree, and I’m sure you do too... [but] these idiotic trickle-down policies are destroying my customer base. The pitchforks are coming for us plutocrats." |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 32 | How Conspiracy Nuts Are Duping Well-Meaning Liberals |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 9 | Ann Coulter: less political commentator, more polemic performance artist and satirist. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 7 | Cracked: 16 Famous Mysteries That Everyone Forgets Have Been Solved. Spoilsports. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 19 | "Until recently, America's minorities had widely differing political allegiances... (b)ut over the last few decades, these diverse minorities, with the exception of Miami's Cubans, have converged on the Democratic Party and have given it a large political advantage in national and some state elections over Republican candidates." |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 9 | The Republican |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 19 | A Facebook page dedicated to smearing Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl gets goated. Even made news in the LA Times. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 12 | Surprise, surprise. Climate Change Deniers Using Same Methods as Tobacco Industry, Says Physicist |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 11 | ISIS has learnt how to astroturf on twitter. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 13 | A Channel 5 documentary alleges that Hitler was a serial tax evader. No comment. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 3 | TED's introduction of what gives money its value. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 33 | There is only one way Obama will get Republicans to accept global warming: He must become a denier himself. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 30 | Ken Ham's Ark appears to be floundering. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 32 | Pigs are flying: A bipartisan group of Senators found a legitimate problem in Obamacare and are trying to pass a bill to fix it. Whether Congress actually does anything is uncertain. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 17 | So let's get started. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 5 | Why isn't the Supreme Court ruling on Second Amendment cases? (Anthony Kennedy seems to be breaking from the conservative wing again.) |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 1 | Very interesting statistics for Hillary Clinton's interview on Faux News. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | -3 | Sexist trolls wreck social network |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 11 | Could we get Justice Cromwell to speak a little more slowly when delivering the court's reasons? Harper seems to be having difficulty understanding him. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 5 | Musician Jello Biafra interviews Unarius UFO cultists. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 28 | 10 Scientific Ideas That Scientists Wish You Would Stop Misusing. Yes, 'Quantum' is on the list. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 18 | A Muslim law student sits in on a Benghazi pep rally hosted by the Heritage Foundation. Fill in the blanks. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 14 | Real atrocities and easy fantasies—careful what you retweet. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 14 | Since You-Know-Who is the latest to violate James Fallows' Law of Iraq Pundits, here's a surprising list of liberal hawks who should also take pause. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | -1 | Fundraiser to send Sworebytheprecious to Detroit to report on AVFM conference (and get a possible source on it that isn't written by an MRA) |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 19 | How to make a paranormal event sound believable. Step 1: fake skepticism before the event. ("Dear Penthouse: I never imagined it could happen to me, but...") |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 29 | Sovereign citizen loses drivers license, walks everywhere with an assault rifle. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 17 | "We have reached the moment that skeptics of the 2003 United States invasion warned about all along: the implosion of the country, and, possibly, the entire region." [1][2] |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 9 | Brookings Institution: The Tea Party has a losing record for 2014. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 21 | Paleo is the Scientology of diets. (And that's a blog called "SixPackAbs" saying so.) |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 14 | Participating in deception: ‘Narrative can become fact’: how some murderous, delusional behavior resembles a role-playing game gone horribly wrong. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 25 | Open-carry nuts. "Everything about this man is so beautifully, gloriously wrong, I half suspect Sacha Baron Cohen is hiding in there." |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 15 | The stupidest thing you will have read today: "what would happen to 'the millions we have sent to hell' for using contraception if the teaching were suddenly changed?" |
![]() ![]() ![]() | -15 | We all talk about the GOP's clown car of candidates... but just how bad would the Dems be if Hillary doesn't run? |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 11 | "I chatted with the chatbot Eugene Goostman, and was not impressed." - When Ray Kurzweil says you're full of shit... |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 18 | The WaPo op-ed section is having a very bad week. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 13 | My Conversation with “Eugene Goostman,” the Chatbot that’s All Over the News for Allegedly Passing the Turing Test |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 19 | "Project Lebensraum," black-on-white cannibalism, threesomes with L. Ron Hubbard, and worse: Heinlein's descent into madness. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 18 | The Goat Brigade continues to troll Facebook conservatives. In this issue, their secret identity is almost exposed! |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 34 | Thought experiment: you are pro-homeopathy blather-monger Nancy Malik. You set up a website. You apply to the Health on the Net Foundation for approval under 'HONcode', their seal of approval for medical websites and are granted it. Then people start arguing about it and ask for the site to be reassessed. What do you do? If your answer is change the link to a screenshot of the HONcode badge when you were approved, congratulations, you too have the dishonesty necessary to be an alternative medicine shill. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 11 | "...when old-school atheists attempt to dismiss social justice issues as "mission drift," it seems like a betrayal of the very principle that was most attractive about standing up and identifying as an atheist in the first place..." I blame those annoying gender people, ruining skepticism for everyone. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 15 | Ham Rove made Americans smarter, unlike the real one. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 20 | After making a lot of noise, presuppositionalist Sye Ten Bruggencate finally gets his long-demanded debate with Matt Dillahunty of The Atheist Experience. One guess how well that goes for Bruggencate. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 12 | In the face of the facts and his own history regarding POW swaps, John McCain reaches a brand new low. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 32 | Cracked looks at MRAs. (The author apologises to the reformed neo-Nazi for making him read so much Reddit.) |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 18 | Sanal Edamaruku is still stuck in Finland |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 29 | The net neutrality debate summed up by John Oliver. Update: The FCC website has crashed. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 18 | Vladimir has been feeding his trolls. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 9 | Stuart Robbins from the Exposing PseudoAstronomy podcast has released a video entitled, "The Cydonia Region of Mars Explored" that looks into the claim by Richard Hoagland and others that the Cydonia region of Mars (where the "Face" is) shows geometry that could only have been designed by an intelligence. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 0 | #YesAllMen |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 32 | The NRA now says that gun activists who open-carry into restaurants and other public places to make a political point are "downright weird," " just not neighborly," "(defy) common sense," and show "a lack of consideration and manners." Update: "Our job is not to criticize the lawful behavior of fellow gun owners." |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 18 | The "solar roadways" hype gets dissected step by step. (By Mother Nature Network of all places.) |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 11 | Seymour Hersh's reporting on Syrian gas attacks gets taken apart. |


