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The following blogs and other parasites of the internet were interesting to RationalWiki editors or posted for vanity reasons. See also our ebook archives and websites list for non-blogal content.
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Blogs run by RationalWikians
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- What's going on at RationalWiki The official unofficial RW community blog (edited by David Gerard)
Bigger blogs
Congrats to Ames and PalMD on hitting the big time!
- Denialism blog by Mark and Chris Hoofnagle and our own PalMD. A Scienceblog devoted to the denialist movement and its tactics.
- Submitted to a Candid World by AmesG. Covers progressive politics, rhetoric, and relevant parts of the anti-science movement.
- White Coat Underground by PalMD. Covers medical quackery (oh, sorry, "alternative medicine") and, occasionally, the importance of fatherhood.
Less prominent blogs
- A Turbonerd's Weblog, run by Linus, wherein he rants about anything that crosses his mind and harms himself for your entertainment.
- Small Time TV, run by User:EVDebs under the name BrianX, where he writes not nearly enough about food and kitchen science.
- Vox in Deserto, run by User:AKjeldsen under the name Lanfranc, in which he presents findings of medieval scholarship, discusses relevant issues of the day, and occasionally quotes the Venerable Bede and other luminaries.
- Unleashing Chiang, a blog run by User:Researcher (under the name Frosty) and his buddy Slim Charles. Mostly foreign policy and politics, but includes many other topics too.
- Eclectablog (csavage)
- D-Notice (D-Notice, but I seem to be spending more time using Twitter)
- NewsTechnica (fake news by David Gerard)
- We Couldn't Make This Up... (PsyGremlin & Π)
- White Coat Underground (PalMD: Reborn (but not in the Jesusy way))
- Science, skepticism and astronomy (kashfarooq)
- Roger B Scream!! (talk) Mostly pics of the neighborhood
- Skeptical Raptor's blog (Skeptical Raptor) – Talking about global warming, vaccines, zombies, evolution, and other science
- Voxcorvegis (Lady Corvex's) blog - mainly about physics, interactions between the sciences and the humanities, fiction/culture, transgender issues and Canadian Politics.
- Guy Chapman's blahg (JzG) includes quackbusting and snark
- Eye on the ICR PeterL pokes fun at the Institute for Creation Research.
- Through the Amber Looking-Glass: Eclectic mix of RW-related stuff, feminism, trans issues, and gaming. (Blue)
Blog collectives
These websites host multiple blogs based around science, freethought, and general rationality.
- ScienceBlogs.com -- Created by Seed Media Group, with significant editorial input from National Geographic in the last year or two. It has sister sites based in Brazil and Germany.
- The last day's blogs at scienceblogs
- Denialism (PalMD: although he probably won't be adding new content)
- Freethought Blogs -- A quasi-spinoff of ScienceBlogs, started by Ed Brayton and PZ Myers. Focuses on rationalism and analysis of the intersection between science, politics, and religion.
- Scientopia -- Another Sb spinoff; many of its writers are former Sb writers.
- Discover Blogs -- Run by Discover Magazine; home to, among others, Phil Plait and Carl Zimmer.
- Scientific American Blogs
- ScienceBlogging -- a blog aggregator covering all of the above networks and a lot more.
- science-based pharmacy by Scott Gavura and Avicenna (not that one) does what it says on the tin, unlike the pharma-woo it exposes.
Politics
- A mole reports on the goings on aboard the National Review cruise.
- Dispatches from the Culture Wars, where writer and skeptic Ed Brayton talks about science, politics, and religion from a left-libertarian point of view
- Pandagon, left-wing blog owned by Jesse Taylor and home to feminist/skeptic blogger and unrepentant music snob Amanda Marcotte. Covers politics, science, religion, music, and food and has a weekly music party on Turntable.fm.
- The Huffington Post, a left-wing US politics blog run by former Republican activist Arianna Huffington. Notoriously woo-friendly (especially as regards Deepak Chopra and anti-vaccination activism), and a cautionary example of how politics and rationality do not always coincide.
- Politifact and FactCheck, two fact-checking sites rating the validity of statements made by public figures.
- The Non Sequitur, philosophy profs point out logical fallacies in the media and political commentary.
- The Encyclopedia of American loons
Science/skepticism
- Pharyngula - PZ Myers' blog
- The Rational Reply
- Stupid Evil Bastard (yup, that's what it's called)
- "Your one-stop shop for the most recent science blogging"
- Science After Sunclipse excellent blog by Blake Stacey.
- Answers in Genesis BUSTED! is lots of fun.
- Bad Science by Ben Goldacre, a column from The Guardian newspaper.
- Bad Astronomy by Phil Plait, a classic skeptical site dealing in astronomy woo (including takedowns of Zecharia Sitchin, Richard Hoagland, and the Moon landing deniers)
- DC's IMPROBABLE SCIENCE page by David Colquhoun at University College London
- The James Randi Educational Foundation, featuring a weekly column by the Master, Randi himself; focuses primarily on the paranormal
- The Lay Scientist by Martin, a British site covering interesting peer-reviewed research, skepticism, and the intersection between science, politics and the media.
- Memoirs of a Skepchick by Rebecca Watson (and a couple of other authors), covering general science, skepticism, and occasionally feminism in science
- The Millenium Project by Peter Bowditch, an Australian site focusing heavily on medical woo (particularly anti-vaccination activism) and multilevel marketing fraud
- The Nondiscovery blog, which follows the Discovery Institute and creationism/ID
- The Panda's Thumb, focus on the evolution, creation and intelligent design debate
- Pharyngula by PZ Myers, biology, politics and religion from one of the blogosphere's more outspoken atheists and rationalists
- Respectful Insolence written by a surgeon/scientist with a focus on applying rational thought to medicine and alternative therapies.
- What's New with Bob Park, covering anti-science developments in science and politics
- Why Evolution Is True Jerry Coyne's Evolution blog (and a Caturday fanatic)
- The Sensuous Curmudgeon Anti Creationist/ID-ist blog
- Real Climate on global warming
- DeSmogBlog, also on global warming (but more focused on denialism and public relations)
- The last day's entries at "scienceblogs" (includes PZ, PalMD etc.) can be found here.
- Skeptical-Science, by Dave Gamble, a UK based blogger focusing on both Skepticism, critical thinking and popular science
- Debunking Denialism
- Illuminutti Great articles on what goes on in the mind of a Conspiracy Theorist.
- Skeptical Libertarian see here
Specific posts
- The only debate on Intelligent Design that is worthy of its subject!
Religion
- The Secular Web This site covers the whole of freethought.
- About: Atheism/Agnosticism A good all-round source for religious skepticism.
- De-Conversion is a site written by "converts" to atheism.
- Slacktivist covers religion and politics from a liberal evangelical Christian perspective, including a critical analysis of Left Behind
- Richard Dawkins forum. Ok, it's really a message board for people to talk about Dawkins, but lots of good atheist material and more.
- Iron Chariots is a wiki devoted to apologetics and counter-apologetics.
- Thoughtsic.com A militant atheist with a radical liberal agenda to match. Occasional science-related post.
- Evangelical Realism--A newish blog exploring reality
- The Rational Reply - Jim Rational's daily replies to bizarre religious claims
Specific posts
Humor
- "Pollcats" - LOL*captions + politicians.
- 3 Bulls - mostly just annoying, but played their part in the war on CP.
- Sadly, No - another funny moonbat blog.
- NewsTechnica - User:David Gerard's fake news blog
Miscellaneous or all of the above
- "Opposing Views" so-called "expert debates".
- CP Column, by AKjeldsen. Now officially closed.
- Mt. Molelog by Jtl. No longer updated frequently, but when it is it's frequently Not Safe For Work.
- Freakonomics. Just darn interesting.
- Red State Rabble Politics, Religion, Science and culture.
- Open Science Open source software and science...what more could you want?
- The Life and Thoughts of One For Logic by One For Logic
- Fortean cake - Totnesmartin's pokings into the murky depths of the paranormal.
- Moronality a British take on things in general (including the US election and Conservapedia)
- Digital Bits Skeptic. Blog, podcast, paid articles, and user community for skeptics.
- Pull My Finger
- (US) police misconduct
- Sceptics' Guide to the Universe - podcasts on science and logic.
- Science, Reason and Critical Thinking from Crispin Jago
- Adventures in nonsense from Simon Perry
- The random thoughts of Robesdesaixtare
- ManBoobz by David Futrelle; a skeptical (and snarky) blog taking down the Men's Rights Movement, the seduction community, and various other forms of misogyny
- The Unholy American Politics, Religion, Atheism, History, and Current Events.
- Odd Books by Alfred Armstrong is a tour through some of the weirdest material the literary world has to offer, including abundant miscellaneous kookery, proto-seduction guru Frank Harris, egotistical poetaster Amanda McKittrick Ros, and John Harvey Kellogg-wannabe Webster Edgerley (who put the Ralston in Ralston-Purina).
- The Breakthrough Institute Focuses on climate change, bipartisan (if largely progressive) politics and environmental science with occasional promotions of nuclear power.
Archive
Now-inactive blogs.
- Andrew’s Analytics (AndrewF)
- Boom Goes the Dynamite (SirChuckB)
- Daily Police Photo (D-Notice)
- LambdaDelta Tony Sidaway's blog
- Morgan's Fun Ranting Corner (FallenMorgan)
- The Lay Scientist (Martin)
- One God Further (Eternal Critic)
- Submitted to a Candid World (Caius)
- My Hovercraft is Full of Eels (Kels - Art blog, so don't go looking for debunking or politics)
- Unleashing Chiang (Researcher is the founder and admin, going by Frosty. Mostly foreign policy stuff)
- Ramblings of a Diseased Mind (SuspectedReplicant - mainly gaming, TV and other stuff rather than politics)
- Random Manic Ramblings (Seth Peck) - anything and everything.
- Encyclopedia Teresita by Teresita. Politics, Religion, Taoism, Culture, Linux, and eye-candy for lesbians.
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