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[edit] May 2013

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5Here's one for mothers of newborns. Maybe formula isn't as bad as the pseudoscience types say. The war against natural mothering starts in 3…2…1.
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7Vaccine deniers are supported by Big Pharma to improve their profits. And here's some fucking proof of the conspiracy. It only makes sense.
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14"Ignoring the cost of climate change is bad business." - wait, that's not the traditional right-wing mantra, right?
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-34 Things We Should Remember When Arguing About Politics
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13Technology is not a barrier to sustainable energy, but we need to change our thinking.
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21Conspiracy theorists are flummoxed by an actual scandal.
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6Is overt racism and sexism really a good advertising strategy? "Mountain Dew Releases Arguably the Most Racist Commercial in History." If you're curious, this video commentary by the Young Turks includes the full ad within the first 70 seconds. (The ad revolves around a trash-talking goat, so it must be RW material.)
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15Will the conservative old codgers of the House of Lords block same-sex marriage in the UK? Unlikely, actually. (Clogorific bonus material in the comments)
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11Cracked: The 5 Most Insulting Defences of Nerd Racism
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15Google releases remarkable Landsat footage of human expansion in the past 25 years. (Some commentary by Hank Green)
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16Oh, my! George Takei takes the usual anti-gay / reparative therapy PSA and turns it on its head.
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28The EU would like to slow down automated stock trading so that a purchased stock must be held for 500 milliseconds (1/2 second) before being resold. To illustrate the current virtually unregulated situation, a company specializing in stock-trading software has produced a video showing 500 milliseconds of the trading of a single stock, slowed down by a factor of 720.
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25Stavvers: Has it been scientifically proven racists and homophobes are stupid? Er, no.
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26"Why didn't she just run away?" Ten years after being rescued from her kidnappers, Elizabeth Smart tells a Johns Hopkins University audience that rape victims raised in conservative households and communities often feel worthless, like a "chewed-up piece of gum. Nobody re-chews a piece of gum. You throw it away."
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18Nate Silver summarizes argumentum ad verecundiam.
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10No, the DSM is not being thrown out.
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16Humans: only 70% similar to chimps?
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16Ken Ham commits autoparody.
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26What I would say to creationists if I were was more of a dick.

[edit] Earlier entries

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16In addition to abstaining from JAQing off, you should also stop FAPing.
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25From this day forward, Donald Trump will be given the title of Fuckface von Clownstick.
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6According to this blogger's unnamed sources, almost every player in the NFL has a closet to go with their locker room. (Warning: Poe's Law in action!)
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19Do you know what happens when people start to learn?
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21We have to start questioning if wingnuts' attention to Nancy Pelosi is simply because she's just a liberal boogeywoman.
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1Food buzzwords demystified, a video focusing on food labels as protected terms, most notably "organic". sadly the informative video is followed by a petition link that borders on crankery

[edit] April 2013

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16"Best" thank you's to George W. Bush
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16Sandra Day O'Connor: In hindsight, I fucked up.
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12Pseudo scholarship exposed (along with debunking resources)
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16What the George W. Bush museum should look like.
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5"The print media are here for two very good reasons: food, and shelter."
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14Say hello to Daniel Day-Lewis' fourth Academy Award! (Oh God, he's broken the self-deprecation meter.)
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12Conclusive Proof That There Is No God and Humans Are Essentially Evil The truly sad and disturbing story of Pony the Orangutan.
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18Let me tell you the tale of a Fox News wannabe begging the government for welfare...
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22After thirteen years of being spotted in gay bars, ex-gay poster boy John Paulk (not to be confused with that Pope) comes out and apologises for spreading myths about changes in sexuality and announces his upcoming divorce. So, yes boys, he's single.
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17The next five states to take on same-sex marriage, and some interesting survey results. No surprise that religion is far and away the most popular reason to oppose equality.
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13What is this? A Canadian Senator who's actually competent and useful?
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25Whoop-de-fucking-doo. (For non-US viewers)
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13No worries, everyone.
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14Social network fuckwits (*cough*Reddit*cough*), fuck off.
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16"George Soros is living every man's dream: Reading what people might say about him at his funeral."
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15Surprisingly, it's not the easiest question to answer, so using a combination of a Twitter news feed and crowd-sourcing, Slate.com has logged every gun-related fatality in the US since Newtown on December 14th - as of now, all 3,500 of them, including the 60+ children, many of whom were shot and killed in accidents.
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18Zoning regulations are for commies.
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21The Onion explains how to pass gun control legislation.
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16The New Yorker covers the wingnut paranoia about the injured Saudi in the Boston Marathon. All the usual characters here.
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7The Corn God's schedule.
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13Ian McKellen pwns the Iron Homophobe.
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5It happened again. Spain this time, and at night.
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2Another Reddit thread from FakePsychic, this time focusing on the social engineering side of being a fake psychic and doing cold reading over the phone.
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14This is not going to end well.
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17UnNews: Was 9/11 an outside job?
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6The saga of David Mayo.
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12Why Bitcoin is no longer a currency.
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22 A support group for survivors of homeschooling at its worst.
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22Controversial bishop speaks out on the Catholic Church's abuse crisis.
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10Rand Paul speaks at Howard University about the bewilderment the GOP feels at being abandoned by African-Americans. Jon Stewart takes the opportunity to explain it to him. (2 videos)
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6With Ireland's constitutional convention soon to make its decision on clearing same-sex marriage for referendum, this piece shows concerns about always showing both sides of a politicised issue, putting minority rights to majority vote, but focusing on how it affects the mental health of LGBT people.
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9Gore's Law: pretty much all that's left in the conservative denialist playbook. (Oh, and bask at the Coultergeist inadvertently admitting that she's helping to combat climate change.)
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8How to construct your own Susan Greenfield technological panic article.
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3Larry Moran: Educating an Intelligent Design Creationist. (Latest post in series, with links.)
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10It's the vaccines that saved lives dumbass. Vaccine deniers still ignore the evidence.
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31Charles Socarides, the man who formed reparative therapy, has a son. He's gay.
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8RIP Doomsday Lady. :(
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11Glenn Beck suffers a sudden outbreak of common sense, uses libertarian arguments to vocalize endorsement for same sex marriage.
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6The easiest way to determine China's views on North Korea: link them to Jon Stewart. (YT link)
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4Dispelling pointless post-death etiquette in wake of the death of the iron bitch.
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17NonStampCollector's last blog post details some of the ridiculous attacks he had endured due to his membership in Freethought Blogs (and his perceived support for Atheism+). Choice quote: "Some of these anti-FTBers make 911-Truthers look like Ph.D geniuses. Sorry, it’s just the fucking truth." Indeed.
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17Neal's Yard promotes homeopathy for measles, because they are murderous pieces of shit.
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20Stick figure science: "This is NOT evolution."
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6TEDTalk video: "What Doctors Don't Know About the Drugs They Prescribe." Some real world effects of publication bias, by Ben Goldacre.
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20The process of science as seen through awkward stock photography.
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18Jon Stewart on Sean Hannity's on-air admission that "my father hit me with a belt and I turned out okay": "Seriously? You're okay? Have you seen your show?"
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5Video commentary from the film critic on CBS Sunday Morning: A certain trend in movie violence (men made impotent, women imperiled) illustrates one of the main fears that drives America's gun culture --"We're obsessed with being attacked."
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11The Best Amendment
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1When bloggers complain about Twitter.
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19Ronald Reagan's daughter: My Dad would have supported same-sex marriage.
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12Sam Harris, scientific racism, the new atheism and Islam. Update: Harris replies in conversation with Greenwald
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18But who will tell me that my movie sucks? UPDATE: NOOOOOOOOOO
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12The history of the solar system, Scientology-style.
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27The Onion summarizes the arguments for and against same-sex marriage.


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