RationalWiki:What is going on in the blogosphere?/November 2014

November 2014
So that's why American conservatives have been red-baiting Pope Francis. io9: 10 Scientific Ideas That Scientists Wish You Would Stop Misusing Rioting over a lack of indictment is unacceptable More homeopathy fighting ebola - NOT!: some idiots flew to Liberia to 'cure' ebola patients with homeopathy. 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. “A system cannot fail those it was never meant to protect.” - W. E. B. Du Bois The International Journal of Advanced Computer Technology only accepts the very best papers (warning, older than I first thought) 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. "So Much For Post-Racial America." Go fuck yourself, ESPN! ESPN suspends MLB writer Keith Law ostensibly for defending evolution. A good example of how to complain politely to a shop about pseudoscientific merchandise. Now that the Keystone XL debate is suddenly relevant again.

National Organization for Marriage sinking into debt. io9: Stop Using Quantum Mechanics as Evidence for Magic Dubai, as understood by the Mustache of Understanding. 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." An incredibly useful site: Realorsatire.com. 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? Somehow, Not The Onion: "White People Think Black People Are Magical" A useful reference work for the internet: An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments. The Guru Effect: if something's hard to understand, it must be true. How to be a pickup artist (with science) (contains satire) The Mind Body Soul Experience: "a celebration of good posture, human credulousness and the placebo effect" Scamworld: how internet get-rick-quick schemes work to separate you from your money. King v. Burwell, or How I Learned to Stop Obamacare and Lose the South. (Make your choice, Roberts.) The Oatmeal has a thing or 2 to say to Senator Cruz about net neutrality. Won't anyone think of the crabs?? The Lessons of Libya You don’t protect my freedom, or, why hero worship of the military and police is bad for us and them. "You're a lame-duck president now. What are you going to do?" "Let's save the Internet." When cranks turn on each other: watching Gamergate eat itself from the inside. 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.