RationalWiki:What is going on in the blogosphere?/July 2012

July 2012
Don't worry, MRAs: when these women get judged  for their skill and not how "fat" they are, we can start talking. You better have taken a day off. Time to come clean: I was one of American's top psychics &mdash; and, like all of them, a complete fraud. Frankie Boyle pwns Chris Brown. How positive thinking can be self-unhelp. On r/atheism,  another good reason for America to tax religions -- audits! "My friend's mother keeps her church's checkbook. Wow." (Hard-to-read copy of a Facebook page where the poster lists some of the church's collections and outlays.)  Pie chart of the church's outlays as per the information supplied by the poster.  As you might imagine, this has prompted a lot of discussions on the comments board.  Facebook goes wild with Bananas cure cancer meme based on one small study on mice. Except they fucking misinterpret the study and get all the science completely wrong. And no, bananas do not cure cancer. The Daily Mail, keeping it classy: The NHS, therefore racism. With bonus attempt to cover their tracks when busted. Cracked: The 4 Most Meaningless Arguments Against Gun Control NewsBiscuit: Olympic terror threat level reduced after al-Qaeda outsource terrorism to G4S. Mitt, we love you. The history of the internet is the latest thing to be shoved down the glibertarian memory hole. Black folk don't do atheism? Mayor of Boston to Chick-fil-A: Fuck off. A Penn State fan makes a fatuous claim regarding the NCAA's sanctions against the university's football program. A HuffPo sportswriter's response: "[T]here seems [to be] little doubt that we need a version of Godwin's Law that pertains to references to the 9/11 terrorist attacks."  What ado the Westboro Baptist Church? Ignore them. <vote poll=blog2410 closed="yes">G4S: How not to go about training security personnel. <vote poll=blog2409 closed="yes">Carl Zimmer pwns the Discovery Institute. <vote poll=blog2408 closed="yes">An untestimony: from fundamentalism to skepticism <vote poll=blog2407 closed="yes">SPAAAAAAAAACE! <vote poll=blog2406 closed="yes">Why the Oatmeal brouhaha was so important. Update: Inman's Twitter page filled with upset fundies. <vote poll=blog2405 closed="yes">Jon, it's been a Dickens novel for a loooong time. <vote poll=blog2404 closed="yes">The vlogger who submitted himself to torture for the entire world to see has finally stumbled upon Fifty Shades of Grey. <vote poll=blog2403 closed="yes">Why Mitt Romney will not be the Republican nominee. <vote poll=blog2402 closed="yes">If a birther like Sheriff Joe won't accept President Obama's birth certificate as real, why should anyone expect him to accept as real an ID presented in accordance to Arizona's "Papiere, bitte" law? <vote poll=blog2401 closed="yes">Cracked delivers again: The 11 Most Unintentionally Hilarious Religious Paintings. <vote poll=blog2400 closed="yes">Homeopathy companies pay journalist to set up websites to attack Edzard Ernst. Proves Ernst's Law. <vote poll=blog2399 closed="yes">Five guys stand under an exploding atomic bomb. And live a long life. <vote poll=blog2398 closed="yes">Any Republicans distressed over the supreme court's Obamacare decision? How about moving to Conservative Paradise! <vote poll=blog2397 closed="yes">Bank robberies: Crime doesn't (statistically) pay. <vote poll=blog2396 closed="yes">How to be a reverse-racist. <vote poll=blog2395 closed="yes">Bikers Against Child Abuse <vote poll=blog2394 closed="yes">Religion as Rorschach blot. <vote poll=blog2393 closed="yes">Australian chicken farmers accidentally recombine viruses from two different vaccines causing a disaster. Australian anti-Vaccine Network goes batshit insane-again. Real science says everyone stay calm. <vote poll=blog2392 closed="yes">[http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-18877449 A new book examines the US' addiction to apocalypse, tracing its origins from fundie-land to the secular world. Gross and Giles argue that if we refrain from similarly framing global warming and other issues, solutions will be reached faster.] The problem with that? These idiots who really don't give a fuck either way. <vote poll=blog2391 closed="yes">The Onion: God Admits Humans Not Most Impressive Creation <vote poll=blog2390 closed="yes">Polly Toynbee: Who still thinks that outsourcing works? <vote poll=blog2389 closed="yes">Courtesy of John McCain, a full, 200 page list of Mitt's flip-flops and WTFery. <vote poll=blog2388 closed="yes">Heed these words.

<vote poll=blog2387 closed="yes">Beware of Pascal's Scams.

<vote poll=blog2385 closed="yes">PZ details why mind uploading is idiot bloviating. The reaction is predictable. <vote poll=blog2384 closed="yes">Bill Maher makes an interesting analysis of Republicans who were impressed by Caiden Cowger. Perhaps his analysis explains shit like this. <vote poll=blog2383 closed="yes">Pure, unadulterated hilarity: Obamacare will substantially help red states more than blue. <vote poll=blog2382 closed="yes">Another B-actor lies about vaccines. He then invokes Nazis. Godwin has a stroke. <vote poll=blog2381 closed="yes">"The Myth That Entitlements Destroy a Nation's Growth, Busted in 1 Chart"

<vote poll=blog2380 closed="yes">For fundies who insist that women should not wear pants because of Deuteronomy 22:5, The Atlantic explains why pants were invented in the first place -- horses. <vote poll=blog2379 closed="yes">Natalie Reed: Fuck anti-science. Even within the "progressive" and activist communities. <vote poll=blog2378 closed="yes">Matthew Inman delivers the goods. <vote poll=blog2377 closed="yes">HuffPo religion blogger tells fellow Christians to avoid perpetrating these ten cliches. But as one atheist commenter who likes the list puts it, "[t]ake away all those cliches . . . and what have you got left?" <vote poll=blog2376 closed="yes">What else would you expect from cdesign proponentsists, taking to the Evolution News blog whining about Wikipedia editors upholding real science: "They have nothing better to do with their time and will always erase your attempted correction and reinstate the bogus claim, with lightning speed over and over again." <vote poll=blog2375 closed="yes">[http://squid314.livejournal.com/313411.html Wouldn't it be really convenient to wake up on Saturday and not have to worry about digging through your dresser, looking for your one pair of good green pants? Wouldn't it make life easier?] <vote poll=blog2374 closed="yes">Libertarians aren't the defenders of personal liberty they claim to be. <vote poll=blog2373 closed="yes">You're welcome to enjoy a dishwasher, just don't assume "all women love dishwashers because they're women, and must clean everything".

<vote poll=blog2372 closed="yes">Remember, every time you call it 'The God Particle' Higgs kills a kitten. <vote poll=blog2371 closed="yes">Stephen Hawking is Ace McWicked. <vote poll=blog2370 closed="yes">Darren Naish takes on ReptileEvolution.com <vote poll=blog2369 closed="yes">Texas is stupid, no, Texas is really stupid, no, it's the Texas Republicans who are really really stupid. <vote poll=blog2368 closed="yes">The Onion: This just in at Mitt HQ: Plight of the unemployed continues around the country. HI-FIVE! <vote poll=blog2367 closed="yes"> The evil feminist hivemind has won Thunderf00t gets kicked out of FTB after writing for shit and creating a MRA circlejerk, and Greg Laden for, as part of said circlejerk, emailing threats to other bloggers.