RationalWiki:What is going on in the clogosphere?/February 2016

February 2016
Chopra: |The recent confirmation of gravity waves is unimportant because it doesn't tell us anything about consciousness. At least some of the comments take him to task. Saudi Arabian cleric Sa'd Al-Ateeq: Women who take photos of their meals and share them online [http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2016/02/28/saudi-cleric-women-posting-pictures-of-food-on-snapchat-are-causing-cancer-in-children/ are giving people cancer. Including children.] #omnomnom #waitwhat #areyouserious Roosh V is shocked to discover that there is gambling in this establishment that the white supremacist movement is full of white supremacists. SHOCKING SPOILER!: They don't like him because he's not right white! [https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2016/02/17/could-chemicals-rather-than-the-zika-virus-be-to-blame-for-birth-defects-in-brazil/?hpid=hp_hp-more-top-stories_tyh-zika-1100am%3Ahomepage%2Fstory If you hear about an Argentinian study that shows pesticides, not Zika, are causing birth defects... well they aren't.] Of course Alex Jones feels that Scalia was murdered. Update: WND jumps on the bandwagon, Before It's News announces a "shattering, stunning, frightening bombshell", and All News Pipeline posits the question "When 'Conspiracy Theories' Are Proven True, Are They Still 'Conspiracy Theories'?" Last, but not least, Glenn Beck says God had to kill Antonin Scalia to help put Ted Cruz in the White House. Hey y'all, know who's really behind the push for gun control? Ted Nugent knows! The answer is spelled J-E-W-S! By the way, Ted is an NRA board member. I really can't explain it. Scroll down a bit for the best stuff. What begins as a fair criticism of Martin Shkreli's Congressional hearing segues into an increasingly bizarre endorsement: Martin Shkreli for President! Make America Great Excellent Again! (Seriously, what was this guy smoking?) The Daily Fail has outperformed itself yet again by mistaking a rocket from a video game for one from real life. Spirit Science: Each word of this headline makes my inner skeptic curl up and cry, gnawing gently at its fedora. Goat milk cures HIV. A surreal variation on the Galileo gambit: the newly-formed Independent Committee on Geoethics (featuring steering committee member Christopher Monckton), out to "prosecute the climate fraudsters", has adopted Charles Darwin as its "honorary president". Of course there is already a conspiracy theory about why Trump underperformed in Iowa. Courtesy of 8chan no less.