RationalWiki:What is going on in the blogosphere?/October 2019

October 2019
Harvey Weinstein was a sacrificial lamb for misogyny and now he's back. TERFs started out promising a non-binary pansexual utopia, and wound up enforcing a femininity so fragile and insecure it can be threatened by the wrong kind of tampon boxes. “It’s just a big illusion”: How homeopathy went from fringe medicine to the grocery aisles. Ben Shapiro, Dennis Prager, Adam Carolla and all your other favorite conservative media stars have made a movie about how universities are stomping on free speech and apparently it's not very good! Dominic Cummings, the brain genius of Brexit, just happens to be a LessWrong/Slate Star Codex rationalist. When applied to actual real world stuff, this worked out about as #classicdom as you'd expect. Here's a philosopher trying to explain Dom to other philosophers: Dominic's Basilisk, part 1. Public option on healthcare is a poison pill The radical guidebook embraced by Google workers and Uber drivers Right-wing websites (surprise!) attack transgender people by lying – from Hemant Mehta's site Reddit goes through another banwave of horrible subreddits, courtesy We Hunted the Mammoth. Not all men. A view from a woman working with sexual offenders. The Keynesianism of the United States Armed Forces and its effects on capitalism's survival prospects.