RationalWiki:What is going on in the blogosphere?/April 2022

April 2022
Twitter - not even Elon Musk is wealthy enough to bring absolute free speech to the platform Why it's so hard to rid the courts of junk science The race to save Melissa Lucio Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid – Jonathan Haidt argues social media designed for viral amplification results in mob stupidity, erosion of trust, self-censorship, etc., across political divides and in institutions, and has some suggestions for making American democracy less brittle. The British Empire was much worse than you realize Ken Ham's Ark Encounter theme park isn't paying off for Kentucky, despite a huge infusion of public funds Birds aren't real: history of a fake conspiracy theory Deception, exploited workers, and cash handouts: How Worldcoin recruited its first half a million test users Putin's own home-grown Nazis — revealing another factor in Russia's hypocrisy, dishonesty and general barbarism.