RationalWiki:What is going on in the blogosphere?/September 2021

September 2021
David "Orac" Gorski on "Astroturf and think tanks manufacturing doubt about COVID-19 public health interventions" Troll farms reached 140 million Americans a month on Facebook before the 2020 election, and almost all of Facebook's top Christian pages were run by eastern European troll farms  Eat that steak, love those bacon butties. Food myths busted Kurzgesagt: Can YOU fix climate change? No, but.... A brief primer on climate change and the solutions needed for a global, systemic problem. Why Goats Became the Unconventional Weapon Against Wildfires (Soft paywall) [https://jacobinmag.com/2021/09/vaccine-mandates-covid-pandemic-german-nazi-inoculation-policy/ You Know Who Else Opposed Vaccine Mandates? Hitler.] Or the social darwinist origins of antivaccination. Inside the abandoned US detention centre where Afghan terror suspects were tortured. The Nib on "Never Forgetting 9/11" in the aptly titled, What We Forget. The Other Afghan Women The Journal of Controversial Ideas is an "open access, peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary journal specifically created to promote free inquiry on controversial topics." The inaugural volume tackles subjects including creationism, gender, Black make-up traditions, COVID-19, deplatforming, and other issues. Biden's questions in a 2009 White House meeting exposed the folly of the Afghanistan War