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

August 2021
GB News' resident man-frog Nigel Farage has said that he is taking a short break from his show on the channel. Could he be following in former presenter, Andrew Neil's direction? In 2012, an influential paper on dishonesty was published. Now researchers think there's evidence of fraud in that paper. Why the USA keeps building corrupt client states (originally from The Economist). Afghanistan Meant Nothing: A US Afghanistan Veteran Reflects on 20 Wasted Years. Explaining the U.N. climate report's five futures NPR: How to keep your child safe from the Delta variant now that they're returning to the classroom. The Terrain Model, which claims there is only one disease and viruses are just harmless "cellular debris", is the new popular variant of germ theory denialism. GB News Presenter Nigel Farage Emerges in Unredacted FBI Files (Yep, you read that right, the mahogany skinned man-frog is now a TV presenter on a, ahem, 'news' channel FAIR on the 'Both-Sidesing of Democracy'