RationalWiki:What is going on in the blogosphere?/September 2018

September 2018
Robert Morningstar's "Crystal City on the Moon" established as fraudulent "The Issue With Interrupting Ted Cruz’s Dinner Wasn’t One of Civility, It Was the Media’s Reaction"

Why a crowd funding campaign against Susan Collins of Maine isn't bribery. Washington’s young Russian crowd is beginning to feel like they’re living in a spy novel reminscent of the Cold War era. And they’re the bad guys. Reddit bans core QAnon subreddit r/GreatAwakening, among other far-right hate subreddits such as r/MillionDollarExtreme and r/ChadRight According to Women's March leader Linda Sarsour, American Muslims shouldn’t humanize Israelis. (note: article contains zero direct quotes that say anything like this) The lasting trauma of Alex Jones's lies. 12 year old boy who transitioned to being a girl two years ago has changed his mind about the transition. Islam being treated as a mental illness in People's Republic of China. After the ’60s, truth was relative, criticizing was equal to victimizing, individual liberty became absolute, and everyone was permitted to believe or disbelieve whatever they wished. The distinction between opinion and fact was crumbling on many fronts. Young conservatives flock to Washington, D.C., to support renewable energy. Radical open-access plan could spell end to journal subscriptions: Eleven research funders in Europe announce ‘Plan S’ to make all scientific works free to read as soon as they are published What Goes Up In Flames Or how neoliberal austerity destroys lives and culture