RationalWiki:What is going on in the blogosphere?/June 2017

June 2017
Autism can include happiness, belonging and positive health The New Yorker: how the National Enquirer became Trump's number one fanzine. The alt-right pulled a Conservapedia and ran way from the Jew run LIBERAL BIASED Wikipedia to build their own wiki. Sad monkey: A bitter Ken Ham blames atheists and the secular media for the perceived financial failure of his Ark Park. Sweden’s recycling is so revolutionary, the country has run out of rubbish, and has to import rubbish from other countries to keep its recycling plants going. The problem with the teaching of humanities today is that the professors undermine the value of the masterpieces they teach when they buy into the belief system that holds that "hegemonic forces of oppression have mystified us into believing in objective greatness." The lesson of California's successful mandatory vaccination bill: merely explaining that vaccines don't cause autism won't convince parents to get their kids vaccinated. What does work is explaining to them herd immunity and epidemiology on top of it.