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

August 2018
It's time for #MeToo in the Catholic church Stonekettle Salon: Critical Path, or 'How inability to tell facts from BS will doom America.'

Reports of growing disillusionment with the way Russia is administering Crimea since the annexation of the peninsular from Ukraine in 2014. The Saudi Arabia-Canada diplomatic feud explained. Yoshihiro Sato, a medical researcher at the center of one of the biggest frauds in scientific history, remains an enigma to those who exposed him. In response to Benjamin Netanyahu's attack on Jeremy Corbyn attending a Palestinian memorial, comedian Mark Steel reminds people of the time Netanyahu attended a memorial with Irgun members to commemorate the King David Hotel bombing. How a meteor hunter became a conspiracy theorist, and a Sovereign citizen. (But I repeat myself.) Trump Jr. shares a doctored image of a CNN graphic claiming Trump's approval rating is 50%. [https://www.cbc.ca/news/opinion/alex-jones-1.4776763 CBC: Alex Jones deals in vicious stupidity. It's not free speech — it's incitement.] Why the August 7th primary results are a very bad sign for the GOP's prospects in November What Is QAnon? The Conspiracy Theory Tiptoeing Into Trump World. The decade we almost stopped climate change