RationalWiki:What is going on in the blogosphere?/June 2012

June 2012
Neo-Luddism: The Rap The ultimate George Lucas tribute [http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=z6_GTQ87jJI#! Stephen's still got it.] Chuck Norris facts, updated. From LEO's fake issue: Answers in Koran, LLC, receive $75 million in tax breaks to build Koran Kountry - a "family-friendly attraction that celebrates the truth of the Koran, and the power of the global jihadist movement to liberate Muslims from the oppression of the infidels and Jews. We also have roller coasters." If you thought the "Who said it: Mitt Romney or Mr. Burns?" quiz was too easy, try this. TV "psychics" turn out to be stock photos. [http://www.skepticalraptor.com/skepticalraptorblog.php/holy-merger-creationism-loch-ness-monster/ American students are being taught that the Loch Ness Monster proves creationism. And American taxpayers are paying for it.] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YI7Oq8y-jXA&feature=player_embedded#! From Aaron Sorkin's new series The Newsroom.] Someone in the annals of Yahoo! News actually gets it right. The roasting of Jimmy Carr. Explosm on the Bible A more enlightened, and thankfully briefer, version of 50 Shades of Grey. The Donald Trump hoax, exposed. Joffrey Baratheon, where is the birth certificate? Game of Thrones attack ads. This is an exciting time. <vote poll=blog2350 closed="yes">Just what you always wanted: a web-based Deepak Chopra generator. (HT Unreasonable Faith.) <vote poll=blog2349 closed="yes">An anthology of Cosmo magazine's sex "tips", Featuring super-erotic hits like "spray each other with ice-cold water" and "as if you were pushing his penis back into his body". <vote poll=blog2348 closed="yes">"Four good men with extensive government experience tried to stop the Harper government. Predictably, they failed – predictably, because this government listens to almost no one who actually knows about given policy fields." D'oh, Canada! <vote poll=blog2347 closed="yes">Best Father's Day present ever (make sure you scroll down, that's why it's called Poe's Law.) <vote poll=blog2346 closed="yes">Forbes, never mess with The Oatmeal. <vote poll=blog2345 closed="yes">But Black Widow in The Avengers is just a shallow token female, whose sole reason for existing is to look cute in leather. No she isn't, idiot, stop dismissing all female characters off hand like that.

<vote poll=blog2344 closed="yes">Ridley Scott's Prometheus is getting lots of attention from skeptics for promoting anti-science. <vote poll=blog2343 closed="yes">What does austerity mean for Canada? Sky-rocketing food prices to the point of potential starvation, if you happen to live in the North. And the usual deafening silence and obfuscation out of the Harper Party. <vote poll=blog2342 closed="yes">The dark side of TED.

<vote poll=blog2341 closed="yes">[http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/11/opinion/nuclear-time-warp.html?_r=1&hp But the nukes! Why does nobody think of the children nukes?!] <vote poll=blog2340 closed="yes">[Spoilers] Prometheus character fail <vote poll=blog2339 closed="yes"> A nice deconstruction of conservative arguments about abortion and eugenics. <vote poll=blog2338 closed="yes">So, a bunch of Redditors want to go live on an island somewhere. <vote poll=blog2337 closed="yes">The difference between doctors and lawyers. <vote poll=blog2336 closed="yes"> [http://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2012/06/08/the-end-of-evolution-this-year-i-dont-think-so/ Call off the funeral. The reports of the death of evolution are grossly exaggerated] <vote poll=blog2335 closed="yes">The recent announcements of the discovery of a "City of Gold" in Honduras contains some good science, lots of hype, and ultimately, bad archaelogy. <vote poll=blog2334 closed="yes">Cracked.com video: "How Ayn Rand and L. Ron Hubbard Came Up With Their Big Ideas."  Got a better explanation? <vote poll=blog2333 closed="yes">New survey shows that the percentage of Americans born after 1980 who believe in god is declining rather rapidly. <vote poll=blog2332 closed="yes">"Atheism to Defeat Religion By 2038" <vote poll=blog2331 closed="yes">Andy Wakefield is a fraud and is no longer a physician, yet people still believe in his shit Not really a funny article, so serious that it hurts. Read the comments to really see the stupidity of it all. <vote poll=blog2330 closed="yes">PRIVACY NOTICE: Warning - any person and/or institution and/or Agent and/or Agency of any governmental structu... dammit, reality! <vote poll=blog2329 closed="yes">Picture of the year? Update: Oh come on people. <vote poll=blog2328 closed="yes">The Onion: Would the organization responsible for the developed world's laxest gun laws and highest gun crime rate ever rethink what they're spewing about? "Yeah, something like 1,000 dead kids." <vote poll=blog2327 closed="yes">[http://i.imgur.com/brXzS.png Your disgruntled self came to adore genocide because you couldn't get into art school? Please enlighten me with your heavenly justifications for human extermination.] <vote poll=blog2326 closed="yes">[http://shotofprevention.com/2012/06/01/have-vaccine-critics-made-your-more-of-an-immunization-advocate/#comment-9321 How vaccine denialists creates more vaccine advocates. Comments really show how this happened.]