RationalWiki:What is going on in the blogosphere?/October 2014

October 2014
"I'm not a scientist" = "I'm losing the War on Science." Matt Walsh Doesn’t Get Historical Marriage Rate Trends The Good Student in North Korea A Natural A/B Test of Harassment &mdash; not just in the world of big AAA games, but even in the world of casual Flash games. The Affordable Care Act: who was helped most. Guess what? It's pretty much the opposite of the Religious Right's predictions. When is "awareness" awareness day? Because "Bridgegate" didn't make the point clearly enough: Why Chris Christie (and Andrew Cuomo) will never be POTUS. Cultural differences on opposite sides of the Atlantic to Ebola make for comedy.... What Doctors Don't Tell You seems to be lying to potential advertisers ... Stopped clock, meet Thomas Friedman. How Conservatives Justify Poll Taxes. Man calls a suicide prevention hotline, SWAT Team shows up and kills him Oh behalf of actual gamers everywhere, everyone's favourite former NFL player Chris Kluwe spectacularly rips Gamergaters several new ones. When Women Stopped Coding Rebecca Watson's hosting a comedic science panel quiz show, Quiz-O-Tron, on the 25th. Naturally, there's a Gamergate petition to shut it down, signed mostly by people who don't know who she is, what she's doing or why they're supposed to hate her. Just imagine if Fox News went bankrupt out of nowhere. In which many of the people ruining the reputation of skeptics are the people ruining the reputation of gamers. Paul Krugman on being accused of rudeness, of arguing ad hominem, and of arguing from authority A guide to the glossary of the oh-so-accountable kids behind Gamergate. Shepard Smith goes off script again, calls out media on Ebola fearmongering. Shh, don't show this to American conservatives. Fracking + OPEC = this. How must Japan prevent its coming demographic crisis? It starts with one wretched word... Science Denial for Beginners

Chris Wallace: "We have always been at war with Eastasia." Should papers be retracted if one of the authors is a total asshole? Literally. Growing Up Unvaccinated The Great Russo-Ukrainian Fuckup, summarized.

The USA is finally on the verge of making peace with pornography. How libertarians would handle an Ebola outbreak. Guess. Let's not entertain the idea of [http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/republicans-are-people-too-stock-photo? "Democrats Are People Too"] being chosen as a political ad. Update: The trainwreck continues: "At this point, it's hard not to wonder if the people being hired to do outreach to women on behalf of Republican candidates aren't all a bunch of Democratic moles." Only a few more months of Stephen Colbert and the Papa Bear. *sniff* And Ayn Rand is no longer a thing.