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

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April 2012

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Mara Wilson (that girl wot played Matilda back in the day) has her first brush with the infamous Daily Mail.

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How to win-win the prisoner's dilemma.

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LOLWUWT and Christopher Monckton can't stand the heat.

11

Randall Munroe has something to say about Atlas Shrugged.

13

Anyone remember the Digg Patriots? You can now add Paulbots with them SMEARING THE GOOD NAME OF DR. PAUL!

19

Winter Climate Change is Coming! A Political Allegory of Thrones.

12

Thanks, Captain fucking Obvious.

4

Judicial impartiality, Antonin Scalia style.

8

Jorge Cham and Daniel Whiteson explain the Higgs boson.

15

Good Guy Lucifer.

5

Weinerworks does a point by point on homeopathy

14

Jesuits from Georgetown University send a letter to Paul Ryan: "In short, your budget appears to reflect the values of your favorite philosopher, Ayn Rand, rather than the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Her call to selfishness and her antagonism toward religion are antithetical to the Gospel values of compassion and love."

8

Die Zwiebel: Obama has dicked Democrats around for four years. Now it's our turn.

6

Reddit asks their fellow Muslims their experiences after 9/11.

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Thou Shalt Not Commit Logical Fallacies. UPDATE: Unfortunately, the account for the website that created that poster has been suspended, so you can only see a small, unreadable version that you can't embiggen. However, if you'd still like to see embiggened versions of 11 of the 24 categories, click here. Never mind. The original account has been restored.

3

The dog saga continues: "Romney's Seamus ran away. Presumed dead but perhaps he is biding his time, waiting for a contract from Fox."

8

xkcd, dying? Never say that ever again.

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Public fucking health warning. (Note: a bit sweary.)

12

In the military atheists aren't allowed to collect food for the homeless, but the Salvation Army can!

12

The tyranny of Big SeatbeltIt's satire, in case it's not obvious enough.

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Heard the one about the college professor who was humiliated by a student who proved God exists? Here's how it really happened.

16

Chris Mooney, a journalist in the field of science and politics, advances the idea that Republican craziness springs from their denial of science. His archetypal Republican: our beloved Andrew Schlafly, to whom he devotes an entire chapter in his book.

2

Ego depletion: what cookies can tell us about our sense of self worth and our willpower.

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Maybe some day there will be sociological and psychological studies regarding internet users who manage to be so gullible that they will believe any myth, story or hoax they hear AND be complete skeptics regarding actual verified historical events. (Some of the actual Tweets.)

13

Exposing PseudoAstronomy slaps down the Moon landing hoax arguments from photography.

13

Kentuckians for Cretaceous Coastlines.

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Apparently people just noticed this.

19

More Christian "love" for little Jessica Ahlquist.

7

A re-enactment of North Korea's totally dangerous rocket launch.

11

Those "ex-gay" adverts shouldn't be blocked because they're offensive, but because they're just factually incorrect.

0

Okay, so this meme is really old and boring now... but just one more.

12

An atheist tells us why she doesn't "just shut up".

17

"In Behe’s fantasy world, a malevolent intelligent agent is hard at work right now, designing (and manufacturing) pathogens to kill people."

7

The Religious Antagonist trolls a few atheists.Warning: Contains an image of Mike Lee half naked and sat on a toilet.

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Amen, Pastor. Amen!

9

There's Waldo! Sheriif Joe Arpaio can't get no respect that isn't beaten into folks first.

6

What happens when you get caught sleeping in the act with the American MIC.

12

Someone get this into one of our articles, stat. (source)

12

Five bullshit myths spread by Titanic movies. But it isn't all as bad as trying to listen to this screeching Canadian menace

2

Лук strikes again...

7

Snap.

9

Conservative values summed up in 40 quotes.

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Let's see a refutation of this.

20

A quantum theory of Mitt Romney

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Conservapedia announce exciting new linked data project, Conservadata.