RationalWiki:What is going on in the blogosphere?/April 2015

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April 2015[edit]

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26The Onion: Nation On Edge As Court Votes Whether To Legalize Gay Marriage Now Or In A Few Years
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10A rape victim's open letter to her assailant.
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9The Mediterranean diet actually justifies invading Greece, as exposed by SMBC.
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9BBC's North American Editor analyzes rioting in America and the people behind it.
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7Slate argues that homophobia is a real fear: A fear of the fragility of heterosexuality and masculinity.
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12Ferguson and the political economy and human geography of racism
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8Joshua Feuerstein explains more about his $20k USD camera fundraiser than he probably anticipated.
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24Anti-vax crank and liar Bill Maher is outraged that anti-vaxxers are called cranks and liars.
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3Dangerous, isolated and primed for war? North Korean clichés debunked
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17The Daily Show's Aasif Mandvi talks about GMOs.
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7Why calling sexually-repressive religious attitudes to sex "medieval" is wrong.
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41Phil Sandifer: an analysis of the 2015 Hugos, the Sad Puppies, Vox Day's politics and his supporters, and how neofascism works in a culture war.
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23Book review of note: "Bad Faith" or how a couple, each with a PhD from a top-ranked university, lost a son because they chose prayer over medicine.
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10Faith vs. Facts
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19The Pope started a degree of controversy by citing the description of the Armenian Genocide as the first genocide of the twentieth century. This description is dead wrong, but not for the reasons the Turks are arguing.
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13"Why Some Believers Perpetuate A False Stereotype Of Skeptics"
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27A professor of medicine and bioethics livetweets from her son's Abstinence-only sex education class. Update: And then comments on the resulting shitstorm.
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5The Periodic Table of Irrational Nonsense
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21PCC is even more hardcore than we thought it was.
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9An academic analysis of Bitcoin as distributed right-wing extremism. "Bitcoin is promoted as an alternative to currency, and even at times as an alternative to money, but neither Bitcoin’s development nor its promulgation emerge from thoughtful analyses of money or currency as they currently exist, let alone the thought and history that have figured in their development."
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3The Guardian speaks of how political correctness actually further disempowers the powerless.
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16A rundown on some of the more infamous Christian terrorist groups
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8Here's an interesting analysis of Putin's Russia, specifically in the realm of foreign policy.
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12Guardian supplies rather sarky review of Daily Express weather predictions. Well, it made me laugh
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23Cracked interviews a wilderness therapy camp escapee.
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7Nearly 1 in 10 American adults have both undiagnosed impulsive anger issues and access to firearms
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8Annotated version of the Atheist Ireland post below. (Bonus: There's a link to RW's Gish Gallop article in the post)
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6Atheist Ireland publicly dissociates itself from PZ Myers. I'm sure he's really cut up about that.
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-13Welcome to the 2015 NRA convention! Sorry, no working guns allowed. no open carry or selling of fully-working guns in the trade show building, due to venue restrictions. Anywhere else in the show is fine.
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14Two trans children.
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16Science fiction's valiant anti-SJW crusaders and Gamergate wannabes: the Sad Puppies. (Really.)
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40The left should receive more criticism for their anti-science views - Opinion piece from The Tech.
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31 Arnold Schwarzenegger has displayed more backbone than anyone else at the Republican Party about Indiana's "religious freedom" laws. One hopes more will follow his example.