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

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August 2014[edit]

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-14Milo Manara's Spiderwoman, rendered as a 3D model by Dino Ignacio.
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33Dylan Avery, director of Loose Change, is unemployed and getting out of the Truther Movement.
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21Chiropractic Abuse: An Insider’s Lament
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-11Zara fashion: After swastika handbags in 2007, this time: Children's pyjamas in concentration camp style. Dafuq?
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7NY Times - the internet is One big circle jerk
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15io9: This Classic Science-Denying Scandal Shows Why Too Much Testing Is Bad. "Bad", you say? This needs further study!
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35Cracked: 5 Successful People Who Everyone Forgets Are Exposed Frauds
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19Sorry, Republicans: going full-libertarian will alienate all your other bases.
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7“Should we call ISIS evil? — Evil is the most powerful word we have to prepare ourselves to kill other people comfortably.”
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17Reason magazine actually does something useful, says that the Bill of Rights isn't just for white people.
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-17You're writing a story and it's got a ... white character. How to describe them so normal people will understand.
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9Somebody is using Lorem Ipsum to troll google translate.
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39Salon: Why rightwingers hate smart people in general, and Neil deGrasse Tyson in particular.
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23A recent review of court cases has shown that courts nearly always side with wind farms, finding insufficient evidence of Wind Turbine Syndrome.
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31Fark bans misogyny in comments
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39From The Onion's new website: "My Doctor Told Me I Should Vaccinate My Children, But Then Someone Much Louder Than My Doctor Told Me I Shouldn’t"
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29Facebook will now point out satire. Because people really are that stupid.
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12The man who liked everything on Facebook has his counterpart: The woman who liked nothing.
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16Alex Gabriel: To the atheist tone police: stop telling me how to discuss my abuse.
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25The A-Z of what can give you cancer, according to the Daily Fail.
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7"This time it's the Democrats who are united." (Just a matter of time now.)
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31When Cracked delivers, it delivers. 6 Ways a Creationist Textbook Sabotaged Science.
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-4Strangely, the Electronic Frontier Foundation files an amicus brief against the National "Michael Mann is a pedophile" Review defamation suit.
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23(VIDEO) "Humans Need Not Apply," a fascinating, yet somewhat harrowing, mini-documentary on the current state of automation, and its consequences for the future of our labor workforce.
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9Why Twitter won't do shit to fix its harassment problem
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33Not a Tea Party, a Confederate Party
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2The reality of the Middle East: The Cold War is over.
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19Ferguson, the NRA and the hypocrisy of silence.
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17"The libertarian dogma of our time is turning our polities, economies, and cultures upside down—and blinding us to this by making us even more self-absorbed and incurious than we naturally are. The world we are making with our hands is as remote from our minds as the farthest black hole. Once we had a nostalgia for the future. Today we have an amnesia for the present."
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20Former Occupy activist turns to neoreactionary politics... that or trolling.
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16Sex offender laws have gone too far. (Parts one and two of a series from Slate.)
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-23Reasons to Lose Faith in Humanity.
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24Paul Krugman uses statistics to prove that scientists tend to be liberals.
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29If you "like" everything on Facebook your feed will become brands, clickbait and right-wingnut politics. No humans. Your friends' feeds will also go to shit.
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17A new study confirms everything we knew about anti-immigrant sentiment.
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24New York Times Science writer Nicholas Wade publishes a "racial realism" book, which is met with condemnation by the majority of scientists he cites
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14August 9th marks the 40th anniversary of Richard Nixon's resignation. And as one HuffPo blogger reminds us, it also marks the 30th anniversary of "the stupidest thing ever written about Watergate." Namely, a Washington Post op-ed by Ben Stein that "was a screed so cretinous that even its author seems to have recognized what an embarrassment it was" by having all links to it scrubbed from the internet.
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8On the different degrees of subtlety in a person's opinions and behavior: The Subtlety Illusion
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42Daily Kos: Neil deGrasse Tyson makes important scientific discovery: Liberals can be just as anti-science about GMOs as Conservatives are about Global warming.
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13Cherry Picking or Context in Bible Verse Selection
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0The mind of a men's right's activist
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9Juan Williams: "...I work at Fox News."
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21The bizarre tale of how post-Soviet Russia descended into (nearly) every wingnut's wet dream.
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31American discourse is now so dumbed-down that it's become the equivalent of the POTUS talking to an Internet Tough Guy.
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17The Pundit-Polling Statistics War begins anew!