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December 2012

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Science deniers invent a debate by presenting a false equivalency between real science and denialism(self promotion warning)

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Exposing Pseudoastronomy goes through over 500 psychic predictions from 23 pros and dozens of laypeople for 2012. They didn't do so well. Update: Followup.

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Hear this, people. Obama might actually have some balls.

10

Cosmos will be in good hands.

11

You know what actually...Thatcher, stay alive for as long as you can.

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2012: the year when it became okay to blame victims of sexual assault

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Cracked: 4 Dangerously Influential Dimwits, featuring Sylvia Browne and Jenny McCarthy.

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This is too good to be stashed away into Monthly RW: Lee Berger, the discoverer of Australopithecus sediba, and Darren Curnoe, best known for co-finding the the Red Deer Cave people, say hi.

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E.J. Dionne: Republicans are rejecting their own ideals.

10

Edzard Ernst: How to become a charlatan.

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Clearly, this wouldn't happen if there were more large breasts. The only thing that can stop a bad woman with large breasts is a good woman with large breasts.

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From the desk of George Takei: This made me cry.

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"Of course we still think these theories are just nonsense."

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VIDEO: On Thursday, Fox and Friends had a professional Santa Claus talk about the War on Christmas. A website called "DoucheChillz" did a simple web search of the guy and found some (ahem) other videos of him that would've pissed off Gretchen Carlson -- if he was a librul, that is. (Doesn't Fox do ANY research before they put this shit on the air?)

11

Fifty Shades of Takei.

18

A well-known ultra-leftist endorses a gun control law.

15

Secret revealed! The Thomas Friedman Op/Ed Generator.

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Nobody can have seen this coming.

16

"Same-sex marriage laws might force a resurrected Jesus to marry a man" according to a US Xtian radio host; reports "Pink News" (Earlier she said "gays aren’t ‘people’") Lovely woman!

10

So the Australian Vaccination Network site got hacked ... and has been serving up pharma spam.

24

William Lane Craig remains an unspeakably loathsome creature.

16

Blogger writes that colonics do no good. Colon cleaning company sues WordPress.

9

Morgan Freeman on a Snopes-debunked "don't point to gun control as the problem" screed allegedly in his name: You're all a bunch of idiots.

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A Fox News columnist unsurprisingly suggests gun control isn't the issue in the mass killings the US regularly sees, and instead suggests the problem lies in the US mental health care system. But would the Right, if they're going to take this line, be prepared for the enormous increases in public health care spending that are implicit in his recommendations?

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"I am Adam Lanza's mother, says a mother with a similar son. h/t to George Takei Update: And a different perspective.

16

Conservatives in Europe: Er... did you see that Romney guy over there? Tell us how to prevent that. Strategists: Well...

14

The trouble with skeptics telling jokes: Exposing PseudoAstronomy accidentally Poes some 2012 nutters.

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A succinct summary of all the WND craziness we've come to know and love pity with a chuckle. Also features summaries of the nuttier titles in the WND bookstore, among them "TIME TRAVELERS OF THE BIBLE: HOW HEBREW PROPHETS SHATTERED THE BARRIERS OF TIME-SPACE." Yes, really.

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Media Ethics 101.

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Bacteria mutation + Pokemon = _

18

The Rev. Sir Dr. Stephen T. Mos Def Colbert, D.F.A., Heavyweight Champion of the World** donates the last of his SuperPAC money, over 3/4 of a million, to awesome stuff.

12

Meryl Dorey has been ordered to stop her fucking lying bullshit.(self promotion warning)

21

George Takei pwns Scalia.

15

Well, the National Post just outdid themsleves: "As FDR showed the world in the ’30s, sometimes it takes a socialist to save capitalism from itself."

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*Drumroll* PolitiFact's Lie of the Year 2012 is...Oh noes!

6

After Apple banned a drone strike tracking app earlier this year, the developer has decided to do it all on Twitter.

9

"After all, a fella needs some job security."

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Climate denial debunked in one graph.

7

Stop eating! Foods cause cancer.(self promotion warning)

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Here, we discuss how the outcomes of clinical trials may be affected by the extinction of all mankind and recommend appropriate changes to their conduct. In addition, we use computer modelling to show the effect of the apocalypse on a sample clinical trial.

20

Creationist quote-mines scientists. Scientists give creationist his Marshall McLuhan moment.

18

Run into a nutjob spouting off the lie that tax cuts for the 1% will promote job creation? Show them this Salon article about job-destroying wealthy CEOs who want the poor to suffer the debt reduced.

15

Climate scientists are getting blunt, asking "is the Earth fucked?" And they're getting increasingly aggressive in trying to prevent it from getting any worse.

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Ah, so that's where Conservapedians made their exodus.

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I present America's Worst State Legislatures. Leading the pack is, unsurprisingly, the lunatics in charge of Tennessee.

16

Time to link to The Onion again.

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False "fair and balanced" reporting allows vaccine denialists to make it appear vaccines cause autism. Shitty science journalism at fault.(self promotion warning)

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Remember when gay men threatened to marry your girlfriends? *Ahem*. Ladies...

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Comedians weigh in on scientific inaccuracy in films.

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Leveson Enquiry to the British media, RE: depiction and treatment of women: You're shit. Stop it.