RationalWiki:What is going on in the blogosphere?/February 2015
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February 2015[edit]
   | -20 | The search for sex-positive hentai. Spoiler: There isn't any |
| 22 | Jimmy Kimmel: A message for the anti-vaccination movement. (With actual doctors!) Part 2: Hate mail and public activism! |
| 28 | The annotated "50 Faux News lies in 6 seconds" Vine, courtesy of The Daily Show and Politifact. |
| 27 | The Simpsons... they might be American, but they're not in America! |
| 42 | Idaho Representative Vito Barbieri is not an OB-GYN |
| -65 | Why academia is such a toxic environment |
| 26 | The perfect response to sexist questions |
| 38 | Cracked: "Feminism! And with that one word, I've already set the world speed record for turning a comment section into a septic tank." |
| 35 | N.J. judge rules ‘conversion therapy’ claims are fraud. A professor at BYU considers the ruling (which he misrepresents) "totalitarian in the extreme" and "censorial". |
| 35 | Christian pediatrician refuses to treat baby girl because her parents are lesbians. |
| 25 | It actually is about ethics in mainstream journalism. Peter Oborne quits the Torygraph over HSBC whitewashing. |
| 24 | Evidence that everyday Islam and radical Islamism aren't quite identical: the jihadists who needed to buy Islam for Dummies. |
| 16 | 1. Use lynching imagery to sell Photoshop addons, during Black History Month. 2. When people go "whoa wtf", assert your right to free speech, and threaten to sue them. 3. PROFIT!!! [citation needed] (The proprietor is also not the sharpest spoon in the drawer regarding copyright.) |
| 8 | Steven Novella: "While I do not know what [NBC Host Brian Williams] remembered, it is wrong and naive to assume he is lying. Williams was likely betrayed by his memory." |
| 15 | Daily Kos: "Can a vaccine be responsible for the profoundly stupid?" (Probably not.) |
| 28 | Cracked talks about what it's like to be a trans man. |
| 34 | We sceptics need to have a talk about Bill Maher and his rather unsettling views about such topics as the anti-vaccination movement. |
| 16 | Comrades! The Glorious Leader has published the latest set of slogans for the DPRK! Let us turn ours into a country of mushrooms by making mushroom cultivation scientific, intensive and industrialised! |
| 29 | TL;DR version of right wingers' reaction to Obama's National Prayer Breakfast comments about the Crusades: "You say 'Crusades' like they were a bad thing." "The point is that whitewashing of one of the most bloody periods in world history is troubling on many levels." (Fun fact: Up to one percent of the entire world's population died as a result of 200 years of Crusades.) |
| 17 | (Maybe NSFW) It's not disordered eating, it's detox! SciBabe shows the concerning parallels between the FoodBabe's new book on healthy living and pro-ana advice. |
| 21 | The Encyclopedia of American Loons was a new one to me. It does exactly what it says on the tin, and cites RW in a manner that suggests a high degree of familiarity with RW... |
| 34 | If you see anyone linking to an article about a feminist who aborted a baby because it was male, it's made-up BS. |
| 20 | FoodBabe was, for two years, promoting products containing the "evil" ingredient BHT in the Kellogg's products she protested. |
| 38 | On vaccines, Bill Maher is being a common-or-garden-variety dangerous crank again. Time to start the Bill Maher Dead Children Ticker? |
| 36 | For next time some foolish person asks you what feminism has ever done for men. (Way more than MRAs ever have.) |
| 15 | Gay marriage in Alabama looms, so let's refresh the memories of everyone who's been misled by the devil himself as to what biblical marriage really is! |
| 38 | Cracked: 5 Ways We Misunderstand Pedophilia (That Makes it Worse) |
| 18 | potholer54 takes on the anti-biotech crazies - and owns! |
| 33 | Guys, I wanted to let you know about a personal decision I recently made. I’m an Anti-Braker. |
| 24 | Reformed anti-vax Mom on the journey back to sanity. |
| 23 | Mississippi and West Virginia (of all places) are the two states that deny religious exemptions for vaccinations. And -- surprise! -- neither state has had a case of measles in more than 20 years. (Unfortunately, the writer didn't completely knock down anti-vaxxer arguments by discussing autism rates in the two states.) |
| 36 | BuzzFeed in long-form quality journalism shock: How Men’s Rights Leader Paul Elam Turned Being A Deadbeat Dad Into A Moneymaking Movement. |
| 14 | A week ago, liberal NYMag writer Johnathan Chait wrote a piece decrying how "the language police are perverting liberalism." Slate responds by saying that while he may be misguided on a number of things, he's not entirely wrong. |
| 20 | Scientists to increase interference with the Church. "Wasn’t Jesus himself the result of a three-parent family? Or did I get the wrong idea there?" |
| 19 | You always wondered: Why cats love sitting in boxes. |
| 19 | The polygraph has been lying to us for 80 years. |
| 14 | From Sluts Against Monsanto on Facebook: Science Denial Mad Libs! |
| 29 | The International Team of Comics Historians (I.T.C.H.) website weighs in on the anti-vaccination movement by posting images from a 1930 anti-anti-vaxxer tract titled Health in Pictures. |
| -5 | Three notes on religion by Wesley Morganston. |
| 30 | In 1962, the 7-year-old eldest daughter of author Roald Dahl and actress Patricia Neal died of measles. In 1988, Dahl wrote an open letter begging parents to get their children vaccinated. |
| 27 | The main problem with anti-vaccination parents is their 'rugged individualist' egotism. |
| 21 | The 15 most offensive things written on ReturnofKings.com |