RationalWiki:What is going on in the blogosphere?/January 2023

January 2023

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The latest target of conspiracy theories over the deep state and climate change, your humble TV weather forecaster.

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Why are American churches in decline? Long story short: a one-two punch of drastically fewer young people continuing to attend of their own accord (as a result of not having time to attend, feeling alienated and/or shunned due to political and social factors, or both) and the pandemic breaking existing churchgoers' attendance habits.

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US media is already presenting the debt ceiling fight as a "both sides" problem when it's not even remotely true, and this is playing into the GOP's strategy.

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How scientific theories on the origin of Covid evolved

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Don’t Call the Brazil Insurrection ‘Anti-Democratic’: The new threat isn’t fascists. It’s dupes who think they’re fighting for democracy.

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Did anti-vaxxer deaths from COVID swing elections?

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The Guardian tries to explain why Oxford's experimental traffic reduction scheme is attracting so many conspiracy theorists, including Jordan Peterson, Laurence Fox and GB News' Neil Oliver.

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On the anniversary of the January 6th Capital riots. Twitter has removed the ban on Michael Flynn.

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The last time the House struggled to elect a Speaker was 100 years ago, in 1923. Here's what happened then.

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Questions are being asked about the carbon footprint of some of richest people in the world, including private jets and multimillion-euro yachts. This is coming back from new research which shows the vast carbon footprint of such people.