RationalWiki:What is going on in the blogosphere?/July 2012

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July 2012[edit]

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Don't worry, MRAs: when these women get judged for their skill and not how "fat" they are, we can start talking.

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You better have taken a day off.

22

Time to come clean: I was one of American's top psychics — and, like all of them, a complete fraud.

6

Frankie Boyle pwns Chris Brown.

3

How positive thinking can be self-unhelp.

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On r/atheism, another good reason for America to tax religions -- audits! "My friend's mother keeps her church's checkbook. Wow." (Hard-to-read copy of a Facebook page where the poster lists some of the church's collections and outlays.) Pie chart of the church's outlays as per the information supplied by the poster. As you might imagine, this has prompted a lot of discussions on the comments board.

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Facebook goes wild with Bananas cure cancer meme based on one small study on mice. Except they fucking misinterpret the study and get all the science completely wrong. And no, bananas do not cure cancer.

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The Daily Mail, keeping it classy: The NHS, therefore racism. With bonus attempt to cover their tracks when busted.

14

Cracked: The 4 Most Meaningless Arguments Against Gun Control

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NewsBiscuit: Olympic terror threat level reduced after al-Qaeda outsource terrorism to G4S.

11

Mitt, we love you.

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The history of the internet is the latest thing to be shoved down the glibertarian memory hole.

8

Black folk don't do atheism?

44

Mayor of Boston to Chick-fil-A: Fuck off.

13

A Penn State fan makes a fatuous claim regarding the NCAA's sanctions against the university's football program. A HuffPo sportswriter's response: "[T]here seems [to be] little doubt that we need a version of Godwin's Law that pertains to references to the 9/11 terrorist attacks."

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What ado the Westboro Baptist Church? Ignore them.

6

G4S: How not to go about training security personnel.

16

Carl Zimmer pwns the Discovery Institute.

11

An untestimony: from fundamentalism to skepticism

7

SPAAAAAAAAACE!

15

Why the Oatmeal brouhaha was so important. Update: Inman's Twitter page filled with upset fundies.

7

Jon, it's been a Dickens novel for a loooong time.

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The vlogger who submitted himself to torture for the entire world to see has finally stumbled upon Fifty Shades of Grey.

5

Why Mitt Romney will not be the Republican nominee.

6

If a birther like Sheriff Joe won't accept President Obama's birth certificate as real, why should anyone expect him to accept as real an ID presented in accordance to Arizona's "Papiere, bitte" law?

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Cracked delivers again: The 11 Most Unintentionally Hilarious Religious Paintings.

6

Homeopathy companies pay journalist to set up websites to attack Edzard Ernst. Proves Ernst's Law.^{(self promotion warning)}

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Five guys stand under an exploding atomic bomb. And live a long life.

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Any Republicans distressed over the supreme court's Obamacare decision? How about moving to Conservative Paradise!

11

Bank robberies: Crime doesn't (statistically) pay.

5

How to be a reverse-racist.

9

Bikers Against Child Abuse

6

Religion as Rorschach blot.

5

Australian chicken farmers accidentally recombine viruses from two different vaccines causing a disaster. Australian anti-Vaccine Network goes batshit insane-again. Real science says everyone stay calm.

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A new book examines the US' addiction to apocalypse, tracing its origins from fundie-land to the secular world. Gross and Giles argue that if we refrain from similarly framing global warming and other issues, solutions will be reached faster. The problem with that? These idiots who really don't give a fuck either way.

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The Onion: God Admits Humans Not Most Impressive Creation

10

Polly Toynbee: Who still thinks that outsourcing works?

12

Courtesy of John McCain, a full, 200 page list of Mitt's flip-flops and WTFery.

15

Heed these words.

7

Beware of Pascal's Scams.

15

PZ details why mind uploading is idiot bloviating. The reaction is predictable.

15

Bill Maher makes an interesting analysis of Republicans who were impressed by Caiden Cowger. Perhaps his analysis explains shit like this.

15

Pure, unadulterated hilarity: Obamacare will substantially help red states more than blue.

11

Another B-actor lies about vaccines. He then invokes Nazis. Godwin has a stroke.

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"The Myth That Entitlements Destroy a Nation's Growth, Busted in 1 Chart"

10

For fundies who insist that women should not wear pants because of Deuteronomy 22:5, The Atlantic explains why pants were invented in the first place -- horses.

10

Natalie Reed: Fuck anti-science. Even within the "progressive" and activist communities.

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Matthew Inman delivers the goods.

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HuffPo religion blogger tells fellow Christians to avoid perpetrating these ten cliches. But as one atheist commenter who likes the list puts it, "[t]ake away all those cliches . . . and what have you got left?"

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What else would you expect from cdesign proponentsists, taking to the Evolution News blog whining about Wikipedia editors upholding real science: "They have nothing better to do with their time and will always erase your attempted correction and reinstate the bogus claim, with lightning speed over and over again."