RationalWiki:What is going on in the blogosphere?/June 2018
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June 2018[edit]
   | 15 | Understanding Harvey: Power alone does not explain their abuses. |
| 24 | How a hacker proved cops used a secret government phone tracker to find him. And how it might change what cops can do with our smartphones. |
| 26 | Dementia complicates US gun ownership |
| 13 | The War in the Desert |
| 6 | The US-China Trade War is increasing fears of a new recession amongst economists |
| 7 | Ray Lakeman's sons died after taking ecstasy, but he says that had the drugs been legal and regulated, it might have saved them |
| 21 | Just a reminder that the US isn't the only liberal democracy that treats immigrants appallingly |
| 14 | In which the LessWrong/effective altruism subculture appears to be having a bit of a #metoo - starting with this Twitter thread from one abused person, citing this public suicide note by a prominent EA person, and in full swing in this Reddit /r/sneerclub thread. |
| 9 | Right wingers decide to attack abortion rights to distract people from family separations at the border |
| 8 | The Mediterranean diet study was flawed. |
| 13 | The Lifespan of a Lie: Stanford Prison Experiment was a sham. |
| 15 | LGBTQ videos are still being demonetized on YouTube. |
| 25 | From the BBC: What were once referred to as the “thinly-veiled” elements of Gamergate are now fully visible. But it no longer matters. (Short version: if the sorts of games and characters spotlighted at the most recent E3 event are anything to go by, then Gamergate not only lost, it may have backfired.) |
| 17 | Stay-at-Home Daughters are Rejecting Christian Patriarchy |
| 7 | Scientific American: Can we trust crime forensics? |
| 3 | CNN's experts weigh in on the U.S./North Korea peace summit thus far. |
| 22 | The Guardian: Do you live in shoddy housing that costs a fortune? Time to join the renters' union. |
| 15 | Even with the best will, you can’t reform beauty contests – they just need to disappear. |
| 25 | You can never have too many deconstructions of incels. |
| 3 | Reason gives us some reasons not to support the Judge Persky recall. Vox makes the same arguments. |
| 20 | The "Lizard People" conspiracy theory thrived in the days of lower-resolution video, but can't survive the close scrutiny of 4K. |
| 29 | The epidemic of denial about sexual abuse in the evangelical church: Across the United States, evangelical churches are failing to protect victims of sexual abuse among their members. |