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RationalWiki:What is going on in the blogosphere?/May 2012
May 2012[edit]
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Fuck you, I'm going to find a private school...what? Fifty grand a year?!! |
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Only 85% of Americans believe in some form of creationism. What are evolution denialists doing wrong? (self promotion warning) |
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Conclusions in the social sciences are not reliable like those in the physical sciences, because "while the physical sciences produce many detailed and precise predictions, the social sciences do not." |
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Weekly Standard writer uses a meme ("Al Gore invented the internet.") while disparaging the concept of memes. |
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Now do this to the Beliebers and you might have a social network. |
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All is not well in those big, happy families. |
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Socialism, socialism, socialism. Socialism? Socialism! Socialism... |
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A webcomic offers something philosophers of ethics may need to consider. |
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Climate deniers are branching out to new forms of denialism. |
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The Stridency and Sensitivity of Carl Sagan (on why Dawkins is getting more flak than Sagan) |
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Who sells this bumper sticker? Everybody at RW will probably want to buy a dozen. And this one too. |
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Sascha Baron Cohen as The Dictator gets it. Note: Link taken down by copyright claims. |
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2030 - Oxygen tanks and frozen corpses to be seen from orbit |
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Anti-vaxxers think that whooping cough is nothing. They'd be wrong. Again (self promotion warning) |
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"The Conservative Fantasy History of Civil Rights". Or as the photo caption puts it, "Ronald Reagan, Strom Thurmond, and other civil rights heroes. Not pictured: black people." |
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If 1,200 emails can convince the Arizona Secretary of State to investigate Obama's origins, does this mean enough signatures can get him to investigate anything? |
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Oklahoma courts set an interesting precedent. |
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Futurama does what it does best - explain the entirety of US politics in less than a minute. |
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Over fifteen years and a ridiculous amount of blockbusters on, can Will Smith shake off the shackles of The Fresh Prince? He can not. (BONUS: He does his thing at 1:50. BEST CHAT SHOW EVER.) |
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Polls shows America still has its head up its ass about global warming |
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[1] A pretty balanced, non-tl;dr version of what's happening in Greece. |
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As the first riding gets null and void, |
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Want to pray before you have sex? The Catholics have a prayer for that. |
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Meryl Dorey drinks water to cure whooping cough. Calls it quantum medicine. |
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The inevitable Heartland Institute parody billboards. |
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Religiosity versus societal dysfunction in the US. Religiosity is a symptom of failure. |
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It seems that some people are concerned that Mitt Romney didn't get the memo informing him that the Cold War ended 21 years ago. (As an aside, it seems that some people in Hollywood also didn't get the memo. And WTF! North Korea? Really?) |
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Website: Would Jesus Discriminate? |
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Create RationalWiki Gilbert and Sullivan troupe in 3, 2, 1... |
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Bottled water facts(Warning: Poe's Law in action!) |
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Republicans, meet vaginas. |
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Nina Strohminger (psychology grad student at University of Michigan) doesn't often rip a Colin McGinn book apart. But when she does... |
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Presidential nomination tip: never let an Antarctic-based aquatic bird attack you, presumably for denying global warming. |
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Indeed. Global warming and warming caused by windmills are different. Duh. |