RationalWiki:What is going on in the blogosphere?/November 2011
November 2011[edit]
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Nearly 20 years later, Sully is still finding a way to dig himself deeper on The Bell Curve. Safe to call him a wingnut now? |
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Twenty years after Darwin on Trial, Intelligent Design is dead. |
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What is the right action to take to stop the Stop Online Piracy Act? (We'd like Option #1, thank you very much...) |
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Ariane Sherine (of the ABC fame) looks "a little bit brown", so people just seem compelled to ask ...so where are you from? |
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While it's good that Occupy Wall Street continues to shine the light on financial corruption, they also need to shine a light onto what their movement has exposed -- that America has become a police state that rivals any dictatorship. |
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Cracked: 5 Insane Celebrity Product Endorsements by Historic Figures. Featuring the obligatory Theodore Roosevelt fan-wank and one of the most hilarious Reagan fights (see comments) ever. Also look at this. |
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Everything you ever wanted to know about free will but were afraid to ask. |
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Paul Krugman pwns yet again. |
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Uncyclopedia: Occupy protesters closer to developing nuclear weapons |
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Why it's probably not a good idea to nuke Iran. |
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Climategate Deux (Electric Boogaloo) shoots through the denialist echo chamber. |
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Superliminal neutrinos and the Vindication of All Kooks Doctrine. |
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"How Ignorance, Greed and Ideology Are Warping Science and Hurting Democracy" |
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Memo to cops using pepper spray on non-violent protesters: It is more chemical weapon than it is spice, and it may make non-violent people violent. |
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Errol Morris' latest short documentary is The Umbrella Man, about the man with the umbrella at the JFK shooting, but really it's about the fallibility of conspiracy theorists. |
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Picture paints a thousand words... Update: The meme's growing every hour. |
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A useful quack spotters guide |
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Pesky skeptics, no ice cream for you! |
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"Today you ordered police onto our campus to clear student protesters from the quad. These were protesters who participated in a rally speaking out against tuition increases and police brutality on UC campuses on Tuesday."... Related video. |
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PZ Myers et al prepare to visit the Creation Ministries of the Ozarks "museum." Or as he puts it, "you are skeptical anthropologists there to observe the peculiar and pathological folkways of a backwards, intellectually impoverished people." |
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The Circle of |
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If you thought Obama Girl was creepy... Also, you know a country is fucked when you have libertarian librarians. |
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GET IN MAH BELLY, America! |
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In a report that may interest sociology buffs, The Daily Show's Samantha Bee shows that by the time the NYPD cleared Zuccotti Park of Occupy Wall Street protesters, the eight-week encampment had segregated itself into one section for the elite bourgeois, and another for unwashed proles. |
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Math teacher at a Christian school has been accused of masturbating during class. This is obviously the fault of insufficient prayer. |
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The Daily Heil just had to make a story about St. Ronnie's sex life. Not only couldn't Raygun manage government, he also couldn't manage giving women orgasms, and - shocker! - blamed their vaginas. |
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Inverse theodicy: The evidential problem of good. Enough to give William Lane Craig problems. |
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Shock-horror of the month: girls actually like porn, and some even idolise the male stars. But why are they so secretive about it compared to male fans? Well, (some aren't. |
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Top ten dumbest objections to OWS. (The last one, unfortunately, is probably true.) |
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Climate deniers are like magicians. They can make data just...disappear. |
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The ultimate gauntlet that every major politician must face: APEC. |
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More Charlie Brooker trolling: Modern Warfare 3 is so popular because it's the most homoerotic tale ever created in any medium. Waiting for The Telegraph's response... |
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Why evangelicals believe weird things. Facts and arguments are irrelevant — it's all about whether the speaker is one of us. |
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Apparently organized football can cause brain damage to almost an entire university campus. |
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14 different religious groups are represented on Remembrance Sunday at the Cenotaph, except for the second largest group, which is excluded due to "limited space".. Meanwhile in Catholic Ireland a secular humanist gets a word in. |
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Massimo Pigliucci: If you take the Templeton dollar, don't even try to pretend you're not whoring out your reputation. |
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Ever wondered what it would be like if Bobby Darin were an NWO-believing truther, bin Laden doubter, and climate change denialist? Now you don't have to! |
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Death to America!!!...Online. I just signed up for DSL. |
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"What I really need is a droid that understands the binary language of moisture vaporators." (okay, so this one is only really here for the Star Wars quote.) |
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In Michigan, it is now perfectly fine to bully in the name of Jesus. Well, not anymore |
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It's that season again...Climate denial season! |
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You're going to have to keep shoving the evidence right in their faces for them to understand - the American dream is dead. |
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And if there weren't still monkeys ... then the humans could replace them. |
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The football celebration that might have players facing public lashings in Iran. Here's an experiment: have someone do this in the Bible Belt and compare their reactions. |
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Meet Alison Singer, creator of the "Shut the Hell Up, Jenny McCarthy" organization. |
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Wait, didn't Heath Ledger play that gay cowboy role a couple of years ago? |
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The Berkeley Earth temperature dataset shows a decline in global warming... if you ignore the error bars, don't do any statistical analysis, constrain your sample to only a few years, and include a data point that only includes temperatures from Antarctica. |
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From one of Craig's former students: Let's Recap Why William Lane Craig Refuses to Debate Me. |
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As everyone knows, the internet doesn't weigh anything! Well, actually it sort of does. About the same as a strawberry, in fact. |
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What happens if Initiative 26 ends up as law, or why I'm glad my miscarriage wasn't in Mississippi. |
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Why debating theologians and other woo-meisters is futile, part 94: when you do hand them their asses, they'll try to bury it. Update: Theologian relents, video is up (and well worth your time). Update 2: Q&A video up. |
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The largest victims of the economic turmoil: pets. Go on and adopt a cat, you know you want to. |