RationalWiki:What is going on in the blogosphere?/November 2014

November 2014

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So that's why American conservatives have been red-baiting Pope Francis.

22

io9: 10 Scientific Ideas That Scientists Wish You Would Stop Misusing

12

Rioting over a lack of indictment is unacceptable

19

More homeopathy fighting ebola - NOT!: some idiots flew to Liberia to 'cure' ebola patients with homeopathy.

31

In which Thanet South UKIP mistakes Westminster Cathedral for a mosque. Update: "The people's army are not all wholly trained," responded Farage. Washington Post story, BBC video on Facebook.

15

“A system cannot fail those it was never meant to protect.” - W. E. B. Du Bois

24

The International Journal of Advanced Computer Technology only accepts the very best papers (warning, older than I first thought)

25

With a plan to 'heal the oceans' by dumping homepathic 'medicine' down toilets, "Have Homeopaths Reached Peak Stupid?" Sadly, Betteridge's law is probably in effect.

21

"So Much For Post-Racial America."

43

Go fuck yourself, ESPN! ESPN suspends MLB writer Keith Law ostensibly for defending evolution.

27

A good example of how to complain politely to a shop about pseudoscientific merchandise.

7

Now that the Keystone XL debate is suddenly relevant again.

28

National Organization for Marriage sinking into debt.

27

io9: Stop Using Quantum Mechanics as Evidence for Magic

2

Dubai, as understood by the Mustache of Understanding.

32

Chris "RINO" Ladd: "Few things are as dangerous to a long term strategy as a short-term victory. Republicans (in the midterms) scored the kind of win that sets one up for spectacular, catastrophic failure and no one is talking about it."

8

An incredibly useful site: Realorsatire.com.

24

Fifty years from now, when historians analyze this decade in American politics, what will they think when "believ(ing) the rational should overcome the superficial" was considered a personality flaw?

24

Somehow, Not The Onion: "White People Think Black People Are Magical"

26

A useful reference work for the internet: An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments.

13

The Guru Effect: if something's hard to understand, it must be true.

8

How to be a pickup artist (with science) (contains satire)

8

The Mind Body Soul Experience: "a celebration of good posture, human credulousness and the placebo effect"

11

Scamworld: how internet get-rick-quick schemes work to separate you from your money.

10

King v. Burwell, or How I Learned to Stop Obamacare and Lose the South. (Make your choice, Roberts.)

19

The Oatmeal has a thing or 2 to say to Senator Cruz about net neutrality. Won't anyone think of the crabs??

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The Lessons of Libya

32

You don’t protect my freedom, or, why hero worship of the military and police is bad for us and them.

26

"You're a lame-duck president now. What are you going to do?" "Let's save the Internet."

27

When cranks turn on each other: watching Gamergate eat itself from the inside.

35

Cracked gives its diagnosis of why Christian movies bomb in mostly Christian America. Bonus coverage: A day earlier, they published this article on how to fix some recent box office bombs, including changing the Nick Cage version of Left Behind to a horror flick about the Christian god.