RationalWiki:What is going on in the blogosphere?/November 2021
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November 2021[edit]
   | 8 | Why workers are quitting their jobs, after the trauma of the pandemic |
| 6 | The American Prison System’s War on Reading |
| 5 | How Morale at Facebook Tumbled After Trump’s “Looting and Shooting” Post |
| 3 | Inside the FBI's Unlikely Undercover Operation Infiltrating a Radical Militia in Kansas |
| 1 | Tax Haven Ireland: the Tax Justice Network podcast. Ireland only has 0.1% of the world’s population, but they became one of the biggest tax havens on the planet. What’s that meant for Irish people, and their road ahead? Full audio transcript here |
| 4 | Ways to make social media less ‘viral’ When fake news spreads like Covid, what can platforms do to stop it? |
| 56 | Warhammer 40,000 publisher Games Workshop (finally) tells Nazi gamers to fuck off: "We won’t let you participate. We don’t want your money. We don’t want you in the Warhammer community." |
| 12 | Dr. Stanislaw Burzynski and the problem of COVID-19 misinformation The 45 year career of cancer quack Stanislaw Burzynski, whom multiple medical authorities including the Texas Medical Board and FDA have failed to stop, serves as a warning about how difficult it will be to discipline physicians for spreading COVID-19 disinformation. |
| 5 | Robert Zimmer and Steven Pinker resign from Anti-Cancel Culture University of Austin. Let's see what binary argument Pinker uses to justify this? Christ, his BBC show is going to be so bloody insufferable, isn't it? |
| 12 | Propublica releases a detailed map, revealing 1,000 sites in America, where breathing the air can kill you. |
| 2 | In the latest Trump tell-all, Former Trump administration aide says she was warned about playing Taylor Swift music in White House |
| 12 | Meat consumption is associated with better mental health, meta-analysis finds |
| 15 | How a Nashville Radio Station Became a Conspiracy-Theory Hotbed in the ’90s |
| 9 | Award-winning Scottish writer Charles Stross' latest blog post describing the thorny realities of Brexit today |
| 13 | Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers has COVID-19. He claimed to be “immunized,” but it turns out that he had used a “homeopathic immunization” instead of a real COVID-19 vaccine. Surprise! It didn’t work. David Gorski in fine form. (He could have used the line, Rodgers got medical advice from Joe Rogen. "Surprise, it didn't work") |
| 19 | American Politics Are Controlled by Voters With the Memory of a Golden Retriever |
| 28 | We were the unpaid janitors of a bloated tech monopoly: What Facebook Knew All Along – Facebook's toxic influence, how its algorithms push people towards extremism. |