RationalWiki:What is going on in the blogosphere?/November 2021

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November 2021

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Why workers are quitting their jobs, after the trauma of the pandemic

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The American Prison System’s War on Reading

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How Morale at Facebook Tumbled After Trump’s “Looting and Shooting” Post

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Inside the FBI's Unlikely Undercover Operation Infiltrating a Radical Militia in Kansas

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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

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Ways to make social media less ‘viral’ When fake news spreads like Covid, what can platforms do to stop it?

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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."

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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.

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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.

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In the latest Trump tell-all, Former Trump administration aide says she was warned about playing Taylor Swift music in White House

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Meat consumption is associated with better mental health, meta-analysis finds

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How a Nashville Radio Station Became a Conspiracy-Theory Hotbed in the ’90s

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Award-winning Scottish writer Charles Stross' latest blog post describing the thorny realities of Brexit today

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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")

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American Politics Are Controlled by Voters With the Memory of a Golden Retriever

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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.