RationalWiki:What is going on in the blogosphere?/October 2012

Cracked.com: "5 B.S. Political Arguments You Hear Every Election Season." (#5: "A progressive income tax mean that you will make less money on a higher income because of tax brackets!" #3: "The death penalty costs less money than life in prison!" And #1: "Voter ID laws are the only thing that will prevent rampant voter fraud!")

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"The Voter-Fraud Myth: The man who has stoked fear about impostors at the polls."

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In 1983, a Mormon woman was advised to have an abortion after an overdose of Heparin put her life in danger. The head of the LDS church in Massachusetts supported her doctor's advice. Then her bishop arrived, and he really didn't give a shit whether she lived or died so long as she didn't have an abortion.

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Giving men the right to vote was a horrible idea.

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Homeopaths Without Borders goes to Haiti. Yes, there's a fucking organization that pushes fake cures aping Doctors Without Borders which uses real medicine to really help people.

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Dr. Oz, official whore, you are fucking clueless about science.^{(self promotion warning)}

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Heartening story about the bristlecone pine, and the story they tell about our past and future with respect to climate change.

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Didn't someone say something about no detailed rigorous explanations for how complex biochemical systems could arise by a random mutation and natural selection?

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Hey, idiotic speech is better than no speech at all, right?

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Troll Level: Pastor. On the flip side, another speaker references Conservapedia's homosexuality article

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Find this hard to believe? You may be a skeptinazi (1,990 results).

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Good ol' Faux.

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GMO opponents are the Global Warming Denialists of the Left.^{(self promotion warning)}

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Fuck you, Einstein!

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Edzard Ernst, the bane of UK alternative medicine, has started a blog.

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PZ Myers calls out TheAmazingAtheist for being a callous asshole. (Again.)

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You're not a nerd, geeks aren't sexy and you don't "fucking love" science.

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"Obama's a communist!" "So what is a communist then?"

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And on the subject of the Nobel Prize, being from a country that eats a lot of chocolate doesn't hurt either (though, admittedly, this is still a hypothesis warranting further testing).

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So, in order to win a Nobel, you should be 61, male, American, married, a Harvard graduate, shave regularly and not wear glasses. Got it.

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Roger Ebert asks: did you choose your religion? And what if you aren't the person you thought you were?

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Cracked seriously discusses the NDAA.

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For fucksake, students.

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Obama's ticket to re-election.

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damn i hate having to approve of a randroid

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It's Golden Crocoduck time once again! Voting site is here.

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Meanwhile at PBS... Update: Official response.

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Slate: Ayn Rand's mistake was in essentializing the distinction between "individualist freedom" vs. "collectivist tyranny" and then transporting it into our human past.

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Cracked: What would Mitt Romney have to do to win the election?

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"Be nobody or be a loud, mean somebody."

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Wondermark: How to lie.

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In 2008, Focus on the Family predicted what 2012 under Obama would be like. Let's see how they did. (Some portions may be familiar.)

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US Politicians are partisan because voters are partisan. Of course, the first comment on the article is some jackass who blames Obama. Addendum: and, right on cue, someone else who couldn't be bothered to finish the article scolds him and blames Bush.

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Court decides parent's refusal to vaccinate kids is not “free exercise of religion”. Win one for the constitution. ^{(self promotion warning)}

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