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RationalWiki:What is going on in the blogosphere?/September 2023

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September 2023[edit]

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10A poll done by consumer marketing firm Consumer Science and Analytics has found out 41% of French 18-24 year olds would support a lifetime limit of 4 flights, due to effects of climate change by aviation. Not surprisingly, Twitter had a meltdown, including a certain Bjørn Lomborg.
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17An article in the Guardian discusses heightened suicide rates among doctors, especially surgeons.
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18The Band of Debunkers Busting Bad Scientists. On the work of Leif Nelson, Uri Simonsohn and Joe Simmons, who run the blog Data Colada, and whose work has led to a great many paper retractions.
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19Crowdfunding a war: the money behind Myanmar's resistance. (from December 2022)
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10Consciousness theory, or more specifically, integrated information theory (IIT), is slammed as pseudoscience
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18Letter suggests Pope Pius XII knew about Nazi atrocities but remained on the sidelines.
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34New research reveals how the Nazis targeted transgender people. This grew out of a court case that concluded with official recognition that trans and queer people were persecuted by the Nazi Party.
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32The Right-Wing Conspiracy-Fest Is More Openly Bloodthirsty Than Before
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23British TERFs have criticised BBC Radio 6Music, after the station played the punk/riot grrrl band Dream Nails' song They/Them. As it contains the line; “kick terfs all day, don’t break a sweat,”.
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21Bremerton's praying football coach got what he wanted, so now he may quit for good.
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20How Warren Buffett’s billionaire son took over a U.S. city and made it his personal playground.
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16The Atlantic: The World Will Never Get the Truth About YouTube’s Rabbit Holes. Did the site radicalize Americans in 2016? At this point, it’s impossible to know.
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13Inside-out 'alternative' thought and teaching – its psychology and nature. Thoughts on how cranks and cults accuse their opponents of what they are themselves about.
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-23How Russian diplomacy died under Putin.