RationalWiki:What is going on in the clogosphere?/January 2016

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January 2016

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Alternative medicine quack, notable for being Charlie Sheen's "doctor," invited by Bill Maher. Bonus: Charlie Sheen's blood has already returned to detectable levels of HIV.

27

Coverage of a tiger-goat friendship is gay propaganda! Just wait until he learns about the cat and bunny romance.

16

Allnews Pipeline: The Oregon Militia standoff was a false-flag operation! Masons! Satanists! Babylonians! Hollow Earth! BLOOD SACRIFICE!!!!!

13

Anti-Trump PAC makes an excellent case in Trump's favor (video).

30

WND is hyperventilating about furries: "The latest deviancy they're trying to mainstream"

19

Guess the website: "Ginger Jihadis: Why Redheads are Attracted to Radical Islam"

21

Slymepitters attempt to use a mentally ill woman in a fake Neil DeGrasse Tyson rape plot against PZ Myers. He doesn't fall for the bait, and we're left with the Slymepit showing their true colors.

9

A woo-laden New Age sex guide. Quite possibly the worst thing you will read today.

36

Richard Dawkins: "I'm a feminist, but this Sargon of Akkad fellow has made an interesting youtube video about how Feminism and Islamism are the same thing". UPDATE: He's now deleted the tweet FURTHER UPDATE: Dawkins has been uninvited from the NECSS 2016 conference due to a majority vote from the panel. To his credit, the tweet was removed prior to the decision being released. FURTHER FURTHER UPDATE: The NECSS panel has openly and privately apologized to Dawkins for acting unilaterally rather than first expressing their concerns, and he has been re-invited to NECSS to discuss both his prior planned talk, as well as being part of a panel discussion about diversity and free speech within the skeptical community. Unfortunately, this was just prior to his stroke, and cancellation of other talks due to his health.

16

A 'Common Law Judge' (Sovereign citizen crank) writes to the Bundy Militia with 'advice'.

31

Washed-up rapper B.o.B goes completely off the deep end. If he'd stopped at merely arguing that the Earth was flat, that might not have been newsworthy... but when Neil deGrasse Tyson read his tweets and decided to have a good laugh by sharing and debunking them, B.o.B doubled down and responded with a diss track that has to be seen to be believed. (With a casual side of Holocaust denial!) Tyson responded with a (fanmade) diss track of his own.

22

NaturalNews correspondent writes that adding fluoride to water is bad because it's an Appeal to nature fa— Wait, what(redirect)

24

It's always fun when the conspiracists start turning against one another. NaturalNews/NewsTarget attacks InfoWars over the latter not taking a gun protest seriously(redirect).

23

Ted Cruz is anointed as a “king” to take control of all sectors of society and “bring the spoils of war to the priests”, thus helping to bring about a prophesied “great transfer of wealth”, from the “wicked” to righteous Gentile believers. (See Seven Mountains theology.) Also here.

12

LifeSiteNews: Oh noes! Think of the children! Alberta is going to force young girls to shower with males! Guess dignity is out of the question.

28

New York Post: Bernie Sanders is no socialist... "He's a diehard COMMIE!!1!"

29

Fearmongering! Get your fearmongering here! Mike Adams (The Health Ranger) launches a new website, Pharma Death Clock(redirect), that claims to "[give] you a real-time count of all [...] deaths ["due to prescription drugs, chemotherapy and medical mistakes"], aggregated from January 1, 2000."

28

InfoWars: One of Alex Jones's writers posits that David Bowie's death is the "capstone on the pyramid of necrotic Anglo-American mass culture spanning a half-century of civilizational cancer." The comments section is worse.

44

Milo Yiannopoulos loses his little blue "verified" checkmark on Twitter, for multiple TOS violations. Breitbart goes goddamn nuts. His fans find this obviously directly comparable to journalists literally being murdered by terrorists. There's over 1500 signatures on a White House petition to reinstate Milo's little blue checkmark.

22

NaturalNews splitting into two quack sites(redirect).

40

Return of Kings claims that Forbes acknowledges that its boycott of SWTFA cost Disney millions of dollars, when the headline of the Forbes article in question explicitly reads: "No, Men's Rights Activists Didn't Cost Star Wars Any Money".

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Considering how dumb these people are, they must eat everything on this list. Also, generic HTML5 template with the only changes being widened margins, Taboola but worse at the top and bottom of every page, and clickbait ads inserted everywhere.