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# politics
Christian zealots in Missouri vote to create a right they've always had just to sneak in a way to stop teaching their kids about evolution, sex, and cosmology.
# tech
We should always think of the children, especially if we're being told to let our ISPs spy on our every move, ostensibly to protect said children.
# tech
Piracy might not kill entertainment as we know it, but the justifications for why it's supposedly harmless seem to fall short of their goal.
# health
Marc Stephens, a lawyer for the infamous Burzynski Clinic, decided that the best way to meet skeptics is with unhinged conspiracy theories and harassment.
# science
A group of researchers armed with very strong opinions and flawed studies do not constitute a consensus on the effects of video game violence on children.
# tech
Online mobs have become judge, jury, and executioner. What happens to social media now?
# politics
Christopher Hitchens accurately dissects why very few sane people want to go into Western politics anymore.
# politics
Amazingly, Harrington High School will not be prosecuted for spying on its students at home through school-issued laptops and creating child porn in the process...
# science
The bigger the crime, the less inclined we seem to emphasize with each victim.
# politics
Sometimes ideas advocated as dangerous and subversive are just poorly thought out notions in search of better marketing.
# tech
Getting naked in front of digital devices with cameras as a teenage minor can become a huge legal problem. So why aren't states fixing the laws for modern times?
# science
The magazine is allowing an angry crank with a vendetta against an editor to dictate what stories it will publish and pull.
# tech
Despite the popular rumor, you can't hack a speed camera XKCD-style with some code on your license plate.
# politics
The Discovery Institute thinks it has JPL dead to rights for demoting a vocal creationist. But the case is a little more complicated than that...
# politics
The Catholic Church has a thousand year old history of various sexual abuses they successfully kept from the law. Their recent scandals merely reveal how they've always operated.
