#politics
# politics
Quacks and cranks are using libel laws to silence critics and skeptics into submission and keep money flowing into their pockets.
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How do you cover a schism that doesn't actually exist? You whip one up from cherry-picked quotes and use them to stir up a tempest in a teacup.
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No one wants the authorities snooping on them 24/7. So why did they vote for politicians who promised to do exactly that and delivered on that promise?
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Humanity's history of using torture and carving out exceptions for harming other humans into submission proves that our morality is not consistent.
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Religious commentators are trying to soothe scared believers that atheism is just a fad. In reality, skepticism of organized religion is quickly growing.
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Arguments against preventing another Great Recession by cracking down on banks' careless behavior are full of cherry-picking and bad faith.
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A poll of New Jersey residents shows a very disturbing trend in politics: a steep rise in conspiracy theories substituting for news and facts in potential voters' minds.
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Sometimes believers don't proselytize because they're sure they have the truth. It's because they need affirmation of their beliefs.
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According to some environmentalists, the worst part of war is the carbon footprint.
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Science is under attack in classrooms and pop culture. The NCSE is trying to change that.
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The American healthcare system is best compared to a sophisticated machine with many moving parts. A badly maintained Rube Goldberg to be more exact.
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When your worldview gets popular, you're going to get followers who are in it only to jump on the bandwagon.
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Of all the sins that worry the religious right, lust, in the form of pornography, seems to dominate their every other waking thought.
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People are reading more articles with which they agree, and are twisting satire and humor to fit their existing worldview, even when they're told they're being mocked.
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After Stalin's crackdowns were over, the USSR was a lot less hostile to religion than Americans are often taught.
