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Politics
Bad Chart Thursday: Trump Argues for More Americans to Suffer and Die
Donald Trump has an impressively horrific record for avoidable death tolls. At last count, American fatalities in Puerto Rico post-Hurricane Maria have surpassed 3,000, many of them preventable had the Trump administration not done everything in its power to block and delay life-saving aid to the island. For context, the death toll for Hurricane Katrina was 1,833; Hurricane Sandy, 285;…
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Meta Stuff
It’s the Sundaylies! Cyanobacteria and Anna Zakrisson, Talking to Your Kids about Terrorism, Using Disability as an Excuse for Racism
Sunday Funny: To hell with you, demon! (via Poorly Drawn Lines) Mad Art Lab Mad Art Cast #35 — Macabre Suite in the Bronx and Other Sad Tales The Mad Art Cast is back to discuss gentrification. Cyanobacteria and Misery: The Many Hats of Anna Zakrisson (Women in Science 51) Dale writes about Anna Zakrisson, a physiology researcher and science…
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Random Asides
Bad Chart Thursday: Gun Deaths Don’t Matter Because Cancer
In President Obama’s response to the mass shooting in Oregon last week, he asked the US media to report gun deaths side by side with terrorism deaths to demonstrate that far more Americans are killed by guns than by terrorism, yet we don’t spend a fraction of the resources used to combat terrorism in efforts to reduce gun violence. Various…
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Skepticism
AI: Boston
Boston. It hurts. A lot. I’m still trying to wrap my head around yesterday’s bombing. I am a runner. I run for lots of reasons, but the one thing that keeps me honest about my running is racing. If I don’t train, I can’t race. I’m not fast. I don’t actually race anyone else besides me. But there’s something about…
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Religion
The Islam Dichotomy, Part 2: Sharia
Terrorism is one thing that non-Muslims fear about Muslims, but there is another Arabic word besides “jihad” that has begun to make the rounds. Is the implementation of Sharia in the United States a credible threat? Sharia in the UK The fear of Sharia taking over the West is one that stems from the words and actions of certain Western European…
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Religion
The Islam Dichotomy, Part 1: Terrorism
I’d like to see you weigh in on the Muslims are evil and scary vs. Muslims are no worse than Christians and demonizing them only helps Christians battle that occasionally flares up in the skeptical blogosphere. Is Islam a religion of peace or of leaving people in pieces? This question seems to be everywhere now. Between the neocon stance of…
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