misinformation Spite turns normal people into horse-paste-eating conspiracy addicts, says study Ellsworth Toohey

Science Germ theory denial is dangerous and on the rise Jennifer Sandlin

junk science Oil and tobacco lobbyist blames Trans-Atlantic slave trade on wind Thom Dunn

books Cory Doctorow interviewed about cyberpunk and surveillance capitalism in The New Yorker David Pescovitz

occult The Enduring Legacy of Parapsychologist J.B. Rhine Mitch Horowitz

movies Dallas Buyers Club was almost a disaster of AIDS denialism Rob Beschizza

Science South Dakota's Republican governor resisted Coronavirus stay-at-home order, now it's a COVID-19 hot spot Xeni Jardin

white supremacy Ecofascism isn't new: white supremacy and exterminism have always lurked in the environmental movement Cory Doctorow

Science A generalized method for re-identifying people in "anonymized" data-sets Cory Doctorow

Science Study suggests that Flat Eartherism spread via Youtube Cory Doctorow

surveillance Oh for fuck's sake, not this fucking bullshit again (cryptography edition) Cory Doctorow

Winter is coming Scientists model the climate in Game of Thrones Clive Thompson

Science Why the NYT hired a science denier Rob Beschizza

scholarship How Big Tobacco invented Donald Trump and Brexit (and what to do about it) Cory Doctorow

Science Trump's war on science, a chronology (Week 1) Cory Doctorow

Science How an engineer/public health whistleblower led the citizen scientists who busted Flint's water crisis Cory Doctorow

vaccines Six cases of measles confirmed in Tennessee outbreak. Measles was eradicated in the U.S. in 2000. Xeni Jardin

Copyfight Math denialism: crypto backdoors and DRM are the alternative medicine of computer science Cory Doctorow

denialism A flowchart for arguing with science denialists Cory Doctorow

twitter Nassim Taleb defends homeopathy (and calls me "very stupid" for criticizing him) Cory Doctorow