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Time for The Morning Heresy news roundup, you lucky people.
Today's episode, "Surrendering to Apathy and Distraction." Enjoy a thread. https://centerforinquiry.org/blog/surrendering-to-apathy-and-distraction/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=morning%20heresy
Today's episode, "Surrendering to Apathy and Distraction." Enjoy a thread. https://centerforinquiry.org/blog/surrendering-to-apathy-and-distraction/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=morning%20heresy
Pope Francis is not dead. Good morning.
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/apr/23/facebook-posts/no-pope-francis-not-dead/
Wait, let me try again.
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/apr/23/facebook-posts/no-pope-francis-not-dead/
Wait, let me try again.
The Texas Department of Criminal Justice decides that inmates about to be executed can have a spiritual adviser in the death chamber with them. Good morning.
https://apnews.com/article/religion-texas-0f0b595140bc279cb74f4687442226e4
Wow, I am so bad at this.
https://apnews.com/article/religion-texas-0f0b595140bc279cb74f4687442226e4
Wow, I am so bad at this.
Okay. @readwriteradio at The New Yorker interviews philosopher @PeterSinger, who has founded the new Journal of Controversial Ideas. https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-interview/peter-singer-is-committed-to-controversial-ideas
. @maggiekb1 says beware of humans. Like you needed to tell me. https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/beware-of-humans/
. @noUpside on anti-science influencers infecting all corners of the internet: "Their propaganda occasionally spreads to Pat Buchanan fans, corgi fanciers, neighborhood-swap groups, and other seemingly unrelated niche communities." Corgis. I knew it. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/04/influencers-who-keep-stoking-fears-about-vaccines/618687/
. @GoraLadka reports on the cottage industry of websites screaming about vaccine-adjacent deaths. @JenniferReich1 told him, “Scraping the internet for every story that sounds like it meets your criteria takes a lot of time and energy.”
Don't I know it! https://www.thedailybeast.com/inside-the-warped-world-of-covid-vaccine-death-hunters
Don't I know it! https://www.thedailybeast.com/inside-the-warped-world-of-covid-vaccine-death-hunters
Oh, for the love of…apparently more than 5 million Americans have skipped their second doses of the Pfizer and Moderna COVID–19 vaccines. Come on.
@RebeccaDRobbins reports. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/25/business/covid-vaccines-second-doses.html
@RebeccaDRobbins reports. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/25/business/covid-vaccines-second-doses.html
The COVID–19 vaccines do not include an enzyme found in fireflies called “luciferase,” which, by the by, has nothing to do with Satan. What is even happening.
@adrienne_dunn fact-checks: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2021/04/23/fact-check-coronavirus-vaccines-do-not-contain-luciferase-enzymes/7260660002/
@adrienne_dunn fact-checks: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2021/04/23/fact-check-coronavirus-vaccines-do-not-contain-luciferase-enzymes/7260660002/
The COVID–19 vaccines will not cause “cytokine storms.”
https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-cytokine-storms/fact-check-no-evidence-covid-19-vaccineswillcausecytokine-storms-idUSL1N2MG0Z0
Indeed, it’s more like you’ll have “The Touch,” and “when all hell’s breakin’ loose you’ll be riding the eye of the storm.”
Yeah, I’m having a day.
https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-cytokine-storms/fact-check-no-evidence-covid-19-vaccineswillcausecytokine-storms-idUSL1N2MG0Z0
Indeed, it’s more like you’ll have “The Touch,” and “when all hell’s breakin’ loose you’ll be riding the eye of the storm.”
Yeah, I’m having a day.
Happy anniversary to that time when the President of the United States suggested we consider injecting ourselves with bleach. ABC’s Jon Karl: “For me, it was the craziest and most surreal moment I had ever witnessed in a presidential press conference.” https://www.politico.com/news/2021/04/23/trump-bleach-one-year-484399
And to close, some examples of things that won’t give you herpes:
Gardening
Wishing
Twitter
The Marvel Cinematic Universe
The COVID–19 vaccines:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/ninashapiro/2021/04/20/the-covid-19-vaccine-wont-give-you-herpes-heres-why/?sh=3f9e0fa83012
Rest easy.
GardeningWishingTwitterThe Marvel Cinematic UniverseThe COVID–19 vaccines: https://www.forbes.com/sites/ninashapiro/2021/04/20/the-covid-19-vaccine-wont-give-you-herpes-heres-why/?sh=3f9e0fa83012
Rest easy.
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