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Posts made in February, 2015

What Californians Of 2015 Share With 1991 Religious Fundamentalists

In this century, vaccine denial is primarily located in progressive hotbeds of states like California, rooted in distrust of science. It's an embarrassment for Democrats, who pride themselves on being more scientific than Republicans, to see that right-wing states like Mississippi and Alabama have negligible exemption rates while supposedly more educated places like California, Washington and...

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Cool Links 1970-01-01 00:00:00

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Can You Be An SS Doctor In A Nazi Concentration Camp And Still Be A Good Guy?

In 1993, Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan gave us "defining deviancy down", a clever bit of alliteration based on the work of sociologist Emile Durkheim from his defining work of 1895. Durkheim wrote that crime is normal, it is going to happen, but by defining what is deviant, a community decides what is not and creates a reasonable standard for living together.  read...

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