{"id":3614,"date":"2014-10-18T09:39:22","date_gmt":"2014-10-18T13:39:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/?p=3614"},"modified":"2014-10-18T09:39:22","modified_gmt":"2014-10-18T13:39:22","slug":"saturday-five-101814","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/18\/saturday-five-101814\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday five, 10\/18\/14."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My <a href=http:\/\/klaw.me\/1o96FYf>second Arizona Fall League scouting post<\/a> went up earlier this week, and I held my regular <a href=http:\/\/klaw.me\/1zdy8wy>Klawchat<\/a> on Thursday. <\/p>\n<p>My review of this year&#8217;s Spiel des Jahres winner, <a href=http:\/\/klaw.me\/101D0p5>the boardgame Camel Up<\/a>, is up at <i>Paste<\/i> magazine. I&#8217;ll have three more reviews up for them over the next month or so, and my annual boardgame rankings post will go up here on the dish in mid-November.<\/p>\n<p>Now, for the links \u2013 and there are a lot this week:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/insolence\/2014\/10\/06\/its-official-brian-hookers-reanalysis-of-mmr-data-is-retracted\/>The \u201creanalysis\u201d of MMR data has been retracted<\/a>. That&#8217;s the study that purported to show that African-American boys who received the MMR (measles, mumps, rubella) vaccine at certain ages were more likely to develop autism. The whole thing was a fraud, and now the journal that let this junk slip the through the cracks has admitted its error.\n<\/li>\n<li>Speaking of anti-science, in Italy, several seismologists went on trial for <a href=https:\/\/medium.com\/matter\/the-aftershocks-7966d0cdec66>failing to predict a massive earthquake<\/a> that killed 297 people. This was the best long-form piece I saw this week, from the new online-only publication <i>Matter<\/i>.\n<\/li>\n<li>In South Carolina, prosecutors are arguing that <a href=http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/justice\/2014\/10\/14\/3579407\/south-carolina-prosecutors-say-stand-your-ground-doesnt-apply-to-victims-of-domestic-violence\/>\u201cstand your ground\u201d doesn&#8217;t apply to victims of domestic violence <\/a>.\n<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ve been reading more about #GamerGate, the twin scandals that involve harassment of several prominent women in video game development and an attack on conflicts of interest in game reviews. Rawstory published a piece <a href=http:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/rs\/2014\/10\/gamergate-is-an-attack-on-ethical-journalism\/>arguing GamerGate is an attack on <b>ethical<\/b> journalism<\/a>, while <i>Forbes<\/i> argues that it&#8217;s <a href=http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/erikkain\/2014\/10\/09\/gamergate-is-not-a-hate-group-its-a-consumer-movement\/>really a consumer movement<\/a>. For some more background on the harassment angle, the <i>New Yorker<\/i> had a great piece in early September on the <a href=http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/tech\/elements\/zoe-quinns-depression-quest>hate campaign against Zo&euml; Quinn<\/a>, which set off the whole movement.\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=http:\/\/groupthink.jezebel.com\/guy-writes-chilling-post-about-being-a-stalker-1645909879>Guy writes chilling post about being a stalker<\/a>. He seems to think he&#8217;s done nothing wrong, which is the most disturbing part.\n<\/li>\n<li>A breast-cancer survivor explains <a href=http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national\/health-science\/why-i-dont-breastfeed-if-you-must-know\/2014\/10\/13\/74c5fd3e-459a-11e4-9a15-137aa0153527_story.html>why she doesn&#8217;t breastfeed \u2013 and why it&#8217;s rude to ask<\/a>. My wife couldn&#8217;t breastfeed our daughter because of a medication she was taking that shows up in mothers&#8217; breast milk. But really, it&#8217;s none of your business.\n<\/li>\n<li>A study in the journal <i>Addiction<\/i> shows results of a twenty-year study into marijuana use, arguing <a href=http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2783111\/The-terrible-truth-cannabis-Expert-s-devastating-20-year-study-finally-demolishes-claims-smoking-pot-harmless.html?ITO=1490&#038;ns_mchannel=rss&#038;ns_campaign=1490>that pot is addictive and has harmful long-term effects<\/a>. This seems like an argument for education, not for opposing decriminalization.\n<\/li>\n<li>The <i>Atlantic<\/i> posted an amusing\/serious piece on <a href=http:\/\/m.theatlantic.com\/magazine\/archive\/2014\/11\/the-adultery-arms-race\/380794\/2\/?utm_source=digg&#038;utm_medium=email>how technology is enabling adultery and suspicious partners alike<\/a>.\n<\/li>\n<li>Doctors Without Borders gives a no-bull update on <a href=http:\/\/www.doctorswithoutborders.org\/our-work\/medical-issues\/ebola>the fight against Ebola in west Africa<\/a>. All this promised aid hasn&#8217;t gotten to the group yet, and they&#8217;re also dealing with a smaller outbreak in central Africa at the same time.<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My second Arizona Fall League scouting post went up earlier this week, and I held my regular Klawchat on Thursday. My review of this year&#8217;s Spiel des Jahres winner, the boardgame Camel Up, is up at Paste magazine. I&#8217;ll have three more reviews up for them over the next month or so, and my annual [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[190,660],"class_list":["post-3614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-links","tag-saturday-five","entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3614"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3616,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3614\/revisions\/3616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}