Daily Links: 09/07/17 – Surveys, surveys and more surveys

New religion survey: As the US grows more religiously diverse, White Christians are losing their dominance … and the nonreligious are becoming a plurality.
Another religion survey: Only 9% of Britons believe in Creationism, as opposed to 15% of Canadians … and 38% of Americans. (That’s actually the lowest that number has dipped.)
New crime survey: Despite what Jeff Sessions and other scaremongers would have you believe, the US crime rate is still falling and has hit a 30-year low.
(via @radleybalko)
New scientific review finds significant flaws in the 3% of climate-science papers that deny human-driven global warming, from cherry-picked results to bad models.
(via @fark)
Finally, Russia’s efforts to block “pirate” websites censors 4,000 targeted sites … and 41,000 innocent sites.

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