Exploring bleeding edge experiments, oddities, new and bizarre dicoveries, and fact-checking conspiracy theories since 2008. No question is out of bounds and no topic is too strange for a deep dive.
# evolution
Far too many commentators are way too eager to explain to scientists and science writers why creationism is still a thing. It would be nice if their explanations were actually rooted in the real world.
# politics
The Discovery Institute needs a scapegoat for everything wrong with the world today. And surprise, surprise, it's always Darwin's fault.
# evolution
The only argument creationists have against speciation is deploying arbitrary taxonomical semantics.
# politics
The Discovery Institute thinks it has JPL dead to rights for demoting a vocal creationist. But the case is a little more complicated than that...
# oddities
S.E. Cupp's profound insight: if liberals agree with the tenets of evolution, teaching science must be a conspiracy to destroy America.
# education
Many religious zealots homeschool their kids to stop them from learning about evolution. And thanks to some homeschooling textbook publishers, they have a helping hand in denying their kids a scientific education.
# oddities
How to argue like a creationist in one easy, dishonest, and willfully ignorant step.
# evolution
The Discovery Institute and its merry band of pseudoscientists seem to believe they can overturn the science of evolution by filibustering courts with meaningless buzzwords.
# science
Creationists attack evolution with a hydra of bad faith arguments and logical fallacies. Trying to counter them using the bandwagon fallacy is only playing into their hands.
# science
After several years of sustained pushback, you'd think that creationists would find a new strategy. But they're nothing if not consistent and deaf to criticism...