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.
# education
According to the Center For Inquiry, science teachers can't tell students the Earth is not 6,000 years old and life as we know it evolved through natural selection and mutations.
# politics
Partisan tribalism is so toxic, it can indirectly influence people to vote against their best interests just to make a statement.
# science
Emboldened by chiropractors suing Simon Singh, anti-vaccine activists are coming after critics and scientists with frivolous but expensive libel claims.
# politics
Fundamentalist Christian zealots are holding prayer meetings to block... uh... expanded healthcare for their fellow Americans?
# science
Anecdotal evidence is the most error-prone form of evidence there is. And when combined with junk science, it has cost innocent people their lives.
# health
How far should we go to help people who refuse to help themselves? Or worse yet, whose parents refuse treatment we know will keep them alive?
# science
Evolutionarily speaking, ethics and morality before we even had a written language made humans the species we are today.