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.
# politics
Sometimes angry calls for more civility in political and social discourse are necessary. And sometimes they're just a muzzle for partisan bloviators who can dish it out but can't take it.
# science
Ragbir Bhathal responds to Weird Things to set the record straight: the story about his detection of laser signals from Gliese 581g are pure fiction.
# science
Step one: paint all scientists as completely un-relatable weirdos. Step two: wonder why so few kids want to grow up to be scientists.
# science
That's right Baroness Greenfield, not needing a miracle in the lab is the same thing as a holy war against the unbelievers.
# oddities
Conspiracies seem to be all around us today. And ironically, that's the reason why most of them can't possibly be true.
# politics
In sparing the feeling of religious zealots and ardent believers of junk science, we've done ourselves no favors.
# science
Chris Mooney is back with another rendition of the Unscientific America debacle to cement his status as the human version of a broken record.
# health
Despite the gloom and doom you see on the news, we're actually making huge strides in improving medicine and have a pretty good handle on what the media insists are crises.
# science
John Horgan is on the warpath against Craig Venter because... the media prominently covered Venter's latest breakthrough with synthetic life?
# science
When it comes to science denial and illiteracy, the media is one of the biggest source of bad information and misleading opinions.