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.
# science
Skeptico might sound like a skeptical blog, but as demonstrated by its approach to a profile of Dr. Eben Alexander, it's anything but.
# space
Newsweek covers a conspiracy theory that seemed created solely for the sake of creating a conspiracy.
# science
The three constants of life seem to be death, taxes, and Chandra Wickramasinghe claiming space agencies are hiding proof of alien life.
# sex
American seniors are convinced that millennial life is just an orgy of constant casual sex. But research into the matter shows absolutely no evidence of this.
# tech
More than 200 scientists with over 2,000 studies claim that cell phones cause cancer. Well, depending on your definition of "cause cancer." And "scientist." And "study."
# tech
Newspapers are attacking online services with which they could partner out of sheer desperation.
# science
We want to believe tales of an afterlife from those who were clinically dead, but we also have to keep the caveats to their stories in mind...
# space
A study says that more of Mars than Earth should be hospitable to life. But the data on which this conclusion is based is incomplete.
# science
A group of researchers armed with very strong opinions and flawed studies do not constitute a consensus on the effects of video game violence on children.
# tech
To some, Ray Kurzweil will always be a tech prophet , and they're prepared to cherry-pick his track record to sell that belief.