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.
# health
Medical experts are appalled with Dr. Oz for making a career out of giving simplistic, scientifically unverifiable and unproven questions to complicated questions about people's health.
# tech
A new experiment is trying to marry the best of health monitoring technology and organs grown from stem cells.
# health
Today's white collar jobs could not have an unhealthier culture and worse setup for our joints and midsections. And they're shaving years off our lives...
# tech
One of the best things you might ever do for your health is let your doctor track it with every possible device.
# oddities
Anti-vaxers and alt med quacks are trying to convince anyone who'll listen that modern medicine is a sinister conspiracy to cull humanity.
# science
Stem cells can become any kind of tissue you might need. Hypothetically. In practice, your body might just attack them as foreign invaders.
# health
Anti-vaxers are vehemently opposed to a bill that would require doctors to explain how vaccines work on the basis that it would require them to leave their echo chambers and might sway parents on the fence to vaccinate.
# science
Placebos are all in the mind, but that doesn't mean they're not extremely powerful.
# health
The real reason so many alt med practitioners want to work alongside real doctors isn't to help them. It's to profitably ride their coattails.
# science
Antibiotic resistance is rising and becoming a real threat. But we still have time and methods to fight it.