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.
# oddities
Australian anti-vaccine activists are joining forces with a man who thinks that shape-shifting alien reptoids secretly run the world.
# politics
The American healthcare system is best compared to a sophisticated machine with many moving. A badly maintained Rube Goldberg to be more exact.
# health
Mitchell and Webb show us what a homeopathic ER would actually look like in practice.
# health
When we reject centuries of medical science and research, we're effectively going back and time to make ailments we tamed into life-threatening afflictions once again.
# science
While you probably shouldn't over-indulge in sugary beverages anyway, going overboard on soda might be especially bad for you...
# health
Don't expect your insurance company to cover homeopathic remedies anytime soon.
# 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?
# health
Anti-vaxxers are absolutely certain that vaccines are evil and they're prepared to move any goal post to justify that belief.
# health
Researchers call for a more rigorous and detailed protocol in final stage drug trials after reviewing the real world efficacy of anti-depressants.
# health
It seems bizarre, but the longer a patient using alternative medicine is sick, the more converts the alternative treatments win.