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
Sometimes we need to let entertainment stay entertainment instead of bending over backwards trying to turn it into an educational tool.
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Driven by the need for clicks and eyeballs, media outlets are almost uniformly bad at reporting science stories without giving a platform to cranks and denialists.
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Communication between scientists and believers runs into a fundamental problem. Scientists see knowledge as impersonal. Believers don't.
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Science and skeptical blogs seem to be everywhere. Unfortunately their combined audience pales in comparison to the bully pulpits of committed cranks and anti-science activists on a mission.
# evolution
If you ever wanted to see dinosaurs fighting for their lives and see their anatomy at work, Clash of the Dinosaurs is the show for you.
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If you ask Raymond Tallis, he will start off some very valid critiques about the use of functional MRI to map the brain, and end up regurgitating creationist talking points.
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Despite what you have been told, general relativity has not yet been overturned, modified, or revolutionized.
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Since Dembski considered it beneath him to answer my design question, someone else tries to take a shot at them.
# evolution
Science writer Nicholas Wade makes the bold claim that belief in the supernatural is genetic but his reasoning and examples fail to live up to the hype.
# evolution
Of all the places to have a good faith debate about evolution, a forum hosted by a religion reporter against Ray "Banana Man" Comfort is not one.