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
Clickbait punditry is selling a story about a study into male birth control whose participants wimped out. But that's not at all what happened...
# politics
When you spend your days fear-mongering and creating imaginary existential threats, is it any wonder if violence breaks out as a consequence?
# science
Hyperventilating right wing conspiracy theories about climate science have inspired their less stable listeners to send a constant barrage of death threats and hate mail to climatologists.
# evolution
Deepak Chopra's fluffy quantum creationist woo has a new imitator and he's ready to disappoint readers with a buzzword salad of an essay.
# science
Dennis Sewell is back, and this time with an entire book lazily recycling the worst and most thoroughly debunked arguments against evolution and Darwin's work and impact on science.
# evolution
British pundit Dennis Sewell is back to blame all the evils of the modern world on the discovery of gradual genetic change in living organisms.
# evolution
Dinesh D’Souza's exploration of evidence for the afterlife is a feat of intellectual laziness and incuriosity.
# politics
Bill Donohue, a fire and brimstone polemicist with morals considered barbaric by 15th century standards, mouths off on Christians' duty to outbreed the secular and educated.
# science
According to an anti-science demagogue, teaching evolution and being an atheist is banned by law.
# tech
A new study tried to link Facebook use to a decline in academic performance and Time goes overboard with its conclusions.