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
Dr. William Craig is billed as a source of fresh, new commentary on science and religion. His work miserably fails to live up to the hype.
# politics
How do you cover a schism that doesn't actually exist? You whip one up from cherry-picked quotes and use them to stir up a tempest in a teacup.
# oddities
A theologian claims that the God of the Old Testament is just one deity who separated us from writhing, shapeless monsters. Don't expect his colleagues or mainstream believers to care much about his treatise.
# science
Questions like "do you believe in evolution" fundamentally misunderstand what science is and how it works.
# science
Chris Mooney is still running in circles, even after extensive feedback about his latest string of deeply flawed commentary.
# science
Everyone's least favorite science communicator, Chris Mooney, is once again trying to warp reality to fit his narrative.
# science
The AAI chose to ride the fame of an atheist anti-vaccine and alt med crank instead of awarding someone who actually advances science and skepticism.
# politics
Humanity's history of using torture and carving out exceptions for harming other humans into submission proves that our morality is not consistent.
# politics
Religious commentators are trying to soothe scared believers that atheism is just a fad. In reality, skepticism of organized religion is quickly growing.
# science
Like a dog trying to mark every tree, the Templeton Foundation is trying to mark every scientific breakthrough as being motivated entirely by religion.