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
What does it take to sway an atheist? Skeptical bloggers weigh in...
# space
We're here for an exciting time, not a long time. And we should use that time doing something fun and constructive.
# politics
When humanity tries to be at its best in the wake of a tragedy, the bowels of the internet hand out megaphones to some of its worst members.
# evolution
Christina fundamentalists may want to ban evolution from schools, but Muslim fundamentalists want to kill anyone who teaches it.
# politics
Religious apologists sure do love their fantasies of how unbelievers will be tortured in the fires of Hell...
# oddities
Scientology presents itself as a religion of the future, but its former members tell the story of an abusive, criminal cult obsessed with money, power, and blackmailing its followers.
# science
Robert Lanza is back and he thinks he knows how to cheat death and create your own afterlife with some very self-absorbed woo...
# politics
Biologos just found out what happens when you take a factual stand against religious zealots instead of mewing about vague, aspirational niceties.
# tech
Ray Kurzweil is an atheist by the colloquial definition of the term. But when it comes to the spirit of the term, instead of the letter, I would hesitate to agree.
# science
Biologos openly declares that the only science they will accept is science tinged by a heavy religious bias.