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.
# sex
Fresh off a child molestation scandal, the Pope is trying to dictate Span's sex ed curriculums.
# politics
The latest scholarly take on atheism from Conservapedia: "hur hur, u r fat..."
# tech
When you start with a deeply flawed premise and advance a deeply flawed argument, you'll come to a deeply flawed conclusion.
# oddities
Weird Things is making a list and checking it twice, going to find out who's been undermining public health, science, and education...
# evolution
Argument from a persecution complex is not a persuasive way to defend creationism. Or anything, for that matter...
# science
A brief survey of the six kinds of people actively ruining science for the rest of us.
# evolution
The man who spent his career dismissing evolution as a faith which scientists were bullied into following is now being threatened by his bosses for disagreeing with young Earth creationism.
# evolution
Far too many commentators are way too eager to explain to scientists and science writers why creationism is still a thing. It would be nice if their explanations were actually rooted in the real world.
# science
According to the finest minds Templeton could assembly, science is for lazy chumps. Aesthetics and theology is where all the hard work really is.
# science
Templeton fellows keep making grand speeches promising to connect faith and science and failing miserably.