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
As a loud and proud New Agnostic, Ron Rosenbaum doesn't just not know how the universe came to be, he doesn't want to know what we've found out so far.
# politics
While faitheists and accommodationists urge atheists to be nice to religious zealots, the most fervent believers feel no need to treat atheists and other faithful as human, much less worthy of respect.
# science
Answers In Genesis tries to debate the divine origins of logic as if it was a law of physics with the most illogical drivel they could muster.
# oddities
A satirical customer complaint about prayer shines a light on the problem with telling people you can speak to a deity able to grant your desires in return for obedience and reverence.
# oddities
The modern world needs blasphemy not just as abstract right, but being actively exercised when the occasion calls for it.
# science
If Giberson is the best Templeton's expensive finishing school can do in defending creationism, they should ask for their money back.
# politics
The Discovery Institute thinks it has JPL dead to rights for demoting a vocal creationist. But the case is a little more complicated than that...
# politics
The Catholic Church has a thousand year old history of various sexual abuses they successfully kept from the law. Their recent scandals merely reveal how they've always operated.
# science
The results of the biannual scientific literacy survey conducted by the National Science Foundation are so embarrassing, the organization felt the need to censor some of the results.
# science
Ayala shows us that the accommodationist ruse only works as long as no one can pin down your concrete views on where belief ends and science begins.