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
Chris Mooney and Sheril Kirshenbaum wanted at least some positive feedback on their book. Instead, they started a feud.
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Chris Mooney and Sheril Kirshenbaum blame scientists for public scientific illiteracy. The case study serving as exhibit one? Pluto's demotion from planethood.
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Texas' new potential chair of the Board of Education will make you long for the good old days of anti-evolution dentist Don McLeroy.
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What do we mean by breaking the laws of physics? And what happens if we do?
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All too often people confuse a debate out of pity or common courtesy for equal standing. And all too often, cranks are happy to take advantage of that perception.
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How people use the word "theory" when it comes to science shows how badly we teach them about the scientific method.
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Weird Things talks to the Texas Freedom Network about keeping science in science class despite the state's best efforts to gut it.
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Texas finally had enough of Don McLeroy's leadership of the school board. But he's still on the board and still a threat to reality-based education.
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Yet more shenanigans from the Texas School Board of Education, this time about the age of the universe and the basics of cosmology.
# politics
GOP congressman Mike Pence managed to perform a rare feat: an interview about science and environment in which every statement was completely wrong.