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.
# podcast
This one is for every scientist and science writer who've been told that something is "just a theory" in response to an article.
# science
We've made it easy and virtually consequence-free to be ignorant of history and science. Now we're paying the price for coddling intellectual sloth.
# science
Plague doctors have been wrongly put in the pantheon of quacks. In reality, they created the biohazard suit as we know it.
# politics
A thorough study of prison records spanning 15 years shows that recidivism is actually a lot lower than the numbers commonly cited in the media.
# science
Don't worry about retractions or bad papers being discovered by scientists trying to build on and replicate each other's work. That's exactly how science advances.
# politics
Michael Ruse once again shows us why accommodationists don't understand science and how it works, and don't want to understand it.
# science
A viral theory-of-everything manifesto is raising eyebrows of scientists and pop sci writers with one questions: how could it get published in a peer-reviewed journal?
# science
Science doesn't move at the speed of headlines. It moves at whatever speed scientists can discover and confirm something new.
# evolution
Rehashing the same old talking points while framing them as questions does not make them better or more correct.
# 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.