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
Administrators are drowning in papers and statistics, but they're still incentivizing scientists to keep producing a tsunami of marginally useful papers.
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When it's getting harder and harder to make truly profound, world-changing discoveries, we have to double down on skepticism to make sure we don't lead ourselves astray.
# science
Scientists and engineers don't turn into cranks overnight. It's a process that usually starts by not knowing when to cut one's losses...
# science
Revisiting the "if you believe in science, you're doing it wrong" debate with an epistemological bent.
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At what point do considering the limits of our knowledge and different ways of understanding turn into pointless navel-gazing?
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Being told more people believed something makes you more likely to believe it too, even if science says the exact opposite.
# politics
Templeton sends a not so subtle signal to the National Academy of Sciences that they intend to keep spreading their tentacles deeper and deeper into all public discourse about science.
# science
Creationists attack evolution with a hydra of bad faith arguments and logical fallacies. Trying to counter them using the bandwagon fallacy is only playing into their hands.
# science
Today's cranks are more publicity savvy and sophisticated then ever, which is one of the biggest reasons not to hold back when confronting their nonsense.
# evolution
A few questions for the Great Creationist Information Theory Wizard William Albert Dembski about the design of the human body and genome.