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.
# tech
Once associated with lefty politics, hipsters, and hippies, wellness influencers and their audiences are taking a sudden right wing turn, and social media may be to blame.
# science
An Indian science conference espoused the superiority of Hindu religion and legends over actual facts and history. And it’s just a small part of an alarming and accelerating trend...
# evolution
Forget millions of years of evolution and key mutations. Humans apparently owe their existence magic mushrooms from another dimension.
# science
You can answer a homeopath's question but you can't make him read it or understand why he was wrong.
# science
Bottled water, now marked up beyond any reason and sold with meaningless quantum technobabble.
# education
Tim Minchin's skeptical beat poem finally gets the animated treatment it deserves.
# health
The real reason so many alt med practitioners want to work alongside real doctors isn't to help them. It's to profitably ride their coattails.
# space
A viral social media post claims that life on Earth is far more fragile than it actually is.
# science
There's no pseudoscience or conspiracy Mike Adams isn't willing to defend. His latest cause? Astrology.
# science
Dr. Robert Lanza thinks he's discovered the secret of immortality and it's something very quantum and involving rebooting time loops...