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.
# oddities
What do 9/11 Truther rants have to do with selling supplements? Actually, a lot more than you might think...
# health
Alt med practitioners decided that the one of world's simplest and most famous formulas is their friend because they clearly don't understand it.
# health
A disturbing new trend is invading American discourse: toxic, weaponized positivity and optimism.
# science
Deepak Chopra proudly accepts his title as King of Woo and goes on a spittle flecked tirade against his critics.
# science
A little gift guide for your favorite cranks, quacks, snake oil salespeople, creationists, and pseudoscientists this holiday season.
# science
If skeptical and science bloggers don't have anything nice to say, we shouldn't have to say anything nice.
# science
Deepak Chopra is out to disprove evolution using biocentrism, a meaningless collection of woo buzzwords he and his like-minded friends concocted out of nothing.
# science
Science is full of technical jargon and words with multiple, context-dependent meanings. And purveyors of woo and snake oil are happy to abuse this to line their wallets.
# science
Three internet cranks manage to achieve a truly impressive feat of meaningless numerology. We'll dissect it just for the hell of it.
# science
The King of New Age Woo, Deepak Chopra, goes on the warpath against his many critics.