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.
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Elevatorgate was an incident worth talking about and what it means for the future of skeptical conferences. Watson turned it into a personal brand instead.
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In an effort to cater to religious fundamentalists in its ranks, the Israeli Defense Force is letting religious sexism compromise battle readiness.
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Dinesh D'Souza, the kind of offensive and intellectually lazy statements has somehow gotten even lazier and more offensive.
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With trolls running people offline and blog feuds reaching a fever pitch, the skeptical blogosphere is spiraling out of control.
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Betting on tax cuts to boost the economy in the age of automation and outsourcing doesn't make sense. Yet the GOP holds on to voodoo economics with religious zeal.
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Celebrity-driven organized skepticism is becoming a loud, partisan, and political disaster.
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Christian zealots in Missouri vote to create a right they've always had just to sneak in a way to stop teaching their kids about evolution, sex, and cosmology.
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Carbon taxes may prompt companies and people to switch to cleaner. But incentives, rather than punishments, may be a better approach.
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Two afflictions shared by a majority of the public are dragging down our advancements as a civilization and a species.
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Pundits are hailing Pat Robertson's hateful tirade against atheists after an attack on a Sikh temple as a step forward in inter-faith relations. That's both telling and disturbing.