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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Climate change denialists have ran out of contrarian theories so they decided to recycle an old one.
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Transgenderism and gender fluidity are complicated topics which may be why the media and political partisans are treating them with the subtlety and nuance of a runaway bulldozer.
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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.
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We have a new design for a fusion reactor that's showing great promise. We owe it to ourselves to give it a fair shot at making fusion work.
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Plague doctors have been wrongly put in the pantheon of quacks. In reality, they created the biohazard suit as we know it.
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On further review, the study claiming that the universe is expanding at a steady rate ended up independently proving accelerating expansion.
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There is a cure for Dunning Kruger according to one of its discoverers. Unfortunately, there's a risk of collateral damage when it's applied.
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Maybe a medical conference is not the best place to elevate the profiles of snake oil salespeople...
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Multilevel marketing companies (a.k.a. pyramid schemes) are good at recruiting people because they prey on the same human weaknesses as alt med woo-meisters.
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Just because we're very unlikely to hear from aliens doesn't mean we shouldn't at least try to listen.