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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Mark Regnerus’ study of homosexual parenting is rife with cherry-picking, misrepresentation, and baseless assertions. This is why he's being so harshly criticized.
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Everybody seems to want more STEM majors, scientists and highly trained engineers. But nobody seems to want to pay for them.
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Anti-GMO activism is the left's version of global warming denialism and it's just as vicious and fact-free.
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No good deed goes unpunished, including writing a science book that will get critiqued by scientists who aren't shy about getting pedantic.
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Having the public vote on what science gets funded and why to fix the issues with how grants are given out is an idea only a politician could love and would be disastrous in practice.
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There's nothing quite like creationism mixed with a heavy dose of woo in which anything you dream of can come true because quantum.
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Pseudoscience on the left may not be as dangerous or pervasive as on the right. But it's still there and still a major problem.
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A new experiment shows that the quantum world obeys causality only begrudgingly, and sometimes, not at all...
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Don't worry about retractions or bad papers being discovered by scientists trying to build on and replicate each other's work. That's exactly how science advances.
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OPERA experiment's lead investigator resigned after a scathing rebuke from his fellow scientists over the neutrino detection incident. He should've been allowed to stay.