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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Yes, the rumors are true, Conservapedia, the right wing anti-Wikipedia, thinks relativity is a liberal plot to indoctrinate new atheists.
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Scientists and engineers don't turn into cranks overnight. It's a process that usually starts by not knowing when to cut one's losses...
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NYT’s Virginia Heffernan seems shocked and appalled that popular science blogs aren't dry, purely academic exercises in summarizing scientific papers.
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Good regulation is based on facts and peer-reviewed studies, not scaremongering and chemophobia.
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Here's to hoping that the Discovery Channel does right by Phil Plait's show...
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Quantum time travel experiments hint that physics creates closed time loops, meaning you can't change history.
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The magazine is allowing an angry crank with a vendetta against an editor to dictate what stories it will publish and pull.
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In response to a lengthy presentation debunking his claims, Christopher Monckton did the only thing he knows how to do: throw a massive tantrum.
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Things are not looking good for ScienceBlogs as the aftermath of the Sodageddon propels more of its writers to escape velocity...
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Revisiting the "if you believe in science, you're doing it wrong" debate with an epistemological bent.