# health
Australian health watchdogs give the country's most rabid anti-vaxers a scathing rebuke, but doesn't go beyond giving them a slap on the wrist.
# science
Alt med skeptic David Colquhoun warns professional bloggers that money will taint their coverage, vastly estimating how much blogging pays.
# astrobiology
Ancient astronaut theory is basically creationism for people who don't believe in the supernatural, as Lloyd Pye demonstrates.
# science
Protons might be a little smaller than we thought, and that means we may need to rewrite a lot of the rules we thought we understood about the quantum world.
# science
Pepsi's presence on ScienceBlogs caused an extreme overreaction and revealed a major lack of foresight, but that doesn't mean it was a good idea in the first place.
# science
Can we recreate life on Earth after a mass extinction? And if we could, do we really want to?
# politics
Turns out that one of the stories Chris Mooney used to build his case against angry atheists ruining science education for everyone was created out of thin air by a fabulist.
# science
Pepsi's venture into ScienceBlogs has been a rare slow-motion train wreck, from the internecine blog wars to waves of bloggers heading for the exits.
# science
Hyperventilating right wing conspiracy theories about climate science have inspired their less stable listeners to send a constant barrage of death threats and hate mail to climatologists.
# science
A group of scientists seems convinced that humans have no free will solely because everything we do can be explained in the language of chemical and electrical signals.
# evolution
Contrary to what you may have heard, humans are still very much evolving and natural selection plays a huge role in two recently discovered helpful mutations.
# astrobiology
Another entry in the quickly growing HuffPo library of woo shows that all creationism is basically the same in the end.
# politics
In sparing the feeling of religious zealots and ardent believers of junk science, we've done ourselves no favors.
# oddities
For some inexplicable reason, Nature decided to publish a paranoid parable about tyrannical New Atheists lobotomizing Christians into depression and loneliness.
# tech
Predictions are difficult, especially about the future. But what futurist ideas seem to be on the right track and more likely to happen than not?
