Wakefield may have lost his medical license and is no longer able to call himself a doctor, but his damage to public health has been done and will continue.

Would aliens actually want to build a Dyson Sphere? It wouldn't be out of reach for them, but they might get a lot less power out of it, with a lot less utility than it seems at first glance...

Michael Fitzpatrick's bold new idea for combatting denialism and attacks on scientific fact: pretend denialists always argue in good faith and don't call them out on their denialism.

The first synthetically designed life form has been created in a proof of concept that shows how much we now understand about the fundamentals of microbial life.

Computers that can tell when someone isn't being genuine or mocking them, that's exactly what we wanted...

When it comes to science denial and illiteracy, the media is one of the biggest source of bad information and misleading opinions.

If Giberson is the best Templeton's expensive finishing school can do in defending creationism, they should ask for their money back.

Texas congressman sabotages funding for science and education in a move so low, it should literally nauseate you.

Mike Adams thinks he might have found an Illuminati symbol on Saturn. But not really. But totally yes. But maybe not. But maybe.

Way back when this blog was just getting started, I decided to include an odd and neat little image I once found making the rounds on the web in a post on Jim Marrs' latest conspiracy potboiler. That graphic was a piece of concept art for an alt history

Being told more people believed something makes you more likely to believe it too, even if science says the exact opposite.

The "health freedom" movement has nothing to do with giving you more options because the freedom is from all those pesky safety regulations and scientific studies.

Despite what you may have heard, Voyager 2 remains very much under human, not alien, control.

Could babies show future robots the proper way to interact with other humans?

Climate change deniers seem to hold on to a long discredited Russian hypothesis that oil comes from the mantle, not from dead living things decomposing under immense pressure.