# oddities
How to argue like a creationist in one easy, dishonest, and willfully ignorant step.
# tech
Defense contractors are trying to turn the internet into an arena for state-sponsored espionage of dubious efficacy and legality.
# space
Mars isn't a hostile desert because its cold and has a barely-there atmosphere. It's because killer UV rays are constantly sterilizing its surface.
# oddities
A group of religious zealots was ready to quite literally go to war with the unbelievers in Amarillo, Texas.
# science
Famed physicist Roger Penrose and an Arizona doctor are claiming that our brains are quantum computer in a white paper that will surely be seized by the woo faithful as proof of "quantum consciousness."
# oddities
It's rare you get to talk to a mastermind with plans to rule the world so it's hard not to jump at the chance to interview one.
# science
Chris Mooney has effectively allowed the Templeton Foundation to bribe him not to write anything negative about religious zealotry or over-reach.
# health
Still not grasping the impact of anti-vaccination activists, the media is treating them as bold, outspoken advocates for a different view, not the public health menaces they are.
# evolution
The Discovery Institute and its merry band of pseudoscientists seem to believe they can overturn the science of evolution by filibustering courts with meaningless buzzwords.
# oddities
Futurama might have an unorthodox but workable solution to solving the woes of global warming. Minus the flaming robot farts, of course.
# evolution
Jerry Fodor and Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini wrote a book about evolution riddled with mistakes called out by biologists. Now they're pretending their critics are faceless nobodies with suspect credentials.
# science
Global warming deniers demonstrate that a little bit of knowledge mixed with lots of willful obfuscation is a very dangerous and unreasonable thing.
# science
Creationists attack evolution with a hydra of bad faith arguments and logical fallacies. Trying to counter them using the bandwagon fallacy is only playing into their hands.
# oddities
Did biblical tests predict guided missiles? Sure, if you didn't actually read the passage in which you claim they appeared, much less its context...
# education
Higher education in America is turning into a credentialing arms race and leading students to ask if the debt and effort are really worth it in the end.
