# health
How far should we go to help people who refuse to help themselves? Or worse yet, whose parents refuse treatment we know will keep them alive?
# health
Anti-vaxxers are absolutely certain that vaccines are evil and they're prepared to move any goal post to justify that belief.
# health
Researchers call for a more rigorous and detailed protocol in final stage drug trials after reviewing the real world efficacy of anti-depressants.
# science
Dinosaurs were wiped out by a huge asteroid, right? But what if it wasn't the final blow? Or not the only trigger for a mass extinction?
# science
Are we about to see another short ice age as solar activity plummets?
# health
It seems bizarre, but the longer a patient using alternative medicine is sick, the more converts the alternative treatments win.
# science
In a universe where everything is made of chemicals, "natural" is just a buzzword used to make a bigger profit.
# education
Yet more shenanigans from the Texas School Board of Education, this time about the age of the universe and the basics of cosmology.
# politics
GOP congressman Mike Pence managed to perform a rare feat: an interview about science and environment in which every statement was completely wrong.
# science
BioLogos is determined to bridge the divides between science and religion by... well, avoiding any topic of substance.
# astrobiology
Based on the premise of SETI, if we do start talking to aliens, the ensuing conversation could get awkward very quickly...
# health
Unhinged anti-vaccination activism is starting to amass a body count as children are stating to suffer and die from preventable diseases.
# education
Texas is on a rampage against factual science education. Unfortunately, the state influences the contents of science textbooks across the nation...
# science
Africa is the cradle of humanity, which is why it's the most exciting place to study the early days of modern human evolution.
