# politics
For appearance of factual correctness, insult both sides of argument regardless of facts, rinse, repeat, sell book.
# astrobiology
It's not completely impossible that you could have some alien DNA. But the odds are literally astronomical.
# science
Step one: paint all scientists as completely un-relatable weirdos. Step two: wonder why so few kids want to grow up to be scientists.
# tech
Stuxnet is scary, but we don't yet have clear evidence that it was the first cyber attack by a nation state.
# politics
Germans are rallying against keeping their nuclear power plants open solely out of fear whipped up by environmental activists.
# politics
Today, extreme poverty is not an issue of insufficient resources, but of politics and allocation. And that makes it much harder to address.
# tech
The robots who may assist us and take care of our basic needs in the future don't have to be humanoid to be useful. It may even be better if they're not.
# space
GJ 436b has some interesting chemistry, but it's not rewriting astronomy and chemistry books, nor is it a huge surprise to scientists.
# politics
According to the pope, his senior advisers, and ardent supporters, the Catholic Church molests kids because... atheists were literally Nazis?
# space
While many physicists are trying to dive deeper and deeper into the complexities of space and time, others are looking for a much simpler explanation of the universe's mysteries.
# space
There's here, they're loud, and they somehow missed the last 600 years of science...
# science
The bigger the crime, the less inclined we seem to emphasize with each victim.
# sex
Facebook, Twitter, and other gated online platforms are not coming for your porn. It's too lucrative to censor off the web.
# science
Antibiotic resistance is rising and becoming a real threat. But we still have time and methods to fight it.
# health
Instead of helping Africans combat the spread of AIDS, the Catholic Church keeps pouring gasoline on the fire.
