# science
If Giberson is the best Templeton's expensive finishing school can do in defending creationism, they should ask for their money back.
# education
Texas congressman sabotages funding for science and education in a move so low, it should literally nauseate you.
# oddities
Mike Adams thinks he might have found an Illuminati symbol on Saturn. But not really. But totally yes. But maybe not. But maybe.
# oddities
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
# science
Being told more people believed something makes you more likely to believe it too, even if science says the exact opposite.
# health
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.
# oddities
Despite what you may have heard, Voyager 2 remains very much under human, not alien, control.
# tech
Could babies show future robots the proper way to interact with other humans?
# science
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.
# science
Years of studies show that humans may be born with an innate understanding of good and bad, and prefer being nice to others.
# sex
Despite decades of experiments and mountains of evidence, there are still activists who refuse to believe HIV causes AIDS. And they have blood on their hands.
# sex
The man who spread the gospel of "praying away the gay" and gay men spreading AIDS where-ever they go was caught hiring a gay escort for his vacation.
# science
In an ironic turn of events, accommodationist Massimo Pigliucci gets lambasted for being offensive to believers for writing a book about separating junk science and belief from fact.
# science
Despite dangling a million dollar prize, with updated bank statements that it's legit, for a demonstration of a supernatural ability, James Randi has very few takers.
# sex
Wealthier, more confident women are, surprisingly to many men, paying for sex with professionals.