If your code can result in people being sent to jail for decades, if not death row, that code should be open source and subject to review. The courts don't seem to understand that yet.

A poll of New Jersey residents shows a very disturbing trend in politics: a steep rise in conspiracy theories substituting for news and facts in potential voters' minds.

Anecdotal evidence is the most error-prone form of evidence there is. And when combined with junk science, it has cost innocent people their lives.

The Texan Institute For Creation Research is still dead set on issuing an M.S. in creationism, and they have 80 pages of (nonsensical) reasons why.

How do we know what happened billions of years ago in distant galaxies? Because physics only lets us see the past.

Why is reconciling science and religion so difficult? Because at their core, they're about two completely different, and opposite, things.

Making a persuasive conspiracy theory is a skill. Here's how to learn it.