According to the Center For Inquiry, science teachers can't tell students the Earth is not 6,000 years old and life as we know it evolved through natural selection and mutations.

Partisan tribalism is so toxic, it can indirectly influence people to vote against their best interests just to make a statement.

Emboldened by chiropractors suing Simon Singh, anti-vaccine activists are coming after critics and scientists with frivolous but expensive libel claims.

Fundamentalist Christian zealots are holding prayer meetings to block... uh... expanded healthcare for their fellow Americans?

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.

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?

Evolutionarily speaking, ethics and morality before we even had a written language made humans the species we are today.