Chris Mooney is back with another rendition of the Unscientific America debacle to cement his status as the human version of a broken record.

Despite the gloom and doom you see on the news, we're actually making huge strides in improving medicine and have a pretty good handle on what the media insists are crises.

John Horgan is on the warpath against Craig Venter because... the media prominently covered Venter's latest breakthrough with synthetic life?

When it comes to science denial and illiteracy, the media is one of the biggest source of bad information and misleading opinions.

Alien hunting is a long, complicated, and arduous process. Pop sci news coverage wants to make it sound fast paced and exciting, even if editors have to sell the same stories again and again.

Still not grasping the impact of anti-vaccination activists, the media is treating them as bold, outspoken advocates for a different view, not the public health menaces they are.

Driven by the need for clicks and eyeballs, media outlets are almost uniformly bad at reporting science stories without giving a platform to cranks and denialists.

A disturbing new trend is invading American discourse: toxic, weaponized positivity and optimism.

Science and skeptical blogs seem to be everywhere. Unfortunately their combined audience pales in comparison to the bully pulpits of committed cranks and anti-science activists on a mission.

If you're a divisive, scientifically illiterate crank whose only talents are to start fights and attract attention, you've been living your best decade.

Politicians are not waiting for the science when it comes to the possible dangers of cell phones and legislating based on slim to nonexistent evidence.

Bill Donohue, a fire and brimstone polemicist with morals considered barbaric by 15th century standards, mouths off on Christians' duty to outbreed the secular and educated.

Creationists believe that the scientific conclusions about Ida the fossil are a death blow to evolution. In reality, they're just attacking the much ridiculed hype generated by its discoverer.

How do you cover a schism that doesn't actually exist? You whip one up from cherry-picked quotes and use them to stir up a tempest in a teacup.

When reporters already know what story they're going to write, your research becomes nothing more than bastardized fodder.