#media
# politics
When anything done in good faith and boring competence always get a negative spin, why bother trying to help or inform anyone?
# education
Today's media is addicted to contrarian takes on everything. And those takes are almost always just attention-grabbing clickbait.
# health
Joe Rogan and other prominent anti-science mouthpieces are now trying to pull off an old conspiracy theory Jedi mind trick when discussing the pandemic.
# science
When science, the media, and short-sighted metrics meet, the end result is often long on flash and short on facts.
# longform
I tried writing about politics for a year and a half. My experience was eye-opening in the worst possible ways...
# science
Scientists search for truth, not "balance" to appease partisans who already hate them anyway. If they get involved in politics, they shouldn't change their attitudes.
# tech
If you thought fake news were bad, welcome to the hell that is fake fact checking.
# oddities
Alex Jones' deepest, darkest fear isn't reptilian aliens. It's experts and wonks with who cramp his and his fans' style.
# tech
The start of a new experiment for a new era of blogging.
# tech
Amazon is not a nice or fun place to work, even if you're one of its supposedly vaunted techies. But it's not like we expect any better from a company that big.
# astrobiology
Nick Redfern's publishers really didn't like having his theory debunked...
# science
Skeptico might sound like a skeptical blog, but as demonstrated by its approach to a profile of Dr. Eben Alexander, it's anything but.
# space
Newsweek covers a conspiracy theory that seemed created solely for the sake of creating a conspiracy.
# science
The three constants of life seem to be death, taxes, and Chandra Wickramasinghe claiming space agencies are hiding proof of alien life.
# sex
American seniors are convinced that millennial life is just an orgy of constant casual sex. But research into the matter shows absolutely no evidence of this.
