鈥淧olice thought they could read her mind just by listening.鈥� It鈥檚 a chilling statement in reporter Brett Murphy鈥檚 ProPublica coverage and it sums up the pseudoscience of 911 call analysis. One of...
鈥淲e are pledging to assist those Americans who are impacted by this disaster by offering free medical care.鈥� On its own, a statement of solidarity and benevolence. But given who released the...
Mithridates VI ruled the ancient Asian kingdom of Pontus in the first century. The king was terrified of being poisoned鈥攏ot an unreasonable worry, given that assassins at the time were adept at...
Do you know your best friend鈥檚 phone number? In the 1990s, I had my best friend鈥檚 phone number memorized, and I鈥檓 pretty sure I remembered it just now after thinking about it for a minute. But the...
We love putting names to things, especially if those names are scientific. Just look at the variety of phenomena people love to refer to as the Dunning-Kruger effect: the idea that other people ...
I often feel like there is a production line somewhere (possibly Florida) where anti-vaccine propaganda documentaries are quickly assembled and released on social media to garner millions of views....
A healthy skepticism in the face of the marketing fanfare is always a good way to protect ourselves from getting conned, even when the latest product getting hyped looks fairly scientific....
鈥淵ou don鈥檛 even know what a binder is when you鈥檙e doing a parasite cleanse. I came from Western medicine and I didn鈥檛 know what a binder was! We didn鈥檛 use those!鈥� So says Kim Rogers, who proclaims...
You could call it The One True Cause of All Diseases Club. Admission is based on whether or not you have a mustache and are willing to twirl it a lot. A volcano lair and a love for petting white...
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