A New Book Explains How the Christian Right Has Gotten Selective Denial Down to a Science
Author Antony Alumkal answers RD’s 10 Questions
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It’s the Water! And Other Lowlights from Presidential Science Debate
Jill Stein has gotten savvier on vaccines.
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Fascinating History of Search for “Lost White Tribe” Sheds Light on Construction of Race
Speaking broadly, white supremacist ideas rest on two premises. One is about power. The other…
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Has Science Proven that Deepak Chopra is Bullshit?
An illustrated guide.
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Citizen Speech in an Age of Data: Or, Why I’m Transcribing My Tweets Into Cuneiform
Social media has made possible a new global distribution of cognitive ephemera. We are tweeting 6,000…
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Why Scientists Should Be Agnostic: Or, Why Lawrence Krauss Is Still a Windbag
A few months ago, one of us (okay, Andrew), referred to the esteemed physicist and…
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Sing the Glory of the Smoke: The Spiritual History of Jazz
A Q&A with Jason C. Bivins
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Could a Real Life Jurassic Park Help with Climate Change?
In the storerooms of the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History, in Connecticut, there’s a…
Read MoreWill the new Jurassic Park movie be an anti-GMO adventure?
The only thing scarier than a rampaging mega-dinosauar is a rampaging mega-dinosaur that’s also a…
Read MoreChocolate Will Make You Thin! Or: How Should We Trust Science?
How are we to approach science in the wake of recent scandals?
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