Imagine if a close family member told you your romantic partner was a bad match for you. Not only is your loving partner being criticized, but you feel personally attacked as well. If your relative...
Not a day goes by without a video being forwarded to me accompanied by the question, 鈥淚s this true?鈥� Invariably the answer is 鈥渦m..no..there is no evidence,鈥� and that usually ends the discussion....
Sometimes a highly credentialed person steeped in the sciences has a misleading epiphany and makes a 90-degree course correction, building a large following of people who resonate with their new...
People have been asking about a video by anti-vaxxer Del Bigtree who claims that the COVID-19 vaccines have not been properly tested, made animals deathly ill in trials, and are ineffective and...
There is a man on the Internet known for satirizing wellness trends who was recently censored on YouTube for spreading unfounded conspiracy theories. JP Sears made a name for himself by gently...
鈥淚t鈥檚 not a hoax! It鈥檚 not a hoax!鈥� Dr. Moses Turkle Bility, assistant professor at the University of Pittsburgh, told me over Zoom. And I believe him.
Promising nuggets in early scientific research can quickly take hold of the public imagination and continue to spread well past their sell-by date, a lesson we are all learning the hard way during...
Astrology is a funny thing. After having put up with decades of scientific probing, it has retreated to the one area that shields it from a rational critique: mysticism. It may surprise us to learn...
It is alarming to find a popular medical doctor on the Internet who claims that appendicitis鈥攁 common inflammation of the appendix which can lead to sepsis and death鈥攊s no big deal. According to...
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