Michael and Peter discuss Climategate, the scandal that rocked the climate science world. With scientists on one side, and paid lackeys for

From the very beginning of this recent obsession with identifying everyone online (yes, they like to call it "age" verification, but it always ends up as identity verification), we've been pointing out that it was a huge privacy nightmare waiting to happen. Or maybe it wasn't waiting. Maybe it was already happening. This week a...

Chapter 2 (pp. 8–12) from The Reconstruction Papers.

My guest this week is Dr. Steve Novella, one of the founding hosts of Skeptics Guide to the Universe. We discuss the recent issue with one of the SGU cohosts making public posts of an extreme and dehu...

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Millions could die because of ideas intellectually and morally equivalent to the ‘lizard people’ conspiracy theory.

Millions could die because of ideas intellectually and morally equivalent to the ‘lizard people’ conspiracy theory.

Where does the side of the angels really lie?

To forgo any effort at protecting American democracy or the rights of its people in the name of norms is mere moral cowardice.

Ross Douthat's final column is a feat of dishonesty

Why does the owner of X get a pass for what he says and does there?

Alt: Sassy Hand Job

Meta has made significant investments in natural gas over the past year. Now it's dropping out of an industry renewable energy group.

Not anymore.

A lifesaving injection given at birth to prevent severe bleeding has become collateral damage of the anti-vaccine movement.

The higher temperatures climb, the more inflated household costs like groceries will become, economists predict.

Electoral victories by socialists around the country show that the Democratic establishment is weak and can be overthrown.

Starmer did not "do nothing": he made the country radically more regressive. No wonder he fell.

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It’s all about them.

Roughly 58 million Americans do not affirm belief in any god or universal spirit. Americans can agree on a great many things, but we have never agreed on religion.