“Police thought they could read her mind just by listening.” It’s a chilling statement in reporter Brett Murphy’s ProPublica coverage and it sums up the pseudoscience of 911 call analysis. One of...
“We are pledging to assist those Americans who are impacted by this disaster by offering free medical care.” 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—not an unreasonable worry, given that assassins at the time were adept at...
Do you know your best friend’s phone number? In the 1990s, I had my best friend’s phone number memorized, and I’m 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....
“You don’t even know what a binder is when you’re doing a parasite cleanse. I came from Western medicine and I didn’t know what a binder was! We didn’t use those!” So says Kim Rogers, who proclaims...
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