Huffington Post is right up there with Psychology Today in its willingness to post absolute nonsensical woo. But they seemed to have been trying to get better (HuffPo, that is. Psych Today, whatever), even going so far as to create an actual science section.It has to be science in a science section, right? Well, no. If you get some humanities pseudoscience crank...
read moreHuffington Post is right up there with Psychology Today in its willingness to post absolute nonsensical woo. But they seemed to have been trying to get better (HuffPo, that is. Psych Today, whatever), even going so far as to create an actual science section.It has to be science in a science section, right? Well, no. If you get some humanities pseudoscience crank...
read moreDo you use sunscreen? If not, you aren't as crazy as those anti-science hippies who are trying to give their kids smallpox or starve poor nations, but you are not exactly up on the literature of the last 30 years either.However, you may be no worse off, especially if you are a woman who might like to keep her uterus working. The uterus - that special place where a baby grows(1) when a woman...
read moreWait, a study claims drinking alcohol makes you less likely to throw cultural caution to the wind and spend stupidly? Does. Not. Compute.Unless it's social psychology, but even then no one is believing it unless they are one of the people writing about how screwed up Republicans are, i.e., need some new framework for the confirmation bias of their audience. read...
read moreA lower appeals court ruling allowing human genes to be patented has been overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court, which sends the case back down for a continuation of the battle between those who believe that genes carrying the secrets of life should not be exploited for commercial gain and companies who argue that a patent must be the reward for years of expensive research that moves science...
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