Seminal astrophysicist Carl Sagan explains why uncomfortable ideas may be banned in religion, they must not be shunned in science. This is an important concept in American life today, as conspiracy theorists are convinced that climate change denial cannot be …
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To the author of the meme here (if it’s an actual human being, vs. a Russian bot): to the best of my knowledge, the only actual major “scientific fraud” in world history was “Piltdown Man.” In 1912, a pseudo-anthropologist attempted …
As the U.S. crawls further into the woods of anti-vaxxers and other conspiracy theorists, everyone living here encounters a variety of threats.
My only problem with this is the U.S. Constitution, which clearly lays out the laws by which our elections will be conducted, i.e., it’s up to each of the 50 states to make and implement their own procedures. Obviously, conspiracy …
As shown at left, scientists are under no obligation to respond to idiots.
We’ve all seen the comments of the QAnon-style conspiracy theorists like the fellow at the left. Are there powerful and rich people, perhaps Bill Gates among them, who are trying to enslave us? Here are the remarks of a reader …
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Quite a few of the people I grew up with in the suburbs of Philadelphia have turned out to be Trump supporters and conspiracy theorists; the meme here came from one of them. I understand that there are distortions in …
Going into the 2016 presidential election, Hillary Clinton made a huge political mistake by referring to Trump supporters as “deplorables.” Thinking something and saying it on camera are two different things. Yet, as the late Leonard Cohen points out here, …
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Reader A: (Given how Biden stole the presidency) How on Earth can we ever trust the election process again? Reader B: We have to fix it. WE. You and I and others. We the people for whom this country was …
Well, these may have been sage words when they were written in the late 15th Century. But that was more the 500 years before tens of millions of conspiracy theorists decided that our media, our medical institutions, and the governments …
