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She blinded me with science!
Aug 3rd, 2017 NASA has announced a job opening for a planetary protection officer, but viral news reports take significant liberties when describing the nature of the job.
Aug 1st, 2017 The reason the web site that originally made this claim cites zero sources is likely due to the fact that there is a complete lack of factual information to support it.
Aug 1st, 2017 Dubious web sites generously provided the Internet with textbook examples of both cherry-picked data and the shameless conflation of weather with climate.
Jul 30th, 2017 Although this claim is based on official testimony from a pathologist during an inquiry into a mysterious death, scientific evidence makes such an explanation problematic, if not completely untenable.
Jul 26th, 2017 A computer-generated visualization of a kinesin protein has been circulating on the internet for years affixed with descriptions that convey varying levels of inaccuracy.
Jul 14th, 2017 A blog post, even if you like it and it is presented in downloadable PDF form, is not a peer-reviewed study.
Jul 3rd, 2017 An imprecise test that appeared to show Starbucks drinks were contaminated prompted internet hysteria and widespread baseless claims.
Jun 28th, 2017 A viral meme describes a promising research project at MIT and Harvard, but so far it has only been tested on the skin of a dead pig.
Jun 26th, 2017 This claim, like the microchimerism the viral article responsible for it purports to describe, is an incongruous mixture of information whose ultimate purpose remains unclear.
Updated The fact that there is no such thing as vitamin B17 is among the least problematic elements of the myth that it can help remedy cancer.
Jun 21st, 2017 The purported discovery is backed by individuals with a history of making false, pseudoscientific claims.
Jun 8th, 2017 An article on Breitbart News used flawed interpretations from a climate skeptic blog to amplify a grossly inaccurate understanding of climatological research.
Updated Comments by Weather Channel co-founder John Coleman supposedly refute global warming. Are his remarks an accurate analysis of climate change?
May 30th, 2017 This factoid has been repeated so often it might as well be true, but "research" on which it is based is a press release for a travel agency with remarkably comprehensive health insurance coverage.
May 24th, 2017 This claim has been around for years and makes no scientific sense whatsoever.
May 23rd, 2017 Although melting permafrost did cause flooding in the access tunnel to the vault, the vault itself was not breached and the seeds were not threatened or harmed.
Updated A newspaper article warning that climate change was melting Arctic ice and disrupting wildlife was published nearly a century ago.
Updated Sensationalist stories about how cooking with aluminum foil could spur the onset of Alzheimer's rely on a number of untested assumptions that sometimes strain credulity.
