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Idaho Teacher Investigated for Alleged Animal Mistreatment During Class

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Arturo Garcia
March 13, 2018 A junior high instructor was accused of feeding a puppy to a snapping turtle in front of students.
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Did Immigrants Dominate the U.S. Nobel Prize Tally in 2016 and 2017?

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Dan MacGuill
Jan. 31, 2018 Foreign-born, U.S.-based scientists and economists won a remarkable number of Nobel prizes in th ...
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Ten Things Science Did Not Say in 2017

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Alex Kasprak
Dec. 30, 2017 Science denialism, clickbait headlines, and absurd pseudoscience: Our favorite science debunking ...
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The Remarkable Sabrina Pasterski

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Dan MacGuill
Dec. 27, 2017 A viral meme about a Harvard University graduate student gets most (but not all) of the facts right.
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How Unprecedented Is President Trump's Politicization of Science?

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Alex Kasprak
Nov. 15, 2017 Political interference in science is nothing new, but experts agree that what is happening to sc ...
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White House Releases Report Contradicting Its Own Position on Climate Change

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Alex Kasprak
Nov. 3, 2017 There is no "convincing alternative explanation" for recent warming besides human activity, a co ...
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Does a New Tattoo Ink Allow People With Diabetes to Monitor Their Blood Sugar Levels?

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Dan MacGuill
June 28, 2017 A viral meme describes a promising research project at MIT and Harvard, but so far it has only b ...
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Did 58 Scientific Papers Published in 2017 Say Global Warming is a Myth?

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Alex Kasprak
June 8, 2017 An article on Breitbart News used flawed interpretations from a climate skeptic blog to amplify ...
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We May Not Be Able To Do Math Unconsciously, After All

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Megan Alpert
May 18, 2017 A study that seemed to show people can read and do math with their unconscious minds has been ca ...
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Is the Human Body Like a Battery With a Finite Amount of Energy?

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Alex Kasprak
May 18, 2017 Biographers say President Trump gave up exercise in college so as not to expend his finite energ ...
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Scott Pruitt

Trump Administration Declines to Renew Environmental Protection Agency's Science Advisor Appointments

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Alex Kasprak
May 8, 2017 The move, which is considered unusual, aims to bring more industry scientists into the EPA’s adv ...
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Controversial Study on Plastic Microbeads Retracted for Alleged Fraud

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Alex Kasprak
May 4, 2017 The authors of the study, which claimed to show that plastic microbeads used in some cosmetics c ...
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Allegedly Legitimate Journal Publishes 'Case Study' Based Entirely on a 'Seinfeld' Episode

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Alex Kasprak
April 13, 2017 The paper, which was authored by "Dr. Martin Van Nostrand" of the "Arthur Vandelay Urological Re ...
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Chair of House Science Committee Says the Journal 'Science' Is Not Objective

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Alex Kasprak
March 29, 2017 Chairman Lamar Smith dismissed commentary presented during testimony on climate change because i ...
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Plans Are Underway for a “March for Science”

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Alex Kasprak
Jan. 25, 2017 What started as offhand comments on social media have spiraled into the beginnings of a potentia ...
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Trump's Budget Director Pick Asked “Do We Really Need Government-Funded Research at All?”

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Alex Kasprak
Dec. 20, 2016 Though it has since been deleted, Mick Mulvaney did pose this question in a Facebook post in res ...
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Asteroid Flew Past Earth Just Hours After Its Discovery

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Bethania Palma
Aug. 31, 2016 The asteroid — dubbed 2016 QA2 — flew between the Earth and the moon.
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Aliens Are (Probably) Not Broadcasting a Signal from Space

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Bethania Palma
Aug. 29, 2016 A supposed signal originating from a star about 95 light years from Earth is causing excitement ...
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Clouds Over Geneva Show CERN Opening a Portal to a New Dimension?

Written by:
Bethania Palma
Aug. 23, 2016 Conspiracy theorists speculated that pictures of a storm over Switzerland were proof that the La ...
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Laminin: Evidence of Divine Creation?

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David Mikkelson
May 20, 2008 Narrative asserts the cross-like shape of the laminin molecule is evidence of God's hand in the ...
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