Mailbag: But Some Scientists Disagree!!!11
False balance inflates the importance of a few mavericks and dismisses independently converging evidence.
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How Mainstream Media Contributed to the Misinformation Wars
False balance, sensationalizing preliminary research, indulging quackery and clickbait created a fertile ground.
Read MoreEntertaining the Denialism of Yet Another Anti-Psychiatry Troll
Out of all the pseudoscience that are criticized on this website — from creationism and the anti-vaccine movement to anti-GM
Read MoreThere is No “Spanking Debate”
An excellent article by journalist Lisa Belkin was posted over at Huffington Post a few days ago called Why Does
Read MoreMy Encounter with a Holocaust Denier
While I have spent many hours debating Holocaust deniers and the anti-immigration forces online at various blogs and forums, nothing
Read MoreCommon Denialist Tactics Defined and Destroyed
Denialists are people who reject well-supported scientific conclusions by appealing to pseudoscience and using intellectually dishonest debating tactics. Here is
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