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fromMail Online
2 days ago

Joe Rogan's 'worst guest' breaks silence on what REALLY happened

I spent 25 years holding debates against people like Graham Hancock, Robert Bauval and John Anthony West, who argued that the pyramids and the Sphinx were built 15,000 years ago by people from Atlantis.
Podcast
Right-wing politics
fromIntelligencer
4 days ago

What Ghost Hunters Tell Us About Trump's America

A significant number of Americans are turning to astrology and supernatural practices, highlighting deep-rooted paranormal beliefs in the culture.
OMG science
fromArs Technica
1 week ago

Tuesday Telescope: Finally, some answers on those Martian streaks

Mars' dark and light streaks, once thought to indicate water flows, are now believed to be caused by dust slides.
Media industry
fromMail Online
2 weeks ago

Psychologists dub Virgin Island a 'public health danger'

Channel 4's 'Virgin Island' show has been labeled a public health danger due to its controversial sex therapy format.
fromBuzzFeed
2 weeks ago

A Handwriting Expert Spotted Something Telling With Donald Trump's Signature

Graphology is sometimes considered to be a pseudoscience, meaning something that claims to be based in fact but isn't actually. But the graphologists who spoke to HuffPost disagree with that characterization of the field and say the way a person's letters slant or curve and the direction of their pen strokes can reveal a lot about anyone, including Trump.
US politics
fromThe Atlantic
3 weeks ago

The MAHA Takeover Is Complete

In many ways, Casey Means is the perfect person for that job. Donald Trump's new nominee for surgeon general, announced yesterday, is a Stanford-trained doctor who is well-spoken and telegenic.
Public health
Alternative medicine
fromPsychology Today
4 weeks ago

Brainspotting Is Pseudoscience

Many dubious interventions exist for mental illness treatment.
Brainspotting is unproven and lacks scientific support.
Pseudoscience proliferates when scientific knowledge is incomplete.
OMG science
fromwww.npr.org
1 month ago

Fake skull science is back - and it's still racist

Phrenology and physiognomy are experiencing a resurgence in interest, despite being debunked as pseudoscience.
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