Avi Loeb is playing games with his peculiar interpretation of interstellar object 3I/ATLAS. He keeps suggesting that this interesting, carbon-rich, and very old rock is an artificial construct buil…| Pharyngula
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I originally planned to write another response to the reaction of SMIS to this article, but I realised there's no point in arguing with a cult. Instead, I have decided to zoom out and take a broader look at what SMIS represents. This is not just about one very sad group. It's about anyone trying to sell you a simple explanation or a quick “debunk” of something that’s deeply complex.| Lazy Lab Coat
The paper is published in Journal of Angiology & Vascular Surgery, an outlet of Herald Scholarly Open Access, a publisher that appears on Beall’s list of potential predatory publishers and is not indexed in the usual scientific databases.| Lazy Lab Coat
This ‘person,’ David Love, is definitely a spider. Female spiders possess structures in their reproductive tracts called spermathecae that are used to store sperm. Humans lack them, and…| Pharyngula
MAHA is cannibalizing its own! This one dumb ‘influencer’ went viral with a tiktok in which she got outraged that Lucky Charms contains sodium phosphate, and she went to Home Depot to s…| Pharyngula
A guy who works for OpenAI makes an observation. I agree with the opening paragraphs. AI is not like past technologies, and its humanlike character is already shaping our mental health. Millions now regularly confide in “AI companions”, and there are more and more extreme cases of “psychosis” and self-harm following heavy use. This year, […]| Freethought Blogs
Watch this video. Are you fooled? Does this look at all convincing to you? Trump tonight appears to have pushed the false "medbed" conspiracy theory, which has spread in the far-right internet over the years. https://t.co/L1MBPIU4ON pic.twitter.com/wWBQPDFbnb — Alex Kaplan (@AlKapDC) September 28, 2025 It’s not even a good AI video. On technical merits alone, […]| Freethought Blogs
RFK jr claimed over a month ago that this month they were going to find and announce the cause of autism. We all knew he was full of shit — he’s permanently full to the eyebrows with sh…| Pharyngula
Tragic. Avi Loeb lost the annual soccer match at his institution! Last night, we held the annual soccer cup match between the faculty and the students at Harvard’s Institute for Theory & Comput…| Pharyngula
I told you that Brian Lauer is an ignorant buffoon, but you shouldn’t trust my opinion alone. Last night, Mark Reid and Dr. Dan worked over the same presentation and came to the same conclusi…| Pharyngula
If you follow RetractionWatch, you know that there a lot of bad papers published in the scientific literature. But there you just see the steady drip, drip, drip of bad research getting exposed, a …| Pharyngula
I’d begun to forget that Jordan Peterson exists — does anyone still find him credible? — when potholer54 comes out with a new video demonstrating that he’s a pretentious foo…| Pharyngula
Don’t you know? RFK jr is not anti-vax. He supports safe vaccines. News reports have claimed that I am anti-vaccine or anti-industry. I am neither. I am pro-safety, Kennedy said in his openin…| Pharyngula
We Hunted the Mammoth relies on your donations to fund its beta male lifestyle. Please drop a few bucks here or here if you can! Last week, the Guardian ran a surprisingly uncritical article on a new UK government report on the manosphere, which was itself surprisingly uncritical. The report, put forth by the UK’s…| We Hunted The Mammoth
We Hunted the Mammoth relies on your donations to fund its beta male lifestyle. Please drop a few bucks here or here if you can! Adam Schwarze, the GOP candidate for the US Senate in Minnesota, wants you to know that the birth control pill causes women to be attracted to “effeminate girly boys” instead…| We Hunted The Mammoth
Did you know that Darwinists are devolving, according to the Discovery Institute? They even have a picture of this devolution, so it must be true. I guess they haven’t noticed that if you tal…| Pharyngula
