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"No, it was not the asteroid that hit Russia. I got so many people saying, 'Rush, the asteroid, it didn't just come close, it actually hit!'"
"No, no, no, no, it was a meteorite. It was a meteorite and it was very cool. You ought to see the video of that thing.... But they're no…
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"Fluoridated water. Artificial sweeteners. Genetically modified foods. Power lines. Vaccines"
"Now cellphones have officially been served with their own baseless indictment, by no less than the World Health Organization." Those who p…
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"The Times is peddling ignorance here. Actually, the congregation of walruses on land is an age-old phenomenon known as 'hauling out.'"
"It has nothing to do with the volume of sea ice at any given time. In fact, the Times is not just peddling ignorance, it is recycling it."…
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"Many people say I want to kill myself because I do this."
"People can say what they want. I do it because I want to be cured." Electric therapy, via lying on railroad tracks, in Indonesia, where &q…
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"This is unbelievable, but the fruit fly G tridens has somehow evolved to have what looks like pictures of ants on its wings."
"Seriously, its transparent wings have an ant design on them complete with 'six legs, two antennae, a head, thorax and tapered abdomen.'…
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The U.N.'s "inherently ludicrous" prediction that the Himalayan glaciers will disappear by 2035.
"Even a small glacier such as the Dokriani glacier is up to 120 metres [394ft] thick. A big one would be several hundred metres thick and tens o…
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Bad science and why we get fat.
A diavlog with Gary Taubes. And here's his book: "Why We Get Fat." And here's his NYT article: "Is Sugar Toxic?"
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"It would be impermissible for the court to base its decision of recidivism on its unsupported theory of genetics."
Oh, but maybe the poor judge was born with a tendency to believe that his gut instincts and stuff he's seen on the internet are scientific fact.
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The massive error in the much publicized "Correlation not causation: the relationship between personality traits and political ideologies."
That article in American Journal of Political Science that everyone was talking about — because it made conservatives seem mentally disturbed — had t…
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Megyn Kelly dominates the males who strain to assert that the male is dominant.
They probably had to let her smack them around. Probably some uber-male at Fox News told them — Erick Erickson and Lou Dobbs — that they had to sit s…
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"An intellectual crisis in the age of TED talks and Freakonomics."
"Can Social Scientists Save Themselves?" In 2011, a psychologist named Joseph P. Simmons and two colleagues set out to use real experimenta…
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The surprising number of American adults who think people answer dumb questions with truthful answers.
"The surprising number of American adults who think chocolate milk comes from brown cows." There's nothing dumber than forgetting that …
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"I blame not Heaven, but rather a society..."
"We must pray..." for the brilliant comic actor Glenn Shadix, who gave the hilarious funeral sermon in "Heathers" (and played the…
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"It was designed as an impregnable deep-freeze to protect the world’s most precious seeds from any global disaster and ensure humanity’s food supply forever."
"But the Global Seed Vault, buried in a mountain deep inside the Arctic circle, has been breached after global warming produced extraordinary te…
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There's no "upper limit on penis size" but "'the most attractive penis size' appeared to fall outside the range used in the study..."
"... which was designed to capture 95% of the variability women would encounter. So although attractiveness beyond the 3 in. continued to increa…
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Why doesn't The Washington Post fix this ludicrously ignorant headline?
"Texas teen was electrocuted by her cellphone while taking a bath, her family says." The girl wasn't electrocuted by her cellphone, but…
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There's no "upper limit on penis size" but "'the most attractive penis size' appeared to fall outside the range used in the study..."
"... which was designed to capture 95% of the variability women would encounter. So although attractiveness beyond the 3 in. continued to increa…
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"It was neither psychic nor much of a massage... He was more like a $250-an-hour life coach who happened to have good hands..."
"... which he ran lightly over my arms, legs, lower back and abdomen. He said he did this to get a better read of my energy. And when he was don…
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