If I’ve said it once, I’ve said it a thousand times. Vaccines work, vaccines are safe, and vaccines do not cause autism. Study after study has shown this to be the case. But ever since Andrew Wakefield published his fraudulent study, anti-vaxxers have perpetuated his narrative that the MMR vaccine causes autism. The sole reason […] More
Dunking on anti-vaxxers has become a new national pastime for the science-minded out there. It’s not only the source of my new favorite insult (calling someone an “uneducated potato”), but it also helps others understand the importance of facts and logic. And that’s what Meggy Doodle, a nurse and a parent who lives in California, […] More
It’s time to cancel the Catholic Church. Earlier this week, a two year grand jury investigation in Pennsylvania found that over 300 Catholic priests sexually abused over 1000 children, and leadership within the church made the decision to cover it up and lie about it for decades. And that’s just in Pennsylvania. The Catholic Church […] More
In case you thought that the systematic abuse of children at the hands of Catholic priests, followed by a thorough cover-up wasn’t enough, Bill Donohue is here to set the record straight and inform you that yes, things can actually get worse. Bill Donohue is the president of the ‘Catholic League for Religious and Civil […] More
You read the headline correctly and no, unfortunately, this is not satire. The former chancellor of the St. Paul and Minneapolis archdiocese, Robert Carlson, said under oath that he “wasn’t sure if he knew that it was illegal for priests to have sex with children.” This comes after he admitted to protecting predator priests when […] More
I’ve long been skeptical of the effectiveness of Change.org petitions. It’s a rather simple process to use throwaway email addresses to artificially inflate the results, and the results can be ignored as easily as deleting an email. But finally, I think the perfect Change.org petition has come our way. The petition? To rename communion wafers […] More
After all the things we’ve heard so far – the child pornography ring the Catholic Church ran in Pennsylvania, the fact that some priests didn’t know if raping a child was wrong, and a pastor saying that the Bible says it’s not rape if the child didn’t scream – it’s hard to imagine what could […] More
A long time ago (September 2018) in a galaxy far, far away (Germany), one man decided to give his observatory some extra pizzazz by painting it to look like R2-D2 from Star Wars. Hubert Zitt, with the help of a small team, transformed the Zweibrück Observatory of the Natural Science Association into an enormous R2-D2. Bored Panda […] More
Scientists in Massachusetts may have found a new way to treat viruses and stop them from making people sick, using a gene editing tool called CRISPR. The tool, basically, is akin to being molecular scissors. We’ve previously shared articles about different applications of CRISPR, from using Cas9 to image genes inside live cells to genetic […] More
With the official ‘Storm Area 51’ Facebook event boasting over 1.5 million attendees, and another 1.2 million who are “interested”, it raises some real questions. Thankfully, Guy Fieri is here with answers. (Also read: Here are 20+ of the best ‘Storm Area 51’ memes we could find) First, how do people actually get there? The coordinates for […] More
After what’s felt like ages, Adult Swim finally announced the release date for Rick & Morty’s fourth season. If you recall, earlier this year we projected Season 4’s release date, and estimated it would be somewhere around August or September. As it turns out, we were wrong. It’s even worse than what we had envisioned. The […] More
In a report published earlier today, NASA said that the moon is shrinking, which is resulting in Moonquakes. NASA said that as the moon cooled over the last several hundred million years, it has shrunk about 50 meters in size. Much like the surface of a grape wrinkles as it becomes a raisin, the moon […] More
