It can be pretty hard these days to distinguish satire from reality. Between fake news, alternative facts, and real, actual headlines, almost anything can seem satirical in nature. My friend James and I recently started a new satire site ourselves at Alternative-Science.com, a URL that we thought clearly implies satire and funny stories. But headlines […] More
Trump Attacks Wall Between Church And State With ‘Religious Liberty’ Order Today is the ‘National Day of Prayer’ in the US, a country where you can already pray anytime, anywhere, to any god you want already. Coincidentally, Trump signed an executive order today allowing churches to be more political. This is a direct attack on […] More
Access to birth control brings abortion rate to lowest in decades, but Congress wants to fix that. Let’s start out by stating the obvious. No rational person is excited at the prospect of an abortion. It is absolutely one of the more difficult decisions a woman may make during her life, however it currently is and […] More
Draft of Trump executive order would legalize discrimination because: God Last week, The Investigative Fund and the website called “The Nation” released a draft of Donald Trump’s executive order entitled “Establishing a Government-Wide Initiative to Respect Religious Freedom.” According to the site, the executive order covers: “any organization, including closely held for-profit corporations,” and protects […] More
Clinton lost. Trump won. Now where do we go from here? President-elect Donald Trump. Holy. Shit. It happened. It really happened. It’s okay to be angry or frustrated. I’m right there with you. Yesterday, we elected someone who is openly racist, openly misogynist, openly xenophobic, and openly does not have a plan for anything he’s […] More
Parenting is hard. Sometimes it even sucks. As parents, we’re trained to not say things like this. We’re supposed to say things like “every child is a gift” or “you never know true happiness until you become a parent” or “I can’t wait until school starts back up in the fall.” Many parents are shamed […] More
Green Party candidate Jill Stein goes on a weird rant about wi-fi in schools Jill Stein and wi-fi. What could go wrong? She’s a medical doctor turned activist who is now the presumptive Green Party candidate for president. Stein is seen as the only viable alternative to choosing between casting your vote for Clinton or […] More
Ben Carson Links Hillary to Lucifer in Kooky RNC Speech If you follow me on Twitter, you’ve already noticed that I’ve been watching the Republican National Convention the past couple of nights. So far, it’s been about what I expected: Hillary bashing, trying to make Trump look like a decent human being, and avoiding any […] More
Oklahoma Legislators Criminalize Abortion Today, the Oklahoma state legislature passed a bill that essentially will ban abortions in their state, despite Oklahoma only having two clinics in the entire state authorized to perform an abortion. The bill passed without discussion or debate and will now be sent to anti-choice governor Mary Fallin, who has until […] More
Due to the support of many of my followers, I had the privilege of attending the NECSS 2016 conference in New York City this past weekend. The conference was fantastic! There were many speakers from many different subject areas ranging from “chronic” Lyme disease to linguistics (which was actually an entertaining presentation!). Some of the […] More
Chiropractor Cracks 4 Day Old Premature Newborn’s Back Despite weak evidence supporting the efficacy of chiropractors (and no evidence supporting treatment of non-musculoskeletal conditions), there are over 45,000 chiropractors in the United States alone, who collectively earn about $3 billion annually. A chiropractor specializes in cracking bones “correcting vertebral subluxations” in your back, despite subluxations not […] More
It seems that the linchpin of the anti-vaccine argument is always that doctors can’t be trusted, because they’re in bed with “Big Pharma.” Looking at some basic information, we can try to see precisely how much each one of these doctors makes from Big Pharma by “forcing” vaccines on our kids. There are about 319 […] More
