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Monkeys with Smaller Testicles Compensate by Screaming Louder
Filed under “Testosterone” and “Social Media”: could this explain some of the comments on our Facebook page? From the article on Discover Magazine: Researchers used laser surface scanning to build 3-D anatomical models of hyoids from 255 male and female
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It’s Perfectly Legal to Kill Someone as Long as you Use This Specific Weapon
Legal in all fifty states, and nearly every country on Earth! Attention psychopaths and sociopaths: have you ever wondered what it’s like to kill another person, but are worried about those pesky legal consequences that might ruin future plans? Have
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YouTube Star who Claimed Veganism Cured Cancer has Died of Cancer
Do not ask for whom the bell lols… Okay, that’s totally insensitive, but come the crap on people, it’s 2018—if you have the technological capability to be a YouTube star, you also have twenty-four hour access to nearly all of
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Vaccine Deniers More Prone to Believe Other Conspiracy Theories
Sure, you’re sitting there with a deliberately stupid look on your face as you read this. But then you uncross your eyes, wipe off the drool, and realize that it’s important for Science to study general Human stupidity so we
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Anti-Vaxxers Make Death Threats to Judge Who Ordered Child Vaccinated
“If she can get away with this, the b—-h has got to die. The b—-h has got to die.” Just in case you were concerned that this is another example of the media taking something out of context in order
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The NHS says “NFW” to Surgeries for Smokers and Obese Patients
Obesity is a medically and scientifically complicated topic that is even further complicated by the public’s lack of medical and scientific knowledge. And you triple-down on the complexity once you figure in social factors such as body image standards, and
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CDC: Obesity Increases Risk of 40% of Cancers
Roughly 40 percent of all cancers in the United States are connected with excess weight according to American health officials. 71% of Americans are either overweight or obese according to the CDC. The increased risk is related to 13 different
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Belle Gibson, BS Nutrition Blogger Busted for Scamming Followers with Fake Brain Cancer
And it gets worse than that. Much Worse. It seems that the most reliable way to make a quick buck these days over social media is to find a niche populated by people with a lack of critical thinking skills,
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EU Scientists Blast Homeopathy and Alternative Medicine
“There cannot be two kinds of medicine—conventional and alternative. There is only medicine that has been adequately tested and medicine that has not… ” The European Academies Science Advisory Council (EASAC) represents 29 national and international scientific academies in Europe,
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