From an otherwise well-sourced NYTimes piece about the loonifying of America by hack shrinks and their Big Pharma patrons:
Dr. Stuart Kirk, a professor of social welfare at the University of California, Los Angeles, who has been critical of the manual, gives examples of what could, under the current diagnostic guidelines, qualify as a substance […]

You may have noticed, dear readers, the headlines slinking in and out of national science pages this past week about Ashkenazi Jews’ purported propensity for higher intelligence as a direct result of natural selection. Then again, maybe you just flipped to ‘hot pix’ of BrAngelina whilst boppin’ the bishop in the john.
A primer for […]

As earnest, wonder-struck younglings, we once loved Marshall Brain for his brightly written explanations of science’s endless bounties.
Now, having withered into underpaid, rail-blowing cynics, we find, to our surprise, that we love him even more.
How Stuff Works by Marshall Brain
How to Make One Meellion Dollars

Don’t know about you, but when we see the words “Cold Fusion, For Real” in a reputable newspaper, we get mental wood. And when we click through to the goods, we expect the money shot, front and center. It’s cold fucking fusion, for chrissakes–skip the jibjab! Are we going back to the future or […]