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PragerU Targets Kids and Parents with Shockingly Bad Science

11 Sep 2025

If we鈥檙e trying to understand our era, we need to recognize the following: mainstream institutions and their various consensuses are being replaced by fringe alternatives. In the United States...

The Sweet Embellishments of the Glucose Goddess

5 Sep 2025

Move over, Food Babe. There鈥檚 a new food influencer in town and she is no mere 鈥渂abe.鈥 This one hangs out on Mount Olympus.

Scrambler Therapy: Rewiring Pain, or Just Static?

5 Sep 2025

Our bodies are wired to avoid pain鈥攁nd yet, for millions, it鈥檚 a daily, unwelcome companion. One minute you鈥檙e climbing stairs, opening a jar, or just existing, and the next you're googling 鈥渋s...

Med Beds: Not Today, Maybe Tomorrow?

7 Aug 2025

鈥淥h dear, I can just see, when I take the dogs out tonight, I鈥檓 gonna have all of these people standing around that only I can see because, you know, they鈥檙e very directional like that.鈥

Supermodel Heidi Klum Floats In Air and Blows Hot Air

6 Aug 2025

Let鈥檚 start with the floating illusion. I would hope that if anyone sees a person suspended in mid-air, they realize that the law of gravitation has not been suspended and that some mechanism...

Meet the New Rogan. Same as the Old Rogan.

31 Jul 2025

It looks as if masculinity itself has exploded into the room.

A Peashooter Will Not Bring Down a Charging Rhino

25 Jul 2025

This article was first published in聽The Montreal Gazette. 鈥淎 gesture as effective as sending out a boy with a peashooter to bring down a rhinoceros.鈥

The Prince of Quackery

16 Jul 2025

The luxurious bulletproof limo was 22 feet long, weighed four tons, had soft, green leather upholstery and interior fittings of silver and ivory. Sounds like 鈥淭he Beast鈥 used to transport the U.S....

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