florida Surgeon loses license after fatally removing wrong organ Mark Frauenfelder

public health RFK, Jr. supporters at hearing on vaccine policy and the "corruption of science" use junk science as "evidence" Jennifer Sandlin

vital information Which English word has the most definitions? Carla Sinclair

tabloids Trump's dementia and teddy bear sex in this week's dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

occult The Enduring Legacy of Parapsychologist J.B. Rhine Mitch Horowitz

COVID-19 GPT-3 is able to accurately predict a lot about COVID-19 Clive Thompson

COVID-19 The racial bias in pulse oximeters Clive Thompson

News Moderna coronavirus vaccine gets FDA emergency use authorization to fight worsening COVID-19 pandemic Xeni Jardin

tabletop games What's new in tabletop gaming (Indie edition) Gareth Branwyn

open source 3D printing stethoscopes, tourniquets and crucial dialysis-machine parts in Gaza Clive Thompson

floss Electronic Health Records: a murderous, publicly subsidized, $13B/year grift by way of shitty software Cory Doctorow

usausausa DHS plans to use credit-scores to judge who may become a citizen Cory Doctorow

guillotine watch Legal threats force retraction of peer-reviewed article about the problems with private-equity-backed dermatologists Cory Doctorow

china Chinese economists say Big Data can replace markets in planned economies Cory Doctorow

Business Predatory "scientific journals" tricked into publishing Star Wars-themed hoax Cory Doctorow

preventable deaths What is the third biggest cause of death in the US? Mark Frauenfelder

picks United Nations reminds members including U.S. to not bomb hospitals and kill doctors please Xeni Jardin

Business Data-driven look at America's brutal, racist debt-collection machine Cory Doctorow

war That hospital we bombed in Afghanistan in 2015? Not a war crime, says Pentagon Xeni Jardin

Science Nobel Prize in Chemistry honors DNA research that could lead to new cancer treatments Xeni Jardin