Scientific Content Analysis Archives - Boing Boing

police This popular police "mindreading" technique is bullshit — but the things that cops say about it are somehow even worse. Thom Dunn

authoritarianism Cops and spooks all over the world rely on a junk-science "walking polygraph" method to steer their investigation Cory Doctorow
politics Scientific American endorses Kamala Harris for president Rob Beschizza
3-D scanned images OpenVertebrate is a massive database of 3-D scanned images of 13,000 (and counting!) vertebrate specimens Jennifer Sandlin
conspiracy theory The 2024 Santa Monica Film Festival was chock full of red-pilled conspiracy content Jennifer Sandlin
meditation Long-term meditation changes your poop David Pescovitz
tabloids Trump's sex slave, a photogenic ghost, and Madonna going bald in last week's dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan
tabloids Scientology's secrets, Kardashian brain damage, and Chinese bioweapons in last week's dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan
climate change Smash Mouth wrote "All Star" to warn us about climate change & anti-intellectualism and we turned it into a meme Thom Dunn
tabloids JFK murder cover-up and Trump's mob ties in this week's dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan
vaccines New disinformation series promotes terrain theory pseudoscience Jennifer Sandlin
halloween Forget drugs in candy — Halloween is a day of ritual sacrifice for the cult of the automobile Thom Dunn
occult The Enduring Legacy of Parapsychologist J.B. Rhine Mitch Horowitz
kickstarter The Tarot of Austin Osman Spare Ferdinando Buscema
ESP Is Precognition Real? Mitch Horowitz
Space Here are the first star images from the James Webb Space Telescope, and a bonus space selfie David Pescovitz
sexy How the Grinch became a sex symbol Thom Dunn
tabloids Biden's "breakdown" and Saudi terror funding in this week's dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan
Food The sweetest tomatoes are underripe Thom Dunn
Science Why Quillette sucks Rob Beschizza