Medicine
Responses to “The Cancer Industry: Hype vs. Reality”
Readers critique a journalist’s critique of cancer medicine...
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Critical views of science in the news
Medicine
The Cancer Industry: Hype vs. Reality
Cancer medicine generates enormous revenues but marginal benefits for patients...
Physics
What’s Wrong with Physics
A physicist slams hype about multiverses, string theory, and quantum computers and calls for more diversity in his field...
Cognition
Do We Possess a Transpersonal Imagination?
Some products of our imaginations seem to spring from sources beyond our everyday selves...
Cognition
My Go-To Arguments for Free Will
Free will must exist if some of us have more of it than others...
Cognition
Mysticism and the Mind-Body Problem: Other Views
Participants in a freewheeling exploration of nonmaterialist, mystical accounts of reality critique a journalist’s critique...
Policy & Ethics
My Top 10 Columns of the Decade
Cross-Check began a decade ago. Here are columns that the author liked, even if readers didn’t...
Cognition
Can Mysticism Help Us Solve the Mind-Body Problem?
A freewheeling symposium explores experiences, theories and philosophies that challenge conventional materialist science...
Behavior & Society
Baba Ram Dass and the Tale of the Acid-Gobbling Guru
Skeptics have questioned a story told by the late counterculture icon in his classic best seller Be Here Now...
Policy & Ethics
Can Philosophy Make You Happy?
Philosopher Catherine Wilson thinks the ancient sage Epicurus can provide guidance for our modern scientific age...
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Anthropology in Practice
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Beautiful Minds
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Everything you always wanted to know about raising science-literate kids
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Dark Star Diaries
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Dog Spies
Explore the science behind the dog in your bed
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Extinction Countdown
News and research about endangered species from around the world
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Hot Planet
Climate science in a changing world
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Illusions, Delusions, and Everyday Deceptions
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Roots of Unity
Mathematics: learning it, doing it, celebrating it.
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Adventures in the good science of rock-breaking.
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Talking back
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The Artful Amoeba
A Blog About the Weird Wonderfulness of Life on Earth
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Voices
Exploring and celebrating diversity in science.
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