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Unpack the resurgence of the dangerous “repressed memory” myth. Harvard psychologist Richard McNally and social psychologist Carol Tavris dismantle pseudoscience, debunk traumatic memory tropes, and expose how disproven psychological fads continue to endanger society.
S omewhere in America this week, a depressed Christian will sit down across from a counselor who believes that her fundamental problem is not a disorder but a sin. In another office, a different Christian will see a licensed psychologist who prays with her, assigns scripture alongside cognitive-behavioral homework,
How did a debunked indigenous voyage to Antarctica become part of New Zealand’s curriculum? Discover how government funding, media silence, and cultural deference are pushing pseudoscientific ideas into modern science and education—and why critical scrutiny is vital to public trust.
A $1 billion voucher program, two oil billionaires, and a fight over church-state separation: this piece investigates whether Texas’s new Education Freedom Accounts are the latest move in a decades-long strategy to reshape public schools around a White Christian nationalist vision.
When a driverless car makes a mistake, everyone pays attention. A robotaxi stops awkwardly in traffic. A Waymo gets confused near a construction zone. A child runs into the street and is struck. A fleet of empty autonomous cars circles a residential neighborhood. A self-driving vehicle passes a stopped
O n this, the 81st anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima (August 6) and Nagasaki (August 9), it is altogether fitting to revisit the moral question of their development and use. Operating under the best intelligence that indicated the Nazis were working on their own bomb project, it was
How did lifeless matter learn to feel? Psychiatrist Ralph Lewis traces consciousness from bacteria to human self-awareness, showing step by step how sensing, learning, memory, and emotion evolved into subjective experience—demystifying the brain’s deepest mystery, no soul required at all.
Steve Stewart-Williams addresses misconceptions about evolutionary psychology, refutes charges of pseudoscience, and discusses the political and ethical risks of denying biological sex differences, advocating for an honest, evidence-based approach to human nature.
Inside a University of Virginia lab, scientists have spent nearly six decades gathering unsettling evidence: children who recall violent deaths, bear matching birthmarks, and know facts they never could have learned. A grieving skeptic investigates whether reincarnation might just be real.
Is lab-grown meat the sustainable future of food or an unsettling science experiment? Dive into the complex world of cultivated protein as this insightful article explores the “yuck” factor, steep economic hurdles, and structural shifting driving the cutting-edge future of farming.
