After a successful 26-episode run of the first season of “Adam Ruins Everything,” Adam Conover returned to my show to discuss the upcoming second season, which premieres on TruTV on July 11th. We talked about what he’ll take on this year, whether he’ll be ruining the Emmy Awards, and which issues he purposely stays away […]
Over the weekend, The Daily Beast published a story with the headline “How U.S. Marines Are Using ‘ESP’ to Weaponize Intuition.” Below it was the sub-headline, “The Daily Beast has obtained, via the Freedom of Information Act, the Office of Naval Research’s sensemaking training manual — a how-to guide for extra-sensory perception.” I call bullshit. […]
Kavin Senapathy is irked by the proliferation of products with the ridiculous Non-GMO Project sticker, which is ruining her shopping experience: As a critical thinker and champion of social and environmental justice, seeing the butterfly seal everywhere I shop — from the pretzel crackers my kids love to whole grain bread — irks me to […]
Lenore Skenazy on a dad given unduly harsh punishment for making his 8-year-old son walk home. RFK Jr. is not a “vaccine skeptic.” It’s worse — like Trump, he’s anti-vaccine. Appropriate for our times: these professors want to teach college students about bullshit.
I have become a big fan of “Adam Ruins Everything,” the TruTV series hosted by Adam Conover. As a skeptic, I’m happy to have another show in the tradition of Penn and Teller’s “Bullshit” and Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman’s “Mythbusters.” On his show, Adam debunks nonsense about everyday issues like weddings, job salaries, voting, […]
After US swimmer Michael Phelps showed up at the Olympics with round purple bruises on his body, there have been a ton of stories explaining why. The short answer: he’s fallen for pseudoscientific bullshit. It’s called cupping, a technique that dates from before modern medicine in which a glass cup is heated and placed on […]