Every year, I鈥檓 an invited lecturer at the University of Ottawa to talk to future science communicators about pseudoscience. I use a number of increasingly muddied examples to show these students...
I was interviewed by many journalists in 2020 about the pandemic, and the question they kept asking me was some version of, 鈥淲hat exactly is going on here?鈥�...
Certain concepts simply irk me. They are often needlessly complicated and their meaning gets distorted in an attempt to make them understandable.
Take, for example, the idea of a Mitochondrial Eve.
鈥淭ake a few steps just to make the Devil mad! Hallelujah! That鈥檚 it, just move around a little bit, there she goes!鈥� Those were the words used by televangelist and soon-to-be-exposed-as-a-fraud...
In April of 2020, at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, a documentary film premiered on YouTube and its title could not have been more relevant: Stressed.
The tweet that catapulted him to stardom began with the all-caps exclamation, 鈥淗OLY MOTHER OF GOD.鈥� This is not language we expect from scientists on Twitter, and certainly not something we would...
