Not-A-Doctor Wendy Weber, a naturopath, has been appointed Director of the NCCIH. Will this mean more MAHA quackery on top of the usual quackademic medicine?
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Editor’s note: first published on Mad in America on 26th August 2026 Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT), or electroshock as it is sometimes called in the USA, involves applying a sufficiently strong…
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One narrowing icefall remains the linchpin for the Alpine glacier—and it may not be long for this world.
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Since it was stripped of planetary status, Pluto’s defenders have been fighting the decision – and they’re only getting more passionateTwenty years ago, Pluto got demoted. After a vote by…
By now, most of us have some knowledge that life on land involved transitioning from the water and evolving the physiological means to do so. But a new study has…
The following essay is excerpted from the book This is How We Win: A Guide to Building Working-Class Uprisings, forthcoming on September 8 from Haymarket Books. We highly recommend checking…
There is a word the beef industry uses constantly, in its promotional materials, in its research funding announcements, in its government lobbying, and increasingly in the peer-reviewed literature produced by…
Season 10, Episode 20. December 10th, 2023. John Oliver introduces us to the new Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, detailing his opinions on January 6th, homosexuality, and his son’s…
Description Leadership from NASA Headquarters, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and the Deep Space Network (DSN) stand in front of the recently completed Deep Space Station 23 antenna at the Deep…
