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Jun 12, 2026

The Sugar Industry Paid Harvard to Blame Fat

In 1967, three Harvard scientists published a study in the world's most prestigious medical journal clearing sugar of any role in heart disease and pinning the blame on fat. The sugar industry had secretly paid them to write it.

Jun 10, 2026

Your Olive Oil Is Almost Certainly Fake

Real extra virgin olive oil can cut your cardiovascular risk by 30%. The bottle in your kitchen probably isn't real extra virgin olive oil. Read on

May 31, 2026

Exxon Knew about fossil fuels. They Knew in 1977

Inside the 1977 briefing that told Exxon's executives exactly what burning fossil fuels would do to the planet — and the $23 million campaign the company ran to convince the public it wasn't true.

May 29, 2026

There Is Plastic in Your Brain. The Amount Is Rising.

A 2025 study found microplastics in every human brain tested — at concentrations 50% higher than eight years ago, crossing the blood-brain barrier, and present at five times the rate in people who died with...

May 27, 2026

Becoming a Parent Rewires Your Brain — Permanently

But the change is not what the clichié describes. It looks considerably more like what happens during adolescence than like anything resembling decay. And it does not just happen to mothers. Read on...

May 22, 2026

5 True Facts That Sound Completely Made Up

Nobody Has Lasted an Hour in the World’s Quietest Room, The Shortest War in History Was Over Before 10 a.m, read more

May 20, 2026

The Most Successful Lie Your Schoolteacher Ever Told You: Columbus Did Not Sail West to Prove the Earth Was Round — Everyone Already Knew That, and Had for Eighteen Centuries

He Sailed Because He Was Catastrophically Wrong About How Big the Planet Is, the “Ignorant Experts” Who Doubted Him Were Right, and the Whole Heroic Confrontation Was Invented by a Novelist Three Hundred Years After He Died

May 15, 2026

Here's the Trick Influencers and the Wellness Industry Pulled on You Last Year:

They Sold You Billions of Dollars Worth of Anti-Inflammation Supplements That Your Body Pisses Out 99% of Before They Do Anything. And the Word “Anti-Inflammatory”. Read on...

May 13, 2026

Women Are More Empathetic Than Men — Myth or Truth? Real on Every Self-Report Survey Ever Done. Almost Gone on Behavioural Tests.

It is one of the most repeated findings in popular psychology. Women feel more. Women understand others better. Women are wired for empathy. The trouble is that the entire claim rests on a single type of evidence — questionnaires asking people how empathetic they think they are. Read on..