The trial of John T. Scopes, a young high school teacher charged with violating Tennessee’s Butler Act by teaching the theory ...

It's easier to fool people than to convince them they have been fooled." — Mark Twain Ideas about our world have certainly changed over time. For example, people once thought that the earth was flat.

Pennsylvania State Sen. Doug Mastriano cited several baseless conspiracy theories to support his proposed legislation.

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Around the world, we are “witnessing an alarming rise in attempts to discredit, politicize or suppress scientific knowledge,” the Vatican says in a new Pontifical Academy of Sciences document ...

One hundred years after the trial, and as we have documented in our scholarly work, the culture war over evolution and ...

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Jury reaches partial verdict in Sean Combs trial, unable to reach verdict on Count One Republican Senator tells House not to ...

Consciousness gives rise to a sense of self and personal agency. The question is, how do biological processes give rise to ...