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Jenny McCarthy (Reuters/Fred Prouser)

Vaccine truthers' new craze

Russell Saunders M.D.

Lou Reed (Reuters/Jessica Rinaldi)

Tony O'Neill - Substance.com

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My dad, the pot smuggler

The bacterium, Enterococcus faecalis, which lives in the human gut. (AP/Agriculture Department)

Nicholas P. Money

Neil deGrasse Tyson (AP/Richard Shotwell)

The right's new science lie

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Mary Elizabeth Williams

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This combination of images provided by the Carnegie Institution for Science shows a new solar system object dubbed 2012 VP113, indicated by the yellow arrow, that was observed on November 2012 through a telescope in Chile. New research published in the journal Nature reveals its the second object to be discovered in the far reaches of the solar system far beyond the orbit of Pluto. (AP Photo/Carnegie Institution for Science, Scott S. Sheppard) (AP)

The epic of the Atomic Age

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The pseudo-science of AA

Dr. Lance Dodes, Zachary Dodes

Kristin Cavallari, Jenny McCarthy, Jim Carrey (Reuters/Fred Prouser/AP/Charles Sykes/Paul A. Hebert)

Truthers cause health crisis!

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Mary Elizabeth Williams

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Mary Elizabeth Williams

(ABC News)

Mary Elizabeth Williams

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Black, in America's white city

Mitchell S. Jackson

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Why believers ignore science

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We know nothing about caffeine

Tina Fey, Louis C.K. (Reuters/Jonathan Ernst/AP/Todd Williamson)

Men or women: Who's funnier?

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