Are drone strikes legitimate, meaning on sound moral and legal footing? How people perceive the legitimacy of U.S. drone strikes – firing missiles from remotely piloted aircraft at terrorist and insurgent leaders – is central to whether and how the government can continue to use them[1].
The American public tends not to question[2] military...
The last pandemic was bad, but COVID-19 is only one of many infectious diseases that emerged since the turn of this century.
Since 2000, the world has experienced 15 novel Ebola epidemics[1], the global spread of a 1918-like influenza strain[2] and major outbreaks of three new and unusually deadly coronavirus infections: SARS[3], MERS[4] and,...
Conspiracy theories are everywhere[1], and they can involve just about anything.
People believe false conspiracy theories[2] for a wide range of reasons[3] – including the fact that there are real conspiracies[4], like efforts by the Sackler family to profit by concealing the addictiveness of oxycontin[5] at the cost of countless American...
Read more https://theconversation.com/how-to-tell-if-a-conspiracy-theory-is-probably-false-229081
Today, the atmosphere of our neighbor planet Venus is as hot as a pizza oven[1] and drier than the driest desert on Earth[2] – but it wasn’t always that way.
Billions of years ago, Venus had as much water as Earth does today[3]. If that water was ever liquid, Venus may have once been habitable[4].
Over time, that water has nearly...