Alec Baldwin’s Crusade to Take Down a Nobel-Winning Lab
LONG BEFORE ‘RUST’Twenty-five years before our era of fake news and celebrity pseudoscience, the star actor teamed up with Montel Williams to promote an unfounded conspiracy.
Should You Really Bank Your Baby’s Cord Blood?
INSURANCE POLICYA cancer doctor explains the science behind cord blood banking—and why he decided not to store his own kids’ stem cells.
A Brief Global History of the War on Weed
HALLUCINOGENIC HUMANSMarijuana has been controversial for almost as long as humans have been farming it.
Mexico’s Little-Known Attempt to Save Freud From the Nazis
ALTERNATE HISTORIESAs the Gestapo targeted Austria’s most famous psychoanalyst, workers’ unions lobbied Mexico’s president to offer Freud and his daughter asylum in Mexico City.