Lawyers for one of the two convicted men in Making a Murderer have been told of an extraordinary claim by another prisoner that he has proof of their innocence. The violent offender, a regular customer of the salvage yard run by the family of the two men, sought out one of their mothers during a prison visit to tell her that her son, Brendan Dassey, and her brother Steven Avery, were wrongfully convicted of the killing.

How do people or companies with vested interests spread ignorance and obfuscate knowledge? Georgina Kenyon finds there is a term which defines this phenomenon.

While it’s well-established a Nokia 3310 could hold out for years of mistreatment, there are bizarre claims that archaeologists have found an 800-year-old object left by deity-like alien figures. Conspiracy theorists have been going nuts over images that appear to show an artifact with a great amount of similarity to a mobile phone. Although the theorists do not claim it was ever a working phone, they appear to believe the object is an attempt to imitate ancient alien technology, as explained...

As the United Nations warns of the dire consequences of global warming, the commitment of the current Australian government to the reality of climate change remains unclear, with a history of disturbingly…

Anthony Watts has a poster at this year's AGU Fall Meeting. He is very proud of the effort he made (his WUWT article is archived here). He is also looking over his shoulder, fearful of a conspiracy to stop him from publishing.

Terry Eagleton reviews Umberto Eco’s “Numero Zero,” translated By Richard Dixon.

Red mercury is believed by some to be the ultimate chemical weapon in existence. It’s thought to harness an unparalleled power for destruction and as a result features at the top any terror group’s wish list. There’s just one problem: It’s not real.

Host Leitreanna Brown of Family Spirit is the Founder of PROS. She formally founded the Group in 2007, however, her family informally has been investigating the Paranormal for at least 4 generations. Catch her show weekly as she interviews paranormal investigators, authors, and more.

USDA investigates American Egg Board. The United States Department of Agriculture is investigating the American Egg Board, a checkoff organization that advocates for the egg industry, in the wake of allegations that it waged a campaign against egg-free mayo company Hampton Creek. Internal American Egg Board emails, released in the wake of a FOIA request due to the organization’s status as a quasi-governmental body...

Fake birth certificates, ghostwriters, teleprompters, a teenage trip to Mars, and more of the most paranoid and bizarro Obama conspiracy theories out there.

For those who are at all interested in conspiratorial thinking and/or very strange language-based "games"/puzzles, you should check out the ET Corn Gods website. It's basically a set of rules by which you can decode the "hidden meanings" in our language (e.g. "Wall Street" can be decoded into "All Cheat"). It's been a while since the site has been updated, but in a way that only adds to the retro-internet charm of the whole thing.

What if the nearly 150 million ounces of gold that the government says is stored in Fort Knox… isn’t actually there?

If you follow the headlines, your confidence in science may have taken a hit lately. Peer review? More like self-review. An investigation in November uncovered a scam in which researchers were rubber-stamping their own work, circumventing peer review at five high-profile publishers.

A journey through the forest of syncronicity.

People who live along the Animas River could be ingesting the contaminated water in any number of ways, from drinking it to showering in it, and the fear is how much exposure those people have had.

The gravestone of JFK assassin Lee Harvey Oswald has been quietly returned to Texas, after a long, strange journey spanning decades.

Last Wednesday, a small EPA-supervised work crew inspecting the Gold King mine accidentally knocked a hole in a waste pit, ...

Since the Curiosity Rover - NASA's robot explorer on the surface of Mars - has come back online, images have begun to be transmitted back to Earth. The grainy, black-and-white images are being made freely available online for all to see. It really does show you how far technology has come that we're able to get clear images from Mars and analyse them for ourselves.

A flood of carefully measured, digitally-enhanced and meticulously analysed pictures from Google Moon are streaming around the internet to support just such a notion.