I freely admit that I am a skeptic when it comes to the news. In fact, before I read any article, I check the “About” section of the articles host site. far more often than you would expect, it becomes very obvious that the site is “questionable.”

That aside, a lack of source materials, links, footnotes and so on, always make me suss about a given article or report.

Oddly, one of the effects of the news being less trusted by the general public, is that science has suffered a similar fate. I have a theory as to why that is so, despite the efforts of scientists (of all disciplines) to share their information. And in one of the most surprising turns of events, because of those issues, we don’t even know what it means to be “dead” anymore…