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Derek Beres
Derek Beres is a freelance writer. Based in Portland, Oregon, he has served in senior editorial positions at a number of tech companies and has years of experience in health, science, and music writing. He is the co-host of the Conspirituality podcast and co-author of Conspirituality: How New Age Conspiracies Became a Health Threat.
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From addiction recovery and disaster relief to thetans for athletes, Scientology uses non-profit charitable causes to promote its agenda.
The longer you roll that dice, the higher the chance that a DNA mutation spawns a cancerous cell. The researchers on this study likened it to playing Russian roulette; sooner or later, there's one in the chamber.
As John B Judis writes in The Populist Explosion, this sort of uprising has been with us for years.
As a number of states decide the fate of legalized and medical marijuana next week, John Hudak looks back at the history of public policy.
There is a new wellness trend emerging in South Korea – experiencing your own funeral. While at first this sounds twisted, in truth this ritual utilizes what other cultures have long known.
Anti-Islam fervor has overlooked important artistic contributions made by Muslim artists around the world.
When companies hide algorithms from public view, the data are used for destructive purposes, warns Cathy O'Neil in her new book.