Derek Beres

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.

Debating is cognitively taxing but also important for the health of a democracy—provided it's face-to-face.
The attack on the Capitol forces us to confront an existential question about privacy.
Traces of heroin and cocaine have been found in the tartar of 19th-century Dutch farmers.
Plan S is starting to take hold, but the cost is merely shifting even more to the researchers.
Some volunteers performed above chance. They weren't the psychics.
New anthropological research suggests our ancestors enjoyed long slumbers.