Outlandish Claims

Outlandish Claims

Home
About
midrash,
education,
history,
carrots,
and more.
The Monkey's Finger
Testing a sci-fi story from 1953.
22 hrs ago • Aaron Zinger
By The Light of The Moon
This is a coincidence. Everything is a coincidence.
Jan 8 • Aaron Zinger

December 2025

We Should Have More Medical Reversals
On FDA conservatism and how language can hide controversy.
Dec 2, 2025 • Aaron Zinger

November 2025

This Is The Very Weakness
Fear the prophecies of Socrates and Thomas K. Dye.
Nov 25, 2025 • Aaron Zinger
How We Stopped Learning Math
A slow-motion train wreck people have been warning about for centuries.
Nov 20, 2025 • Aaron Zinger
A Certain Spindle-Shanked Miscreant
And other members of the New York Resistance, 1776-1783.
Nov 5, 2025 • Aaron Zinger

October 2025

Don't Take Medical Advice From Porcupines
Potatoes do not cause scrofula.
Oct 21, 2025 • Aaron Zinger
Awful Possibilities of the New Speaking Phonograph
What we got right and wrong about the invention of audio recording.
Oct 10, 2025 • Aaron Zinger
The View from the East River
Diaries of New York City tourists, 1774 - 1961
Oct 7, 2025 • Aaron Zinger

September 2025

Theoxenia
Let's politicize Huntington's disease! It'll be fun!
Sep 26, 2025 • Aaron Zinger
Let's Go To Greece
There's a modern medical breakthrough hiding in ancient myth.
Sep 15, 2025 • Aaron Zinger
Still Unbroken
The story of a hate crime in Dallas shows how the complexities of identity can divide and unite us.
Published on Outlandish Claims • Sep 11, 2025
© 2026 Aaron Zinger · Privacy ∙ Terms ∙ Collection notice
Start your SubstackGet the app
Substack is the home for great culture