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Operation Tater Tot: Following Up On A Grief Vampire
At the time I wrote the “Grief Vampires Don’t Come Out Only at Night” article for Skeptical Inquirer, January 21, 2016, I wasn’t really thinking of making Tyler Henry a “project” but since the article...
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Good News for Grouches: Happiness is Overrated
Saying Americans are obsessed with happiness is like saying there is air. The pursuit of happiness is one of the unalienable rights established in the Declaration of Independence, and in recent...
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Five Things I Learned Writing about Stanislaw Burzynski
I spend a lot of time writing about media, complaining about media, and designing research projects on media. Meta-media lady, that’s me. Recently I got to put my money where my mouth is: Newsweek...
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A Skeptic’s Woe over Margaret Cho
By Derek Nicoletto (Derek and Margaret Cho) [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons There seems to be some speculation in the skeptic community that not all should be allowed to call themselves...
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Malos tiempos para la homeopatía en España
By Allan warren (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0 or GFDL], via Wikimedia Commons Ocurrió hace trece años. Barbra Streisand denunció en 2003 a Kenneth Adelman, fotógrafo y activista medioambiental, por...
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Quack Busters’ Leader William Jarvis Dies at Eighty
Skepticism has lost one of its most influential and accomplished promoters. Anti-quackery activist William Tyler Jarvis died March 1 after suffering an embolic stroke of the cerebellum on January 19...
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Uninformed Consumers Are Treating Their Flu Symptoms with Muscovy Duck Offal...
What if you bought a can labeled “beef stew,” and when you got ready to enjoy a hearty dinner you found there was nothing in the can but water? What if you discovered fine print on the label that said...
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The ‘Lie Detector’ Test Revisted: A Great Example of Junk Science
Recently I came across one of television’s true crime programs that presented a provocative example from actual case files: A woman had been brutally murdered in her apartment. Her former boyfriend...
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I Like Pi
This year, Monterey County Skeptics challenged other skeptic groups to show off their inner nerd on March 14, better known as Pi Day. Search online for the term and you will find Pi Day art projects,...
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The Idiot Brain: A Neuroscientist Explains What Your Head Is Really Up To
The Idiot Brain: A Neuroscientist Explains What Your Head Is Really Up To—Interview with Dean Burnett Dr. Dean Burnett is a neuroscientist working as a tutor and lecturer based at Cardiff University’s...
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David Helfand: On Evidence and Climate Science
Canvass Americans’ opinions on global warming and you will find a cavernous divide. On one side, a generally well-meaning segment of the public heeds the latest scientific findings, views...
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The X-Files Effect? Research Suggests We Shouldn’t Worry so Much over the Hit...
The X-Files returns January 24 to Fox Television in a special six-episode revival of the popular series. Actors David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson reprise their iconic roles as FBI agents Fox Mulder...
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Tip the Canoe of Tyler Too!
Authors Susan Gerbic and Mark Edward. I don’t know what you did on Easter Sunday but it had to be better than what we did. Mark Edward and I purchased season 1 episode three of Hollywood Medium from...
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The Woman Who Took On Popoff: The Hidden Story of Crystal Sanchez, the Peter...
Peter Popoff says he’s a healer and a prophet of God. His former employee says he’s something quite different. A sixty-eight-year old German American minister, Popoff’s biggest claim to fame is that...
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The Brown Mountain Lights: Solved! (Again!)
So-called “ghost lights” are reported at various sites worldwide, the term being applied to luminous phenomena that, many claim, defy explanation. However, Rosemary Ellen Guiley in her The...
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The Truth About Cancer
Ty Bollinger’s documentary series “The Truth About Cancer” demonizes conventional oncology and promotes alternative cancer treatments. I recently wrote an article for Science-Based Medicine pointing...
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The Clown in the Graveyard
In the beginning of an hour-long performance titled “Psychic Reading for Fun and Prophet” at 2012’s Dragon*Con in Atlanta, I decided to try something different. Performing an hour of “cold readings”...
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10 Astounding Moments in a Creationist Textbook: Revisting Of Pandas and People
The Foundation for Thought and Ethics, the non-profit which once published the internationally controversial textbook Of Pandas and People, has quietly closed its doors. The financially-struggling...
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“Career” on Exorcism in Argentina
Haga clic aquí para obtener la versión española. What century are we living in? It may sound ridiculous, strange, weird, but a program in Parapsychology, “Angelology” and Demonology has been held (or...
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Illusions of Memory
The honorary doctorate being awarded by Goldsmiths is deeply meaningful at this particular time in my life. It gives me a chance to talk with you about my work on illusions of memory—or the memories...
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