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Is the Scientology Personality Test Scientific?
The Church of Scientology is notorious for its aggressive outreach tactics, from bogus Hollywood seminars to free “movie tickets” for Dianetics: The Film. But none is so quintessentially Scientologist...
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Critical and Thinking: The Ian Harris Interview
Ian Harris is a Los Angeles–based comic who has performed at the Center for Inquiry–Los Angeles and at CSI conferences. Blending comedy and skepticism is nothing new—it’s been done on The Simpsons,...
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Herding Hemingway’s Cats: Understanding How Our...
Dr. Kat Arney holds a degree in natural sciences and a PhD in developmental biology from Cambridge University, which she followed with a post-doc at Imperial College, London. For her day job Kat is a...
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Genius Java: Memory Boosting Coffee
My local newspaper is an unending source of amusement in the form of ads for questionable health products—ads that demonstrate clever marketing tactics aimed at scientifically illiterate and gullible...
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Murder in the U.S. Capitol and the Ghost of William P. Taulbee
On the afternoon of Friday, February 28, 1890, a single pistol shot rang out in a corridor of the United States House of Representatives. Former eastern Kentucky congressman William Preston Taulbee...
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Report From SkeptiCal, the Northern California Science and Skepticism Conference
The seventh SkeptiCal was held Sunday, May 15, 2016, at the Oakland, CA, Asian Cultural Center. I’ve attended all seven, each is unique and I always leave feeling that I’ve had a great experience....
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To Better Understand Science and the Universe: An Interview with Lawrence Krauss
Lawrence Krauss is a renowned theoretical physicist at Arizona State University. He was one of the first to suggest that most of the energy of the universe resides in empty space, an idea that today...
View ArticleSkeptical Activism of the Investigation Network
On September 13 and 27, 2014, a group of advocates for skeptical inquiry met in Hollywood, California, to launch a grassroots skeptics group. Participants decided to name the group the Investigation...
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Hot Drinks
The World Health Organization (WHO) announced this week that “very hot beverages” had been added to their list of probable carcinogens. The evidence is not conclusive, but the agency finds the...
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Las ilusiones de la memoria
Artículo traducido por Alejandro Borgo, Director del CFI/Argentina. El doctorado honorífico que recibí por parte de la Universidad Goldsmiths de Londres resulta muy significativo en este momento...
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La “Física” de Deepak Chopra
Artículo traducido por Alejandro Borgo, Director del CFI/Argentina. Los científicos chiflados son muy proclives a trivializar y abusar de la ciencia -especialmente de la física- y particularmente de...
View ArticleGlucosamine and Chondroitin: Do They Really Work?
Glucosamine and chondroitin are widely used for osteoarthritis pain. My daughter even gives them to her elderly horse. Their popularity is puzzling, since the evidence from scientific studies...
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The Man Behind the Makeup: An Interview with Captain Disillusion
Alan Melikdjanian is the creator and star of the humorous Captain Disillusion web series, a superhero on a fictional children’s show. While the word debunker might seem like a negative word, in this...
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Kitty Genovese: Revising the Parable of the Bad Samaritan
I recently had the opportunity to see The Witness, a remarkable documentary that reveals new information about the famous case of Catherine “Kitty” Genovese, a young woman who was murdered on March...
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A Conversation with the SkepDoc
Harriet Hall, known to many in the skeptic community as the SkepDoc, is a formidable critic of alt medicine, as well as the author of Women Aren’t Supposed to Fly: The Memoirs of a Female Flight...
View ArticleLa búsqueda de evidencia negativa
A todo el mundo le gustan los misterios. Resuelva uno en el campo científico y enseguida vendrán los elogios. No así en el reino de lo paranormal, donde la evidencia, la lógica y las teorías suelen...
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A Conversation with George Hrab
George Hrab is a professional musician, author, and popular podcaster. The Geologic podcast is an intersection between music and scientific skepticism. George will also be our emcee at CSICon this...
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Giving Nootropics a New Try
It would be nice to take a single pill and turn into a superhuman with a genius IQ and limitless memory. It would be so nice, in fact, that we’ve been fantasizing about it as a species for about as...
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Armed with a Misinformation Radar: Interview with Kavin Senapathy
I regularly scour the Internet for skeptically themed content to share with our community, and lately a particular name has emerged to become a trusted and delightful source of pseudoscience-busting...
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Cancer Miracle Mongering by City of Hope
Last Fall, I noticed that “the MIRACLE of SCIENCE with SOUL” was the slogan consistently used in print and electronic advertisements for City of Hope, one of 45 National Cancer Institute-designated...
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