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Stringing Us Along?
“Ok, Larry. You take an 18” strand of floss, then you wind the ends around your middle fingers like this. No, your middle fingers. No, I don’t think it matters if it’s clockwise or counter-clockwise....
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Dream Meditation Is a Bit of a Snore
When the images start, I am already half asleep, which means I’ve done my job. The pictures start shooting in front of my eyes—circles and dots whirling in space, a droplet of water traveling across...
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Perseid Meteor Shower
This Thursday and Friday, there will be one of the best annual meteor showers you or your family can watch – the Perseids. And some experts are even predicting that there might be a meteor “outburst”...
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Keeping Up with Paul Offit
Paul Offit is an American pediatrician who specializes in vaccines and infectious diseases. He is author of several books including his latest, Bad Faith: When Religious Belief Undermines Modern...
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Michael Phelps y sus moratones
La tontería olímpica oficial de Río 2016 se llama ventosaterapia, ‘cupping’ en inglés. Ha desbancado en el trono de las supersticiones deportivas a las cintas de esparadrapo de colores que se...
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Fascinating Psychology Experiments
The question of whether or not psychology is a science is not new. It’s true that some aspects of psychotherapies, such as the psychoanalytic notion of repressed memory, have little or no basis in...
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In the Stars? Personal Investigations of Astrology
Are astrologers really able to prognosticate—to see the future as supposedly foreordained by the stars? Something wonderful happened to me in 2003 that I never saw coming. Had it been foreseen by...
View ArticleThe Jamestown Evolution/Creationism Debate
It was not your standard evolution/creationism debate—but it was a rematch from a debate that had been. I’m a skeptic, meaning I believe in nothing supernatural, but I’m not your stereotypical liberal...
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The Great New Mexico Elk Murder Conspiracy
On August 27, 2013, a hunter on a 75,000-acre ranch north of Las Vegas, New Mexico, stumbled upon a bizarre sight: over 100 dead elk lay on the ground. The smell of death lingered in the air as the...
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Twice the Skepticism: An Interview with the Evil Twins
The Evil Twin Podcast is a loosely structured show involving twins Brad and Thad exploring, as they put it, the strange underbelly of “belief” in American culture and what it means to identify with...
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Otherwordly: Mysteries of Newfoundland and Labrador
The easternmost Canadian province—Newfoundland and Labrador—consists of Newfoundland Island (with an interior of myriad glacial lakes and forests) plus the Labrador territory on the mainland (with...
View ArticleA Guide to Ghost Hunting Guidebooks: NO MORE! Please! (Part 1)
This might come as a shock to the millions of ghost enthusiasts out there: The scientific consensus is that ghosts are not spirits, remnants of the dead, recordings of energy, or supernatural...
View ArticleDid Joseph Smith Predict Doomsday?
In 2009, I wrote an otherwise routine piece for LiveScience.com about doomsdays and apocalyptic beliefs. It’s pretty standard stuff, a subject I have written about many times over the years. And yet...
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Thanks to CFI: Children can dream big again and humanism spread across Africa!
When CFI launched the Anti-Superstition campaign in 2009, I thought it was all about empowering the different communities in Africa to abandon backward belief systems. I did not know that the...
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Michael Mann and the Climate Wars
Physicist and CSI Fellow Mark Boslough recently interviewed climatologist and geophysicist Michael Mann, who will be speaking at CSICon Las Vegas. Mark Boslough: To anyone who has followed the...
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Finding a Powerful (and Skeptical) Voice—Speaking Out with Tara Moss
One of the great things about skepticism is that there are many resources and avenues people find that will draw them to be a more critical thinker about their world. Speaking out: A 21st Century...
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Life as We Know It: An Interview with Jill Tarter
CFI Board Member Leonard Tramiel recently interviewed SETI’s Jill Tarter. Many are familiar with Tarter’s work as portrayed by Jodie Foster in the movie Contact. Leonard Tramiel: SETI is a topic of...
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El “Detector de mentiras”: gran ejemplo de ciencia chatarra
Traducido por Alejandro Borgo, CFI/Argentina. Recientemente me encontré con un programa de televisión -de esos basados en la vida real- que presentaba un ejemplo provocativo de tales casos: una mujer...
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New Superfoods: Kakadu Plums and Cockroach Milk
Can I claim to be psychic? I predicted this. In a previous column, “Superfood Silliness” I wrote: “At frequent intervals, yet another entrepreneur identifies yet another unfamiliar tropical fruit that...
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A ‘Nickell’ for Your Thoughts: A Conversation with Joe Nickell
Joe Nickell, PhD and senior research fellow at CSI, has been investigating strange mysteries, miracle claims, the paranormal, and occult activities for close to fifty years. Most know him for his work...
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