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Your Unlearning Report: The Trouble with Empathy, Implicit Bias, and...
For a skeptic, there is nothing more satisfying than discovering that some previously cherished truth has been overturned by new evidence. It is in that spirit that I offer the following Unlearning...
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Tijuana’s Alternative Cancer Treatments: Warnings and Side Effects
Photo by Ross Blocher. This fall, mere days after Donald Trump was elected President of the United States, I did something possibly inadvisable: I got on a bus and headed into Mexico. I was tempted to...
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Local Skeptical Outreach & Activism: Monterey County SkeptiCamp
Photo of Arlen Grossman by Jay Diamond. On January 7, 2017, the first skeptic conference of the year, SkeptiCamp, happened in Monterey County, California, and was put on by my local group Monterey...
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Override: My quest to go beyond brain training and take control of my mind
In the 1970s, only fitness fanatics went to the gym. Now a twice-weekly visit is the norm for anyone who wants to keep their body healthy. A similar revolution is happening in brain fitness and...
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From Chemtrails to CSICon: An Interview with Mick West.
Mick West lives in Shingle Springs, California, and is a writer for Metabunk and a regular skeptic conference attendee. I know Mick from TAM 2014 and SkeptiCal in 2016 where we hung out for a bit with...
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Michael Mann and the Climate Wars
Mark Boslough: To anyone who has followed the “climate wars,” your name is a household word. Deniers even coined the phrase “Mann-made global warming” in an attempt to make it synonymous with their...
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The Empowering of Alternative Medicine in Portugal
I am a young medical doctor, a rheumatologist, from Portugal. I have been interested in science since I can remember. Entering medical school in Portugal is hard; you have to be one of the top...
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An essay by Dr. Richard Gallagher, a psychiatrist who purports to be “a man of science,” was featured in the July 1, 2016, online Opinions section of the Washington Post. The essay elicited strong...
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Why Physical Activity Does Little to Control Weight
There are things we know we don’t know and things we know we know; but sometimes the things we know we know aren’t so. An article by Herman Pontzer in the February 2017 issue of Scientific American,...
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Winning the Vaccine War
Since the 1960s, high rates of childhood vaccination in the United States have led to dramatic declines in cases of polio; measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR); chicken pox; and other diseases. The...
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Dispelling Demons: Detective Work at The Conjuring House
In an article in the Skeptical Inquirer (Nickell 2014) and in the book American Hauntings (Bartholomew and Nickell 2015, 57–77), I analyzed the Perrons’ claims of demonic activity and showed that they...
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Susan Gerbic talks with Bob Knaier about his CSICon Experience.
Bob Knaier is an attorney currently living in Southern California, originally from Buffalo, New York. Bob spoke at CSICon 2016, presenting a paper titled “Homeopathy on Trial: Allen v. Hyland’s, Inc....
View ArticleSkeptical Activism from the Bottom Up
For someone who may well be the only full-time skeptical investigator in the United Kingdom, my exact route into skepticism is somewhat hard to recall. Lacking any previously unshakable belief in...
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Susan Gerbic talks with Katie Dyer about her CSICon Experience
Katie Dyer is an Associate Professor at California State University, Fresno. She works in Child and Family Science. She studies parent education and infant sleep. She also teaches research methods and...
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The Day the World Changed . . . for Me
When I was twelve years old, UFOs were real. More than that, they really were from other planets and piloted by real aliens. There was a real monster living in Loch Ness and real tracks were left...
View ArticleHow I Got Hooked on the Skeptical World
Growing up in Salinas, California, during the 1970s, if you wanted to know anything, the outlets for finding it out were minimal. We relied on the newspaper, radio, and a couple of TV channels for our...
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Predicting Pseudoscience Conspiracy Theories – An Interview with Craig...
Photo by Karl Withakay. Craig Foster is a professor in the Behavioral Sciences and Leadership Department at the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Craig presented a Sunday paper at...
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A Glimpse Backward—and Forward—at Skepticism’s Big Tent
The Committee for Skeptical Inquiry and Skeptical Inquirer are celebrating forty years of organized modern skepticism—though of course skepticism itself has a long and honorable tradition, as...
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Pensar claramente sobre el cáncer
Artículo traducido por Alejandro Borgo, Director del CFI/Argentina. This Book Won’t Cure Your Cancer. By Gideon Burrows. NGO media, 2015. ISBN 978-0955369599. 212 pp. Paperback. $15.79. Gideon...
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CSI Interviews Douglas Preston on The Lost City of the Monkey God
For centuries, rumors circulated about an ancient lost city—not Atlantis but a “White City” of immense wealth hidden in the Honduran jungles of Central America. Myths of treasure and every imaginable...
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