TIES Weekly Update - February 21, 2017
The Teacher Institute for Evolutionary Science (TIES) stresses the importance of promoting teacher leadership in the United States. Here at TIES we feel that our fellow teachers are our own best...
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The Teacher Institute for Evolutionary Science (TIES) stresses the importance of promoting teacher leadership in the United States. Here at TIES we feel that our fellow teachers are our own best...
View ArticleTIES Weekly Update - March 7, 2017
The Teacher Institute for Evolutionary Science (TIES) stresses the importance of promoting teacher leadership in the United States. Here at TIES we feel that our fellow teachers are our own best...
View ArticleSpreading Skepticism
Recently, the science writer John Horgan took skeptics to task in Scientific American and at the Northeast Conference on Science and Skepticism for focusing too much on weak problems at the expense of...
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From Tiny Acorns…
I was delighted to be invited to contribute to this fortieth anniversary issue of Skeptical Inquirer. The magazine first came to my attention when I read James Alcock’s wonderful book, Parapsychology:...
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Homeopatía: los hechos sin diluir Entrevista a Edzard Ernst
Una de las mejores cosas que nos brindan las vacaciones es la oportunidad de leer y Edzard Ernst ha publicado un nuevo libro este año, en el cual examina el origen, los principios y la práctica de la...
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My Personal Odyssey in Skepticism
I discovered the Skeptical Inquirer shortly after its name change from The Zetetic. It changed my life. I had already rejected religion after reading atheist writings, but I was still open to belief...
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Bigfoot and I: Reflections on Forty Years of Skepticism
I needed a work-study job, and the new physical anthropologist reportedly was coming to the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee with a large skeletal collection of monkeys, which with luck would need a...
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Pratkanis on Altercasting and CSICon—an Interview with Susan Gerbic
Anthony Pratkanis is a professor of psychology at the University of California Santa Cruz and an expert on social influence. He is a noted consultant on fraud who has been hired as an expert witness...
View ArticleTIES Weekly Update - March 14, 2017
The Teacher Institute for Evolutionary Science (TIES) stresses the importance of promoting teacher leadership in the United States. Here at TIES we feel that our fellow teachers are our own best...
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TIES Weekly Update - March 21, 2017
Two TIES workshops took place last week, one at the Wisconsin State Science Teacher Conference and another at a middle school in Miami, Fl. After a successful first workshop, the Wisconsin presenter...
View ArticleCómo me involucré en el mundo escéptico
Artículo traducido por Alejandro Borgo, Director del CFI/Argentina. Habiéndote criado en Salinas, California, durante los años 70, si querías saber algo, los medios para encontrar una respuesta eran...
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QuickTake: A Skeptical Look at CIA Spying Revelations
Last week Wikileaks revealed what was claimed to be a trove of documents about CIA spying techniques that allow agents to access a variety of popular consumer devices ranging from smartphones to...
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Skeptic from Czech Republic Checks Out CSICon
Photo by Karl Withakay. Claire Klingenberg is a public relations and events manager living in Prague in the Czech Republic. She is also the liaison for international relations of the Czech Skeptics’...
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Do I Really Need to Drink 200 Ounces of Water Every Day?
The word on the street is that we need to drink eight to ten eight-ounce glasses of water (8x8) every day to keep hydrated and healthy. The word on the street is wrong. The myth says: 75 percent of...
View ArticleActivismo escéptico de abajo hacia arriba
Artículo traducido por Alejandro Borgo, Director del CFI/Argentina. Para alguien que debe ser el único investigador escéptico full-time en el Reino Unido, mi camino exacto hacie el escepticismo es...
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Vandalism on Wikipedia
Letter to the Editor of Skeptical Inquirer Magazine, In her excellent article on Wikipedia (“Let Your Questioning Start with Wikipedia,” March/April 2017), Susan Gerbic describes this wonderful...
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You thought your weekend was interesting? Ellen Tarr talks about Rh-negative...
Ellen Tarr is an associate professor of microbiology and immunology at Midwestern University in Glendale, AZ. She presented a Sunday talk at CSICon 2016 called “The Truth about Rh-Negative Blood...
View ArticleTIES Weekly Update - March 28, 2017
It’s been a good week for TIES. Our TIES Teacher Corps Member in Louisiana, Blake Touchet, wrote a proposal to present a TIES workshop at a science teacher conference in Mississippi. We’ll most likely...
View ArticleGhost Hunters in the Dark
Q: Why do ghost hunters look for ghosts at night with the lights off? Obviously it’s more dramatic, but is there some specific reason or investigative rationale behind it? —S. Pedroncelli A: Nearly...
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