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Quiroprácticos: pros y contras
Artículo traducido por Alejandro Borgo, Director del CFI/Argentina. En un reciente artículo del New York Times, el pediatra Aaron Carroll nos pide repensar nuestros prejuicios contra los...
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Platillos volantes: el nacimiento del mito
“Todo empezó una soleada mañana del año 1947: exactamente el 24 de junio”, dice Antonio Ribera en su libro Treinta años de ovnis (1982).1 Con ligeras variaciones es lo que cuenta la mayoría de los...
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Megyn Kelly, Alex Jones, and Conspiracies
Former Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly is doing her best to establish herself as a hard-nosed journalist in recent interviews with Russian president Vladimir Putin and conspiracy peddler Alex Jones. Both...
View ArticleTIES Weekly Update - June 20, 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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Eventually I’m going to piss off Tyler Henry
Yes, it’s grief vampire Tyler Henry time again. Cosmopolitan Magazine released a 2:45 minute video of a reading given to one of their staff editors. And guess what? “The results were pretty crazy.”...
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The Xbox Kinect and Paranormal Investigation
Ghost hunters absolutely love their gadgets. Simple observations show that technology attracts ghost hunters like moths to the blue glow of a bug zapper. It’s the “sciencey” aspect of it; gadgets make...
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UFOs Marathon: Seventy Years of Flying Saucers, Science, Myth, and Fiction
On Saturday, June 24, the conference “70 years of Flying Saucers, Science, Myth and Fiction” was held; it was organized by Eventos Anómalos (Anomalous Events) and the Patrimony and Beliefs Department...
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NECSS 2017 Honors the Past While Looking Ahead
“Why can’t we do this every weekend?” asked Leighann Lord, comedian and sometimes co-host of Neil deGrasse Tyson’s StarTalk Radio podcast, as she opened the first day of lectures at the ninth annual...
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A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Emmys: An Amelia Earhart Special...
The 1937 disappearance of pioneer pilot Amelia Earhart and her navigator Fred Noonan in the Pacific Ocean has been the subject of continuing research, debate, and speculation—most recently in a show...
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“We shall see if the spirits are willing”- Meet CSICon Speaker Mark Edward
Photo by Susan Gerbic. Mark Edward is a mentalist who specializes in magic of the mind. He started his professional magic career at Hollywood’s Magic Castle in 1975, and in 1993 he began performing...
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SkeptiCal 2017
Race, Pornography, Fake News, Eclipse, Brain Myths, Popular Assumptions, and the Magic of Science: those terms sum up the content of the eighth annual SkeptiCal conference held in at the Shattuck...
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Principles of Curiosity Review
I had the privilege of attending a movie premiere for the new Skeptoid Media production, Principles of Curiosity, in Los Angeles on June 14, 2017. Disclaimer: I’ve been following the creation of this...
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The Bloody Work of “Naturopathic Doctors” with Britt Hermes
Britt Marie Hermes is a writer, scientist, and former naturopathic doctor who will be speaking at CSICon on Friday, October 27 at 11:30 a.m. Her lecture is titled “The Bloody Work of ‘Naturopathic...
View ArticleAncient Navajo Cure for Hearing Loss: A Lesson in Spotting Red Flags
I’ve been getting emails advertising a lost Navajo remedy that can cure deafness. Nearly 33,500 people have allegedly reversed their hearing loss in just two weeks with this 100 percent natural...
View ArticleiDoubt: Critical Thinking and Skepticism in Africa in an Internet Age
The need for critical thinking in Africa cannot be overemphasized because some of the dark and destructive effects of dogma, superstition, and blind faith are most manifest is in this region. The...
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The Age of Misinformation is More Global Than We Might Think
Taner Edis is a professor of physics at Truman State University in Missouri. He is a Scientific and Technical Consultant for CSI and has written several books on religion and science. He will be...
View ArticleHomeopathy is a Sham
Homeopathy is a sham. Homeopathic “remedies” have been shown repeatedly by scientific research to be at best placebos. The entire theoretical basis of homeopathy—the concepts that “like treats like”...
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Robert Brotherton on Conspiracy Theories: “...just the tip of the iceberg.”
Rob Brotherton is an author and professor at Barnard College in New York City. He has a PhD from Goldsmiths University of London; his thesis was on the psychology of conspiracy theories. He will be...
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El Aristócrata que Intentó Engañar a Houdini
Joaquín María Argamasilla de la Cerda y Elio alardeaba, antes que Superman, de tener visión de rayos X. Su padre, Joaquín Argamasilla de la Cerda y Bayona, décimo marqués de Santa Cara y pilar del...
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Kenny Biddle at CSICon: You Are Going to Love His Workshop!
Kenny Biddle lives in Pennsylvania and was a paranormal investigator until he began questioning ghost photographs he and his peers kept shooting. He is a professional photographer, blogger, writer and...
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