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The Ghost Behind You
In one of Baghdad’s neighborhoods, which is known for its violence and widespread folk beliefs, Ameer wanted to visit his acquaintances’ house during the night but he was afraid since the fight that...
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Addressing the Fear-Based Narrative Around GMOs with Natalie Newell
Natalie Newell is the director and producer of the Science Moms documentary that will be shown at CSICon on Saturday, October 28 at 11:00 a.m. She is also one of the hosts of the Science Enthusiast...
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Fire-Breathing Dinosaurs?
Mainstream geologists and biologists accept the abundant physical evidence that the Earth is billions of years old; that all organisms are evolutionary descendants of a common ancestor; and that...
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Why We Often Get Risks Wrong
Getting Risk Right: Understanding the Science of Elusive Health Risks. By Geoffrey C. Kabat. Columbia University Press, New York, 2016. ISBN 9 780231 166461. 272 pp. Hardcover, $35.00. Geoffrey Kabat...
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Murder by Darkness: Does Mammoth Cave’s Specter Harbor a Secret?
If reported encounters are to be believed, Kentucky’s Mammoth Cave—the longest cave system in the world—holds an almost lost secret. Supposedly revealed “to those who have witnessed her spirit”...
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This is Genetic Engineering 2.0!
Kevin Folta (Pictured Mid-Left) is a professor at the University of Florida and the chairman of the Horticultural Sciences Department. He will be speaking at CSICon on Friday October 27, at 1:30 pm....
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‘Psychic Detective’ Noreen Renier: The Grinch Who Stole Christmas from a...
Noreen Renier August 12, 1989, was to be a joyous day for nineteen-year-old Kimberly McAndrew, a college student cashiering for the summer at a Canadian Tire store in the heart of the Halifax, Nova...
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The Phoenix Driveway Ghost
Q: I was watching a program on the Discovery Channel and saw you. I have tried very hard to get an explanation as to why this image appears on my driveway every night. I have a security camera that...
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The Farce Known as ‘FC’
Photo Courtesy of the New York Times I must address you about what’s known as “facilitated communication,” which involves what’s now most often called “autism spectrum disorder” (ASD), a subject that...
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JonBenet Murder Mystery Solved? (Not by Psychics)
On the day after Christmas 1996, child beauty-pageant star JonBenet Ramsey, age six, was found dead—garroted and her skull broken—in the basement of her family’s home in Boulder, Colorado. As police...
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The March for Science
On April 22, thousands of scientists and their supporters gathered in Washington, D.C., and at more than 600 other locations across the world to participate in the March for Science. Pegged to Earth...
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An Investigation of the Missing411 Conspiracy
People are going missing from America’s national parks under mysterious circumstances, and the National Park Service is obstructing attempts to investigate these events. At least that’s the claim made...
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A Good Analysis of Bad UFO Information
Bad UFOs: Critical Thinking About UFO Claims. By Robert Sheaffer. CreateSpace Independent Publishing, 2016. ISBN: 978-1519260840. 292 pp. Softcover, $18.95; Kindle, $8.95. Robert Sheaffer is one of...
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Looking Back at the 2017 New Zealand Skeptics Conference
December 2-4, 2016, found me and sixty other like-minded people at the New Zealand Skeptics Conference held in beautiful Queenstown on the South Island of New Zealand. The NZ Skeptics have continually...
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Enter the Skeptic Zone: An Interview with CSICon Speaker, Richard Saunders
Richard Saunders is twice president of the Australian Skeptics, founder of the popular Sydney Skeptics in the Pub event, actor, and also a professional origamist. He can be heard on his weekly...
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Puzzling World - NZ
Photo by Susan Gerbic On the South Island of New Zealand, near the town of Wanaka, resides a tourist attraction that will make puzzle fans drool. It is Stuart Landsborough’s Puzzling World. Stuart and...
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Looking Back at the 2016 New Zealand Skeptics Conference
December 2-4, 2016, found me and sixty other like-minded people at the New Zealand Skeptics Conference held in beautiful Queenstown on the South Island of New Zealand. The NZ Skeptics have continually...
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Moving Science’s Statistical Goal Posts
In 1989, Ralph Rosnow and Robert Rosenthal, two well-respected experts on statistical methods in psychology, wrote the following memorable line: “We want to underscore that, surely, God loves the .06...
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The Incorrigible Dr. Oz
Dr. Mehmet Oz, the cardiothoracic surgeon who became a media star thanks to Oprah, has been widely criticized by physicians and others for giving non-scientific medical advice. The James Randi...
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Robert Brotherton habla sobre las teorías conspirativas: “solo la punta del...
Artículo traducido por Alejandro Borgo, Director del CFI/Argentina. Rob Brotherton es autor y profesor en el Barnard College, ciudad de Nueva York, EE.UU. Tiene un doctorado proveniente de la...
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