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David vs. Whatsisname
I’m not sure I get the point of the story of David and Goliath. And just for clarity, I’m talking about the biblical story, not the 1970s claymation creep-fest that used to give me morality-based...
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Last year my wife and I bought our first home, in a Massachusetts town north of Boston. When we moved to the town, we had no friends in the area or family members. If we were going to navigate the...
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Book about Quackery Is a Hoot!
Lydia Kang, MD, and Nate Pedersen have written a delightful new book, Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything. Histories can sometimes be a bit dry and boring; this is anything...
View ArticleHawking ‘Ghosts’ in Old Louisville
David Dominé is author of a series of three books (2017a; 2017b; 2017c) offering, in turn, “Ghosts”—and “Phantoms” and “Haunts”—“of Old Louisville.” Do they indeed present “True Stories of Hauntings”...
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CSICon Sunday Papers 2017
It’s CSICon Sunday Paper time! One of best parts of our community is the short lectures told by people who generally aren’t known as main speakers. Many of these people are professors, researchers,...
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CSICON Las Vegas 2017
Robyn Blumner opens as our U.S. President. You might have known things were going to be different when Center for Inquiry CEO Robyn Blumner in her opening remarks impersonated a certain president of...
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In Troubled Times, This Is What We Do
I have often written in the Skeptical Inquirer about how what we do is a communal activity. There is a dynamic interaction between our authors/investigators who prepare our articles, reports,...
View ArticleWhy ‘They’ Aren’t Calling It ‘Terrorism’: A Primer
In the weeks since Mark Conditt died as police closed in on him, many on social media have been asking why he was not being referred to as a terrorist or his bombings labeled “terrorism.” (The same...
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How Not to Combat Obesity
December 28, 2016 March 28, 2018 Screenshots of the USDA “Food-Away-from-Home” page on two different dates. Recently, I was double-checking the footnotes for a book that is coming out this year. It is...
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Beyond the Echo Chamber: Skeptical Outreach through Pop Culture
Organized skepticism has a problem. Okay, maybe more than one, but I’m here to focus on something simple. So many people do so much great work researching, investigating, and compiling the best...
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Twenty-One Reasons Noah’s Worldwide Flood Never Happened
Twenty-One Reasons Noah’s Worldwide Flood Never Happened Young-Earth creationists claim that the Paleozoic sedimentary rocks in the Grand Canyon and the Mesozoic sedimentary rocks of the Grand...
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The War on Science, Anti-Intellectualism, and ‘Alternative Ways of Knowing’...
At the start of the twentieth century, over 40 percent of Americans did not know that the Earth orbits the sun in a year-long cycle (Otto 2016, 224). Another 52 percent did not know that dinosaurs...
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Colorado Dreaming
In February 2011, Mark Edward and I attended the first Fort Collins SkeptiCamp. In fact, that was the very first place I ever spoke about the project that would eventually become Guerrilla Skepticism...
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Light Bulb Luminosity Demonstration
The Venue Photography lab dark room in the Oklahoma City area. IIG On-Site Representatives Director: Dr. Bryan Farha, EdD Photo Lab Site Organizer: Jesse Miller, MFA Camera Operators: Mark Zimmerman,...
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Lotus Birth
Known in proponent circles as “lotus birth,” umbilical nonseverance is a practice in which the umbilical cord is not cut post-birth, leaving the baby attached to the placenta until the cord dries and...
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Train Track Therapy
There seems to be many uses for the trains in Indonesia. Shown above, the over-crowded locomotive is taken on by "surfers". Courtesy of Wikipedia I am constantly amazed by the ingenuity of humans in...
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Photos for Wikipedia
DeWitt Historical District Photo by Shane Vaughn They say that a picture is worth a thousand words. If so, WikiMedia Commons must have the equivalent of a few zillion words on its website. Most people...
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Nancy Grace Should be Ashamed of Herself!
Nancy Grace, remember her? She is that headline news commentator that was on the air from 2005–2016. She provided nightly legal-enraged current affairs and celebrity news, mostly about police...
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Registration is NOW OPEN for SkeptiCalCon in Berkeley on June 10, 2018
This year's speakers at SkeptiCalCon will give you tools to understand bad science & fake news, enlighten you about homelessness & AI, protect your children from being hacked and maybe even...
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Ghostly ‘Black Monk’ or Random Tourist?
Photo taken by Jon Wickes allegedly showing a ghostly black monk at Eynsford Castle, Kent. Photo copyright Mercury Press & Media. Several British tabloids and paranormal-themed websites have...
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