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2017 O4SR Scholarship Winners for CSICon
One of the joys of attending skeptic conferences such as CSICon is introducing new people to the community and seeing them spark when they meet more people and then become more involved in the getting...
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Mr. Shaha’s Recipes For Wonder — An Interview with Author Alom Shaha
Mr. Shaha’s Recipes for Wonder is a science book with a difference written by Alom Shaha, illustrated by Emily Robertson, and published by Scribble Kids Books. Shaha was born in Bangladesh but grew up...
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Riddle Me Biddle
Kenny Biddle lives in Pennsylvania and was a ghost hunter until he began questioning ghost photographs he and his peers kept shooting. He is a professional photographer, blogger, writer, and science...
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Did a New Study Find That Men Think They’re Smarter Than Women?...
If you spent time on social media a few weeks ago, you may have seen headlines about a recent study at Arizona State University that found, among other things, that college men think they’re smarter...
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On Dogs and Conspiracy Theories
Susan Gerbic: Joseph, it’s so nice to meet you. I think this is your first CSICon; I should warn you that this will be a blast. People are very friendly, and they ask great questions. Also, there is a...
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Bigfoot Sighting in New Jersey? Maybe Not…
Fox 29 reported on an alleged Bigfoot sighting that took place somewhere in the New Jersey Pine Barrens near Browns Mill in Burlington County. This is a heavily forested area of over one million acres...
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Stalin, Mengele y el platillo volante de Roswell
Modelo a tamaño real de un A-12 puesto en lo alto de un pilar en el Área 51 para las pruebas de radar. Foto: CIA. Cualquier misterio gana si hay nazis de por medio. Bien lo saben las revistas...
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The Challenge of Belief
Image By: Brian Engler James Alcock is a professor of psychology at York University in Toronto, Canada. He is also a fellow and member of the Executive Council for the Committee for the Skeptical...
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Did Salt Water Supplement Regenerate Baby’s Heart Valve?
I have written about the dietary supplement ASEA several times on the Science-Based Medicine website. It is said to contain stable, perfectly balanced Redox Signaling Molecules, “a mixture of 16...
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Why Are Millennials Turning to Astrology?
Astrology, the oldest and most popular theory of human personality, doesn’t work. I played a small role in proving astrology doesn’t work when a student, who was an astrology enthusiast, came to me...
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GSoW in the Land of Enchantment
The Susan Gerbic tour continues. With the mission to seek out more people to recruit to the Guerrilla Skepticism on Wikipedia (GSoW) project, I visited Albuquerque, New Mexico April 10-13, 2018, for...
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Demon House Deconstructed
Demon House is a documentary by Zak Bagans, best known for his Travel Channel series Ghost Adventures. During its run time of one hundred and eleven minutes, Bagans and his film crew head to Gary,...
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Editing Backwards - GSoW and Skeptical Inquirer Magazine
Many years ago, before the internet was even a glimmer in the eye of Al Gore, I found a copy of Skeptical Inquirer Magazine (SI). I don’t remember what issue it was, but it was at the library. I do...
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An Interview with CSICon 2018 Speaker Troy Campbell
Troy Campbell is an assistant professor of marketing at the University of Oregon, a design psychologist, and a former Disney Imagineer. He develops psychological theories to design better ways to...
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Guerrilla Skeptics: A Pathway to Skeptical Activism
In my mid-teen years, I was a firm believer in biorhythms, ancient aliens, the Bermuda triangle, ESP, and all manner of pseudoscientific nonsense. At that time (the ’70s) there was no internet (gasp!)...
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On Bigfoot and Huevos Rancheros
Craig Foster received his PhD in social psychology from the University of North Carolina. He currently serves as a psychology professor at the United States Air Force Academy. His research interests...
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The Case of the Curious Christmas Light
Q: A few years ago I took an otherwise normal photo of a Christmas tree hunt near my hometown. The photo is of my daughter carrying our Christmas tree with her dad. You can clearly see a strange...
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Navy Pilot’s 2004 UFO: A Comedy of Errors
The first I heard about a shadowy UFO research program operated by the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) from 2007–2012 was when I was interviewed by New York Times reporter Helene Cooper on...
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On Tapeworms and Laughter
Carl Zimmer is a science writer who reports about biology and medicine. He writes a weekly column for the New York Times and has also written for publications including National Geographic and...
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Flat-Earth Anxieties Reflect Misplaced Priorities
Somehow, some way, the flat-earth movement continues to make waves. Legitimate news sources and social media platforms have distributed a variety of interesting flat-earth reports over the past year....
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