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Multi-Level Menace
If you’ve been around social media lately, you’ll have come across a friend who suddenly is posting about makeup, diet shakes, essential oils, shampoo, or even insurance. Their personality seems...
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A Telepathy Investigation
A local Italian newspaper, La Nuova Provincia di Biella, published an article titled “Mother and Daughter of Zubiena Communicate Through the Power of Thought.” It reported a telepathic link that seems...
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An Early ‘Monster’ with an Older History
The Secret History of the Jersey Devil. By Brian Regal and Frank J. Esposito. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD, 2018, 147 pp. Hardcover, $24.95; Kindle edition, $23.70. In...
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Skeptical Organization To Launch in Brazil
A group of Brazilian scientists will launch in November the Instituto Questão de Ciência, the first in the country focused on the defense of the use of scientific evidence in public policies. Among...
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Get Thinking with Podcasts – Some to Check Out in 2018–2019
With the recent news of a third series of Serial, arguably the biggest influence in the "golden era" of podcasting, it’s likely you’re one of the millions of people worldwide waiting for the next...
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The Case That CAM is Unethical
More Harm Than Good? The Moral Maze of Complementary and Alternative Medicine. By Edzard Ernst and Kevin Smith. New York: Springer Publishing, 2018. ISBN 978-3-319-69940-0. 223 pp. Softcover, $22.99....
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The Care and Feeding of the Vagina
We are pleased to introduce here a new regular column by Skeptical Inquirer contributing editor and Committee for Skeptical Inquiry Fellow Harriet Hall, MD, well known and respected for her incisive...
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From the Spectral to the Spectrum: Radiation in the Crosshairs
Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen shocked the world in 1895 when he produced the first radiograph of the human body: an X-ray of his wife’s hand. Whether intentional or not, the fact that he chose her hand for...
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On the Set of Cosmos’s Season Two
Atop a small hill south of Santa Fe, New Mexico, just far enough east of Interstate 25 not to be obvious from the highway, rises a large multistory structure. Its adobe-like earth tones and setback...
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Biological Reasons Young-Earth Creationists’ Worldwide Flood Never Happened
Image by: Max Pixel Christians who call themselves creationists believe that a creator formed the universe, Earth, and its life, but beliefs about creation and evolution exist along a considerable...
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The God Engine
Whatever its form, religion is powerful and pervasive and, for billions of people, obviously important. Yet, while major religions such as Islam, Christianity, Hinduism, and Buddhism have endured...
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Is That Science?
Carl Sagan, Father of the "Baloney Detection Kit" Science is persuasive, and it should be; science is the great reality detector. What appears to be a scientific claim often isn't. Promoters of...
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App-aritions Are Still Causing Trouble
“There’s an app for that” has become a household phrase since smartphones basically became handheld laptop computers. Apps, short for applications, cover a wide range of tasks from managing your...
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A Conversation with Skeptics’ Guide Rogue Jay Novella (Part 1)
Just as it was for many other skeptics I’ve met, finding The Skeptics’ Guide to the Universe (SGU) podcast was my gateway to discovering the skeptical movement. Before stumbling upon this podcast, I...
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The Superstitions We Can’t Shake
Look, none of is perfect. We jaywalk, mark ourselves “Interested” for our friends’ events (even though we know damn well we’re not going), and when no one’s around, we drink milk straight out of the...
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The Skeptics’ Guide to the Universe: A Book Review
The Skeptics’ Guide to the Universe: How to Know What’s Really Real in a World Increasingly Full of Fake. By Steven Novella with Bob Novella, Jay Novella, Cara Santa Maria, and Evan Bernstein. New...
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Is an Oregon Marijuana Shop Haunted? Not likely.
You know it’s the Halloween season when the local news stations spend time on fluff pieces of suddenly haunted stores. Such is the case when KGW8 in Oregon City reported on a spooky video from a local...
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A Conversation with Skeptics’ Guide Rogue Jay Novella (Part 2)
In part 1 of this article, which can be read here, stalwart skeptic Jay Novella and I discussed The Skeptics’ Guide book and the origins of the podcast that spawned the book. Part 2 continues our...
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Did a Psychic Uncover a Fifty-Seven-Year-Old Murder?
While scrolling my social media newsfeed recently, I came across an article shared by my colleague Ben Radford. The headline of a FoxNews.com story proclaimed “Psychic, Ghost Hunters Helped Long...
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An Artist with a Science-Based Mission
Janyce Boynton is a Maine collage artist who sells her work through her website and at local shows, but she is also a tireless advocate for science. She would never have predicted that science and...
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