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A Grain of Truth: Recreating Dr. Emoto’s Rice Experiment
Are you a human? Do you have access to the internet? Then you may already know about Dr. Masaru Emoto, the Japanese “scientist”[1] who magically turns normal rice into gross rice, simply by yelling at...
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Not a Saint: How I Bought Con Man Kevin Trudeau’s Belongings
Kevin Trudeau doesn’t have very good taste. I know because I just got back from his house in Ojai, California. Or rather, the house he once owned. His remaining worldly possessions were today sold in...
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Rapping Evolution – An Interview With Baba Brinkman
Baba Brinkman is a Canadian rap artist, writer, and performer and the creator of “The Rap Guide to Evolution,” a hip-hop exploration of modern evolutionary biology, natural selection and evolutionary...
View ArticleThe Ghost in the Kitchen
Recently a video has been making the rounds on the internet showing security camera video of a glass plate flying off the shelf of a store in New Hampshire. What causes the plate to fly across the...
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Curse of the Evil Eye
Some time ago, Wanna Marchi, a popular Italian TV personality, sold lottery numbers that she claimed could allow her viewers to win. When some of the numbers actually did win (as probability...
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Skeptic Activists Fighting for Burzynski’s Cancer Patients
A group of skeptical activists has been aggressively investigating and challenging the false claims of the Burzynski clinic and its dubious cancer treatments, presenting reliable information about...
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Stanislaw Burzynski: Four Decades of an Unproven Cancer Cure
The Houston doctor Stanislaw Burzynski has been using an unproven cancer cure, “antineoplastons,” for decades, but despite its lack of proven anticancer activity, he has still not been shut down. Here...
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Giving up the Ghosts: Formerly Known as “Ghost Hunters”
Question: How does an avid ghost hunter and true believer in paranormal phenomena turn into an avowed skeptical commentator? Answer: With inherent curiosity, a genuine quest for the truth, a baloney...
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Noé
La última vez que visité el Museo Británico, me quedé petrificado ante un trozo de barro de 15 centímetros de largo y 13 de ancho. Se conoce como la Tablilla del Diluvio, procede de Mesopotamia y fue...
View ArticleDemarcation and Pseudoscience
My colleague Maarten Boudry and I just put together a collection of essays (Philosophy of Pseudoscience, University of Chicago Press) on what philosophers call “the demarcation problem,” the issue of...
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Bill Nye’s Take on the Nye-Ham Debate
For a variety of reasons scientists are generally advised not to debate creationists, thus the certain trepidation when our colleague, the well-known television science educator and CSI Fellow Bill...
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Neil deGrasse Tyson - Communicating Science
This classic Point of Inquiry interview with Neil deGrasse Tyson has now been transcribed and is available to read. If you'd rather listen to the interview, you can do so here. Transcription provided...
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Kevin Trudeau’s $18,000 Weight Loss Plan: A Book Review
When Kevin Trudeau was sentenced to ten years in prison recently, a lot of people scratched their heads. Sure, he had peddled and promoted a lot of nonsense in his day, from celebrating “natural...
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The ‘Bell Witch’ Poltergeist
Called “America’s best-known poltergeist case,” Tennessee’s sensational “Bell Witch” affair of ca. 1817–1821 has gone unexplained, it is said, for two centuries (“The Bell Witch” 2006). Its most vocal...
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Three Days of Science and Skepticism in Stockholm
It awards the Nobel Prizes in science and proudly portrays not a political figure but one of its most eminent scientists, botanist Carl von Linné (1707–1778), better known to the world as Linnaeus,...
View ArticleReduce Greenhouse Emissions and Make a Profit: My Forty-Year Focus on Climate...
In 1975, Cummins Engine executives asked me to look at the twenty-five-year future and then suggest the major problems that a multinational manufacturing company would face over that period. One year...
View ArticleChecking Out Consumer Rights With The Checkout – Interview With Julian Morrow
The Checkout is a satirical consumer affairs series on Australia’s ABC TV, presented by Julian Morrow and Craig Reucassel from the satirical comedy group, The Chaser, Kirsten Drysdale, Kate Browne,...
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An Intro to Homeopathy
Homeopathy is an alternative system of medicine that was invented by a German doctor at the beginning of the nineteenth century. Scientific knowledge about chemistry, physics, and biology tells us it...
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Ann Druyan: Telling the Story of the Cosmos
This recent Point of Inquiry interview with Ann Druyan has now been transcribed and is available to read. If you'd rather listen to the interview, you can do so here. Transcription provided by...
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The Weekend I Became a Reiki Healer
I am a Reiki practitioner, but I don’t believe in Reiki. That may sound like a contradiction, but apparently it isn’t. One of the lessons Jenny, my Reiki master, taught my class when we first gathered...
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