An Open Letter to Animal Planet: Learn The Difference Between Real and Fake Monsters
This post was originally published on my new Scientific American blog, Overthinking It Dear Animal Planet: All monsters are not …
This post was originally published on my new Scientific American blog, Overthinking It Dear Animal Planet: All monsters are not …
This post was originally published on Randi.org If alternative medicine wants to be taken more seriously, the studies must be …
This post was originally published on Randi.org “A coincidence is like a magic trick. There is an instant tension between …
This post originally appeared on Randi.org SkyMall bugs me. It bugs me not just because it sells a helmet lined …
This post originally appeared on Randi.org If you have a friend who likes to lift weights, it’s time to make …
This post originally appeared on Randi.org Maybe a supreme being is saving you from rattlesnake venom, but it’s easier to …
This post originally appeared on Randi.org A few weeks ago, Michael Shermer, founder of Skeptic Magazine and the Skeptics Society, …
There has always been a lot of arguing over “organic” and “natural” foods. Recently, the brunt of this arguing came …
This post originally appeared on the front page of Scientific American You careen headlong into a blinding light. Around you, …
Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson debunks the 2012 Mayan Apocalypse by exploring (in tweets) the underlying science and lack of science …
This post originally appeared on Randi.org It is at this point a lamentable mantra among those interested in getting good …
This post originally appeared at the James Randi Educational Foundation We are wizards of pattern recognition. We swear to witness …
Carl Sagan, astronomer, communicator, author, intellectual, and skeptic, was a personification of all the things that we love about science, …
In late October manga artist Sara Mayhew and I hung out on Google+. Every month Sara takes donations to do …
As a community that regularly fights over labels, what we choose to call ourselves is a fluid concept. To us, …
Though we are a diverse, independent, and freethinking group, we do not escape the trappings of tribalism. We gather around …
In graduate school I completed a literature review on the use of oppositional language in medicine. Ever the skeptic, I …
The information age has brought along with it the perils of having a fallible mind. Pseudosciences, scams, hoaxes, frauds, and …
“I think I have you skeptics figured out,” he said with a cautious smirk. “For you this isn’t about the …
Perhaps it is a product of the “green/natural/organic” movement, but there seems to be a war on chemicals in the …