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An Open Letter to Animal Planet: Learn The Difference Between Real and Fake Monsters

May 28, 2013

This post was originally published on my new Scientific American blog, Overthinking It Dear Animal Planet: All monsters are not …

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Small Study of Reflexology Finds Nothing, Headline Should Read

May 16, 2013

This post was originally published on Randi.org If alternative medicine wants to be taken more seriously, the studies must be …

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Coincidences Are Meaningful, Just Not Like That

April 20, 2013

This post was originally published on Randi.org “A coincidence is like a magic trick. There is an instant tension between …

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SkyMall Bugs Me

March 8, 2013

This post originally appeared on Randi.org SkyMall bugs me. It bugs me not just because it sells a helmet lined …

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The Lady Who Is Impossible To Lift

February 22, 2013

This post originally appeared on Randi.org If you have a friend who likes to lift weights, it’s time to make …

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The Snake and The Preacher: Skepticism on Primetime TV

February 6, 2013

This post originally appeared on Randi.org Maybe a supreme being is saving you from rattlesnake venom, but it’s easier to …

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Taking the Lift Out of Street Levitation, with Physics!

December 13, 2012

This post originally appeared on Randi.org A few weeks ago, Michael Shermer, founder of Skeptic Magazine and the Skeptics Society, …

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Does Mother Nature Always Know What’s Best?

December 11, 2012

There has always been a lot of arguing over “organic” and “natural” foods. Recently, the brunt of this arguing came …

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The Death of “Near Death”: Even If Heaven Is Real, You Aren’t Seeing It

December 7, 2012

This post originally appeared on the front page of Scientific American You careen headlong into a blinding light. Around you, …

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Neil deGrasse Tyson on the 2012 “Apocalypse”

December 2, 2012

Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson debunks the 2012 Mayan Apocalypse by exploring (in tweets) the underlying science and lack of science …

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Enjoy The Show

November 29, 2012

This post originally appeared on Randi.org It is at this point a lamentable mantra among those interested in getting good …

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Inoculated Against Illusion: Skeptics and Face-Pareidolia

November 15, 2012

This post originally appeared at the James Randi Educational Foundation We are wizards of pattern recognition. We swear to witness …

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Happy Carl Sagan Day!

November 9, 2012

Carl Sagan, astronomer, communicator, author, intellectual, and skeptic, was a personification of all the things that we love about science, …

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Live Manga Doodles!

October 25, 2012

In late October manga artist Sara Mayhew and I hung out on Google+. Every month Sara takes donations to do …

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Belonging and Bouncing

August 31, 2012

As a community that regularly fights over labels, what we choose to call ourselves is a fluid concept. To us, …

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There Is Nothing Wrong With “I Don’t Know”

August 16, 2012

Though we are a diverse, independent, and freethinking group, we do not escape the trappings of tribalism. We gather around …

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CAM and the Language Problem

August 9, 2012

In graduate school I completed a literature review on the use of oppositional language in medicine. Ever the skeptic, I …

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Skepticism and The Second Enlightenment

July 26, 2012

The information age has brought along with it the perils of having a fallible mind. Pseudosciences, scams, hoaxes, frauds, and …

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The Skeptical Disconnect Redux

July 20, 2012

“I think I have you skeptics figured out,” he said with a cautious smirk. “For you this isn’t about the …

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The Great “Detox” Deception

July 10, 2012

Perhaps it is a product of the “green/natural/organic” movement, but there seems to be a war on chemicals in the …

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