Recently added articles from Skeptic (Altadena, CA):
Vaccines and autism: a deadly manufactroversy.
Jun 22, 2009; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after."--Jonathan Swift DURING A QUESTION AND ANSWER SESSION after a talk I recently gave, I was asked for my opinion about the vaccine/autism controversy. That was easy: my opinion is that there is ...
It's time to teach the controversy: since creationism isn't going away, let's use it in the classroom to teach the difference between Science and Pseudoscience.
Jun 22, 2009; ... "Always after a defeat and a respite, the Shadow takes another shape and grows again." --J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings I AM REMINDED OF TOLKIEN'S WORDS WHENEVER I consider the history of creationism in the United States. The pattern is by now very familiar: ...
Hot feet and cool reason--investigating the firewalking phenomenon.('Twas Brillig ...)(Viewpoint essay)
Mar 22, 2009; ... THE HANDLING OF FIRE AND flame, and the apparent immunity to their effects, have been matters of much interest to humanity for many centuries. Countless "Human Salamanders" have astonished crowds at mediaeval fairs, and fire-eaters still attract attention in this age of technology, ...
Homeopathy: still crazy after all these years.(The SkepDoc)
Mar 22, 2009; ... HOMEOPATHY IS ONE OF THE longest running forms of pseudoscience in the modern world. Oliver Wendell Holmes recognized that it was nonsense back in 1842 when he wrote "Homeopathy and Its Kindred Delusions." We long ago gave up the nonsense of trying to balance the four humours by ...
How we staged the Morristown UFO hoax.
Mar 22, 2009; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] HAVE YOU EVER SEEN THE FACE OF the Virgin Mary on your grilled cheese sandwich? How about the image of Satan in a cloud of smoke? Or Sasquatch running through the woods? What about an alien spacecraft in the sky? It is not difficult to find ...