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The SkepDoc

New Rumpelstiltskin? How Gwyneth Paltrow Spins Straw into Gold

CONTRIBUTORS

Dr. Gabriel Andrade was born and raised in Maracaibo

Fat Man and Little Boy

On the 75th Anniversary of Nuclear Weapons, a Moral Case for Their Use in Ending WWII and the Deterrence of Great Power Wars Since, and a Call to Eventually Eliminate Them

The Rise and Fall of Charles Willson Peale’s Philadelphia Museum

The first major museum in the United States—an Enlightenment

The Testimony of Witnesses: Raising the Dead

ONE OF THE COMMON ARGUMENTS I NVOKED TO support assertions

Conspiracy Theories

Why We Can't Unsee Patterns—Real or Imagined— Once We See Them

Do Diversity Training Programs Work?

Creating a Culture of Inclusion through Scientific Reasoning

Unpacking Political Life in America

The Skeptics Society’s Social and Political Attitudes Study

How Do You Get People to Care About Truth in Politics?

DO YOU FEEL ANGRY AND DISGUSTED WHEN POLITICIANS lie

Are Laws of Nature Discovered or Invented?

Continuous Change, Discrete Events, and the Nature of Reality

The Art of the Skeptic

Finding Your Niche if You Love Both Science and Art

QAnon in Context

THE CONSPIRACY THEORY QANON—WHICH HOLDS THAT A SECRET

QAnon Is Just a Warmed Over Witch Panic—and It’s Also Very Dangerous

AS 2020 NEARS ITS END AND THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC continues

Cynically Skeptical

A review of Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything About Race, Gender and Identity by Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay.

The Gods of the West

A review of Return of the Strong Gods: Nationalism, Populism, and the Future of the West by R.R. Reno

THE HONEST TRUTH ABOUT VACCINES

Publisher and Editor In Chief Pat Linse

INOCULATING AMERICA

America’s first experiment with inoculation took place

COWS TO THE RESCUE!

For seven decades after the Boston experiments, inoculation

BATTLES AGAINST DISEASE

During the iate 19th and 20th centuries, medicai scientists

ANTI-VACCINE MYTHS

Modern vaccines are extremely safe. Most people should

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