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ENVIRONMENTAL CONSPIRACIES

Why do conspiracy theorists believe natural events are intentionally manipulated?

“YOU CAN’T SAY THAT!”

Note: A shorter version of this essay was

VEXED by the UN-VAXXED

Why collective action problems like ending the pandemic are soluble if we understand the underlying motivations of vaccine hesitancy

MISUNDERSTANDING VACCINES

As a biologist with a general understanding of

WHY WOULD GOD CREATE THE UNIVERSE?

“In the beginning God created the heavens and

DISTORTING DARWINISM

Evolution can shed light on the human condition. But skepticism is needed when bleak claims are declared from the armchair

HAVANA SYNDROME HYSTERIA & THE GREAT WILD GOOSE CHASE

Classified documents reveal that Havana Syndrome is very likely a psychogenic illness and not a sonic attack by foreign actors

ELECTROHYPERSENSITIVITY AS A NEW PSYCHOLOGICAL DISORDER

“Electrohypersensitivity syndrome,” or EHS, can be described as

IMPERFECT JOURNEY

Review of Hawking Hawking: The Selling of a Scientific Celebrity by Charles Seife

DECEPTION & SELF DECEPTION

Reviews of Mysteries & Secrets Revealed: From Oracles at Delphi to Spiritualism in America by Loren Pankratz and The Conjurer’s Conundrum: My Life in Magic & Skepticism by Jamy Ian Swiss

HOAXED

Review of The Century of Deception: The Birth of the Hoax in Eighteenth- Century England by Ian Keable

AUTHORS & CONTRIBUTORS

Michelle Ainsworth holds an MA in History and

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MISUNDERSTANDING FREE WILL (Which We Don’t Have)

David Reeve In “The Paradox of Free Will”

PENGUIN PARADOX

Serious Skeptical Lessons from an Apparently Silly Story