Lincoln’s ‘Haunting’ Presence

Do We Really Want Science-Informed Candidates?

The 2016 American presidential campaign has been in full swing

THE LIE DETECTOR TEST REVISITED A Great Example of Junk Science

Recently I came across one of television’s true crime programs

Trends in Scientific Knowledge, Education, and Religion

Knowledge of elementary scientific facts is all too sparse among

The Science of Meaning

According to the mainstream, traditional notions, science cannot answer life’s

Mistaken Memories of Vampires: Pseudohistories of the Chupacabra

Most people assume that the chupacabra, like its cryptozoological brethren

Deepak Chopra’s ‘Physics’

Crackpot scientists are very fond of abusing and trivializing science—especially

Invasion of the Pod People

Walking Among Us: The Alien Plan to Control Humanity. By

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GOD IS WATCHING YOU: How the Fear of God Makes

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Kudos to Dr. Morton E. Tavel for his article “Correlations:

What Exxon Knew About Arctic Warming Twenty-Five Years Ago

A major new investigation thoroughly documents how a big oil

AP Stylebook Decision on Climate Denial Terms Follows CSI Fellows Guidance . . . Up to a Point

In December 2014, our Committee for Skeptical Inquiry issued a

Facilitated Communication Consent Claimed in Sexual Assault Trial

A Rutgers-Newark professor was accused of sexually assaulting a disabled

SI Vindicated in Questioning Turin Shroud Claims

Over a decade ago in the pages of Skeptical Inquirer

Dick Smith Receives High Award in Australia

Dick Smith, a longtime fellow of the Committee for Skeptical

Satanic Panic Redux: Police Suggest Florida Killings Linked to Witchcraft

A triple homicide in Florida in July 2015 was suspected

Mysterious Indian Stone Etching Mystery Solved

Rumors of a supernatural phenomenon circulated among residents of two

The Sixteenth European Skeptics Congress, London, 2015

The Sixteenth European Skeptics Congress was held at Goldsmiths College,

The SkeptiCal Conference

I love attending skeptic conferences. For much of my life

Skepticism in Popular Music: The Art of Discourse

Nearly 500 people crowd The Fashion Institute of Technology’s Haft

Illusions of Memory

T he honorary doctorate being awarded by Goldsmiths is deeply

The Brown Mountain Lights: Solved! (Again!)

Joe Nickell, PhD, a former private detective, did graduate work

Hanging Out with Hangar 1

Sheaffer’s “Psychic Vibrations” column has appeared in the Skeptical Inquirer

Have You Seen the Toucan Man?

Benjamin Radford is a research fellow at the Committee for

The X-Files Effect?

Matthew Nisbet is associate professor of communication at Northeastern University