THE LAST LAUGH

Cold Fusion to E-Cat: From Pathological Science to … Worse

It is hard to believe three decades have passed. This

COLD FUSION Thirty Years Later

In March 1989, the claim of a revolutionary discovery in nuclear energy production galvanized the scientific community. It turned into a classic case of pathological science—and a textbook example of the self-correcting nature of science

Why E-Cat Is a Hoax

Energy Catalysis, or E-Cat, claims to generate nuclear energies on a tabletop—a scientifically impossible feat. Nonetheless, its inventor, Andrea Rossi, has fooled companies into investing in it

The Sputtering Engine of Creator Belief

Far from belief in a supernatural creator being a natural consequence of the way our brains work like language, materialism, and sex, it is an easily cast-off opinion quickly losing ground in the United States and much of the world

It Is Not the God Engine That Sputters ...

A Response to Gregory Paul

Screening for Prostate and Breast Cancer: It’s More Complex Than You May Think

Cancer screening searches for cancer before its symptoms appear. Messages encouraging screening for prostate and breast cancer are not only filled with misleading statistics, they also do not discuss the most significant harm of screening: being diagnosed and treated needlessly

Better Than Dumbledore

Have you ever wondered what it would be like if

Could Multiple Personality Disorder Explain Life, the Universe, and Everything?

Authors Bernardo Kastrup, Adam Crabtree, and Edward Kelly posed the

Fringe Scientist Santilli’s Suit Against Dutch Astronomer Settled

An American fringe scientist sued an innocent astronomer on the

The New IPCC Report on Global Warming of 1.5°C

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) special report released

Social Media–Fueled Child Abduction Rumors Lead to Killings

Misinformation is always problematic but can be especially malicious in

UK eHarmony Ads Banned for False Claims of Science

In January 2018, Britain’s Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) banned advertisements

Kraken: Monster of the Deep

Joe Nickell, PhD, is CSI’s senior research fellow. This year,

How to Be Skeptics 2.0 with the Help of … YouTube

Massimo Polidoro is an investigator of the paranormal, lecturer, and

Is Acupuncture Winning?

Harriet Hall, MD, also known as “The SkepDoc,” is a

Talking Science and Society at Church

Let’s Put Aside Differences to Tackle Society’s Biggest Challenges

‘Class A’ Bigfoot Report Reveals Little about the Beast—and Much about the Seekers

Benjamin Radford is a research fellow at the Committee for

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The God Engine

I thoroughly enjoyed your article “The God Engine” in the

Rethinking Radiation and Nuclear Power

The article by Jeanne Goldberg is an essential contribution, not

Advocating Science to Religious Believers

The commentary by Davidson, Hill, and Wolgemuth recommends that the

Challenging Homeopathy

In the September/October issue, Kendrick Frazier describes comparison tests of

Creating an Apparition

The September/October issue of Skeptical Inquirer contains a three-page special

Readers’ Myopia on Pinker

Regarding the reader comments (Letters to Editor, September/October 2018) on

A Skeptical Guide through the Conspiracy Rabbit Hole

After devoting the past fifteen years to online conspiracy-fighting projects

What Are Contact ‘Experiencers’ Really Experiencing?

Beyond UFOs: The Science of Consciousness and Contact with Non-Human

Say It Isn’t So

Rigor Mortis: How Sloppy Science Creates Worthless Cures, Crushes Hope,

We Need to Put the Reproducibility Problem in Perspective

“Let us hope it is not true, but if it