Can Anything Save Us from Unintended Consequences?

Te Fires of Creationists, and Rallying for Science

You have to hand it to the creationists, especially the

Academies Report Urges Bolstered Efforts to Protect Integrity of Science

The scientific enterprise places high value on honesty and openness

A Scientist Pushes Psychology Journals toward Open Data

The March 9 Nature reported some disturbing news: “An editor

Burzynski Sanctioned by Texas Medical Board

On March 3, 2017, the Texas Medical Board sanctioned Houston

Hans Rosling Brought Data to Life, Showed Our Misconceptions about the World

Many skeptics outside Sweden first encountered Professor Hans Rosling at

Humanities, Too: In New Study, History Courses in Critical Thinking Reduce Pseudoscientific Beliefs

We often think of the need for critical thinking in

Murder by Darkness: Does Mammoth Cave’s Specter Harbor a Secret?

Joe Nickell, a former magician and private detective, did graduate

The Farce Known as ‘FC’

James Randi began his career as a stage magician and

The Monster of Florence: Case Closed?

The Terrifying Story of the Most Infamous Ritual Murders in Italian History, Part 1

The March for Science

Partisan Protests Put Public Trust in Scientists at Risk

The Phoenix Driveway Ghost

Benjamin Radford is a research fellow at the Committee for

FIRE-BREATHING DINOSAURS?

Physics, Fossils, and Functional Morphology vs. Pseudoscience

DID AUSTRALIA’S ABORIGINES SEE PLESIOSAURS? YES-IN A CHILDREN’S BOOK

To support their claim that humans and plesiosaurs coexisted, antievolution publications cite as evidence a plesiosaur painting by an artist of the Kuku Yalanji tribe of Australia. However, the painting is actually a copy of an illustration in a 1960 children’s book on dinosaurs

JonBenet Murder Mystery Solved? (Not by Psychics)

The death of six-year-old beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey went unsolved for two decades. Psychics were worse than useless, but the author’s proposed solution resulted from evaluating the best evidence

‘Psychic Detective’ Noreen Renier: The Grinch Who Stole Christmas from a Grieving Family

August 12, 1989, was to be a joyous day for

The Danger of Chromotherapy

Despite the lack of scientific evidence for its effectiveness and its use of esoteric theories to describe its mechanisms of action, chromotherapy has become popular. But is it safe?

An Investigation of the Missing411 Conspiracy

In his “Missing411” series of books, author David Paulides claims that people are going missing from U.S. national parks under unusual circumstances and the National Park Service is obstructing attempts to investigate. What are the facts?

Maria Konnikova Wins CSI’s Balles Prize in Critical Thinking for The Confidence Game

In her acclaimed bestselling book The Confidence Game: Why We

Why We Often Get Risks Wrong

Getting Risk Right: Understanding the Science of Elusive Health Risks

A Good Analysis of Bad UFO Information

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The Bigfoot Obsession

Monster Trek: The Obsessive Search for Bigfoot. By Joe Gisondi

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