Lizzie Borden’s Eighty-One Whacks: Table-Tipping Testimony from a Spirit?

BEWARE THE NATUROPATHIC CANCER Quack

Naturopathic medicine is not any kind of medicine, and its practitioners are nothing short of quacks. I know because I used to be one. Herein lies my story

How Good Are Past Predictions of Global Warming?

Critics of climate science claim that climate models lack predictive skill. In fact, some of the earliest predictions made thirty years ago have performed remarkably well

Dubious Claims in Psychotherapy for Youth Part II: Internalizing Issues

This is the second article in a three-part series about questionable ideas in child and adolescent psychotherapy. Topics in this installment relate to internalizing issues in youth and include naturopathic medicine for mania, dream interpretation for depression, fears about Bigfoot, superstitious rituals for anxiety, attachment parenting, and homeopathy for psychosis

General Nathan F. Twining and the Flying Disc Problem of 1947

In 1947, the United States was dealing with reports of flying discs in its airspace. Were they a secret U.S. program or of foreign origin? General Nathan F. Twining signed a letter confirming the existence of the discs but admitted to not knowing their origin. Did the discs ever really exist?

From Fantasyland America to the Fabric of Space and Time

Celebrating Science and Probing Our Public Confusions

How to Win the New Climate War

“There is general scientific agreement that … mankind is influencing

Believing in Science Is Not Understanding the Science: Brazilian Surveys

More Brazilians believe in the importance of vaccines than in

Conversions, Courage, and Climate

Conversion stories—from people who held unsubstantiated beliefs but changed their

A Small Victory for Science in Suburban Philadelphia

In December 2019 in a suburb of Philadelphia, science enjoyed

‘Mysterious’ Drones Sighted over Colorado

As 2019 came to a close, news reports spread about

Record Heat Wave, Catastrophic Wildfires Hit Australia

Our special report “Hot Month, Hot Year, Hot Planet” in

Fifty-Year Performance of Climate Models: They Accurately Forecast Today’s Global Warming

In a feature article in this issue, veteran climate scientist

King Arthur Found?

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

In Praise of Uncertainty

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

Are Atheists Sadder but Wiser?

Stuart Vyse is a psychologist and author of Believing in

The Mindful Climate Writer Finding My Voice in a Culture of Extremes

Matthew Nisbet is professor of communication, public policy and urban

Have I Ever Seen a Ghost?

Benjamin Radford is a research fellow at the Committee for

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

I read with interest Gary Bakker’s article promoting evidence-based guidelines

The Hidden Biases Men Just Don’t See

Unlike many popular books on gender differences and conflicts, Invisible

No War between Science and Religion? Many Scientists Disagree

In the introduction to The Warfare between Science and Religion,

Truth Matters, and the Scientific Attitude Helps Find It

Science is under attack. The evidence for global warming is