Great Expectations: House Hearing on UAP Excites Fans, Offers Little Else

Skepticism’s Newly Recognized Relevance

Suddenly the things we skeptics have been warning

Jan. 6 Investigation Testimony Reveals Conspiracy-Riddled Trump White House

In June, the House committee investigating the January

Rumors on WhatsApp Lead to Mob Killings in Mexico

On Friday, June 10, 2022, thirty-oneyear-old Daniel Picazo,

Belgian Skeptics Group Wins Defamation Lawsuit

Website for Carl Van de Velde’s Training Institute,

‘I’m Not Superstitious, but I Am a Little Stitious’: Even Skeptics Cross Their Fingers

Just in time for 2022’s solitary Friday the

New Fitness ‘Poop Pill’ Promises Olympic-Level Results

There’s a new product supposedly meant to aid

Griffith Observatory Premiers Signs of Life Documentary

The Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles premiered its

Double Myster y: The Murder and Secret Life of ... Jack the Ripper?

Joe Nickell, PhD, has written treatises on old writings and writing materials as well as on detecting forged handwriting and artifacts. He has been involved in many famous cases.

The Dreams of Our Ancestors

Massimo Polidoro is an investigator of the paranormal, lecturer, and cofounder and head of CICAP, the Italian skeptics group. His website is at www.massimopolidoro.com .

A Different Take on E.O. Wilson

Massimo Pigliucci is the K.D. Irani Professor of Philosophy at the City College of New York. His books include Nonsense on Stilts: How to Tell Science from Bunk (Chicago Press) and Philosophy of Pseudoscience (coedited with Maarten Boudry, Chicago Press). More by him at https://massimopigliucci.blog .

An Explanation for Gulf War Illness

Harriet Hall, MD, also known as “The SkepDoc,” is a retired family physician, a CSI fellow, and an editor of the Science-Based Medicine blog. Her website is www.skepdoc. info.

Is Autism Really a Spectrum?

Stuart Vyse is a psychologist and author of Believing in Magic: The Psychology of Superstition, which won the William James Book Award of the American Psychological Association. He is a fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry.

Skeptical Recurrence and Decay

Mick West is a writer, investigator, and debunker who enjoys looking into the evidence behind conspiracy theories and strange phenomena and then explaining what is actually going on. He runs the Metabunk forum, tweets @mickwest, and is the author of the book Escaping the Rabbit Hole.

Debunking ‘ Weapons of Mass Distraction’ Conspiracies

Benjamin Radford is a research fellow at the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry and author or coauthor of thirteen books, including Big—If True: Adventures in Oddity.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR]

E.O. Wilson Thank you very much for your

First James Webb Space Telescope Images

Far-field Galaxy Cluster and Most Distant Galaxies, New ‘Star Birth,' Stephan’s Quintet

Critical Study of Nonsense Finally a Mainstream Concern

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Rebooting Critical Thinking

Helen Lee Bouygues. Credit: The Reboot Foundation. Helen

From Debunking to Prebunking

How Skeptical Activism Must Evolve to Meet the Growing Anti-Science Threat

How to Sell Pseudoscience

A great way to protect yourself against grifters and their snake oil is to learn the techniques they use to sell it. So let’s have some fun and pretend to sell bunk!

9/11 at 21: Perspectives in Light of the COVID-19 Pandemic

While the overall response to the 9/11 attacks was an overreaction, the critically delayed response to the far more deadly global pandemic has been an underreaction. Why?

Are Skeptics Wrong about the Value of Anecdotes?

Anecdotes can have an important role in science if the correct population for conclusions is identified and special care is taken about bias. They can even be utilized in formal testing of some skeptical hypotheses about anomalous phenomena.

Acknowledgments

My thanks to Valentin Popov and four anonymous

Predictions—or Coincidences?

“Psays the jacket text on this remonitions are

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Questioning the Quest for Immortality

In Greek mythology, Orpheus goes to the underworld

A Brief Response to Pigliucci’s Column on E.O. Wilson

This is a response to Massimo Pigliucci’s "The

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