Research into Astrology Made Accessible

Fake News and Fake Science in the Age of Misinformation

We could say that the whole reason the Skeptical Inquirer

Over 150 Scientific Organizations, Sixty-Two Nobel Laureates urge Repeal of Controversial Immigration Ban

The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and

Chicken Acceleration? APA Puts Imprimatur on Credulous Psi Book

The 2017 publication of Transcendent Mind: Rethinking the Science of

Kazoo Magazine Aims to Encourage Girls in Science

A crowdfunding project has helped launch a new magazine, Kazoo,

Library Catalogs Deny Science Denial

Many libraries stock works such as Donald Prothero’s Reality Check:

Information Bias in Library Catalogs

Sanford Berman (see preceding News and Comment piece) has been

Still ‘Amazing’: A Conversation with James Randi

Part 2: The famous conjuror, investigator, and author—and founding fellow

Some Queensland Mysteries

Joe Nickell, PhD, is a former stage magician, private investigator,

It Just Never Stops …

James Randi began his career as a stage magician and

The Return of the Fairies

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

The Mindfulness Movement

How a Buddhist Practice Evolved into a Scientific Approach to Life

Your Unlearning Report

Empathy Is Bad, You’re Not as Racist as You Thought, and Believing in Luck Won’t Help Your Golf Game

Can Electromagnetic Fields Create Ghosts?

Benjamin Radford is a research fellow at the Committee for

Science and History Get Personal

One of the oldest scientific societies in existence, The Royal

SURVIVING THE MIS INFORMATION AGE

For ourselves and our society, survival in the current era will require building our foundation on facts

Statin Denialism

The benefits of statins far outweigh their risks, but public perception has been skewed by alarmist misinformation from statin denialists

Vaccines, Autism, and the Promotion of Irrelevant Research: A Science-Pseudoscience Analysis

Proponents of the vaccination-autism link have created a bogus scientific debate by providing lists of studies that supposedly support their claims. In actuality, these studies are typically questionable or irrelevant. We identify this as its own developing pseudoscientific tactic: the promotion of irrelevant research

Helping Teachers Teach Evolution in the United States

The Teacher Institute for Evolutionary Science provides middle school science teachers with valuable science content and resources to improve evolution understanding in the United States

Everything You Know about Being Rh-Negative Is Wrong

There are numerous claims regarding the Rh-negative blood type’s origin, association with physical and personality traits, and potential disease resistance. Science does not support these claims

Understanding Manufactroversies

Creating Scientific Controversies: Uncertainty and Bias in Science and Society

NEW AND NOTABLE

Listing does not preclude future review

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

It is disappointing to learn how “sluggish” stem cell re

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