Do Cosmetic Consumers Really Know What Ingredients They Are Using? An Inquiry into the Search for the ‘Truth’

When Science and Psi Collide

Two issues ago, we published without comment here an important

NINE EVIDENCE-BASED GUIDELINES FOR A 'GOOD LIFE'

A LIST OF GUIDELINES FOR A “GOOD LIFE” BASED EMPIRICALLY ON WHAT ACTUALLY WORKS FOR PEOPLE, AS DISCOVERED BY MODERN PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE

The Presidential Curse and the Election of 2020

As the 2020 presidential election approaches, talk of the presidential death curse has been renewed. Yet this hex has more to do with human psychology than the malevolent musings of a nineteenth-century medicine man

Everything Means Something in Viking

With the twenty-first century resurgence in racist bigotry in the Anglo-American and European world, racists have appropriated nineteenth-century Viking pseudohistory to bolster their belief in white supremacy

Percival Lowell and the Canals of Mars Part II: How to See Things That Aren’t There

The same errors of observation and interpretation that led Percival Lowell and others to see “canals” on Mars can happen today. New experiments show that 30 percent of presumably rational respondents provided completely imaginary accounts of structures while looking at a blank white disk

Hot Month, Hot Year, Hot Planet: Absorbing the Latest Climate News

After this past summer’s sizzling heat, many people will undoubtedly

From ‘Cosmic Watergate’ to Cosmic Watermelon: The Stanton Friedman I Knew

I first started studying UFO reports on October 17, 1973

Witch Hunting Requires an International Response

One of the state’s overarching obligations is protection of its

What We Get Wrong When We Talk about UFOs

If you’re reluctant to believe the latest round of media

Another Scandal for Psychology: Daryl Bem’s Data Massage

In a tweet on August 16, 2019, psychologist Richard Landers

2019 Richard Dawkins Award Goes to Ricky Gervais

Multi award-winning stand-up comedian, screenwriter, and actor Ricky Gervais received

CFI Survey on Homeopathy: Consumers Feel Scammed by Walmart and CVS

Exposure to the truth about the pseudoscience of homeopathy leads

Wim Betz, Belgian Physician, Noted Critic of Unproven Remedies, Dies at Seventy-Six

With great sadness the Flemish Belgian skeptics group SKEPP (Studiekring

Betz was well known worldwide as a fierce critic of homeopathy and other unproven remedies and was one of the founders of SKEPP in 1990

Betz also criticized attempts to bestow recognition to homeopathy, acupuncture,

Honors to Fraknoi, Vyse, Other CSI Fellows

Some recent honors awarded to fellows of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry:

Skeptical Activist Robert Lancaster Dead at Sixty-One

Robert Lancaster, one of the pioneers of internet-based skeptical activism,

Haunted Asylums: Imagining Scary Ghosts

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

Whither Chiropractic?

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

An Adventure in Peer Review

Stuart Vyse is a psychologist and author of Believing in

The GIGO Problem: Crop Circle Research Edition

Benjamin Radford is a research fellow at the Committee for

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NORTH CAROLINA GHOST LIGHTS AND LEGENDS. Charles F. Gritzner. Gritzner—a

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I found the reasoning in the article “Why Parapsychological Claims

The Advocates of Pseudoscience Are Not Monsters—but Pseudoscience Is

Pseudoscience: The Conspiracy against Science. Allison B. Kaufman and James

An Owner’s Manual for the Vagina

Considering that half the population has one, the vagina has

Finding Science and Wonder, Making Meaning

Sasha Sagan has written a book for turbulent times. It’s