The Skeptic Gives 2023 Ockham and Rusty Razor Awards

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Bigfoot Is Dead!

Best Animal Discovery of 2023: The Hoop Snake

Of Hoop Snake in Action. Photo credit: Evan

Alleged Extraterrestrial Beings in Mexico

Image credit: Daniel Cardenas / Anadolu Agency via

Guidance from a Numerologist: Argentina’s National Bank

When Argentina’s national bank, Banco de la Nación

Child Rescue Group Used Psychic in (Not) Saving Children

The film The Sound of Freedom, released on

The Million Dollar Extraterrestrial Search

Image credit: Eric BVD - stock.adobe.com Ring,

Guidance Offered to Counter Marketing of Unproven Cell and Gene Therapies

The Committee on the Ethics of Cell &

Whodunit? The ‘Murder’ of Edgar Allan Poe Solved at Last

Joe Nickell, PhD, was a Pinkerton operative and

Pseudoscience: An Ancient Problem

Massimo Pigliucci is the K.D. Irani Professor of

The Mozart Effect Lives On

Stuart Vyse is a psychologist and author

What Happened to Chemtrails?

Mick West is a writer, investigator, and debunker

When Pseudoscience Dies: A Biorhythm Case Study

Craig A. Foster is a CSI fellow and

Investigating the Silent Chamber of Insanity

Benjamin Radford is a research fellow at the

NEW AND NOTABLE BOOKS]

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FUN & GAMES

EASTER EGG HUNT One page in this issue

Grimcutty Reveals Dark Thread Tying Together Cases of Moral Panic

Grimcutty. Written and directed by John Ross. Produced by 20th Digital Studio and Capture, 2022.

SECRETS REVEALED

IN THIS ISSUE… Paranormality | Superstition | Cryptozoology

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR ]

Persuasive Bullshitters I enjoyed John V. Petrocelli’s article

Committee for Skeptical Inquiry Elects Twelve New Fellows for 2023

Clark R. Chapman Stephen Hupp Meera Nanda Jerry

What You Last Saw (To Edgar Allan Poe)

How ill you were at the last we

Is Bigfoot Dead?

Twenty years ago, in this magazine I wrote

TIMELINE: Bigfoot’s Demise in the Twenty-First Century

2000: A team of prominent Bigfoot investigators from

Brain Training: Is There Evidence to Support the Claims?

T The brain training industry is now well-established, and

A Skeptical Approach to Guilt and Innocence in the Judicial Realm

Criminal justice is theoretically based on dispassionate, logical analysis of facts in evidence. An empirical, skeptical viewpoint can help us to understand why this is frequently not the case.

War on Cancer : An Updated Progress Repor t for Skeptics

Efforts to reduce cancer’s harm have made limited progress. Newly developed immunological drugs, including check point inhibitors, appear promising. But prevention is less costly and more effective.

Science Does Not Have All the Answers— and This Is Not a Problem

Noting that science can’t offer answers to everything is a rhetorical trick used by science deniers. This claim, however, helps us understand the nature of science.

Bring Us with You, Leave Us Anywhere!

Dear Reader, You love our magazine, so please

The Freedom of Speech Does Not Protect Healthcare Grifters

Heather Kokesch Del Castillo was a health coach

The Movie Review THEY Don’t Want You to Read

The UFO Movie THEY Don’t Want You to