Rise of Ayur veda: A Dangerous Trend to Decolonize the Scientific Method

Medical Pseudoscience: Here and Abroad, Old and New

Despite recent dazzling scientific advances (e.g., mRNA vaccines),

Harriet ‘SkepDoc’ Hall (1945–2023)

Beginning with her first published article in 2003,

Virulent: The Vaccine War Takes on the Anti-Vaccine Movement

A new film, dedicated to CSI Fellow and

Suspected QAnon Founder Admits Conspiracy Theory Is Bogus

In a sworn government deposition, James Watkins (the

2020 Voter Fraud Conspiracists Lose Steam—and Elections

In a heartening sign for critical thinking and

Biden Administration Introduces Scientific Integrity Effort

Soon after entering office, President Joe Biden launched

Timothy Caulfield Awarded Order of Canada for Battling Health Misinformation

Photo credit: Karl Withakay CSI Fellow and CSICon

Predictors of Susceptibility to Health Misinformation

Communication researchers from the University of Maryland reviewed

Solving the Disappearance of Judge Crater

Joe Nickell, PhD, a former magician and Pinkerton detective, has had a half-century career of solving the world’s great unsolved mysteries.

The ‘Failed’ Psychic: A Sad Story and a Warning

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

The Fallacy Game

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.org .

Health Effects of Loneliness

Harriet Hall, MD, also known as “The SkepDoc,” was a retired family physician, a CSI fellow, and an editor of the Science-Based Medicine blog until her death on January 11, 2023. Her website is www.skepdoc.info .

Scientific Contagion Spoils the Magic of Religion

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.

Into the Lion’s Den: Conferences as Skeptical Activism

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.

Wooooooo: Old Bovines in New Twaddle

Craig A. Foster is a CSI fellow and a professor in the SUNY Cortland Psychology Department where he teaches a class titled Psychology of Pseudoscience. Emalee L. Sickles and Emily E. Camp are undergraduate students at SUNY Cortland.

Mysteries of the Ica Stones

Benjamin Radford is a research fellow at the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry and author or coauthor of fourteen books, including America the Fearful: Media and the Marketing of National Panics.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Autism Politics I would like to point out

Harriet Hall Stepped Up

Harriet A. Hall was born in St. Louis,

A Great Doctor’s Rest (An Elegy for Harriet Hall)

You taught us well that what’s real is

The Hypocrisy of Medical Disinformation: A Report from Hungary

Pseudoscience is a huge industry—while pretending otherwise. Large companies unwittingly sponsor pseudoscientific disinformation websites through online advertising. Using a new methodology to estimate their profitability, we found staggering figures. If companies and ad platforms do not take action, they may be vulnerable to the dangers of pseudoscientific disinformation.

Homeopathy Research Hits New Low

A recent study of homeopathic treatments for lung cancer showed fantastic results—but they seem to be based on data manipulation and falsification instead of solid research.

Remembering Kendrick Frazier, Part Two

Some memorials and funerals are so well attended

A Kendrick Frazier Bibliography

Books by Ken Frazier: Shadows of Science: How

The Curious Case of the Carolina Lizard Man

A sighting of a strange creature near a small-town swamp single-handedly spawned a monster legend. Though decades have passed, a closer look at the claims and evidence reveals a likely culprit.

Moore (and Yet More Moore) on the Scopes Trial

The Scopes “Monkey Trial”: America’s Most Famous Trial