How to Know What’s Really Real

The SkepDoc

Is Low-Dose Radiation Good for You? The Questionable Claims for Hormesis

The Gadfly

Define Your Terms (or, Here we Go Again)

Making Gasoline from Water

John Andrews and the Invention of a Legend

Online Gaming

A Virtual Experiment in the Dark Side of Human Nature

Duped by Data Mining

DATA MINING INVOLVES RANSACKING DATA AND searching

How Science Will Explain and Fix Fake News

THE INSTANT, GLOBAL SPREAD OF INFORMATION through the

The Cult of Falun Gong

How this Group Raises Big Money Using a Dance Troupe and its Own Victimhood

The Opioid Epidemic Misunderstood

DRUG OVERDOSE IS NOW THE LEADING CAUSE OF death for

Why the Human- Centered View Has Not Served us Well

“Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world’s

Behe’s Last Stand

The Lion of Intelligent Design Roars Again

Straw Man on a Slippery Slope

The Case Against the Case Against Postmodernism

A Disproof of God’s Existence

THE TRADITIONAL DEFINITION OF GOD CREDITS HIM WITH

Coddling Untruths

A Review of The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas are Setting Up a Generation for Failure by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt

What Are Ghosts, Anyway?

A review of Investigating Ghosts: The Scientific Search for Spirits by Benjamin Radford

Hoaxed!

Reviews of Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post- Facts, and Fake News by Kevin Young and Hoax: A History of Deception: 5000 Years of Fakes, Forgeries, and Fallacies by Ian Tattersall and Peter Nevraumont

The Mead-Freeman Controversy 4.0

Review of Truth’s Fool: Derek Freeman and the War Over Anthropology by Peter Hempenstall.

CONTRIBUTORS

Michelle E. Ainsworth holds an MA in history. She enjoys

QUEST FOR THE TRUTH ABOUT DUNGEONS & DRAGONS

Today we’ll sharpen our pencils, pick up our magical

INVENTING WARGAMES

As we’ll learn, role-playing games (RPGs) such as Dungeons

PLUNGE INTO FANTASY

Strategy board games like Risk were complicated enough

A DARKER MAZE

It took a year to sell the first thousand Dungeons

THE SATANIC PANIC

Fear of Satanic cults trickled first through certain

D&D’s TRIUMPHANT RETURN

Eventually the Satanic Panic faded away. The FBI concluded