The Enduring Legend of the Changeling

Myths Driving Wildlife Extinction

We were on a walking trek in wilderness Tanzania. Our

CBS Drops Skepticism in Sunday Morning Paranormal Segment; CSI Issues Critical Statement

CBS is one of America’s premier television networks. It practically

FDA Has Duty to Crack Down on Homeopathic Fake Medicine, Says Center for Inquiry

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) must take a much

UFO over Arizona Likely an IFO

In March 2018, a month after the fact, the FAA

Woomonger Radio Host Art Bell Dies at Seventy-Two

Longtime radio talk show host and paranormal promoter Art Bell

Lies and False News Spread Faster, Farther Online Than Truth, Study Shows

“A lie can travel half way around the world while

‘Alien’ Mummy Identified By DNA

The mystery of Ata the mini-mummy began when seemingly humanoid

Balles Critical Thinking Prize Awarded to Authors of UFOs, Chemtrails, and Aliens

With their book UFOs, Chemtrails, and Aliens, Donald R. Prothero

Cell Phone Radiation and Cancer

New NTP Results Inconsistent; Random Chance Likely at Play

Gullible Reporting about ESP on CBS

In the 1970s and 1980s, belief in the paranormal was

CBS Sunday Morning Seers Don’t See So Well

On March 18, 2018, CBS Sunday Morning featured O an

The Anatomy and Pathology of Jihad

The Halloween 2017 terror attack in New York brought forth

Secrets of ‘The Flying Friar’: Did St. Joseph of Copertino Really Levitate?

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

The Phantom Menace of UFO Revelation

Benjamin Radford is a research fellow at the Committee for

WILDLIFE APOCALYPSE: How Myths and Superstitions Are Driving Animal Extinctions

Demand for wildlife body parts for scientifically unproven medicinal remedies and paranormal trinkets is causing a world-wide crisis for many endangered animal species, including rhinos and elephants

Skepticism Reloaded

A leading skeptic addresses the essence of contemporary skepticism and highlights the vital nonpartisan and science-based role of skeptics in preventing deception and harm

Lotus Birth

An alternative birth practice called lotus birth—not cutting the umbilical cord after delivery—is a poorly studied phenomenon with high risks and low benefits. It’s also not traditional; the fad dates back only to the 1970s

Speed Reading: Fact or Fiction?

Several years ago, I came across the manual for a

Skepticism and Literature in Nineteenth-Century Spain

A nineteenth-century Spanish story offers a devastating critique of pseudomedicine. In at least twelve ways, it anticipates the bogus rationales offered for today’s quack medicine

Dead Varmint Vision at Its Funniest

An Alleged Dinosaur with Breasts in a Medieval Carving

Response to Ken Ham and YouTube Comments by Andrew Snelling

After my article “Twenty-One Reasons Noah’s Worldwide Flood Never Happened”

Tackling the Big Questions

In 1997, Michael Shermer wrote I one of the classics

A Monumental, but Flawed, Effort to Understand Behavior

Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

In his survey of the academic backdrop to today’s rampant