A Great And Fortuitous ‘Find’!

Conspiracy Theories and Incredible Tales

We lead off this issue with a two-article section on

The 2017 Climate Science Special Report: Excerpts from Key Findings

Here are key excerpts from the Executive Summary of the

NECSS 2017: Skepticism Making Connections in Midtown Manhattan

“Why can’t we do this every weekend?” asked Leighann Lord,

History Channel’s Credibility MIA Following Amelia Earhart Special

The 1937 disappearance of pioneer pilot Amelia Earhart and her

The Roswell Incident at 70: Facts, Not Myths

The seventieth anniversary of the so-called Roswell Incident came and

Is Eating Vegetables Truly Safe? An Examination into Contemporary Anti-Vaccination Arguments

John Oliver recently criticized the anti-vaccination movement on Last Week

Mystery of Mollie Fancher, ‘The Fasting Girl,’ and Others Who Lived without Eating

Joe Nickell, PhD, is a former mentalist and magician, detective,

The Conspiracy of the Fairies

Massimo Polidoro is an investigator of the paranormal, lecturer, and

Moving Science’s Statistical Goalposts

Stuart Vyse is a psychologist and author of Believing in

Editing the Human Germline: Groundbreaking Science and Mind-Numbing Sentiment

Kenneth W. Krause is a contributing editor and “Science Watch”

Legitimizing Woo

Benjamin Radford is a research fellow at the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry and author or coauthor of ten books, including Bad Clowns

PIZZAGATE AND BEYOND

Using Social Research to Understand Conspiracy Legends

BECOMING FANTASTIC

Why some people Embellish Their Already Accomplished Lives With Incredible tales

Ten Questions (and Answers) about Teaching Evolution

A high school biology teacher asked the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason & Science (a division of the Center for Inquiry) a series of questions about teaching evolution. Bertha Vazquez, director the foundation’s Teacher Institute for Evolutionary Science (TIES), answered. We thought her answers deserved sharing with Skeptical inquirer readers

Critical Thinking and Parenting

How Skepticism Saved My Special Needs Kid from Certain Death You are a skeptic, and your child has autism. How do you react?

Hollywood Curse Legends

There are many myths behind movie lore concerning jinxes and mysterious deaths, but a closer look reveals these curses to be attributable more to publicity and rumor than to the supernatural

Before Carl Sagan and Neil deGrasse Tyson, There Was Dan Q. Posin

Pioneer physicist and science popularizer Dan Q. Posin saw the power of television for education and inspiration. Almost lost to history, his story has new relevance today

Truth to Power on Climate

Eleven years after his much-discussed documentary on climate change, An

The Martin Gardner Correspondence with Marcello Truzzi

Martin Gardner (1914–2010) was a famous writer and philosopher of

Loch Ness Solved— Even More Fully!

With his new book, The Loch Ness Mystery Reloaded, Ronald

FOOD EVOLUTION

Food Evolution is available on iTunes and can be streamed exclusively on hulu.Check FoodEvolution Movie.com to find remaining screeings or to set up a screening near you

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

I enjoyed Philip J. Senter’s thorough explanation of why claims

Everything Happens for THE Reason

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