HOW SCIENCE REALLY WORKS

AUTHORS & CONTRIBUTORS

Bios of authors and illustrators

WISDOM of the SKEPDOC

In Memoriam HARRIET HALL, MD (1945–2023)

EXAMINING EXTRAORDINARY CLAIMS & PROMOTING SCIENCE SINCE 1992

Skeptic Magazine, Available in Print & Digital Formats

THE ECONOMICS OF LIFE MADE SIMPLE

If you want to make sense of GDP, inflation, interest rates, and economic policy, this is the article for you.

A Critical Analysis of AMERICA’S HOMELESS CRISIS

How serious is the homeless situation in America?

SKEPTIC INTERVIEWS

An interview with Alan S. Blinder, one of the world’s most influential economists and one of the best writers in the field: the former Vice Chair of the Federal Reserve Board.

ALTERNATIVE CIVILIZATION AND ITS DISCONTENTS

An Analysis of the Alternative Archaeologist Graham Hancock’s Claim That an Ancient Apocalypse Erased the Lost Civilization of Atlantis

ALTERNATIVE HISTORIES that REALLY AREN’T

A review of Graham Hancock’s Netflix series Ancient Apocalypse

APOCALYPSE!

Why Graham Hancock’s Use of the Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis in His Netflix Series Ancient Apocalypse Is All Wet

THE RISE OF LIES & THE DEMISE OF SHAME

As Mary McCarthy famously wrote of Lillian Hellman,

SKEPDOC

Psychotherapy Reconsidered

FROM SEX to GENDER

The Modern Dismissal of Biology

SECOND SIGHT

A review of A First Look at Second Sight by Bob Loomis (2022) and Cues: Variations on the Second Sight Act by Leo Behnke (2005)