The SkepDoc

Functional Medicine: Pseudoscientific Silliness

The Gadfly

The Multi-headed Hydra of Prejudice

CONTRIBUTORS

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

Miraculous Water is Just Bad Science

Why Zamzam Water is Not a Valid Medical Treatment

Disturbing Trends in Lone Wolf Terrorism

The Convergence of Mental Illness, Marginality, and Cyber Radicalism

Torturing Data in the Name of Nonsense

Spiritualism began more than 150 years ago with the

An Outbreak of Mass Hallucinations and Shoddy Journalism

Why We Need Skepticism More Than Ever

Bill Nye the Science Guy in Conversation with Michael Shermer

Bill Nye the Science Guy in Conversation with Michael

What Would it Take to Change Your Mind?

I’ve been writing about and teaching critical thinking

ET v. Earth Pathogens

The Andromeda Strain or War of the Worlds— Will ETs Kill Us or Vice Versa?

Trouble in the Multiverse

I think I can safely say that nobody understands quantum

Science v. Subjectivity

Selecting College Football Playoff Teams as a Case Study

Out of the Loop, Lost in the Maze

The Stealth Determinism of Westworld

Back to the Future and Forward to the Past

A review of Time Travel: A History

Cosmic Consciousness and the Ptolemaic Principle

A review of You Are the Universe: Discovering Your Cosmic Self and Why it Matters

Science International

A review of Courting Science: Securing the Foundation for a Second American Century by Damon V. Coletta

Conjuring Magic

Reviews of Conjuring Asia: Magic, Orientalism and the Making of the Modern World by Chris Goto-Jones and Making Magic: Religion, Magic, and Science in the Modern World

An Easy Guide to Baloney Detection!

In this special issue of JunIor SkepTIc we’ll learn