The SkepDoc

Water Fluoridation: Public Health, Not Poison

The Gadfly

I HAVE LONG BEEN FASCINATED BY HOW IT happens that

Shroud of Turin Update

IN THE JULY 26, 2019 ISSUE OF PATHEOS, AN ONLINE newsletter

CONTRIBUTORS

Ástor Alexander is a figurative illustrator and painter.

Understanding Flat Earthers

REFLECTING UPON SOME STRIKING 2018 SURVEY findings

The Girl Who Smelled Blue

The Colorful Case of Willetta Huggins

How to Navigate Contentious Conversations

THIS EXCERPT IS FROM OUR BOOK ABOUT HOW TO communicate

How Much Longer Will Cancer Screening Myths Survive?

IT HAS BEEN 20 YEARS SINCE DR. ANGELA RAFFLE published

Nationalistic Pseudohistory in the Balkans

MANY DIFFERENT TYPES OF PSEUDOHISTORY EXIST. One of

“Prove that I am Wrong!”

What QAnon, Descartes, and Brains in Vats Have in Common

Does God Exist?

A Rebuttal of Theologian Brian Huffling

God is Not a Moral Being

A Response to Gary Whittenberger on the Problem of Evil

What is Mental Illness, Anyway?

A Review of Mind Fixers: Psychiatry’s Troubled Search for the Biology of Mental Illness by Anne Harrington

Stranger Danger

Review of The Human Swarm: How Tolerance of Strangers Creates Society by Mark W. Moffett

Darwin’s Apostles: The Battle Continues

A review of Darwin’s Apostles: The Men Who Fought to Have Evolution Accepted, Their Times, and How the Battle Continues, by David Orenstein and Abby Hafe.

Forensic Pseudoscience

Reviews of Forensic Science Reform: Protecting the Innocent, edited by Wendy J. Koen and C. Michael Bowers; The Psychology and Sociology of Wrongful Convictions: Forensic Science Reform, edited by Wendy J. Koen and C. Michael Bowers; and Blinding as a Solution to Bias: Strengthening Biomedical Science, Forensic Science, and Law, edited by Christopher T. Robertson and Aaron S. Kesselheim

VICTORIAN ENGLAND’S JURASSIC PARK

Hello!

LOST WORLDS

That scientific revolution began in particular with

DISCOVERY OF DINOSAURS

Anning’s discoveries filled prehistoric oceans with

BRINGING DINOS TO LIFE

Today, everyone knows about dinosaurs. Most of us have

MONSTER BUILDING PROJECT

The Crystal Palace dinosaurs were something totally

BELLY OF THE BEAST

People were feverishly excited when the dinosaur park

CONFRONTING GIANTS

When the dinosaur park did finally open, crowds rushed

LEGACY OF THE DINOSAURS

The Crystal Palace building burned down in 1936. An

MONUMENT TO SCIENCE

HAWKINS DID NOT KNOW THAT THESE ANIMALS HAD TRIANGULAR