Trauma and Taboo

Why We Can’t Acknowledge Progress

I grew up in the 1950s when, for the most

‘Ballistic Missile Threat Inbound … This is Not a Drill’: The Formidable Threat of False Alarms

At approximately 8:07 am on January 13, 2018, the state

Barry Williams, Pioneering Australian Skeptic, Dies at Seventy-Nine

Barry Williams, founder of the Australian Skeptics, has died. Tim

Michael Mann Receives AAAS Public Engagement with Science Award

Newly elected CSI Fellow Michael E. Mann has been awarded

Bertha Vazquez Given NABT Evolution Education Award

Bertha Vazquez, director of the Teacher Institute for Evolutionary Science

Why Did We Call Prince Charles Foolish and Immoral?

I was recently reported for calling Britain’s heir to the

Flat-Earth Anxieties Reflect Misplaced Priorities

Somehow, some way, the flat-earth movement continues to make waves

A Doctoral Dissertation on a Geocentric Flat Earth

‘Zetetic’1 Astronomy at the University Level

Navy Pilot’s 2004 UFO: A Comedy of Errors

Joe Nickell, PhD, is CSI’s senior research fellow and, among

Does the Vatican Hold a Painting of a UFO?

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

William James and the Psychics

Stuart Vyse is a psychologist and author of Believing in

The Case of the Curious Christmas Light

Benjamin Radford is a research fellow at the Committee for

PROGRESS OPHOBIA Why Things Are Better Than You Think They Are

Intellectuals dislike the very idea of progress. Our own mental bugs also distort our understanding of the world, blinding us to improvements in the human condition underway globally—and to the ideas that have made them possible

Percival Lowell and the Canals of Mars

The ‘canals’ of Mars don’t exist, and they never did; yet they were repeatedly reported and defended as scientific realities by many great astronomers. Why?

The Curious Question of Ghost Taxonomy

The nature of ghosts remains unknown despite centuries of collective effort by legions of ghost hunters

Sorry, ‘Theistic Science’ Is Not Science

A critical examination of the book Who Was Adam? demonstrates that creationism is not science

The 1849 Balvullich Ice Fall

A mass of solid ice weighing nearly a ton fell on a Scottish farm on the estate at Ord during a thunderstorm on July 30, 1849. Theories abound as to its origin, some more fanciful than others. New analysis suggests that the ice originated locally and did not fall from the sky, as has long been thought

The Fortieth Anniversary of E.O. Wilson’s

On Human Nature

Following Disgraced Doctor Andrew Wakefield

In her documentary about the disgraced doctor most identified as

Scientific American Collection on the Science about Controversial Issues

The Winter 2017/2018 “Special Collector’s Edition” of Scientific American is

Reconsidering Monsters

The Most Hated Man in America: Jerry Sandusky and the

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A Skeptic’s Guide to Racism

I want no more issues sent. I am specifically and

The Take a Wish Foundation

As I write this we are a few days away