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06-04-27

Enviro-Buzz This week, for a limited time only, you may download an MP3 of Tim Flannery’s recent lecture at Caltech entitled The Weather Makers: How Humans are Changing the Climate & What it Means...

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06-05-12

sundown at an oil refinery in San Pedro (photo by Sean Carpenter) Announcing a NEW speakeradded to the Environmental Wars conference Can Markets Save the Planet?Market-based Solutions to Environmental...

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06-05-25

Pools of surface melt water and drifting icebergs split from the Larsen Ice Shelf, Antarctica, caused by increasing Antarctic summer temperatures (from NASA’s Visible Earth). Enviro-Buzz Shermer makes...

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06-08-03

the Esalen Institute, Big Sur, California (photo by Angela Smith) Last chance to sign up for Shermer seminar! Science, Spirituality & the Search for Meaning a weekend seminar led by Michael...

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08-03-19

In this week’s eSkeptic: Skepticality: Toxic Water? feature article: Snake Oil Science our next lecturer: Dr. Michio Kaku MichaelShermer.com: this week’s additions Toxic Water? Last week, a widely...

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08-03-27

In this week’s eSkeptic: lecture tonight: Dr. Michio Kaku feature article: Faith Healing MichaelShermer.com: this week’s additions Dr. Michio Kaku will be speaking on THURSDAY, March 27, 2008 at 7...

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08-07-09

In this week’s eSkeptic: in the news: GOD says Stein’s Expelled ‘sucketh mightily’ feature article: Charlatan: Quackery Then & Now MichaelShermer.com: this week’s additions GOD says Stein’s...

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On Fact & Fraud: Cautionary Tales from the Front Lines of Science

FRAUD IN SCIENCE is not as easy to identify as one might think. When accusations of scientific misconduct occur, truth can often be elusive, and the cause of a scientist’s ethical misstep isn’t always...

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Talking Twaddle With the Dead

illustrations in this article by Joe Lee The Tragedy of Death — The Farce of James Van Praagh The human brain evolved to be exceptional at finding patterns in nature, even when they do not exist or...

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11-05-11

In this week’s eSkeptic: Help us preserve the Sharktooth Hill Bonebed Announcing the Skeptics Mix Tape 2011 Mr. Deity and the Magician Layers of Confusion: Alleged Fraud on Obama’s Long Form Birth...

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05-11-14

Abducted!How People Come to Believethey Were Kidnapped by Aliens Dr. Susan Clancy Sunday, November 20, 2pmBaxter Lecture Hall, Caltech, Pasadena, CA(The Skeptics Distinguished Lecture Series at...

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eSkeptic for March 9, 2016

In this week’s eSkeptic: Available Digitally Now: Skeptic magazine 21.1: Confidence Scams Science Salon: Apr. 10: Janna Levin: Gravitational Waves, Black Holes MonsterTalk: Episode 101: Hunting...

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Myth, Mystery, and Margery: When Scientific American Put Psychics to the Test

Michelle E. Ainsworth reviews the book: The Witch of Lime Street: Séance, Seduction, and Houdini in the Spirit World, by David Jaher. According to the séance record, the table pushed [a sitter] out of...

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The Wizardry of Freud

“Clear evidence of falsification of data should now close the door on this damaging claim.” The above is from a 2011 British Medical Journal article about Andrew Wakefield, the British physician whose...

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eSkeptic for November 15, 2017

In this week’s eSkeptic: Shermer Shreds: Mass Public Shootings & Gun Violence: Part I Baba Brinkman’s Skeptic Rap: Rap Artist Performs Science-Based Hip-Hop Tell Us Your Story!: How Brian...

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eSkeptic for July 30, 2019

Science Salon # 77: Michael Shermer with Dr. Lee McIntyre — The Scientific Attitude: Defending Science from Denial, Fraud, and Pseudoscience SCIENCE SALON # 77 Michael Shermer with Dr. Lee McIntyre —...

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Dr. Lee McIntyre — The Scientific Attitude: Defending Science from Denial,...

http://traffic.libsyn.com/sciencesalon/ss077_Lee_McIntyre_2019_06_24.mp3 Download MP3 In this engaging conversation on the nature of science, Dr. McIntyre and Dr. Shermer get deep into the weeds of...

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eSkeptic for September 5, 2019

To Our Readers Between 2016 and 2019 a writer named John Anthony Glynn, whose biography includes a Ph.D. in psychology and professorships of psychology at several universities, had four articles...

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The Fabulist and the Publisher A Journalistic and Academic Fraud Exposed

To Our Readers Between 2016 and 2019 a writer named John Anthony Glynn, whose biography includes a Ph.D. in psychology and professorships of psychology at several universities, had four articles...

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eSkeptic for September 1, 2020

Michael Shermer on the After Time: The Future of Civilization After COVID-19 Science Salon # 131: Michael Shermer with Stuart Ritchie — Science Fictions: How Fraud, Bias, Negligence, and Hype...

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