It is astonishing, but true: there are people in the world who can read and drive cars and use smartphones…
Category Skepticism
Was the COVID-19 pandemic predicted by psychic means? Well, no. In Part 1, we looked at a selection of paranormal…
Did the psychics warn the world about COVID-19? In Part 1, I looked briefly at a selection of self-proclaimed psychics…
Good old Sylvia Browne—looks like she called it. In a book published in 2008, she accurately predicted the coronavirus tsunami…
In the world of the “alternative” scholars, the Denisovans are a race of giant psychic shamans with problematic teeth, who…
I’ve had a fair number of snarky, insulting, crude, demeaning, scatological, and condescending comments on my blog posts over the…
In a world without oceans, the spires of mighty Mu and Atlantis tower above the abyssal plains—until an icy doom…
Over the last couple of centuries, archaeology has gone a long way towards tracing the glittering past of Mesoamerica—a complex,…
It happens now and then a perfectly good scientist takes hold of a crank idea and plunges headlong into pseudoscience.…
Acknowledgements: I am grateful to Martin B. Sweatman and Dimitrios Tsikritsis for inspiring this research, and modelling the interpretive and…