In which one of my students examines the pseudoscience that is palmistry.
Category Pseudoscience
In which I outline some course assignments that will ensure lots of excellent reading over the next few months here on GPS.
In which I review a wonderful addition to any cryptozoological skeptic or believer’s bookshelf.
In which I review Mark Edward’s book, and find it a bit lacking from a skeptical point of view.
As hopefully all of you know, the James Randi Educational Foundation put on their annual conference this past week, The Amazing Meeting (TAM). I was privileged to be able to attend this year as a “first TAMmer” (there were buttons if it was your first time, which I thought was great ) in a couple of different capacities (which I’ll get to in a minute). I didn’t have a chance to blog any during the weekend, but I did put up quite a few tweets under the #TAM2013 hashtag, which was very active (and I recommend going and scrolling through them to get a general feel for the conference).
Numerous so-called “gravity hills” are located all around the world, from Pennsylvania to California, India to Ireland. In these locations,…
One of the most dangerous and irresponsible non-scientific mindsets of the last 15 years is the anti-vaccination movement. It can be directly linked to dozens of deaths and thousands of unneeded illnesses. One of the more frequent ant-vaxxer refrains of the past decade has been that giving the standard US vaccination schedule exposes young ones to too many vaccines/antigens/whatevers too early in life.
As mentioned previously, every fall I teach a course called “Science vs Pseudoscience” that focuses on teaching students how to…
Every fall I teach a course called “Science vs Pseudoscience” that is, by far, my favorite class. It’s a hit…
Last month, I had the pleasure of presenting at the 2013 Skeptics of Oz conference in Wichita, Kansas. Below is…