Actress extraordinaire Sarah Michelle Geller, most well-known to geeks around the world as Buffy the Vampire Slayer, is taking on a new foe: vaccine deniers. In a recent interview, she express her support for the Sounds of Pertussis campaign to raise awareness of why vaccinations for whooping cough are crucial for both adults and children.
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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…
This morning, the Skeptic Ink Network launched it’s newest venue – SINergy. SINergy is going to be your one-stop shop…
It should come as no surprise to my regular readers that I a) am a clinical psychologist and b) despise pseudoscientific nonsense. As such, when I come across woo in my field, I feel a special fire begin to burn deep inside me and it’s not because I missed taking my Pepcid. No, it’s from having the field I have devoted the past 16 years of my life to dragged through the mud and made to look silly by those who are not actually practicing evidence-based psychology.
On campus (thanks to my advising of the UCO Skeptics) I am known as the resident skeptic of the paranormal/alt-med/psi/all…
I’ve written about Dr Oz before (here and here) and it’s obvious that I think he’s a dangerous purveyor of…