{"id":1406,"date":"2015-01-13T17:58:42","date_gmt":"2015-01-13T17:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/gps\/?p=1406"},"modified":"2015-01-13T17:58:42","modified_gmt":"2015-01-13T17:58:42","slug":"2014-in-review-and-some-exciting-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/gps\/2015\/01\/13\/2014-in-review-and-some-exciting-news\/","title":{"rendered":"2014 in Review, and some Exciting News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.onlyimage.com\/photo\/writing-a-letter-117012\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Writing a letter\" src=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/gps\/files\/2015\/01\/writing-a-letter-300x300-117012.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dear Readers,<\/p>\n<p>First of all, thank you. Thank you for coming here, for reading what I (<a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/gps\/category\/teaching\/http:\/\/\" target=\"_blank\">and my students!<\/a>) have had to say over the past year. It&#8217;s been a year of tremendous growth on GPS (and on Skeptic Ink as a whole), and that&#8217;s due to your continued support. Some fun numbers about GPS:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Saw a 400% increase in traffic for 2014 compared to 2013, with over 145K views this past year<\/li>\n<li>Published 92 posts in 2014, over double what was published in 2013<\/li>\n<li>About half those posts came from student work, either in my Psychopathology or Science vs. Pseudoscience classes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The top 10 posts from the past year, hits-wise, were the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/gps\/2014\/01\/11\/dear-oklahoma-satanists-dont-actually-believe-in-satan\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dear Oklahoma: Satanists Don&#8217;t Actually Believe in Satan<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/gps\/2014\/04\/18\/can-one-get-ptsd-via-twitter\/\" target=\"_blank\">Can One get PTSD via Twitter?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/gps\/2014\/05\/08\/lets-grade-some-papers-on-pseudoscience\/\" target=\"_blank\">Let&#8217;s grade some papers on Pseudoscience!<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/gps\/2014\/08\/27\/trigger-warnings-and-the-problems-therein\/\" target=\"_blank\">Trigger Warnings and the Problems Therein<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/gps\/2014\/09\/29\/two-guys-went-to-the-black-mass-protests-youll-never-believe-what-happened-next\/\" target=\"_blank\">Two guys went to the Black Mass protests. You&#8217;ll never believe what happened next!<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/gps\/2014\/10\/05\/things-atheists-are-outraged-by-after-carrie-underwoods-latest-song\/\" target=\"_blank\">Things atheists are outraged by (after Carrie Underwood&#8217;s latest song)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/gps\/2014\/05\/11\/ptsd-but-im-not-a-veteran-and-other-misconceptions-about-ptsd\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;PTSD?! But I&#8217;m not a Veteran!&#8221; and Other Misconceptions<\/a>*<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/gps\/2014\/11\/15\/the-pro-ana-movement\/\" target=\"_blank\">The &#8220;Pro-Ana&#8221; Movement<\/a>*<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/gps\/2014\/11\/11\/myths-misconceptions-about-animal-hoarding\/\" target=\"_blank\">Myths &amp; Misconceptions about Animal Hoarding<\/a>*<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/gps\/2013\/10\/14\/palm-reading-science-or-pseudoscience\/\" target=\"_blank\">Palm Reading &#8211; Science or Pseudoscience?<\/a>*<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The asterisks indicate ones that were written by my students, and I couldn&#8217;t be prouder of their hard work. I hope you&#8217;ve enjoyed seeing a variety of voices on GPS over the past year, and I hope to keep adding new ones.<\/p>\n<p>Now, looking ahead to 2015, I have some exciting news. My SIN colleague<a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/freesociety\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Jacques Rousseau<\/a> and I were awarded a book contract with Springer towards the end of last year for a text tentatively titled &#8220;Science, Pseudoscience, and Critical Thinking: Why You Can&#8217;t Trust Your Brain.&#8221; We are currently hard at work on the manuscript, and plan to deliver it this spring. This will be my sixth book, following the soon-to-be published <em>Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: Etiology, Phenomenology, and Treatment<\/em> (more details on that as the publication date nears).<\/p>\n<p>What this means for you, dear readers, is that I will be significantly scaling back my writing output here at GPS for the next few months. I&#8217;ll still try to post a few times a month, but they will likely be shorter articles or videos of some talks I&#8217;ve given, rather than in-depth analyses of issues. If there is something that comes up that needs my immediate attention, however, I&#8217;ll certainly jump back in to the fray, as it were.<\/p>\n<p>So, once again, thank you for reading. I hope that 2015 will be another great year for GPS and SIN. As always, if you&#8217;ve got something you&#8217;d like me to write about or comment on, feel free to contact me!<\/p>\n<p>Best,<\/p>\n<p>Caleb<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Readers, First of all, thank you. Thank you for coming here, for reading what I (and my students!) have&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[632,95,13,12,86,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured","category-personal","category-pseudoscience","category-psychology","category-religion","category-skepticism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/gps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/gps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/gps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/gps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/gps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/gps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1406\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/gps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/gps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/gps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}