James Randi Educational Foundation(JREF) president D.J. Grothe has recently contributed to a wonderful book project called A Better Life 100…
Author Edward Clint
The Marine I met looked exhausted. I thought the “1000 yard stare” was nonsense made up by Kubric’s characters. It…
Carl Sagan, now an icon of science and skepticism, was wrong. A lot. He engaged in pseudoscience and failed to…
My site is not about politics, but these events are too big to pass without remark, and many of them…
The Prime Directive is not just a set of rules. It is a philosophy, and a very correct one. History…
Writing fiction is not my thing (unlike the delightful Rebecca Bradley), so I make no claims to skill. But here’s…
If you’re like me a few years ago, you probably had an idea that Mormonism was just an oddball Christian splinter. Get your own “magic” underwear on.. you might need it for this next bit.
One of the most abused and exploited bits of science ever is quantum theory. New age woo-masters like Deepak Chopra…
Ray Hyman’s accomplishments on behalf of science, science advocacy, and skepticism are legion- enough to fill many pages. What really impresses me about Mr. Hyman is, in a word, class. He has a reputation for being respected and even liked by his academic and skeptical cohorts, but also by the parapsychology claimants he has so often criticized. He has, to an astonishing degree, internalized and behaved according to the scientific precepts of objective consideration and the detangling of ego and truth. In his written works and public appearances, he is consistently far more concerned with fomenting reason than agreement; he cultivates understanding while most of us chase mindshare. If James Randi is skepticism’s much-needed sentinel-sheriff, Ray Hyman is an impartial judge & jury, injecting some honesty and fairness in a factious land.
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