A.J. Johnson, former director of development of American Atheists, is suing the national nonprofit for alleged racial discrimination and wrongful…
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In an internet sea of princely Nigerian bankers, psychic storefronts, and echo chambers where opinions concentrate into a near-singularity, can skeptics on the web make a difference? What role should skeptic bloggers play in the new media landscape? Find out at this workshop and discussion with some of the Skeptic Ink Network’s finest… It’s the best workshop, ever -Abraham Lincoln.
We’re delighted to unveil the new media room here at Skeptic Ink, SINergy. Skeptic Ink is not just a community…
James Randi has announced this year’s winners. The Pigasus awards highlight some of the worst people in our country each…
As this will be the first TAM I will be able to attend, I am plenty excited for it. This year the much under-rated author Susan Jacoby is keynoting. Jacoby wrote The Age of American Unreason and many other books and I am very much looking forward to her address.
Professional “psychics” like Sylvia Browne like to make predictions about the new year. You can read Browne’s 2012 failures here. These…
12/12/14 UPDATE Updated & expanded version of this essay is now online here. My response to Watson’s indirect reply to…
My site is not about politics, but these events are too big to pass without remark, and many of them…
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.