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Skeptical Inquirer Audio Edition brings the insightful articles from Skeptical Inquirer magazine directly to your ears. Covering topics in science, skepticism, and critical thinking, each episode features narrated versions of our most thought-provoking content. Perfect for those on the go, SI Audio Edition allows you to stay informed and inspired wherever you are.
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Critical Thinking as a Collective Endeavor: The 2026 LiliCon
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Sep 04, 2026 |
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The Science behind the Ouija Board: The Neuropsychological Basis of the Ideomotor Response
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Sep 02, 2026 |
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Debunking The Telepathy Tapes: The Role of Facilitator Behaviors
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Aug 31, 2026 |
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Telepathy via Facilitated Communication in Profound Autism: A 21st-Century Delusion
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Aug 28, 2026 |
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The Telepathy Tapes: A Portal into a World of Woo
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Aug 26, 2026 |
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How The Telepathy Tapes Silences Voices
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Aug 24, 2026 |
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California Endorses Dangerous Autism Pseudoscience
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Aug 19, 2026 |
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The ABC's of Belief: Aliens, Bigfoot, and Chupacabra
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Aug 12, 2026 |
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The Commodification of Science: "The Last da Vinci" Offers Insights about Aspartame
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Aug 07, 2026 |
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A Visit to the Center of the Spiritualist World
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Jul 29, 2026 |
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When the Doctor Says Stop, But the Fight Goes On
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Jul 22, 2026 |
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Percival Lowell and the Canals on Mars
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Jul 17, 2026 |
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The Lost Art of Scientific Inquiry
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Jul 15, 2026 |
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The Cottingley Fairies and James Randi's Marionette Mystery
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Jul 13, 2026 |
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Investigation into Hauntings at the McInteer Villa
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Jul 10, 2026 |
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The Missing Catalyst
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Jul 08, 2026 |
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The Homeopathic Industry Is on the Ropes
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Jul 06, 2026 |
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News Bites: From the Tarot Card Reader's Defamation to the Artemis II Record
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Jul 03, 2026 |
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What Did the So-Called 'Lying Monk' Really See?
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Jul 01, 2026 |
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Exploring Robben Island: How the Ghosts of the Past Haunt the Researchers of Today
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Jun 29, 2026 |
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Boosting Facts and Busting Myths about Mythbusting
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Jun 26, 2026 |
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The Fine Art of Baloney Detection—Sagan's Essay Three Decades Later
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Jun 24, 2026 |
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Optimizing the Tools of Our Trade
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Jun 22, 2026 |
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A Skeptical Approach to Flying Saucers and Aliens
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Jun 17, 2026 |
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Houdini and Niagara Falls: How Legends Attach Themselves to Great Men
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Jun 10, 2026 |
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Freshpet Chews on Astrology
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Jun 03, 2026 |
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Right, Let's Talk about AG1
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May 27, 2026 |
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Surviving the Information Chaos Storm
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May 25, 2026 |
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A Jane Goodall among the Spiritualists
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May 22, 2026 |
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Do We Have Physics in Common with Aliens?
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May 20, 2026 |
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From Savanna to Smartphones: Reflections on the Past Fifteen Seconds
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May 18, 2026 |
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Are Cancer Rates Skyrocketing—or Are We Better at Detection?
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May 15, 2026 |
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Erich von Däniken: A Legacy of Pseudoscience
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May 13, 2026 |
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A Photograph Exposes EMDR's True Origins
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May 11, 2026 |
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In Memory of Lee Nisbet, CSICOP's First Executive Director
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May 08, 2026 |
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Freud's Greatest Critic: The Legacy of Frederick Crews
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May 06, 2026 |
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My Memories of The Amazing Randi: Part Two
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May 04, 2026 |
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The United States of Pseudoscience
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May 01, 2026 |
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The Nature of Pseudoscience, How to Fight It, and Why It Matters
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Apr 29, 2026 |
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Unsinkable Rubber Duckies and Four-Headed Dragons
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Apr 28, 2026 |
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Artemis II Fails to Find Moon Cities
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Apr 22, 2026 |
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Nancy Guthrie Disappearance Highlights Psychic Failure
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Apr 15, 2026 |
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Is It Time We Stop Publishing Acupuncture Research from China?
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Apr 08, 2026 |
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Magicians Penn & Teller File Brief in Junk Science Death Row Case by Stuart Vyse
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Apr 01, 2026 |
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The Rise and Fall of Parapsychology by Alejandro Borgo
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Mar 25, 2026 |
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Responding to a Burst of Reiki from Turkey by Thomas J. Wheeler
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Mar 18, 2026 |
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Gray Barker's Legacy: Men in Black, the Philadelphia Experiment, and Mothman by Terence Hines
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Mar 16, 2026 |
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The Uninspired Conjuring: Last Rites by Kenny Biddle
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Mar 13, 2026 |
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The Paraben Panic: From Public Outcry to Public Harm by Andrea Love
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Mar 11, 2026 |
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Ten Trips, Five Findings, and One Unrelenting Rat by Craig A. Foster
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Mar 09, 2026 |
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We've All Been Fooled, Right? by Robyn E. Blumner
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Mar 06, 2026 |
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Organizing Doubt: Before CSICOP Had a Name by Massimo Polidoro
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Mar 04, 2026 |
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The Hidden Harms of Conspiracies by Benjamin Radford
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Mar 02, 2026 |
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How Skeptics Might Save the World by Mick West
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Feb 27, 2026 |
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This Isn't About Bigfoot by Melanie Trecek-King
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Feb 25, 2026 |
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Cheers to Our Columnists! by Stephen Hupp
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Feb 23, 2026 |
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Extraordinary Claims: The Homeopathy Paper That Duped a Mainstream Journal by Nick Tiller
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Feb 18, 2026 |
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RFK Jr. Puts Facilitated Communication Users on the HHS Autism Panel by Stuart Vyse
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Feb 11, 2026 |
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Dilbert Dilemma: The Tragic Innumeracy of Scott Adams by Benjamin Radford
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Feb 03, 2026 |
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Get the Most Out of CSICon (Part 2): Celebrate Our History … Chart Our Future! by Stephen Hupp
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Jan 28, 2026 |
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It's Time to Talk About Psychic Medium Dean by Susan Gerbic
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Jan 23, 2026 |
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A Sympathetic Understanding of Paranormal Beliefs by Chris French
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Jan 16, 2026 |
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Blind Victoria's Secret by Eugenie Scott
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Jan 14, 2026 |
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My Memories of The Amazing Randi: Part One by Banachek
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Jan 12, 2026 |
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Revolutionizing Science: Jane Goodall and the Challenge to Conventional Wisdom by Bertha Vazquez
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Jan 09, 2026 |
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The Red Planet Rumble: Claimer vs. Claimer by Craig A. Foster
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Jan 07, 2026 |
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Get the Most Out of CSICon: Celebrate Our History … Chart Our Future! by Stephen Hupp
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Jan 05, 2026 |
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Ethical Issues in Ghost Investigation by Benjamin Radford
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Jan 02, 2026 |
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Fifty Years of the Modern Skeptical Movement by James E. Alcock
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Dec 31, 2025 |
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The Spark That Started CSICOP by Massimo Polidoro
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Dec 30, 2025 |
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A Flight of Fancy about Psychic Predictions and Probabilities by Adrienne Hill
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Dec 26, 2025 |
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Fifty Years of Inquiry! by Stephen Hupp
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Dec 24, 2025 |
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The CDC's 'Autism and Vaccines' Webpage and the Negative Evidence Principle by William Matthew London
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Dec 17, 2025 |
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MAHA Isn't Denying Science: It's Doing Something Much Worse by Nick Tiller
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Dec 10, 2025 |
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Santa Cruz County SkeptiCamp 2025 by Susan Gerbic
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Dec 03, 2025 |
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The Global Retreat from Scientific Temper by Amardeo Sarma
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Nov 26, 2025 |
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Pickle Juice: Cramping Cure or Congruence Bias? by Nick Tiller
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Nov 19, 2025 |
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Explaining Aligned Alien Abductions by Benjamin Radford
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Nov 14, 2025 |
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Count Dante, Dim Mak, and the Kung Fu Death Touch by Peter Huston
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Nov 12, 2025 |
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Weird Things Some Scientific Skeptics Say about Science by Charles G.M. Paxton
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Nov 10, 2025 |
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How Wicked Reflects Real-World Intersections between Belief and Skepticism by Malorie Mackey and Michael Maldonado
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Nov 07, 2025 |
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How Stranger Things Mirrors Real-World Paranormal Stories by Daniel A. Reed
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Nov 05, 2025 |
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From Food Dyes to Vaccines: Fear of Chemicals Endangers Us All by Andrea Love
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Nov 03, 2025 |
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AI Will Meet You in the Breakroom in a Blue Blazer and Red Tie by Robyn E. Blumner
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Oct 31, 2025 |
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A Primer on the Placebo Effect's Evil Twin by William Matthew London
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Oct 29, 2025 |
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The Supernatural Stories That Mirror Our Realities by Stephen Hupp
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Oct 27, 2025 |
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When Nature Isn't a Gift: A Biologist's Take on the Serviceberry by Andrew A. Davinack
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Oct 22, 2025 |
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The Truth about Tyler Henry's Reading of Moby by Susan Gerbic
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Oct 15, 2025 |
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Childproofing the Internet by Wendy M. Grossman
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Oct 08, 2025 |
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The Problem with Inadequately Reviewed Fringe Science by Mark Boslough
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Oct 01, 2025 |
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Turning a Miss Into a Hit by Susan Gerbic
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Sep 24, 2025 |
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The Case of the Vegetable Man of West Virginia by Daniel A. Reed
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Sep 17, 2025 |
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Imagine Pandas by Craig A. Foster & Kelsey M. McGinn
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Sep 12, 2025 |
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Barry Karr Is Retiring—and That Is Not a Hoax by Robyn E. Blumner
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Sep 10, 2025 |
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Barry Karr Strengthened the Skeptical Community by Bringing People Together by Stephen Hupp
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Sep 08, 2025 |
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From 'Tractors' to Cell Therapy Clinics: Unproven Medical Procedures by Curtis E. Margo
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Sep 03, 2025 |
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Boiled Frogs and Chained Dogs: Habituation Myths by Benjamin Radford
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Sep 01, 2025 |
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Is 'Extraordinary Evidence' Unreasonable? by Mick West
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Aug 27, 2025 |
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NIH Funding Cuts Hurt Basic Research and Patients by Dan Wilson
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Aug 25, 2025 |
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We Must Stand Up for Science by Bill Nye
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Aug 22, 2025 |
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Science Saves Lives, but Science Is under Attack by Stephen Hupp
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Aug 20, 2025 |
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A Closer Look at the Gambler's Fallacy and the Hot Hand by Stuart Vyse
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Aug 13, 2025 |
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Houdini's Lost Manuscript Discovered by Michelle E. Ainsworth
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Aug 06, 2025 |
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Consumer Magazines and the Fine Art of Pseudo-Skepticism by Nick Tiller
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Jul 30, 2025 |
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The 'Direct Experience Fallacy' in Psychedelics Research: Evaluating Ketamine and MDMA by Peter Barglow
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Jul 23, 2025 |
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Same Science, Different Reactions: Genetic Engineering in Medicine and Food by Andrea Love
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Jul 16, 2025 |
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Calling Out Quantum Woo by Taner Edis
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Jul 16, 2025 |
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Miracle Boy? The First Millennial Saint by Joe Nickell
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Jul 09, 2025 |
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Full Moon, Full Wards? How Science Craters That Lunar Link by Craig A. Foster and Kate Miller
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Jul 09, 2025 |
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Pseudo-Etymology: Do Words Have Hidden Meanings? by Talia Felix
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Jul 02, 2025 |
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The Force behind The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe by Jay Novella
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Jul 02, 2025 |
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Twenty Years of Health Scams and Wellness Trends by Cara Santa Maria
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Jul 02, 2025 |
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After Decades of Skepticism, How Are We Doing? by Steven Novella
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Jun 25, 2025 |
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Celebrating Our Skeptical Guides by Stephen Hupp
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Jun 25, 2025 |
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Triangle SkeptiCamp 2025 by Susan Gerbic
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Jun 18, 2025 |
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Five Things You Should Know Before Buying Fish Oil Supplements by Nick Tiller
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Jun 11, 2025 |
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The Telepathy Tapes Tries to Silence a Critic—and Fails by Stuart Vyse
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Jun 04, 2025 |
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The Seed Oil Gambit by Nick Tiller
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May 28, 2025 |
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Ecuadorian Equatorial Pseudoscience by Rob Palmer
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May 21, 2025 |
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The Demise of the American Society for Psychical Research
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May 14, 2025 |
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Joe Nickell Leaves a Legacy of Intrigue and Solved Mysteries by Stephen Hupp
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May 07, 2025 |
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Mysterious Drone Sightings: Give Me the DTLs (Dates, Times, Locations) by Mick West
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May 07, 2025 |
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Cancer Misinformation Kills; Chemotherapy Saves Lives by Andrea Love
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May 07, 2025 |
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Critical Thinking about Our Vulnerabilities to Misinformation by Bertha Vazquez and Melanie Trecek-King
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Apr 30, 2025 |
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Numerical Hygiene Lessons: Critical Thinking and the Central Tendency Fallacy by William Matthew London
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Apr 30, 2025 |
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Highly Effective Thinkers: Critical Thinking for Teens by Timothy J. Redmond
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Apr 30, 2025 |
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Bill Nye Awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Stephen Hupp
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Apr 30, 2025 |
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Critical Thinking for Curious Minds by Stephen Hupp
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Apr 23, 2025 |
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Teaching Critical Thinking: An Introduction to the Special Section by David McRaney
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Apr 23, 2025 |
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Critikid: Critical Thinking and Mind Illusions for Kids by Stephanie Simoes
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Apr 23, 2025 |
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Media Masters Rock: Critical Thinking about Social Media for Kids by Steve Trash
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Apr 23, 2025 |
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Belief in Psychics: What's the Harm and Who's to Blame? by Rob Palmer
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Apr 16, 2025 |
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Was Lincoln a Spiritualist? Houdini Investigates by Stephen Hupp
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Feb 26, 2025 |
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Cosmic Love: Astrology Popularizes Stereotyping and Discrimination by Craig A. Foster
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Feb 25, 2025 |
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The Case of the Sketchy Study about Authentic Art by Benjamin Radford
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Feb 25, 2025 |
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mRNA Vaccines Aren't Gene Therapy, but Gene Therapy Is Nothing to Fear by Andrea Love
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Feb 25, 2025 |
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The Realm of the Ridiculous: From Election Fraud to UFOs by Mick West
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Feb 25, 2025 |
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The Ideological Hijacking of Science Funding by Robyn E. Blumner
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Feb 25, 2025 |
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Is Biological Sex Binary or Multifactorial? by Stephen Hupp
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Feb 25, 2025 |
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Changing Minds through Critical Thinking by Kenny Biddle
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Feb 25, 2025 |
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Real World Harms from Pseudoscience and Science Denial by Bertha Vazquez
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Feb 25, 2025 |
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We Saw the Brightest Stars Shine at CSICon 2024 by Stephen Hupp
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Feb 25, 2025 |
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Why You Should Be More Skeptical the Next Time You Read a Health News Article by Rina Raphael
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Feb 25, 2025 |
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Harry Houdini Debunked Claims of Abraham Lincoln's Spiritualism by Jason Emerson
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Feb 25, 2025 |
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The Cranky Uncle Game: A Way to Logic-Check Misinformation about Climate Change by John Cook
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Dec 23, 2024 |
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Unmasking the Claims of the Antinuclear Movement: Climate, Health, and Energy at the Crossroads by Amardeo Sarma
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Dec 23, 2024 |
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Fringe Zoology: The (In)Convenience of Disappearing Evidence by Floe Foxon
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Dec 23, 2024 |
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Beyond Belief: Raising a Skeptical Kid (in the Misinformation Age) by Ronald Crouch
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Dec 23, 2024 |
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It's All Bullshit: The Common Ground between Pseudoscience and Pseudophilosophy by Massimo Pigliucci
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Dec 23, 2024 |
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Quick Guide to Modern Video Analysis Techniques for UAP (and UFOs) by Mick West
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Dec 23, 2024 |
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The Genetic Book of the Dead Masterfully Illustrates Science Is Brimming with Wonder and Curiosity by Bertha Vazquez
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Dec 23, 2024 |
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A Triple Threat to Humanity: Climate Change, Pandemics, and Anti-Science by Michael E. Mann and Peter J. Hotez
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Dec 23, 2024 |
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Bill Nye, the Climate Guy, Guest Edits a Special Section in Our 250th Issue by Stephen Hupp
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Dec 23, 2024 |
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The Berkshire UFO Abduction Incident by Benjamin Radford
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Nov 07, 2024 |
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The Harm of So-Called Alternative Medicine by Edzard Ernst
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Nov 05, 2024 |
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Semi-Fake News: A Data-Driven Approach by Massimo Pigliucci
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Nov 05, 2024 |
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The Cass Review: Are We Experimenting on Kids? by Robyn E. Blumner
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Nov 05, 2024 |
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Critical Thinking in the Classroom: How CFI's Generation Skeptics Can Help by Bertha Vazquez
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Nov 04, 2024 |
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Thinking Critically about Critical Thinking: What Do We Really Mean? by Melanie Trecek-King
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Nov 04, 2024 |
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No Witches in Amityville? by Daniel Meyer
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Nov 04, 2024 |
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Is Science Progressive or Conservative? by Mathieu Beau
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Nov 04, 2024 |
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Where's the Science in Campaign Buttons? by Stephen Hupp
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Nov 01, 2024 |
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Science over Party: Five Tips for the Left and Right by Timothy J. Redmond
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Nov 01, 2024 |
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Science and Pseudoscience in London: A Skeptic's Tour by Stuart Vyse
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Oct 07, 2024 |
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Mysterious Mastermind: Conspiracy Theories and Taylor Swift by David Hahn
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Sep 01, 2024 |
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The Truth about Sallie Winchester and the Mystery House That Never Was by Adrienne Hill
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Sep 01, 2024 |
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Eye Movement Therapies, Purple Hats, and the Sagan Standard by Gerald M. Rosen and Loren Pankratz
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Aug 21, 2024 |
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Join Guerrilla Skepticism on Wikipedia—and Help Us Find More Science Experts by Susan Gerbic
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Aug 20, 2024 |
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Critical Thinking Conference in Argentina by Stephen Hupp
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Aug 20, 2024 |
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Are Plants Conscious? by Massimo Pigliucci
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Aug 20, 2024 |
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Ancient Aliens, Now Extra Cringey by Craig A. Foster
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Aug 20, 2024 |
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The Useful Mandela Effect by Mick West
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Aug 20, 2024 |
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Skepticism Saves the Mystery House by Stephen Hupp
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Aug 19, 2024 |
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Progress in Treatment for Obesity by Reynold Spector
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Jul 01, 2024 |
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Curing with Charm: Folkloric Faith Healing and the Power of Belief by Daniel A. Reed
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Jul 01, 2024 |
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From Gods to Gurus: The Evolution of Olympic Superstition and Pseudoscience by Nick Tiller
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Jul 01, 2024 |
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The Eight-Cell Person, Religion, and the Legality of In Vitro Fertilization by Robyn E. Blumner
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Jul 01, 2024 |
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Skeptical Heroes Unite: CSICon 2023 by Stephen Hupp
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Jul 01, 2024 |
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Avoiding Conflict Avoidance by Mick West
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Jul 01, 2024 |
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Smoke and Mirrors: The 60 Minutes 'Breakthrough' on Havana Syndrome Exposed by Robert Bartholomew
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Jul 01, 2024 |
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Pseudoscience: Do We Know What We Are Talking About? by Massimo Pigliucci
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Jul 01, 2024 |
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Summer Shenanigans: Olympics, Sharks, Blockbusters, Breaks, and Trips by Stephen Hupp
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Jul 01, 2024 |
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Looking for the Bright Side of the AI Apocalypse by Guy P. Harrison
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May 31, 2024 |
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Disney's Wish: A Century of Wishing on Stars by Carli Yingling
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May 31, 2024 |
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Witchcraft-Based Violence and Persecution in Malawi by Wonderful Mkhutche
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May 31, 2024 |
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Advocacy for Alleged Witches in Africa: 2023 Update by Leo Igwe
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May 30, 2024 |
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Astrology: Beast of No Burden by Craig A. Foster
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May 30, 2024 |
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Analyzing Conspiracies through Folklore, Epidemiology, and Artificial Intelligence by Benjamin Radford
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May 30, 2024 |
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Practical AI for Skeptics by Mick West
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May 30, 2024 |
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Paranormal Investigation, Artificial Intelligence, and the Future by Stephen Hupp
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May 29, 2024 |
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Some People Just Want to Believe by Rob Palmer
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May 20, 2024 |
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Why You Will Never Know What 'Healthy Eating' Is by Fred P. Abramson
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Mar 01, 2024 |
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The MH370 Teleport Hoax by Mick West
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Mar 01, 2024 |
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Stories That Should Be Handled with Care: The Subjects of Pseudoscience by Kendrick Frazier
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Mar 01, 2024 |
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Prophet of Oppenheimer's Atomic Bomb by Brett Taylor
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Mar 01, 2024 |
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There Be Monsters! Is it True We've Only Explored 5 Percent of the Oceans? by Benjamin Radford
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Mar 01, 2024 |
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Fitspiration, Pseudo-Healthcare Professions, and the First Amendment by Katie Suleta and Emily Hemendinger
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Mar 01, 2024 |
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Come for the Speakers, Return for the Community by Susan Gerbic
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Mar 01, 2024 |
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Defending Science against Social Justice Dogmatism and Identitarianism by Robyn E. Blumner
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Mar 01, 2024 |
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What Happened to Chemtrails? by Mick West
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Jan 01, 2024 |
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When Pseudoscience Dies: A Biorhythm Case Study by Craig A. Foster, McKenna Duff, and Paige Hatfield
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Jan 01, 2024 |
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Whodunit? The 'Murder' of Edgar Allan Poe Solved at Last by Joe Nickell
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Jan 01, 2024 |
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The Freedom of Speech Does Not Protect Healthcare Grifters by
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Jan 01, 2024 |
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Child Rescue Group Used Psychic in (Not) Saving Children by Benjamin Radford
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Jan 01, 2024 |
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War on Cancer: An Updated Progress Report for Skeptics by Reynold Spector
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Jan 01, 2024 |
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A Skeptical Approach to Guilt and Innocence in the Judicial Realm by Matthew J. Sharps, Kyle Villarama, Frankie Rios, and Jana L. Price-Sharps
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Jan 01, 2024 |
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Is Bigfoot Dead? by Benjamin Radford
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Jan 01, 2024 |
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Bigfoot Is Dead! by Stephen Hupp
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Jan 01, 2024 |
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WNYT Channel 13 Promotes Psychic in Kidnapping Case by Kenny Biddle
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Nov 24, 2023 |
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Abraham-Hicks: Motivational Speaking Spirits by Adrienne Hill
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Sep 01, 2023 |