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April 15, 2024Hands up; Who hasn’t heard of Havana Syndrome? If you happened to be watching CBS’s 60 Minutes on Sunday, March 31, 2024, you would have received an eyeful of uncritical interviews about the supposed attack on the U.S. and Canadian embassy staff in Havana, Cuba, starting around 2016. Soon...
The Case of the Disappearing Ghost Story
April 12, 2024My family loves to travel. Two or three times a year, we reserve a cabin at a state park in an area of our home state of West Virginia where we have never really spent much time, pack up our vehicle, and head there for an extended weekend of family fun and relaxation. My father-in-law and my...
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We are all skeptics
Skepticism is a part of everyday common sense we all use; it is also a key component of scientific thinking. It helps lead to fact-based judgments about what is real and what is not. It allows you to see for yourself which claims you’ve heard stand up to tests of evidence and which do not.
A Look to the Past
The Psychic Defective Revisited: Years Later, Sylvia Browne’s Accuracy Remains Dismal
Volume 37, No. 5September / October 2013
This article originally appeared in the September / October 2013 issue of Skeptical Inquirer. Subscribe today and read this entire issue. You will also gain access to our full archive, dating back to 1976. An update of our “Psychic Defective” analysis examines developments in eleven cases...
I Was Wrong (and I Bet You Were Too)
July 9, 2019For me, one of the great pleasures of skepticism is finding out I was wrong about something. Rather than feeling guilty about my error, I feel proud that I have learned something and have a better understanding of reality. When skeptics encounter a questionable claim, they do some fact-checking....
