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From the Lab to the Layperson: A Pioneering Initiative to Improve the Translation of Science
March 27, 2024“If you don’t tell your own story, someone else will tell it for you, and you probably won’t like how they do it.” —Shirley Malcolm, American Association for the Advancement of Science. We know that complex life likely evolved from single-celled organisms. As soon as microbes emerged...
UFO Conspiracy on Wikipedia Claims:A Conversation with GSoW’s Susan Gerbic
March 27, 2024Few things get my blood boiling like reading or hearing truth claims being made with confidence about something that I absolutely KNOW is false. One example is a conversation I overheard just this week where a man was claiming that no one has ever seen a satellite, and people only believe such...
Here Come the Creationists…Again | Eugenie Scott
March 27, 2024https://youtu.be/UCKNUgPNBQ4 In June 2022, the Supreme Court decided in Kennedy v. Bremerton that a high school football coach was permitted to pray on the fifty-yard line and overruled an earlier Supreme Court case, Lemon v. Kurtzman. This completely changed how the government approached...
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Watch the recording nowWe 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....