Where in the world is Sanal Edamaruku?
As you probably know, Sanal Edamaruku is in flight from his home in India, because the police want to arrest him for exposing a Catholic miracle as a case of leaking pipes. I would not tell anyone...
View ArticlePlaying with the Drake Equation
The BBC has put up an interactive web page with the parameters of the Drake equation that lets you tweak numbers and estimate how many alien civilizations might exist. It’s informative because you...
View ArticleCats, skepticism and MRAs
It struck me this weekend as I was arguing with my cat that the conversation was remarkably like some I’ve had over the last years online with so-called Men’s Rights Activists. I say “so-called” for a...
View ArticleConspiracy Road Trip: UFOs
I haven’t had time to watch this yet, but I apparently appear very briefly in this program. It’s the usual thing — I spend a few hours talking, and it gets edited down to a few seconds. I’m looking...
View ArticlePaul Kurtz is dead
One of the most influential figures in modern skepticism and atheism is no more: Paul Kurtz has died at the age of 86.
View ArticleDid anyone attend The Paradigm Symposium?
I’m just curious — The Paradigm Symposium was held last weekend in Minneapolis, featuring such remarkable stars of the wacky contingent as Erich von Däniken, Giorgio Tsoukalos, and George Noory. This...
View ArticleCan I see an fMRI from a man jumping over a shark next?
I’m feeling cynical today. I think I’ve read one too many fMRI studies. The latest faddish paper is on what the brains of freestyle rappers look like — they compared the brain activity of people...
View ArticleWhere is Sanal Edamaruku now?
The Catholic church wants to arrest him in India for exposing the hokum behind a ‘miraculous’ bleeding statue (it was a leaky pipe), so Sanal Edamaruku has been traveling through Europe. His next...
View ArticleWhat I really want to see is the DNA sequence of an alien Grey
Dr Melba S. Ketchum has made press release of an astonishing discovery: she has sequenced Bigfoot DNA, she claims. “Our study has sequenced 20 whole mitochondrial genomes and utilized next generation...
View ArticleThat’s not a “response”, Michael, it’s a “denial”
Ophelia Benson called out Michael Shermer for a sexist remark he made. Now Michael Shermer responds. Well, actually, he jinks and jitters to avoid the issue, and tries a grand distraction: “Hey, look...
View ArticleLearning
Once upon a time, confident in my knowledge of biology, I was certain that creationists were stupid. But then I read some of their articles and listened to some of their talks, and learned that some of...
View ArticleI shoulda checked the reviews first
I watched the movie Red Lights last night on Netflix. The first part of the movie was strikingly familiar: it practically stole the life story of James Randi. There was the Peter Popoff exposé, the...
View ArticleThe delicate ego of Mr Michael Shermer
As you’ve probably already heard since Ophelia Benson has posted a few things about it, Michael Shermer has had another meltdown. To keep it short, Shermer said a stupid sexist thing on camera — about...
View ArticleNECSS is coming up
That’s the Northeast Conference on Science and Skepticism if you didn’t already know — 5-7 April in New York City. I was there last year, and it’s a good meeting — check it out. Unfortunately, I won’t...
View ArticleA common complaint I hear a lot nowadays…
If you’re loafing about on a Sunday morning and looking for something to read, here’s a long form argument requesting skeptical consistency regarding political economy. Oh, man, is this familiar....
View ArticleDo you take a credit card?
I would like to buy your product. Ignore the disclaimer, you can use it everywhere.
View ArticleWitch-Doctors on display
There is an organization in the UK called the Christian Medical Fellowship. OK, no problem, you might think — nothing wrong with Christian fellowship, nothing wrong with doctors who go to church or...
View ArticleA reply to Steven Novella
Steven Novella has written a post taking exception to some things I’ve said, specifically on the issue of the overlap of science, skepticism, and religion. I have to say, though, that what his post...
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Atheists are skeptics
There is hope! Steven Novella has replied to my reply to his original disagreement (making this a reply to a reply to a reply to a blog article…I take it back, maybe there is no hope.) But no, there is...
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The Amazing Meeting coming up again
I had dinner with the Amazing Randi this weekend — see, I have proof! — and I was reminded what a pleasant and entertaining fellow he is. I also remembered that this is the time of year when they...
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