Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
Back at the start of 2013, various leading psychics delivered predictions for what was to come in 2013. Well, time has moved on and it is now 2014 (I do hope that last bit was not news to you). So anyway, what many of these “psychics” hope for is success via the scatter-gun approach of … Read more
Sharon Hill, writes a great article in the HuffPo all about why you should be skeptical of eyewitness accounts entitled … “I’m Not Making This Up: Why I’m Skeptical of Eyewitnesses“. To give you an idea, here are a few key phrases and observations that leapt out for me … …Memory is constructed. Pause a … Read more
James Arthur Ray, the new age kook, was given a platform by Oprah to promote his daft ideas and as a result people died Here is an expose of what happened and how he ended up killing three people in a heat endurance test outside Sedona., Ariz The investigators looked into his claims and discovered … Read more
So who gets the award of “Skeptic of the year”? In fact, a more interesting question might be to ask who gives out such an award and how do they determine who is and is not skeptical, how do you actually measure that, because when it comes to such awards, well, I’m skeptical … in … Read more
Well known psychic fraudster Sylvia Brown has passed away, and to be completely honest, that event makes the world a truly better place. As a human being, she was quite frankly truly repugnant, and spent most of her life conning grieving desperate people that she could communicate with their departed loved ones … for a … Read more
Sharon Hill has been writing about the horrendous experience she has had inflicted upon her by her previous web-hosting provider in the past couple of days… I spent a harrowing Friday and Saturday moving my Doubtful News site to a new host after a crapload of issues from my existing host … The final straw came from their … Read more