Category Archives: Skepticism and Pseudoscience

Scent Dog ID: Science or Pseudoscience?

Posted on September 22, 2009 by Carl Feagans

Image by BL1961 via Flickr I’ve blogged in the past about “Man’s Best Friend” and the archaeological evidence of the domestication of the human by canines (or perhaps I have that reversed). I’m a big fan of dogs and what … Continue reading →

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Woo traffic is still traffic

Posted on August 22, 2009 by Carl Feagans

I invite the visitors of Loren’s blog to post here and discuss pseudoscience or what their thoughts are on the Aquatic Ape hypothesis, which is where this all began. I don’t know why Loren picked that as her “quote of the week,” -perhaps she likes the aquatic ape idea. I’d be interested to know why she thinks it holds water (no pun was planned on that). Continue reading →

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What is pseudoscience?

Posted on August 17, 2009 by Carl Feagans

Image by mot the hoople via Flickr At its most basic, pseudoscience is fake science. The prefix pseudo- meaning “fake”- followed by the word science. But it’s more than that. Or, I should say, it’s not just that. Pseudoscience involves … Continue reading →

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“Does she really think dinosaurs were here 4,000 years ago?”

Posted on September 28, 2008 by Carl Feagans

Matt Damon on Sarah Palin. Regardless of what you think about celebraties using their notoriety to make political statements, I think Matt Damon nails her. So to speak. Sorry about the political post -I don’t usually stray that way, but … Continue reading →

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Seeing is Believing? ABC interviewed Palin -now they’re on to UFOs

Posted on September 16, 2008 by Carl Feagans

Back in 2005, ABC’s Primetime aired a special on UFOs. Tonight, they aired another special -same topic; same title. There’s a companion website, Could So Many UFO Witnesses Be Right? The very title of the site reveals an appeal to … Continue reading →

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Nitrogen Tire Scam part 3

Posted on July 16, 2008 by Carl Feagans

Okay, I thought of adding this response as a comment, but since it ended up being so lengthy, I decided to make a separate post. The original comment is here and was caught by the Akismet as spam. I’ve since … Continue reading →

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Nitrogen Tires part 2

Posted on July 15, 2008 by Carl Feagans

Looking through my spam filter I find the following: Cfeagans Hello. You may recall that I posted the below entry on your blog, Hot Cup of Joe, countering some of your arguments against nitrogen tire inflation. I was just curious … Continue reading →

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Nitrogen Filled Tires: a Scam?

Posted on July 5, 2008 by Carl Feagans

While this is primarily an anthropology and archaeology blog, I also like to write about skeptical topics as well. I’ve written several bits about pseduoarchaeology in the past, but this topic is a straight bit of skepticism. My wife and … Continue reading →

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Kevin Trudeau is still a liar

Posted on March 31, 2008 by Carl Feagans

One of the most popular (i.e. the most clicked on/referred by google/etc) post I ever did was also one of my first. It was Review: Kevin Trudeau’s Natural Cures: Part 1 and it easily has the most comments. My old … Continue reading →

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Defining Pseudoskepticism

Posted on August 10, 2007 by Carl Feagans

One of the points about my blog that I’ve tried hard to adhere to is being skeptical of pseudo-archaeology1 and even of other claims made in the name of science or medicine2. To date, I have at least 37 posts … Continue reading →

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