Younger-Dryas Impact. Science or Pseudoscience?
The answer might not be as clear as we’d like it. But in this article, I’m going to give an overview and list the evidence […]
Skepticism and Pseudoscience
Embellishments of memory: the unreliable nature of eyewitness testimony
ABSTRACT: In news of the past: UFO study finds no sign of aliens. But there will be no shortage of people who subscribe to the notion […]
The silliness of Rhesus negative blood and aliens, gods, nephilim, etc.
Rhesus negative blood seems to be one of the pseudoscientific buzzwords that mystery-mongers exploit on the internet. Going around and around the internet are memes-usually […]
From Believer to Skeptic. A Personal Account of Critical Thinking.
On a summer evening in 1974, when I was just 7 years old, I witnessed an event that would ultimately change my life. Not a […]
Nitrogen Filled Tires: Scam or Not?
One of my most popular articles on this blog is the one about Nitrogen-Filled Tires that I wrote back in 2008. I noticed a blog […]
Is a homeopathic laugh really funny?
Or is it just a watered down joke? I found a small package of “medicine” recently in the desk drawer of a former employee and […]
GMO Hating Squirrels?
There’s a popular Facebook meme making it’s rounds –I’ve seen it at least three times now– about GMO foods and how it’s supposed to be […]
Native American Marker Trees. Interesting, but is the Science Sound?
Today, I had the privilege to attend a presentation by Dennis Downes at the Trinity River Audubon Center in Dallas, Texas. There were perhaps 100 or so […]
Grave Dowsing?
What’s a water dowser do when his method is demonstrated time and again to be nonsense on stilts? Turn to dowsing for graves, I suppose. […]
Newt Gingrich: Americans are an Invented People
So, if Palestinians are an “invented people,” then equally, too, are the Americans and the Israeli’s. Neither the United States or Israel existed prior to 1776 and 1948 respectively.