This article originally appeared in The Skeptic, Volume 19, Issue 2, from 2006. Although magnetism was known and exploited by the third century BC or earlier, it still has a capacity to amaze and confuse and it is probably for this reason that it seems to be seeing a particular resurgence as a quack therapy […]
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Read More Skeptic Shermer and de Salcedo discuss: her diagnosis of multiple sclerosis at age 27 • her long-term psychological strategy for living with a serious illness • what “eating like a pig” actually means • our 70-year-old “diet detour” • the obesity crisis • how dietary studies are conducted • the baseline health of
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Read More Skeptic In recent years the UFO phenomena has reached a new fever pitch over a handful of grainy videos and blurry photographs under the rubric of UAP, or Unidentified Aerial Phenomena. What are those objects in the videos and photographs? Alien spacecraft? Russian or Chinese spy drones? In this masterclass in analytical reasoning
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Read More News Release Archives – Freedom From Religion Foundation – Freedom From Religion Foundation An Alabama school district has put a stop to a teacher’s blatant proselytizing after the Freedom From Religion Foundation alerted it. A concerned Shelby County Schools parent had informed the national state/church watchdog that their child’s teacher had been openly
Read More News | Center for Inquiry It’s easy to be overwhelmed by numbers. Data and statistics can be manipulated and manufactured to mislead, making numeracy critically important to a functioning society. Thursday, August 4, at 7:00 p.m. ET, on the next Skeptical Inquirer Presents live online event, mathematician John Allen Paulos will show how
As war is raging in Ukraine, it seems that many conspiracy theorists, fuelled by disinformation campaigns plotted by the Russian government, have shifted their attention from the pandemic towards the war front. The pro-Russia disinformation campaigns are primarily focusing on whitewashing, defending and justifying Russian attacks on Ukraine – perhaps because explicitly denying war would
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