Mar 15, 2022 | Skepticism
It’s been a long time since I wrote anything about the con artists who profess to be psychics, but I can’t pass up the opportunity to mention The Great Australian Psychic Prediction Project. It was run by Richard Saunders, one of the leading skeptics down...
Feb 5, 2021 | Music, Picture of the Day, Skepticism
Tim Minchin is a brilliant singer/songwriter whose work I have been a fan of for at least a decade. It’s not easy remaining topical, funny, and entertaining while also not-so-subtly promoting skepticism and atheism, but Minchin pulls it off like a direct...
Oct 22, 2020 | Blog, Magicians, Skepticism
I don’t have a lot of people I call heroes, but James “The Amazing” Randi certainly qualified. He died Tuesday at 92 of, well, being 92. The first time I saw Randi was when I was a kid, watching Sonny Fox introduce him on “Wonderama,” a...
Mar 18, 2020 | Blog, Science, Skepticism
Jim Bakker is being sued by the Attorney General of Missouri for selling what he claims is a Coronavirus cure. From an NPR report: Televangelist Jim Bakker held up a blue and silver bottle, gazing intently at the label, as he questioned the woman sitting next to him....
Feb 26, 2019 | Skepticism
If you’re a regular reader of this site — or if you listened to my radio show — you know how much I detest the frauds who call themselves psychics (here’s just a sample of the blog posts I’ve written on this subject). I’ve railed...
Jan 17, 2019 | Skepticism
As Benjamin Radford writes, psychics were absolutely no help in finding Wisconsin teen Jayme Closs — just as they’ve failed in every previous case. Closs joins other high-profile missing persons including Elizabeth Smart and Jaycee Dugard. Elizabeth Smart...
