Adam Conover Returns
After a successful 26-episode run of the first season of "Adam Ruins Everything," Adam Conover returned to my show to discuss the upcoming second season, which premieres on TruTV on July 11th. We talked about what he'll take on this year, whether he'll be ruining the...
It’s Not ESP
Over the weekend, The Daily Beast published a story with the headline "How U.S. Marines Are Using ‘ESP’ to Weaponize Intuition." Below it was the sub-headline, "The Daily Beast has obtained, via the Freedom of Information Act, the Office of Naval Research’s...
Best Thing I’ve Read Today
Kavin Senapathy is irked by the proliferation of products with the ridiculous Non-GMO Project sticker, which is ruining her shopping experience: As a critical thinker and champion of social and environmental justice, seeing the butterfly seal everywhere I shop -- from...
Worth A Link
Lenore Skenazy on a dad given unduly harsh punishment for making his 8-year-old son walk home. RFK Jr. is not a "vaccine skeptic." It's worse -- like Trump, he's anti-vaccine. Appropriate for our times: these professors want to teach college students about...
Adam Conover, “Adam Ruins Everything”
I have become a big fan of "Adam Ruins Everything," the TruTV series hosted by Adam Conover. As a skeptic, I'm happy to have another show in the tradition of Penn and Teller's "Bullshit" and Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman's "Mythbusters." On his show, Adam debunks...
A Cup Of Crap
After US swimmer Michael Phelps showed up at the Olympics with round purple bruises on his body, there have been a ton of stories explaining why. The short answer: he's fallen for pseudoscientific bullshit. It's called cupping, a technique that dates from before...
Bogus Bomb Detectors Strike Again
I thought we were long done with the con man James McCormick, who sold Iraq fake bomb detectors and made over $80 million. That scam was first revealed by my friend James Randi more than six years ago (here's our conversation about it in January, 2010), but even after...
Kavin Senapathy, March Against Myths
Several cities had Marches Against Monsanto last weekend, but in more than a dozen of them, they were met from people from March Against Myths, who were there to spread facts and debunk lies about GMOs. I support groups that fight back against anti-science and...