Category Archives: Skepticism
50 Years Later, JFK Conspiracy Theories Still Going Strong
Fifty years ago today, President Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas, by Lee Harvey Oswald–spawning conspiracy theories that have lived on to this day. According to an AP-GfK poll conducted in April of this year, of the 1,004 respondents, 59% believed … Continue reading
Michele Bachmann’s Greatest Hits
Congresswoman Michele Bachmann (R-MN) announced this week that she will not be running for re-election in 2014. Good riddance! Bachmann is so batshit crazy she makes all the other wackjobs in the Republican Party look sane and rational by comparison. (I’m talking to you, Rick … Continue reading
Convicting Miss Cleo: Psychics, Fraud and the Law
(Reading about this case from South Africa has inspired me to write this post. However, since I do not have enough information to take a position on the guilt or innocence of that particular defendant, I will address only theoretical … Continue reading
Atheist Criticism of 4th Grade “Science” Quiz Brings Out the Crazy in Creationist Ken Ham
Last month an image purporting to show a 4th grade science quiz that was graded according to young earth creationist ideas appeared on Reddit’s atheism page and quickly spread across the Internet, leading some to question its veracity. Rumor-busting website … Continue reading
Bombs Go Off In Boston, and the Conspiracy Theories Begin…
As anyone who’s reading this probably already knows: Yesterday afternoon, two bombs exploded near the finish line of the Boston Marathon, killing 3 and injuring at least 140 others, in what is pretty clearly some kind of terrorist attack. Of course, … Continue reading
Liberals and Conservatives Are Not Equally Anti-Science
Back in January, Michael Shermer–the skeptic extraordinaire–wrote a column for Scientific American in which he accused liberals of matching conservatives in their opposition to scientific truth. Mother Jones‘ Chris Mooney has now written a response to Shermer in which he disputes … Continue reading
Will One in Four College Women Really Be Raped Before They Graduate?
The Five co-host Bob Beckel said on last Wednesday’s show that female college students don’t need guns because campus rape is not a problem, asking his co-hosts “When was the last time you heard about a rape on campus?” Beckel’s … Continue reading
Lucifer the Light-Bearer 