Special Articles
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Noé
by Luis Alfonso Gámez
¡Paparruchas!
April 7, 2014
El Arca de Noé es una de las obsesiones de los literalistas bíblicos, que creen que lo narrado en las Sagradas Escrituras cristianas son hechos históricos.
Giving up the Ghosts: Formerly Known as “Ghost Hunters”
by Sharon Hill
Sounds Sciencey
April 4, 2014
Question: How does an avid ghost hunter and true believer in paranormal phenomena turn into an avowed skeptical commentator?
The Ghost in the Kitchen
by Barry Karr
March 27, 2014
Recently a video has been making the rounds on the internet showing security camera video of a glass plate flying off the shelf of a store in New Hampshire.
Rapping Evolution – An Interview With Baba Brinkman
by Kylie Sturgess
Curiouser and Curiouser
March 20, 2014
Baba Brinkman is a Canadian rap artist, writer, and performer and the creator of “The Rap Guide to Evolution,” a hip-hop exploration of modern evolutionary biology, natural selection and evolutionary psychology.
Not a Saint: How I Bought Con Man Kevin Trudeau’s Belongings
by Carrie Poppy
Poppycock
March 18, 2014
Kevin Trudeau doesn’t have very good taste. I know because I just got back from his house in Ojai, California. Or rather, the house he once owned.
A Grain of Truth: Recreating Dr. Emoto’s Rice Experiment
by Carrie Poppy
Poppycock
March 11, 2014
Are you a human? Do you have access to the internet? Then you may already know about Dr. Masaru Emoto, the Japanese “scientist” who magically turns normal rice into gross rice, simply by yelling at it.
My First Trance
by Carrie Poppy
Poppycock
March 3, 2014
I sat with the older members of a group of twenty-eight people. Twenty were standing. I was the only guest. This was my second meeting with them. They often get together to pray, lay hands on the sick, and communicate with spirits. The spirits don’t talk back, but that doesn’t stop them.
Prehistoric Survivors? They Are Really Most Sincerely Dead
by Sharon Hill
Sounds Sciencey
February 28, 2014
A popular gambit in cryptozoology is to say that a cryptid is a real animal that was presumed long extinct but has lived on undetected. Here is why that sounds sciencey, but is bad reasoning.
Gone Squatchin’: My Day at the Bigfoot Expo
by Rebecca Watson
Skepchick
February 26, 2014
The schedule ran from noon until 6:15pm and was packed with talks like, “Bigfoot Eyeshine—What Is It?” and “What Would Sasquatch Do?” which I imagined as a lecture on top-down morality and ethics as espoused by a shy, possibly fictional woodland creature.
Will Psychics “Cure” Cancer?
by Carrie Poppy
Poppycock
February 20, 2014
The online psychic industry is a seemingly bottomless collection of clairvoyants, tarot card readers, psychic healers, and other people in purple outfits.