Comment Roundup
My primary blog entry for today can be found at Science-Based Medicine – it covers the recent FDA warnings regarding Zicam and anosmia. A couple of recent comments are worth a direct response. In...
View ArticleTAM, Science-Based Medicine, DragonCon, and NECSS Conferences
I am totally into crunch time for TAM and the SBM conference. I will continue to blog regularly, but will be updating some of my older articles for some entries. Today I just want to post a reminder...
View ArticleThe Price of Superstition
I hate reading these stories – A Haitian woman is accused of burning her own daughter, 6 year old Frantzcia Lauradin, in a ritual designed to purify her of demons. The child’s grandmother did...
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Hunting the Ghost Hunters
I will be away this week, so I am dusting off some of my oldest skeptical writings and updating them. Below is a piece I wrote 12 years ago on ghost hunters, Ed and Lorraine Warren. The article is...
View ArticlePhrenology – History of a Science and Pseudoscience
When first introduced in 1796, phrenology was the latest advancement in the field of neurology. It was widely accepted, even welcomed, by many practicing neurologists as a powerful diagnostic tool....
View ArticleThe New Spiritualists – Channeling in Connecticut
Lynne LaFountain lives in a modest condo in the small town of Winsted, CT, which NESS investigators were invited to visit this May. As we sat in her living room, this ordinary appearing middle-aged...
View ArticleLife in Enceladus
One of the greatest scientific mysteries is the question about the frequency and nature of life beyond the Earth. This is not a mystery because of any theoretical problems – it has just been difficult...
View ArticleGay Exorcism
A Connecticut church is being investigated for possible abuse after a video showed up on YouTube documenting an exorcism of a 16 year old boy to get rid of his “homosexual demons.” CT is nowhere near...
View ArticleThe Jury Is In For Steorn – No Free Energy
This is one of those stories that science writers, educators, and journalists will have to write about forever – free energy claims. The story is always the same, only the names and details change. The...
View ArticleToyota Gets In The Game
In April of this year I wrote about Honda’s press release announcing that they had made some breakthroughs in the area of mental control of robots. On close inspection it seemed that Honda had not...
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