The Lippard Blog

" I believe that we are rapidly transitioning from an Age of Information to an Age of Misinformation, and in many cases, outright disi...

Yesterday I received an email that contained yet another argument that Obama's birth certificate (the PDF'd scan of the "long f...

Now that Berkley Books has just cancelled Herman Rosenblat's Angel at the Fence: The True Story of a Love That Survived after the core ...

In the January 2009 issue of Fortean Times , Theo Paijmans reports the following story of "The Hound of Mons," quoted from the Ada...

This is part two of my summary of The Amazing Meeting 6 ( intro , part one , part three , part four , part five ). Friday, the conference ge...

Last night I attended an event at which one of the attendees promoted "Zeitgeist: The Movie." I was prompted to finally watch thi...

The footage from eight years ago of a Palestinian boy, Mohammed al-Dura, being killed by Israeli gunfire, which was used by the killers of r...

Police are investigating mailings of suspicious white powder , which proved to be a hoax (apparently cornstarch and wheat germ), to nineteen...

I appeared on KTVK-TV 3 News last night , as the token skeptic for a story about a photograph of the painting of the Virgin of Guadalupe tha...

Boston authorities have filed another set of bogus "hoax device" charges , against Star Simpson, a 19-year-old MIT student who was...

Wired looks at the law under which Peter Beredovsky was charged regarding the Boston Mooninite lights : Whoever possesses, transports, uses ...

Bruce Schneier has commented on the Aqua Teen Hunger Force nonsense in Boston : Now the police look stupid, but they're trying really no...

Boston authorities have now escalated their response to the "Aqua Teen Hunger Force" movie publicity campaign , by arresting two ...

There's a market for books by women who claim to have been the sex slaves of the famous. In Cathy O'Brien's book, Trance Format...

Yet another rock formation has been misidentified as Noah's Ark by evangelical Christian explorers ("Arkeologists"). They ap...