The Lippard Blog

One of the more interesting and better documented cases of surprisingly accurate information from a spirit medium that is described in Debo...

A few prominent skeptics have been arguing that science and medicine should rely upon Bayesian epistemology.  Massimo Pigliucci, in his book...

This is the sixth and final part of my summary of TAM7, covering the last day's events on Sunday, July 11. Part 1 is here , part 2 is he...

Continuing the postings of The Arizona Skeptic ; you can find volume 1 (1987-1988) here , volume 2 (1988-1989) here , volume 3 (1989-1990) i...

Continuing the postings of The Arizona Skeptic ; you can find volume 1 (1987-1988) here , volume 2 (1988-1989) here , volume 3 (1989-1990) i...

Continuing the postings of The Arizona Skeptic ; you can find volume 1 (1987-1988) here . An index to all issues by title, author, and sub...

I've begun putting old issues of The Arizona Skeptic online as PDFs, starting with the old Phoenix Skeptics News , edited by Ron Harvey...

Today is the big day for SkeptiCamp Phoenix , starting at about 12:30 p.m. this afternoon. Magic Tony, one of our presenters, will be live-b...

The spoonscience.com website and YouTube now has the video of the world record for largest simultaneous spoonbending activity (816 spoons) ...

Jeremy the Skeptic has been tracking Sylvia Browne's record of success on her predictions. Once again, the evidence of psychic ability ...

Robert Lancaster of StopSylviaBrowne.com was able to attend one of her "performances" at the Excalibur Hotel and Casino after The ...

This is part three of my summary of The Amazing Meeting 6 ( intro , part one , part two , part four , part five ). Friday night was my one l...

For some reason, I decided to Google the name of a channeler I debated on radio back in 1987, to see if she was still in the business. Whil...

The director of "The Secret" video, Drew Heriot, is suing its author, Rhonda Byrne, for $150 million. Heriot claims he co-authore...

Jon Ronson, the author of the excellent books Them and The Men Who Stare At Goats , went on a cruise with Sylvia Browne. He tells the stor...

Eastern Michigan University sociology professor Marcello Truzzi was a co-founder and co-chairman of the Committee for the Scientific Invest...

The Electronic Frontier Foundation filed a lawsuit yesterday against Uri Geller and his company Explorogist Ltd. for filing a DMCA takedown ...

In the July/August 1988 issue of The Arizona Skeptic , I wrote an article called "A Visit to the 'Psychic Showcase.'" Thi...