The Lippard Blog

In his recent talk at the American Atheist convention on skepticism and atheism , Matt Dillahunty states (at about five minutes in) that ske...

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

My favorite part of the Token Skeptic podcast #76's interview with Sara Mayhew and Jack Scanlan is 28:30-28:42, where Scanlan says &quo...

Chris Mooney has a very interesting interview with anthropologist Scott Atran on the Point of Inquiry podcast , in which Atran argues that t...

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

Jeff Hawkins was a Scientologist and member of the Sea Org from 1967 to 2005.  He was responsible for 1980s marketing campaigns that brought...

A group of Tucson atheists and skeptics have started the Desert Air podcast , available via iTunes.  Three episodes available so far.

The decision in Arizona Free Enterprise Club's Freedom Club PAC v. Bennett came out today (PDF), a 5-4 decision ruling Arizona's Cl...

On May 22, 2011, we will either see that many Christians have disappeared and we've been left behind, or that the claims of billboards l...

Today there was a Groupon offer for salt therapy from the "Salt Chalet Arizona."  Sufferers of respiratory illnesses are offered t...

I've written a pair of blog posts for Global Crossing's "Defense in Depth Security" blog based on recent work by Rick Wash...

While listening to a recent Token Skeptic podcast of a Dragon*Con panel on Skepticism and Education moderated by D.J. Grothe of the James Ra...

The prominent skeptic Martin Gardner, mathematician, philosopher, magician, and writer, died today at the age of 95 (b. October 21, 1914, d....

There’s a widespread recognition that public policy should be informed by both scientifically verifiable factual information and by social v...

Matthew LaClair, who exposed his proselytizing U.S. history teacher/youth pastor in 2006 , now hosts his own radio show, "Equal Time fo...

Hackers got access to a trove of private emails from the University of East Anglia's Climate Research Unit that is being trumpeted by th...

Yesterday I listened to D.J. Grothe's interview with Ben Radford on the Point of Inquiry podcast about the latest issue of the Skeptica...

In the comments of Massimo Pigliucci's blog post about the scope of skepticism (which I've already discussed here ), Skepdude point...

In Skeptoid #167, Brian Dunning argues that scientists should never engage in debate on pseudoscientific topics. His arguments include: It...

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...