The Lippard Blog

Alabama and the GOP are discovering what this blog pointed out 15 years ago--if you're going to adopt a policy that embryos are full bea...

 ChatGPT gets a lot of things wrong here. The Zelen Test is a test that expected to find that the Mars effect correlations in Gauquelin'...

Not much blogging going on here still, but here's my annual list of books read for 2020. Nicholson Baker, Baseless: My Search for Secre...

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

I've been reading Ross Anderson's epic tome, Security Engineering: A Guide to Building Dependable Distributed Systems (2nd edition,...

I recently had a few opportunities on a plane to catch up on some reading and podcasts.  A few of the more interesting things I came acros...

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

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

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

Below these two videos is a post I made (perhaps to the Kate Bush fans' "love-hounds" mailing list, I don't recall) back ...

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...

John Lynch and I have co-authored a review of the Creation Ministries International film on Darwin which will be appearing in vol. 30 of Rep...

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...

Todd Wood of the Center for Origins Research at Bryan College has gotten around to doing what I haven't done, updating my analysis of t...

On the last day of my class on Scientific Revolutions and the law, one of the students in the class, Lijing Jiang, gave a presentation title...

The work of ASU emeritus professor of psychology Robert Cialdini, author of the classic book Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion , has ...

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

Science fiction has been a popular genre at least since Jules Verne’s 19th century work, and arguably longer still. But can it have practica...