The Lippard Blog

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...

Here's a famous photograph of pulp fiction author and Scientology creator L. Ron Hubbard holding a tomato plant connected to an E-Meter....

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...

I have just a few more weeks (until July 31st) to reach my fundraising goal. Please donate any amount you can - just as RESCUE saves one l...

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 ...

As this blog has reported on multiple prior occasions (in 2006 , 2008 , and 2009 , at the very least), the fact that U.S. airport security s...