My good friend Brian was inspired by Nik Wallenda‘s historic, Jesus-Lord-God-filled high wire walk across the Grand Canyon Little Colorado…
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Year in and year out, The Amazing Meeting (TAM) hosts one of the most outstanding group of speakers and workshops of any conference related to scientific skepticism. This year is no exception, and one of the speakers I am most excited to hear (and hopefully meet in person) is Susan Jacoby.
This is the first in what will be an ongoing series of reviews here at GPS. These will be (to…
As mentioned previously, every fall I teach a course called “Science vs Pseudoscience” that focuses on teaching students how to…
So, apparently the chief sponsor of the SOPA bill (aka Stop Online Piracy Act aka the Let the Government Censor…
Below is my latest interview, conducted excellently by Jonathan MS Pearce of the Skeptic Ink blog A Tippling Philosopher. In…
This morning, the Skeptic Ink Network launched it’s newest venue – SINergy. SINergy is going to be your one-stop shop…
It should come as no surprise to my regular readers that I a) am a clinical psychologist and b) despise pseudoscientific nonsense. As such, when I come across woo in my field, I feel a special fire begin to burn deep inside me and it’s not because I missed taking my Pepcid. No, it’s from having the field I have devoted the past 16 years of my life to dragged through the mud and made to look silly by those who are not actually practicing evidence-based psychology.
This is the fifth and final installment of my series on what we know (and don’t know) about intelligence and…
This is the fourth installment of my five part series on what we know (and don’t know) about intelligence and…