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Announcing a New Children’s Book that Promotes Critical Thinking

Announcing a New Children’s Book that Promotes Critical Thinking

Back in 2006 I wrote an article for Skeptical Inquirer titled “Teaching Pigs to Sing.” It described my frustrated efforts to introduce skeptical thinking principles to a general...

Jamie Lauren Keiles Follows the Surgical and Philosophical Journey of Phalloplasty - The Open Notebook

Jamie Lauren Keiles Follows the Surgical and Philosophical Journey of Phalloplasty - The Open Notebook

In the summer of 2019, New York Times Magazinecontributing writer Jamie Lauren Keiles met someone at New York City’s Riis Beach who had undergone phalloplasty, the years-long,...

“Holisitic admissions” and the elimination of standardized tests for graduate school

“Holisitic admissions” and the elimination of standardized tests for graduate school

“Holisitic admissions” and the elimination of standardized tests for graduate school August 3, 2022 • 11:00 am The article below in Science by chemist Anna Mapp (now Associate...

Toby Rogers knows statistics but not vaccines

Toby Rogers knows statistics but not vaccines

RESPECTFUL INSOLENCE "A statement of fact cannot be insolent." The miscellaneous ramblings of a surgeon/scientist on medicine, quackery, science, and pseudoscience (and anything...

Former members of Christian 'cult' that preys on military begged FBI to investigate for more than 2 years

Former members of Christian 'cult' that preys on military begged FBI to investigate for more than 2 years

His persona could ricochet from sweetly paternal to icy menace whenever Rev. Rony Denis suspected disloyalty. Former followers said Denis reminded the disenchanted that his...

Susan Gerbic Back on Tour | Skeptical Inquirer

Susan Gerbic Back on Tour | Skeptical Inquirer

Being the good example I try to be, I spent most of the past two years safely hidden away in my home with my partner Mark Edward, my three cats, a wonderful garden, and the food...