Skeptical Inquirer
Health and wellness manipulation: 10 ways behavior-savvy companies sell their products
In an effort to cut through the noise and capture your limited attention, marketing companies often invoke the logical fallacy—an ...
Living with uncertainty: Understanding science as an ongoing method of inquiry rather than an affirmation of inalterable facts
Science can be very certain and precise. It tells us exactly when to expect the next total solar eclipse and ...
Viewpoint: Vaccines and autism — How Hollywood fame and fortune can lead to dangerous promotion of false cures, false causes and false hopes
Many of you will remember when, in 2007, actress and former Playboy model Jenny McCarthy published her book Louder Than ...
Marijuana? Masturbation? Alcohol? What behaviors affect male fertility?
[W]e can look at overall trends in the scientific literature and draw some conclusions about what facets of your life ...
Don’t be a ‘covidiot’: Navigating the world of coronavirus misinformation and ignorance
A pandemic was declared. Italy is on lockdown, with more cases than China. Other countries are following suit. Governments everywhere ...
‘Wholly unethical’: Gay conversion therapy does not work
The World Psychiatric Association has declared that conversion therapy is “wholly unethical.” Yet despite the legal bans, the retractions, the ...
7 things we get wrong about heredity
Many people have misconceptions about heredity—how we are connected to our ancestors and how our inheritance from them shapes us ...
