A Festival Feeling in Augsburg: SkepKon 2019 Includes Myths about Pet Diets,...
Cover Image: Pseudoscience can be nerve-racking, so skeptics sometimes can’t help but throw up their hands in despair! “How can SkepKon be described?” one might ask. “It’s a time to network and a great...
View ArticleImproving The Narrative: Enlightenment And Illusions
I want to believe. Not in UFOs but in the power of enlightenment and the better angels of our nature. I want to believe that humans have the power to overcome the limitations of our narrowly focused...
View ArticleFalse Beliefs Handled With Care At Csicon 2018
As the first morning’s presentations came to a close at CSICon 2018, our ebullient emcee, George Hrab, commented, “I love that the theme today is understanding.” I had been thinking the same thing. If...
View ArticleParasites And Modern Mind Control
The headliner of the first night of CSICon was Adam Conover of Adam Ruins Everything, who used the idea of parasites in nature as a metaphor for some of the ways our critical brains are overcome...
View ArticleOut-of-the-box Skepticism: Opening Csicon 2018
CSICon is always a big deal. We wouldn’t crow about it so much if it wasn’t. We call it things such as “the premier skeptics’ event” and whatnot because it happens to be true! So even given the cascade...
View ArticleSuperstars, Timely Insights, Fun: Latest CSICon Was Biggest (and Best?) Ever
It had superstars: The witty and erudite Renaissance man Stephen Fry in a lively onstage discussion with his fellow English countryman Richard Dawkins. Steven Pinker of Enlightenment Now! book fame...
View ArticleCSICon 101
I’ve been hearing that attendance numbers for CSICon 2019 are ahead of last year’s pace, and each year more people attend than the previous year. I’m sure conference organizer Barry Karr does not...
View ArticleA Cunning Plan – Bringing Students to CSICon
Cover Image: John Anglin talks about moon hoaxes to Coral Academy of Science Las Vegas. Photo by Ron Lee. This article is about one of the skeptic community’s biggest success. We have been seeing so...
View ArticleNZ Skeptic Conference – Christchurch – 2019
Cover Image: Neon message on the outside of the Christchurch Art Gallery. The New Zealand Skeptics have completed yet another awesome conference. This one was held November 29–December 1, 2019, in...
View ArticleFrom Fantasyland America to the Fabric of Space and Time: Celebrating Science...
It began with a penetrating look at the long history of how a troubled America went haywire by Fantasyland author Kurt Andersen and ended with a romp through the nature of space and time—and the...
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