The Debunker's Domain
Robert Sheaffer - Skeptical to the Max
Global Warming: The Skeptic's Handbook by Joanne Nova. (For those who insist that "the debate is over" - they're only 3 - 5 years behind the times).
On May 18, 2008 I was featured on NBC-TV's Dateline special, "10 Close Encounters Caught on Tape." (has been re-broadcast at least once). You can watch the program on-line.
Can a Dog do Arithmetic? See my article, 100 Plus One From a Dalmation.
My free Windows software for astronomical observers RTGUI recommends the "best" sky objects to observe, based on your location and time. It now can download positions for any asteroid or comet. Find objects rapidly, have your telescope easily "Goto" them, get an 'instant Skychart'.
Hello, this is Robert Sheaffer. I'm an author, a free-lance writer, and skeptical investigator of all manner of bogus claims. In real life, I have been working as a data communications engineer in the Silicon Valley, although I'm now living near San Diego. I have been a fellow of CSICOP - the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal - since 1977. I have been a regular contributor and columnist for their magazine, The Skeptical Inquirer, since its second issue of publication (Spring/Summer, 1977). I have also been a member of Mensa for over ten years.
I'm an equal-opportunity debunker, refuting whatever nonsense, in my judgment, stands in the greatest need of refuting, no matter from what source it may come, no matter how privileged, esteemed, or sacrosanct. Sacred cows, after all, make the best hamburger. As H. L. Mencken wrote in Prejudices (Fourth Series),
The liberation of the human mind has never been furthered by such learned dunderheads [priests and pedants]; it has been furthered by gay fellows who heaved dead cats into sanctuaries and then went roistering down the highways of the world, proving to all men that doubt, after all, was safe -- that the god in the sanctuary was finite in his power, and hence a fraud. One horse-laugh is worth ten thousand syllogisms. It is not only more effective; it is also vastly more intelligent."Please join me as we heave a few dead cats into the sanctuaries of the world, and demonstrate that at least some Emperors (and Empresses) have no clothes.
My Books,
which can be ordered directly from
using links from this site, plus other published writings.
Skeptical Information on UFOs - One of my areas of specialization.
Exposing Feminist Ms-Information.
Refuting Creationism, Revisionism, and other Right-Wing Falsehoods, Distortions, and Superstitions.
Conspiracies! - find out how they have secretly been plotting against you! (Of course, "they" can be any group you don't like).
Miscellaneous Skeptical Resources
Astronomy and Visual Observations of Earth Satellites.
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Entire contents Copyright © 1996-2008 by Robert Sheaffer
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Robert's Page of Singing and Opera.
Visit Puccini.com - honoring the great operatic composer.
Robert has appeared on numerous TV and radio shows (most recently on "UFO Hot Spots" on the History Channel), and is available to lecture on the above subjects to your college or other organization.
If you have any comments or suggestions, please send me email
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