Jim Lippard's pages on Skepticism, Electronic Freedom, etc.
The James (Amazing) Randi Educational Foundation
Jim Lippard's pages on Skepticism, Electronic Freedom, etc.
The Skeptics' Society and
Skeptic Magazine,
edited by Michael Shermer
Learn everything about hoaxes from the online
Museum of Hoaxes
Can a Dog do Arithmetic? See my article,
100 Plus One From a Dalmation.
Mike Hutchinson's Web Pages,
including a very useful
index of skeptical articles
compiled by Lewis Jones.
Listen to Tim Kammer's
Skeptic Radio.
San Diego Association for Rational Inquiry.
The Bay Area Skeptics, Northern California.
The East Bay Skeptics Society -
of California (Oakland, Berkeley, and thereabouts).
New Mexicans for Science and Reason
- tons of cool stuff.
The Skeptic's Dictionary
of Robert T. Carroll
Dr. Stephen Barrett's
Quackwatch!
Dr. Thomas J. Wheeler's
Scientific Look at "Alternative Medicine."
Junk Science -
Putting it in its place. (The trash heap, not the court room!)
American Council on Science and Health -
combatting health misinformation and hysteria.
Skeptic News -
the "what's new" page for skeptics.
The new and improved
Journal of Irreproducible Results
The False Memory Syndrome Foundation,
assisting the victims of false allegations based on
so-called "Recovered Memories".
According to an article in Feminism &
Psychology (6:1 p.7, 1996), the FMSF "emerges as an
accomplice of the mental health establishment and a leading
force in the heteropatriarchal backlash against women".
Wow!
Tilman Hausherr's pages exposing
the Dirty Tricks of $cientology.
The "Church" of $cientology is
spending vast resources to crush Keith Henson,
one of its most effective critics, using the courts to trample on the First Amendment. Now they're trying to have him jailed for allegedly planning to blow up its headquarters using nuclear missiles!
Before you send those cards off to poor little Craig Shergold, first read
Snopes.com
and also
UrbanLegends.com
(where you can also learn the truth about alleged unnatural acts with gerbils).
Much-hyped author Robert Anton Wilson claims skeptics are
waging a "New Inquisiton" against supposed "heretics". Here is
my answer to Wilson.
In a similar vein,
Jim Lippard
shows how specious Wilson's claims are.
Scott Laroche's page exposing
"New Age wackos".
The home page of
Gary Posner
of the
Tampa Bay Skeptics.
Information debunking various psychics, seers,
questionable medical claims, etc.
The Skeptic Report
- Pay attention to the writing on the wall!
Doug Weller's critiques of
Cult Archaeology
In The Mismeasure of Man, Steven Jay Gould
highlighted the errors of long-dead theorists about human
intelligence, accusing contemporary intelligence researchers of
making the same mistakes. His book, implying that intelligence
research is fundamentally tainted by racism, sexism, and
pseudoscientific practice,
was widely read and for the most part
uncritically accepted, even though the reviews of it in
Science (215:4533 5 Feb. 1982, p. 656)
and Nature (296:5857,
8 April 1982, p. 506) were quite critical.
Few people have ever seen
Jensen's reply to Gould,
in which the disingenuousness of Gould's attack is laid bare.
See how easy it is to
generate your very own impressive (but ultimately nonsensical)
Postmodernist paper.
(Read it carefully -
it is not the same each time - it only sounds
like it is!)
Books Debunking Currently-Fashionable Postmodernist Nonsense:
Why I Am Not A Postmodernist
by Edward R. Friedlander, M.D. Lots of good references.
Postmodernist Philosophy
Higher Superstition - the Academic Left and its Quarrels with Science
by Paul R. Gross and Norman Levitt.
The Flight from Science and Reason
by Paul R. Gross (editor).
A House Built on Sand : Exposing Postmodernist Myths About Science
by Noretta Koertge (editor).
Fashionable Nonsense : Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science
by Jean Bricmont and Alan D. Sokal.
Manifesto of a Passionate Moderate : Unfashionable Essays
by Susan Haack.
