British mentalist-magician par excellence Derren Brown returns to the small screen this week with a new show, the rather unimaginatively...
Here’s an interesting post on SkepticBlog.com. It’s from Brian Dunning (of the ‘Skeptoid’ podcast) justifying some advertising that Bill Nye...
In the wake of recent controversies surrounding the Pope and priestly paedophilia, leading skeptics have been torn as to how...
A couple of years ago I wrote an article titled “The Myth of James Randi’s Million Dollar Challenge“. It’s one...
The metaphor of science as ‘a candle in the dark’ originated with Carl Sagan, as the subtitle to his 1995...
Once upon a time, the Committee for Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP) was the big dog of...
A couple of weeks ago, Deepak Chopra wrote a column for the San Francisco Chronicle titled “The Perils of Skepticism“....
A couple of weeks ago I noted a minor brouhaha developing between James Randi and Rupert Sheldrake: in a randi.org...
