A British mother is claiming that her troubled teen killed herself because of an allergy to WiFi; my analysis for Discovery News is HERE. You can find more on me and my work with a search for "Benjamin Radford" (not "Ben Radford") on Vimeo.
Investigation
Follow-Up on a Ghost Investigation: Rose Hall
My new CFI blog is about a recent exchange I had with a woman who saw me on a TV show for my Rose Hall investigation and sought further information about ghosts there. It provides insight into flawed ghost hunting assumptions, and the practical difficulty of doing a...
How to Make Sense of Medical Warnings
For those who didn't see it earlier, I wrote a recent piece for Discovery News explaining how news stories exaggerate risks of disease, and how to understand relative vs. absolute risk in journal findings... you can read it HERE. Hopefully it will help calm some...
BBC Travel Promotes ‘Walking Palm Tree’ Myth
A BBC travel reporter writing a piece about Ecuador’s Sumaco biopark repeats a common myth as fact: Specifically that there is a palm tree that “walks” across the forest floor. I investigated this claim years ago, and wrote about it in both Skeptical Inquirer magazine...
New ‘Skeptical Inquirer’ Column: Have You Seen the Toucan Man?
In my column in the new issue of Skeptical Inquirer I investigate a report of a mysterious Costa Rican "Toucan Man" said to abduct children. Lots of interesting folklore in this one, check it out on newsstands now! You can find more on me and my work with a search for...
My Appearance on PBS Newshour on Aliens and UFOs
I was recently quoted on the PBS Newshour about bringing science and investigation to claims about aliens and UFOs. You can read it HERE. You can find more on me and my work with a search for "Benjamin Radford" (not "Ben Radford") on Vimeo.
Quoted in a HuffPo Story on a White House Ghost Photo
I was interviewed for a HuffPo piece on ghost hunter Joshua Warren's claim that he discovered an amazing photo of Abraham Lincoln in the White House: "Radford is surprised that anyone would consider what Warren calls “the world’s most credible and amazing ghost photo”...
The Jersey Devil Reappears! (Kind Of)
Last month a blogger for NJ.com shared a photo of a bizarre, somewhat goatlike silhouetted winged form in the sky. Despite several obvious signs that the anonymously submitted photo is faked, it went viral and has been widely shared on social media as long-sought...
Creepy Clowns Stalk UK Kids
Last month reports have surfaced in England of people dressed as clowns stalking and trying to abduct — or at the very least scaring — children. I gave a presentation on this topic earlier this year for the International Society for Contemporary Legend Research. My...
Debunking a Photo of Buxom Ghost
I was recently asked by the Huffington Post to look into the case of a big-breasted ghost apparently caught on film, and perhaps even moving artifacts in a museum. The article, with my commentary and analysis, is HERE. You can find more on me and my work with a search...