I was recently a guest on the 16Miles2Hell show, talking about conspiracy theories, the history of conspiracy dissemination, and the psychology of conspiracies... Put on your tinfoil hat and check it out! You can find more on me and my work with a search for...
Psychology
Critical and Thinking: The Ian Harris Interview
Ian Harris is a Los Angeles based comic who has performed at the Center For Inquiry-Los Angeles and at CSI conferences. Blending comedy and skepticism is nothing new--it's been done on The Simpsons, South Park, and in Penn & Teller acts and TV shows for years--but...
The Post Hoc Fallacy: Vaccine Fears and Roosevelt-Menacing Indians
I recently read Candice Miller's book The River of Doubt, about Theodore Roosevelt's 1914 exploration of an unknown river in the Brazilian Amazon. It's a fascinating story of adventure, misadventure, murder, and more. In the book I also found an excellent real-life...
Eyewitness Unreliability and the Filedrawer Effect
My new blog on eyewitness testimony and how we can all be fooled... Dennis Plucknett and his two sons, along with a friend, went hunting at a camp in northeast Florida in 2004. It was early morning, and the group had gotten separated. His fourteen-year-old son...
Quoted in New Report on Debunking Online Rumors
A journalism researcher named Craig Silverman published a report on best practices for debunking online misinformation in journalism and the skeptical community: “I recently completed a fellowship with the Tow Center for Digital Journalism that saw me study how news...
Guest Science Speaker at 2015 Bubonicon
Had a great time speaking at this year's Bubonicon as this years guest Science Speaker discussing my chupacabra research (which, if you're familar with it, you know has an interesting link to H.R. Giger and a certain science fiction/horror film). A good turnout,...
Was Screaming ‘Dead’ Honduran Teen Buried Alive?
I think I solved the bizarre mystery of a girl who was supposedly buried alive last week in Honduras... You can read my piece on Discovery News HERE.
Quoted in NPR Story on Farmer’s Almanac
In this NPR piece from a few years ago I was interviewed about the accuracy of the Farmer's Almanac (spoiler: I'm skeptical). An interesting look at "folk" predictions can be found HERE: Ben Radford, deputy editor of the science magazineSkeptical Inquirer, says...
Quoted in New Book on Critical Thinking
I'm quoted in a new book on critical thinking titled "Sharp Thinking." At least I think I am... it's in Hebrew. Here's the cover.
Writer J.G. Ballard on Astrology
Some advice from the cult British writer...