Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
We live in an age in which absurd claims circulate constantly. Normally, the people making them are far from positions of real responsibility. Lately, that line has started to blur. Gregg Phillips, an associate administrator in FEMA’s Office of Response and Recovery, has offered a vivid example of just how blurry it has become. He … Read more
Bigfoot has been deeply embedded in popular culture for a very long time. It has lived for decades in documentaries, late night television, YouTube videos, podcasts, conventions, eyewitness stories, and TV shows such as Finding Bigfoot. Across nine seasons and more than 100 episodes, that show kept the search alive without ever producing conclusive evidence that … Read more
Last April 16, the U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. attended a press conference that was for a new CDC report on Autism. During it he made statements that were not just wrong, but also deeply offensive and totally crazy. As a bit of background, RFK Jnr has a long history of … Read more
My title might indeed have invoked a few eye-rolls with the mixture of cargo-cult pseudoscience, all carefully wrapped up with a religious woo bow tie, and then encapsulated with a mention of the CIA, but hold fire on that, because there is something real in play here. So what have we got and where does … Read more
Since the 1930s, the Loch Ness Monster myth will occasionally pop up and gain a bit of media traction. This latest example comes via “researchers” at The Loch Ness Centre, and yes, there is a reason for the air-quote there, we will come to the reason for that soon enough. I’m sure you are familiar … Read more
Young Earth Creationist Kent Hovind is perhaps best known as the guy who runs the dollar store Dinosaur Adventure Land that is located behind his home in Pensacola Florida. The big one is of course Ken Ham’s one hundred million dollar Ark Encounter located in Williamstown, KY. Ken’s theology, like Hovind’s, is founded upon a … Read more