Articles Science Journalism and Change Science journalists should also cover the mistakes of science. Cargo Cult Skepticism How mainstream skepticism is really just a cheap imitation. Appeal To Ockham How Fake Skeptics get Ockham’s Razor wrong. Vaccines Don’t Cause Autism? […]
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General comments about skeptopathy.
Appeal To Ockham
Fake skepticism is a scourge. Yet I enjoy discussions with fake skeptics. Why? The same reason an entomologist studies bugs. To others, bugs are excruciatingly stupid, repulsive and boring but for whatever reason, the entomologist has developed a fascination with […]
Continue reading »July 2018
Articles Pseudoskeptic Bigots How pseudoskeptics are inclined towards bigotry Proof of Homeopathy? Is homeopathy actually a real thing? Be Reasonable? My recent interview on the “Be Reasonable” skeptic podcast Reviews Review: Principles of Curiosity Critical thinking candy for corporate pseudoscience […]
Continue reading »Be Reasonable?
This April I was excited to finally be contacted by a mainstream skeptic podcast inviting me to be on their show. I had contacted just about every such podcast and radio show I could find. The rest either ignored me […]
Continue reading »January 2017
Articles The Shill Gambit Gambit A rhetorical technique where shill-like behavior is dismissed by claiming a fallacy has been committed. The Great GMO Deception How the real debate of GMOs is being side-lined The Dunning-Kruger Gambit The Dunning-Kruger Effect is […]
Continue reading »The “Anomaly Hunting” Red Herring
A common claim of mainstream skeptics is that people they believe are “pseudo-science advocates” regularly engage in anomaly hunting. Stephen Novella has championed this notion.[1] The idea here is that uncritical thinkers attempt to disprove established consensus beliefs by actively looking […]
Continue reading »The Great GMO Deception
The debate about genetically modified organisms (GMOs) is one that involves faulty reasoning on both sides. Each side tends to attack overly simplified versions of the other side’s arguments and ignores important problems with their own side. I personally don’t […]
Continue reading »The Shill Gambit Gambit
The Shill Gambit is a type of faulty reasoning in which a person’s argument is dismissed by proclaiming that the person is on the payroll of some agency. Such an argument definitely is fallacious. It is a form of ad […]
Continue reading »The Dunning-Kruger Gambit
A popular gambit used by pseudoskeptics is to claim that the objects of their ridicule suffer from the Dunning-Kruger effect. The Dunning-Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which low competency individuals believe that they performed much better than they actually had. […]
Continue reading »September 2014
Articles Are You as Smart as a Fifth Grade Science Student? The 9/11 Test Shows how the official 9/11 story violates the scientific method taught to elementary schools students. A Scientific Theory of the Twin Tower Collapses Outlines a scientific theory for […]
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