CFI–Kenya Report: Spreading our mission of “science, reason, and free inquiry” beyond borders

by George Ongere

February 1, 2012

Despite the advancement of science and technology in this century, many African republics have incessantly clung to belief systems that are a thwart to human progress in this age of enlightenment.

Review of Syfy’s Fact or Faked

by Rebecca Watson

Skepchick

January 31, 2012

According to its website, FoFPF (pronounced: "fawf-pfffff") "revolutionizes paranormal programming by investigating the evidence witnesses post on the Internet every day." Finally, someone is paying attention to "amateur paranormal researchers" who post fuzzy videos on YouTube!

Wings over the Woodford Folk Festival

by Kylie Sturgess

Curiouser and Curiouser

January 25, 2012

Protesting by Plane with the Stop The Anti-Vaccination Network

Indonesian Skeptic Puts Psychic Powers to the Test

by Lukas Dion Pradityo

January 18, 2012

The following is a report of an investigation conducted after learning of four local individuals with claimed psychic abilities. Pradityo asked each of the claimants to bring their own magical object for the test, performed double-blind tests of the claimants’ abilities, and reported back to us.

“Scientific”: It’s just a catchphrase!

by Sharon Hill

Sounds Sciencey

January 17, 2012

Science is all these things: a process, a way of looking at a topic, a community, an infrastructure, a career, a set of results, an authority, and more. We can use the word in many ways. That means it can be abused in many ways as well.

The Winchester Mystery House

by Karen Stollznow

The Good Word

December 29, 2011

This is another of the “Most Haunted Houses in America,” but this isn’t so much a paranormal story as one about a woman whose life was reputedly ruled and ruined by belief in the paranormal.