Skeptical activism emerged, at least in part, to challenge such malevolent messaging. In a recent article for Scientific American , Dr. Peter Hotez wrote: Antiscience has emerged as a dominant and highly lethal force, and one that threatens global security, as much as do terrorism and nuclear proliferation.Skeptical Inquirer 14(2): 153–160. Trecek-King, Melanie. 2022. Teach skills, not facts. Skeptical Inquirer 46(1): 39–42. Melanie Trecek-King. Melanie Trecek-King is an associate professor of biology at Massasoit Community College. Her website is www.ThinkingIsPower.com.As Fellows of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry we expect professional medical organizations accurately communicate the real risks and benefits of technologies. ... Skeptical Inquirer Magazine. PO Box 703 Amherst, NY 14226 800-634-1610 or (716) 636-1425. Center for Inquiry – Headquarters. PO Box 741 Amherst, NY 14226Harriet Hall, MD, a retired Air Force physician and flight surgeon, writes and educates about pseudoscientific and so-called alternative medicine. She is a contributing editor and frequent contributor to the Skeptical Inquirer and contributes to the blog Science-Based Medicine. She is author of Women Aren’t Supposed to Fly: Memoirs of a Female Flight Surgeon …Leo Kanner (1894–1981), the first person to identify autism as a childhood disorder. (Source: Wikimedia) In 1930, Austrian psychiatrist Leo Kanner opened the first psychiatric clinic devoted solely to children at Johns Hopkins University, and in 1943 he first identified the disorder of autism, borrowing one of Beuler’s “A’s” (Adler et ...Logo of the Skeptical Inquirer. CSI publishes the magazine Skeptical Inquirer, which was founded by Truzzi, under the name The Zetetic. The journal was under Truzzi's editorship for the first year, until August 1977. The magazine was retitled to Skeptical Inquirer with Kendrick Frazier, former editor of Science News, serving as its editor. In ...Benjamin Radford, M.Ed., is a scientific paranormal investigator, a research fellow at the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry, deputy editor of the Skeptical Inquirer, and author, co-author, contributor, or editor of twenty books and over a thousand articles on skepticism, critical thinking, and science literacy. His newest book is America the ...June 2, 2023. In 2019, Janalee Morris, then-president of the Atheist Society of Calgary, recently rebranded as The Rocky Mountain Atheists, approached me about organizing a “kick-ass conference.”. It would be held in 2020 and be branded The Western Canadian Reason Conference, or WeCanReason. Our goals were to provide learning opportunities ...Subscribe now or log in to read this article. The best way to defend science from science deniers is by giving scientists and science communicators some better tools to push back. Of course, what could be a better tool than scientific evidence? But here’s the problem: You don’t convince someone who doesn’t hold their beliefs based on ...CSI is a program of the Center for Inquiry that promotes scientific inquiry and reason in examining controversial and extraordinary claims. It publishes Skeptical Inquirer, a …June 24, 2015. Paul McCartney was twenty years old when the Beatles came to fame, and only twenty-four when, as legend has it, he was killed in a car accident in 1966 and replaced with a lookalike. Now, nearly fifty years later, if today’s McCartney is not the same man as the Beatle who recorded Help! and A Hard Day’s Night, he would still ... The Skeptical Inquirer is the world’s renowned, go-to publication to investigate, evaluate, and analyze extraordinary claims. It draws upon the world’s best scientists, scholars, skeptical investigators, and science journalists to find out what the facts and evidence show and then let you know the results in clear, readable prose. In the two entity photos, we can clearly see hard shadows cast by Candy’s silhouette. Hard shadows are very distinct, appearing in sharp contrast to the subject and the background. In the first image (above left), a hard shadow appears along the right side of Candy. In the second image (above right), the hard shadow appears to the left of Candy.Harriet ‘SkepDoc’ Hall (1945–2023) Stuart Vyse. On January 12, as this issue of the magazine was being finalized, we received word that Harriet Hall, MD—the “SkepDoc” and longtime author of the “Reality Is the Best Medicine” column for Skeptical Inquirer—had died. Hall was an astonishingly prolific writer, a sought-after ...On the Origin of Skeptical Inquirer. Craig A. Foster. “The Time Warp: Skepticism Revisited—from the Future” is the first of an occasional series examining skepticism by looking back on early issues of the Skeptical Inquirer. Welcome aboard, amigos! In “The Time Warp,” we aren’t limited to present-day examination.We should be good skeptics, and we should demand evidence before assuming that something is language. ... Skeptical Inquirer Magazine. PO Box 703 Amherst, NY 14226 800-634-1610 or (716) 636-1425. Center for Inquiry – Headquarters. PO Box 741 Amherst, NY 14226 (716) 636-4869.Kendrick Frazier, the acclaimed science writer and skeptic who has been the editor of Skeptical Inquirer for nearly all of its 46-year history, has died at age 80 following a brief illness. The entire Center for Inquiry community is shocked and heartbroken by the sudden passing of our beloved colleague and friend.Subscribe now or log in to read this article. The best way to defend science from science deniers is by giving scientists and science communicators some better tools to push back. Of course, what could be a better tool than scientific evidence? But here’s the problem: You don’t convince someone who doesn’t hold their beliefs based on ... Letters – Vol. 46, no. 4. Afloat in Misinformation As a former teacher of undergraduate and graduate students, I appreciate Melanie Trecek-King’s excellent articles in Skeptical inquirer (“Teach Skills, Not Facts,” January/February 2022, and “A Life Preserver for Staying Afloat in a Sea of Misinformation,” March/April 2022). The second day got more scientific, examining various efforts to rigorously search for anomalous phenomena. Various approaches were described, including an update on the Galileo Project (which I discussed in the November/December 2021 Skeptical Inquirer).Welcome aboard, friends! In “The Time Warp,” we aren’t limited to present-day examinations. We use Skeptical Inquirer’s rich history to examine skepticism—from the future. On this voyage, we travel to Fall 1978 and the fifth issue of …Joe Nickell. Joe Nickell, PhD, is senior research fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry (CSI) and “Investigative Files” columnist for Skeptical Inquirer.A former stage magician, private investigator, and teacher, he is author of numerous books, including Inquest on the Shroud of Turin (1983), Pen, Ink and Evidence (1990), Unsolved History …Scullion also presents artifacts apparently produced by lens flare as evidence of ghosts, referring to them as orbs. Scullion ignores the fact that in many of the images a line can be drawn (with a ruler) from the “orbs” straight back to an overexposed light source (such as a porch light or street lamp). Another clue attributing the ...There’s another reason athletes are ice bathing; it does reduce muscle pain. As alluded to in the prologue, cold water numbs the skin and partially blocks pain signals that would otherwise race back to the brain. If you have sore and dilapidated muscles, an ice bath might help. But pain is a subjective phenomenon.1. Judge skeptical of Trump’s lawyer. The presiding judge, Juan Merchan, was clearly unimpressed by Trump lawyer Todd Blanche’s desperate attempts to save Trump …WASHINGTON — Conservative Supreme Court justices appeared skeptical Wednesday that state abortion bans that took effect after the sweeping...The Skeptical Inquirer has published several devastating critiques of Schwartz’s work over the years by Ray Hyman (2003a; 2003b) and Richard Wiseman (O’Keefe and Wiseman 2001), among others. Page 200 in chapter eight refers to brain scans taken while a participant was reviewing their “Mind Movie.”I know Skeptical Inquirer has largely remained aloof from partisan controversies, but it seems to me that what’s going on in the country these days needs a good, heathy dose of the kind of honest, fact-based critical thinking that’s …By Andrea Nicolotti. Waco, Texas: Baylor University Press, 2020. 523 pp. Hardcover, $59.95. The remarkable thing about the Shroud of Turin is that it started out as merely a painting but ended up being treated as a relic—namely a piece of cloth bearing an imprint of Jesus’s dead body. Church historian Andrea Nicolotti’s tome on the ...First as a young science journalist, I became editor of Science News and stayed at the helm there for seven full years. I went straight from SN to SI. I became editor of Skeptical Inquirer in August 1977 and have had the good fortune to edit the world’s leading magazine of science and reason for all that time.Benjamin Radford, M.Ed., is a scientific paranormal investigator, a research fellow at the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry, deputy editor of the Skeptical Inquirer, and author, co-author, contributor, or editor of twenty books and over a thousand articles on skepticism, critical thinking, and science literacy. His newest book is America the ...Description. The Skeptical Inquirer is the world’s renowned, go-to publication to investigate, evaluate, and analyze extraordinary claims.It draws upon the world’s best scientists, scholars, skeptical investigators, and science journalists to find out what the facts and evidence show and then let you know the results in clear, readable prose. Homeopaths believe effectiveness increases the more you dilute the putatively active ingredient. They measure dilution on a logarithmic so-called C-scale. 30C—which is recommended as a good, effective dose—corresponds to a dilution of one part in 10 -60. The late James Randi calculated that this is equivalent to one molecule of the active ... R.J. Hankinson. View More. Online Publication Date: 08 Sep 2020. Download Citation Get Permissions. Get Access. Abstract. Metadata. Abstract. This article treats of …Skeptical Inquirer Presents. Skeptical Inquirer Presents is a series of live online presentations from leading experts in science, skepticism, medicine, media, activism, and advocacy, all devoted to the cause of advancing science over pseudoscience, media literacy over conspiracy theories, and critical thinking over magical thinking. ... Skeptical Inquirer is a bimonthly American magazine published by the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry (CSI) with the subtitle: The Magazine for Science and Reason. In 2016 it celebrated its fortieth anniversary. For most of its existence, the Skeptical Inquirer (SI) was published by the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal, widely known by its acronym CSICOP ... Skeptical Inquirer Magazine. PO Box 703 Amherst, NY 14226 800-634-1610 or (716) 636-1425. Center for Inquiry – Headquarters. PO Box 741 Amherst, NY 14226 (716) 636 ... Joe Nickell. Joe Nickell, PhD, is senior research fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry (CSI) and “Investigative Files” columnist for Skeptical Inquirer.A former stage magician, private investigator, and teacher, he is author of numerous books, including Inquest on the Shroud of Turin (1983), Pen, Ink and Evidence (1990), Unsolved History … The Skeptical Inquirer is the world’s renowned, go-to publication to investigate, evaluate, and analyze extraordinary claims. It draws upon the world’s best scientists, scholars, skeptical investigators, and science journalists to find out what the facts and evidence show and then let you know the results in clear, readable prose. The Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal was the forerunner of the current CSI, the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry, that publishes the very magazine you are reading. CSICOP was launched by Paul Kurtz, Marcello Truzzi, and others on April 30, 19 ...August 22, 2022. Nick Tiller. Kinesiology tape, also known as Kinesio Tape, KT Tape, or just K-Tape, is made from 100 percent cotton fiber and “specialized elastic cores” that stretch in length but not width, allowing it to move and flex with muscles and joints. The Skeptic’s Guide to Sports Science.For more about the Mill Creek tracks, see my article in the Skeptical Inquirer, Spring 1989, pp. 264-272. Richard Noll, a longtime Bigfoot enthusiast, loaned Crowley his copy of the Onion Mountain print and allowed Crowley to make a copy of it. Crowley supplied me with a copy of the e-mail exchange made in November 2005.Feb 8, 2023 · Skeptical Inquirer Magazine. PO Box 703 Amherst, NY 14226 800-634-1610 or (716) 636-1425. Center for Inquiry – Headquarters. PO Box 741 Amherst, NY 14226 Rob became a skeptical activist when he joined the Guerrilla Skepticism on Wikipedia team in 2016, and began writing for skepticalinquirer.org in 2018. Rob can be contacted at [email protected] Like Rob's Facebook page to get notified when his articles are published. See more articles.August 22, 2022. Nick Tiller. Kinesiology tape, also known as Kinesio Tape, KT Tape, or just K-Tape, is made from 100 percent cotton fiber and “specialized elastic cores” that stretch in length but not width, allowing it to move and flex with muscles and joints. The Skeptic’s Guide to Sports Science. In an article in the Skeptical Inquirer (Nickell 2014) and in the book American Hauntings (Bartholomew and Nickell 2015, 57–77), I analyzed the Perrons’ claims of demonic activity and showed that they were consistent with the effects of strong winds, misperceptions, schoolgirl pranks, vivid dreams, simple suggestion, role-playing, and other factors—including one child’s having had an ... Benjamin Radford, M.Ed., is a scientific paranormal investigator, a research fellow at the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry, deputy editor of the Skeptical Inquirer, and author, co-author, contributor, or editor of twenty books and over a thousand articles on skepticism, critical thinking, and science literacy. His newest book is America the ...Apr 11, 2024 · Skeptical Inquirer Magazine. PO Box 703 Amherst, NY 14226 800-634-1610 or (716) 636-1425. Center for Inquiry – Headquarters. PO Box 741 Amherst, NY 14226 (716) 636 ... Available for preorder, psychology professor Richard Wiseman’s latest book aims to help children “learn how to perform lots of seemingly impossible feats, including how to defy …Joe Nickell. Joe Nickell, PhD, is senior research fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry (CSI) and “Investigative Files” columnist for Skeptical Inquirer.A former stage magician, private investigator, and teacher, he is author of numerous books, including Inquest on the Shroud of Turin (1983), Pen, Ink and Evidence (1990), Unsolved History …The Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal was the forerunner of the current CSI, the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry, that publishes the very magazine you are reading. CSICOP was launched by Paul Kurtz, Marcello Truzzi, and others on April 30, 19 ...In an article in the Skeptical Inquirer (Nickell 2014) and in the book American Hauntings (Bartholomew and Nickell 2015, 57–77), I analyzed the Perrons’ claims of demonic activity and showed that they were consistent with the effects of strong winds, misperceptions, schoolgirl pranks, vivid dreams, simple suggestion, role-playing, and other …A Netflix Original Film. 2021. Directed by Adam McKay. Starring Jennifer Lawrence and Leonardo DiCaprio. Hollywood has always had trouble with science. To its credit, the American Film Institute (AFI) recognized the problem and ran a series of Catalyst Workshops to help scientists learn the art of storytelling and translate their work into film.Skeptical Inquirer Volume 38, No. 5. September / October 2014. Josh Zepps. Carl Sagan Collection. We present a condensed version of an earlier interview about Ann Druyan’s experience with the first and the new Cosmos series by Josh Zepps for our Center for Inquiry’s Point of Inquiry podcast. This article is available for free to all.The Skeptical Inquirer author seems to have entirely hallucinated it out of thin air. He also seems to assume that we were endorsing panpsychism, while our essay …Feb 28, 2023 · Founded in Washington, D.C., by G. Marion Pettie, the Finders were described as a school that “operates on the principle that life is a series of games. To play the games, a person must follow the rules by acting a certain way in every situation” (Bentley 1987). The actual date of the group’s founding seems to be a matter of dispute ... Benjamin Radford, M.Ed., is a scientific paranormal investigator, a research fellow at the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry, deputy editor of the Skeptical Inquirer, and author, co-author, contributor, or editor of twenty books and over a thousand articles on skepticism, critical thinking, and science literacy. His newest book is America the ...Joe Nickell. Joe Nickell, PhD, is senior research fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry (CSI) and “Investigative Files” columnist for Skeptical Inquirer.A former stage magician, private investigator, and teacher, he is author of numerous books, including Inquest on the Shroud of Turin (1983), Pen, Ink and Evidence (1990), Unsolved History …Randi convinced the world that the skeptical approach is a blast. He wrote and performed with joyful, stinging, defiant wit. He gave skepticism all the fun and romance of a daredevil magic show. He showed how advocating science can be wicked fun, rebellious, full of high adventure, spy-movie derring-do, and laughs.One of my best friends is a skeptic. And yet for years he has been trying to convince me not to use the S-word. You see, every time he talks to someone about the activities of our local group, New York City Skeptics, tries to promote the Skeptical Inquirer, or our former podcast Rationally Speaking, he runs into the same problem: people are immediately …For more about the Mill Creek tracks, see my article in the Skeptical Inquirer, Spring 1989, pp. 264-272. Richard Noll, a longtime Bigfoot enthusiast, loaned Crowley his copy of the Onion Mountain print and allowed Crowley to make a copy of it. Crowley supplied me with a copy of the e-mail exchange made in November 2005.By Andrea Nicolotti. Waco, Texas: Baylor University Press, 2020. 523 pp. Hardcover, $59.95. The remarkable thing about the Shroud of Turin is that it started out as merely a painting but ended up being treated as a relic—namely a piece of cloth bearing an imprint of Jesus’s dead body. Church historian Andrea Nicolotti’s tome on the ...Apr 18, 2023 · Skeptical Inquirer Magazine. PO Box 703 Amherst, NY 14226 800-634-1610 or (716) 636-1425. Center for Inquiry – Headquarters. PO Box 741 Amherst, NY 14226 (716) 636 ... Skeptical Inquirer Presents. Skeptical Inquirer Presents is a series of live online presentations from leading experts in science, skepticism, medicine, media, activism, and advocacy, all devoted to the cause of advancing science over pseudoscience, media literacy over conspiracy theories, and critical thinking over magical thinking.November / December 2015. Forty years have passed since my book The Bermuda Triangle Mystery—Solved was published in 1975. The most important chapter is “Flight 19,” the account of the five Navy Avenger torpedo bombers and a Martin Mariner PBM that disappeared on December 5, 1945. Flight 19 was on an overwater navigation-training …“Democrats are more likely than Republicans to say the media in the U.S. are completely free to report the news (38% vs. 29%), while Republicans are more likely …Veteran cryptozoologist Loren Coleman and others have joined the chorus of complainers that a conspiracy-esque “wall of skeptical ridicule” silences witnesses; Joshua Blu Buhs, in his book Bigfoot: The Life and Times of a Legend, even suggests without evidence that ridicule is “the skeptics’ primary weapon.”.The Skeptical Inquirer author seems to have entirely hallucinated it out of thin air. He also seems to assume that we were endorsing panpsychism, while our essay … Skeptical Inquirer is a bimonthly American magazine published by the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry (CSI) with the subtitle: The Magazine for Science and Reason. In 2016 it celebrated its fortieth anniversary. For most of its existence, the Skeptical Inquirer (SI) was published by the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal, widely known by its acronym CSICOP ... Rob Palmer has had a diverse career in engineering, having worked as a spacecraft designer, an aerospace project engineer, a computer programmer, and a software systems engineer. Rob became a skeptical activist when he joined the Guerrilla Skepticism on Wikipedia team in 2016, and began writing for skepticalinquirer.org in 2018.Rob Palmer has had a diverse career in engineering, having worked as a spacecraft designer, an aerospace project engineer, a computer programmer, and a software systems engineer. Rob became a skeptical activist when he joined the Guerrilla Skepticism on Wikipedia team in 2016, and began writing for skepticalinquirer.org in 2018. That joke came to my mind when I read three short tributes to biologist E.O. Wilson in Skeptical Inquirer (May/June 2022). Wilson passed away on December 26, 2021, at age ninety-two. The tributes are by evolutionary biologist and science popularizer Richard Dawkins, evolutionary developmental biologist Sean B. Carroll, and cognitive linguist ... Rob became a skeptical activist when he joined the Guerrilla Skepticism on Wikipedia team in 2016, and began writing for skepticalinquirer.org in 2018. Rob can be contacted at [email protected] Like Rob's Facebook page to get notified when his articles are published. See more articles.Polls and surveys have found that about a quarter of Americans are superstitious (e.g., Moore 2000; Orth 2022). At the high end of the scale, there have occasionally been …Skeptical Inquirer Presents. Skeptical Inquirer Presents is a series of live online presentations from leading experts in science, skepticism, medicine, media, activism, and advocacy, all devoted to the cause of advancing science over pseudoscience, media literacy over conspiracy theories, and critical thinking over magical thinking. ...Andrew Fraknoi, Kendrick Frazier. From: Volume 45, No. 5. September/October 2021. Many scientists and skeptics expressed concern to us about the New Yorker article “The U.F.O. Papers” (in the May 10 printed edition). We know of at least two who submitted letters to the magazine about it. The New Yorker didn’t publish them, but here they are:Peter Popoff says he’s a healer and a prophet of God. His former employee says he’s something quite different. A sixty-eight-year old German American minister, Popoff’s biggest claim to fame is that in 1986, he was taken down by arch skeptic James Randi on Johnny Carson’s Tonight Show.Randi, along with a private investigator, …At its core, Missing411 is the vague claim that something unusual is occurring related to deaths and disappearances in national parks. The concept has been steeped in the milieu of conspiracy and the supernatural, as Paulides frequently appears on paranormal-oriented radio shows and podcasts to discuss it. A forthcoming documentary appears to ...The Skeptical Inquirer has published several devastating critiques of Schwartz’s work over the years by Ray Hyman (2003a; 2003b) and Richard Wiseman (O’Keefe and Wiseman 2001), among others. Page 200 in chapter eight refers to brain scans taken while a participant was reviewing their “Mind Movie.”Mar 19, 2018 · Promotional image for The Blackwell Ghost. The Blackwell Ghost is a film promoted as a real-life documentary which follows a filmmaker-turned-ghost hunter as he investigates an alleged haunted house. The description on Amazon Prime, which seems to be the only place this film is available, states “A filmmaker tries to prove that ghosts are ... Skeptical activism emerged, at least in part, to challenge such malevolent messaging. In a recent article for Scientific American , Dr. Peter Hotez wrote: Antiscience has emerged as a dominant and highly lethal force, and one that threatens global security, as much as do terrorism and nuclear proliferation.In QM, there is no transmission of energy between the separated particles; it is only that they are “entangled.”. In short, parapsychology cannot be true unless the rest of science isn’t. Moreover, if psi effects were real, they would have already fatally disrupted the rest of the body of science.Scène de la peste de 1720 à la Tourette (Marseille) by Michel Serre (1658–1733) (Wikimedia) Even in the Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918, the medical science and healthcare facilities in the United States were far behind what they are today.
In a recent issue of the Skeptical Inquirer, Editor Kendrick Frazier (July/August 2021) noted that UFOs, and the space aliens who putatively drive them, are actually being taken seriously by current mainstream media. This is happening in outlets we would normally expect to showcase scientific thinking rather than UFO promotion and publicity. . Conestoga
Welcome aboard, friends! In “The Time Warp,” we aren’t limited to present-day examinations. We use Skeptical Inquirer’s rich history to examine skepticism—from the future. On this voyage, we travel to Fall 1978 and the fifth issue of …Jan 27, 2023 · January 27, 2023. Susan Gerbic and Harriet Hall at CSICon 2016. Harriet A. Hall was born in St. Louis, Missouri, on July 2, 1945, and died on January 11, 2023, in Puyallup, Washington. Richard Saunders just replayed on his podcast The Skeptic Zone a 2007 interview he had done with Harriet Hall when they were both on a JREF cruise to Alaska. Skeptical Inquirer is a bimonthly American magazine published by the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry (CSI) with the subtitle: The Magazine for Science and Reason. In 2016 it celebrated its fortieth anniversary. For most of its existence, the Skeptical Inquirer (SI) was published by the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal, widely known by its acronym CSICOP ... The Skeptical Inquirer is the world’s renowned, go-to publication to investigate, evaluate, and analyze extraordinary claims. It draws upon the world’s best scientists, scholars, skeptical investigators, and science journalists to find out what the facts and evidence show and then let you know the results in clear, readable prose. The Committee for Skeptical Inquiry ( CSI ), formerly known as the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal ( CSICOP ), is a program within the U.S. non-profit organization Center for Inquiry (CFI), which seeks to "promote scientific inquiry, critical investigation, and the use of reason in examining controversial ... Harriet Hall, MD, a retired Air Force physician and flight surgeon, writes and educates about pseudoscientific and so-called alternative medicine. She is a contributing editor and frequent contributor to the Skeptical Inquirer and contributes to the blog Science-Based Medicine. She is author of Women Aren’t Supposed to Fly: Memoirs of a Female Flight Surgeon …Available for preorder, psychology professor Richard Wiseman’s latest book aims to help children “learn how to perform lots of seemingly impossible feats, including how to defy …Skeptical Inquirer, 1(1):58-68, Fall. Story, Ronald D. 1977 Von Däniken’s golden gods, Skeptical Inquirer, 2(1):22-35, Fall/Winter. p50. James Lett. James Lett is a Professor of Anthropology, Department of Social Sciences, Indian River Community College.Skeptical Inquirer, Amherst, New York. 148,282 likes · 344 talking about this. I know of no greater antidote to pseudoscience than the contents of Skeptical Inquirer magazine. Neil deGrasse Tyson2. Your Uncle Wants to Avoid Cognitive Dissonance. If you put yourself in the shoes of one of these vaccine rejectors, you can understand why—even in the face of the more virulent Delta variant—they are not going to change their minds now. At the beginning, there was a moment when things might have gone the other way.The Thesis . Recently, I reviewed Behe’s latest book, Darwin Devolves, for Science, the top scientific research journal in the United States (Lents et al. 2019).Behe argues that unguided random mutations serve primarily to damage genes and that doing so is occasionally good for the organism, leading to adaptation through natural selection of ….