“Everyone is in favor of critical thinking. That’s evidence the term is in danger of becoming meaningless.”
A 2006 Skeptical Inquirer essay that aged better than most hot takes: https://skepticalinquirer.org/2006/03/critical-thinking-what-is-it-good-for-in-fact-what-is-it/
If a method fails every controlled test, it’s not misunderstood. It’s wrong.
Facilitated Communication keeps coming back because people confuse belief with proof.
This piece walks through the history and the damage without sugarcoating it: https://ow.ly/XPBh50Y3Zsx
Wicked fans talk good vs bad. Skeptics know it’s belief vs evidence.
Malorie Mackey + Michael Maldonado talk about what happens when a believer and a skeptic share a life + why changing minds is slower than any song.
Dec 4 • 7pm ET
Free livestream: https://ow.ly/3TQQ50Xz9pK
Grassroots skepticism isn’t glamorous. It’s cookies, AV cables, and 22 people arguing over Teflon.
Small rooms are where future leaders, funders, educators, and skeptics actually get formed.
Susan Gerbic reports back from SkeptiCamp Santa Cruz 2025: https://ow.ly/tWqx50XmS6x
CSI is turning 50, which in skeptic years is… about 4,000 conspiracy theories debunked.
Join us in Buffalo with Bill Nye, Leighann Lord, and the all-stars of science communication.
June 11–14, 2026.
Let’s celebrate the people who celebrate reality: CSIconference.org
A quiet conversation between @twkskeptic.bsky.social and Gutsick Gibbon about teaching evolution, handling pushback, and leaving room for people to learn.
“Science is not a threat to anybody—it’s our way forward.”
Watch it here: youtu.be/NPFLd2UlJQA
. @kevinfolta.bsky.social: "Both men advanced to positions overseeing a vital national interest ... And by understanding the history of an unqualified person driving nonscientific decisions in scientific public policy, perhaps we can avoid another disaster."
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Barry Karr on Peter Popoff: “I have no words strong enough in my vocabulary to describe my feelings.”
That bluntness carried CSI through lawsuits, conferences, and four decades of keeping skepticism stitched together.
A proper legacy: skepticalinquirer.org/2025/08/barr...
The NIH gave us CRISPR cures and leukemia pills that turned death sentences into long lives.
Now we’re planning to cut it nearly in half.
The math here doesn’t add up: skepticalinquirer.org/2025/08/nih-...
Quackery is a reminder of how easily science can be distorted when profit comes first.
On Sept. 18, Dr. Robert Greenspan joins us to explore the history of medical pseudoscience and what it means today.
7pm ET | Free livestream, registration required: skepticalinquirer.org/video/histor...