Harriet Hall is a former Air Force flight surgeon and retired family physician who is known as The SkepDoc. She and her colleagues at Science-Based Medicine have been debunking medical nonsense (e.g. homeopathy, chiropractic, acupuncture, etc.) for years and have compiled some of their best columns into a series of e-books that sell for about […]
Barbara Walters would never hire a co-host for “The View” who advocated that: American women should be forced to wear burqas in public; The government round up all redheads and put them in concentration camps; Garage door openers cause cancer. It would be irresponsible to give a national television platform to someone that ignorant, intolerant, […]
Here’s an excellent piece from skeptic Mark Edward after he was contacted by a producer for National Geographic TV who wanted to do a piece on psychics. As Mark feared, the show was not going to reveal psychics to be frauds and con artists, but to present yet another pro-psychic piece of pablum that would […]
The folks at Cognitive Media have put together a clever series of videos explaining what it would be like if you had the powers of a superhero (e.g. if you could fly like Superman, be as strong as The Hulk, run as fast as The Flash). My favorite is this one, which explains the science […]
Meet Jessica Meir, one of NASA’s newest astronauts. After hearing this week that she’s been chosen for the Class of 2013 recruits, Jessica joined me today on America Weekend to talk about what’s ahead in her space future — possibly including Mars. We also talked about her adventures in another extreme environment, doing scientific research […]
There was a conference last weekend at the Smithsonian in DC called “The Future Is Here,” which featured 14 speakers giving talks about the greatest triumphs and future innovations in science and technology. As part of the one-day event, Thomas Dolby showed up to perform his song “She Blinded Me With Science” and brought up […]