Sasha Sagan, daughter of Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan, writes of the lessons of immortality she learned from her parents at an early age: One day when I was still very young, I asked my father about his parents. I knew my maternal grandparents intimately, but I wanted to know why I had never met […]
Justin Weinstein and Tyler Measom have been working for three years on “An Honest Liar,” a documentary about the life of one of my heroes, James Randi. The film will debut tomorrow at the Tribeca Film Festival and hopefully roll out across the country later this year. Meanwhile, here’s the newly-released trailer…
This weekend, in a conversation with Dr. Andrew Rosenberg on the Union of Concerned Scientists about the diminished role of independent scientists as witnesses in Congressional committee hearings, I bemoaned the increased use of false equivalences. As an example, I cited a panel on climate change that includes three distinguished climate scientists testifying on the […]
Here’s what Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, said in reply to members of the alternative medicine community who don’t like the way their pseudo-science has been portrayed on the info-site after they started a petition to make Wikipedia change its policies: No, you have to be kidding me. Every single person who signed this petition […]
Another member of the Florida psychic con artist family has been sentenced for fraud. Sharon Hill at Doubtful News has the details.
Last summer, I talked with reporter Kyle Swenson about psychic con artists in south Florida, including Rose Marks who (with her family) scammed victims out of millions of dollars. Two months later, Marks was convicted of various crimes, and this week, she was sentenced to a decade in jail. As my friend Jamy Ian Swiss […]