Daniel Simons and Christopher Chabris (the men behind the famous Invisible Gorilla test) wrote an op-ed urging the FAA to drop its ban on electronic gadgets on planes, saying there’s a complete lack of evidence showing that their use threatens anyone’s safety: To gather some empirical evidence on this question, we recently conducted an online […]
These are the remarks I made as the leadoff speaker at SkeptiCamp St. Louis on Saturday, August 18, 2012… It’s always a pleasure to be in a roomful of skeptics, to look around and see that there are other people who share your views, to realize that you’re not the only rational person in the […]
Saturday morning, I’ll be the leadoff speaker at SkeptiCamp St. Louis, a free event organized by the Skeptical Society of St. Louis. It’s a full day affair, with two dozen critical thinkers doing presentations and answering questions for the audience. See the schedule and other details here.
Brian Dunning dissects a press release from a woman selling a homeopathic aid for pets who suffer from anxiety during thunderstorms. Even a little bit of analysis shows that neither she nor her product are what she claims, but are as ridiculous as everything else from the world of homeopathy: Her results should speak for […]
Phil Plait is rightly angry with American Airlines for putting an interview with an anti-vaccination liar in the July and August editions of their in-flight magazine and on-board TV service. This is dangerous propaganda, but AA has dismissed criticisms via Twitter: “This program is produced by a third party and opinions expressed don’t represent AA […]
As if last week’s story about Tennessee passing an anti-science bill that will force teachers to explain “alternative theories” to evolution and climate change wasn’t bad enough, that state’s legislature has gone even further into the land of the lost. On Friday, the Tennessee senate approved an update to the state’s abstinence-only sex education law […]