I thought we were long done with the con man James McCormick, who sold Iraq fake bomb detectors and made over $80 million. That scam was first revealed by my friend James Randi more than six years ago (here’s our conversation about it in January, 2010), but even after McCormick was sentenced to a decade […]
Several cities had Marches Against Monsanto last weekend, but in more than a dozen of them, they were met from people from March Against Myths, who were there to spread facts and debunk lies about GMOs. I support groups that fight back against anti-science and pseudo-science nonsense, so I invited March Against Myths co-founder and […]
I’ve had a cellphone for over two decades, and in every one of those years, I’ve read an alarmist story warning that, because we hold the devices up to our heads, we were all going to get brain cancer. There has never been peer-reviewed confirmation of those claims, despite volumes of research. The latest to […]
Earlier this week, I wrote about how disappointed I was in Bill Maher’s softball interview with Dr. Samir Chachoua, who claims he developed an AIDS cure from the milk of arthritic goats and administered it to Charlie Sheen. To follow up, I called upon Dr. Steven Novella (clinical neurologist, assistant professor at Yale School of […]
It has been a year since I wrote a piece called “I Won’t Watch Bill Maher Again.” The tipping point was Maher’s continued anti-vaccination stance, which is dangerous. But a year later, I decided to give Maher another chance on Friday night, hoping to see some clever comments about the presidential election season and hoping […]
George Hrab, who has emceed the last few Amazing Meetings for the James Randi Educational Foundation, gave a TED Talk in which he explains skepticism and encourages you to become an evidence-based thinker: Previously on Harris Online… My speech on Why We Need More Skeptics (8/1912).