Browsing: Myth Busting & Debunking

The most famous film of Bigfoot has been conclusively revealed as a hoax in a new documentary film, Capturing Bigfoot.…

In 1986, I joined colleagues in a long two-part look in Skeptical Inquirer about an early concern of the Committee…

The primary claim of the cryptoterrestrial hypothesis is that all the unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) sightings that were immensely popular…

The lonely landscape of Robben Island with Table Mountain in the background. Photo credit: Malorie Mackey. Imagine an eerie abandoned…

Designer Science: A History of IntelligentDesign in America. By C.W. Howell. NewYork University Press, 2025. Twenty years after the Kitzmiller…

YouTube screenshot of the monotonous block task from the Festinger and Carlsmith (1959) experiment. Psychological science—particularly social psychology—is suffering an…

In May 2025, a new gospel was preached on the internet. Albert Einstein supposedly had endorsed Buddhism in a 1954…

To what extent do social media algorithms, and YouTube’s specifically, contribute to user’s views becoming more extreme and even radicalizing?…

“Hell is empty; all the devils are here!” —Ferdinand in Shakespeare’s The Tempest I was six years and thirteen days old…

Misinformation is one of the most pressing challenges of our time. The World Economic Forum has even identified disinformation (false…