Special Articles
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Skepticism in the Face of Evidence Is No Virtue
by Barrett Brown
All Info All Ways
February 16, 2011
If dictators are so fond of the Internet, as some claim, why did Mubarak turn the damn thing off?
Sidestepping the Litigious Consumer: How to Survive in the Lucrative Toning-Shoe Market
by Gretchen McCormack
Online Extras
February 16, 2011
A recent lawsuit argues that “the scientific community has rejected [Skechers’s] claims” of enhanced fitness effects.
A Mug of a Different Color
by Lukas Dion Pradityo
February 9, 2011
A Javanese sorcerer's claims of clairvoyance face three simple double-blind experiments
‘Power Balance’ Bands Shown Worthless
by Ben Radford
Online Extras
February 4, 2011
Power Balance bracelets achieved global popularity, in part because they were embraced by a parade of celebrities.
Syntax Error
by Karen Stollznow
The Good Word
February 2, 2011
Correct language is not so correct...
Statement From CSI/CFI on Walmart’s Marketing of a Homeopathic Flu Remedy
by csicop.org
January 25, 2011
Statement from the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry and the Center for Inquiry on Walmart’s marketing of a homeopathic flu remedy
Speaking of Skeptical Activism
by Kylie Sturgess
Curiouser and Curiouser
January 24, 2011
An Interview with Skeptically Speaking's Desiree Schell.
In the Media: 2010 Report
by Joe Nickell
January 20, 2011
Chronicling another busy year for CSI's Senior Research Fellow, Joe Nickell.
Review of Black Swan
by LaRae Meadows
Voice in the Dark (theater)
January 10, 2011
Well-acted and disturbing, Black Swan is a film that gives fleeting, peripheral glimpses of greatness.