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Kids living near Fukushima.

Interview de Jean-Baptiste Dayez.

Via my pal Kiki Sanford comes news that the results of an experiment showing neutrinos moving faster than light (FTL) may have been due to equipment malfunction

Membre de l’Observatoire de Zététique, Florent Martin s’attache a pomouvoir la démarche zététique en vue de démystifier les phénomènes paranormaux. Il s’exprime ici sur la démarche zététique et le rationalisme scientifique.

Mental disorders listed in publication that should not exists, warn UK experts

Dans le cadre d'une émission pour la télévision française, il nous a été proposé de mettre en place un protocole expérimental autour du magnétisme. M. Matsima a bien voulu prêter son concours à la reproduction d'une expérience réalisée par l'Observatoire zététique en 2004.

The French documentary film The Wall (Le mur), which takes issue with psychoanalytic views on autism, has caused some uproar over the past few months. France is one of the last remaining bulwarks of psychoanalysis, the theory and therapy devised by Sigmund Freud.

Sophie Robert and her film "Le Mur'' have been the targets of criticism from both the analysts who appear in the film and from within the country's psychoanalytic establishment.

Dans le cadre de mes recherches bibliographiques autour de l'émission radio La Guerre des Mondes d'Orson Welles, j'ai terminé la lecture de "The Martians Have Landed! A History of Media-Driven Panics and Hoaxes". Il s'agit d'un ouvrage de Robert E. Bartholomew et de Benjamin Radford.

Here we go again - facilitated communication (FC) rears its pseudoscientific head again, and (surprise) the HuffPo publishes a completely uncritical article.

A few weeks ago I published at Rationally Speaking a guest post by my former (undergraduate) student Maaneli Derakhshani, who made a case for the scientific status of parapsychology.

Hello from your friendly neighborhood skeptic. Guy asked me to contribute my thoughts about portraying skepticism on TV, specifically about Ranae Holland's role on Finding Bigfoot.

Belief in the paranormal arises from the same brain mechanisms that shape most human thought.