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Last month when British papers reported on the “first Irish case of death” by spontaneous human combustion—going up in flames with no apparent cause—many eyebrows were raised in the scientific regions of the Internet. Apparently the coroner in the case had never heard of the “wick effect,”.

Simon Singh explains why he hopes psychic Sally Morgan will take up an offer to demonstrate her powers in a scientific test

A common complaint among cryptozoologists – those who pursue unknown or folkloric monsters – is that mainstream science does not take their work seriously and inappropriately labels it as pseudoscience. The shenanigans currently going on in Russia are a good example of why that happens.

Scientists are furious that a booklet, published as part of the stamps' presentation package, contains claims that modern physics will one day lead to an understanding of telepathy and the paranormal.

« Lors d'une expédition dans la grotte Azasskaïa (en Russie), les participants ont collecté des preuves irréfutables démontrant que "l'homme des neiges" vit dans la (contrée de la) Choria montagneuse »

On croyait Bruno Bettelheim définitivement rangé sur l'étagère des truqueurs malfaisants. Que nenni ! La documentariste Sophie Robert vient de réaliser un film intitulé « le mur » dont le sous-titre est : « la psychanalyse à l'épreuve de l'autisme. »

L'étonnant résultat de l'expérience Opera, divulgué le 23 septembre, passionne et divise la communauté scientifique.

I prefer to wait for sufficient details to become publicly established, that way if there is a cautionary tale to be learned, it will not be blunted by factual uncertainty.

I’m sad that today I’m adding a slide to one of my live presentations, adding Steve Jobs to the list of famous people who died treating terminal diseases with woo rather than with medicine.

Or, you know, a furless canid. It certainly looks weird and that makes people nervous. But not THAT weird.

Penn and Teller expliquent pourquoi le mouvement anti-vaccinations est Bullshit!

What do you do as a scientist when you know a research result that is almost certainly wrong is about to become a media sensation? That is the quandary I found myself in last month as I awaited the announcement from CERN.

Jobs likes to make his own rules, whether the topic is computers, stock options, or even pancreatic cancer. The same traits that make him a great CEO drive him to put his company, and his investors, at risk.