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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.

Film maker Richard Saunders at the 2002 Australian Skeptics water divining test.