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The Polygraph – History and Evidence
This post is part of a series of guest posts on GPS by the undergraduate and graduate students in my Science vs. Pseudoscience course. As part of their work for the course, each student had to...
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The Technology of Lucid Dreaming
This post is part of a series of guest posts on GPS by the undergraduate and graduate students in my Science vs. Pseudoscience course. As part of their work for the course, each student had to...
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This post is part of a series of guest posts on GPS by the undergraduate and graduate students in my Science vs. Pseudoscience course. As part of their work for the course, each student had to...
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Occam’s Razor and the Non-Bermuda Triangle
This post is part of a series of guest posts on GPS by the undergraduate and graduate students in my Science vs. Pseudoscience course. As part of their work for the course, each student had to...
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ADHD and Diet – Is there a Link?
This post is part of a series of guest posts on GPS by the graduate students in my Psychopathology course during Spring 2014. As part of their work for the course, each student had to demonstrate...
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Personality & Mental Health in Paranormal Believers
Recently, I was asked to give a talk to the University of Oklahoma Secular Sooners, the Student Secular Alliance at OU. So, on National Freethought Day 2015, I moseyed down to Norman and gave a talk...
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Holiday Gifts from GPS and SIN
Despite the fact that most scientific skeptics do not find themselves formerly associated with a religion, this time of year tends to nonetheless bring out the giving spirit in many of us. Although Tom...
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“A Reason to Believe”– outstanding new documentary on the psychology of belief
Last year, I was interviewed by Sedona, Arizona-based filmmakers Ben Fama Jr. and his wife Mesa Fama for a new documentary they were working on that examined the question “Why do we believe?” Their...
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Tyler Henry, Hollywood’s Newest Medium
Apparently there’s a new person on the scene who claims they can speak to the dead, and Hollywood wants you to welcome him into your living room with open arms. Tyler Henry is a supposed medium (or, as...
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I’m a skeptical humanist and I support Bernie Sanders
Although I tend to cover and involve myself in politics at a more local than national level, I have recently been asked by friends and family who I am supporting in the U.S. presidential race. After...
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