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It's true the distant origins of the holiday lie with the Celtic Druidical religion; this is the time of year when the Lord of Death was supposed to summon the souls of evil people condemned to live in animal bodies, according to magician and skeptic James Randi in his book “An Encyclopedia of...

I tend to hang out on a nutrition forum or two, and I find that there is a lot of fearmongering about genetically modified crops, especially food crops. I have found people assuming that their allergy problems or other ailments were due to GM wheat "secretly in the food supply for years without...

I think sometimes we, as skeptics, tend to exaggerate items out of frustration because so often we see how things are not dealt with in a rational manner. In Randi's commentary he rails against Starbucks for putting a disclaimer on a cup that has a quote (pro-evolution) from Mary Leakey (in...

Out of nowhere, a conversation I had with one of my students from years ago popped into my head. It went something like this: "Religion and Faith Week" rolled by again. And I was talking to the students about the "philosophies of the unknown". One girl raised her hand and she told a nice story...