After over 30 years of doing so, I now sometimes feel that debating a homeopath with evidence, logic and reason is futile. You show them some rigorous research - they give you an anecdote about their ...

Many smart people have tried to differentiate science from pseudoscience. Here I try to take a different approach - one that does not attempt a definition but instead explains how the two operate and ...

This study examined the relationship between paranormal beliefs and right-wing ideology in a German quota sample (N = 1,139). We also explored whether individual differences in intuitive versus ...

The German skeptic are at war! Again? Or still? I am honestly not sure. The whole affair has an unmistakably surrealistic ‘Life of Brian‘ quality. “We are the People’s Front of Judea.” “The People’s ...

Americans have long complained about the high and rising cost of food. To make matters (far) worse, they now also have to worry about their health. Recent foodborne outbreaks, e.g. a Cyclospora ...

I often have discussions with fans of this or that so-called alternative medicine (SCAM). After several decades of such disputes, you would think that I know how to best deal with them. Well, you ...

I recently stumbled across a long-forgotten interview* that I gave precisely 20 years ago. It is lengthy and fairly boring - except for its ending. The last question Phin Foster asked me was this: In ...

Remember Didier Raoult? He famously published irreproducible findings claiming that hydroxychloroquine worked for Covid; he has thus featured on this blog before, e.g.: Didier Raoult has now turned to ...