John Stewart's Pseudoscience Page

Astrology is old hat.

Astrology

Are you surprised to find astrology here? Read on.

• The real Zodiac, by Lee T. Shapiro.
• Jon Stewart-Taylor's view on the subject.
• Lee Borrell's Why astrology doesn't work.
• Astrology, Psychic Stuff, and Skepticism, links to the fringe from Philip R. "Pib" Burns.
• While we're on the subject of German media, here's why Juergen Fliege was awarded the Bent Spoon.
• Do you want to name a star for someone?

Urban Legends

• Urban Legends Reference Pages.
• Urban Legends and Folklore, from the Mining Company.
• The AFU and Urban Legends Archive.

Explaining the Unexplained

• The Face on Mars .
• New light on human torch mystery.
• The Creation Science Debunked home page.
• The Staight Dope by Cecil Adams.

Organizations

• Australian Skeptics.
• CSICOP On-line.
• FAIR: Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting.
• Gesellschaft zur Wissenschaftlichen Untersuchung von Parawissenschaften, e.V. GWUP, Herausgeber von Skeptiker.
• The James Randi Educational Foundation.
• REALL Rational Examination Association of Lincoln Land.
• The Skeptic's Society and Skeptic Magazine.

PseudoArchaeology

• Miscellaneous Pseudo Archeology, from the University of South Dakota.
• The Kronia Group, an interdisciplinary exploration of myth, science and planetary catastrophe.
• Vine Deloria, Jr.'s Red Earth, White Lies.
• The Shroud of Turin.
• The Society for Interdisciplinary Studies, the oldest and most up to date society for catastrophist information and research.

Duh

• YETI@home: the project, an idea based on seti@home, with as good a chance as any other search for the yeti.

UFOs and AlienAbductions

• Carl Sagan kidnapped by UFOs?
• UFO experts want to end government UFO coverup.
• Here is a more scientific approach.
• Centrales Erforschungsnetz außergewöhnlicher Himmelsphänomene CENAP.

Resources

• The award-winning Bad Astronomer.
• The National Center for Science Education, defending the teaching of evolution in the public schools.
• Prometheus Books.
• Skeptic News, the "What's New" page for skeptics.
• The Skeptic's Dictionary.

Miscellaneous

• Quackwatch, your guide to health fraud, quackery and intelligent decisions.
• Writings by Richard Dawkins.
• Scientology vs. the Internet .
• Society for Scientific Exploration, providing a forum for topics ignored or studied inadequately by mainstream science.
• Time Magazine: Faith or Healing? Why the law can't do a thing about the infant mortality rate of an Oregon sect.
• Why people will swear on a stack of Bibles that they met Bugs Bunny at Disneyland: Causal-inference errors.

How experts can be wrong and sure they're right:

• Predicting roadbed failure.
• Should you panic when your ... test comes back positive? To find out take a gander at my discussion of Bayes' Theorem.
• Coming soon: Why Reni Blondlot is not hailed as the discoverer of N-rays. Involving R.W. Wood, who could tell the birds from the flowers.

And the Talk.Origins Archive.

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Last modified: Sun 14 Sep 2003