My Skeptical Inquirer article "Worse Than Murder on Fifth Avenue" has been translated into Spanish. "Peor que un asesinato en la Quinta Avenida" circuloesceptico.org/articulos/pe...

The @center4inquiry.bsky.social condemns the anti-vaxx revision of the CDC website, calling it a "shameful dereliction." centerforinquiry.org/news/cfi-con...

My copy of The Calculation of Volume III arrived as promised on November 18. I can't wait to see what Tara Selter is up to now. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/m...

This is not skepticism. It is medical malpractice. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/h...

Oh, my. Another classic study we've been teaching for years may have been fabricated. The author asserts that the central claims of the book, When Prophecy Fails, "are false, and that the authors knew they were false." h/t @retractionwatch.com onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Ten years ago today.

RIP March 1, 1793-November 12, 2025

Watching the great Lesley Manville in "Phantom Thread" tonight. This appears on her Wikipedia page: "Manville's sister Brenda, nine years her senior, died of a brain tumour. Her sister's husband and two daughters died of Huntington's disease." Life can be an engine for art and art a balm for life.

I guess we've given up on the Nobel Peace Prize bid.

Diane Keaton in her Manhattan apartment with Buster, an Abyssinian, photographed by Jill Krementz in 1977

Now that the @nytimes.com has swallowed and killed the beautiful little Audm, would someone please launch a new Audm-like app? This has been a very disappointing catch-and-kill operation. IYKYK

No.

Last week, I got a little sentimental about a person I knew many years ago. medium.com/@stuartvyse/...

"Improving Psychological Science through Adversarial Collaboration," my latest "Behavior & Belief" column for @skepticalinquirer.bsky.social skepticalinquirer.org/exclusive/im...

If you didn’t know, Mehmet Oz has a financial stake in the company iHerb which sells: folinic acid supplements (folinic acid = leucovorin) The lies about Tylenol, autism, and this “treatment” are ALL part of their grift.

"A republic, if you can keep it" -- Benjamin Franklin

A common sight in France that rarely happens in the US: children 4-6 yrs old gleefully running at top speed without any effort by their parents to stop them.

In my latest article for @skepticalinquirer.bsky.social I take stock of my first decade writing the "Behavior & Belief" column. skepticalinquirer.org/exclusive/a-...

This is an excellent guide to the pseudoscience used to support false claims that vaccines cause autism. Also, a preview of what is likely to be the result of anti-vaxxer RFK Jr's study of the causes of autism. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

A woman who was 20 weeks pregnant fed her toddler son raw milk. He contracted Campylobacter and then passed the infection to her; she progressed to sepsis, and had a miscarriage. She is suing the business that sells the raw milk, saying she didn’t know the risk. Don’t feed your kids raw milk.

My latest article for @skepticalinquirer.bsky.social is now available in audio. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

If the tyrant gets wind that the FBI report says crime was down in all categories under Biden, will more statistical heads roll? "Can no one rid me of this troublesome data?"

I am quoted in this excellent analysis of the Telepathy Tapes podcast by @madisondap.bsky.social for @discovermag.bsky.social. A fine piece of science journalism—unlike the TT podcast. www.discovermagazine.com/mind/does-te...

Add this to the many new dangers of this administration. Any data person now knows that if they report numbers that might anger the tyrant, they risk losing their job. Starting today, you cannot trust any data you hear from the US government. Everything is just fine. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/01/b...

In my latest column for @skepticalinquirer.bsky.social, I take a look back at the hot hand and the gambler's fallacy and discover that the research has continued to tweak our understanding of both. Spoilers: The athletes win. Gamblers don't. skepticalinquirer.org/exclusive/a-...

I loved this guy. wapo.st/3J6GVeA

Famous fairy hoax photos to be auctioned off. www.grimsbytelegraph.co.uk/news/grimsby...

One hundred years ago today.

A delightful piece by Roger Cohen about the last newspaper hawker in Paris. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/w...

“The only thing that we learn from history,” wrote Georg Wilhelm Hegel, “is that we learn nothing from history.” Quoted by @pauloffit.bsky.social below.

From a time when childhood vaccines were just a figment of imagination. Row after row of baby headstones.

One night in New York City, and I'm asked to give feedback on the restaurant where I ate, the bar where I had a drink, the hotel where I stayed, and the play I saw. If so inclined, you could spend hours a day providing uncompensated labor. I'm not (so inclined.)

Humor. @errantscience.com

My latest for @skepticalinquirer.bsky.social is a little different: an art review of "Little Beasts" at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. skepticalinquirer.org/exclusive/li...

Remember when you threw away all your black kitchen utensils? The internet is a murky place. "Viral paper on black plastic kitchen utensils earns second correction" retractionwatch.com/2025/07/06/v... @retractionwatch.com

The Telepathy Tapes declines the Center for Inquiry’s offer to test the psychic ability of their nonspeaking autistic people. Not a surprise. centerforinquiry.org/blog/telepat...

Springer Nature book on machine learning is full of made-up citations retractionwatch.com/2025/06/30/s...

Just a reminder that while her ex nonstop soils himself in public with tasteless displays of wealth and look-at-me, thirsty nonsense, Mackenzie Scott has given away close to $20 billion to 1,600 charities, no strings attached and without any need for recognition.

This Thursday at 7 pm ET, I will be hosting @profsanderlinden.bsky.social for Skeptical Inquirer Presents on "Psychological Inoculation Against Misinformation." It is free, online, and very timely. Register at the link below. skepticalinquirer.org/video/psycho...

Again I say,

"I'm not voting for Kamala because she's going to drag us into WW III"

Another example of why you shouldn’t trust Google AI summaries. Both dates are wrong. Wikipedia has it right.

Science Vs podcast takes on the "autism epidemic." Spoiler alert: RFK Jr is wrong again.

The president of my grad institution has a strong letter in Science: "the end of clinical trials, increased threats to national security, the disappearance of advances in natural disaster forecasting and mitigation, and fewer nurses, teachers, and pharmacists." www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Sleep walking into war. It’s what Americans do best.

It sounds like a rock band, but my latest for @skepticalinquirer.bsky.social "Ky Dickens, William James, and the Four Possibilities" is about the parallels between the podcast host and the eminent American psychologist, both dabblers in the paranormal. skepticalinquirer.org/exclusive/ky...

Ocean Beach per SFGate.com drone footage

Another case of a family nearly broken apart by the pseudoscience of facilitated communication, the same dangerous technique promoted by The Telepathy Tapes podcast. Thank goodness this story had a happy ending. inews.co.uk/inews-lifest...

We are all going to die.