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Jack is Darwin's homeboy! Help us raise $2,000 to bring Young Australian Skeptic Jack Scanlan to the world’s premiere skeptical gathering, The Amazing Meeting in Las Vegas, Nevada, this July! Why Jack? Although he is only 19 years old, Jack is a tireless skeptical activist who has devoted his free time to debating proponents of Continue reading And A Trumpet Shall Lead Them! In April 2010, I wrote a blog post about when to try new things and not to pursue them. I described how I chose not to follow through on an audition for a TV show called Miracle Detectives. They were looking for a woman with a strong presence to serve as the rational/skeptical Continue reading Indre Viskontas: Scientist, Skeptic and Miracle Detective Not Related to Story, Just Awesome Pic of UFO and Cows I like to take my time with answers and get a lot of input. Even so I always go with “This is what we think it might be. However, can you give me more information? Also, I’d like to assure you that while Continue reading Where There’s Smoke, There MIGHT Be Fire – But What KIND? Perth researcher, teacher, and SheThought contributor Kylie Sturgess is quoted (and SheThought given a shout out!) in a new article on women and superstition in the Australian National Times: Are women really more likely than men to believe in the paranormal? You’d certainly think so if you were to go by what’s on the female-oriented Continue reading Do I (and all women) WANT to Believe?? Kids are pretty cool, m’kay. They are fun, they love to learn, especially about cool stuff like dinosaurs and zombies (and/or turtles) and are, until we squash that out of them, smarter than the grown-up around them. So, controversial as this position might be, I feel confident stating that child abuse and exploitation are bad Continue reading ‘Psychic Kids’, Exploiting Children for Fun and Profit! Today’s XKCD is making the rounds — it’s not only hilarious, but an incredibly devastating way to look skeptically at the world. A lot of things obviously cannot be debunked using economic incentive, but looking at who is making the money from something and how they are doing so is an interesting way to see Continue reading Economic Incentive On October 9th, 2010, I went down the rabbit hole. I went to a Mutual UFO Network conference. The Setup First, I’ll admit something that I haven’t talked about all that much. I once believed that aliens were visiting Earth and that there was a government cover-up. I wasn’t always so skeptical. I was, and still Continue reading Beam Me Down the Rabbit Hole Stumbling across a group on social networking site Facebook called ‘Parents against Ouija boards geared for small children at Toys-R-Us’ made me curse the day I had spent hours online looking for a decent Ouija board when I could have just popped along to my local toy shop. However, when I read further into Continue reading Ouija Toys for Girls and Boys I began researching paranormal phenomenon about five years ago and right from the very beginning it became clear that the wider public perception of paranormal research is that paranormal researchers are weird and quirky. If you tell somebody that you are a paranormal researcher it’s quite likely that in their mind they are going Continue reading The “Ghost Hunter” Label picture by © evaaase I’m going to share a potentially embarrassing secret with you…I don’t believe in ghosts but I’m terrified of them. This lovely contradiction of terms come from being chronically ill. And the reasoning behind this completely irrational fear comes in two parts. The first part is Continue reading Clinging to the Rational, In an Irrational Body |
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