My Skeptical Writings

No matter how different the claims may be of those who say they want to be tested by Randi, it seems they all use the same rhetoric, objections, and dodges.  If you've seen one claimant, you've pretty much seen them all.  Here's my summary in Anatomy of a Claimant.

In one of the short stories I have written, I examine a future world where the skeptics have lost, and the irrational rules.  It's called Condemned to Repeat It.

Script version of the above (for aspiring play/video producers)

Here's an article I wrote which touches on extraterrestrial conspiracies, The X-Files, Star Trek, and the intellectual decline of popular culture.  It deceptively starts out like a review of the movie "The Arrival".  But like the aliens of that movie, I have a hidden agenda.  The article is called I Have Seen the Enemy...

Based on a report by the Associated Press, this article details yet another cruel abuse of the human capacity for believing the fantastic.  In the African nation of Zaire, there is a war raging between government troops and rebels.  Some of the rebels have induced young children to fight in their battles by claiming that they can provide them with a magic which will confer invulnerability.  The article is called The Tragic Tale of the Mayi-Mayi.

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