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My Skeptical Inquirer article, “All They Want is the Truth,” is online

Several moons ago, I visited the TruthCon, a convention with a difference. It brought together a wide variety of extraordinary claims together under one roof. I was unable to write about it here...

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My visit to the TruthCon…in video form!

Tim Farley, or as I like to think of him, Novellatron 2.0, has created a vimeo site for the Atlanta Skepticamp. Below is the talk-version of my Skeptical Inquirer article: All They Want is the Truth:...

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Interview with American Freethought

I caught up with John and David from the American Freethought podcast at Dragon*Con, and they asked me to be on their show for the 9/11 episode. That interview is up right now. Go. Listen. Subscribe. I...

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David Mitchell on the Burden of Proof

His is the only youtube channel to which I subscribe, by the way. Unfortunate how he used the word “skeptic” when he meant “denier,” but that’s my personal beef. Also, new rule. If  you laugh, you need...

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Stanislaw Burzynski’s public record

I’m going to put aside the conspiracy theories for a minute to talk about an issue that has suddenly gotten quite big quite on the Internet, though my interest in this topic goes back about 15 years....

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Stephen Hawking Is Wrong!

…about Norse mythology. Last night I watched an episode of Stephen Hawking’s Grand Design, called “Did God Create the Universe” on Discovery. The series is based on his book The Grand Design...

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Can Science Rape Nature?

I don’t mean metaphorically. I’m not talking about fracking damaging Mother Earth. Can science literally rape nature in the same way a man can rape a woman? No. This may seem obvious, but there was a...

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Article about my work…

Hey, ho! I thought I’d let you know that my work was profiled in an article in Georgia Tech Alumni Magazine. It’s “The Article They Don’t Want You to Read.” RJB

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Britain’s New Secretary of Wishful Thinking

The following is adapted from my segment on last night’s Virtual Skeptics webcast, now available for your viewing pleasure on the prestigious Internet. It’s a good time to be British: first they had...

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Women of the Viking Age Kicked Ass, But That Doesn’t Mean They Were Vikings

In the last week, a number of websites have informed their readers that recent scientific evidence shows that roughly half of Viking warriors were female. Tor.com proclaims, “Better Identification of...

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