(Linking does not constitute endorsement or agreement. Stay skeptical.)
• Daniel Loxton asks (and answers) the question, “Why Is There A Skeptical Movement?”
• Even more fundamentally, Michael Shermer asks, “What Is Skepticism, Anyway?”
• Are experts — say, radiologists — just as susceptible to inattention blindness as the rest of us? A new study has a sobering finding.
• Fears about fluoride go back decades, but this study may finally confirm a link with IQ reduction in children.
• Anti-vaccination activist Jenny McCarthy gets dropped from a cancer campaign due to skeptical activists speaking out.
• A new study shows that even patients thought “fearless” due to nonworking amygdalae can experience fear.
• Men and women are…from Earth? A new meta-analysis underscores a lack of consistent gender differences.
• Steven Novella evaluates “dynamic neural retraining” and finds it less than dynamic.
• The Guardian looks at the gender gap in science and how to address it. Two neuroscientists respond, saying the article is filled with pseudoscience and stereotypes.
• Steven Novella (again), this time on How To Talk to a Believer.
• Here are 18 complicated science ideas explained simply.
• Fellow composition teacher Brian Hudson describes how he introduces skepticism into the classroom at Skeptoid.com.
Good find on that last one, Marc! So much to read, so little time.
We should start a club.