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We have revised the layout within the Investigating Skeptics area to bring Guy's articles together in a single section titled 'Mediawatch'. We hope that our readers will find this a more convenient arrangement. Mediawatch .
A dialogue between Rupert Sheldrake and the atheist with a mission which turned into
A Low Grade Debunking Exercise
A six part feature by Guy Lyon Playfair recording the wreck of the skeptics' flagship
Part 1 - Birth of a Movement
A new paper from Suppressed Science website which examines the methods of self-styled skeptics and the devices they employ to discredit pioneering science
A Review of Pseudoskepticism
A French "antenna" for SI is run by a Student's Group of Institut Metapsychique International .
Link to ... Zététique Blog
Reviewed on this website Parapsychology and the Skeptics - Reviews
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Corporate skepticism was best summed up by an executive at cigarette maker Brown & Williamson in 1969: “Doubt is our product since it is the best means of competing with the ‘body of fact’ that exists in the mind of the general public.”
Big business peddles its own brand of rigid, unreflective skepticism. Indeed, corporate and ideological skepticism are as tightly coupled as paired threads of DNA. In both cases, when the evidence fails to verify predetermined belief, “interest in scientific proof” goes out the window. A new article by Ted Dace
A New Podcast Site
Skeptiko - a new website, inspired by Skeptical Investigations, has been launched with podcasts including an interview with Rupert Sheldrake and his responses to
Richard Dawkins and Daniel Dennett
Skeptiko website
Controversy About Sam Harris's Atheism
Writing in the online news magazine AlterNet (5th January 2007), John Gorenfeld criticises the author of The End Of Faith and Letter To A Christian Nation over issues including Psi, Buddhism and Torture. We feature the AlterNet article and Harris's reply.
Sam Harris's Faith in Eastern Spirituality and Muslim Torture
Psi and Fraud
Guy Lyon Playfair reviews some celebrated cases of fraud and considers the influence of these few instances in establishing unequalled standards of rigour in modern parapsychology research.
Psi and Fraud
We Investigate Two Aspects of Skepticism  Positive skeptical investigations and an open-minded spirit.
And secondly...
People who call themselves skeptics, many of whom are not skeptics at all, but dogmatists seeking to defend an ideology or world view.
On scientists and séances, from the BBC:
The world's most eminent scientists are not usually associated with the dim-lit surroundings of a clairvoyant's parlour. But some of science's biggest names have not only dabbled in, but been entirely convinced by the world of the seance.
Well worth a look for the online discussion
BBC's online discussion
Really Popular Science
In a New York Times article, January 4th 2003, Rupert Sheldrake proposes a more democratic method of funding scientific research, and the foundation of a National Discovery Center Today's Visions of the Science of Tomorrow
Links to Outstanding Websites
Here are some websites which we think are well worth a visit
SCEPCOP - Scientific Committee Exposing Pseudo-Skeptical Cynicism of the Paranormal
A new website debunking skeptics... www.debunkingskeptics.com
SCEPCOP also hosts a forum... www.debunkingskeptics.com/forum/index.php
Cosmic Citizen blogspot is always worth a look.
Particularly recommended is the review of the Society for Psychical Research study day in London on Oct 25 called Spotlight on Skeptics. Here is the link to the third part, involving Rupert Sheldrake.
Studying Skeptics
Investigating Atheism
The purpose of this site is to set current controversies in their historical context, and to offer a range of perspectives (from all sides) on the chief issues raised by the 'new atheists'.
Suppressed Science
Especially their new article reproduced in full on this website:
Some notes on skepticism
Julio Siquiera's anti-pseudoskeptic website. He's been "fighting" with dogmatic skeptics and refuting them since some years and he has a very good website exposing them:
Criticizing Skepticism
Another good website:
Atheist Delusion
Websites in Germany
Links to German websites critical of organised skepticism
www.skeptizismus.de
www.psychophysik.com/html/re-061-skeptizismus.html - Article by Edgar Wunder
Wunder is a former leading member of GWUP, the leading pseudoskeptical organization of Germany, (the equivalent of CSICOP in USA). He is the author of Skeptiker's Syndrome exposing the dishonest tactics of that skeptical organization.
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