The Skeptics' Society and Skeptic
Magazine, edited by Michael Shermer
The James (Amazing) Randi
Educational Foundation 
The Skeptics' Society and Skeptic
Magazine, edited by Michael Shermer
Learn everything about hoaxes from the online Museum
of Hoaxes
Can a Dog do Arithmetic? See my article, 100
Plus One From a Dalmation.
The
Skeptic's Guide to the Universe.
The Bay Area Skeptics, Northern
California.
The East Bay Skeptics Society - of
California (Oakland, Berkeley, and thereabouts).
New Mexicans for Science and Reason
- tons of cool stuff.
The Skeptic's Dictionary of
Robert T. Carroll
Dr. Stephen Barrett's Quackwatch!
Junk Science - Putting
it in its place. (The trash heap, not the court room!)
American Council on Science and
Health - combatting health misinformation and
hysteria.
The
False Memory Syndrome Foundation, assisting the
victims of false allegations based on so-called "Recovered Memories".
According to an article in Feminism & Psychology
(6:1 p.7, 1996), the FMSF "emerges as an accomplice of the mental
health establishment and a leading force in the
heteropatriarchal backlash against women". Wow!
Operation
Clambake, exposing the "Church"
of $cientology.
Tony
Ortega's Underground Bunker - All the latest on $cientology.
Much-hyped author Robert
Anton Wilson claimed skeptics are waging a "New Inquisiton" against
supposed "heretics". Here is my answer to Wilson. In
a similar vein, Jim Lippard shows
how specious Wilson's claims are.
The home page of Gary
Posner of the Tampa
Bay Skeptics. Information debunking various
psychics, seers, questionable medical claims, etc.
In The
Mismeasure of Man, Steven Jay Gould highlighted the
errors of long-dead theorists about human intelligence, accusing
contemporary intelligence researchers of making the same mistakes. His
book, implying that intelligence research is fundamentally tainted by
racism, sexism, and pseudoscientific practice, was widely read and for
the most part uncritically accepted, even though the reviews of it in Science
(215:4533 5 Feb. 1982, p. 656) and Nature
(296:5857, 8 April 1982, p. 506) were quite critical. Few people have
ever seen Jensen's
reply to Gould, in which the disingenuousness of
Gould's attack is laid bare.
See how easy it is to generate your very own impressive (but ultimately nonsensical) Postmodernist paper. (Read it carefully - it is not the same each time - it only sounds like it is!)
Books Debunking Currently-Fashionable Postmodernist
Nonsense:
Higher
Superstition - the Academic Left and its Quarrels with Science by Paul R. Gross and Norman Levitt.
The
Flight from Science and Reason by Paul R. Gross (editor).
A House
Built on Sand : Exposing Postmodernist Myths About Science by Noretta Koertge (editor).
Fashionable
Nonsense : Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science by Jean Bricmont and Alan D. Sokal.
Manifesto
of a Passionate Moderate : Unfashionable Essays by Susan Haack.
Why I Am Not A Postmodernist by Edward R. Friedlander, M.D. Lots of good references.
