Links for Pseudoscience Seminar
The Nature of Science and Pseudoscience
The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability.
Our business in every generation is to reclaim a little more land.
- T.H. Huxley, 1887


All our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike - and yet it is the most precious thing we have.
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
Using evolution as an example
Constructing a logical argument

Skepticism
If you keep your mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish into it.
- William A. Orton
The Skeptic Ring- links to 150 skeptical resources
A Field Guide to Critical Thinking- CSICOP
Skeptic's Dictionary
Skeptical Information
Skeptics Society
JREF - James Randi Educational Foundation
CSICOP - Skeptical Internet Resources
CSICOP- Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal Home Page
Junk Science: More Research is Needed- A page dedicated to the ample evidence that we need better science education
The Debunker's Domain
Dawkins- Papers and Commentary by

DECLINE OF REASON?
World of Richard Dawkins
Robert Sheaffer's Skeptical Home Page
SDARI Home Page
The Straight Dope- no-nonsense information from a Chicago Reader columnist
Practical Skepticism
Internet ScamBusters- A free award winning e-zine
Skeptic Quotes

 

Pseudoscience Topics (a non-exhaustive list)
 
When you believe in things that you don't understand, Then you suffer, Superstition ain't the way.
- Stevie Wonder (Steveland Morris), "Superstition", Talking Book

General Pseudoscience

Guide to the Paranormal
Beyond Science
New Age Directory
World of Mystery  (ha ha)


Psychics

You are told, by astrologers, psychics and other such "experts", that you are not the capable, responsible and rather remarkable person that you really are. We belong to a species that has reached out a quarter of a million miles to set foot on the moon, and if that is not miracle enough for us all, I despair for our sense of wonder. The modern soothsayers suggest that you stop thinking for yourselves. They ask you to retreat to the caves from which our ancestors are said to have come, while you have the choice of going to the stars. I have opted for the stars, and I invite you to join me.
- James Randi, "The Mask of Nostradamus"


What? I Don't Remember That! Tabloid Predictions Miss Again.
Uri Geller's Official Website
A Uri Geller Timeline (including things NOT on the official site)


UFOs

UNARIUS UFO Cult
Alien Autopsy: faked or fiction?
Hale-Bopp Companions?
Faking UFO's


Health

Healthy Skepticism
Homeopathy: A Position Statement
National Council for Reliable Health Information (NCRHI) Home Page
Quackwatch
Search BioMedLink
NORFIELDS, How Magnetic Therapy Works..
Gene Egidio - International Healer
AltaVista Search: Simple Query magnetic and horses
Georgia Council Against Health Fraud's Health Care Reality Check
ACUPUNCTURE WORKS
Alternative Medicine Advisory Page


Ghosts

Obiwan's UFO-free Paranormal Page
Ghost Stalkers


Qigong

Tools For Exploration 1997 Catalog
Skills of the Vagabonds
IYXQA Home Page
Science, Skeptics and Yan Xin Qigong
chinew.html
Yan Xin Qigong West Weekly
Feng Lian homepage
Chi Kung (Qi Gong)
Qigong Papers


Religion

William James used to preach the "will to believe." For my part, I should wish to preach the "will to doubt."....
What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out, which is the exact opposite.
- Bertrand Russell, Sceptical Essays (1928)


Flat Earth Society
Page of Honest Intellectual Inquiry
Torah Codes
Susy Smith Project


Creationism

It is morally as bad not to care whether a thing is true or not, so long as it makes you feel good,
as it is not to care how you got your money as long as you have got it.
- Edmund Way Teale, "Circle of the Seasons", 1950
Access Research Network Home Page
NOVA Online/Odyssey of Life/How Did We Get Here? A Cyber Debate
World of Richard Dawkins
AltaVista: Simple Query CSEOL
Biographica: Compiled by Wesley R. Elsberry
Boston Review: Allen Orr
Center for Scientific Creation Home Page
CSEOL Home Page
Darwin's Dangerous Disciple
Donald Simanek's Page
Evolution (Biosciences): The WWW Virtual Library
Flat-Earth Belief of Bible Writers
Frequently Encountered Criticisms in Evolution vs. Creationism: Revised and Expanded
ICR
ICR Museum
NCSE
Talk.Origins Archive
University of Ediacara WWW Home Page
Alabama Insert: A study in ignorance and dishonesty
Critique of Michael Denton's "Evolution: A Theory in Crisis"
P. Spieth review of M. Denton's _Evolution: A Theory In Crisis_


Misc

Unhealthy Alliance
Urban Legends
Urban Legends Reference Pages
Urban Legends & Folklore
Do Black Cats Cause Bad Luck?
The Crackpot Index



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