Skepticism 
A conversation on the nature of Skepticism(3)
“What differentiates skeptics from non-skeptics?” or “What does it mean to be a skeptic” are questions that I think equally well sum up an interesting conversation I had on Twitter today with Daniel Loxton and Jim Lippard, with a valuable interjection by Liz Ditz.
Our conversation arose out of a much broader discussion on Objectivism and [...]
Online Predators: Boogeymen or a serious threat to our youth?
Are 20% of the people our kids talk to online really sexual predators? The Media Show takes a hard look at the statistics and finds that any such claim is entirely unsupported. In fact, contrary to popular belief, the threat of online sexual predators is virtually, though not totally, nonexistent.
Neural Gourmet and Flu vaccination myths on The Enlightenment Show (Video)
Have you gotten a flu shot this year? If you’re like a lot of people you might have passed this vaccination up, rationalizing that the flu isn’t a serious illness or maybe you think the flu vaccine can actually give you the flu. Neither one of those is true, and there’s a lot of other [...]
X Files poll taps top UK conspiracy theories
In a recent poll, almost half of Britons believe that Area 51 exists to secretly investigate aliens and nearly forty percent believe that the U.S. government orchestrated the attacks on the World Trade Center towers and Pentagon on September 11, 2001. Are Britons really this nutty as a citizenry?
Probably not. Although reported by respected papers [...]