Around the world there are "Skeptics in the Pub" events that gather folks from the local community who are interested in issues of science, technology, health, and sometimes explore the more ephemeral things like the paranormal - ghost busting and…
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Bill Nye, Science Guy, and GMOs – oh my!
Bill Nye caused a bit of drama over his stance on GMOs with the publication of his recent book, Undeniable: Evolution and the Science of Creation. Biologists were dismayed by some of the unsourced claims he was making, and what…
Are Neonicotinoids the Sole Factor Responsible for Colony Collapse Disorder?
A recent paper published in The Bulletin of Insectology claiming that neonicotinoids are the sole cause of CCD has been circulating in the media. The author, Chensheng Lu, has a history of doing research that makes spurious claims about the…
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Only Seralini can Censor Seralini
Written by Kevin Folta The 2012 work by Seralini et al has long been retracted, and months later friends and admirers of Prof Seralini still are screaming foul and injustice, even leveling claims of censorship. In the recent online twitter…
Roundup in 75% of Air? What the report actually says
Written by Kevin Folta Last week the anti-biotech websites exploded with the news: "Roundup Weedkiller Found in 75% of Air and Rain Samples, Gov. Study Finds" and more scary-sounding titles like that. My first response was to get a copy…
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Huber’s claims in Maui lack evidence
Yesterday, Dr. Don Huber spoke in Maui as part of an event that kicked off a political campaign to ban genetically engineered crops from the island. The same day, a letter to the editor by Dr. Harold Keyser, a retired soil…
Nine Dirty Little Secrets? One Inconvenient Truth
Written by Kevin Folta Over on Huffington Post’s Food for Thought Blog they have offered their bandwidth to a series of voices to expand on the epic science narrative Farmed and Dangerous. “Farmed” is a slick and cute, yet intellectually simple…
Deconstructing Don Huber – A Tale of Two Talks
Written by Rob Wallbridge This is a story of two talks, both of which are almost identical. It’s also the story of two people, both of whom are also the same person. What separates both are a couple of years,…
Skepticism. It’s why we blog.
I was catching up on Skeptoid episodes this weekend. The episode on The Black Knight Satellite started out with some really convincing stories about a mysterious object orbiting the earth (you'll have to listen to the podcast for details!). I…