Rocky Mountain Skeptics

Other Resources for Skeptics on the Web

There are around 200 links in this list. I welcome suggestions for additions/deletions, advice as to how better to break down this list or place a particular link, or alerts about broken links.

Criteria for additions: I am looking for sites that deal at least in part with skepticism as practiced by CSICOP and the Rocky Mountain Skeptics - debunking of pseudoscience, medical quackery, etc. I am not interested in sites devoted purely to atheism/agnosticism/humanism unless they partially deal with skepticism. Nor am I interested in linking to pro-pseudoscience sites. Call it what you will, but I don't promote such stuff.

Arguments Bad History and Archaeology Bad Science Creationism Critical Thinking General Skepticism Journals and Newsletters Medical Skepticism

Miscellaneous Skeptical Sites Personal Pages of Skeptics Publishers, Professionals, and Stuff for Sale Skeptical Organizations: United States Skeptical Organizations: Worldwide UFOs WWW Weirdness

Arguments

• "Alien Autopsy"
• Characterization of Quack Theories
• Firewalking Myth vs Physics
• Myths of Skepticism
• On Being A Scientist: Responsible Conduct in Research
• Questions to help distinguish a pseudoscience from a protoscience
• Tools for Understanding or Debunking Pseudoscience, Cult Archaeology, or Creationist Claims
• WHY THERAPIES MAY SEEM TO WORK (EVEN WHEN THEY DON'T)

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Bad History and Archaeology

• Doug's Archaeology Site: Skeptical views of fringe archaeology
• In the Hall of Ma'at: Weighing the Evidence for Alternative History

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Bad Science

• Astronomical Pseudo-science: A Skeptic's Resource List
• Bad Science
• Cargo Cult Science - Essay by Richard Feynman
• Dave’s Page of Bogus Science
• Phil Plait's Bad Astronomy
• "Science Myths" in K-6 Textbooks and Popular Culture

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Creationism

"Intelligent design is supported by unintelligent people."

• Evolution, Anti-Evolution, and SciCre
• The Evolution Evidence Page
• Evolution Happens!
• Evolutionary Tales: Rhyme and Reason on Creation/Evolution
• The National Academy of Sciences Science and Creationism Page
• National Center for Science Education
• No Answers in Genesis
• Talk.Origins Archive

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Critical Thinking

• Carl Sagan's Baloney Detection Kit
• Critical Thinking Across the Curriculum Project - Longview Community College
• Critical Thinking on the Web
• Critical Thinking Study Resources from the American Family Foundation
• Forum for Active Critical Thinking and Skepticism
• Foundation for Critical Thinking: Critical Thinking Consortium
• Improving Science Instruction
• Mission: Critical - A free online critical thinking tutorial.
• PESTS: Psychologists Educating Students to Think Skeptically
• Resources for Independent Thinking
• Responsible Thinking: An Investigation into Critical Thinking, the Methods of Science, and the Problem of False Beliefs
• A Thinking World - Comprehensive website and thinkers' community.

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General Skepticism

• Escepticismo
• James Randi Educational Foundation Homepage - His slant on pseudoscience and psychic phenomena.
• Left Hemisphere
• Links - Skeptical Links
• Massimo's Skeptic & Humanist Web
• Mind Surf with the Skeptic
  • en Espanol
• Occulte stromingen en maatschappelijke problemen
• Page of Honest Intellectual Inquiry - Bibliography of skeptical books.
• Philosophy, Science, and Skepticism
• Pseudoscience/Paranormal/Skepticism Home Page for PHY105
• Sagan Society
• Skeptic Friends Network
• Skeptical Gourmet
• Skeptical Information
• A Skeptical Manifesto - written in 1992 by Michael Shermer.
• Skeptical References - a 1999 bibliography compiled by Lewis Jones.
• Skeptic's Annotated Bible
• Skeptic's Bunker
• Skeptic's Dictionary - "Over 250 skeptical definitions, essays, and references from acupuncture to zombis."
• Skeptic's Refuge - Lots of great articles, reviews, etc. Associated with the Skeptic's Dictionary.
• Skeptics Society/Skeptic.com
• T-FILES - Science answers pseudoscience
• The World of Richard Dawkins - unofficial website
• World Wide Skeptical Web

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Journals and Newsletters

• Correx Archives - Old, but fun.
• CSICOP / Skeptical Briefs
• CSICOP / Skeptical Inquirer
• Journal of Scientific Exploration
• Reality Check
• REALL News
• Scientific Review of Alternative Medicine (US)
• Skeptic Journal
• The Skeptic magazine
• Skeptic News - The "What's New" Page for Skeptics
• The Skeptic's Digest
• Skeptical Review
• The View from Number 80

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Medical Skepticism

• The AIDS Heresies
• Cancer Fraud Action Network - a nonprofit network of lawyers and medical professionals dedicated to putting "an end to the fraudulent and deceptive practices and products related to the treatment of cancer."
• Chirobase : A Skeptical Guide to Chiropractic History, Theories, and Current Practices
  • "My Visit to a 'Straight' Chiropractor" - be sure to read the "Chiropractic Response to This Report" when you finish the main article. The last line is a howler!
• ChiroWatch: all you need to know about chiropractic
• Confessions of a Former Iridologist
• CQ: Canadian Quackery Watch
• Debunking Thought Field Therapy
• Dietfraud
• The Entirely Online Alternative Medicine Primer - full text for many papers, articles, book chapters, and abstracts dealing with human and veterinary alternative medicine
• FDA AIDS Fraud Task Force
• Georgia Council Against Health Fraud's Health Care Reality Check
• Health Hippo: Fraud & Abuse
• Health Watch UK
• HealthCentral - Dr. Dean Edell
• HealthWatcher.net
• Internet Healthcare Coalition
• Journal of the American Medical Association paper on Therapeutic Touch
• Medline Plus: Health Fraud
• Medscout Health Fraud - many links to places where you can report health fraud
• "Miracle" Health Claims: Add a Dose of Skepticism - FTC page, produced in cooperation with the FDA.
• National Health Care Anti-Fraud Association
• NCAHF Task Force on Veterinary Pseudoscience
• The Pentagon's "Healing Hands Study" - Article about how the Pentagon spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to study Therapeutic Touch. The focus of the article is the silliness of the feds in treating TT as valid to begin with.
• Qakatak
• The Quack Files: Anti-Quackery Resources
• Quackery and alternative medicine
• QuackWatch Home Page
• A Question of Accountability (from a patient's eye view) - somewhat pro-holistic medicine, but instructive in how little accountibility there is in holistic medicine
• Rational Radio: The Facts Behind the Claims (requires RealPlayer to listen to the interviews)
• Skepticism.net (medical skepticism)
• Teens and Fad Diets
• Therapeutic Touch: Is It Valid? (Eric Krieg's TT home page) - A good source of links examining the topic. Pro-TT sites appear as well as anti-TT ones.
• York University Faculty Concerned about Chiropractic

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Miscellaneous Skeptical Sites

• Circlemakers - These guys actually make crop circles; it's hard to tell from their site, but they may have invented the current crop circle phenomenon.
• The Debunker's Domain, by Robert Sheaffer
• DOWSING -looking at scientific evidence
• Homo Webensis - en Espanol.
• Internet Skeptic Radio - SkepticRadio.com
• An introduction to the skeptical movement for Satanists
• Marfa Mystery Lights
• Meditation Information Network - "supporting critical examination of the programs associated with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi"
• Number Watch - "All about the scares, scams, junk, panics, and flummery cooked up by the media, politicians, bureaucrats, so-called scientists and others who try to confuse you with wrong numbers."
• LA PÁGINA INCRÉDULA
• PLANS: People for Legal and Non-Sectarian Schools - critical look at Waldorf schools
• Practical Skepticism - mostly links
• Rick Ross: Expert Consultant and Intervention Specialist - "a resource of information concerning controversial and/or potentially unsafe groups"
• Skeptic Planet - Search engine that covers some 40 skeptical sites.
• Skepticism - Global Warming
• Studmuffins of Skepticism 1999 - "The proof that evolution works."
• Various issues debunked by Ian Goddard:
  • Chemtrails
  • The "Moon Hoax"
  • Out of Body Experiences
  • Waco FLIR Gunshots

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Personal Pages of Skeptics
(In alphabetical order by last name, unless no last name is given)

• Annapolis Valley Skeptic
• Joyce Arthur, activist, skeptic, feminist
• Eric's Skeptic Page
• Andrew Fraknoi
• Garrison Hilliard's EFN page
• Peter Huston's Official Web-Site Home Page
• Kjetil Kjernsmos skeptic page
• Bart Koene's home page
• Paul Kurtz
• Jim Lippard's Home Page
• John Allen Paulos Home Page
• Bob Riggins's Page
• Donald Simanek's Page
• Andrew Skolnick - Science and Medical Journalist
• Victor J. Stenger
• Roahn H. Wynar's Homepage

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Publishers, Professionals, and Stuff for Sale

• The Alternative Medicine Hoax - A new book by Dr. Carl E. Bartecchi, a professor of clinical medicine at the University of Colorado Medical School. (Note: This is an Amazon link.)
• Baloneyslicer - Web Site of Critical Thinking, Step by Step, by Robert Cogan Ph.D.
• CriticalThinking.com - Books about critical thinking for educators and home schoolers.
• CSICOP / Giftshop
• Darwin Fish and EvolveFISH
• Dr. W. Sumner Davis, author & cosmologist
• Health Care Fraud Report - information for lawyers
• Penn & Teller's Home Page
• Prometheus Books
• Ian Rowland: "Beyond the Psychic" show
• The Straight Dope - The famous column in its Web incarnation. One of the few for-entertainment sources that consistently promotes skepticism
• The Trickster and the Paranormal - A professional-level book by George P. Hansen about trickster theories. Includes the following essays online:
  • "A Critique of Budd Hopkins' Case of the UFO Abduction of Linda Napolitano"
  • "The Research with B.D. and the Legacy of Magical Ignorance"
• VERLAG Lee Traynor: Books for Skeptics - European distributor for skeptical books, the German magazine Skeptiker, and Skeptic Magazine
  • Bücher für Skeptiker (German version)

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Skeptical Organizations: United States

• Bay Area Skeptics - California
• Carolina Skeptics
• Central Iowa Skeptics/Dangerous Ideas.net
• Cincinnati Skeptics: The Association for Rational Thought
• CSICOP On-line - The Committee for Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal: the national organization for reason and clear thinking. They publish the bimonthly magazine Skeptical Inquirer.
• East Bay Skeptics Society - Oakland, California
• Inquiring Skeptics of Upper New York
• Middle Tennessee Skeptics
• Montana Rationalists and Skeptics Network
• National Capital Area Skeptics (NCAS) - Washington DC, Maryland, and Virginia
• New England Skeptical Society
• New Mexicans for Science and Reason
• New York Area Skeptics
• North Texas Skeptics
• Oregonians for Rationality
• Philadelphia Association for Critical Thinking (PhACT)
• Pierre Stromberg's Paranormal Northwest (Pacific Northwest Skeptics)
• Rational Examination Association of Lincoln Land (REALL) - Illinois
• Rationalists of East Tennessee
• Sacramento Freethought
• Sacramento Organization for Rational Thinking (SORT)
• San Diego Association for Rational Inquiry (SDARI)
• Seattle Skeptics: The Society for Sensible Explanations (SSE)
• Skeptics Club - Penn State University
• South Shore Skeptics: Do You Believe...? - Cleveland, Ohio
• Tampa Bay Skeptics - A great skeptics group in Florida! Check out their Mars Face page.
• Tri-Cities Skeptics
• University Skeptical Society

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Skeptical Organizations: Worldwide

• Alberta Skeptics
• Argentina Skeptics
• Australian Skeptics Home Page
• Biuletyn Sceptyczny - The S Files (Polish Skeptics)
• British Columbia Skeptics Home Page
• Centre for skeptical information in Norway
• CEPO: Associação Cépticos de Portugal
• Le Cercle zététique - French skeptics
• CICAP - Comitato Italiano per il Controllo delle Affermazioni sul Paranormale
• Czeck Skeptical Society
• European Council of Skeptical Organisations Infopage
• First Dutch Collection of Skeptic Links and Servers
• Gold Coast Skeptics - The Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia
• GWUP e.V. - Gesellschaft zur wissenschaftlichen Untersuchung von Parawissenschaften/Society for the Scientific Investigation of Para-Science (German skeptics)
• Indian Skeptic
• Indonesian Skeptic Society
• International Network of Skeptics Organizations - A list with links to skeptics groups in the U.S. and around the world.
• Israel Skeptics Society
• Laboratoire de Zététique de l'université de Nice (Zetetics Laboratory of the University of Nice)
• NZCSICOP Inc (New Zealand Skeptics)
• Ontario Skeptics Society for Critical Inquiry
• Opção Racional - Brazilian skeptics
• Ottawa Skeptics/The Scratching Post
• Sceptiques du Québec
• Senter for Skeptisk Informasjon i Norge - Centre for Skeptical Information in Norway
  • English version
• SIMPOS: Netherlands foundation for information on social problems and occult tendencies
• SKEPP - Belgian skeptics
• Skepsis ry (Finnish Skeptics)
• Skeptica - Association of Independent Danish Skeptics
• Stichting Skepsis - Netherlands skeptics
• Union Rationaliste - French skeptics
  • UNION RATIONALISTE SECTION DE LOIRE ATLANTIQUE
• Vetenskap och Folkbildning (Science and People's Education) - Swedish skeptics
• Western Canada Skeptics Brochure

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UFOs

• IUFOS - Internet UFO Skeptics
• MISTAKES AND MISIDENTIFICATIONS IN UFO RESEARCH, Or, how to fly a saucer without sound physics
• Saucer Smear
• Scientific skepticism, UFOs and the flying saucer myth
• The Skeptical UFO Site
• UFO Skeptic's Toolkit
• UFO-Sweden

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WWW Weirdness

• crank dot net
• Crank Menagerie
• It's the End of the World As We Know It... Again - Deals with doomsday prophecies.
• skepticult.org: Laughing at Kooks since 1997
• SSE - The Society for Scientific Exploitation
• Watching You Dot Com

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Last updated: 09/26/02

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