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The Skeptics Society - http://www.skeptic.com
The Skeptics Society is a scientific and educational organization of scholars, scientists, historians, magicians, professors and teachers, and anyone curious about controversial ideas, extraordinary claims, revolutionary ideas and the promotion of science. |
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Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal - http://www.csicop.org/
World-wide organization that encourages the critical investigation of paranormal and fringe-science claims from a responsible, scientific point of view. |
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The James Randi Educational Foundation - http://www.randi.org
Foundation headed by professional magician exposes psychics, faith healers, and such. Offers $1.1 million to anyone who can actually demonstrate something supernatural. |
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Fortean Times - http://www.forteantimes.com/
The Journal of Strange Phenomenae. Online version of the print magazine. |
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Bad Science - http://www.ems.psu.edu/~fraser/BadScience.html
About well understood phenomena which are persistently presented incorrectly by teachers and writers. |
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The Skeptic's Dictionary - http://skepdic.com/
Skeptical definitions and essays on occult, paranormal, pseudoscientific ideas and practices with references to skeptical literature. |
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The Skeptic's Refuge - http://www.skepdic.com/refuge/
Gateway to The Skeptic's Dictionary with skeptical articles on the occult, the supernatural, the paranormal and the pseudoscientific. |
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The Secular Web - http://www.infidels.org
Agnosticism, atheism, freethought, humanism, and rationalism on the Web |
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Crank Dot Net - http://www.crank.net/
Skeptic provides categorized directory, both alphabetical and hierarchical, to a variety of kooks, cranks, loons, and crackpots on the net. |
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Point of Inquiry - http://www.pointofinquiry.org/
The Center for Inquiry’s radio show and podcast. Point of Inquiry explores CFI’s three research areas: pseudoscience and the paranormal, alternative medicine, and religion and secularism. |
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Skeptical Pages by Tommy Persson - http://www.lysator.liu.se/skeptical/
Links to newsletters, organizations, and websites. |
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Skeptic Friends Network - http://www.skepticfriends.org/
Examines a variety of claims with emphasis on debunking "creation science." |
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What is pseudoscience? - http://www.chem1.com/acad/sci/pseudosci.html
How it differs from science, how to spot it. Junk science, pathological science, quackery and pseudoscientific scams. |
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Number Watch - http://www.numberwatch.co.uk/
Monitors the media in search of misleading numbers in news, politics and science. |
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Practical Skepticism - http://info-pollution.com/skeptic.htm
A how-to guide for examining claims and debunking myths, math abuse, and misleading arguments. |
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NYTimes.com - Odds Are Stacked When Science Tries to Debate Pseudoscience - http://www.phys.cwru.edu/~krauss/nytimesaprilrev.html
Essay. Having a debate inevitably suggests that each side has some credibility. As a result, opponents of the scientific method try very hard to appear in debates with scientists. |
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Skeptic Report - http://www.skepticreport.com
E-zine featuring writings on skeptical inquiry and critical thinking. Also lists related books and provides links to numerous websites on topics including skepticism, alternative science, creationism, and health fraud. |
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Tony Youens - http://tonyyouens.com/
Skeptic articles, information, books from Tony Youens - parapsychology investigations. |
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Skeptic's Digest - http://www.geocities.com/skepdigest/
Here you can access the best skeptical articles on the Web about the occult, paranormal, pseudoscience and other weird things |
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The View from Number 80 - http://www.number80.co.uk
Lists sites pertaining to, amongst other things, pseudoscience, flim-flam or irrational claims and tries to give them critical attention and, in many cases, a certain amount of ridicule. |
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The Nasty Side of Organ Transplanting - http://www.geocities.com/organdonate/
The secrets of organ harvesting and transplanting known only to the professionals in the business. |
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Rational Skeptics Page - http://www.geocities.com/xx_rational_xx/
Rather odd collection of skepticism-related rants |
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The Skeptic Magazine - http://www.livejournal.com/users/ukskeptic/data/rss
Links to news articles of interest. |
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The Crackpot Page - http://www.phys.psu.edu/~scalise/misc/crackpot/
"Dedicated to all the Flat Earthers, Circle Squarers, Angle Trisecters, Cube Halvers, Perpetual Motion Mechanics, UFO and Elvis sighters, and all the other true believers who adamantly refuse to accept mathematical or physical proof that their convictions are untenable." |
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Astronomical Pseudo-science: A Skeptic's Resource List - http://www.astrosociety.org/education/resources/pseudobib.html
A bibliography from the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, for those who want to examine with a skeptical eye some of the claims at the fringes of science that seem connected to astronomy. |