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Trump-Hitler
The social cost of political pretending, by guest columnist Kevin McCaffree
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Michael Shermer
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Conspiracy or Incompetence?
What was really behind the Trump assassination attempt, Part II
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Lone Assassins
The attempt to assassinate President Trump is just the latest in a long line of mostly mentally deranged solo actors, Part I
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Scientific American Goes Woke
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Why I Am Not a Christian
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What is a Woman, Anyway?
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Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, Redux—WPATH Edition
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Moral Equivalency and its Discontents
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Trans Doper
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A Residue of Anomalies
Review of Think to New Worlds: The Cultural History of Charles Fort and His Followers by Joshua Blu Buhs (University of Chicago Press, July 2024)
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From UFOs to UAPs
How Robert Bigelow used his own and tax-payer's money to change opinions about aliens, by guest columnist Mark D. West
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“But I thought I had tenure!” RIP Frederick Crews, 1933-2024
The quintessential skeptic, Fred Crews was unrelenting in his pursuit of truth and fearless in his debunking of pseudoscience and pretentious nonsense
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Mysterious Moving Monuments
What unseen forces are rotating massive granite balls weighing thousands of pounds each in cemeteries? By guest columnist Matthew Gryczan
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Tucker Carlson, Karl Popper, and How Science Really Works
Are successful scientific theories the result of cumulative evidence over many trials and tests, or are they those not yet falsified? By guest columnist…
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What's It Like to Be Trans?
A Transgender Man—a Female-to-Male Trans—shares his story to help illuminate from the inside the issues involved in trans matters
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The Shroud of Turin
The History and Legends of the World’s Most Famous Relic, by Andrea Nicolotti
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