The book Voodoo Science The Road from Foolishness to Fraud by Robert Park is a collection of questionable ideas and practices that are...

Has anyone noticed the goofy necklaces that baseball players have been wearing the last few years?They are "Tornado" necklaces ma...

A gravity hill, or a magnetic hill as they are sometimes called, are hills or terrain slopes where it is claimed that magnetism (or some oth...

My grandmother used to tell me that if I put my elbows on the dinner table that it would kill the table fairies. I don’t know why, but I nev...

Since I was a small child  my mother would comment on her dreams or on  our dreams and give her opinion on certain ones.  She was not necess...

     Until now I always believed that sugar made kids hyper.  I have been careful not to let them have too much sugar close to bed time.  ...

Book Report Blog Post I chose to do my book report blog post on Thomas Gilovich’s, How We Know What Isn’t So. This was a well written and ...

The psychology of superstition has been a recent interest in my life, spawning from memories of certain unique and common rituals that I bel...

The ability for a human being to possess psychic abilities has been classified, over the years, as a pseudoscience, having no scientific jus...

The existence of "Bigfoot" has been one of the the most well known myths in our culture, with thousands of "sightings" a...

Since I was a reckless, candy craving child myself, I would always hear my mother telling me no candy at a certain time or in certain situat...

I went with Flim-Flam by James Randi for the class book project. It was an interesting read and parts of it were actually quit...

While it tends to spawn the pseudoscientific, much more than it tends to be involved in its propagation, is that people tend to...

I read Believing in Magic: The Psychology of Superstition by Stuart Vyse and I loved it! I thought this book was perfect for me since I do ...

Logic is failing today in modern society, at least according to Thomas Gilovich. How We Know What Isn’t So overviews the instances in mod...

Throughout his book, Flim-Flam! Psychics, ESP, Unicorns, and Other Delusions , James Randi examines various cases of the so-called paranorma...

In The Demon-Haunted World, Carl Sagan starts off explaining how science can be viewed in both good ways and bad. For example, science makes...

Voodoo Science: The Road from Foolishness to Fraud’ by Robert L. Park in an interesting glimpse into the driving line between science and ps...

In his book; Voodoo Science: The Road from Foolishness to Fraud , author Robert Park describes the studies of science and, as Park so aptly ...

Carl Sagan’s The Demon Haunted World explores society’s increasing misconception of the world of science, in which he conveys precisely in h...