Logic 101 Mayor Chavez Vs. Sex Offenders I give a dozen or so talks each year to college students and the public. I discuss critical thinking, logical fallacies, misleading arguments [...] Benjamin Radford \ Apr 10, 2008 Read More (Eric J. Garcia)
Karmas And Dogmas While waiting in line for coffee in Santa Fe a few years ago, I met a nice young woman. She was in her [...] Benjamin Radford \ Mar 13, 2008 Read More (Eric J. Garcia)
How I Became A Skeptic I was not always a skeptic. For much of my childhood, in fact, I was a strong believer in most things paranormal and [...] Benjamin Radford \ Feb 21, 2008 Read More
Convincing Yourself—And Others—You Talk To The Dead [Extended Web Version] On Jan. 31, 2008, I woke up bleary-eyed. My beauty sleep had already been interrupted several hours earlier by my aborted appearance on [...] Benjamin Radford \ Feb 14, 2008 Read More
Convincing Yourself—And Others—You Talk To The Dead On Jan. 31, I woke up to hear a man named Robert Baca on the 94 Rock Morning Show claiming to talk to [...] Benjamin Radford \ Feb 14, 2008 Read More (Eric J. Garcia)
“Haunt” Your House ... And Get Rich And Famous A new year, another opportunity to make new resolutions. Most people do the usual, boring ones, like losing weight, quitting smoking or cutting [...] Benjamin Radford \ Jan 24, 2008 Read More (Eric J. Garcia)
A Closer Look At Psychic Predictions While going though files on psychics in my Buffalo, N.Y., office a few years ago, I came across a newspaper article listing annual [...] Benjamin Radford \ Dec 20, 2007 Read More
Talking To The Dead: Who's Answering? Talking To The Dead: Who's Answering? Glendower: I can call spirits from the vasty deep. Hotspur: Why, so can I, or so can any man; But will they come [...] Benjamin Radford \ Dec 06, 2007 Read More (Eric J. Garcia)
Chupacabras Of The Southwest In July 2007, a rancher in the small Texas town of Cuero captured a strange creature that had been attacking her livestock. She [...] Benjamin Radford \ Nov 15, 2007 Read More A carnival sideshow banner advertising a chupacabra at the 2005 Erie County Fair. (Benjamin Radford)
