Pseudoscience and superstition

2004-10-19	MI: Ban on fortunetelling stands after city meeting
2004-10-11	Attempt to study effect of prayer draws fire
2004-10-07	Scotland: Is superstition’s number up?
2004-09-18	NE: Psychic causes flap at community college
2004-08-24	Doctors might soon ask “what’s your sign?”
2004-08-13	“Ghost” turns out to be bug on the lens
2004-08-08	My visits to seven psychics
2004-08-06	Mormons mix science into spirituality
2004-08-04	Molly Ivens: Why bother with the evidence? Book review: Sleeping With Extra-Terrestrials: the Rise of Irrationalism and Perils of Piety
2004-07-10	New center to promote studies of effects of prayer
2004-07-06	Italy: Driving out the demons; a day in the life of an exorcist
2004-06-11	Author of pregnancy/prayer study pleads guilty to unrelated fraud charges
2004-06-10	Nigerians divided by TV miracle ban
2004-06-09	CA: School anti-drug program uses Scientology pseudoscience
2004-06-07	India: ‘Vaastu’ doesn’t scare Karnataka Dy CM
2004-06-03	Australia: Randi offers $1 million for Mary tears
2004-05-30	UK: Team finds ‘evidence’ of paranormal
2004-05-30	Fraud, longtime conman in “power of prayer” IVF study
2004-05-28	More Americans trying alternative medicine
2004-05-26	A brief history of bollocks
2004-04-30	Police “psychics” — do they really help solve crimes?
2004-04-26	New ways of thinking move from New Age to science
2004-04-23	Penn Jillette on Bullshit, faith, religion, and atheism
2004-04-12	CSICOP says PBS shrouds the truth
2004-04-02	PBS perpetuates myth of Shroud Of Turin
2004-03-29	India: ‘Miracle healer’ held for duping people; caught by Rationalist Society
2004-03-22	Challenging conventional wisdom — more myth-busting with 20/20
2004-03-18	James Randi, Ali Sina, discussion re dogmatism and rationalism
2004-03-17	Discovery of new planetoid shows how astrologers really just make s— up
2004-03-17	Book review: Debunked! ESP, Telekinesis, Other Pseudoscience
2004-03-08	India: Politicians bank on numerology
2004-02-25	India: Author under fire for challenging cult
2004-02-15	Book review: How mumbo jumbo conquered the world
2004-02-05	India: hospitals scurry for holistic healing touch
2004-01-30	Science always trumps pseudoscience
2004-01-01	Swaziland: Miracle aids cures sold to desperate people
2003-12-11	Shermer on psychics
2003-12-10	UK: Praying for crime prevention
2003-12-05	Can John Edwards stand up to a skeptic?
2003-11-18	The Straight Dope re TV psychics
2003-11-11	Alternative medicine agency puts health claims to test
2003-11-04	Letter: Dowsing claims utter nonsense; ‘water witching’ claims violate laws of physics
2003-11-03	Faith and healing
2003-10-26	Mukto-Mona: Science, the Quran, and Maurice Bucaille
2003-10-21	India: Jaadu, jaadu… it’s science, boys; miracle-buster debunks the miracle men
2003-10-19	India: Bihar Rationalist Society press release re B.Premanand debunking minister’s firewalking claims
2003-10-16	The latest face of an old hostility to science; ‘If we abdicate reason… the result is not only that pesky scientists can’t gainsay our beliefs–neither can we gainsay those of fundamentalists, theocrats, obscurantists, Nazis, Holocaust deniers’
2003-10-15	‘No health benefit’ from prayer
2003-10-15	Study: Prayer has no effect on illness
2003-10-06	WA: Parents upset of occult items in school curriculum