Special Articles - Committee for Skeptical Inquiry

Rumors of impending artificial intelligence (AI) doom got you down? Take heart, there may be light at the end of this tunnel—and not all of it from the headlight of a self-driving locomotive. N...

https://skepticalinquirer.org/2024/04/looking-for-the-bright-side-of-the-ai-apocalypse/

Digital disinformation is becoming a widely recognized threat—especially to public health—with unprecedented amounts of misinformation available online. In his first advisory, Surgeon Genera...

https://skepticalinquirer.org/2024/04/analyzing-conspiracies-through-folklore-epidemiology-and-artificial-intelligence/

Editor’s note: This article is a slightly revised excerpt from Dr. Jen Gunter’s new book, Blood: The Science, Medicine, and Mythology of Menstruation. While this excerpt focuses on alternativ...

https://skepticalinquirer.org/2024/04/alternative-therapies-for-menstrual-pain/

In 1971, years before both the bestselling novel and film The Amityville Horror thrilled the public with one of the most well-known “true stories” of a haunted house, NBC News aired a short, ...

https://skepticalinquirer.org/2024/04/true-haunting-or-not/

Earlier this year, my wife, Farrah, and I joined the Midwest Paranormal Investigators Consortium in the attic of the second-oldest house in Edwardsville. This being my first paranormal investigat...

https://skepticalinquirer.org/2024/04/paranormal-investigation-artificial-intelligence-and-the-future/

The weekend ahead of the January 23, 2024, primary election, thousands of New Hampshire voters received a call from someone who sounded like a very well-known political leader. The voice urged th...

https://skepticalinquirer.org/2024/04/the-fcc-outlaws-ai-voiced-robocalls/

On January 1, 2024, at 4:10 p.m. local time, a magnitude 7.6 earthquake struck the Noto region of Japan’s Ishikawa Prefecture. On January 11, the Emergency Disaster Control Headquarters reporte...

https://skepticalinquirer.org/2024/04/fake-rescue-requests-via-social-media-during-the-2024-noto-peninsula-earthquake/

In a significant victory for science, climate scientist Michael Mann was successful in his defamation lawsuit against bloggers Rand Simberg and Mark Steyn. A six-person District of Columbia jury ...

https://skepticalinquirer.org/2024/04/csi-fellow-michael-mann-awarded-1-million-in-defamation-case/

In a news category breezily labeled “Weird but True,” the venerable New York Post was among many media outlets that in November 2023 shared sensational headlines about a miraculous weeping Vi...

https://skepticalinquirer.org/2024/04/miracle-of-the-weeping-mary-in-mexico-explained/

Neuralink Implant. On January 29, Elon Musk, cofounder of Neuralink, shared the news that the first Neuralink implant has been placed inside a human’s skull with promising results. The stated g...

https://skepticalinquirer.org/2024/04/news-bites-from-neuralink-to-netflixs-3-body-problem/