Reason & Society

The Martin Gardner Centennial was in 2014 and I commemorated it on this blog. I also submitted my own testimonial to the official web site...

This year marks the centenary of Martin Gardner's birth. Check out this new web site in homage to Gardner: Martin Gardner Home Site ...

WHY I AM NO LONGER A SKEPTIC by Stephen Bond, Stephensplatz blog, 28 Aug 2011 While I share the impetus toward derision of the skeptics m...

There have been numerous attacks on Paul Kurtz's organizations, all now falling on the singular Center for Free Inquiry , from several d...

Invented Knowledge: False History, Fake Science and Pseudo-religions by Ronald H. Fritze (London: Reaktion Books, 2009) See the author...

The 20th century was replete with the literature of the meeting of the East and West, in respectable philosophical literature, in pop philos...

Is there any end to the pseudo-intellectual diarrhea excreted from France? Is there any academic discipline more devoid of integrity than an...

" Response to Martin Gardner's Attack on Reich and Orgone Research in the Skeptical Inquirer " (1989) by James DeMeo, Ph.D.;...

Somebody had to do it. Oprah Winfrey: Bright (but Gullible) Billionaire by Martin Gardner Skeptical Inquiry , Volume 34.2, March / April 20...

Martin Gardner is no more. Say it ain't so. I discovered Martin Gardner in the Mathematical Games column of Scientific American , ha...

The preface and table of contents of the 1969 edition are now on my web site: Jacques Vallee: Passport to Magonia (Contents & Preface,...

I can't believe I forgot to blog on this priceless specimen of pseudoscientific obscurantism. The following, constructed from old e-mail...

The Center for Naturalism 's Currents in Naturalism March-April 2007 listed my blog entry on naturalism vs. materialism on my Freethou...

Stenger, Victor J. God: The Failed Hypothesis: How Science Shows that God Does Not Exist . Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2007. Written 16 M...

See also my original post on the Freethought Forum with a series of responses. Written 1 January 2007: It is essential to note that both ps...