Hokum-Balderdash Assay

Imagine yourself being attended to in the ER: your blood pressure has dropped to a dangerously low level, your white blood cell count has sh...

"4G Antioxidants" is one of the latest food supplements to hit the market. The 4Gs refer to substances contained in each capsule o...

About a week ago, in the comment section of one of my blog entries, a woman shared her story : My husband, a patient with kidney disease, ha...

Last week I sent the same email to all three addresses provided in the Suarez healing ministry contact page . I wrote: The website of Fr. Fe...

To those who believe in the powers of Fr. Fernando Suarez and cannot imagine how the healings can be anything other than genuine, and to tho...

Healing priest Fr. Fernando Suarez belongs to the community of priests known as Companions of the Cross . On February 6, 2008, prompted by ...

The shrine at Lourdes, France is perhaps the most famous site the Catholic Church has officially recognized as having had miraculous healing...

Montemaria, Batangas is the site where Fr. Fernando Suarez is planning to build a shrine dedicated to Our Lady of the Poor. Among the more ...

Reading the following news article brought to mind pre-scientific animistic tribes. It reports a collection of supposed signs and omens tha...

Post hoc ergo propter hoc . After this, therefore because of this. I've dealt with this fallacy several times before but it's such a...

And God called out, "Abraham!" "Here I am," he replied. And God said, "Take your son, your only son, whom you love,...

Just got wind of this via Unscrewing the Inscrutable . Here's the latest failed prophecy - cognitive dissonance case. Back in 2004 a lad...

Just finished reading Mistakes Were Made (but not by me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts (Harcourt 2007) w...

According to Mark 16:18 the resurrected Jesus said that among other things those who believe in him will be able to drink deadly poison and ...

Here's Sam Harris' speech last September at the Atheist Alliance International convention in Washington DC. I found myself wildly a...

Learned of the following "debate" featured in Newsweek via Skeptico . Sam Harris took on Rick Warren? Perhaps a tad unfair. Warr...