Skepticism With Vulnerability

Will Storr’s Heretics: Adventures With the Enemies of Science is an exceptional book which I cannot recommend highly enough. As the title suggests, most of the book comprises Storr’s adventures in rounding up some of the planet’s best known sçientific pariahs and interviewing them. Typically, Storr spends several hours or days with his interviewees, and…

Gurerilla War, Unfair (Part 3 – Engaged Presence)

This is the third part of three posts I am writing about this topical issue. In the first post I described the problem regarding the presence of hard-core skeptics group Guerrilla Skeptics, and their undue control of Wikipedia pages related to spiritual and psi phenomena. In the second post I outlined three different approaches to…

Guerrilla War, Unfair (Part 2)

This is the second part of a three posts I am writing about this topical issue. In the first post I described the problem regarding the presence of hard-core skeptics, and their undue control of Wikipedia pages related to spiritual and psi phenomena. In this second post I will outline three different approaches to the…

Guerrilla War, Unfair (part 1)

  This is the first part of a three posts I am writing about this topical issue.  In this post I will introduce the problem. In the second post I will make some general points about what should be done, and why. I will also write why certain approaches are likely to be counterproductive –…