What is Your Telo-age?
After an extended break from blogging here on Skeptoid, a recent run of commercials on television offering to check your “cellular age” has inspired my interest enough to bring back a skeptical eye to...
View ArticleTheranos: Marketing Trumps Science
When I first heard of Theranos and its diagnostic testing breakthrough there were no immediate alarm bells or red flags that caused me to look closely. I was impressed. It appeared to be a elegant...
View ArticleDon’t Worry, You Can Still Give Your Rat that New Phone for its Birthday
By now, most people have read something from one or both sides of the story regarding new preliminary data published about cell phones and cancer, which Mother Jones referred to as “game changing.” As...
View ArticleApple v. FBI: A Risk-based Discussion
Any opinion here, which I have tried to minimize, is just my own and not that of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications or the University of Illinois where I work. I am merely trying to...
View Article2015 Technology Predictions: Some Good, Some Bad, None Impressive
For a couple of years now I’ve been following Mark Anderson’s yearly top 10 tech at Strategic News Service. It is claimed that he has a 94% success rate (though it’s unclear if this claim comes...
View ArticleHow Does an Airplane Stay in the Air?
For the longest time, I thought I knew why an airplane stayed in the air. It was because the wings were curved, and in such a way that the top was more curved than the underside. Air moving over the …...
View ArticleHelping Build a Skeptical, Scientific Wikipedia
Hello Skeptoid readers. My name is Susan Gerbic. I’m planning on giving you an overview of one of the most amazing powerful projects that exists today in the world of scientific skepticism. That...
View ArticleMyths and Facts About Uber
I recently had the chance to take my first ride with Uber, the ride-sharing app that’s gone from completely unknown to a valuation of over $40 billion in less than six years. While I’d heard quite a...
View ArticleWhen a Drone is Not a Drone
It’s unfortunate that language is often used carelessly. We frequently react to news emotionally rather than analytically; and when imprecise language elicits groundless fear, our reaction can be the...
View ArticleElectrohypersensitivity and Bad Reporting
The April 2015 issue of Popular Science includes a bizarre feature article that might give many readers cause for a double take: a detailed promotion of a thoroughly debunked pseudoscience. It is...
View Article2014 Predictions in Technology: Getting Better
Each year in January, I make a roundup of one particular set of predictions in technology. They are written by Mark Anderson from Strategic News Service. Over the years, I’ve come to realise he’s not a...
View ArticleSometimes a Cable Isn’t Just a Cable
A while ago I blogged about an expensive USB cable that claimed to increase the quality of music playback from a digital hard disk. That claim, of course, was complete and utter nonsense, as the...
View ArticleIn Defense of Electric Silence
For some time now, a few activists have proposed that a danger of electric cars is their silence to unsuspecting pedestrians. According to this claim, pedestrians are more likely to be struck by cars...
View ArticleAnother E-Cat Test: Success?
Andrea Rossi’s E-Cat machine has been wowing folks for some time now. This device is claimed to produce considerable amounts of energy via Low Energy Nuclear Reactions (LENR). I’ve written about LENR...
View ArticleThe Anti-Vaccine Playbook: Freedom of Speech
Writer’s Note: I wanted to write my own collection of nonsense spewed by pseudoscience peddlers. I will be starting with vaccines, but I may expand it into other topics as well at some point. I want to...
View ArticleTruvada, the Preventative HIV Drug
The preventative HIV drug Truvada, one of several HIV pre-exposure prophylaxes (PrEP) endorsed by the World Health Organization and the Centers for Disease control, has renewed discourse surrounding...
View ArticleGMO Labeling: Consumer Protection or Fear Mongering?
The use of Genetically Modified Organisms, better known as GMO, is an area of debate among skeptics. GMO is actually a broad term that has a lot of moving parts. Forced labeling for consumer foods...
View ArticleAbout That Turing Test Win…
This past weekend, the media was all abuzz about how the Turing test had just been passed by a computer. This was an amazing achievement that heralded a new milestone in computing history. Or was it?...
View Article2013 predictions in technology – really predictions or just extrapolations?
I want to join the skeptical meme to evaluate past predictions to see if they came through. Not astrological or any other psychic babble, but like last year I’m going to analyse the predictions in IT...
View ArticleA Blogger Goes Looking For A Catchy Title. You Will Be Shocked at What He Found!
Writing titles for my blog posts here on Skeptoid have always been a bit of a conundrum. It ends up being a mix of thinking back to my high school English classes, influences from modern internet...
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