Zbyněk Vybíral: Why popular and unscientific claims in psychology and in psychotherapy come to be accepted as true? In the paper “familiarity backfire effect”…
Czytaj dalej Skeptical Psychology. Susan Blackmore, Scott Lilienfeld, Zbyněk Vybíral, Tomasz Witkowski
Gita Sahgal born in Mumbai, India, is a writer and journalist on issues of feminism, fundamentalism, and racism, a documentary films director, and a…
Czytaj dalej Nationalism in India. Gita Sahgal and Kaja Bryx
An exercise in a course I developed consists in asking candidates who consider themselves sceptical to create a voodoo doll and add to it a…
Czytaj dalej Who’s in control? Memes and the meta-memetic thinking. Diego Fontanive and Kaja Bryx
Recently, there have been media reports of various paranormal claims in different parts of Africa. These reports highlight occasions where people supposedly turned into…
Czytaj dalej Robber Goat, Bird Woman and Cat Woman. Leo Igwe
At its worst, scepticism is just debunking – showing other people that their explanations for apparently mysterious phenomena are wrong; at its best scepticism rejects…
Czytaj dalej The new science of out of body experiences. Susan Blackmore
The well-known British humanist David Pollock still believes that Brexit can be avoided. But when Brexit takes place, we are facing difficult times.
Czytaj dalej Brexit. David Pollock and Kaja Bryx
James Randi is a Canadian-American retired stage magician and scientific skeptic who has extensively challenged paranormal and pseudoscientific claims. Randi is the co-founder of…
Czytaj dalej Real world is real world. James Randi and Diego Fontanive
Ovidiu Covaciu has been involved in the Romanian skeptical movement since 2009 when he opened his own blog named "Island of Doubt". In 2010,…
Czytaj dalej Against the anti-vaccine movement in Romania. Ovidiu Covaciu and Kaja Bryx
Susan Blackmore is a British psychologist, freelance writer and lecturer, and is best known for her book The Meme Machine. She is author of…
Czytaj dalej The Meme Machine. Susan Blackmore and Kaja Bryx
We live in an era of smartphones and universal internet access. People all around the globe have easy access to the latest information and that includes children…
Czytaj dalej Critical thinking in the digital era. Krzysztof Dołowy, Jan Hartman, Andrzej Dominiczak