- It is morally as bad not to care whether a thing is true or not,
so long as it makes you feel good, as it is not to care how you got
your money as long as you have got it" - Edwin Way Teale
Prof. Hall
rhall@csufresno.edu
Physics Dept.
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Skeptical and Critical Thinking
a guide to resources on the web
Recommended Links:
  • Bob Carroll's Skeptic's Dictionary is an excellent resource, with references, to all manner of interesting/questionable phenomena.

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  • The Amazing Randi - Magician and researcher of the paranormal. Randi offers more than $1,000,000 to anyone who can demonstrate any psychic, supernatural or paranormal ability of any kind under satisfactory observing conditions - claim it if you can!

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  • The National Council for Reliable Health Information, NCRHI, is a non-profit, tax-exempt voluntary health agency that focuses its attention on health fraud, misinformation and quackery as public health problems.

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  • Bad Science: Alistair B. Fraser combats prevalent science misconceptions in our culture.

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  • You've heard the story... but is it true? Check up on it in the Urban Legend Archive: a major effort to evaluate all Urban Folklore.

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    Magazines on the web:
  • Skeptical Inquirer - from the organization CSI encouraging the critical investigation of paranormal and fringe-science claims from a responsible, scientific point of view.

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  • Skeptic Magazine of the Skeptics Society investigate claims by scientists, pseudoscientists, and pseudohistorians on a wide variety of theories and conjectures.

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    Comprehensive link lists:
  • Skeptical Links & Resources from Robert T. Carroll

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  • Skeptical Links Index from the Australian Skeptics

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  • Jim Lippard's Sources of Skeptical Information on the Internet
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