• 9/11: Debunking The Myths: Popular Mechanics examines the evidence and consults the experts to refute
  the most persistent conspiracy theories of September 11
  
• Judge rules against Dover school board York Daily Record The Complete Legal Opinion
  
• Would Stephen Jay Gould Have Signed the “Steves” List? By Jason Rosenhouse CSICOP's Intelligent Design Watch
  
• Undoing Darwin By Chris Mooney and Matthew C. Nisbet from the Columbia Journalism Review
  
• Curing Naturally: A show on the healing power of herbs points up the importance of knowing their strengths, limitations -- and dangers By Ron Sullivan from the S. F. Chronicle

• 13 things that do not make sense: Scientific Mysteries abound. By Michael Brooks from the NewScientist.com news service
  
• Chiropractic school angers FSU professors: Some threaten to resign over the proposed school. By Ron Matus from the St. Petersburg Times
  
• Sharper Image fogs up: Consumer Reports says Ionic Breeze air purifier.doesn't work By David Lazarus from the S.F.Chronicle
  
• Blinded By Science: How "Balanced" Coverage Lets the Scientific Fringe Hijack Reality By Chris Mooney from the Columbia Journalism Review
  
• The Columbia University 'Miracle' Study: Flawed and Fraud by Bruce Flamm
  from the Skeptical Inquirer
  
• 'Rescue of Nigerian Astronaut Stuck in Space' is judged the Most Outrageous example of 'Advance-Fee' emails from the Consumer Protection Board (NY)

• UFO No Longer Unidentified from the NASA Website
  
• Evolution Education Down to a Science on Web by David Perlman
  from the San Francisco Chronicle
  
• Astrology is Bigotry by Bob Steiner
  from Professionals Against Confidence Crime website
  
• Two articles on "Sensory Integration." -- Suggested by Linda Rosa
  -- Against: A School Psychologist Investigates Sensory Integration Therapies:
  Promise, Possibility, and the Art of Placebo by Steven R. Shaw, Ph.D., NCSP
  -- For: Empirical Evidence Related to Therapies for
  Sensory Processing Impairments by Lucy Jane Miller, Ph.D., OTR

• Welcome to Planet Earth by Robert L. Park, from The Sciences, May, 2000
  All about the origins of the Roswell, NM. UFO stories.
  
• 'Master' and 'slave' computer labels unacceptable, officials say from CNN (Reuters)
  Wednesday, November 26, 2003
  
• Superbomb Ignites Science Dispute from The S.F. Chronicle
  Pentagon advisers challenge experiments behind nonnuclear weapon.
  
• Permits for Fortune Tellers Passes from The S.F. Chronicle
  Crystal-ball crackdown -- new S.F. fortune-teller law
  
• The Seven Warning Signs of a Bogus Science
  by Robert L. Park from Quackwatch
  
• Permits for Fortune Tellers from The S.F. Chronicle
  S.F. may soon see psychics regulated. Pioneering proposal would ban trickery

• Brain probe triggers out-of-body experiences from The New Scientist
  Out-of-body experiences can be induced by stimulating a part of the brain
  called the right angular gyrus, Swiss researchers have discovered.
  
• Profile of Eugenie C. Scott from The Scientist
  Dr. Scott is Executive Director of the National Center for Science Education and a
  board member of Bay Area Skeptics.
  
• Psych Sleuth by Kevin Fagan (S.F. Chronicle)
  Margaret Singer has made history delving into the psychology of brainwashing.
  
• The Universe in the Classroom How Astronomers Know the Vast Scale of Cosmic Time.
  Published by the American Astronomical Society and the Astronomical Society of the Pacific
  for teachers.

• Psychic Sophistry by Tony Youens
  How "cold reading" works.
  
• Saving Us from Darwin: Part I and Part II by Frederick C. Crews
  A survey of books about the religion/evolution debate
  from The New York Review
  
• Five articles from the American Medical Association
  about biological weapons (including Anthrax and Smallpox) without the media hype.
  from JAMA (read these free of charge)
  
• Randi Accused of Psychic Sabotage
  Now it can be told! Internet spoon bending foiled by Negative Energy.
  from Psychic Magazine

• Religious preaching makes these books unfit for use in public schools
  by Bill Bennetta
  
• Snake Oil and Other Preoccupations
  A review of the John Diamond's last book
  by Michael Bywater

• American belief in the Paranormal is up in last decade
  by the Gallop Organization
  
• Douglas Adams, creator of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy," dies
  by Richard Dawkins
  
• Darwin called Racist by Fiona Morgan
  
• Damned Lies and Statistics by Joel Best

• Errant Texts: Why some schools may not want to go by the book (Part One)
  
• ...and Part Two
  
• Sideshows of Science
  As knowledge expands, so do the ranks of believers in fakery
  
• The Dubious Data 2000 Awards:
  The top ten silliest, most misleading stories of the new millennium

• Federal Trade Commission's site listing the top ten web scams
  Who says the government can't do anything right?
  
• Good Science, Bad Science: Teaching Evolution in the States
  by BAS advisor Lawrence S. Lerner
  
• Harry Potter and the Chain of Fools:
  Report on a chain letter
  
• The Quackatorium 'Nuff said!

• Speed of Light still holds. "Warp One only, Scotty!"
  
• Ig Nobel Prize Winners. See also "Yogi Runs for President."
  
• Curing the Therapeutic State
  Thomas Szasz on the medicalization of American life.
  Interviewed by Jacob Sullum
  
• Did Einstein Cheat? by John Farrell

• Press Release: Big Biology Books Fail to Convey
  Big Ideas, Reports AAAS's Project 2061
  
• Organic Molecule (Sugar) Found in Space,
  NASA Science News
  
• "The Cargo-Cult Science of Subliminal Persuasion,"
  Skeptical Inquirer, Spring 1992. By Anthony R. Pratkanis
  
• New Scientist says Creationism is far from Extinct
  Bay Area Skeptics Director Eugenie C. Scott, Ph.D. is quoted.

• A definition of Modern Skepticism.
  
• In Search of the Fur Bat by Paul Lafarge.
  The True Story of Psychical Research at Stanford University
  
• Charles Darwin's books on-line
  
• A detailed introduction to Stephen Jay Gould and his ideas
  

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