Philosophy 201:
Links to the Unusual
General:
Skeptical Inquirer (Formerly CSICOP) - lots of online articles regarding all kinds of paranormal phenomena!
The Skeptic's Dictionary - Brief explanations regarding many paranormal and pseudo-scientific phenomena plus links.
The Museum of Unnatural Mystery - contains history regarding many paranormal phenomena, e.g., the Bermuda Triangle, UFOs, etc.
Spurious Correlations - this is why you don't want to confuse correlation for causation!
Understanding Scientific Methodology:
Sense About Science - covers methods and pseudoscience.
EurekAlert - includes a partial list of peer-reviewed journals on its links page.
Improving Medical Statistics - explains common misinterpretations via real examples.
Science and Pseudo-Science - a useful article outlining the philosophical issues involved in distinguishing the two.
Media Literacy:
Test Your Media Literacy Skills - a self-test and helpful advice
Media Literacy Now - an activist organization promoting media literacy
Students' Civic Online Reasoning: A National Portrait - pdf of a major study, and scary!
Center for Media Literacy - lots of stuff in their reading room
Tips for spotting fake news - from FactCheck.org
Check it on Snopes.
Civic Online Reasoning - videos and research on evaluating online information.
Media Bias Fact Check - rates websites on their political bias.
Topics:
Bible CodeDavid Thomas' page - contains lots of useful links, from the author of one of our course pack articles.
Brain, Myth of Using Only 10%:Do We Use Only 10% of Our Brain? - includes some additional links.
Creationism and Evolution:
Science and Creationism: A View From the National Academy of Sciences - a terrific resource!
The Talk Origins Archive - a huge amount of information!
The Institute For Creation Research
Answers In Genesis - many articles from their Creation magazine are available online.
The Human Behavior and Evolution Society
Lots of great links!
Intelligent Design? A Special Report from Natural History Magazine - presents brief articles by creationists along with rebuttals.
Discovery Institute - home of Intelligent design
Darwinism: Science or Philosophy? - papers from a symposium.
National Center For Science Education - contains online pamphlets arguing against creationism as well as updates on current legal battles to get creationism taught in schools.
Understanding Evolution - very accessible discussion of evolution.
The Biblical Astronomer - gives an account of a Bible-based astronomy.
American Association for the Advancement of Science Evolution Page
Crop Circles:
Circlemakers - an organization of crop-circle makers.
Firewalking:
Flat Earth Theory:
Some useful papers on Flat-Earth "science."
Ghosts:
New Orleans Ghost Hunters - who ya gonna call?
Medical:Quackwatch - debunks homeopathy, iridology, herbal medicines, etc.
National Council Against Health Fraud - studies of homeopathy, herbal remedies, etc.
Pareidolic Interpretation:
Politics and Pundits:
Prophecies:
Lists of end-of-the-world prophecies at RationalWiki.
UFOs:
The UFO Skeptic's Page by Robert Scheaffer.
Urban Legends:
Brave Disabled War Veteran Single-Handedly Takes On Group of Armed Terrorist Thieves!!!
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(If Fox News covered Star Wars ...)
