Of Interest on the Web

Skeptic Society - The Skeptics Society is a scientific and educational organization of cholars, scientists, historians, magicians, professors and teachers.

Million Dollar Paranormal Challenge - JREF Offers a one-million-dollar prize to anyone who can show, under proper observing conditions, evidence of any paranormal, supernatural, or occult power or event.

James Randi Foundation - An educational resource on the paranormal, pseudoscientific, and the supernatural.

Bad Astronomy - Teaching people the truth about space, the stars, the planets, and busting myths and common misconceptions about astronomy.

Midwest Athiest Blog - A lone blogger out to change some big ideas.

BASS Bruin Skeptics - Bruin Alliance of Skeptics and Secularists at UCLA

FactCheck.Org - Holding Politicians Accountable. A nonpartisan, nonprofit, "consumer advocate" for voters that aims to reduce the level of deception and confusion in U.S. politics. We monitor the factual accuracy of what is said by major U.S. political players in the form of TV ads, debates, speeches, interviews, and news releases.

Center for Inquiry - The purpose of the Center for Inquiry is to promote and defend reason, science, and freedom of inquiry in all areas of human endeavor. The Center for Inquiry is a transnational nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization that encourages evidence-based inquiry into science, pseudoscience, medicine and health, religion, ethics, secularism, and society.

The Truth Is Wrong - A place to criticize religion and promote the values of humanism, skepticism, free and rational thinking.

Parathyroid Gland - Dr. Stickney is undoubetly one of the leading parathyroid surgeons. Find up-to-date, straight forward discussions of parathyroid disease and minimally invasive surgery.

National Center for Science Education - A group defending the teaching of evolution, and fact-based scientific thought in public schools. A nation clearinghouse for information and advice to combat the growing 'anti-scientific' movement.

Penn and Teller Bullshit - Confirmed skeptics and pro-science atheists (they refer to God as "an imaginary friend"), these magicians are big fans of the art of debunking.

The Skeptics Annotated Bible - The Skeptic's Annotated Bible contains the entire text of the King James Version of the Bible presented from a skeptic's point of view.

Skeptics Friends Network - The mission of the Skeptic Friends Network is to promote skepticism, critical thinking, science and logic as the best methods for evaluating all claims of fact, and we invite active participation by our members to create a skeptical community with a wide variety of viewpoints and expertise.

Skeptics Report - Skeptic Report hopes to help dispel the darkness by providing a forum for skeptical and critical thinking.

Snopes.com - Urban Legends Reference Pages. A great place to lookup the facts on stuff you just can't believe that your friends tell you.

UFO Skeptic - An information site on the UFO phenomenon by and for professional scientists.

Cult News Network - A place where you can find out about the many cults and other controversial groups and 'movements' out there, threatening logical thought.

Hoaxbusters - A resource for de-bunking and discovering the truth behind Internet Hoaxes and Chain letters.

Crank Dot Net - Crank.net is devoted to presenting web sites by and about cranks, crackpots, kooks, and loons.

The Skeptics Dictionary - Just what it says, a great resource for researching your favorite topics!

The-Brights - A community of folks that rely on a natural, non-supernatural view of the world.

The Cato Institute - A non-profit research think-tank that relies on critical thinking and facts, over political beliefs and passion. (Liberals call them Conservatives, Conservatives call them Liberals. In other words, my favorite kind of people.)

Arts and Letters Daily - A great place to do some daily reading on what's been going on around the world. We love alternative news sources around here.

Reason Online - Interesting, and often fun looks at current topics presented in a critical fashion.

AlterNet - A different, sometimes critical spin, on current events.

SciScoop - An interesting site full of under-reported scientific findings.

Internet Archive - The Internet Archive is building a digital library of information in digital form. Like a paper library they provide free access to researchers, historians, scholars, and the public.

Podcasts - Science and Tech

Science @ NASA
Science Friday
Universe Today
Point of Inquiry
Slacker Astronomy
The Naked Scientists
Berkeley Groks Science
This Week in Tech
IT Conversations
The Point

Podcasts - Science Fiction

Slice of Sci-Fi
The Dragon Page Mondo Feed
Alien Ethos - The Ethics of Sci-Fi
The Signal
Geek-Fu Action Grip
The Force.Net
Escape Pod
The Sci Phi Show

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