Skeptical Observations

The right-wing evangelical defamation of Voodoo does not end with the misrepresentation of the Bois Caïman gathering as a Satanic pact: it ...

As envisaged by Tom Tomorrow : I don’t think it adds much to the discussion, but it’s a nice break from the long and involved disquisit...

The idea that the nation of Haiti was born of a pact with the devil, far from being Pat Robertson’s invention, is a libel widely circulated ...

What is wrong with what Robertson said is what is wrong with a great deal of religious thinking. Explaining wherein the fault lies is not ea...

There have been many reports of what Robertson said about Haiti and many condemnations of it; what is missing from public discourse is an ac...

Carl Sagan’s work is a great reminder of the ethical aspect of skepticism: without the ability to distinguish between prejudice and “postjud...