William Matthew London explains how recent CDC changes falsely cast doubt on the overwhelming scientific consensus that vaccines do not cause autism, misrepresenting evidence and reviving long-debunked claims under political pressure. London argues that applying the "negative evidence principle" shows that decades of rigorous research failing to find any association is precisely why we are justified in saying vaccines do not cause autism.

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William Matthew London is a professor of public health at Cal State LA and the editor of the free weekly email newsletter Consumer Health Digest.

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MAHA's summit highlighted how the movement selectively embraces real science—such as evidence-based benefits of creatine—only when it aligns with its ideology and commercial interests. Tiller argues that this strategic, opportunistic use of science is more dangerous than denialism because it cloaks misinformation in a veneer of credibility.

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Dr Nick Tiller is an exercise scientist and author of The Skeptic's Guide to Sports Science, named one of Book Authority's "Best Sports Science Books of All Time." He's a columnist at Skeptical Inquirer and an elected Fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry. www.nbtiller.com

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Susan Gerbic recounts here experience at the Santa Cruz County SkeptiCamp 2025.

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Affectionately called the Wikipediatrician, Susan Gerbic is the cofounder of Monterey County Skeptics and a self-proclaimed skeptical junkie. Susan is also founder of the Guerrilla Skepticism on Wikipedia (GSoW) project. She is a Fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry, and writes for her column, Guerilla Skepticism, often. You can contact her through her website.

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Amardeo Sarma warns that efforts to "decolonize" science have drifted from addressing historical inequities into promoting epistemic relativism that blurs the line between empirical inquiry and spiritual or traditional belief systems.

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Amardeo Sarma is a fellow and member of the Executive Council of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry. He is founder and past chairman of the German skeptics organization GWUP. He has been involved in industrial research for more than thirty-five years and is currently general manager at NEC Research Laboratories Europe in Germany.

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Nick Tiller examines the popular belief that pickle juice quickly relieves muscle cramps...

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Dr Nick Tiller is an exercise scientist and author of The Skeptic's Guide to Sports Science, named one of Book Authority's "Best Sports Science Books of All Time." He's a columnist at Skeptical Inquirer and an elected Fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry. www.nbtiller.com

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Benjamin Radford explains that the similarity of alien abduction accounts stems not from shared experiences but from shared human psychology, pop culture influences, and media depictions. From sleep paralysis to hypnosis-induced memories, Radford shows how cultural templates and cognitive patterns shape what people believe—and misremember—as encounters with extraterrestrials.

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About the Author: Benjamin Radford, M.Ed., is a scientific paranormal investigator, a research fellow at the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry, deputy editor of the Skeptical Inquirer, and author, co-author, contributor, or editor of twenty books and over a thousand articles on skepticism, critical thinking, and science literacy. His newest book is America the Fearful.

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Peter Huston examines the bizarre life of "Count Dante," a self-styled martial arts master whose outlandish claims helped popularize Dim Mak, the mythical "kung fu death touch." Tracing Dim Mak's roots in traditional Chinese medicine and its pseudoscientific evolution, Huston separates legend from fact to reveal how prescientific ideas were sensationalized into modern martial arts folklore.

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About the Author:Peter Huston is a longtime contributor to Skeptical Inquirer. He earned an MA in East Asian studies with a focus in Chinese history and language from Cornell University and has a strong interest in the history of Chinese science, proto-scientific thinking, and intellectual thought. He also has an MS in TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) Education from the University at Albany and is an experienced teacher of English as a Second or Additional language to adults with experience living and teaching in Taiwan and two years as a member of the faculty at the highly ranked Fudan University in Shanghai, as well as working with refugees in the United States. He is a National Registry and New York State Certified Advanced EMT and a regular contributor to www.jems.com. His hobbies include studying martial arts, cooking (including Chinese cooking), and visiting historical sites. He is the author Scams from the Great Beyond, its sequel More Scams from the Great Beyond, and several other books, including a book on Trump called Scams from the Great Beyond—The Presidential Edition. He has been publishing and writing the email substack newsletter Mostly Asian History, which can be found at peterhuston.substack.com; it occasionally features skeptical examinations of topics in that field.

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Charles G.M. Paxton challenges several misconceptions skeptics hold about how science actually works, arguing that many popular notions—like strict falsifiability, universal replicability, or the ease of distinguishing science from pseudoscience—oversimplify a far more complex process.

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Charles Paxton is a statistical ecologist at the Centre for Research into Ecological and Environmental Modelling, University of St. Andrew, Scotland, with an interest in the history and science behind reports of aquatic monsters (www.sea-monster.info). He tweets @charlespaxton4.

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