Between the Devil and the Media · Dec 4, A Critique of Alleged Subliminal Satanic Messages in Rock Music | When media scares alleging that certain rock musicians were embedding backward-masked subliminal satanic messages into their recordings, parental panic, clerical dismay (and a few lawsuits) sprang up in their wake. Not content to criticize these misguided assertions on logical and general scientific grounds, John Vokey and Don Read, then both in the Psychology Department at the University of Lethbridge, set out to test the scare-mongers' claims directly. … more»

How Not to Test a Medium · Nov 8, An Evening With Ray Hyman and Jerry Andrus | Ray will be elaborating on themes discussed in his Friday afternoon presentation to the SFU Psychology Department (and, if coaxed, will most likely demonstrate some of the magic effects he has created that have earned him laudatory write-ups in several of the leading professional magicians' journals). … more»

How Not to Test a Medium · Nov 8, With Ray Hyman and Jerry Andrus | Hear in advance of this publication why this latest "scientific proof" of psychic ability falls short like those of the past. … more»

Has Science Found God? · The Latest Results in the Search for Purpose in the Universe | Religious organizations are funding a media blitz to persuade people that the latest science proves the truth of their religion. … more»

The Physician Shamen · Origin and Development of Traditional Chinese Medicine From Early Inscriptions to Modern Wizardry | The early history of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) has been wrought with speculative and often conflicting claims … more»