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MythBusters
MythBusters is a science entertainment television series created by Peter Rees, and produced by Beyond International, in Australia. The series premiered on the Discovery Channel in 2003. It was broadcast on television networks and other Discovery channels worldwide. The show's original hosts, special effects experts Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman, used elements of the scientific method to test the validity of rumors, myths, movie scenes, adages, Internet videos, and news stories.
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
2009 book by Richard Dawkins
The Demon-Haunted World
1995 essay by Carl Sagan
Skeptical Inquirer
magazine published by CSI
The Skeptic's Dictionary
non-fiction work by Robert Todd Carroll
Penn & Teller: Bullshit!
American television series
The Magic of Reality
book by Richard Dawkins
The Enemies of Reason
2007 documentary film directed by Richard Dawkins
Fashionable Nonsense
book by Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont
The Genius of Charles Darwin
2008 film by Russell Barnes and Dan Hillman
Skeptic
American quarterly science education and science advocacy magazine
Quackwatch
Quackwatch is a United States-based website focused on promoting consumer protection and providing information about health related frauds, myths, fads, fallacies, and misconduct. It primarily targets alternative medicine, questionable health claims, and practices it considers pseudoscience. It was founded in 1996 by Stephen Barrett, a retired psychiatrist and former co-chair of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry. Initially operated under the nonprofit Quackwatch, Inc., it became part of the Center for Inquiry (CFI) in 2020. Its content is now maintained by CFI's Office of Consumer Protection
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
English podcast
Trick or Treatment
book by Simon Singh and Edzard Ernst
Is It Real?
US television program (2005–2007)
Free Inquiry
American secularist magazine (1980-)
The Straight Dope
column published in the Chicago Reader
Science-Based Medicine
website covering issues in science and medicine, focusing on quackery
Autism's False Prophets
2008 non-fiction work by Paul A. Offit
Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science
non-fiction work by Martin Gardner
Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science
book by Carl Sagan
The Freethinker
Skeptic journal
Voodoo Science
book by Robert L. Park