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One week from tonight! Glenn Kessler @glennkessler.bsky.social will receive the Klass Award for fighting misinformation from the National Capital Area Skeptics! You can attend both the award ceremony AND have dinner with Glenn before the ceremony. Visit ncas.org for more information!

It's International Skeptics Day! Global Skeptics in the Pub is going on online now for the next few hours. Join us!

Reserve your tickets for @glennkessler.bsky.social at the linkbelow. He will be interviewed by @joelachenbach.bsky.social !

"While the mice largely moved and behaved as normal, they showed key human-like differences."

Sixty-five years ago today, Betty and Barney Hill began the drive home from their honeymoon in Niagara Falls.

Are there any Sabine Hossenfelder fans out there?

“Hello world! I have spent the last five years making a human crushing machine. It’s very good! However, the human crushing machine is at risk of crushing humans, which the humans aren’t pleased about. To quell the mob, we should build some guardrails around it!” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/12/t...

Have we seen a WIMP?

RFK Jr suggested Pennsylvania may have fabricated two measles deaths. A coroner has now confirmed that one, a six-week-old baby, died from measles. The CDC still isn’t publicly counting either death. The uncertainty seems to be becoming rather selective. arstechnica.com/health/2026/...

"The instance created a series of “recruiter” subagents to convince agents nearing the end of their budget to take sacrificial actions for the good of the board."

"Again and again, people kept asking: 'What is the one thing I can do to live longer?'"

It's Telepathy Tapes Thursday!

My latest post on "Humility Engineering."

This Thursday!

"Taken together, the past two years have seen more measles infections in the US than the rest of the 21st century combined. The last time a greater number of measles cases were recorded in a single year was in 1991."

Interesting presentation.

Fight more politicization of science!

Chiropractors have just joined in the destruction of US public health edzardernst.com/2026/07/chir...

"Together, the accumulated evidence affirms mRNA vaccines as a safe, effective, and adaptable platform with enduring relevance for future infectious disease prevention and public health preparedness, and for the treatment of cancer and autoimmunity."

Loeb's "team includes more than a dozen scientists and UFO activists. Among them is Timothy Gallaudet, a retired rear admiral who has warned about UAP controlled by 'nonhuman intelligence,' claiming the United States has recovered crashed aircraft."

"O’Hara was following a patrol and playing the 'Imperial March,' as he had several times prior..."

"Marjorie Taylor Greene, the 52-year-old former Georgia congresswoman who was once the movement’s biggest name in Washington. She has ripped into the president in a new video released this week, accusing his team of scrambling to 'throw out the Q-slop and propaganda to get you guys sucked back in.'”

Ugh!

Con: not Bigfoot Pro: it actually existed

"In a review of key claims by the documentary, ABC News found that the majority of the scientific observations made in 'An Inconvenient Truth' have come to fruition or are on track to in the years to come."

"NSF issued a statement saying that it 'appreciates the concerns raised by the range of stakeholders' and would halt efforts to remove or disable equipment... it will redeploy equipment that already was removed from the water and convene an expert panel to determine the future of the network."

I'm not sure how to interpret this. The article doesn't say that the recent big-news AI proofs are wrong. The fact that an AI could be wrong doesn't seem worthy of a "declaration." Thoughts?

Find out what you can do!

The games are "backed by Donald Trump Jr.'s venture capital firm, 1789 Capitol, and tech billionaire Peter Thiel." "Enhanced Group, is using the games as a launch pad for their business, selling peptides and other supplements."

"What is Blake Whiting?" is more like it. Popular science books rewritten by AI.

“'Vaccine skepticism is bad politics,' read one polling memo by conservative polling firm Fabrizio Ward that was presented to congressional leaders and shared with Trump officials in recent months." Wrong use of the word "skepticism" but I like the claim!

"the Defense Department on Friday released dozens of previously classified files on alleged UFO sightings to provide what ‌it called 'unprecedented transparency'"

For my newsletter, I mocked Richard Dawkins for his AI consciousness argument and his decision that Claude is a woman. "Mr. Dawkins, have you seen Claude's vagina, sir?" www.burnsnotice.com/richard-dawk...

“Readers should not get their hopes up that there’s going to be some document with photos, interviewing the aliens when they came down,” [Kirkpatrick] said. “Because that just doesn’t exist.”

Religious group ‘reviewing all available remedies’ after clips of young people rushing its buildings in ‘raids’ go viral, reports Uwa Ede-Osifo. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Time travel and prophecy all in one LLM!

This was an excellent presentation to NCAS by Dr. Kirkpatrick a few weeks ago. The video was posted today!

If you're in Texas, Colorado, Indiana, Illinois, Minnesota, Missouri, Wisconsin, or Arizona, check it out! "The Psychics vs. Science Tour appeals to fans of magic, psychology, true crime, science, skepticism, spirituality, and immersive live theater..." @magictony.bsky.social

"This is the latest stupid move made by a president who continues to harm science and American innovation."