What is The Skeptic's Dictionary?
The Skeptic's Dictionary is a website and a book. Each features definitions, arguments, and essays on topics ranging from acupuncture to zombies, and provides a lively, commonsense trove of detailed information on things supernatural, paranormal, and pseudoscientific.
Dozens of topics in logic, perception, science, and philosophy are also covered to help explain the appeal and popularity of occult beliefs and to provide a guide for critical thinking. » More about the SD & Reader comments on the SD
The Web site was created in 1994 - thanks to the Davis Community Network - and is still evolving. The book was published in 2003 by John Wiley & Sons, thanks in large part to literary agent Ted Weinstein and former Wiley editor Jeff Golick.
From Abracadabra to Zombies - 596 entries | View All
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Sample the Skeptic's Dictionary
Rivas, Catalina (Katya or Catia)
Catalina
Rivas is almost certainly a
pious fraud.
The
thrice-married woman hails from Cochabamba, Bolivia, though
she now dwells in Mexico (Merida, Yucatan). Her piety is
expressed by her alleged
stigmata and
her alleged "messages" from Jesus, Mary and angels who, for some
unexplained reason, dictate their messages to Rivas not only in
Spanish, but in Greek, Latin and Polish....>>more
* AmeriCares *
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