Jenny McCarthy’s Son May Not Be Autistic

After all her hemming and hawing over MMR vaccines, some folks are wondering if Jenny McCarthy’s young son ever had autism is the first place.

Parents Can Relax: Vaccines Do NOT Lead to Autism

The Lancet medical journal published a study in 1998 suggesting the link between autism and the measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine. Now, they’ve issued a full retraction of the original paper.

John Marcotte Wants to Ban Divorce in California

With gay marriage out of the way, are there now other threats against traditional marriage that must be addressed. John Marcotte wants to ban divorce in California, but is that fair? And is there any way a ban on divorce would actually pass?

Welcome Back from the 19th Century

I recently stumbled upon the website for New Mexicans for Science and Reason. Thanks to Kylie Sturgess over at PodBlack Blog for bringing this to our attention. For more background information you may refer to this article on USA Today’s website.
I was able to find a page called Best and Worst of the Year Awards, [...]

Oxford’s God Study: No Psychologists?

On February 19, 2008, several online news sites ran an article by the Associated Press titled Oxford to Study Faith in God (I’ll link to this one, if you’d like to read the short article in full). The first paragraph reads:

University of Oxford researchers will spend nearly $4 million to study why mankind embraces God. [...]

Sabermetrics Debunk Traditional Baseball Strategy

What if you managed your own real life baseball team? Draft your own players, decide the batting order, and make play by play decisions during games. Would you have your players stealing bases? Would you spend big bucks on a strong closing pitcher? Bill James would not advise you to do any of these things. [...]

Wikipedia Entries: The More Authors the Better

The quality of content on Wikipedia.org may seem like an obvious and easy target for Skeptical Monkey. Wikipedia does not have guidelines for its contributors, inviting anyone with a computer and Internet connection to submit their own content to the site (regardless of its accuracy).
“Perfection is not required.”
Sensing weaknesses in Wikipedia’s models, several other online [...]