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Pamela Brunskill and Coleman Watts closed the #CSICon Sunday Speakers Session with messages about the importance of navigating news sources and stories with critical thinking skills in the digital age.
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#CSICon's Sunday Speaker Session started off with Sammy Shuster, Timothy J. Redmond, and Jon Michael talking about combating tribalism, the paranormal, and pseudoscience with more self awareness, humility, and empathy.
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The Saturday afternoon session at #CSICon 2026 concludes with Brian Brushwood interviewing Banachek and Michael Edwards about their experience working with James Randi on Project Alpha.
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Congratulations to Ronald Lindsay on being presented with the CFI Lifetime Achievement Award ahead of his presentation at #CSICon 2026
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Academy Award-nominated filmmaker @scotthamkennedy gave a peek behind the scenes of making science-centered documentaries amid today's rampant anti-science rhetoric, noting that bad actors "are using fear" to push their agendas.
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Richard Saunders of the @AustSkeptics, kicks off the #CSICon International Panel alongside @LeoIgwe, @AlejandroBorgo, Zhang Zhimin, and @amardeo. Saunders touted the fact that the skeptical movement is now active in many languages and every time zone!
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“We focus on what doesn’t fit in.”
@RichardWiseman on why skeptics have often ended up ahead of mainstream science in studying memory, belief, perception, bias. #CSICon
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RT @PeterHotez: Bow tie power in science, with the amazing @BillNye this evening in Buffalo NY @center4inquiry
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The @SkepticsGuide team, joined by @RichardWiseman and @GeorgeHrab, are recording an episode live as we speak!
Celebrating 50 years of @SkeptInquirer at #CSICon 🎉
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. @PeterHotez at #CSICon: "At universities and in science communication, we often call it misinformation, like it’s random damage happening on the internet. It’s not.”
He argues anti-vaccine movements are organized, deliberate, political, and financially motivated.
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“The antidote to doomism is doing.”
At #CSICon, climate scientist @MichaelEMann argued that anti-science movements thrive when people disengage skepticism means confronting misinformation without surrendering to fatalism.
“There is urgency. But there is also agency.”
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Perry Carpenter warns the #CSICon audience “we have entered the reality slop era”…and the rapidly-evolving technology makes it possible for ANYONE to be fooled.
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So what’s answer? “World’s Greatest Con” host encourages MORE SCAMS—“teaching the sheep to think like wolves,” a process he calls “wolfmasking.”
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During the #CSICon history panel, Ruth Frazier called her late husband Ken Frazier's work a "labor of love"
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To kick off our History Panel at #CSICon, former CSI Director @BarryKarr received a lifetime achievement award!
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“There’s always a new part of the parade that needs to hear our message.”
At #CSICon, @EugenieCScott on why skepticism can’t stop at debunking. The real challenge is reaching people before the grifters do.
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^^^ Peep actual photos of Eugenie being "cured of blindness" through prayer.
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To understand the origins of CSI, you have to understand the torrent of pseudoscience flooding the zeitgeist at the time. James Alcock describes the cultural moment that gave birth to our organization at #CSICon.
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