The Skeptics Dictionary (on-line) by Todd Carroll; long list of various pseudo-science subject with short descriptive articles of each. Use their search engine. 

James Randi Educational Foundation; the home page of professional debunker James Randi's organization dedicated to exposing junk and pseudo-science. Somewhat limited information, but does have the $1,000,000 challenge!

The Skeptics Society; publishers of the Skeptic magazine (not on line) 

The Committee for the Scientific Examination of Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP); the most authoritative organization to expose pseudo-scientific practices. Publishers of the Skeptical Inquirer with an extensive list of on-line articles. There is a separate off-site  Skeptical Inquirer Index. 

Australian Skeptics; with on-line articles from their journal Skeptic. They have a very, very large  page of links to many pseudo-science related sites. They have a wonder page of links to weird news sites. 

CrankDotNet; yes and .com for cranks. Includes a crank of the day  with a link to some site these people find particularly obnoxious.

Quack Watch; "Your guide to health fraud, quackery, and intelligent decisions", maintained by  Stephen Barrett, M.D., a retired psychiatrist.

JunkScience.com; "All the junk that's fit to debunk", put together by a freelance writer Steven Millow, who is writing a book on the topic. Includes a long list of links (see the "Archives" down the left side) to newspaper articles, new service reports etc. which appear to be a bit marginal in their content.

The AFU & Urban Legends Archive; from urbanlegends.com! A large collection of posting from the "alt.folklore.urban" newsgroup. (What is a newsgroup? Don't ask; we'll explain elsewhere.) Find your favorite or the latest urban legend here!

News of the Weird; a collection of weird stories from newspapers (unfortunatley unreferenced!) Not really pseudo-science, but . . . 

Pseudo-Science Hoaxes; an interesting array of links to WEB articles on historically interesting scientific hoaxes (some of doubtful authenticity however. Caviet emptor.) From the Cultur-Jammer's Encyclopedia
 

Some Links to  the Paranormal:

Society for Scientific Exploration; with their Journal of Scientific Exploration; on-line selected articles from this journal of scientists trying to decide. 

News of the Weird; a collection of weird stories from newspapers (unfortunatley unreferenced!) Not really pseudo-science, but . . . 

Other Links:

The Condon Report (on-line); The famous 1968 Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Object from the University of Colorado

The Offical Travis Walton WEB site, maintained by Travis and friend Mike Rogers. Abduction stuff and appearance schedule for Travis.

Fourth-grade science project casts doubt on 'therapeutic touch'; article from CNN. The original brief version of the article from the JAMA.

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This page was prepared by and is Copyright © 2000 by C. Hartley , Department of Physics. at Hartwick College. It was last updated 18 August 2643.