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Skeptic’s Toolbox Archives

It is our hope that the archive area will contain a variety of items showcasing past Toolbox events with workshop content, images, and comments from the participants.

Past Workshops

  1. 1992: The Complete Skeptic's Pocket Field Guide - Create a manual that Skeptic's could carry in their pockets
  2. 1993: Case Based Reasoning - Using model cases to generate principles for use in similar situations
  3. 1994: Thinking - Good, bad, critical
  4. 1995: Human Error - Psychology of belief and error
  5. 1997: A Framework for Critical Thinking - Seven critical questions to apply to any skeptical inquiry
  6. 1998: Scams, Cons, & Other Deceits - Deception, Self-Deception, Advertising, Illusions, and Psychopaths
  7. 1999: Science & Pseudoscience - Model Cases: Oregon Vortex, Near Death Experience, Fooling scientists
  8. 2000: Model Cases - Examples of claims for the participants to examine
  9. 2001: Talking to the Dead and other Transcendental Seductions - Mediumship, dissociation
  10. 2002: The 'Whys' Skeptic - Getting our message across
  11. 2003: Critiquing Research - Evidence. Determining adequacy, statistics, persistence
  12. 2004: The You You Don't Know - Unconscious, ideomotor, hypnosis
  13. 2005: Classics of Skeptical Investigation - Pitted windshields, Clever Hans, Memory in Water, etc.
  14. 2006: The Healthy Skeptic - Quackery, Bogus therapies, Self Help, Personal Testimony, Alternative Medicine
  15. 2007: Changing Minds - Persuasion, conversion, brainwashing, ethics of behavior control
  16. 2008: Your Wonderful Brain - Free-will, cognitive illusions, brain fitness programs, eye-witness testimony, blindspots
  17. 2009: The Scientific Method - Attacks on science, science for skeptics, scientific illiteracy