Useful Links for CPSD 100

• Bill Watterson Advice

• SDU Discussion Boards are on the ELMS webpage for now.
• Books available in the SDU library
• UMD Observatory
• Physics Question of the Week (Physics brain teasers, brought to you by Dr. Berg in the Physics department)
• Sloan Digital Sky Survey (Explore the sky and get lots of pretty images)

• The Science of Why We Don't Believe Science
• Scientific Literacy
• What is Science and Why Should We Care? A well written article by Alan Sokal in Logos
• Science Moving too fast
• A Fallacy too Far?

• National Science Board Study (NSF report on science literacy in the US, and poll statistics on numbers of Americans believing in the paranormal)
• Gallup Poll, 2005 (Statistics in NSF reports are based on Gallup polls; this one is more recent than the ones used in the linked NSF report)

• How Pseudoscience "works"
• A graphic dictionary (?) of fallacies, like Pirie's How to Win Every Argument for 7th graders: An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments
• Committee for Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (Links to articles found in Skeptical Inquirer magazine)
• Skeptic (Skeptic magazine online; FYI, founder Michael Shermer has also penned a number of books on skepticism and pseudoscience)
• What's New (Bob Park is the Maryland physics professor who authored the Voodoo Science book referenced above; this is his outreach page)
• James Randi Educational Foundation (Good source, multiple topics)
• The Skeptic's Dictionary (Like an encyclopedia for a kid doing a report! From Carroll, noted in above book list)
• Snopes.com (Nice listing of urban legends and whether they are true or false)
• Proper Criticism(Ray Hyman article on how to respond to pseudoscientist claims)

• South Park Episode 615 Stan learn how to do cold readings!
• South Park Episode 813 Eric and Kyle learn how to be psychic detectives.
• Astrology and Gravity (Phil Plait's page showing how the gravitational influence of the planets won't effect your life)
• 8 Preposterous Propositions, Chapter 5
• The Demon-Haunted World, particularly Chapter 13 ("Carlos") and Chapter 22 (significance and coin flips)
• Flim-Flam!, Chapter 7 (on Targ & Puthoff), Chapter 8 (Biorhythms)
• CNN Article on telephone telepathy
• The Spoof parody on closing of PEAR lab

• HAARP (official webpage of HAARP)
• UMD Chaos Group (If chaos and the weather interests you, see also next link)
• Chaos and Weather (McDonnell award summary, UMD physicists work on chaos and weather)

• Bad Astronomy (Phil Plait's pages debunking Hoagland)
• NASA Mars Mission Homepage (Information on NASA Mars missions, links to photos, etc.)
• Malin Space Science Systems (MSSS makes some of the cameras used in NASA Mars missions, and has their own website with links to photos)
• ESA Mars Express Mission Homepage (European Space Agency active mission at Mars... includes a 3D animation of Face on Mars!)
• Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (Latest mission at Mars, super high-resolution images!)
• CNN Article on Stereo Imaging of Cydonia (European Space Agency's Mars Express mission produced high-resolution stereo images of the "Face")
• NASA Saturn Mission Homepage (Information on NASA Saturn missions - mostly Cassini - with links to photos, etc.)
• Cassini Imaging Science Subsystem (Website of the Cassini imaging instrument team, more photo links)
• Cassini/Composite Infrared Spectrometer (Another Cassini instrument; Neal's favorite astronomer is on this team)
• The Demon-Haunted World (Chapter 3, "The Man in the Moon and the Face on Mars")

• Bad Astronomy (Phil Plait's webpages on varied topics - a great resource with LOTS of Apollo hoax debunking)
• Apollo Image Gallery (Enormous collection of Apollo images; includes practices before the missions, mission photos, and post-Apollo)
• moonpans.com (Interactive panorama views from multiple Apollo missions; very cool! Uses Quicktime.)
• NASA Information Page on Apollo (Lots of information and links on the missions)
• MoonHoax (Nice collection of the various arguments against the Moon landings and the refutations thereof)
• Apollo Hoax (Another debunking site... this and the previous one were provided by our pals in the UK)
• Steven Dutch's Site (Similar debunking to that on Bad Astronomy)
• Ian Goddard's Photography (Excellent recreations of effects seen in Apollo photos, disproving "anomalies" noted by conspiracy theorists)
• Evidence in Moon Rocks (Paul Lowman's fine essay on the Lunar samples as proof of the Moon landings)
• Telescopic Evidence (Thanks to Bill Keel for this page)
• Sky & Telescope (You can search the archives using "Apollo observations" and the last hits for the search are FREE PDFs of the original articles of real observations of the Apollo missions; for example Apollo 11 article link)
• Buzz Punch Footage (YouTube footage)

• Air Force Roswell Report (Official Air Force final report on Roswell incident)
• Karl Korff Book (Skeptical Inquirer magazine book summary on Korff's Roswell book)
• The Demon-Haunted World (Chapter 5, "Spoofing and Secrecy")
• Voodoo Science(Chapter 9)

• CSICOP Ghost Article (Nice article on the ghost phenomenon)
• Recent AP Article (Vampires and Halloween 2006)
• Solar & Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) (Ghosts apparently are more active during periods of high solar activity)

• Bad Medicine by Christopher Wanjek (real book, not internet link!)
• 8 Preposterous Propositions, Chapter 8 (placebos)
• ACSH Article on Aspartame (American Council on Science and Health page on aspartame; includes the original hoax email text)
• FDA(Food and Drug Administration homepage
• Homeopathic Medicine (from Skeptic's Dictionary)
• Magnet Therapy (from Skeptic's Dictionary)

• Article by Dr. Cline on Faux Archaeology and the dangers thereof (also found here).

• CSICOP Article (Committee for Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal; other articles also available)
• CSICOP on Levengood (Article dealing with flaws in Levengood's research)
• Circlemakers (British group that somewhat anonymously makes crop circles! Lots of photos)
• Field Trip (Danish class project to make a crop circle)

Of definite use for the debate in Science and Pseudoscience, and alas, beyond the classroom still

• Skeptical Science
• Royal Society Meeting 2/27/2014: easy to read, summary video to watch
• Tidwell's The Ravaging Tide*
• book's website
• UMD's Climate Change
• IPCC website for the 2013 Report
• IPCC Summary for Policymakers 2013
• IPCC Summary for Policymakers back in 2001
• An Op. Ed. piece on the moral obligation of climate scientists to say something by Michael Mann (of hockey stick fame)
• Denialism or, "Why is this so hard?" (See also the links above in "Why isn't Science Respected?")
• Bill Nye Primer on Climate Change

• Arctic Sea Ice record low in February 2014 Yes, that's right, during the month we thought was so cold due to the vortex.

• Basic info on the ozone layer
• More info on the ozone deniers
• White paper by Dr. Sallie Baliunas for the George C. Marshall Institute (think tank)
• More on Dr. Sallie Baliunas
• And more on Dr. Sallie Baliunas

Last Modified: Jan 2014 subject to change