Author Archives: Mark Wilson

Our last week! If I don’t get a chance to tell you after the presentations, you’ve been a superb class. Student speakers on Monday — Charlie: MK Ultra and CIA Mind Control Experiments Linah: Is Malala Yousafzai a CIA Plant? … Continue reading →

Speakers today are — Chris M.: The UFO Conspiracy about the 1942 Battle of Los Angeles Griffin: Big Pharma and What They’re Hiding Riley: Bigfoot: The Elusive Great Ape of North American Folklore Enjoy the Thanksgiving Break! Nonsense in the … Continue reading →

The top student choices for our topics this week are Area 51 and the Kennedy Assassination Conspiracy Theories. Classics of our genre! I like these because I’ve done geological fieldwork near Area 51, and I actually remember the Kennedy Assassination … Continue reading →

This week we use our skeptical tool kits to examine the pseudoscience and nonsense afflicting our health and medical systems. First up will be that venerable field of homeopathy, a billions-of-dollars industry that literally sells potions with no active ingredients. … Continue reading →

This week is devoted to advising in preparation for next week’s epic course registration. Make sure you know where you are on our Advising Week schedule. Linked here is a useful Wooster video to give you a refresher on using … Continue reading →

We intentionally kept this week unscheduled so we could catch up on any topics we need more time for. We also wanted to wait until we see the full range of research and conspiracy topics you chose to study. Watch … Continue reading →

This is going to be a disturbing week. Our topic covers various “denial” movements and their arguments. Our most prominent subject will be Holocaust Denial and its advocates. To understand it, we must have basic knowledge about the Holocaust and … Continue reading →

It shouldn’t be a surprise that the term “fake news” now has its own Wikipedia page. At first it meant hoaxed news items, but in the Age of Trump it has taken on the role of a pejorative to throw … Continue reading →

The United States has a long tradition of anti-evolution activism, almost all of it based in fundamentalist Christianity. Welcome to my world. I’ve been teaching and studying evolution all my professional life and from Day One I’ve had to deal … Continue reading →

This is a building week because I’m gone until Wednesday evening. I will be in Phoenix at the annual meeting of the Geological Society of America giving this presentation. Here’s our schedule for the week — MONDAY: Met in our … Continue reading →