Stuart Vyse
@stuartvyse.bsky.social
Armchair behavioral scientist. Columnist @SkeptInquirer magazine,
"marvelous writer and clear thinker" —Michael Shermer. THE USES OF DELUSION (2022). Room Rater 10/10. stuartvyse.com
"marvelous writer and clear thinker" —Michael Shermer. THE USES OF DELUSION (2022). Room Rater 10/10. stuartvyse.com
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Stuart Vyse
@stuartvyse.bsky.social
· Dec 18
I created a starter pack for people and organizations that promote science, reason, critical thinking, and skepticism on Bluesky. This is a work in progress—apologies to folks I've missed—but it's a start. go.bsky.app/4RVUw3n
The latest in government-sponsored pseudoscience."RFK Jr. Puts Facilitated Communication Users on the HHS Autism Panel" @skepticalinquirer.bsky.social
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RFK Jr. Puts Facilitated Communication Users on the HHS Autism Panel | Skeptical Inquirer
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. can now add support for discredited methods of communication to his list of anti-science accomplishments as Secretary of Health and Hu ...
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February 5, 2026 at 7:18 PM
The latest in government-sponsored pseudoscience."RFK Jr. Puts Facilitated Communication Users on the HHS Autism Panel" @skepticalinquirer.bsky.social
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This made me weepy
February 4, 2026 at 1:38 AM
This made me weepy
This film was released over 80 years ago, during World War II. The final speech by Frank Morgan is eerily relevant to what is going on in our streets today. youtu.be/Y2eGU2nL9QA?...
Final speech from "A Stranger in Town" (1943) Frank Morgan.
YouTube video by Stuart Vyse
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January 26, 2026 at 1:13 PM
This film was released over 80 years ago, during World War II. The final speech by Frank Morgan is eerily relevant to what is going on in our streets today. youtu.be/Y2eGU2nL9QA?...
Great news! Now the entire archive of Philosophy Talk radio is available for free, including an episode I recorded many years ago on Science vs. Pseudo-science. @philtalkradio.bsky.social philosophytalk.org/shows/scienc...
Science vs. Pseudo-science - Philosophy Talk
Astronomy is science; Astrology is pseudo-science. Evolutionary Biology is science; Creationism is pseudo-science. How about cultural anthropology, abstract economics, string-theory, and evolutionary ...
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January 24, 2026 at 12:54 PM
Great news! Now the entire archive of Philosophy Talk radio is available for free, including an episode I recorded many years ago on Science vs. Pseudo-science. @philtalkradio.bsky.social philosophytalk.org/shows/scienc...
This was genius. 1973.
January 17, 2026 at 2:21 AM
This was genius. 1973.
This is a quincuncial projection of the world created by the philosopher and polymath, Charles Sanders Peirce. Check out how small Greenland appears. H/t @wikipedia.org
January 14, 2026 at 10:44 PM
This is a quincuncial projection of the world created by the philosopher and polymath, Charles Sanders Peirce. Check out how small Greenland appears. H/t @wikipedia.org
Reposted by Stuart Vyse
And despite it all, this is Tehran 🇮🇷
January 10, 2026 at 11:40 PM
And despite it all, this is Tehran 🇮🇷
Am I right that anything west of 128 is "western Massachusetts" and anything north of Westchester is "upstate New York"?
January 9, 2026 at 11:04 PM
Am I right that anything west of 128 is "western Massachusetts" and anything north of Westchester is "upstate New York"?
At the end of the year, I got a bit philosophical about democracy and writing. The result is my latest column for @skepticalinquirer.bsky.social, "Will Narrative Defeat Reason?" skepticalinquirer.org/exclusive/wi...
Will Narrative Defeat Reason? | Skeptical Inquirer
A few years ago, I noticed something new in American politics. Throughout all of my adult life, at election time people would put out yard signs for their c ...
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January 2, 2026 at 1:12 PM
At the end of the year, I got a bit philosophical about democracy and writing. The result is my latest column for @skepticalinquirer.bsky.social, "Will Narrative Defeat Reason?" skepticalinquirer.org/exclusive/wi...
Sad to see the network of Walter Cronkite and Mike Wallace collapse so quickly. "'60 Minutes’ Pulled a Segment. A Correspondent Calls It ‘Political.’" www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...
‘60 Minutes’ Pulled a Segment. A Correspondent Calls It ‘Political.’
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December 22, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Sad to see the network of Walter Cronkite and Mike Wallace collapse so quickly. "'60 Minutes’ Pulled a Segment. A Correspondent Calls It ‘Political.’" www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...
My latest column for @skepticalinquirer.bsky.social, "Profound Autism and Electroconvulsive Therapy: A Neglected Resource," is now available in Spanish in Pensar magazine: "Autismo profundo y terapia electroconvulsiva: un recurso desatendido" pensar.org/2025/12/auti...
Autismo profundo y terapia electroconvulsiva: un recurso desatendido | Pensar
Es propio de películas de terror. El tratamiento de electroshock, o lo que hoy se conoce como terapia electroconvulsiva (TEC), se representó por primera vez ...
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December 11, 2025 at 8:28 PM
My latest column for @skepticalinquirer.bsky.social, "Profound Autism and Electroconvulsive Therapy: A Neglected Resource," is now available in Spanish in Pensar magazine: "Autismo profundo y terapia electroconvulsiva: un recurso desatendido" pensar.org/2025/12/auti...
Grad school is stressful. www.sfgate.com/bayarea/arti...
UC Berkeley PhD student facing felony charges over $46K in intentional damage
The 26-year-old student was arrested on Nov. 12 at Cory Hall on campus, police said.
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December 10, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Grad school is stressful. www.sfgate.com/bayarea/arti...
Least surprising headline of the day. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/12...
Live Updates: Supreme Court Appears Poised to Expand Presidential Power
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December 8, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Least surprising headline of the day. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/12...
More straight talk from @nbtiller.bsky.social "MAHA Isn’t Denying Science: It’s Doing Something Much Worse" skepticalinquirer.org/exclusive/ma...
MAHA Isn’t Denying Science: It’s Doing Something Much Worse | Skeptical Inquirer
A broken clock is right twice a day. MAHA’s record on health policy is far less prolific. Still, the movement’s scattergun approach to wellness occasionally ...
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December 5, 2025 at 6:42 PM
More straight talk from @nbtiller.bsky.social "MAHA Isn’t Denying Science: It’s Doing Something Much Worse" skepticalinquirer.org/exclusive/ma...
My latest column for @skepticalinquirer.bsky.social is up: "Profound Autism and Electroconvulsive Therapy: A Neglected Resource" skepticalinquirer.org/exclusive/pr...
Profound Autism and Electroconvulsive Therapy: A Neglected Resource | Skeptical Inquirer
It is the stuff of horror movies. Electroshock treatment, or what is now known as electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), was first portrayed on screen in the 1948 ...
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December 4, 2025 at 6:13 PM
My latest column for @skepticalinquirer.bsky.social is up: "Profound Autism and Electroconvulsive Therapy: A Neglected Resource" skepticalinquirer.org/exclusive/pr...
A moving, personal, and searingly honest piece by Michelle Cottle about the challenges of eldercare in Trump's America. "It is often compared to parenting, but ... With a frail parent, there is no sense of guiding someone toward a bright future." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/o...
Opinion | The People Holding Everyone Together Are Coming Apart
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November 30, 2025 at 3:24 AM
A moving, personal, and searingly honest piece by Michelle Cottle about the challenges of eldercare in Trump's America. "It is often compared to parenting, but ... With a frail parent, there is no sense of guiding someone toward a bright future." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/o...
My Skeptical Inquirer article "Worse Than Murder on Fifth Avenue" has been translated into Spanish. "Peor que un asesinato en la Quinta Avenida" circuloesceptico.org/articulos/pe...
Peor que un asesinato en la Quinta Avenida – Círculo Escéptico
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November 22, 2025 at 12:57 PM
My Skeptical Inquirer article "Worse Than Murder on Fifth Avenue" has been translated into Spanish. "Peor que un asesinato en la Quinta Avenida" circuloesceptico.org/articulos/pe...
The @center4inquiry.bsky.social condemns the anti-vaxx revision of the CDC website, calling it a "shameful dereliction." centerforinquiry.org/news/cfi-con...
Shameful Dereliction: CFI Condemns Revision of CDC Website to Suggest Autism-Vaccine Link | Center for Inquiry
As multiple outlets reported today, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) updated its website about vaccines and autism to include several fa ...
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November 21, 2025 at 5:59 PM
The @center4inquiry.bsky.social condemns the anti-vaxx revision of the CDC website, calling it a "shameful dereliction." centerforinquiry.org/news/cfi-con...
My copy of The Calculation of Volume III arrived as promised on November 18. I can't wait to see what Tara Selter is up to now. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/m...
She Has Taken 30 Years to Write a 7-Part Novel About 1 Day. It’s a Sensation.
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November 21, 2025 at 4:22 PM
My copy of The Calculation of Volume III arrived as promised on November 18. I can't wait to see what Tara Selter is up to now. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/m...
This is not skepticism. It is medical malpractice. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/h...
C.D.C. Changes Website to Reflect Kennedy’s Vaccine Skepticism
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November 20, 2025 at 5:32 PM
This is not skepticism. It is medical malpractice. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/h...
Oh, my. Another classic study we've been teaching for years may have been fabricated. The author asserts that the central claims of the book, When Prophecy Fails, "are false, and that the authors knew they were false." h/t @retractionwatch.com onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Debunking “When Prophecy Fails”
In 1954, Dorothy Martin predicted an apocalyptic flood and promised her followers rescue by flying saucers. When neither arrived, she recanted, her group dissolved, and efforts to proselytize ceased....
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November 17, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Oh, my. Another classic study we've been teaching for years may have been fabricated. The author asserts that the central claims of the book, When Prophecy Fails, "are false, and that the authors knew they were false." h/t @retractionwatch.com onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Ten years ago today.
This is what we wear in France; Le Bleuet (Corn Flower).
It represents solidarity with our military and the victims of terrorism. So today we are thinking of the 132 people killed in the Bataclan Attack on 13th November 2015 in Paris.
It represents solidarity with our military and the victims of terrorism. So today we are thinking of the 132 people killed in the Bataclan Attack on 13th November 2015 in Paris.
November 13, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Ten years ago today.
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RIP
March 1, 1793-November 12, 2025
March 1, 1793-November 12, 2025
November 13, 2025 at 3:51 AM
RIP
March 1, 1793-November 12, 2025
March 1, 1793-November 12, 2025