This page collects links and references on critical thinking about science and the scientific circus, showing what goes wrong when scientists take themselves too seriously....

• Richard Dawkins A Clear-Thinking Oasis
• Skeptic Promoting Science and Critical Thinking; publisher of Skeptic magazine; Skeptic books (Lee Traynor website) has many links to other skeptic websites. Michael Shermer has a regular Skeptic column in the Scientific American
• CSI Committee for Skeptical Inquiry, publishes the Skeptical Inquirer. Aims to promote scientific inquiry, critical investigation, and the use of reason in examining controversial and extraordinary claims.
• http://www.criticalthinking.org/
• Less WrongCommunity blog devoted to refining the art of human rationality

• The Journal of Irreproducible Results
• Improbable Research that makes people laugh and then think. They publish books and The Annals of Improbable Research (AIR) organize the annual The Ig Nobel Prizes (Gala at Harvard University/Public lectures at MIT)
• Perec, Georges. 2007. Cantatrix sopranica L et autres écrits scientifiques. Points.
  Certains textes se trouvent sur Internet par exemple: Cantatrix sopranica L

Remarkable authors worth reading to understand that science can be both serious and fun....

• Richard Feynman

• Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster (reaction against teaching creationism in US Schools; see Wikipedia for some background information)
• GWUP (D) Gesellschaft zur wissenschaftlichen Untersuchung von Parawissenschafter (blog, journals, articles)

• Critical thinking in Statistics, Social Sciences and Humanities
• Replication and related themes
• Humor and science
• Writing: Style, advice, critique