The Skeptic’s Dictionary , produced by Robert Carroll, a professor of philosophy at Sacremento City College. A comprehensive site covering the occult, paranormal, and pseudoscientific. A great site and a great place to start in your exploration of frauds, myths, and mysteries related all fields of science. 

http://wheel.dcn.davis.ca.us/~btcarrol/skeptic/dictcont.html

Homepage of the organization The Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP), a self-appointed and extremely effective watchdog group that is the bane of purveyors of pseudoscience of all stripes.

http://www.csicop.org/

Homepage of the organization The Skeptics Society. Good place to scan for the scientific response to the latest claims by paranormalists. Check you on-line versions of articles from back issues of their journal, Skeptic.

http://www.skeptic.com/

An annotated bibliography of skeptical books and other publications maintained by Taner Edis who also moderates an internet discussion group on skepticism. A great place to search for published work responding to pseudoscience

http://www.public.iastate.edu/~edis/skeptic_biblio.html

A site called The Mysterious and Unexplained, produced by Bradley Keyes. Though not as skeptical in approach as the others listed here, it does provide a broad and usually evenhanded coverage of claims of the occult and paranormal.

http://www.activemind.com/Mysterious/index.html

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