Skeptophilia

A paper this week out of the University of Washington describes research suggesting that intelligence is positively correlated with the abi...

I ended up going down a rabbit hole yesterday -- not, honestly, a surprising nor an infrequent occurrence -- when a friend of mine asked if ...

This morning I was casting about for topics for Skeptophilia  and happened upon one that kind of made my brain explode.  Part of this was I ...

One of the reasons I get so impatient with woo-woos is that science is plenty cool enough without making shit up. But because quantum physic...

A loyal reader of Skeptophilia  sent me an email asking me what my opinion was about two current candidates for evidence of alien spacecraft...

There's a fallacy out there that is a little on the tricky side, even more so because it appears so straightforward at first.  It's ...

One thing that never fails to leave me feeling awestruck is when I consider that astronomers figured out the shape and size of the Milky Way...