Skeptophilia

In Dorothy Sayers' novel Gaudy Night , set (and written) in 1930s England, a group of Oxford University dons are the targets of an incre...

The question of the day is: why do people continue to support certifiable wackos long after their wacko status has been proved beyond a shad...

Two months ago, an eleven-year-old girl in Argentina was forced to give birth to a baby conceived because she was raped by her grandmother...

Things have come to a sorry state when it's the strict Christians who are advocating lying. I wish I was making this up.  Look, I know...

I told myself that I wasn't going to write about Roy Moore, the Republican candidate in the special election for Jeff Sessions's Sen...

In the past few years, the religious right has cultivated an attitude of persecution amongst its followers.  It's worked; we hear over a...