Skeptophilia

Robert Heinlein said, "Never attribute to conspiracy what is adequately explained by stupidity."  I think this is a pretty good ru...

I begin the unit on ethics in my Critical Thinking class today.  I always look forward to this; it seems to me to be the heart of the curric...

The episode of The X Files  called "E.B.E." contained what may be the most insightful quote that the series ever generated.  Fox M...

Yesterday, something rather unusual happened; I left an educational staff development day without feeling like I needed to kick a small inno...

Yesterday there was yet another article about an accident at a hydrofracking site.  In this one, an Ohio fracking well sprung a leak , causi...