Skeptophilia

One of my ongoing peeves is that so many people put more faith in popular media claims than in what the scientists themselves are saying. ...

One of the most common misunderstandings about science by laypeople centers around the concept of degree of confidence . This misunderstan...

Yesterday, I was listening to one of my favorite pieces by Claude Debussy, The Drowned Cathedral , and I started to wonder what legend had g...

If there's one thing I find discouraging, it's how resistant crazy beliefs are to eradication. You'd think that as we know mor...

Yesterday, I was listening to one of my favorite pieces by Claude Debussy, The Drowned Cathedral , and I started to wonder what legend had ...

Geology buffs probably heard about the announcement last week of the discovery off the coast of Brazil of a large slab of granite.  It's...

Well, the Higgs boson is apparently a reality, a finding that had one CERN researcher stating to reporters, "A lot of bets are going to...

In yet another example of a fact-free, zero-evidence claim spinning its way around the internet, we now have a story about giant glass pyram...

New from the "You Can't Win With These People" department, we have news that Google Earth did not, in fact, discover Atlantis ...