Skeptophilia

In science, there's sometimes a fine line between looking for data to support your model, and shoehorning every bit of data you can find...

There's a logical fallacy called the Argument from Personal Incredulity .  The idea here is that you look at something from nature, and ...

A couple of days ago I finished Michael Ray Taylor's wonderful book Dark Life , about the search for microscopic life forms in unsuspect...

Today, I ran into a story that got me thinking about how powerful a single word can be in changing the gist of a claim. An article in Onl...