Skeptophilia

I've written before about the Dunning-Kruger effect , the cognitive bias that gives rise to the perception that everyone you ask will ve...

I've written before on the topic of the Dunning-Kruger effect , the idea that we all tend to overestimate our own knowledge of a topic (...

So the long-awaited "Fake News Awards," intended to highlight the "most DISHONEST and CORRUPT members of the media,"  we...

Today we consider what happens when you blend Appeal to Authority with the Dunning-Kruger Effect. Appeal to Authority, you probably know, ...

In his wonderful essay "The Cult of Ignorance," Isaac Asimov wrote something that still resonates, 36 years after it appeared in N...

I've written before about the Dunning-Kruger effect , the cognitive bias that gives rise to the perception that everyone you ask will v...

I usually don't blog about what other people put in their blogs.  This kind of thing can rapidly devolve into a bunch of shouted opinio...

As if we needed anything to make us less confident about what goes on inside our skulls, an article in e! Science News appeared on Monday, ...