Skeptophilia

A point I've made here at Skeptophilia  more than once is that I don't automatically  disbelieve  in anyone's claim of having a ...

There's a peculiar twist on confirmation bias -- which is the tendency to accept without question poor or faulty evidence in favor of a...

I went into historical linguistics because of my fascination with origins. It's manifested in other realms of study.  My primary interes...

Nobel Prize-winning Hungarian biochemist Albert von Szent-Györgyi  once made the pithy observation that "Discovery consists of seeing w...

I've mentioned before how much I love a good mystery, and there's a hell of a good one underneath the town of Margate, Kent, England...

If there's one place and historical period I could choose to know more about, it would be England during, and immediately following, the...

Have you ever heard of Mrs. Tottenham, of 54 Berners Street, Westminster, London, England? I'm guessing probably not.  At least I hadn...

One of the strangest tales out of old England comes from the turbulent reign of King Stephen , which lasted from 1135 to 1154. Stephen was t...

Working for a narcissistic autocrat isn't easy. Me, I've always wondered what the attraction is.  I guess for some people the proxim...