Skeptophilia

One of the problems with targeted-advertisement algorithms is that they're awfully good at picking up on words like "homeopathy...

As of this morning, I have now seen the following post five times: It seems like it should be obvious this can't be true, because if the...

I think one of the reason I have a love/hate relationship with Twitter is that my feed sounds way too much like my brain. I do a lot of what...

While I don't want to excuse mental laziness, I think it's understandable sometimes if laypeople come to the conclusion that for eve...

As I have mentioned more than once, there's pretty good evidence lately that the aliens who are in charge of the computer simulation we...

There's been a whole lot of buzz lately on the subject of free speech and social media. The maelstrom has centered around the controve...

In his famous dialogue Phaedrus,  Plato puts the following words in Socrates's mouth: If men learn [writing], it will implant forgetfu...

I just found out that Alex Jones has lost his platforms on Facebook, YouTube, Spotify, and Apple .  And although I fully support the right t...

I always wince a little when I see those silly things pop up on Facebook that say things like, "Can you see the number in the pattern?...

One of the most frustrating things about social media is the tendency of a lot of people to post something (or respond to it) without readin...