Skeptophilia

As you might expect from someone who is passionately interested in genealogy, linguistics, and evolutionary genetics, when there's a stu...

One of the claims I hear that infuriates me the most is that LGBTQ+ identification is becoming more common because our society is increasing...

Some historical discoveries are in that gray area between evocative and frustrating as hell.  The evocative part because it gives us a glimp...

Two of my biggest interests are genetics and linguistics, so when there's a study that combines the two, it makes my little heart go thu...

As you might expect from someone who is passionately interested in both genealogy and evolutionary genetics, when there's a study that c...

If I have one major beef with the education system in the United States, it would be its steadfast refusal to use the latest research on how...

Over the last few days in my Critical Thinking class we've been critiquing the educational system.  After all, who better to ask than a ...

I have never been a police officer.  No one in my family is a police officer.  I have not studied criminal justice; most of what I know abo...

So you know about the ongoing nonsense regarding whether Barack Obama was born on American soil?  The "Birther Truther" foolishnes...