Skeptophilia

A famous skit from the early days of Saturday Night Live  had a stereotypical married couple (played by Dan Aykroyd and Gilda Radner) arguin...

Having steeped myself in All Things Woo-Woo for some years, you'd think I'd have it all figured out, at least with respect to why pe...

My younger son came for a visit this weekend, and predictably, our lunchtime conversation ventured out into the ether. We were talking abo...

Yesterday, we looked at how apparently it's impossible for some people to believe that a 79-year-old man in poor health could die in his...

A couple of days ago I did a post on a climate change denier who attempted to science and failed rather catastrophically by neglecting to co...

Today's topic is compartmentalization, a psychological phenomenon that is defined thus: Compartmentalization is an unconscious psycho...