Skeptophilia

I'm all for keeping an open mind, but there comes a point where my attitude is, "Produce some hard evidence or shut the hell up....

So it's Black Friday, wherein we Americans follow up a day set aside to give thanks for everything we have with a day set aside to tramp...

You probably saw that Marjorie Taylor  Traitor Greene has called for a "national divorce" along red state/blue state lines, split...

The only thing that is surprising about Representative-elect George Santos's tangled skein of lies is how unsurprising it is. The list o...

In Dorothy Sayers' novel Gaudy Night , set (and written) in 1930s England, a group of Oxford University dons are the targets of threats ...

It's a long-standing tactic in politics to accuse the other side of what you're doing yourself, but sometimes this kind of hypocrisy...

Welp, I guess it's time to dust off my camo and flak jacket and helmet and guns. The War on Christmas is starting early this year. I wis...

I've long been fascinated with communication network theory -- the model that maps out the rules behind the spread of information (and i...

My dad used to say that ignorance was only skin deep, but stupid goes all the way to the bone. There's a lot to that.  Ignorance can be ...

A number of years ago, I was talking with a friend about her recent divorce from a man who was a serial philanderer and emotional abuser, an...