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One of the most powerful pieces of evidence of our common ancestry with every other life form on Earth is that we all read the genetic code ...

I'm going to issue another plea to please please puhleeeezz  check your sources before posting stuff. This goes double for the viral m...

There's a fundamental problem when elected officials are charged with creating laws and policies surrounding issues that they simply do ...

It goes without saying that advertisers will do or say damn near anything to sell their products, but every once in a while a marketing camp...

I think I've made my position on GMOs plain enough, but let me just be up front about it right out of the starting gate. There is noth...

It's a common strategy.  If simply spouting alarmist rhetoric doesn't cause your target audience to panic sufficiently, throw in som...

One of the most frustrating of logical fallacies is the package-deal fallacy  -- the tendency to lump together things that are similar (even...

It's a theme that has cropped up over and over here at Skeptophilia ; the fact that people spend a lot more time reacting from emotion t...

One of the most frustrating phenomena for us skeptics is the backfire effect . The backfire effect is the documented tendency that people,...

In today's news from the Unintentional Irony Department, we have religious wingnut and young-earth creationist Ted Cruz calling the ant...

Can we once, just once, face a problem in the world and find a solution based in logic?  And, fer cryin' in the sink, not ascribe it to ...

There's a logical fallacy I've seen a lot lately.  It's called  argumentum ad Monsantum  (also known as argumentum ad Hitlerum )...

There should be some kind of provision for removing from office politicians who unequivocally demonstrate that they are morons. Being in p...