Skeptophilia

There's been so much bad news lately that I've several times felt like I needed to avoid all forms of media not to go into a full-bl...

Assessing risk is a complicated thing.  The technical definition of risk -- that it is equal to the statistical probability of exposure mult...

Yesterday there was yet another article about an accident at a hydrofracking site.  In this one, an Ohio fracking well sprung a leak , causi...