Skeptophilia

My grandmother was born in Wind Ridge, Pennsylvania, a little village in the Allegheny hill country in the southwestern corner of the state....

Ten years ago I wrote a piece here at Skeptophilia  about the mysterious Georgia Guidestones , a granite monument that since 1980 has stood ...

In C. S. Lewis's wonderful fantasy story The Magician's Nephew , he says, "The trouble about making yourself stupider than you ...

I am sick unto death of public school employees proselytizing their students. And I don't care what exactly you're proselytizing...

Tomorrow is Easter, the most important celebration of the Christian calendar, a time when believers are reminded about such things as etern...

One of my guiding principles in life is "Don't be a dick." I don't mind taking on battles when I need to, or when I thin...

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

In a move that many are characterizing as the latest end-run past anti-discrimination laws by the extremely religious, Georgia's Senate ...

It may sound biased of me, but I think one thing should be an ironclad requirement for holding public office: an adequate understanding of s...

(The last of a series of reposts, for your enjoyment while I'm on vacation.  First posted in September 2011.  I'll be back in the sa...

If there is a group of people I hate arguing with even more  than I hate arguing with young-earth creationists, it's the conspiracy theo...

It is virtually self-evident that belief in an odd idea can propel you to do odd things. Of the many odd things I've run into, however...