Skeptophilia

Sometimes it's reassuring to know that the wackos aren't confined to the United States, although I will admit up front that we seem ...

As a blogger, I am thankful every single day that I live in a society where I am free to write, to criticize, to be provocative. I try not...

Today we have two stories that are mostly interesting in juxtaposition. First, we have an article by Jo Marchant over at Medium entitled,...

Some of my readers may remember that last year, Iranian news agencies announced that they had invented a spaceship that ran on "regula...

In Umberto Eco's brilliant novel Foucault's Pendulum, three worldly and skeptical book editors whose company specializes in publish...

I suppose that it's only human to be optimistic.  A 2009 study at the University of Kansas found that 89% of people predicted that the w...