Skeptophilia

I was raised in a devoutly Roman Catholic home, but after spending my teenage years with question after question bubbling up inside me, I le...

A loyal reader of Skeptophilia  asked me, rather offhand, if I'd heard of "British Israelism."  I hadn't, and he went on t...

One of the most wonderful things about science is the role creativity has in discovery.  Problems that have been considered somewhere betwee...

Sometimes I need to tell y'all about a new discovery not because it's weird or controversial, but simply because it's cool. I ow...

By now, you've probably heard about Donald Trump's controversial decision to grant official recognition of Jerusalem as Israel'...

The Texas Sharpshooter Fallacy  is the practice of picking out the data points, after the fact, that support whatever your claim is.  The na...

For the latest reason that you should avoid being vaccinated, as long as you have zero understanding of science, we have: The medical esta...

When secular types think of instances of the religious demanding that we treat counterfactual beliefs as if they were real, the first thing ...

My job would be easier, as a skeptic, if humans were basically rational beings. The fact is, though, we're not controlled solely by th...