Skeptophilia

H. L. Mencken once quipped that "Puritanism [is] the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy."  We always associate Pu...

Two news stories I came across this weekend are mostly interesting in juxtaposition. First, a  paper in the Journal of Advertising ,  by I...

It's been a bad week for the creationists. First we had the news in Kansas that U. S. District Judge Daniel Crabtree has dismissed a l...

One of the things that bugs me the most about attributing supernatural causes to natural events is that it is, fundamentally, a lazy stance....

It's with a sense of "Oy, here we go again" that I must tell you that a group of parents in Kansas calling themselves COPE (Ci...