Skeptophilia

I get a lot of negative comments. It comes with the territory, I suppose, and I knew when I started writing this blog fourteen years ago tha...

Back in 2011, author Kathryn Schulz did a phenomenal TED Talk called " On Being Wrong ."  She looks at how easy it is to slip into...

In her phenomenal TED talk " On Being Wrong ," journalist Kathryn Schulz says, "[W]e all kind of wind up traveling through li...

In her marvelous TED Talk " On Being Wrong ," writer and journalist Kathryn Schulz describes a "series of unfortunate assumpt...

One of the human tendencies I find the hardest to comprehend is the bafflement some people feel when they find out that there are people wh...

Here in the United States, we're in the middle of an increasingly nasty presidential race, which means that besides political posturing,...

My dear friend, the author and artist Cly Boehs, was inspired by one of my posts from two weeks ago to write an essay of her own res...

I think one of the problems with scientists and non-scientists not understanding each other revolves around the meaning of the word "pr...