Skeptophilia

If you needed more evidence that we're living in surreal times, some scientists have collaborated with the Tourism Board of Lexington, K...

There's a general rule of debate, and it goes something like this: you don't score any points by picking out some absurdly weak line...

UPDATE:  I'm deleting this post.  Turns out, I (and millions of others, including the editorial staff of USA Today ) were the victims of...

I told myself that I wouldn't comment on the whole Kim Davis thing , that other and better voices had already said what needed to be sai...

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...

Ignorance and fear go together.  They grow in the same environments, and feed off each other like some sort of bizarre pair of symbiotic lif...

I've written before about "Ark Encounter," the biblical theme park currently under construction in Williamston, Kentucky.  The...

Yesterday, we saw one example of mistaking correlation for causation -- that being a skeptic (or materialist, or rationalist) is why two pro...

New from the "I Wish I Were Kidding" department, today we have a story that as much as $37.5 million in taxpayer-funded rebates co...