Skeptophilia

One of the (many) ways people can be shortsighted is in their seeming determination to view non-human species as inconsequential except inso...

In evolutionary biology, it's always a little risky to attribute a feature to a specific selective pressure. Why, for example, do humans...

Yesterday I was thinking about issues of empowerment versus despair. I guess it's understandable enough, given our current state of ...

There's harmless woo-woo, and then there's woo-woo where people die. It's all too easy to write off a lot of weird, counterfac...

Yesterday I was thinking about issues of empowerment versus despair. I get asked questions along this line frequently.  Being an atheist, ...

New from the Well, If It Makes You Happy department, we have a story about a lawyer in Kenya who is trying to have Jesus' conviction ove...

Here at Worldwide Wacko Watch, we've got our eyes on three stories from far afield. Let's begin with a tragedy in Wales, and hope ...