Skeptophilia

There's been so much bad news lately that I've several times felt like I needed to avoid all forms of media not to go into a full-bl...

One of the topics we discuss in my Critical Thinking class is when taking a stand on an ethical issue trumps law. Civil disobedience, in o...

Let me just say at the outset that I'm a law-abiding sort.  With the exception of getting pulled over twice for driving too fast, I'...

Assessing risk is a complicated thing.  The technical definition of risk -- that it is equal to the statistical probability of exposure mult...