Skeptophilia

One of the more horrifying stories from my home state of Louisiana is the more-or-less true tale of Madame Delphine Macarty LaLaurie . I qua...

By now, I'm sure you've all heard that my former home state of Louisiana has passed a law requiring all public school teachers to po...

One of the fun things about science is that sometimes, when you look closely at a phenomenon, you find out that what you thought was fairly ...

If you needed further evidence of how powerful surveillance technology has become, consider that Google Street View has captured a photograp...

I read an article on CNN  yesterday that really pissed me off, something that seems to be happening more and more lately. The article, ent...

Back in the 1950s, scientists were beginning to identify a causal connection between smoking and lung cancer.  Prior to that, there was an e...

If you wanted a further demonstration of why religious leaders and religious organizations should be subject to the same laws as the rest of...

One of my guiding principles in life is "Don't be a dick." I don't mind taking on battles when I need to, or when I thin...

The battle over the LSEA just took another weird turn. The LSEA is the Louisiana Science Education Act, a 2008 law that introduces "t...

I grew up in Bayou Country, the Cajun heartland south of Lafayette, Louisiana.  My mom's family was Cajun to the bone, descended from a ...

I'm getting a little tired of politicians dodging questions -- usually about either climate change or evolution -- by saying, "Well...

There are two reasons that conspiracy theorists drive me crazy. One is that they consistently accept weird, convoluted explanations for ev...

I think the most maddening of all of the logical fallacies is the Straw Man. In case you're not familiar with this particular infuriat...