Skeptophilia

It's no revelation to regular readers of Skeptophilia  that I'm fascinated with quantum physics. In fact, some years ago I was in...

By now, most of you have heard about the Bowling Green Massacre , a horrific attack by Iraqi immigrant terrorists in Bowling Green, Kentucky...

Every once in a while, the targeted-ad software that decides which advertisement to paste to which website screws up, and you'll see som...

What never ceases to astound me is the way woo-woos use minuscule amounts of evidence to support claims that under most circumstances would ...

Appeal to Authority  is simultaneously one of the simplest, and one of the trickiest, of the fallacies. The simple part is that one should...

Making its way around the internet in the last few days we have the strange story of Lerina Garcia, a Spanish woman who is making an extraor...

I've always had a fairly good memory -- for certain things, at least.  I usually lecture my classes without notes, for example.  I find ...