Skeptophilia

Yesterday's post about people who are fact-resistant is an easy segue into today's topic, which is: a viral post I've now seen a...

I broke one of my own cardinal rules a couple of days ago, which is: never argue with strangers on the internet.  This activity is the very ...

One of the most frustrating of logical fallacies is the package-deal fallacy  -- the tendency to lump together things that are similar (even...

In today's news from the Unintentional Irony Department, we have religious wingnut and young-earth creationist Ted Cruz calling the ant...

There's a logical fallacy I've seen a lot lately.  It's called  argumentum ad Monsantum  (also known as argumentum ad Hitlerum )...

In the last week my Environmental Science class has been discussing the production, use, and safety of genetically-modified organisms (GMOs)...