Skeptophilia

For today's piping hot serving of schadenfreude, we have: YouTube  has terminated Mike Adams's account . Adams, you probably know,...

One of the most fundamental concepts in pharmacology and/or toxicology is the dose-response curve , which gives a graphic representation of ...

One of the many things I harp on with my students is "check your sources." And "check your sources" doesn't mean...

If you needed any further indication that the woo-woos of the world have no particular concern whether there's any evidence to support t...

I so often write about topics that make me (and at least some of my readers) want to do repeated headdesks that it's nice to have an op...

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

A lot of you might have heard about the newest character on Sesame Street  -- a little girl named Julia who is autistic. It's a gut...

Ever heard of ORMUS? I hadn't, until a loyal reader of Skeptophilia  sent me a link.  And when I got it, my first thought was that ORM...

The Question of the Day is:  At what point does a prominent figure go so completely off the rails that people stop believing him?  Or is the...

At what point does a publication become so filled with dangerous misinformation that the powers-that-be should step in and shut it down? I...

Well, I'm happy to say that The Weekly World News has been supplanted as the world's first and foremost disseminator of bullshit.  ...