Skeptophilia

A number of years ago, I was talking with a friend about her recent divorce from a man who was a serial philanderer and emotional abuser, an...

As of this morning, six explosive devices addressed to prominent critics of Donald Trump have been discovered , one of them (the one mailed ...

Because we clearly needed something else to be angry about, today we have: a cadre of four senators who are calling for an investigation int...

I always wince a little when I see those silly things pop up on Facebook that say things like, "Can you see the number in the pattern?...

It's understandable that people get upset when the world turns out to work differently than they wanted or expected.  We all have our pr...

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

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

Below I present to you a series of quotes.  You'll see a pattern pretty quickly. It’s the natural law of God. We have a theocracy rig...

Because we clearly needed something to make American politics even weirder and more contentious, five days ago Antonin Scalia decided to di...

There is one word that makes me see red, skepticism-wise, and that word is "clickbait." Clickbait articles, sensationalized bu...

I keep wanting to avoid writing blog posts on the topic of politics, and the politicians keep not letting me. This time it's Ted Cruz ...

Can I ask my readers who are conservative to stop for a moment, take a deep breath, and listen to what the leaders in the race for the Repu...