Skeptophilia

When the Nazi party first came into power in Germany in the mid-1930s, one of the first things they did was to dramatically improve the effi...

A friend of mine quipped that Republicans are the party that believes your rights begin at conception and end at birth. Yeah, I know, I know...

Given how surreal this year has been, I was thinking a few days ago that it was a little surprising that we haven't had any completely b...

If any loyal readers of Skeptophilia  live in Texas -- or are willing to take a road trip -- there's an opportunity for you to do some e...

It's astonishing how little a skeptical, rational approach has insulated me from having a purely visceral reaction sometimes. I've...

Words matter. People with a commitment to the truth should demand that media and politicians make their statements using unambiguous langu...

Yesterday morning when I was reading the news, I saw a story that induced me to use say some very bad words, that for the benefit of my more...

Twenty-six people are dead in yet another mass shooting , this one in a Baptist church in Sutherland Springs, a small community 21 miles fro...

Call me naïve, but on some level I still can't quite believe we've gotten to the point in the United States where our elected offici...

A couple of days ago, NPR  ran a piece about conservatives who are leaving liberal areas so they can live amongst like-minded folks.  The ar...

New from the "Wow, You Really Didn't Think That Through All That Well, Did You?" department, we have: Texas Governor Greg Abbo...

A lot of what you hear talked about under the heading of "religious freedom" seems to me to boil down to "reasonable expectat...

I'm increasingly appreciating the quip that if "con" is the opposite of "pro," then "congress" is the oppo...