Skeptophilia

It always astonishes me how much it takes for people to say to some nonsense-spouting pseudo-pundit, "You are nuttier than squirrel shi...

Way back in 1980, biochemist, writer, and polymath Isaac Asimov wrote something that is even more accurate today than it was back then: Ther...

In Dorothy Sayers' novel Gaudy Night , set (and written) in 1930s England, a group of Oxford University dons are the targets of threats ...

In Dorothy Sayers' novel Gaudy Night , set (and written) in 1930s England, a group of Oxford University dons are the targets of an incre...

Today's post is about several links that all appeared in my inbox more or less simultaneously, and are even more interesting in juxtapo...

I've learned through the years that my feelings are an unreliable guide to evaluating reality. Part of this, I suppose, comes from hav...