Skeptophilia

Is it too much to ask that the Trump administration simply tells the damn truth? That's all I ask.  Just stop lying .  I'm fine with...

I told myself that I wasn't going to do another political post so soon after Tuesday's, but dammit, my good intentions got blasted t...

Well, I just ran into the single stupidest conspiracy theory in existence. Don't even try to convince me there's a dumber one, becau...

Loony people are hardly a new invention.  Any claims that "people are crazier now than they used to be" generally springs from one...

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

The controversy and misinformation surrounding the COVID-19 vaccines have brought the anti-vaxx movement back into the spotlight, and once a...

Let's get something straight from the outset. Vaccines don't cause autism.  They never have.  The "research" of Andrew W...

In 2012, a 19-month-old boy named Ezekiel Stephan spiked a fever and was obviously in distress.  His parents, a British Columbian couple na...

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

Is it too much to ask for that we have some political candidates who unequivocally respect science? In casting about for who else might b...