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I present to you three recent articles with a linked theme. The first is about a study at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute for Medical Re...

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

Humans are odd creatures sometimes. We have a regrettable tendency to abandon reason entirely when we're confronted with scary circums...

Let's establish something right from the outset. Vaccines do NOT cause autism . Clear enough?  If you are in any doubt, here's a...

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...

A friend and loyal reader of Skeptophilia , who also happens to be a veterinarian, sent me a message saying, "They're coming for m...

One rather frustrating tendency, amongst those of us who have a skeptical bent, is that people tend to believe anything they read if it begi...

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

Yesterday's post about people who are fact-resistant is an easy segue into today's topic, which is: a viral post I've now seen a...

If you react to people challenging your beliefs by calling them frauds, shills, or sellouts, it's a pretty good indication that you'...

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...

It is a general rule of human behavior that it is way easier to make people afraid of something than it is to convince them that what they f...