Skeptophilia

I got into a curious exchange with someone on Twitter a couple of days ago about Richard Dawkins's recent statement that "biologic...

I was bummed to hear about the death of the inimitable Cloris Leachman  a week and a half ago at the venerable age of 94.  Probably most fam...

Appeal to Authority is simultaneously one of the simplest, and one of the trickiest, of the fallacies. The simple part is that one shouldn...

Today we consider what happens when you blend Appeal to Authority with the Dunning-Kruger Effect. Appeal to Authority, you probably know, ...

A few months ago, I made the point that the fallacy called appeal to authority  is not as simple as it sounds . On the surface, it's a...

I usually don't blog about what other people put in their blogs.  This kind of thing can rapidly devolve into a bunch of shouted opinio...

Two news stories I came across this weekend are mostly interesting in juxtaposition. First, a  paper in the Journal of Advertising ,  by I...