Skeptophilia

That we live in contentious times is so blatantly obvious it's kind of silly even to point it out. Politics.  Immigration.  LGBTQ righ...

Last week there was a paper released in the Journal of Personality and Individual Differences  called, " Epistemic Rationality: Skeptic...

As you might imagine, I get hate mail pretty frequently. Most of it has to do with my targeting somebody's sacred cow, be it homeopath...

I know I've said it before, but it bears saying again: the strength of science lies in its reliance on hard evidence as the sine qua non...

In recent months, I've done several posts that reference the backfire effect  -- the tendency of people to double down on their previous...