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In general, I always cringe a little when I see that a scientific study has been called into question. These days, especially in the United ...

One of the many things that baffles me about my fellow humans is how hard it is for people to say, "Well, I guess I was wrong, then....

A while back, I wrote about the strange and disheartening research by Leon Festinger, Henry Riecken, and Stanley Schachter , the upshot of w...

Let me ask you a hypothetical question. You're over on Twitter, and you post a link making a political claim of some sort.  Shortly ther...

I have commented more than once about my incredulity with regards to end-of-the-world predictions.  Despite the fact that to date, they have...

Is it just me, or is the defining hallmark of discourse these days a steadfast refusal to admit when you're wrong? Surprisingly enough...

I had a puzzling, and frustrating, exchange on social media a couple of days ago. An acquaintance of mine posted the following, without co...

I suspect a lot of us have been pining for some good news lately. Between Kim Jong-Un bragging about his capacity for unleashing nuclear d...

I suppose you could say that everything I write here at Skeptophilia  has the same overarching theme; how to tell truth from falsehood, how ...

The good news from yesterday's post, wherein we learned some ways of fighting the backfire effect and convincing people to change their ...