Skeptophilia

I got an interesting email, undoubtedly prompted by one of my recent anti-Trump posts.  Here's the salient part: People like you calling...

A woman walks into the kitchen to find her husband on all fours, crawling around peering at the floor. "What are you doing?" she a...

You hear it all the time, don't you?  There's no such thing as common decency any more.  Moral values are in freefall.  Simple polit...

Before I start today's post, allow me to begin with a disclaimer: I am not  claiming psychic abilities are impossible.  I am not  hostil...

One of the ways in which the last few years have changed me is that it has made me go into an apoplectic rage when I see people sharing fals...

It's astonishing and humbling how hard it is to see bias when you're inside it. This comes up in matters of privilege.  As a middl...

Why are humans so prone to falling for complete bunk? I ask this question because of two rather distressing studies that I ran into a whil...

I just ran into an article over at Psychology Today  that I thought deserved a close examination. It's by Steve Taylor, senior lectur...

Because we clearly needed something else to be angry about, today we have: a cadre of four senators who are calling for an investigation int...