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Can I make the not-very-earthshattering observation that if you are explaining evidence supporting a belief, your argument is not made stron...

One of the most frustrating of logical fallacies is the No True Scotsman fallacy. It gets its name from an almost certainly apocryphal story...

In today's contribution from the Department of Specious Statistics, the owner of a biblical timeline business and self-proclaimed mathem...

A couple of days ago, a friend and loyal reader of Skeptophilia  sent me an email that said, "You think you know genetics, Mr. Smarty P...

Can I make the not-very-earthshattering observation that if you are explaining evidence supporting a belief, your argument is not made stron...

I get the oddest emails sometimes. I guess it's an occupational hazard.  Some of them are very earnest, trying to get me to see the er...

Did you hear about Ohio House Bill 164 ? It's been called the "Student Religious Liberties Act."  It contains four provision...

Halloween is this Thursday, so you know what that means: pumpkin decorations and skeletons and ghosts everywhere, candy of all kinds for sal...

I try to avoid simply writing day after day about people saying loony stuff, but sometimes I just can't help myself. That's why ...

A frequent reader and commenter on  Skeptophilia  sent me a note a few days ago, with a link and the cryptic comment, "Gordon, I think ...