Skeptophilia

I got in a friendly argument online a few days ago with someone who finds my reliance on the scientific method "limited."  (His wo...

People on the left side of the political aisle are currently engaging in a good bit of gloom-and-doom prognostication.  I try not to make pr...

You hear a lot about how we're a youth-obsessed culture, but really, humans have always been.  The ancient Greeks had a real mania for y...

Well, I have reached the woo-woo equivalent of Nirvana.  I just ran across the single stupidest claim in the world.  This one beats the prev...

Let me tell you a story. There once was a woman named Elizabeth Báthory , who was a countess in Hungary.  Elizabeth was very beautiful, wi...