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I present to you three recent articles with a linked theme. The first is about a study at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute for Medical Re...

The always-hilarious Gary Larson, whose ability to create absurd combinations of cultural references is unparalleled, had a Far Side  comic ...

Sometimes I run across alternative health therapies that are so freakin' weird I suspect, at least for a time, that the alt-med crowd is...

You might have heard about people consuming pills of dried shark cartilage as nutritional supplements.  They're still widely available,...

A musician friend of mine, a flutist of tremendous talent, drive, and skill, was diagnosed with leukemia when she was seventeen years old, o...

Given the way science is presented in the media, it's no wonder a lot of average laypeople have the impression that scientists don't...

A loyal Skeptophilia  reader and frequent commenter sent me a reply to yesterday's post, about the office of Education Committee chair b...

It's unfortunate how wishful thinking can turn off the rational parts of your mind. I know we all want to live healthy for as long as...

Most people really  don't understand the concept of risk. Let me give you an example.  Let's say that there is a woman who has bee...

One of the reasons that it is critical that we all be science-literate is because it is becoming increasingly apparent that the popular medi...

One of my failings is that I never seem to be able to see ethical questions in black-and-white. Life would undoubtedly be easier if I did....

A while back there was a rumor circulating that using cellphones could give you brain cancer.  A study published in 2010, sponsored by the N...