Skeptophilia

In the very peculiar Doctor Who  episode "Joy to the World," the character of Joy Almondo is being controlled by a device inside a...

The science fiction trope of a sentient AI turning on the humans, either through some sort of misguided interpretation of its own programmin...

Fighting bad thinking is an uphill battle, sometimes.  Not only, or even primarily, because there's so much of it out there; the real pr...

I try not to write in Skeptophilia  about topics I don't fully understand -- well, at least understand as fully as my brainpower and the...

Sometimes the simplest, most innocuous-seeming questions can lead toward mind-blowingly profound answers. I remember distinctly running in...

Let's end the week on a happy, if surreal, note with a new experiment in quantum physics that calls into question the arrow of time. T...