Skeptophilia

One topic that has come up over and over again here at Skeptophilia  is the rather unsettling idea that the high opinion most of us have of ...

If you needed something else to make you worry about our capacity to make decisions based on facts, go no further than a study that came out...

Because we apparently need one more cognitive bias to challenge our confidence in what we hear on the news on a daily basis, today I'm g...

One of the most insidious of biases is the perception that you are not biased. Of course  everyone else has their blind spots, their mis...

Today we consider what happens when you blend Appeal to Authority with the Dunning-Kruger Effect. Appeal to Authority, you probably know, ...

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...

It is natural, I suppose, to surround oneself with people whose political, religious, and philosophical beliefs we share.  We tend to get al...

I usually don't blog about what other people put in their blogs.  This kind of thing can rapidly devolve into a bunch of shouted opinio...

Regular readers may remember that a couple of weeks ago, I wrote about an experiment being performed by psychologist Chris French and scienc...