Skeptophilia

Okay, can we all please please puhleeeeeez  stop posting stuff without checking to see if it's true? I know it's a pain in the ass, ...

The phrase "the vastness of interstellar space" gets thrown around a lot, but it's hard for a lot of us even to wrap our brain...

Because I am absolutely saturated with the bad news about COVID-19 and our government's complete balls-up of a response -- as I suspect ...

I love science, but I really wish it would stop crushing my hopes and dreams. I say this because it has long been my dream to live long en...

As if we needed one, there's another clickbait sort-of-sciencey-or-something site that I should warn you about. It's called the Mo...

It's no great insight that the media likes sensationalized stories, and that a lot of them (including, sadly, some major news outlets) h...

My younger son, who shares my interest in investigating wacky beliefs, sent me a perplexing email a couple of days ago. "Look up ...

Ever since the media started calling Comet ISON the "Comet of the Century," I was waiting for the woo-woo hoopla to start. There...