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There's a peculiar twist on confirmation bias -- which is the tendency to accept without question poor or faulty evidence in favor of a...

I was recently chatting with a friend about how little it takes to get woo-woos all stirred up -- and how impossible it is to get them to si...

One of the problems with targeted-advertisement algorithms is that they're awfully good at picking up on words like "homeopathy...

There are two distinct, but similar-sounding, cognitive biases that I've written about many times here at Skeptophilia because they are...

I've posted before about the phenomenon of dart-thrower's bias; the tendency of humans to notice outliers, and therefore give them m...

I've noticed a tendency amongst some people that is a little bit like what would happen if the sunk-cost fallacy had an unholy bastard c...

An inevitable side-effect of writing six times a week here at Skeptophilia is that I get some weird gifts sometimes. This explains why I am...

Here in the United States, we just went through another election.  There are still several races left unsettled, but the outcome seems to be...

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 ...