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In somewhat the same vein as yesterday's post, which was about the capacity of subsonic standing waves to induce the sensations we often...

I was chatting with my friend, author and all-around cool person K. D. McCrite , a couple of days ago about superstitions. It probably won...

Lately, the political scene in the United States has been dominated by not just the single-cause fallacy (the tendency to attribute complex ...

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...