Skeptophilia

I always give a grim chuckle whenever someone on the far right calls us liberals "snowflakes," because when it comes to taking off...

It's a long-standing tactic in politics to accuse the other side of what you're doing yourself, but sometimes this kind of hypocrisy...

In Dorothy Sayers' novel Gaudy Night , set (and written) in 1930s England, a group of Oxford University dons are the targets of an incre...

The question of the day is: why do people continue to support certifiable wackos long after their wacko status has been proved beyond a shad...

Two months ago, an eleven-year-old girl in Argentina was forced to give birth to a baby conceived because she was raped by her grandmother...

Why are humans so prone to falling for complete bunk? I ask this question because of two rather distressing studies that I ran into a whil...

A couple of days ago I broke my cardinal rule -- arguing with strangers about politics on the internet -- when someone posted a snarky reply...

Nota bene: If you don't want to read a rant, you may want to exit right now. Yesterday I woke up to news of Donald Trump's El P...