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There's a Senegalese expression that goes, "There are forty kinds of lunacy, but only one kind of common sense." The outcome o...

New from the "I Thought We Already Settled  This" department, we have: the West Virginia State Legislature has passed a bill , and...

One of the most frustrating of logical fallacies is the No True Scotsman fallacy. It gets its name from an almost certainly apocryphal story...

Know what a kludge  is? Coined by writer Jackson Granholm in 1962, a kludge  is "an ill-assorted collection of poorly-matching parts, f...

If you are of the opinion that more evidence is necessary for demonstrating the correctness of the evolutionary model, I give you: a paper b...

Dear readers: I am going to take a long-overdue two-week break from writing here at Skeptophilia , so this will be my last post until Thursd...

One of my sensitive spots has to do with embarrassment.  Not only do I hate being embarrassed myself, I hate watching other people in embarr...

In today's contribution from the Department of Specious Statistics, the owner of a biblical timeline business and self-proclaimed mathem...

If you are of the opinion that more evidence is necessary for demonstrating the correctness of the evolutionary model, I give you: a paper b...

One of the most frustrating arguments -- if I can dignify them by that name -- from creationists is that there are "no transitional fos...