Skeptophilia

I try to be tolerant of people's foibles, but one thing that annoys the absolute hell out of me is when someone is obviously ignorant of...

After Thursday's post about nonexistent islands, a loyal reader of Skeptophilia  asked me if I'd ever heard of the country of Listen...

What is it with people trusting random laypeople over experts? Okay, yeah, I know experts can be wrong, and credentials are not an unshakabl...

Way back in 1980, biochemist, writer, and polymath Isaac Asimov wrote something that is even more accurate today than it was back then: Ther...

Because evidently my generally abysmal opinion of the intelligence of the human species isn't low enough, yesterday a loyal reader sent ...

A few days ago I was casting about for topics for Skeptophilia , and was perusing that amazing clearinghouse for everything from the profoun...

In his 1980 essay " The Cult of Ignorance ," scientist, novelist, and polymath Isaac Asimov wrote, "The strain of anti-intell...

The new book The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why It Matters , by Thomas Nichols, could not have been ...

I bet you think you know what science is for. I bet you subscribe to such ideas as "science is a means for understanding the universe...