Skeptophilia

Today I have for you two news stories that are interesting primarily in juxtaposition. The first is a press release about a study out of St...

By now, I'm sure all of you have heard about the 6-3 decision by the United States Supreme Court in favor of a Colorado web designer who...

When the Nazi party first came into power in Germany in the mid-1930s, one of the first things they did was to dramatically improve the effi...

Dear straight people: I hope you recognize the path the United States is on, and where it leads.  Because it's easy to blind yourself to...

After I wrote a piece two weeks ago about Pride Month and how critical it is for LGBTQ young people to see positive representation in books...

One of the claims I hear that infuriates me the most is that LGBTQ+ identification is becoming more common because our society is increasing...

Have you heard of Tennessee's House Bill 0800? Its summary describes it thusly: the bill "prohibits the state textbook and instruc...

Rosalind Franklin has become justly famous for her role in discovering the three-dimensional structure of the DNA double helix.  Her specia...

Yesterday I got a DM on Twitter that left me scratching my head a little. Here's the body of it, verbatim: I don't mean to be of...