Skeptophilia

One of the subtlest features of the evolutionary model, and one often misunderstood even by people who understand and accept natural selecti...

The field of forensic anthropology has made amazing strides in the past decades.  Fifty years ago, about all we could count on was identific...

Everyone knows that the human core body temperature is supposed to be around 98.6 F.  At least, that's what we all learned in seventh gr...

I have to admit to a morbid fascination with things that can kill you in nasty ways. Tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes, mass extinctions ...

Some days it's no great mystery why the general public is dubious about scientists. I mean, a lot of it is the media, as I've disc...

Many of you have undoubtedly heard about Chipotle's announcement last April that they were switching over to using entirely GMO-free in...

New from the Dangerous Nonsense department: there's a new alternative-medicine model out of Germany that claims that viruses and bacteri...

At what point does someone cross the line into giving advice so dangerous that the people involved in promoting him are morally culpable if ...

It's a question I've asked before: how do "alternative medicine" and "faith healing" therapies that don't w...