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Have you been experiencing itchy eyes lately, and had your eyelids turn an odd pinkish color?  You may want to see your ophthalmologist and ...

If there's one phrase that torques the absolute hell out of me -- and just about every actual scientist out there -- it's, "Wel...

I've long been fascinated with communication network theory -- the model that maps out the rules behind the spread of information (and i...

Well, that didn't take long. All it took was Donald Trump harping on the "Chinese virus" thing for a few days, and all of hi...

There are two distinct, but similar-sounding, cognitive biases that I've written about many times here at Skeptophilia because they are ...

The Oxford Dictionary word of the year for 2016 was "post-truth." The OED  defines "post-truth" as "relating to ...