Skeptophilia

Back when I was teaching, I ran into students with a lot of fringe-y beliefs, or at least unscientific ones.  But if you had to pick which o...

Suppose you were walking in the woods, and suddenly, you stumbled on a root and fell flat on your face.  And while you were lying on your be...

I find that one of the most useful questions to ask someone who makes an outlandish claim is, "How could that possibly work?" I ...

A while back, my wife and I and two friends were in a gift shop, and on a rack of books for sale I saw one called  Dowsing for Beginners  by...

Suppose you were walking in the woods, and suddenly, you stumbled on a root, and fell flat on your face.  And while you were lying on your b...

I know I tend to write about frustrating topics -- my usual fare is illogic, irrationality, gullibility, hoaxes, and general foolishness.  A...

One of the things I find hard to understand about woo-woos is their hostility toward the people who want to test their beliefs. Not the ac...