Skeptophilia

The attitude of many laypeople toward medical science can be summed up as "all you have to do is." Never mind those silly experts,...

History is really nothing more than one contingency after another. This leaves fertile ground for the "what-ifs."  What if the Rom...

Ever heard of cocoliztli ? In one way, it's shocking if you haven't, and in another, hardly surprising at all, because the vast majo...

My novella We All Fall Down  is set during some of the most awful years humanity has ever lived through -- the middle of the fourteenth cent...

Let me be up front that I'm fully in favor of freedom of speech and freedom of the press. That said, I have to ask: what the fuck are ...

I have to admit that COVID-19 has me a little skittish. I know all the reassuring bits -- that most people who contract it have few or no ...

In science, there's sometimes a fine line between looking for data to support your model, and shoehorning every bit of data you can find...

Some days, optimism is just a losing proposition. Today's reason for repeated facepalms has to do with COVID-19, better known as Wuha...