Skeptophilia

Monday's post, about the difficulty of defining the term race , prompted a loyal reader of Skeptophilia  to ask if I'd ever heard of...

The Greek philosopher Socrates made a name for himself -- as well as a good many enemies -- by pouncing on people who were using words like ...

Today's topic comes to us from the One Thing Leads To Another department. I got launched into this particular rabbit hole by a notice f...

One of the shakiest concepts in biological anthropology is race . Pretty much all biologists agree that race , as usually defined, has very ...

It will come as no surprise to long-time fans of Skeptophilia  that I love a mystery.  And if that mystery is mixed up with questions of anc...

Despite having taught genetics for 32 years, it still is astonishing to me that all of the genetic diversity of the 7.7-odd-billion humans o...

Today's topic comes to us from the One Thing Leads To Another department.   I got launched into this particular rabbit hole by a notice ...

It is a frequent source of perplexity for me when people read about scientific research, and because of their own biases (1) claim that it s...

Back in 2005, a study by David Kelly (of the University of Sheffield) et al.  showed something simultaneously fascinating and unsettling; ...