Skeptophilia

What is it with people trusting random laypeople over experts? Okay, yeah, I know experts can be wrong, and credentials are not an unshakabl...

One of the hardest things for skeptics to fight is the tendency by some people to swallow any damnfool thing they happen to see online. I ...

One of the political trends I understand least is the increasing distrust of scientists by elected officials. It's not like this dispa...

The new book The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why It Matters , by Thomas Nichols, could not have been ...

Today we consider what happens when you blend Appeal to Authority with the Dunning-Kruger Effect. Appeal to Authority, you probably know, ...

There's still time to put in your guess and enter the 50/50 contest for when Skeptophilia  will reach its one-millionth hit!  The cost ...