Skeptophilia

If you needed something else to feel discouraged about, a study released this week in the journal New Media & Society  found that fake n...

A couple of days ago I made the mistake of participating in that most fruitless of endeavors: an online argument with a total stranger. ...

Did you know that daddy-long-legs have an incredibly poisonous venom , so poisonous that they'd be the most deadly spider in the world, ...

As part of our ongoing inquiry into why people believe in irrational, counterfactual nonsense, last week we looked at a study that showed th...