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It will come as no shock to regular readers of Skeptophilia  that I really  hate it when people make shit up and then misrepresent it as the...

You probably have heard the quote attributed to Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels : "If you tell a lie big enough and continue t...

Let me ask you a hypothetical question. You're over on Twitter, and you post a link making a political claim of some sort.  Shortly ther...

Having spent 32 years as a high school teacher, I developed a pretty sensitive bullshit detector. It was a necessary skill.  Kids who have n...

One of the ways in which the last few years have changed me is that it has made me go into an apoplectic rage when I see people sharing fals...

There are two distinct, but similar-sounding, cognitive biases that I've written about many times here at Skeptophilia because they are ...

If you needed something else to make you worry about our capacity to make decisions based on facts, go no further than a study that came out...

In my Critical Thinking classes, I always included an assignment that was a contest to see who could create the most convincing fake photo o...

In today's contribution from the Unintentional Irony Department, we have: a study out of the University of Buffalo that examined the per...

So the long-awaited "Fake News Awards," intended to highlight the "most DISHONEST and CORRUPT members of the media,"  we...