Skeptophilia

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...

In my novel Sephirot , the main character, an ordinary guy named Duncan Kyle, finds himself lost in an interlocking maze of worlds, each of ...

American economist Thomas Sowell famously said, "Endless repetition does not make something true." I used to run into examples of...

In the way that viral nonsense always goes, every few months I see a resurgence of a post (actually a collection of similar posts) which tak...

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

Because we apparently need one more cognitive bias to challenge our confidence in what we hear on the news on a daily basis, today I'm g...

Can I plead with you on bended knee about something? Will you all promise  that if you forward something, or post it on Facebook or Twitte...