Skeptophilia

Dear Readers, I am going to be taking a short break from Skeptophilia , so this will be my last post for a week and a half.  Lord willin...

In 1894, physicist Albert Michelson said, "It seems probable that most of the grand underlying principles [in science] have been firml...

Last week I did a piece on three weird astrophysical phenomena -- odd radio circles, high-energy neutrino bursts, and fast blue optical tra...

I introduced yesterday's post, about the discovery that a large percentage of the meteorites seem to have come from a single collision e...

I've always found the concept of the Strong Anthropic Principle wryly amusing. The idea here is that something (usually a benevolent d...

Just because I believe that science works, and that its methods are sound, doesn't mean that I have to like its conclusions.  And one of...