Skeptophilia

Over the last few weeks, with the sudden explosion of anger, partisan politics, and fake news, I fear we are moving into a period where our ...

Popular media make me crazy sometimes. It's intensely frustrating to see science misrepresented by news outlets, and people unquestion...

One of the most frustrating things about the country I live in is the extent to which money drives policy. So often, it doesn't matter...

Some days, being an optimist is a losing proposition. In previous posts, I have outlined the evidence supporting the claim that hydrofrack...

I try not to let my skepticism slide over into cynicism.  The latter, a disbelieve-everything-they-say approach, seems to me to be as funda...

Assessing risk is a complicated thing.  The technical definition of risk -- that it is equal to the statistical probability of exposure mult...

Yesterday there was yet another article about an accident at a hydrofracking site.  In this one, an Ohio fracking well sprung a leak , causi...