Skeptophilia

There's a lot of human behavior that, looked at from a perspective as if you were studying us from the outside -- say, as an alien anthr...

One of the beefs a lot of aficionados of the paranormal have with us skeptics has to do with a disagreement over the quality of evidence. Ta...

After yesterday's dismal political post, today we're going to look at something more upbeat and cheerful: Playing a board game wit...

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...

A wag once said, "Artificial intelligence is twenty years in the future, and always will be."  It's a trenchant remark; predic...

In the last few weeks, Pokémon Go has been all the rage amongst the gamer crowd, to the extent that a Massachusetts man caused a major traff...

I am astonished, sometimes, at how little it takes to generate a conspiracy theory. Of course, at the bottom of it always has to be someon...