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One of my problems with resolving ethical questions is that I so often have a hard time deciding the difference between moral, ethical, reas...

There's a fundamental problem when elected officials are charged with creating laws and policies surrounding issues that they simply do ...

It goes without saying that advertisers will do or say damn near anything to sell their products, but every once in a while a marketing camp...

I think I've made my position on GMOs plain enough, but let me just be up front about it right out of the starting gate. There is noth...

It's a common strategy.  If simply spouting alarmist rhetoric doesn't cause your target audience to panic sufficiently, throw in som...

It's a theme that has cropped up over and over here at Skeptophilia ; the fact that people spend a lot more time reacting from emotion t...

In today's news from the Unintentional Irony Department, we have religious wingnut and young-earth creationist Ted Cruz calling the ant...