Skeptophilia

Sexual reproduction may be a gamble -- requiring two willing participants being in the same place at the same time -- but its advantages out...

There's an old quip that there are lies, damned lies, and then there's statistics. I'm not saying it doesn't have its uses, ...

The Greek philosopher Socrates made a name for himself -- as well as a good many enemies -- by pouncing on people who were using words like ...

It's astonishing how linked we all are -- and how we often don't even realize it. Long-time readers of Skeptophilia  might recall th...

As hard as it may be to imagine, dogs -- yes, all of them -- are the domesticated descendants of gray wolves. Well, it's hard for me  to...

In the course of writing Skeptophilia  for nearly fifteen years, I thought I'd run into every purveyor of woo out there. I was wrong. So...

An Introduction to Language  (by Victoria Fromkin and Robert Rodman, Third Edition, 1974) defines language  as "rule-governed arbitrary...

I'm really interested in research on aging, and I'd like to think that it's not solely because I'm Of A Certain Age myself. ...