Skeptophilia

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. ...

Today's topic comes to us from the One Thing Leads To Another department. I got launched into this particular rabbit hole by a notice f...

It's virus season, which thus far I've been able to avoid participating in, but seems like half the people I see are hacking and sno...

I understand dogs a great deal better than I understand my fellow humans. Dogs are straightforward.  They interact with their world in a dir...