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I've been trying to stay off the topic of politics lately. Besides being depressing, the subject has lately been fraught with overtone...

Language is defined as arbitrary symbolic communication . "Symbolic" because spoken sounds or written character strings stand fo...

I just found out that Alex Jones has lost his platforms on Facebook, YouTube, Spotify, and Apple .  And although I fully support the right t...

One of the things I've liked the most about my seven years writing here at Skeptophilia  is that it's given me the opportunity to th...

There's this thing called the No True Scotsman fallacy .  In its more innocent forms, it manifests as a redefinition of terms if you...